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. Unless you intend to “turnyour brain off’ upon achieving tenure, the demands your job places upon you will only increase.With this being a truism, it is very important to make the most of those long hours put into thejob, so that the other aspects of life can be savored and enjoyed.III. Top 12 List of RecommendationsTo address the need to most efficiently use the time spent on task, the following list ofsuccessful strategies has been compiled. It draws, in part, from knowledge gained at the NSFNew Century Scholars (NCS) Workshop at Stanford University in the summers of 1999 and2000. Combining this knowledge with my four years of professorial experience, I suggest thatyou: 1) Teach/Mentor Well This, of course, is the principal duty at

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Broome Community College is composed of all undergraduates whichmakes comparisons to graduate chapters difficult. The three remaining mature, active ASEE studentsections are located at the Universities of Michigan, Texas, and Wisconsin. Three dormant ASEEstudent sections are associated with the State University of New York at Buffalo, Purdue University,and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.Data was gathered for the academic year 1999-2000 based on published reports, web siteinformation, and direct inquiry of current chapter officers or engineering school personnel.1-17Additionally, the list of all current ASEE student members was obtained to indicate potential studentchapter locations; candidate schools were taken in general

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transportation, and of course, cost. Length of lease is generally classified as short term (3-6 months) or long term (1 year, ormore). Some apartment complexes, especially in high-tech areas, allow conversion from a short-term lease to long-term lease with little difference in overall cost. Utilities such as electricityand heat/hot water may, or may not be included. Telephone service and laundry, generally, arenot. At one complex in Austin, Texas, basic telephone service and linens were included alongwith weekly maid service. One feature to be sure to request is air-conditioning. It can be hot inCleveland or Austin during the summer. Furnished apartments are generally the norm. However, the condition of some of thefurnished units may be

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Rick Duley; S P Maj; D Veal

be surmounted to produce the necessary atmosphere of trust and teamwork.1. IntroductionSoftware Developers and Computing Academics have historically held their ground on oppositesides of an argument. Academics hold to theory and the latest technology and techniques —Developers are output driven and are only interested in getting the job done and out the door.Academics talk of ‘formal methods’ and ‘knowledge engineering’ and ‘state machines’ and Page 6.1058.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering

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three-year undergraduate course. Given that six of the 11 accredited courses are baccalaureates of engineering (in SE) which tend to be 50% traditional engineering and Figure 1 : Depth Reduction to involve only an extra six months of academic study, it can be seen that thevolume problem persists in that, while the knowledge base expands rapidly, only a fraction of itcan be taught in a student’s time at university4.If one is to cover the requisite knowledge areas and yet reduce the amount of information whichhas to be

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Penelope Peterson; Frank Fisher

Engineering and Technology (ABET) EngineeringCriteria 2000, “engineering programs must be designed to prepare graduates for the practice ofengineering at a professional level”1. This statement can be interpreted as requiring more thansimply imparting in students a basic understanding of content knowledge in a particular domain. Astechnology continues to advance rapidly it will become more difficult to equip engineeringundergraduates with the knowledge and skills required in the workplace. Thus, while engineeringprograms must continue to cover as much content knowledge as possible, engineering programsmust also take an active role in developing the abilities of their graduates to successfully apply andextend the content knowledge that they have

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; David Pines

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individual plans for design in their journals, then discussed their ideas with their group members and selected a group model for design. At the end of the hour, each group presented and tested their design to the rest of the class. • 11:45-12:30 Lunch • 12:30-1:00 Group-building and problem-solving activities. These problem-solving activities were designed to promote team cohesiveness and to teach innovative problem solving techniques. While they may look like simple fun, there’s always a curricular goal. For example, just above, it looks like the students are simply flying paper airplanes…what they’re really doing is learning to modify and adjust design and construction issues based

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Caroline Hembel Beard

Partnership (LEAP) Program (formerly called the State Student Incentive Grant (SSIG) Program). These regulations implement statutory changes made to the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), by the Higher Education Amendments of 1998. DATES: Effective Date: These regulations are effective July 1, 2000. Sec. 668.45 Information on completion or graduation rates. (a)(1) An institution annually must prepare the completion or graduation rate of its certificate- or degree-seeking, full-time undergraduate students, as provided in paragraph (b) of this section. (2) An institution that determines that its mission includes providing substantial preparation for students to enroll in another eligible institution must prepare the

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EducationII. General Format Steps Format Student Assignment Time: 45 min One student from each group Introduction Presenter: The Instructor will submit written Assignment Explanation explanation of the problem to Technical Props: Hematology Instrument group members. Explanation Hematology Tube Transparencies: Optics Diagram Time: 15 min Part #1 Students ask questions to generate specs. One student from each groupwill

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Casey Preston; R. Mark Worden; Daina Briedis

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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

school tech-prep teachers. Page 6.1066.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe SEATEC goals are:1. To provide national leadership for the development and implementation of case-based instruction in technology and engineering education.2. To provide opportunities for continuous and appropriate professional development of participating faculty.3. To assess the effectiveness of the case study approach in teaching technology-related curriculum.4. To nationally disseminate information

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

Session 2525 Transformations: Ethics and Design Richard Devon, Andrew Lau, Philip McReynolds, and Andras Gordon Engineering Design & Graphics, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper will focus on an ethics curriculum that has been developed for design projects. Therationale behind it is discussed and some preliminary feedback from students is reviewed. Thecurriculum for the design projects is distinctive in several fundamental ways. These departuresfrom more traditional views of “engineering ethics” were not come by easily and they have takenmany years to develop. 1) We view all design

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be familiar with basic informationof the discipline. However, other studies indicate that time-shortened courses are equallyapplicable in earlier years. In fact, a closer analysis reveals that the success of such endeavors ispredicated not by the level of the course offering, rather by the inclusion of certain key elementsnamely, (1) Careful organization of the course material including syllabi, handouts, reading assignments, etc.; (2) Varied approaches and teaching techniques; and (3) Unique outcomes perceived by the students.According to a survey conducted by Allen18 of faculty teaching intensive courses from 36colleges nationwide, determined that these instructors were more likely to utilize creativeactivities including

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Thomas Currin

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than minimum is recommended. These are:Computer Requirements:Minimum System Requirements:1. Personal computer (Pentium 120 or higher) running Windows 95, 982. Modem with a minimum 28.8 kbps transfer rate3. Sound card and speakers4. CD-ROM drive, 4X or higher5. 16 megabytes of system RAM or more6. Super VGA videocard supporting a minimum of 16-bit color at 800x600 resolution depthRecommended System Requirements:1. Personal computer (Pentium 200 or higher) running Windows 95, 982. Modem with a minimum 56 kbps transfer rate, or other network connection3. Sound card and speakers4. CD-ROM drive, 16X or higher5. 64 megabytes of system RAM or more6. Super VGA videocard supporting a minimum of 24-bit color at 800x600 resolution depthSupportTraining is

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Ron Hart; Marvin Adams; K. Peddicord; Ian Hamilton; Beth Earl; Alan Waltar

been expended to determine the causes for thisprecipitous drop (65% reduction in students between 1993 and 1998). Senator Pete Domenici(R-New Mexico) has sounded the alert from the U.S. Senate and Congressman Joe Knollenberg(R-Michigan) is sounding a similar alert in the U.S. House. A recent study by NEDHO (1)revealed that the gap between the number of jobs available and the qualified applicants is largeand growing (projected to be about 3:1 in the next few years).Given this backdrop, the recent rise in undergraduate nuclear engineering enrollment at TexasA&M University has been quite gratifying—our undergraduate enrollment having doubled from1998 to 2000. Whereas this could be simply a spurious spike that cannot be sustained, we felt

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Roger Smith; Holly Bentley; William G. Fahrenholtz

Page 6.1073.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationchemical constituents present in different ratios and at various temperatures and pressures, athree dimensional diagram is required. If pressure is held constant, a two-dimensionalcomposition-temperature diagram can fully describe the system, Figure 1. Similarly, a threecomponent composition-temperature diagram must be three-dimensional, Figure 2.Understanding and interpreting these diagrams is aided by strong visualization skills. Isopleth

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evaluation. This is followedby an examination of the use of student drop rates as a tool to assess teaching. The paperconcludes with observations about these assessment tools.Student Evaluation of TeachingAt the end of each semester, students in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University(MSU) evaluate their teachers by completing the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS)form, which asks them to respond to the following five questions:1. The instructor was available and willing to help the student.2. The instructor explained course material clearly.3. The instructor was well prepared for classes and other related course activities.4. The instructor organized the course well.5. Rate the instructor on the following

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Development and LayoutAs identified items were requisitioned through the UMES procurement department student teamsconcentrated on designing the structure for the payload, electrical system and the layout of thecomponents within the payload structure. It was decided to build the structure in the form of atruss out of balsawood (See Photograph [1]). The load on the structure was not significant hencethe space requirements for the housed items which included the two cameras, two transmitters,the power supply, switches and wiring arrangements were primarily considered. Other factorsthat were also taken into consideration in determining the shape and size of the structure wereaerodynamic stability and ease of attachment to the blimp.Each transmitter draws

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Michael Hailey; James Fridley; Jens Jorgensen; Ann Mescher

-tech to the very new and cutting-edge. The purpose of thesetools is to facilitate the transaction of ideas and information, and they accomplish this withvarying degrees of effectiveness, particularly with regard to the aims of Concurrent andDistributed Engineering.Perhaps the most promising of these collaborative tools being used in the engineering design anddevelopment industry are the Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) applications[12,13,14]. These are beginning to offer complete, comprehensive functionality as a solution tothe challenges presented by both the Concurrent and Distributed Engineering practices.Specifically, these softwares have, in common, the capabilities to: 1) conduct discussions and multi-user real-time chat

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Mary Curran; Doug Bill; Catherine Etter

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, would meet our needs and could perhaps even excite studentsabout participating in our new option or minor in microelectronics, optoelectronics, andnanotechnology. 1† A version of this manuscript with gray-scale images suitable for color vision-impaired readers may be found at Page 6.189.1http://www.mse.vt.edu/faculty/hendricks/publications/publications.html. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIt was with this vision in mind that Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, and engineering education. CUR believes that “education is best served byfaculty-student collaborative research combined with investigative teaching strategies.”1 CURprovides avenues for faculty development and helps administrators to improve and assess theresearch environments of their institutions. CUR generates awareness and national support forundergraduate research.The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has very definite Undergraduate Research Daypresentation guidelines for students.2 In their introductory portion of the document, it says, “Formany of you, the presentation you make at the UW-L Undergraduate Research Day will be oneof your first “professional” presentations…..The main guiding principle that you should followin preparing

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Narayanan Komerath

Page 6.1079.1of the graduate research program.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright©2001 American Society for Engineering Education. Session 2526Table 1: Traditional obstacles to guiding undergraduates in research, and counter-argumentsbased on realities in graduate research programs Constraint Counter-argument1 Undergraduates have little time for Graduate students in the first year were often not participating in research projects, productive in research, lacking any experience of since they take full 17-21 credit-hour doing research

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Raymond Luebbers; R.A. Rodríguez-Solís; José Colom-Ustáriz

computed by properly applying the FastFourier Transform (FFT) to the collected time domain data. In addition to the S-parameters, thestudents can easily observe with XFDTD the time variation of the electric and magnetic fieldsassociated to the structure.The discretization of Maxwell’s two curl equations is the basis for the FDTD implementation.These two equations govern the propagation of the electromagnetic wave and they are: ∂H µ = −∇ × E (1) ∂t ∂E ε = ∇× H −σ E (2) ∂tThe equations can be written in Cartesian coordinates

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networkrelationships. The framework is used as a tool to help engineering students develop skills atintegrating moral imagination into their context of decision making.I. FrameworkIn engineering education we desire our students to develop a skill in exercising moralimagination by having them shift perspectives when discussing real-world cases1. We areproposing that this process can be improved if we provide our students with a framework to helpthem structure analysis of the contextual, organizational, and network issues and constraints thatmake exercising moral imagination difficult in practice. The framework we discuss consists of three network states: 1. A state in which one actor or small elite group of actors has the overall problem

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James Thom; Caroline Hoy; Raymond Thompson

forboth recruiting and training for many years. While these motivators are not exclusive to males,they do in general appear to be stronger motivators for males than females.This traditional approach to recruiting makes the assumption that young men and young womenare the same, and are most strongly motivated by the same factors. This philosophy of havingno difference in recruiting motivations reflects much of the philosophy of the IndustrialPsychology work of the 1970’s.1 Most of the Industrial Psychology research done with regardto human resource management in job selection and job evaluation, stressed gender equivalencyas a main issue. That human resource work very strongly discouraged any dissimilar evaluation