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2000 Annual Conference

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T. Michael Keinath; Sara B. Soderstrom; Christian D. Lorenz; Trevor Harding

programs for new GSIs and an individualizedmentoring program. The three tiered approach of the ETDP is intended to reach not only newGSIs, but also experienced GSIs and faculty. This paper outlines the activities of the ETDP overthe last year, early assessment results and plans for future development of the project.2 Pedagogy WorkshopsOne focus of the ETDP Project is a series of pedagogy workshops held throughout the academicyear. In an effort to promote effective teaching amongst faculty and graduate student instructorsin the College of Engineering, the ASEE student chapter has organized four workshops featuringnationally recognized engineering educators. These workshops are targeted at all graduatestudents and faculty in the College of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert Sumrall; Nuggenhalli S Nandagopal; Gilbert J. Groendyke

, convinced UH-D administrators to give the program an opportunity to turn around. When the industry bounced back from the recession, enrollment in the piping program was stable. Thus, SPED and UH-D survived the difficult times only because of their mutual support.• Future Plans: SPED and UH-D plan to work together and increase cooperation in developing programs to meet the needs of the piping industry. As an example, SPED and UH-D plan to jointly develop a course in “Design of Piping Systems for Offshore Platforms”. SPED will continue to be supportive of the piping degree program at UH-D and UH-D will continue to provide infrastructure facilities for operating SPED.ConclusionsThe partnership between SPED and UH-D is a natural

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

veryearly age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makescomplex tasks and subjects more manageable; but we pay a hidden, enormous price. We can nolonger see the consequences of our actions; we lose our intrinsic sense of connection to a largerwhole. When we try to ‘see the big picture,’ we try to reassemble the fragments in our minds, tolist and organize all the pieces.” (p.3).6The Technology, Science, Mathematics Integration Project, with support from the NationalScience Foundation, developed a set of technology activities called the Technology, Science,Mathematics Connection Activities.7 They are designed to correlate planning and classroominstruction among the three disciplines. The activities do not

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen E. Binney; Andrew C. Klein

Radiation Health Physics can also pursue apre-medicine track by replacing a set of restricted electives with the same set of organicchemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, and biochemistry courses that other pre-medicine students take. This option allows students considerable flexibility in their career choiceshould their plans to enter medical school change for any reason. We expect to see an increase instudents enrolling in this special program as more prospective students become aware of itsexistence.Also, students entering the Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics degree programsfrom states that participate in the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) program can attendOSU at a reduced tuition rate (compared to the full

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

to test performance of wirelesssystems and the level of proficiency desired in graduates. The following sections describe thecontents of the wireless course:Theory course Historical perspective Emerging Technologies Wireless services Value Added Services Carrier Cable Cellular Paging SMR Satellite Wireless Systems Hardware/Software Peripherals/Components Microwave/Satellite Analog cellular systems Cell Types Mobile Switching FDA Frequency Planning

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Wils L. Cooley

transferring to WVU beginning with their junior yearfind that they are deficient, since the courses are difficult to find. In fact, they are taughtnowhere else in the state of West Virginia. None of the other instructional sites in thestate felt that they had enough students to justify offering the courses themselves. Thedepartment was therefore asked early on if the courses could be delivered by distance Page 2.13.1learning to students at other sites in West Virginia who planned to transfer to WVU. 1In Spring 1996 the lecture and laboratory were delivered to one remote site. This wasdone by video taping the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert F. Kubichek; Eskild T. Arntzen; Donald S. Warder

from a faculty memberwith several issues. First, as a student, I have seen a lot of good and bad syllabi. However, I hadnever written one and was not familiar with the process of planning out a semester. Therefore, itwas found very helpful to confer with a member of the faculty about how much material couldrealistically be covered in one 50 minute class period and what material was most important toteach. Through these discussions the tendency to overestimate how much material could becovered was avoided and the resulting syllabus was a useful planning tool through the semester.The mentoring program was also helpful in the preparing of lecture notes. I found this to besubstantially different from note taking in the class which involves simply

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

V. Gerez; G. Venkataramanan; D. Egolf; Brian K. Johnson; Jerry Hamann

exchange program, experiences from faculty, and students,and other practical considerations. The experiment has now expanded in a program called theWestern Virtual Engineering Consortium (WestVEC), which now involves eight universitieswith the addition of Idaho State University, the University of Nevada-Reno, Utah State Univer-sity, the University of Victoria-British Columbia, Washington State University, and the Univer-sity of Wyoming. Early results from this organization and future plans will be discussed in the Page 2.215.1paper. II. Background and Motivation A. The Trials of Low Enrollment

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

restructuring their programs, this presentation attempts to extendthat effort to a much wider community through the American Society for Engineering Education.UNIVERSITIES Each university should identify and establish a long-range global vision through self-examination of its academic activities, indicating their strengths and weaknesses. In the area ofcurricula enhancement, strategic planning must accentuate courses including foreign languages,cultural development, social and political sciences, psychology, behavioral science, businessmanagement and ethics. It is recognized that many of these courses can be included withinABET guidelines as well as within a general education core which is required at manyuniversities. However, the breadth

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohi Rastegar; Gerard L. Coté

are more relevant. As in the Diagnostics course, thestudents enrolled in the graduate section gave an oral presentation of their library researchmaterials. They did this once in the middle of the semester focusing on one journalarticle and again at the end of the semester giving an overview of recent literature on thestate-of- the-art in the particular research topics they chose. This helped expose thewhole class to this material. Invited lectures by our collaborators, Dr. Jacques from theUniversity of Oregon and formally from the University of Texas-M.D. Anderson CancerCenter, Dr. Motamedi from the University of Texas Medical Branch, and Dr. Thomsenthe University of Texas-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, are planned for the Springsemester on

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

paper will discuss in detail the subject of the curriculum renewalprocess and provide conclusive remarks reflecting faculty views and overall assessment of thecurriculum renewal process.Introduction In June of 1996, the Civil Engineering Department faculty at the University of Floridagathered in a workshop setup environment supported by the National Science FoundationCurriculum Innovation and Renewal under SUCCEED (Southeastern University and CollegeCoalition for Engineering Education) protocol. The purpose of the seminar was to tackle issuesrelevant to strategic planning for the department in relation to Curriculum Innovation andRenewal. The NSF engineering education coalitions have established a common set of goals1 : To

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra K. Varma; Mohammad Najafi

developing subject matter of trenchless technology.INTRODUCTION The demand for improved quantity and quality of community services such as utilities andcommunications has placed an ever increasing burden on planning, engineering, installing, and maintaining theseservices. According to a recent study1, some 800,000 miles of corroded and leaking wastewater systems arecausing environmental problems. It is estimated that approximately 200,000 miles of pipelines are in need ofimmediate repair or replacement. It is also estimated that approximately 3% of the existing systems are beingadded to this need annually.1 Trenchless technology techniques offer an alternative for these situations in manycases.2 Trenchless technology methods by

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark J. Sebern

schools that, although faculty sometimes had to struggle to switch to anobject-oriented paradigm, students who started out with objects had little difficulty with theconcepts. For this reason, we chose a variation of the “objects early” approach, and adopted atextbook that embodied this philosophy3. Since we felt that the Standard Template Library (STL)4is a critical part of the evolving ANSI/ISO C++ standard, we incorporated additional material onsimple uses of STL containers and iterators. For the same reason, we decided to stress a stringclass library and to de-emphasize character arrays (C-style strings), especially in the first course(CS-182).The result of this planning was the set of course topics shown in Table 1. We were

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William Peterson

basis with MCC teaching the lower divisioncourses (60 semester hours) and Western teaching the upper division courses (as well a threelower division engineering courses - one course per semester during the freshman year and onecourse in the sophomore year - or 70 credit hours). Development of specific courses was done bythe faculty of Western’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. The resulting programcontains 15 new courses - 13 MFE (manufacturing engineering) courses and 2 electricalengineering courses (new courses with their content tailored to the requirements of thisprogram)..A plan to deliver the program in Muskegon was also developed. Considering Western’srequirement that off-campus programs be self supporting, the costs for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner; Laura Moody

extensively in our new course.IMPLEMENTATION PLANHaving decided to use cooperative techniques in this course, we needed an implementation plan;we adopted a three-phase implementation procedure.Phase I Develop a departmental library of collaborative learning books and articles Motivate other instructors as to benefits of collaborative learning Incorporate collaborative learning principles into the basic course structure Prepare collaborative learning exercises for a small number of classes Develop preliminary assessment/feedback forms for students and faculty Develop a long-term assessment plan Initiate documentation procedures Explore possible funding sources for curricular developmentPhase II Continue assessment procedures

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C Dee

, you aren’t running the organization, you’re just advisingthe people who are running the organization. Student organizations must be directed by students.This means that sometimes you will have to bite your tongue and let students make mistakes(and learn from those mistakes). Be aware that you may find yourself under pressure toinfluence activities of the student group. For example, the local professional chapter of a societymay have ambitious hopes/plans for the student section of that society, and might ask you topush the students in particular directions. If this occurs, remember that students need to learn tointeract with professional people, and put the professionals in direct contact with the studentofficers. Let the students make their

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

about the program.Local industry not only benefits by the less expensive training costs, but also by the fact thatstudents are taking the class for University credit. They also have the benefit of having qualifiedinstructors teaching the first half of the class, an area where a private training company may ormay not choose to concentrate on when developing a course.The main drawback to offering a course like this is that the tremendous demand, and theresources currently do not exist for the EET department to offer the course at other sites or withthe frequency that Diversified would prefer. Two concurrent classes have been offered, but werevery difficult to successfully accomplish. Current plans are to offer the class once per semester.Of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Wagner; David Finley

) that will be given to senior chemical engineering students.This examination contains sixty multiple-choice questions and was derivedfrom the performance-based objectives of the required courses in ChemicalEngineering. The examination is dynamic in the sense that most problems arelinked to a spreadsheet, so that the parameters in the problem can be easilychanged from year to year. This dynamic character of the CAE should helpkeep the examination secure while still maintaining test to test consistency.This paper presents the role the CAE plays in TSU’s chemical engineeringassessment plan, how the CAE was developed based on curricular objectives,and how the problems were made dynamic. The paper also presents somepreliminary student impressions of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hoover; Arnold F. Johnson

Session 1380 DREAMS: Strengthening Math and Science for Native American Students with Disabilities Arnold F. Johnson, John H. Hoover University of North DakotaAbstractThe Disability Research Encompassing American Indians in Mathematics and Science(DREAMS) project was designed to facilitate the entry of Native American students withdisabilities into science and technical careers. Students, their teachers, and family members attendtwo summer institutes annually where university faculty and a core planning team design andimplement hands-on, integrated science

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip C. Wankat

outline from these outlines and ideas. Plan to spend one ortwo periods at the beginning of the semester on material the students are supposed toalready know, and plan one period before every major test to catch up and review.Cover less, not more, than in the previous outlines. Since many students only workwhen there are assignments or tests, there needs to be something for the students to do atleast every other week, and preferably more often. For freshman and sophomores youmay want as many as seven tests during the semester.The syllabus is a contract with the students. Find a good one - that means longer thanyou would expect - and copy it with appropriate modifications for your course. Beexplicit about rules and regulations. The students will

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Shann Coleman; Megan Gaberell; Harold W. Walker

the site. In conjunction with theParks Division, students at Ohio State University assessed the water quality of the pondin Whetstone Park.The sampling team performed an initial reconnaissance of the area to develop a samplingplan for the pond early in the semester. A survey of the pond and the surrounding areawas completed, and the condition of the pond and potential sampling points were alsonoted. The sampling team then carefully chose the sampling points to represent the waterquality of the entire pond. Next, equipment and transportation needs were determined forcollecting grab samples and returning them to the university for analysis. Finally, thesampling team prepared a plan detailing the exact location of each sampling point, the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom (1675)

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah M. Mechtel, United States Naval Academy

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New Engineering Educators (NEE)

the implementation strategy, and conclusionsand future plans. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY AND PHILOSOPYIn prior courses, using the classic teaching methodology, the instructor typically worked at leasttwo examples on the board for each new concept introduced to students. Student participationwas generally passive and students were only actively engaged when compelled to respond toinstructor questions. In contrast, the technique introduced in this class used cooperative learninggroups of three or four students to work at least one example in class with the instructor acting asa resource for each group. At the beginning of the semester, the instructor assigned students tocooperative learning groups based on prior experience and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan F. Brennecke; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Mark A. Stadtherr; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Mark J. McCready; Roger A. Schmitz; Wallace B. Whiting

piping systems to drain bygravity so less solvent is need for flushing and cleaning. An excellent source for this material isthe newly published book by Allen and Rosselot1. 2. A discussion of the pertinent environmental regulations that impact the design andoperating costs of chemical processes. Environmental regulations of particular interest includethe Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Pollution Prevention Act, the Resource Conservationand Recovery Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Comprehensive EnvironmentalResponse, Compensation and Liability Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and the Toxic SubstancesControl Act. These laws are the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter C.M. Burton; Fred Payne; Dinesh Kant

graduate course workprograms in electronics leading to the Master’s degree. Hands on experiential learning is stillemphasised and professional development opportunities are provided for practising engineers.This paper will describe the development of the program. It will discuss the rationale forintroduction, the aims and objectives, the program structure, and the first year of delivery. Inconclusion the paper will outline modifications and new initiatives planned for 1998.IntroductionRMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) is a dual sector university providing highereducation and TAFE (Technical and Further Education) programs to 38,000 students in theMelbourne metropolitan area. RMIT is internationally respected for its intellectual

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas V. Mecca; Sara Cushing Smith; Lynn G. Mack

able to use word processing software 7. plan and prepare short reportsComputers and Technology 1. e-mail(This was a check list, top 7, 50% checked) 2. word-processing 3. programming 4. fax 5. equipment control 6. pneumatics 7. internet Page 3.490.3

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles D. Turner

environmental ethic that will lead to sustainability for humans and theecological systems that support us. An essential part of the class is a design project in which thestudents design a “Center for Sustainable Education”. The facility must utilize sustainabletechnologies for power, heating, cooling, and water supply. The students must demonstratefinancial feasibility of their project through the development of a business plan that provides adetailed analysis of construction costs, operating expenses and revenues. The cost of renewableresources must be compared to conventional resources. The students are given an initial “startupgrant” of 1.5 million dollars and are expected to leverage this money through innovative strategiesto cover the cost of

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Blaine, University of Oregon; Nathan Jacobs, University of Oregon

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

dissemination can be simplified as a list that we useto check our work in all that we develop. 1. Develop motivation to practice better communication by connecting this science communication work to student, faculty, and institutional success. 2. Have a simple set of tools that everyone has training in and is committed to use both in their communication and in their feedback to others about how that communication has worked. 3. Plan for continuous engagement with repeated touch points that start with a mix of mandatory sessions and opt-in opportunities and build toward a common acceptance of the value of this work. 4. Reinforce a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jung Won Hur, Auburn University; Cassandra Thomas, Tuskegee University; Li Huang, Tuskegee University; Xiao Chang, Tuskegee University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

low-income families, we have implementeddiverse support programs, including co-curricular and outreach activities. These initiatives weremade possible through the NSF’s S-STEM grant, awarded to us in August 2022. The project aimsto prepare talented minority and underrepresented students to successfully enter computing-relatedworkforce or graduate program to meet local and national needs, which would be also helpful forincreasing the diversity of computing field. The purpose of this paper is to spotlight our ongoingefforts, provide an overview of the outcomes achieved through these initiatives, and outline ourforthcoming plans for continued support and enhancement.Program Description and Supporting ActivitiesOur S-STEM program aims to empower

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John Y Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

tenets. First, change and healing in any system beginwith the individuals in the system changing and healing through reexamining assumptionsand mental models, including beliefs and values. Second, since individuals make up asystem and culture, as individuals change, heal, and re-engage, the system will alsochange and heal. Evidence suggests that a change process that begins with individuals’mental models—especially leaders’ [7]—and that accounts for emotions and desires [8], iseffective to successfully bring forth change in an organization.Initial StepsAs fundamental culture change is a difficult and involved process, the first year of the granthas largely focused on planning and logistics to build the foundation for a successfultransformation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine G. Herbert-Berger, Montclair State University; Thomas J Marlowe, Seton Hall University; Vaibhav Anu, Montclair State University; Stefan A Robila, Montclair State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

skills and an interdisciplinaryfocus, such educational experiences have deeper and more meaningful effects. Our MontclairState University NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) grant (NSF Award Number:#2206885, IRB Number: 22-23-3003) exposed teachers to a program integrating solar weather,data science, computer science and artificial intelligence, and STEM pedagogy. The cohortcomprised nine middle- and high-school teachers with diverse academic backgrounds anddemographics from northern and central New Jersey. The teachers interacted with and wereadvised by faculty from Montclair and two other institutions, and by outside experts, to learn thebasics, develop lesson plans, and present these to and interact with a learning-intensive summercamp