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Robert Voigt; Patricia Warren; Charles Cameron; Anne Madsen; Eric Twite

Session 2520 Multimedia Approaches to Teach Engineering to Non Engineers Robert J. Voigt, Patricia F. Warren, Charles B. Cameron, Anne Madsen, Eric Twite U.S. Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper addresses some of the challenges of teaching electrical engineering to humanitiesmajors in a demanding academic environment. We focus on the use of multimedia tools in theclassroom in order to “engage the students.” The challenges we face in teaching this type ofcourse to non-engineering students are many and varied. The circumstances are such that thestudents are enrolled in the course as a core requirement, thus, while they

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Juan Lucena; Gary Lee Downey

education will experience transient lives on the surface of engineeringcurricula or be successful in digging down deep into the heart of long-established courses,pedagogical strategies, and curricular structures. Largely stable at least since Sputnik, science-based engineering curricula in the United States have long resisted successfully reformmovements for curricular change. A principal means has been to locate reforms and changes onor around the boundaries of existing material and courses. The boundaries shift somewhat whilethe core pedagogy of mathematical problem solving has remained largely unchallenged and,hence, untouched.III. Reaching out to science and technology studies?Meanwhile humanities and social science courses have remained in

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Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

team, scheduled formal and informaloral reports, a formal feasibility study, and the students’ continuous use of an engineeringlogbook to perform this assessment. The fourth group of students is completing this designsequence in May of 1999. The resulting senior engineering design projects have been highlysuccessful because of the continual assessment of the teams’ performance by their individualfaculty advisor and the BE program faculty.Introduction Biomedical Engineering began at MSOE in 1972 as a Bio-Environmental EngineeringTechnology program. Soon after, it became a Biomedical Engineering Technology program andwas accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET. This program became aBiomedical Engineering program and

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William Bambrick

Session 1339 Computer Tools for Integrating Engineering Design and Engineering Economics By William L. Bambrick PDM Division of Inso Corporation1Abstract“World-class” manufacturing companies have recognized the economic importance of thedecisions made during the engineering design phase of the life of a product. 75% to 95%of a product’s cost is committed before manufacturing beginsi. Initiatives such asconcurrent engineering, target costing, and quality function deployment are a result of thisrecognition of the impact the design process has on product cost.Major

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Paul Seaburg; Patricia S. Brown

Master of Engineering from The University ofHouston. Both degrees are in Civil Engineering.PAUL A. SEABURG, Ph.D., P.E.Dr. Seaburg is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha.He served as the Department Head of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University for 11 years. One of hiscurrent projects is creating a new Architectural Engineering program at the Omaha Campus. Paul has a strongbackground in academics and research, working in both the educational and private sectors. He holds five U.S.patents on construction products and systems. He has served on the ASCE Structural Standards Executive Committeeand the ASCE Structures Division Executive Committee. He is a past chair of the

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Jennifer Maynard; Anneta Razatos

blood traveling from the feet back to thebody and visa versa. In this fashion the penguins body remains warm while its feet are alwayscold thus minimizing heat loss to the ground. Penguins feet can be modeled simply as acounter-current heat exchanger composed of multiple arteries and veins with anti-parallel flow.Ironically, nature devised counter-current heat exchangers long before engineers. Ultimatelythe use of simple physiological examples to describe intimidating unit operations helps studentsunderstand and retain the governing fundamentals.ConclusionsAlthough science and technology have changed drastically in the past thirty years, traditionalchemical engineering courses have remained stagnant. For example, transport courses continueto

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

Session 1332 Agents for Change in Engineering Education W. A. Hornfeck, J. F. Greco, W. D. Jemison, I. I. Jouny Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lafayette CollegeAbstractThe engineering profession as a whole is struggling to describe and define itself. Thisdilemma is caused by the rapid changes in technology and significant market changestaking place in many major industries that seek to employ entry-level engineers. Forcolleges and universities, the new latitude associated with ABET’s Engineering Criteria2000 forces an introspective view of our profession. This paper describes thetechnological, professional, and

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

upper and lower level engineering, technology and scienceinstruction as well as having a secondary impact in the preparation of future teachers. One workshop washeld in July 1998 and another one is scheduled for July 1999. Participants will gain experience in processengineering through hands-on laboratories, industry experts, and interactive demonstrations. Throughindustry involvement from 10 process engineering companies, faculty were given an initial networkingbase. Companies contributing industrial speakers include Sony Music, Inductotherm, DuPontEngineering, Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey, Cochrane, Tasty Baking Co., DuPontPharmaceuticals, DuPont Nylon, Hyprotech, and Mobil Technology Co. Participants use the givenmethodology to

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Russel C. Jones

Session 3560 Global Status of Engineering Education -Outcomes of the 1998 Global Congress on Engineering Education at Cracow, Poland Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. World Expertise LLC Falls Church, VA, USAAbstractThe 1998 Global Congress on Engineering Education was organized around severalmajor themes: effective teaching methods, curriculum design and evaluation, liberaleducation for engineers, use of new technologies in engineering education, current issuesand trends in engineering education, international collaborations

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Sean J. Cannon; John H. Grubbs

Interdisciplinary ProgramAn interdisciplinary field of study in environmental security is available for cadets whodesire to gain fundamental insights into the complex nature of environmental securityissues. The environmental security field of study addresses three critical areas: nationalstrategy decision making (policy); technology needs for environmentally sustainableoperations; and Army environmental stewardship. The Department of Geographyand Environmental Engineering is the proponent for the environmental security field ofstudy. Page 4.244.6 6FIELD TABLES: Environmental

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

Session 2660 Working with Projects in Engineering Education Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. C. T. da Rocha Brito Catholic University of SantosAbstractPresently there is a general assent that for the future the new professional has to have some extraabilities to be able to compete in the new global work market. The world has started a new era,the era of global economy where technology and scientific knowledge are moving the worlddevelopment in a very fast way. Now the professional competence is measured not only by thework that a man can realize but also by the results that he gets. And so

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Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 1463 Kinematics for Manufacturing Engineering Technologists Akihiko Kumagai and Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202Abstract This paper describes the development of a new computer-based course in Kinematics andDynamics of Machines, designed for students pursuing BS degrees in ManufacturingEngineering Technology. The course development was based on the premise that basic scienceand engineering principles are best understood by demonstrating their practical

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Nadia A. Basaly

Session 2563 Developing Competencies For Engineering Foundations Courses Nadia A. Basaly, Ph.D. The university of Texas at Brownsville College of Science, Math and Technology Brownsville, TX 78520Abstract Pre-college Minority Engineering Program has been designed to motivate and prepareminority middle and high school students for careers in science and engineering. The Program, called“Tex-PREP,” is an aggressive, pro active outreach system that introduces a joint curriculum betweenscience, math and technology to

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

Session 2260 The Forming Humanistic in Engineering Education Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. C. T. da Rocha Brito University Center of LusiadaAbstractViewing a future where the main aspects of life that we are sure about are the competitivenessand the constant changes. We at University Center of Lusiada have conceived and developed anew kind of course in order to prepare our students to face the new world order. A new orderthat to be good is not enough. It is necessary to be the best. To get this goal it is fundamental thescientific and technological dynamic to avoid the obsolescence. And

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Gerald J. Thuesen; William G. Sullivan

Session 1639 ENGINEERING ECONOMY - A Historical Perspective Gerald J. Thuesen, William G. Sullivan Georgia Institute of Technology/Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityThe purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with the accomplishments and contributionsmade by four individuals in the field of engineering economics. These “pioneers” of theprofession enabled the field to develop from its infancy in the 1870's to become a criticalcomponent of engineering practice and education. Their introduction of fundamental ideas, thedevelopment of methodologies of

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James Hanson

Session 2315 Early Experimentation with Civil Engineering Materials James L. Hanson Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractA new project-based teaching method emphasizing laboratory experimentation is being used atLawrence Technological University. It has excited and energized the students about civilengineering applications. Engineering concepts are introduced early in the students’ academiccareers using civil engineering materials. Laboratory activities related to a Civil EngineeringMaterials course are being used for outreach, recruitment, and an intensive laboratoryexperience

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Mel I. Mendelson

another clone of the engineering managementprograms [3]. It was thoroughly researched and planned in order to have an integratedcurriculum that satisfied the current and future needs of industry in Southern California. Thepurpose of this paper is three-fold: to determine which universities offer integrated curricula, topresent the need for our program, and to discuss how our program is innovative. Page 4.320.1II. Integrated Engineering CurriculaA. Hypothesis. Engineering/technology management graduate programs are one of the fastestgrowing programs world-wide. Their growth rate since 1990 has been 8.3% per year [3]. Mostof these programs either

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

notebooks are as external aids to memory and a space for creativity, it is notobvious to students how to use a notebook for anything other than writing down notes from theblackboard. Consequently in this paper, we will describe a technique for using notebooks togenerate ideas and how we adapted this system for use by first-year engineering students at theUniversity of Virginia (UVa).What is the Idea Marathon System?At UVa, first-year engineering students do not take their basic composition course in the EnglishDepartment but rather in a special unit of the engineering school, the Division of Technology,Culture, and Communication (TCC). The Division emphasizes that students learn to write andspeak in ways that enhance their abilities to be leaders

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Teri Reed Rhoads; Susan Haag; Gwen Lee-Thomas

Session 3630 Longitudinal Analysis of Retention within Engineering Susan G. Haag, Teri Reed Rhoads Arizona State University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Tempe, AZ 85287-5106 and Gwen Lee-Thomas Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana 47803-3999AbstractReform across subject areas through curricular integration has overarching goals of achievingacademic

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

3257 EVOLUTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM John E. Shea, Thomas M. West Oregon State UniversityIntroduction At the beginning of this decade, the structure of engineering curricula at most colleges anduniversities had existed since the early 1950’s, and reflected an emphasis on a solid foundation inmath, science, and engineering science as expressed in the Grinter Report of 19551. Therequirements for accreditation by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) reinforced this traditional structure of the

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Marcus Huggans; Nystrom Hal

student learning was no worsethan in previous classes, which had covered the same material without the help of theasynchronous tutorials. This implies that educators can use more Web-based educational contentin their classes with confidence that it can be effectively managed. In addition, it was foundglobal learners learned better in a global environment and sequential students learned better in asequential environment. This gives more choices to educators on how to reach their students andways to improve learning effectiveness.The Objective of the StudyWith the explosive rate of change in technology, there is a great opportunity to improve methodsin engineering education, and for educators to find ways to improve our instructional methods.In

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Paul Johnson

www.fedworld.gov National Institute of Standards & Technology www.nist.gov Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.govAcademic Sources - Drexel – Materials Engineering www.materials.drexel.edu MIT Materials Science and Engineering www-dmse.mit.edu National Pollution Prevention Center www.umich.edu/~nppcpub Queensland Mining, Minerals, and Materials – mama.minmet.uq.oz.au/~simo Introduction to Material Science (VRML) n/work/index.htm Visualization in Materials Science vims.ncsu.eduOrganizational Sources - The Aluminum Association www.aluminum.org SAMPE

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Susan M. Montgomery

- Efficiency - Designing your first class Theory - Student learning styles, development, and learning theories - Myers-Briggs - Piaget - Perry - Learning Theories Methods and Procedures - Taxonomy, Objectives and ABET - Syllabus Design, Textbook selection - Problem solving and creativity - Lectures -student lectures - Discussions and teamwork - Technology in engineering education - Design and laboratory - One-to-one teaching and advising

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Boris Butman

new technology and methods, etc. Incidentally, manycompanies are sending their engineers to regular universities for economic and managementtraining on the continuing education basis.However, because the basic economic training has not been provided before graduation, theseshort-term advanced courses might not produce the expected results. On the other side, if thistraining includes the basic courses, it will cost much more than if it was done during the originaltraining at the maritime school, and it will take valuable time.V. Marine Engineering Management Program Page 4.372.5As an alternative to the existing marine engineering curriculum a

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Shreekanth A. Mandayam; John L. Schmalzel; Ravi Ramachandran

enhancement in original or current technologies,materials and manufacturing processes. The objective of competitive assessment through reverseengineering is to understand and outdo the competition. In the Competitive AssessmentLaboratory at Rowan University, multidisciplinary teams of freshman engineering students fromeach of the four engineering disciplines perform competitive assessment on a consumerappliance (in this case, an electric toothbrush).The objectives of the Competitive Assessment Laboratory are as follows:1. Provide the launching pad for an innovative, four year design curriculum by introducing freshmen to the science and art of design by evaluating the work of practicing engineers.2. Introduce multidisciplinary groups of engineering

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Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

, technical writing and communication skills through collaborative laboratoryexperiments and teamwork. Professionalism and engineering ethics are also integrated throughout the laboratorymodules. Efforts are made to place female students in leadership roles or in well-balanced teams.The first semester is followed by a semester long project focussing on reverse engineering. This course subtitledCompetitive Assessment Laboratory, consists of a semester long project that introduces freshman engineeringstudents to reverse engineering of a consumer appliance. Reverse engineering helps in developing sufficientinformation about a (product) form and function to allow replication with or without enhancement in original orcurrent technologies, materials, and

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Richard B Cole; Charles V. Schaefer; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

Session 3225 REDESIGNING THE FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Richard B. Cole, Bernard Gallois, Keith Sheppard Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 07030Stevens’ engineering curriculum has been revised, and part of this revision introduces engineer-ing activities into the first semester via 3 concurrent engineering courses. This semester had pre-viously consisted entirely of science and humanities courses. Now the first semester

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Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

Session 3565 Incorporating Engineering Applications into Calculus Instruction1 Guoqing Tang*, Bala Ram**, and Milin Shah** *Department of Mathematics **Department of Industrial Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411 Gtang@ncat.edu, Ram@ncat.edu, milin@ncat.edu1. IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to present two multimedia modules in the areas ofdifferential calculus, industrial engineering and industrial management as well aspreliminary results on incorporating one of the modules in calculus instruction

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Lucy C. Morse

Session 2542 Using the Internet for an Engineering Management Course Lucy C. Morse, Ph.D. University of Central FloridaAbstractSince the fall of 1990 Engineering Technology at the University of Central Florida has offeredcourses utilizing the videotape lecture successfully demonstrated by the FEEDS (FloridaEngineering Education Delivery System) system. Primarily using UCF campus and communitycollege locations, this system allows for maximum viewing freedom of the course material viatape without geographic or work schedule constraints. Emerging communication technologies(electronic

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Jerome Atkins

andcompetencies demonstrated through alternative modes: traditional college coursesdelivered by other regionally accredited institutions; college courses delivered at a distancethrough various media (e.g., print, video tape, Internet); college-level courses delivered bybusiness, industry and the military and validated by the American Council on Education;credit by examination; and special and portfolio-based assessment. The College insuresquality in its programs through an Outcome Assessment Framework closely matching theEngineering and Technology Criteria 2000 of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET).The model of the virtual university as embodied by Regents College is instructive as aninnovative alternative to traditional