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Kassim M. Tarhini; Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

graduate student handbooks[3] which includecourse registration and scheduling procedures, rules, regulations, critical deadlines, tips from upperclassmates, study techniques and other useful information. This same information can becontinuously updated on a webpage for easyaccess by the students. Page 3.230.2ADVISINGAdvising should also comprise two phases. Academic advising[4] consists of providing informationand guidelines enabling students to select their appropriate areas of academic concentration throughproper choices of required courses, technical electives and related capstone/synthesis projects. Thus,the international student will have

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Zbigniew Prusak

realization process driven by its life cycle. In general,main problems in effective teaching of PRS are:1- many concepts are introduced late in the curriculum (during senior level courses or at the capstone projects)2- too many concepts are introduced in a short period of time (do not allow students to learn and progress based on their own mistakes)3- late introduction of PRS does not allow students to practice searching for unknown concepts and solutions (most senior level courses and projects are based on a concept of utilizing knowledge acquired in prerequisite courses)4- over-emphasis on ability of using mathematical analysis which usually requires having initial conditions and constraints (not often the case in real-word problems

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Francis D. McVey; James D. Lang

√ Figure 1 Example Completed Page from the Survey Experience and Present Responsibilities of the Questionnaire Respondent Before returning the attached questionnaire, please answer the following questions MANAGEMENT U Yes U No U Program or Project Management U Product Development U Functional/Specialty Department INVOLVED IN HIRING NEW GRADUATES & PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS U Yes U No TEAM

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J. A. Isaacs

. Drivers for Environmental and Economic FocusStudents can gain a broader understanding and strengthen their comprehension of the economicand environmental consequences of materials choices by incorporating these ideas into existingtechnical courses or new technical electives. Within the Department of Mechanical, Industrialand Manufacturing Engineering (MIME), there are three undergraduate course offerings thatfocus on materials science. Current graduate materials courses provide a good foundation forgraduate students focusing on a degree in materials science. Through required and electivecourses available in the industrial engineering curriculum, students have opportunities to learnabout engineering economy, project management and other pertinent

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Ronald D. Earley

analysis concept may be extended by the introduction of the triangular plane stress element. The introduction of this element should be timed to coincide with lecture discussions of plane stress. To help students gain additional appreciation for the increased complexity of the triangular plane stresses element the element stiffness matrix may be introduced. Emphasis should be placed on the necessity of computer program application.11. Tutorial examples of the computer software may be provided to the students so plane stress structural models and analyses may be performed.12. Students within the academic model program gain further use of the computer FEA software within a capstone design project

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Michael Rudko

courses and laboratories, together with the required written and oral reports, anddesign projects are chosen to fulfill aspects of objectives 1, 3 and 4. 5) The senior level capstone design course encompasses several components andreinforces skills and techniques developed throughout the curriculum. It includes a seminarwhich exposes students to issues of professional ethics and safety through case studies, invitedspeakers and writing assignments. It requires the open-ended design of a device, subsystem orsystem, a written report and an oral presentation. The report must include an analysis of thesocietal impact of the device or system based on the device and must present a historicalperspective on its development. As such, the course

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Peter T. Cummings; Hank D. Cochran; Juan J. dePablo; Denis J. Evans; Peter A. Koen; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Richard L. Rowley

capstone design course. Indeed, CACHE Corporation is largely responsible for bringingautomated process design packages into the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum. Page 3.63.2The exceptionally rapid growth of the industrial usage of molecular simulation and quantummechanical methods implies that a similar educational process is required in the area ofmolecular simulation (which can be thought of as applied statistical mechanics) andcomputational chemistry (applied quantum mechanics). In order for chemical engineers to beastute users of commercial molecular simulation and computational chemistry softwarepackages, at the undergraduate

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Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

to incorporate design projectswithin the technical classes: A group design project, with a final written report, requires the use(and hence learning) of all of these skills. A second opportunity to emphasize these skills is inlaboratory reports. It is easy to fall into the mode of providing detailed directions for eachlaboratory experiment and to require individual written reports from each student. However, byproviding only superficial directions and goals for the experiment, the students must developtheir problem solving skills (how to do the experiment). Secondly, by requiring group reports,the students will develop their teamwork skills. On the basis of this survey, the authors haveincorporated design projects into all their courses and

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert

prepared and distributed to the faculty in August 1996. A reviseddraft, specific to the Mechanical Engineering program, was reviewed and adopted by thedepartment in May 1997. In it, an underpinning design philosophy encourages design throughoutthe ME curriculum, involving a progressive breadth and depth strategy for appropriate designknowledge, methods, and skills, to be included in most of the required ME courses. Thefollowing design emphases were suggested to help faculty develop their curriculum: freshmanyear- design as a process; sophomore year - solving open-ended problems; junior year -component and system design; and senior year - capstone design project.This paper primarily deals with using carefully constructed open-ended problems

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J. C. Sener; R. R. Mirsky; David R. Haws; Stephen B. Affleck; J. L. Mason; L. C. Aburusa

, andbusinesses or government agencies with potential internship opportunities. (4) It is estimated that approximately 40 million people have access to the Internet. Usersin universities, government agencies, businesses, and libraries routinely use the Internet tocommunicate and to search curriculum, research, and other databases. Business and educationhave recently begun to collaborate on distance-learning projects to provide continuing educationprograms for business professionals. A natural extension of this electronic relationship is thepromotion of work-study or CE/I programs. The Internet is an attractive tool for enhancing a student CE/I program due

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

small group activities. I also reliedupon the teaching philosophy that I had outlined during the diversity and learning stylesworkshop.The CPPD syllabus incorporated a wide range of topics that I felt were consistent with mymission and teaching philosophy. Topics varied from developing a positive self-image andattitude, time management, developing a career plan and successful career management toproblem solving, analysis, technical writing, and interpersonal skills. I also identified bothtraditional and non-traditional activities to accompany my lesson units, such as journal writing,role-playing and solving logic problems. The course culminated with a final project for whichstudents had to prepare and present a very detailed career plan in