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N.W. Scott; B.J. Stone

tutorialsystem continued to function correctly, but somehow the N.W. Scottclass became off-side, and the results from the survey were Nathan Scott is a postgraduate student and researchdiscouraging. The moral of this story is that a teaching officer in the Department of Mechanical and Materialsinnovation is not a separate entity in its own right: it is only Engineering, the University of Western Australia. He ismeaningful to speak of ‘this system with these teachers and employed full-time writing software to illuminatethese students’. engineering dynamics through presentation of movingWith this in mind, the variables in this study are

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Nancy L. Denton; Christine L. Corum

? Thinking about your strategic plan should first be done in terms of your life long ambitions or values. TheFranklin Quest Company,5 developer of successful planning materials, encourages people to “get control of theevents of your life that matter” by first identifying your governing values. It is essential to understand that theseare your life priorities and not weekly goals. In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,4Stephen Covey recommends “beginning with the end in mind.” Look at yourself in terms of how you wantfamily members, friends, work associates, and other associates to feel about you at the end of your life.Consider how you want to be viewed in your profession. Will you strive for excellence in teaching or

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Dan Budny

teaching as your research area, there are publications and professional engineering societieswhere you can publish your work and become an active member.The most important thing to remember is that receiving promotion and tenure is your responsibility, not yourdepartment heads or any other faculty member in your department. Getting tenure by teaching is just as difficultas getting it through research; thus, do not use teaching as a back door into your department. Always keep onething in mind, if your teaching is good even if your peers do not appreciate your work, your students will. Figure 1 Recommended Format for Promotion Document General Information

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Constantine A. Ciesielski

for various personality types/issues such as: the Talker the Griper the Narrow Minded One the Quiet One the Wrong Track Side Conversations Personality Problems Page 1.423.4 $iiia-:} 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.JHJ3..’ Remember, the manner in which the meeting leader handles people and their ideas at a meeting isheard by all in attendance. And, the way situations are dealt with will serve to either encourage ordiscourage the group’s further participation and support.Meeting Closure There are

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Susan B. Millar; Steve Kosciuk; John C. Wright; Debra Penberthy

the ChemistryDepartment conduct oral examinations with of all the Chem 110 students, evaluating their ability toperform critical thinking and problem solving. Thus, the idea for the “faculty assessment” study wasborn. The Chem 110 Faculty Assessment Design With this idea in mind, Wright sought resources to help him conduct and finance this study.Forttinately, he was able to tap into grants funded by national and campus agencies (seeAcknowledgements). For help in conducting the study, he turned to a third-party evaluation researchgroup, the UW-Madison Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation, and Dissemination (LEAD) Center.LEAD and Wright designed a two-pronged study, with the faculty assessor study

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H. Paul Haiduk; Donald J. Bagert; Ben A. Calloni

. Page 1.241.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings This system has previously been used as a supplement to teach a Pascal-based introductory computerscience (CS1) course required of both computer science and electrical engineering majors; despite havinglimited teaching materials for BACCII at that time, the empirical results showed a 4-8% increase in learning and 4comprehension . More recently, work on adding object-oriented extensions to BACCII for use in the datastructures/object-oriented programming (CS2) course was undertaken, resulting in BACCII++§. Current research concerns the development of a complete set of course materials for the use of BACCII++in teaching both CS1 and

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John H. Damell

competitive for funding, aneducator must submit a strong proposal that creates a good first impression to the reviewer. A proposal that iswell written, clear, and easy for the reviewer to read and understand generally has a better chance of beingfunded than one that is poorly written. Since many engineering educators have little background in writing, this paper gives guidelines forcreating a strong proposal to prospective authors. General appearance of the proposal, including graphs,figures, and charts, is an important part of writing a successful grant. Common errors in writing are included,and basic rules for most frequently misused grammar are given with a discussion of words, sentence structure,and paragraph organization. General

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John H. Damell

competitive for funding, aneducator must submit a strong proposal that creates a good first impression to the reviewer. A proposal that iswell written, clear, and easy for the reviewer to read and understand generally has a better chance of beingfunded than one that is poorly written. Since many engineering educators have little background in writing, this paper gives guidelines forcreating a strong proposal to prospective authors. General appearance of the proposal, including graphs,figures, and charts, is an important part of writing a successful grant. Common errors in writing are included,and basic rules for most frequently misused grammar are given with a discussion of words, sentence structure,and paragraph organization. General

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Ph.D., J.G. Shiber; H.R. Bogale

and students are, ideally, working together for a common goal: achievement ofstudent success in a subject area. How teachers perceive their students' attitudes and opinions, as well as understand their needsand capabilities, is very important to how successfully they perform their task. With this in mind, Page 1.405.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsanother questionnaire was devised and administered to community college teachers, as well as administrators andprofessional staff, who are directly involved with instruction.The Questionnaire The questionnaire was entitled

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Alan D. George

Session 1220 Fault-Tolerant Multicomputer Design with DSP96002 Microprocessors Alan D. George High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida State University and Florida A&M UniversityThe objective of this paper is to overview the design and performance results of a fault-tolerant multicomputer architectureimplemented with DSP96002 microprocessors. Topics include processor architectural features, multicomputer