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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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william mullett; Gary Mullett

whether or not they had a “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”legacy electronics program or something similar that could be transitioned into a corporatespecific telecommunications program [1].Dr. John Abeles, the Executive Director of NYNEX University, was the visionary on thecorporation/management side of NYNEX that gave life to this idea and it was swiftly endorsed bythe CWA on the union side of the fence. At the time, telecommunications was starting to becomethe newest technology buzzword and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was only a short

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

. Page 8.1299.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”A process such as reengineering the structure, capacity, and design of a grain storage bin couldtake months to complete. Engineers could be generating drawings in a CAD package, emailingthose files to a partner company a thousand miles away for verification and structural analysis,while attempting to communicate with vendors of the materials what changes they can expectover the next year.This process can be further complicated by communication breakdown between two or more ofthe parties involved. The specifications may not clearly define what

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Computers in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Davin Swanson; Christopher Lynch

Session 3566 WebLab: a New Approach to Undergraduate ME Laboratory Training at Georgia Tech Davin K. Swanson, Christopher S. Lynch George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0405AbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of Internet-based technologies into arequired undergraduate laboratory course, ME3056, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Theeducation of a large group of undergraduates (120 per semester) in

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Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohammed Haque

Session 2158 VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN EDUCATION Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E. Texas A&M University, Texas, USAAbstractThe contemporary information technology (IT) allows us to develop learner-centered virtualdesign studios that can be reached to a large student population via the web. Considerablepedagogical advantages can be achieved by the integration of IT and visualization tools inteaching engineering technology. Structural analysis and design concept visualization, whether inreinforced concrete or steel structure is a subject

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Computers in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathy Stalcup; Javad Hashemi; Edward Anderson

Session 3566Development of Software to Improve Learning and Laboratory Experience in Materials Science Javad Hashemi, Katherine A. Stalcup, Edward E. Anderson, and Adam Majkowski Texas Tech University, Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Texas Tech University, Teaching Learning and Technology Center (TLTC) Texas Tech University Department of Psychology/ Texas Tech University, Teaching Learning and Technology Center (TLTC)/ Texas Tech University, Department of Mechanical EngineeringAbstract The laboratory experience is a major component of any engineering program

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lisa Kilmer-Doty

characters that were later brought to life by the instructorsvia a 3D modeling package. The purpose of the meetings were to 1) expose middle schoolstudents to the field of computer animation, 2) demonstrate the relation between math andcomputer animation, 3) foster interest in real world applications of math.Introduction As technology advances everyday, generations are exposed to new realms of possibilitiesat a much earlier age. Schools are constantly implementing new programs that expose children toemerging technologies and integrate new curricula to make the young more techno-savvy as theworld advances with them. However, many elementary school students are still unaware of theconsequences these technologies have on their lifestyle and the

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Franzone

Document 2003-4 A WIN32 CONSOLE CLASS LIBRARY Jeffrey S. Franzone, Assistant Professor Engineering Technology Department University of MemphisAbstractThe Console Class Library, Version 2 (CCL2) is an easy to use C++ class that provides manyuseful routines to increase the functionality and embellishment of Win32 console-modeapplications. Although CCL2 was designed primarily as a teaching tool for beginning C++programmers, it is robust and complete enough to be useful for console-mode industrial-typeapplications. CCL2 was written and

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nam Kim; Anna Siemionko

Session Use of Lab Experiments to Build Transport Concepts Anna Siemionko and Nam K. Kim Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University 2003 ASEE Annual Conference Nashville, TennesseeAbstract One of the difficult concepts to teach in junior students’ class is momentumtransport. Derivation of Bernoulli equation is one of the first equation products from themomentum balance that can be used in many flow evaluations. Use of the equation tospecific

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kyle D. Lutes; William Szaroletta

members.During Fall 2000, the first author utilized the course web folder to “post” raw data from lab,either by scanning the plot into JPEG format, posting an Excel™ spreadsheet, or Word™document. The upside of these methods was that all team members had access to the raw dataimmediately after lab period (in the case of the photocopy method) or after the instructor postedthe data to the course web folder (which could take from several minutes to the next day). Thedownside was that the individual team data needed to be tediously hyperlinked by the courseinstructor, who also happened to be the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department’sWebmaster, on a case-by-case basis, which on several occasions led to delays in raw dataavailability to the student

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt; Greg Wilkins; Clay Gloster; Robert Lent; Linda Schmidt

relationships hold across sex and race/ethnicity inscience and engineering. There is also a need to better understand the role ofenvironmental supports and barriers relative to choice and persistence in science andengineering majors10,13. Such research may shed light on the reasons why particulargroups of students are underrepresented within science and technology-oriented fields –and may suggest theory-derived methods to help attract and retain these students.In the present study, we administered measures of SCCT variables to engineering studentsat three universities (one predominantly White and two historically Black). Wehypothesized that the set of theoretical variables (self-efficacy, outcome expectations,interests, and social supports and barriers

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

; ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAbstractRecently, there have been many advances in technology and infrastructure to meet thechanging needs of the application domains. These changes have resulted in thedevelopment and adoption of a rich set of novel concepts in distributed systems. Forexample, lookup, discovery, custom event and event handling, runtime reflection, callbackand service leasing are just a few of these new ideas. Traditional approaches to teachingDistributed Systems courses do not cover these newer concepts for reasons ranging fromlack of support from the existing framework to the fear sacrificing coverage of somefundamental concepts. Moreover, many of the textbooks used do not cover theseconcepts. In this

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chad Washington; Alene Harris

Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number EEC- 9876363.Background and Introduction In September of 1999, bioengineering and learning science faculties at four researchuniversities (Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin,and the Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Science andTechnology [VaNTH]) received a National Science Foundation grant to support a collaborationof these universities within an Engineering Research Center (ERC) for bioengineeringeducational technologies. Although there are several ERCs throughout the country, VaNTH isthe only ERC with a focus on education; and for the past three years this

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdolmajid Lababpour

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 1: The structure of education system in Iran Grade Graduate Education Research & Technology Ministry of Science, 16 Training Teacher Higher Education University

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Dokachev; John Carpinelli

2002.5. Carpinelli, John D. and Fabio Jaramillo, “Simulation Tools for Digital Design and Computer Organization and Architecture,” Proceedings of the 2001 Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October, 2001, pp. S3C.1-5.6. URL: www.awl.com/carpinelli; Companion web site for Computer Systems Organization and Architecture7. URL: www.awl.com/info/carpinelli; Companion web site for Computer Systems Organization and ArchitectureJOHN D. CARPINELLIJohn D. Carpinelli is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer and InformationSciences, at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research interests include interconnection networks, computerarchitecture, parallel processing, distance learning, and computer

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charles Aldrich; Michael Webber; Scott Dunning

of improving thequality of life provided to their students. The project is also important to the teachers becausenow they have another tool to use in their students' physical and mental development. Thisproject is important for the department since it may lead to a grant from the LemelsonFoundation through the Assisted Technology Development Center at Hampshire College.1 Thegrant would allow us to pursue other adaptive technology projects in the future.Bibliography[1] www.lemelson.orgBiographySCOTT C. DUNNING is an Associate Professor and Department Coordinator for the Electrical EngineeringTechnology program at the University of Maine. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

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E. Jansen

Sciences. Whether students pursue careers in Biomedical Engineering researchcenters, biomedical companies, or go on to the medical professions, they are almost certain toencounter optical technologies for diagnosis, sensing or therapy. It is expected that opticalscience and optical technology will be at the forefront of development of new enablingtechnologies and devices both in the basic science labs as well as in a clinical setting. Thus,several programs around the country, including ours, are actively working on coursedevelopment in the area of Biomedical Optics. Typically courses in Biomedical Optics are aimedat upper level (senior) undergraduate students and first-year graduate students while a real needfor continuing education has been

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

assessment that play an essential role in the continuous process ofimprovement.ZULOs, which form the framework for the APM, are designed to help students develop higherorder intellectual abilities needed for lifelong learning and success. All students must demonstrate Page 8.1240.4accomplishments in the following ZULOs before they graduate: Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Critical Thinking and Reasoning 2. Information Literacy and Communication 3. Information Technology 4

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Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

. IntroductionDistance learning (DL) is already part of many university programs, and its impact is increasingdaily. Such an educational delivery mode intends to serve the desire of both students and theirinstructors for increased scheduling freedom. Presently there is a technology gap between non-laboratory and laboratory classes, because the lecture-only courses were the first addressed bydistance learning (since the conversion is more straightforward). Further, engineering educationalso has a costly component that is not directly time related: the use of sophisticated (andoftentimes expensive) equipment. A subset of DL efforts is that of web-based laboratoryexperiments.This paper first examines the work of others in establishing remote instrumentation-based

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

semester. The Teaching Improvement Program is part of the UW-Madison College of Engineering's endeavor to "help meet the needs of society in the 21st century by … creating the next generation of engineering leaders (UW-Madison College of Engineering's Dean Bollinger as quoted in the College's Vision 2000 brochure)." This focus on leadership skills for engineering students emerged over the last 15 years as part of a longstanding effort to link curricula with workplace skill sets. The technological explosion of the 1980's brought with it an urgent need for technical professionals with communications skills, and the College of Engineering responded by launching a Technical Communications Certificate program in 1988. More

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

in ways of which human engineers can only dream. Far more complex than any computer or robot…’ The author then goes on to describe the flagella of bacteria that are made of ‘rings, tiny bearings, and rotors’ and that spin about ’15,000 rpm.’ Today in the 21st century with all of the extensive advanced technology available, humans have not come close to designing something so complex, so miniaturized as bacteria. In fact the search is on for a living computer chip. This example of the bacteria only scrapes the surface of the amazing complexities and systems of life that engineers can only hope to mimic.”This question of “Why study Biology?” reappeared every time that a class discussion was

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

other options on how to keep their students learning during such anabsence.A two week absence from campus was required for the author to complete an internationaladoption. Although the absence was anticipated from the beginning of the semester, the exactdates of the trip were not known until about one month before the trip. Without graduatestudents to cover the missed classes and laboratories, the instructor chose a combination ofvideotaped lectures and laboratories, exams, a computer design project, selected readingassignments, and professionally produced videotapes to keep students learning during theabsence.Students and Classes AffectedThe students affected were juniors in a BS degree program in Civil Engineering Technology(CET) at the

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Stefanone; Jae-Shin Lee; Geraldine Gay; Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder; Scott Jones; John Dannenhoffer

Session 2525 On the use of Advanced IT Tools to Facilitate Effective, Geographically Distributed Student Design Teams Barry Davidson1, John Dannenhoffer III1, Geraldine Gay2, Anthony Ingraffea2, Scott Jones2, Jae-Shin Lee2, Michael Stefanone2 and Alan Zehnder2 1 Syracuse University / 2Cornell UniversityIntroduction In industry and government, teams of scientists and engineers need to work together closely toachieve their project goals. In large projects team members may live and work at geographicallydistant sites, and may work for different organizations

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Grimm

Session 2425 A Just-In-Time Approach to Teaching Senior Design By: Thomas R. Grimm Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe subject of this paper is the approach used to teach the senior design project course inthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Michigan Technological University. Theprimary objective in the development of the required two semester senior designsequence was to insure a positive experience in mechanical engineering design whileeliminating the procrastination that can be prevalent in long term

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Flores; Rosa Gomez-Martinez; Joseph Ramos; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

under-represented minorities pursuingbaccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Page 8.391.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1. Historical UTEP Student Demographics. Fall Semester Percent Caucasian Percent Hispanic 1975 54.4 34.8 1983 43.8 45.5 2002

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Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

Society for Engineering EducationEach term, The University of Dayton offers a Project Management course, which theEngineering Technology Department requires of all its majors. The primary goal of thiscourse is to familiarize Sophomore and Junior level students with the tools and techniquesnecessary to manage a project. The course also seeks to expose students to the real lifecomplexities of managing a large-scale project. Students will use their projectmanagement skills in managing projects in other courses, notably the Senior Designcapstone course. Project management concepts can be taught to students in a traditionallecture format, but unless the students have previously been involved in a project as aleader or member of a team, they tend to

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Leighty; Recayi Pecen

Session 2433 A Novel Solution for California’s Energy Crisis: Wind Power Transmission from Energy Rich North Dakota to California through HVDC Lines Recayi Pecen William Leighty Electrical & Information The Leighty Foundation-Alaska Engineering Technology Program University of Northern IowaAbstractThis paper first investigates feasibility of establishing a 7,000 MW power capacity wind farm, and theconversion of the total AC electrical power of 4,000 MW to the DC in a large converter station inOlga, North Dakota. Then it includes

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Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

ofweb-based and text-based delivery formats. Page 8.142.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionSome web-based courses are available in civil engineering technology but very few onlinecourses exist in structural analysis and design1, 2,10; this is because the Internet environment is notvery conducive to comprehensive design and analytical problems5 .Strenth presented a web-based course in Civil Construction using the Web-CT platform10, andCarter presented information on two

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Krupczak

simple enough that little prior knowledge is needed by the students. This activityprovides a novel approach to familiarizing students with CPU architecture.10 AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the faculty and staff of the Hope College Department of Physicsand Engineering, and the Hope College Science Division for their contributions to this work.This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant DUE-9752693.References[1] National Science Foundation, “Shaping The Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, NSF 96-139, October 1996.[2] N. A. Byars, “Technological Literacy Classes: The State of the Art,” Journal of Engineering Education

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Murphy

Session 1355 Practical Advice for the “New Kid on the Block” Dave Murphy Fire Safety Engineering Technology The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is. – Joan Gilbertson As a new faculty member at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, I haverecently experienced many changes associated with starting a new career. I can readily attest tothe unique challenges and expectations of assuming the position of assistant professor afterserving twenty years in the fire

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

improvement to oneparameter of the system deteriorates another parameter. In other words, the system cannot befundamentally improved while using these two parameters. Any improvement achieved byoptimization, leads to a compromise in influence of these two parameters.It is completely unrealistic to expect that engineering and technology education should moldinventors. Perhaps the best measure of how difficult it is to come up with a true invention isprovided by analysis of over 2 million patents done by developers of Theory of Inventive ProblemSolving (TRIZ). Only 1% of the patents were based on a major scientific discovery, 4% based onfield of discovery external to the scientific field of patented application, 18% based on existingtechnical system