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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

persistent experiment.”[2]One of the more recent initiatives in improving undergraduate engineering education has beenconducted by the NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition (FC), currently consisting of sixinstitutions: Arizona State University (ASU), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT),Texas A&M University (TAMU), the University of Alabama (UA), the University ofMassachusetts at Dartmouth (UMD), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UWM). Eachpartner institution worked within their particular and differing contexts to develop innovativecurricula based on four thrusts: integration of conceptual concepts across disciplines; active andcooperative learning; the use of technology in the classroom; and on-going assessment andevaluation.We

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohan Ketkar; Gopal Reddy

. Myers, G. E. Analytical methods in conduction heat transfer. Publisher: Genium Publishing, Schenectady, NY. 1987. ISBN: 0-931690-24-2. Page 8.851.9 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” 5. Incropera, F.P. and Dewitt, D.P. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. Publisher: John Wiley, New York. 2002. ISBN: 0-471-38650-2.MOHAN A. KETKAR is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the Prairie View A&

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eugene Eckstein; Charla K. Triplett

resources. The Alliance functions as a group of programs working together to collaboratively craftimproved methods to place students and promote internship experiences. While this networkinvolves technology, it relies heavily on the interpersonal interactions of the individual program Page 8.617.1coordinators, the national coordinator, and industrial participants. We have learned that the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcoordinator network is the backbone of the Alliance. Each local

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

& Economics at Lehigh University. Professor Watkins holds Ph.D. and M.P.P. degreesfrom Harvard University and a B.S. from the University of Rochester. He previously worked inoptical design and optic manufacturing engineering at Eastman Kodak. His research involves theeconomics of innovation, defense industry & dual-use manufacturing, and technology policy.Teaching areas encompass the role of technology in trade & economic growth; as well asmanagerial economics; and new product development. As faculty fellow, he directs Lehigh’sVenture initiative, which promotes innovation, inquiry-based, experimental curriculum throughoutthe university. He founded and serves as co-director of Lehigh’s Community Research and PolicyService (Lehigh

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Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karen Grigg

. Page 8.1137.1The North Carolina State University Libraries (NCSU Libraries) joined the Patent and Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1Trademark Depository Library Program (PTDLP) in September 1977. Given the land-grant status of the University and its strong science and technology research focus, thedecision to become a patent and trademark depository program was logical.As the sole Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) in the state of NorthCarolina, the NCSU Libraries must balance the needs of independent inventors with thoseof the

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

. Cockerham, and D. Nopachai for their help with module development. Page 8.380.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences[1] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R. (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.[2] Schwartz, D.L., Brophy, S., Lin, X.D., Bransford, J.D. (1999). Software for managing complex learning: Examples from an educational psychology course. Educational Technology Research and Development

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott Wirgau; Abhinav Gupta; Vernon Matzen

the earthquake engineeringresearch community and the information technology community. Most of the engineers involvedare structural, geotechnical, and tsunami researchers, and they reside at participating universitiesacross the USA. This group’s objectives include setting up “collaborative capabilities [that] willallow analysts and experimentalists to work together in ways that were not previously possible.Tele-observation, data streaming and video streaming will provide access to data, access to state-of-the-art equipment, and the capability to cooperate across distance and time 1 .” The shake tableexperiment is one of the experiments that the NEESgrid is addressing. Additionally, NEES isdoing work on supporting hybrid experiments combining

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

..”13. Werner Adrian, consulting, Waterloo University.ROMAN STEMPROKAssistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at the University of North Texas. Registered PE inTexas. Actively involved in research for industry with more than ten years of industrial research experience, eightyears of teaching experience, and ten-plus research publications. Member of TAP5-TxDOT, IESNA, IEEE andCIE. M.E. in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal (1989), Ph.D. from the Department ofElectrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (1995).Preeti NagarajanA graduate student at the University of North Texas is pursuing a double Masters in Electronics Engineering

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

implementation has left no negativeperceptions among our students. Also the instructors who use the system find it to be aneffective way to ensure consistency in communication and evaluation across designs in a givenyear as well as year to year. With its flexible and scalable attributes the CE Capstone evaluationand assessment system seems to have helped bridge the gap between student needs and instructorresources while maximizing the educational value of the capstone experience.1 Engineering Accreditation Commission, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” (Baltimore: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 2001) 1.2 Alan Dutson, et al, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

Session 2268 Learning Modules for the Statics Classroom Anna Dollár, Paul S. Steif Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 / Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213IntroductionMechanical integrity, which remains an essential requirement for a vast array of technologies, newand traditional, is strongly rooted in the basic subjects of mechanics. The success of students in awide range of courses in mechanical, civil, and

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donald Carpenter; Cindy Finelli; Honor Passow; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

at Kettering University and has beenactive in the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division of ASEE for several years. His research interestsinclude academic integrity among engineering students, fatigue of structural aerospace and automotive alloys andwear phenomenon in orthopedic implants.DONALD D. CARPENTER is Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. Dr.Carpenter received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2001. He is actively involved in ASEE and servesas Faculty Advisor for the American Society of Civil Engineering Student Chapter at LTU. Professionally, hisresearch interests involve water resources, stream restoration, and watershed processes.HONOR J. PASSOW, P.E., is a Ph.D

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Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

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Katherine Chen

, NDC, private communications. Page 8.877.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”BiographyKATHERINE C. CHEN is an Associate Professor in the Materials Engineering Department at Cal Poly StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo, CA. She received her bachelor degrees (in Chemistry and Materials Science &Engineering) from Michigan State University, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At CalPoly, she teaches the undergraduates Structures of Materials, Kinetics of Materials, and

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

Session 3275 Tips for Teaching Obscenely Large Lectures Heidi Diefes-Dux, Deborah Follman, Robert Montgomery, William Oakes Purdue UniversityAbstractTeaching any class for the first time may be intimidating; but when that class is a lecture of 450freshman engineering students, it is downright scary. Good teaching practices including the use ofactive and cooperative learning still apply; however, many scale with lecture size. For example,reviewing 450 “minute papers” takes considerable time, even if the students’ comments are brief.This paper will present techniques that will help you

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

stimulates innovation by effectivelyusing both sides of the brain. It is a unified approach that builds on comprehensive problemsolving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math, science, engineering, technology,and daily life. The different dimensions, namely Uniqueness, Dimensionality, Directionality,Consolidation, Segmentation, Modification, Similarity, and Experimentation provide leaders,managers, and other problem solvers with new insights and thinking strategies to solve everydayproblems they face in the workplace. Problems are not constrained to a particular profession orsubject, and may be used by individuals and teams. It is easy to teach, learn and use themethodology.1. Introduction This paper details case studies where

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

trendline analysis would be useful for a faculty’s overall course evaluation for a given semester or thepast semesters and might be useful in instructional improvement process. Similarly, we plan toinclude features such as “exporting” the survey data to the Microsoft Word format or Excel sothat the data can be more easily integrated into annual program assessment reports.Bibliography:[1] Engineering Criteria 2000 3rd Edition: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States. Published by The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore MD. 1997. Available: http://www.abet.org/EAC/eac2000.html.[2] McGourty, J., Scoles, K, and Thorpe, S., “Web-based course evaluation: comparing the experience at two

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Margaret Pinnell; Gabrielle Williamson; Corinne Daprano

Society for Engineering Educationpreviously described soft skills. Another educational objective common to both classes was togive the students an appreciation of working with students and faculty members from othermajors as well as with people in the business community and representatives from non-profitorganizations. Both classes were required to do Internet and library research and to seekinformation from other professionals through personal interviews, tours, phone calls and e-mail.This was done in an effort to help the students develop their research skills and to help themunderstand how to apply information gained from their research to solve a problem. Anothereducational objective was to enhance the students’ ability to use technology to

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

technologies,and to build and renew the students’ desire to become involved in technological fields. This isaccomplished by allowing the students to experience math and science in ways that are excitingand meaningful to them in their everyday lives. The ATA utilizes project teams consisting of aneducation fellow, a science or engineering fellow (one is an undergraduate fellow and the otherone is a graduate fellow), and a participating secondary school teacher to develop and implementrelevant, hands-on lessons to teach math and science concepts in the classrooms. The lessonactivities are designed to introduce the required curriculum concepts in a fun and interestingmanner, to demonstrate the students’ potential to understand and enjoy math and science

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Ware; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

helping faculty and students improve teaching and learning, respectively.6.0 Bibliography[1] August, R.J., Lopez, G.W., Yokomoto, C.F., and Buchanan, W. W., “Heuristic Beliefs About Problem Solving In Technology Courses And Their Impact On Success On Problem Solving Exams,” Proc. 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session S2H, Boston, MA, Nov. 6-9, 2002.[2] Lindsay, P.H. and Norman. , D. A., Human Information Processing, p. 500.[3] Wright, C.H.G., Peterson, D.E., Neal, P.C., and Lynch, P.C., “The Effect of Study Journals on Student Performance and Attitudes in an Electrical Engineering Course,” Proc. 1997 ASEE Annual Conference

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Katrina Townes-Young

, research findings, and commercialapplications, Hosted by NASA’s Center for Distance Learning, we recognize thataccess to such individuals and information would offer students and facultyacross the nation the unique experience of making real world connections to thescience, technology, engineering, and mathematics taught in the classroom, asonly NASA can. One method of real-time access that was researched andexplored was videoconferencing; videoconferencing “is the transmission ofimages (video) and (audio) back and forth between two or more physicallyseparate locations” (International Trade Data Network, 1999). Therefore, NASALIVE (Learning thorugh Interactive Videoconferencing Experiences) represents anew dimension in communicating knowledge and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Graham; Ronald Bieniek

undergraduates while UMKC serves a Page 8.864.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ” 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793greater number of professional degree candidates with its dental, pharmacy, medical, and musicprograms. The Rolla campus (UMR) is a non-urban technological institution and the smallest ofthe four UM campuses. Although each campus is different, faculty members face many of thesame pressures. System wide

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Varvel; Stephanie Adams

thoughmost engineering degree programs frequently use teams, the training and evaluation of thesemethods has, in many cases, been non-existent. Therefore, the objective of this research was totest whether increasing knowledge of one’s self and others will help individuals to become moreeffective in teaming environments.Methodology and Analysis The participants in this experiment were senior design students at the University ofNebraska College of Engineering and Technology in the spring semester of 2002. According toFowler, capstone design courses are the best stage in the curriculum to introduce teams becausethey minimize the student’s dependence on the professor and prepare students for the real worldexperience17. A total of 200 students

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

serves as acoordinator for the cooperative program. He is on the review board for the Journal of Industrial Technology. Hereceived his B.S. in building Engineering and Design from Lincoln University, Missouri in 1980, M.S. inIndustrial Management from Central Missouri State University, Missouri in 1981, and Ph.D. in Vocational Studiesfrom the Southern Illinois University, Illinois in 1990. Ali teaches in the area of manufacturing management anddesign.Mark RajaiDr. Rajai is currently a faculty and researcher in college of engineering at University of Memphis. He also serves aseditor-in-chief of an international journal and is member of editorial board of several national and internationaljournals. Rajai has eighteen years of experience in higher

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Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce

systems are quietly changing our world — the way we eat, play, work, andlive. Embedded systems are used in a diverse range of products including home appliances, auto-mobiles, toys, and medical equipment. Embedded systems are located at the “front line” wheretechnology interacts with the physical world. These systems measure temperature, motion, humanresponse, and other inputs. They also control motors and other devices, and deliver informationfor human consumption. The movement of the last two decades toward more ubiquitous comput-ing systems will continue and embedded systems will become even more prominent in everyaspect of technology and life [6]. Engineers comfortable with common embedded systems com

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

Synchronous Belt Drives, Dayco, Dayton, 1982.2. MRC, MRC Engineering Handbook, 1992.3. Mott, R, .L, “Spur Gear Design”, Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1999.4 American Gear Manufacturers Association. Standard 2001-C95. Fundamental Rating Factors and CalculationMethods for Involute Spur and Helical Gear Teeth. Alexandria, VA: American Gear Manufacturers Association,1995Edward M. VavrekEdward M. Vavrek is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University NorthCentral. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue, a Masters degree in Mechanical and AeronauticalEngineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Business Administration from IndianaUniversity Northwest

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

the professorexchanged ideas, followed a format they had discussed and spent time developing a relationship oftrust. Similarly with the students, the rapport in Case 2 was exceptional, student-teacher, teacher-student. Student ratings in Case 2 were exceptional. And, just to test the hypothesis that highratings come from easy courses, graduates of this engineering technology program are focusingtheir graduate study in the subject area of this professor and are doing top quality work.ConclusionThe advice is simple; find a mentor and learn to teach. Success and the attainment of tenure canbe an individual project but it doesn’t have to be. Help is often available; seek it out. Attendteaching workshops, attend research workshops, learn from

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Blauch

. Karunamoorthy and R.H. Olliges, “Web Technology in Engineering Education – How and Why,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.2. S.L. Lillevik, “The Classroom: Online,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec Canada.3. I. Batarseh, Q. Zhang, R. Eaglin, Z. Qu, and P. Wahid, “Multi-Media Enhancement of the Electrical Engineering Core Course,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.4. M.T. Davis, “Teaching Well Online: Part II, Interaction Design,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec Canada.5. R.E. Flori, D.B. Oglesby, T.A. Philpot, N. Hubing, R.H. Hall, and V

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janak Dave; Thomas Boronkay

Session 3447 Remote Assistive Elevator Control Device Janak Dave, Thomas G. Boronkay, James Henize University of CincinnatiAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department at the University of Cincinnati’sCollege of Applied Science requires a “Design, Build & Test” Capstone design project forstudents working toward the baccalaureate degree. Most of these are completed by individualstudents. Local non-profit organizations that offer community service provide some of theprojects. By working with these organizations, the MET Department has identified

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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James A. Davis; Melissa Dark

knowledge and skills drawnfrom traditionally non-computer disciplines. IA is truly a multidisciplinary endeavor, blendingtopics that span the disciplines of computer science, computer engineering, mathematics,management information systems and business, political science, and law. Additionally, keyprocesses used by IA professionals (e.g., vulnerability assessment) require a deepunderstanding of how important concepts in each of these disciplines are connected to eachother.The rationale for the project is based in the need to develop a consensus on core IA skills andknowledge. The demand for Information Technology (IT) professionals stemming from turnoverplus growth has been pegged in various references at around 600,000 open positions per year[3

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Govind Puttaiah

2268 AN INTERACTIVE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON DYNAMICS Govind Puttaiah(1) West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136Abstract An interactive distance learning course on Dynamics was developed and offeredto groups of on- and off-campus undergraduate engineering students using a multi-mediaapproach and a combination of teaching tools. The course was presented to a liveaudience on campus in a specially designed class room and transmitted to off-campus sitesin real time using modern information transfer equipment. The paper

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Maher Murad; Jerry Samples

University, June 2002. 13. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), “ExCEEd Teaching Workshop,” Northern Arizona University, August 2002. 14. Finley, D., “Tips for Greasing the Tenure Tr ack 3,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, 2001.MAHER M. MURAD is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown. Dr. Murad was a visiting assistant professor at Bucknell University and had overseas teachingexperience. He also worked as a highway project manager for Acer Freeman Fox International (HyderConsulting). Dr. Murad received M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toledo in 1987 and aPh.D. in Engineering Science from the University of Toledo in 1994.JERRY