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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz

BNCconnectors. Digital inputs and counters use spring-loaded terminals. Throughput speeds of 200kS/s may be obtained. The gains on the board can be set by software for each channel. Majorspecifications for the board are given in Table 2.LabVIEW software was used to acquire and process the acquired signal. ADC channel 0 wasused for the optical encoder. Acquisition start time was triggered by an inductive probe attached Page 7.678.5to cylinder #1 ignition cable through digital trigger input of the data acquisition board. Encoder Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

. 5. Purdue University Handbook for Academic Promotion and Tenure, 1995. 6. Ruggiero, V.R. (1998). Changing attitudes: A strategy for motivating students to learn. Allyn & Bacon: Boston. 7. The university in transformation: Global perspectives on the futures of the university. (2000). Ed. S. Inayatullah & J. Gidley. 8. Whicker, M.L., Kronenfeld, J.J., & Strickland, R.A. (1993). Getting tenure. Sage Publishers: Newbury Park, CA.BEVERLY DAVISBeverly Davis is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University at South Bend/Elkhart, IN. Professor Davisteaches courses in leadership, conflict management, management of change, human behavior, training,gender and diversity, quality, and occupational

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

thecompressor), the isentropic efficiency of the compressor, Eff. and the coefficient of performance,COP, of the refrigeration system. The summary of these results is shown in Table 2. Table 2: Qin (Btu/hr) Qout (Btu/hr) Win (Btu/hr) Eff. (%) COP 1422.1 1782.5 360.4 89.2 3.95 Page 7.923.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4 illustrates the T-s diagram with

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Farr

” category7. Ofthese, 73 were in the U.S., with most programs addressing SE in the context of a functionaldiscipline such as electrical, industrial, or manufacturing, and offer degrees with thenomenclature aligned with the functional discipline. Nineteen of the 73 graduate programs in theU. S. offered MS or ME degrees in SE and of these 11 had disciplinary affiliations, with 5 inElectrical Engineering and or Computer Science, 3 in Industrial Engineering, and 3 in othercategories (Aeronautics, Information Systems, and Mechanical Engineering). According to this1990 survey, only 8 programs in the U.S. appeared to offer an interdisciplinary educationfocused on systems engineering. While a subset of these 8 offered courses in designmethodology, none

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

deviceincorporates a powerful, imbedded BASIC interpreter that was originally developed by INTELfor process control applications. The source code for this interpreter is available as “freeware”and has been adopted by a number of other manufacturers of embedded controllers.A typical MCS BASIC-52 program is illustrated bellow.MCS BASIC-52 REM *** SELECT THE ANALOG INPUT CHANNEL 10 INPUT "Analog Input Channel ? ",CHAN 20 XBY(7FF2H)=CHAN REM *** CONVERT FROM 2’S COMPLEMENT FORMAT 30 MSB=XBY(7FF2H) : LSB=XBY(7FF3H) 40 HEXVAL=MSB*256+LSB 50 IF HEXVAL>32767 THEN HEXVAL=HEXVAL-65536 REM *** CONVERT INPUT RANGE TO +/-10 VOLTS 60 VOLT=HEXVAL/3276.8

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edward Wheeler; Cliff Grigg; Zachariah Chambers; Richard Layton

boardmembership, ideally one with both academic and industrial experience.VI. SummaryWe describe the redesign of the electrical systems course to be offered to mechanical engineeringmajors. Major elements include a studio design, on-line quizzes, a variety of educationalmaterials to aid study, active learning, and integrated assessment and continuous improvement.Topics in electrical systems will be presented in the context of mechanical engineering.Demonstrations of the on-line quizzing system, multileveled problem solutions in a point-and-click format, and the CD tutorial videos will be included in the conference presentation.VII. AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE 0088904.REFERENCES1. S

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Christa James-Byrnes

leap from understanding the concepts to applying them to engineering economics problems. Some students could not make the transition from reading the book, reading the lecture notes, and reading the discussions and announcements to performing the problems. To resolve this problem the virtual chat room in Blackboard was utilized during the second offering of the course. The virtual chat room allowed the student(s) and the faculty member to discuss and complete problems and draw on the same white board simultaneously. This method is wonderful because the student can converse with the faculty member as if they were in the same building -just in different rooms. Today’s

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre

communication skills.For the capstone course, construction management students increase their exposure to designactivities, while civil (and construction engineering) students increase (or supplement) their knowledgein the area of project management. This approach, in the long, may help to mitigate the actual orperceived adversarial relationships that can often occur between engineers, construction managers,and contractors.References[1] Allen, D., Introduction to Problem-Based Learning (PBL), a workshop organized by the Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning, August 21, 2001.[2] Duch, B., Groh, S., and Allen, D., The Power of Problem-Based Learning - A Practical "How To" for Teaching Undergraduate Courses in Any Discipline, Stylus Pub

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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William H. Semke; Arnold F. Johnson; Richard. R. Schultz; Chang-Hee Won; Jason G. Gullicks; Nicholas E. Hulst; Douglas R. Olsen; George A. Seielstad

Earth. The Agricultural Camera (AgCam) is currently beingdeveloped at UND with direct interactions with NASA. These opportunities have generatedsubstantial increase in undergraduate and graduate student retention and recruitment, as wellas an excellent public relations tool for UND.Acknowledgments The AEROCam project was funded through NASA Grant NAG13-01006, “NorthernGreat Plains Center for People and the Environment.” Special thanks to Morgan Stroh, UNDAerospace Quality Assurance Manager, and Jay Evenstad and Gary Dubuque, UNDEngineering for their assistance.References[1] Hulst, N., Gullicks, J., Johnson, J., Lauinger, G., Larson, D., Lemcke, S., Johnson, A., Schultz, R., Semke, W., Won, C., Geisinger, B., Olsen, D., Osburnsen, P

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Ronald K. Williams

early1980’s it was moved to a shopping mall court to develop more community interest. At that time,the competition drew as many as 120 bridges, some from schools more than 90 miles fromFargo-Moorhead. The competition has always been held in the evening to allow travel time forthe competitors. This caused a conflicts with the malls, because the large number of entrantsoften could not be loaded before the mall closed. In 1990, when the Holiday Mall remodeledand their courtyard space was no longer available, the competition moved to the ballroom of theComstock Memorial Union at MSUM. This facility provides adequate space, seating, stagingand other facilities, but eliminates the opportunity for passers-by to drop in on the competition.DECLINING

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena

. The root of the problem might be in scholars' unwillingness to crossdisciplinary boundaries. As Ancarani (1995: 653) argued, “there has been relatively little contactto date between scholarship in international relations or political economy and the advances inscience and technology studies.... As a result, basic analytic concepts, including ‘globalization’and science and technology themselves, have been taken for granted and have not beenproblematized to a far greater degree than in more traditional areas of S&T research, such aslaboratory studies or controversies.”Furthermore there are significant conceptual and empirical problems with social theories thatmake implicit a possible role for engineers in globalization. For example

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

must be performed to establishthis communication. A few examples of outside computer peripheral devices are the modem, the printer,and the CRT terminal. In parallel communication format, all data bits are transferred at the same timethrough a computer data bus, while in serial communication, bits are transferred through one data line ina pulse format. Parallel data must be converted to serial data form prior to transmission to the outsideperipheral device(s). The serial data received by the computer from an outside peripheral device mustbe converted back to a parallel format and then placed on the computer data bus [2]. The parallel dataon the computer data-bus is represented by either zero or five volts (0V or 5V). However, the serialdata

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manuel Rossetti; Kellie Scheider; Richard Cassady

. Kishline, Carl, Francis Wang and El-Hadi Aggoune. (1998) “Competency-based engineering design courses development.” Proceedings of the 1998 Northcon Conference, pp. 202-207.5. Newcomer, Jeffrey L. “Reassessing Design Goals: Using Design Projects to Meet Assessment Goals.” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1625.6. Safoutin, Michael J. et al. (2000) “A Design attribute framework for course planning and learning assessment.” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol 43, No 2, pp. 188-199.7. Tooley, Melissa S. and Kevin D. Hall. (2000) “ Using a Capstone Design Course to Facilitate ABET 2000 Program Outcomes.” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1625

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Tanner

could comprise of a solarcollector or more likely a nuclear generator. The exploration robots would come to the motherstation when a recharge is necessary. To add greater versatility, the mother station could movewhen another area needs exploration. Page 7.1219.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Several Rug Warrior ™s could be programmed to work together as a robot colony. Adedicated program would handle the communication among the robots. An experiment mightcomprise of the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Kemeny

Math, Statics, Geology, Strength of mater, x x x x x Statistics, Computer science Rock engineering Intact rock, Discontinuities, Rock mass, x x x x x fundamentals In-situ stress, Induced stresses Virtual lab Uniaxial, Triaxial, Point load, Brazilian, x x x x x Direct shear, P and S wave Design and Slopes, Foundations, Underground, x x x x x modeling Computer models Virtual field trip Rock mass characterization, Monitoring x x x x

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Doug Ramers

. (1995), Plastics: Product Design and Process Engineering, Society of Plastics Engineers, Hanser/Gardner Publications, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA. Page 7.695.114 Dixon, John and Poli, Colorado (1995), Engineering Design and Design for Manufacture, Field Stone Publishers, Conway, MA, USA.5 Frei, R., Scartozzi, P., Steinfort, K., Yarnot, V. (1997), Final Report for Fuel Cell Project, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA.6 Simprocess, CACI Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA.7 Boroff, S., Higginson, J., Williamson (1998), Final Report for Flexible Materials Handling System, Gonzaga University

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

the lab when you do the experiment. It is your responsibility to get this signature. Make your raw data sheet the last page of the lab write-up. c. Sample calculations showing how the data was reduced. Provide just sufficient information that your instructor can follow how you analyzed your raw data. If you utilize excel to perform the calculations, print a copy of the worksheet showing the formulas used. 3. Graph(s) of the Results a. It is very easy to create quality graphs with Mathcad or Excel. Graphs should include a title, axis labels with units, and be properly scaled such that the data is

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Arora; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

. www.nacimiento.com12. M. Naghedolfeizi, S. Arora, and J. Henry, "Remote Laboratory Operation: Web Technology Successes,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition National Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-27, 2001.13. National Instruments, “G programming Reference Manual,” Austin, TX, 1999.Biographical Information· Masoud NaghedolfeiziDr. Naghedolfeizi is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fort ValleyState University. He completed his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He isactively involved in developing modern computer based laboratories at Fort Valley State University. His researchinterest includes computer-based

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

University of Michigan is typical of thisapproach. The Program for Civic Engagement in Engineering Design (ProCEED) requires thatstudents "solicit projects from the surrounding community for development and prototyping inthe senior design course." As a result of creating useful designs that meet community needs,students benefit by "learning to interact with community sponsors, usually without technicaltraining . . . [s]tudents also benefit by learning to use their engineering skills to solve everydayproblems in a community service capacity. 8 Programs like this are under development in manyengineering programs across the country.The question remains, do service-learning methods demonstrate to students their social/technicalrole as engineers? At this

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

: Effective for Evaluations During the 2001-2002 Accreditation Cycle. Washington, D.C. 2. American Society for Engineering Education (1994). The Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World. Washington, D.C. 3. Eskridge, William N, Jr., and Frickey, Philip P. (1995). Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (2nd ed.). St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co. 4. Ferguson, Eugene S. (1994). Engineering and the Mind’s Eye. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 5. Fiorino, Daniel J. (1995). Making Environmental Policy. Los Angeles: University of California Press. 6. Florman, Samuel C. (1997). The Introspective Engineer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

Sheet such as theexample shown in Fig 1. The particular Assignment Sheet in Fig. 1 is for Skill-2, Concept Maps.Each Assignment Sheets contained five parts: (1) Discussion: the skill or tool plus its use arebriefly described. (2) Engr-110Z Goals: the educational objective(s) of the assignment areidentified. (3) Outcomes: the cadets’ capability sought by completing the assignmentsuccessfully are identified and discussed in class. (4) Task: a specific exercise is given forpractice thereby initiating utility with the skill or tool. (5) References: sources for additionalinformation and guidance are listed.The task defined on each Assignment Sheet is graded and returned to the student with a feedbacksheet. The feedback sheet is the instructor’s

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

which you can determinethe signal to noise ratio directly. Another output is an oscilloscope on which the students can seethe signal with no noise, where the pure tone is seen as a pure sine wave. When the signal tonoise ratio is degraded, the noise on top of the signal is apparent as it degrades the pure sinewave. The last, and probably most painful output for the students, is a speaker. The student s canhear how the test tone degrades as the signal to noise ratio goes down. Increasing the signal toimprove the signal to noise ratio means the students have to listen to a constant tone while theyassess both the distortion analyzer and the oscilloscope. The students are able to vary the signallevel to see the effect of the noise on the signal.The

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Promod Vohra

. This decision underscores the relationship between statistical power and the levelof confidence. Most assessment professionals would want to be able to detect a half-pointdifference arising from the responses of two different groups to a survey question on a five-pointscale. The conventional approach utilized in standard statistical testing sequences is to work atthe 95 percent level of confidence, equivalent to one chance in 20 or les s of making a Type Ierror (incorrectly concluding that there is a real difference when there is not). However, as Table1 shows, by choosing a statistical significance level of .05, the assessment team may hamstringits ability to detect a large and substantively significant difference of a half point on a five

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

, Vacation-Work, January 1997.3. Higher Education in the Netherlands: the System, Degrees, and Diplomas, Nuffic Publication.4. URL:http://www.studiekeuze.tudelft.nl/infor/middle.cfm?PageID=3049; Invoering Bachelor / Master (Introduction Bachelor / Master), 2002.5. URL:http://www.stack.nl/~wvengen/uni/tema/college14april2000.php; Kort overzicht geschiedenis van de ingenieur (short history of the engineer), by Willem van Engen, April 2000.6. URL:http://bezoeker.tudelft.nl/wit/msie4.cfm?PageID=118; TU Delft Geschiedenis (History TUD), December 2001.7. Keuzebegeleiding VWO 3, Information pamphlet for parents, Sint-Janslyceum ‘s Hertogenbosch, 2001.8. URL://www.osc.tue.nl/aansluiting/de_tweede_fase.htm; De tweede fase

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

"Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education" technology programs. DeVry Institute of Technology in its USA and Canadian campuses has changed the sequence of courses in its first year curriculum in electronic engineering technology program during middle of 90’s. Instead of starting with DC circuit analysis course (which is a normal trend in most other Universities and colleges) the students need to start with digital circuits course (ET-122). There are several purposes of offering this course in the first semester. First, it exposes students from the very beginning of their

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

curriculum. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM. .10. Haws, D. R. (2001). Ethics instruction in engineering education: A (mini) meta-analysis. Journal of Engineering Education,90 (2), 223-229.11. Bordman, S. & Hasan, I. (1996). An integrated model for management and economics instruction for engineers. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM.12. Lavelle, J.P., Needy, K.L. & Umphred, H.N. (1997). Engineering economy - A follow-up analysis of current teaching practices. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM.13. Burtner, J. & Moody, L. (1999). Increasing the use of collaborative learning principles in

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

Business Review, 39, pp. 111-121.22. ZIARATI, R. (1998), Total Quality Management, Staff Development Seminar, Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey.23. GÖZAÇAN BORAHAN, N. and R. ZIARATI (April 2001, “3D Modelling of Quality Assurance and Control System for Higher Education Sector”, Doğuş University Report.24. ZIARATI, R. (1995), “Learning Organisation”, Keynote Paper, European Action Programme for Education and Training, LEONARDO CONFERENCE, Birmingham, UK.25. BLANDFORD, S. and M. SHAW (August 2001), “Managing International Schools”, RoutledgeFalmer, Pb: 0-415-22885-9. Page 7.67.15 "Proceedings of the 2002

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education.4. Charles, J. Adaptions of Distance Education in the 1993, ITCA Teleconference Yearbook, 1991.5. Eydgahi, H.Y., and Eydgahy, S. Y., Global Engineering Education: Benefits and Limitations of Distance Education, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education.6. Johnson, A. F., Bridging the Gap from Technician to Engineer, a New Engineering Program at UND, North Midwest Section Meeting of ASEE, 1990.7. FSU at a glance, web page, http://www.frostburg.edu/ungrad/glance.htm.8. University of Maryland - Quick Facts, web page, http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples

between all parties and the ensuing dialogue promotes commitment,ownership, enthusiasm and deep interest in the topic(s) of mutual benefits (4).To be an effective professor, faculty, especially new faculty, must take the initiative to find waysto establish trust with their students beginning on the very first day of class. Many times facultyare so intent on getting started with the course content they overlook the critical need to beginestablishing a positive rapport with the students. Investing a small amount of time on the firstday of class with the student exercise described in this paper can pay great dividends for both thestudents and faculty member. The specific exercise begins the process of establishing trust withthe students by having