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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Serdar Tumkor; Ali Sekmen; Recayi Pecen; Ayhan Zora; Ismail Fidan

. Page 8.657.2Although most of these systems included some representation of a relevant knowledge base “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”(data, algorithms, and rules), the high cost of utilizing this knowledge and extreme difficulty ofmaintaining it made such systems useful only for special large applications or projects wherecosts could be justified. However, a modern KBS can be implemented on an inexpensivecomputer platform and contains software tools that permit a novice or apprentice to perform thetasks normally reserved for a professional with a higher degree of training. In other words

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

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E. Jansen

)Abstract The domain of biophotonics/biomedical optics continues to increase in importance for manyareas of Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, and the Life Sciences. Whatever the ultimate goal ofthe use of light in medicine and biology, the initial interaction and distribution of light withinbiological tissue is fundamental. Students at all levels have considerable difficulty with many ofthe concepts that govern light distribution in tissue. To address these conceptual difficulties, newparadigms in the learning sciences advocate approaches that actively engage the students inmodels of challenge-based learning. The goals of this project were: 1) implementation of a challenge-based learning module,based on the laser treatment of a Port Wine

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Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julio Davalos

selected fundamental principles with existing oremerging teaching technologies can be beneficial for improving the quality of learning andteaching in the classroom. In addition to the obvious benefits for students and the satisfaction Page 8.469.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationderived by the instructor, the experience and knowledge gained through efforts directed toimproving teaching can be effectively combined with research interests and evolve intointegrated research-educational projects This paper describes an

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski

Session 1526 Non-traditional Laboratory Experiments: Olive Oil Manufacturing and Testing. Part I: Freshman Engineering Experiments M. P. Gifford, E. G. Cervo, M. J. Savelski, S. Farrell, R. P. Hesketh and C. S. Slater. Rowan University. College of Engineering. Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractOlive oil manufacturing and processing involves the application of many fundamentalchemical engineering principles and unit operations. These operations are not, however,traditionally explored in the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper presents thefirst set of experiments created as part of an NSF funded project whose goal is

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julie Jessop

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe mentoring roles a faculty adviser is expected to fulfill. 1 In their capacity as faculty adviser, amentor develops a plan of coursework and facilitates a research project for the graduate student.As a career adviser, the mentor helps the student prepare for a career and introduces them to theirown network of professional contacts (Tip #7). As a skills consultant, the mentor helps themhone their communication skills (written and oral) and provides them with opportunities todevelop their teaching and proposal writing skills (which are relevant to industrial jobs as well asacademic). Finally, as a role model, the mentor

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Lin; Richard Pfile

. Setting up the classfor a singleton access allows placing the loadLibrary method in the constructor that will only beinvoked once. 3The actual native code that interfaces the National Instruments card is written in C and is built asa DLL by specifying a DLL project.4 The C code for the Java Native Interface must followspecific rules. For each native method declared in the Java program, a C function needs to bewritten. A utility program named javah.exe comes with the Java Development Kit (JDK) that Page 8.872.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ravi Ramachandran; Kevin Dahm

setting. Each student startswith $10,000, and is presented with a list of investment opportunities. Students apply theprinciples learned in class to the possible investments and make decisions, such as how much tobid on a particular item in an auction. Additional investment opportunities are introduced weeklythroughout the semester. The required analysis grows in complexity as the students’ knowledgebase increases. The game is interactive; for example the owner of a factory must negotiate theprice of raw materials he/she needs with the owner of a mine. The actual software is currentlybeing developed through an NSF-CCLI sponsored project. The software will be web based, andwill be a combination of standard HTML and Active Server Pages with a

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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

theBESTEAMS project. In addition to team training, she is interested in engineering design processes,facilitating the success of women and minorities in engineering and advises the local chapter of Pi Tau Page 8.934.9Sigma."Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering"JANET A. SCHMIDT, Ph. D., Director, Student Research, Clark School of Engineering. Dr. Schmidt aco-PI of the NSF sponsored BESTEAMS grant. A licensed psychologist, she is responsible foradministering and assessing the project. Her other interests include

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Johnson; Harold Larson; Charles Standridge; Shirley Fleischmann

required to successfully complete this one project. Page 8.193.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEach module of the course contains activities of interest across all of the engineering disciplines.The use of sketching is a common part of any design activity. Ethics issues concern all engineersand are a fundamental part of any curriculum. The honor code of our engineering school ispresented including rules of thumb for dealing with ethically challenging situations. A videoportraying several

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Jensen

-computer mouse interaction. Students gather data on the accuracy andspeed of drawing a line between concentric circles using both a pencil and a mouse. Simpleindustrial engineering theory14 is used to translate experimental data into a controllability index.The Bridges/Walkways case study is the classic engineering project involving the construction ofa bridge or walkway to achieve a technical specification (usually, allowable load) using limitedmaterials (usually, a limited number of popsicle sticks).It should be noted that the Trebuchets and Bridges/Walkways case studies can be used as thebasis of entertaining competition between groups. Students typically compete for moderateprizes in a number of technical and non-technical categories. In the

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

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Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

Engineering Education Session 2613f. design a drug delivery deviceIn the process, the questions will reveal the material needed to proceed and set up the curriculum.Students will need to develop some background. Only a limited set of questions can be addressedbut with proper guidance, they can be answered. The emphasis will be on the molecular basis forthe solution of the problem. Note that the questions relate to material with which most studentshave some familiarity.The second approach is to develop hands-on first- year design projects, possibly in combinationwith the “questions” raised above. (Fuel cell, battery, microbrewery, separations,biotransformations). As an example : how to produce alcohol from a

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

individual faculty member. Such asustainable freestanding curriculum could be disseminated amongst departments and universities.One test of its disseminability will be its effectiveness as a teaching tool in an undergraduatebiotransport course at Northwestern University during the Fall 2003 semester.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363. The authors are grateful toProfessor Tomas Lorenzo-Perez, and Learning by Doing, an I-Campus project of the MIT-Microsoft Alliance for assistance with the implementation of the on-line tutorials, to JairamEswara for providing the exam data from the original curriculum, to Itty ‘James’ Samuel for

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Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Austin Asgill

Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”6. “Issues in Distance Learning,” L. Sherry, International Journal of Educational Telecommunications, 1 (4), pp 337-365.7. Distance Education at a Glance, Engineering Outreach, College of Engineering, University of Idaho (www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist1.html).8. DUE Project Information Resource System, www.ehr.nsf.gov/PIRSWeb/Search.9. “Effective Distance Delivery of Technical Courses Through Interactive Instruction,” Austin B, Asgill and G. Thomas Bellarmine, submitted to ASEE-SE 2003 conference, April 2003.10. URL: www.famu.edu11

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Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wayne Jones; Robert Wright

describes how funding through a NSF Advanced Technological Education grantis providing a mechanism to support activities in the convergence lab consisting of project-oriented/case study research for members of the North Texas Regional Technology Consortium.Finally, the paper elaborates on issues associated with interoperability efforts and examples ofhow the convergence lab could be employed as a model for beta testing and system integrationfor small and medium-sized industry partners.I. IntroductionEven though the much anticipated seamless convergence of voice and data services primarilyfacilitated by IP enabling technologies has not been fully realized, a telecommunications industryexperiencing flux and the uncertain resolution of technical

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donald Smith

rationale formaking particular choices are discussed in class. This reinforces the concept that there can bemultiple solutions to a particular set of design requirements.VI. FAQ Page 8.843.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3220With the background and details of the Machine Component Design Applets above, it isappropriate to address the rationale for this project. Several questions have been

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rick Shoemaker

Senior Capstone Project2 Opti 471 A Optics Lab I 3 Specialized Course from Selected Track3 Engr 498A Senior Capstone Project 3 Specialized Course from Selected Track2-3 Specialized Course from Selected Track or Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Page 8.178.3"Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education"The TracksOptics Track - The optics core is supplemented with courses chosen from one or more scienceor engineering departments

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Zambon; Rachael Shevin; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Bioengineering EducationalTechnologies (award EEC-9876363, T. R. Harris, M.D., Ph.D., principal investigator).References1 Antony, M. Gender and Science: A Review of the Research Literature. Equity Coalition for Gender, Race, and National Origin: v3 n2. Fall 1993- Spring 1994.2 Whyte, J. Girls into Science and Technology: the Story of a Project. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London. 1986.3 Martinez, M. Interest Enhancement to Science Experiments: Interactions with Student Gender. Journal of Research in Science Teaching: vs. 29, pp. 167-177. 1992.4 Pollina, A. Gender Balance: Lessons from Girls in Science and Mathematics. Educational Leadership: v. 53, pp. 30-33. Sep 1995.5 Oakes, J. Opportunities, Achievement and Choice: Women and Minority

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Carter; John Feland

student in the Design Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department of StanfordUniversity. A former IDEO employee, John was also a Captain in the Air Force. His last assignment was as an AssistantProfessor at the Air Force Academy. His current research is developing methods to support cross discipline productdevelopment and Innovation Opportunity Assessment based on field research in real companies and his experience as adesigner.STEPHANIE CARTER works at Doblin as a Project Manager, interpreting user insights and field research and translatingthese into new business concepts and processes. She began her career as a designer for infants' clothing, conducting fieldresearch throughout Europe for a user group notoriously difficult to peg. She

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Denise Driscoll ; Klod Kokini; Linda Katehi; Jeff Wright; Carolyn Percifield

(i.e., Would you recommend the forum for… Engineering staff?(yes, no, maybe); Engineering faculty? (yes, no, maybe)). We also asked whether they hadalready recommended the forum to someone. Fourth, we assessed the impact of the forum onparticipant’s attitude. This entailed asking participants to rate on a 0 (None) to 7 (A Lot Of)scale their “Before the Forum” and then “After the Forum” response to questions reflecting their1) Affective response to the forum (i.e., My feelings of…Personal responsibility for changing yourwork climate), 2) Behavioral response to the forum (i.e., My level of involvement with…Research or other collaborative projects with a person of color), and 3) Cognitive response to theforum (i.e., My understanding/awareness of

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Cajetan Akujuobi

,” Proc. Instrument Society of America (ISA), Vol. 41, 1986.[3] C. M. Akujuobi, “Analog-to-Digital Converter Selection: Cost and Performance Criteria in Systems,” Proc. Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 15, May 1984.[4] D. Seitzer, G. Pretzl, N. A. Hamdy, “Electronic Analog-to-Digital Converters Principles, Circuits, Devices, Testing”, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1983.[5] G.B. Clayton, “Data Converters”, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982.8.0 AcknowledgementsWe want to acknowledge the contributions of Rodrigo Lozano, Richard Ellis and Ben Franklin inthis work. They helped the author work on this project as part of their class research project. Weextend our thanks to Texas Instruments for funding the Mixed Signal Systems Laboratory

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anil Khatri

WBMIS PHCES to capture user interface requirement. In DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS PHCES interface specifies in the use case: We observed that benefits from reusing the WBMIS product include improved productivity, PHCES Object Requirements Model- Interface Category: Class Diagram lower overall development cost for new system inPHCES Project line and a testing process less tedious than forOMT Model 4.0

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jitendra Tate; Ronnie Bolick; Ajit Kelkar

doctoral student at North Carolina A&T State University. Currently, he is researching onFederal Aviation Administration’s project “Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Braided Composites”. Hisresearch interests include low cost manufacturing of composites, fatigue behavior of composites, finite elementmodeling, CADD, mechanical event simulations, and statistical analysis. He is the student member of ASME.RONNIE BOLICK is Research Projects Manager of the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, a Researcher and PhDcandidate at North Carolina A&T State University. His research areas have been in embedded fiber optic sensors,fatigue and durability studies for the automotive industry for replacement of mechanical fasteners, manufacturing

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wilfred Roudebush

life cycle phases and does not account for inputs ofenvironment, goods, and services. Page 8.529.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Decisions based on an environmental impact analysis may rely on an EnvironmentalImpact Statement. An Environmental Impact Statement is an inventory, analysis, and evaluationof the effect of a planned built environment project on surrounding environmental quality asstipulated by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)6. Decisions based on anEnvironmental Impact Statement

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The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

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Raj Mutharasan

Session: 2613 Teaching of Engineering Biotechnology Raj Mutharasan Department of Chemical Engineering Drexel University, Philadephia, PA 19104 AbstractThe goal of this project is to develop a pedagogically novel approach to teaching of modern discoveries ofbiotechnology at a level most students of engineering can comprehend and apply. Topics in molecularbiology, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, drug delivery, and FDA regulations are combined cohesivelyin modular form. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Tim Anderson; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education(SUCCEED) longitudinal database (LDB) 3,4,5. The LDB contains data from eight colleges ofengineering involving nine universities: Clemson University, Florida A&M University, FloridaState University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, NorthCarolina State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Charlotte andVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Since the University of North Carolina atCharlotte does not have a chemical engineering degree program, it was excluded from this study.SUCCEED is an ongoing project, and the LDB continues to be updated as data becomeavailable. As of the current study, the LDB

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

Session 2109 Design, Implementation, and Assessment of an HPL-inspired Undergraduate Course on Biomechanics Marcus G. Pandy, Anthony J. Petrosino, Ron E. Barr, Laura Tennant, Ajay Seth Department of Biomedical Engineering/Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712Introduction New developments in learning theory suggest that instructors can improve studentunderstanding by changing their teaching practices. Innovations in instructional design such asproblem-based, case-based, and project-based learning have been designed to combat

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The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

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Murat Tanyel

EducationThe “experiment” was a good candidate, but it was too time consuming. I decided to simulate theexperiment on the computer (once slowly, to let the students experience it) and then to repeat thesimulation many times almost instantaneously to achieve the better estimates. Fig. 5 is a snapshotof the front panel of the VI that I projected on the screen for the statistical exponential decayexperiment. Each student in the class is represented by a LED on the panel. If the LED is on, thestudent is standing. If it is off, the student has “starved”. I gave the students the opportunity toact it out as the simulation ran on the projector screen and soon the simulation turned into a gamewith the last ones standing receiving enthusiastic cheers.At the end

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Massie

solutions.8. Evaluate remaining alternatives - often using more than just technical criteria - and rank results.9. Select - again with the client - the best choices and fix the design.10. Supervise construction or realization. This can involve such diverse aptitudes as project planning and control, labor relations and client interaction as well as being able to alleviate or circumvent immediate technical difficulties that may arrise.11. Supervise and monitor use and lifetime condition. Interaction with users is important here.12. Remove and recycle.Most will recognize that steps 5 through 7 in this list form the heart of the curriculum’stechnical content

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Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sharon Robinson; Scott Segalewitz; Raymond Lepore

features of LotusQuickPlace.To facilitate the use of technology to support classes, all distance students are required to haveaccess to a PC, in the same manner as is required for full-time traditional students.Program LaunchIn Fall 2002 the first two classes in the program were offered: Manufacturing Design (MFG 240)and Project Management (IET 323). MFG 240 enrolled a total 19 students – 13 in Dayton, andsix in Piqua. IET 323 had enrollments of 34 and 13 in Dayton and Piqua, respectively. Full-timefaculty members at Dayton instructed each class, with students in Piqua participating though thevideoconferencing system. To treat students equitably at each site, all supplemental classroommaterials (handouts) were either posted on the class Web site

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationacademic job search and time management skills and also includes a proposal writing workshop.Finally, the Mentored Internship, for which a student may earn up to 9 credits, provides amentored teaching experience. Activities and appropriate credit are determined individually bycontract with the student's assigned teaching mentor. Individual mentors for the studentparticipants may come from partner schools in the UC cluster or may be Engineering Collegefaculty, but all students are exposed to the broad range of teaching opportunities throughinteraction with partner faculty in the seminar series. The internship may be scheduled as anintensive one-quarter project or may be spread over a full