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Cynthia Villanueva; Amy Strobel

Educationaddition, throughout the semester, students are encouraged to communicate with their facultyadvisors and staff advisors via email with questions and or concerns.By strategically implementing the above mention three components with every student onprobation we have decreased the total percentage of students who are continued on probation andsignificantly decreased the percentage of students suspended from the University of NewMexico. Additionally, the number of students who been removed from probation has increased.(Refer to table 1) Pre-Major Students 97/98 98/99 99/00 . % of % of % of

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Nigel Middleton; Debra Lasich; Barbara Moskal

can be accomplished: 1) measurement of sample loss and thus, membrane fouling, 2) examination of the effectiveness of various procedures to clean and regenerate membranes.The results of this project will greatly benefit the municipal and commercial water treatmentplants. Optimum operating conditions will be determined for each membrane type tested. Theproposed studies will produce guidelines for the design of new and improved membranes withspecific chemical and physical properties.Environmental Science and Engineering - Advised by Dr. Junko Munakata-MarrThe research topic being explored is an innovative technology for biomediation of organicsolvents in groundwater aquifers. Harnessing the activities of microbes to degradecontaminants

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Harry Franz

Retention and Recruitment of Students for the University of Houston-Downtown Engineering Technology Department from Sources Other than High Schools Prof. Harry Franz, P.E.1 University of Houston- Downtown Member ASEE, IEEE, ISAAbstractThe preponderance of students in the Engineering Technology (ET) department ofthe University of Houston- Downtown (UHD) does not come directly from HighSchools. In fact, they almost all come from other sources, which makes the UHDET Department an excellent model for obtaining and keeping students fromsources other

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Saeed Foroudastan

atthis time should focus on recruitment plans to cover five basic target areas: (1) to keep thosecurrently enrolled in the department interested in staying in the department; (2) to convince thehigh percentage of undeclared majors at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) thatEngineering Technology (ET) can supply them what they need for successful careers; (3) to Page 6.859.1recruit high school students to choose ET as a career; (4) to recruit the skilled, already employed, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for

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Suzanna Rose; Mariesa Crow; Susan Murray

Session 2592 Retention of Female Faculty Members Susan Murray, Mariesa Crow, Suzanna RoseUniversity of Missouri-Rolla / University of Missouri-Rolla / Florida International UniversityIntroduction Engineering programs have struggled for years to recruit female undergraduateand graduate students (1). A similar challenge at most universities is recruiting femalefaculty members from the limited pool of candidates in various fields, particularlyengineering and related disciplines. Many universities are becoming aware of anadditional issue, the retention of these female faculty

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Wayne Wolf

of systems applications; they have also caused the complexity of embedded microprocessor sys- tems to increase. The new demands put on microprocessors requires new design techniques. We survey technological trends, discuss their implications for embedded systems education, and dis- cuss our experience with a new embedded systems course at Princ- eton University.1 IntroductionMicroprocessors have been embedded in systems for almost thirty years. However, embeddedsystem design is only now being recognized as a separate discipline. Our basic approach to teach-ing students about microprocessor-based systems took form in the early days of microprocessors.However

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Ann D. Christy; Dawn Farver; Kerry Hughes; Marybeth Lima

educational material and features useful to the learning process.II. List of Student Reviewed Textbooks:Bailey, J.E. and D.F. Ollis. 1986. Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, SecondEdition. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.Blanch, H.W. and D.S. Clark. 1997. Biochemical Engineering. New York: MarcelDekker, Inc.Doran, P.M. 1997. Bioprocess Engineering Principles. New York: Academic PressLimited.Johnson, A.T. 1999. Biological Process Engineering. New York: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.Shuler, M.L. and F. Kargi. 1992. Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts. EnglewoodCliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.III. Overview of Reviewed Textbooks: 1) Bailey and Ollis Bailey is a biotechnologist, and Ollis is a chemical engineer. These authors have created a

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Brett Gunnink; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

concludes with our plan for monitoring results and implementing change in the future.1. IntroductionIn response to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (ABET) EducationalCriteria 2000 (EC2000)1 and the need to periodically review and update curricula, theDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) is currently revising its undergraduate curriculum. While the ABET EC 2000criteria do not necessarily require a major curriculum revision, they provide an opportunity toleverage the accreditation process to improve our undergraduate education. In addition, studentsand employers expect that curricula will remain current and adjust to meet the needs of themarket place.ABET EC2000

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Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

developed following a review of other capstone courses describedin literature. Open-ended design projects are developed with assistance from industry advisorsand presented to the students at the start of the course. The students then spend two semesterspreparing solutions to the problems. The first year the course was offered went much asexpected based on the instructors’ previous experiences. Students complained of vagueinstructions, too much work, and lack of experience. However, additional student concerns withfairness and inequitable workloads were expressed. Refinements to the project selection processand course administration were made to address these concerns.1. IntroductionThe relative newness of the Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Raju Dandu; Doug Oliphant; David Delker

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Rosalyn Hobson; Kenneth Burbank

49 VSU I 28 19 II 17 14 III 5 5 38 JSRCC IV 9 7 7 Total 167 94Table 1. Summer Engineering Institute applicants and attendees.Along with the classroom instruction that the SEI participants received, the students alsoparticipated in a number of field trips. The goal was one field trip per week for Phases I, II, andIII. Phase I traveled as a group, while Phases II and III traveled together. Phase IV studentswere

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Marilyn Smith

education, and the general public expects engineering schools to stay at the leadingedge in their usage of technology in the classroom. This is the environment that motivated thework reported in this paper.Table 1 lists some of the criteria in ABET 2000. The accreditation process also requireseducators to develop appropriate assessment methods to determine if progress is being madetowards appropriate goals. It is apparent that such methods must be a combination of qualitativeand quantitative methods. Their implementation is daunting in terms of the time and effortrequired. In order to achieve the ambitious goals of ABET 2000, it is imperative that eachstudent learns to the best of their ability throughout their undergraduate experience. This is

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Willis Marti; Wei Zhao; Steve Liu

thereal-world Internet architecture.1. Introduction Internet technology continues to transform the social and economic landscape, ata scale and speed larger and faster than invention of telephony. Internet technologies areinvolved with enormous amounts of intellectual products, including distributedalgorithms, databases, information theories, protocol engineering, software engineering,and more. It is not realistic to expect instructors to convey the broad range of Internetknowledge to students using only traditional classroom interactions; nor for students tolearn to operate, maintain, design and implement sophisticated networking systems. Inaddition to textbooks, Internet request for comments (RFC), homework and tests, facultycan thereby

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Scott Fogler; John T. Bell

procedures that they have been taught.On the other hand, anyone who has ever experienced an accident is likely to remember thatexperience far longer than any set of written safety rules. Obviously we can’t deliberatelyinvolve our students in real accidents just to emphasize the importance of safety, but we can letthem experience virtual accidents, through the use of virtual reality, ( VR )[1-7]. These virtualaccidents will not have the same impact as real accidents, but they will have a more long lastingeffect than written rules on paper.One of the major goals of this project is to create a series of virtual accidents that will have asbroad an impact as possible on a world-wide scale. This goal implies delivering the simulationsvia the world wide

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David Voltmer; William Tierney; B. Garner

, user-friendly graphicalinterface that is platform independent. VEM consists of a structure window in which the userenters electromagnetic materials and sources via common drawing tools and pop-up menus. Thesolver button generates the system matrix, solves it, and activates the solutions window in whichthe results are displayed in a variety of user-selected viewing modes. Though the solution regionis finite in extent, a compact simulation of the open boundaries of infinite extent is achieved viathe Transparent Grid Termination (TGT). Preliminary evaluations of the enhancement of studentlearning by VEM are promising. A full demonstration of VEM will be included in thepresentation.1. IntroductionTraditional analytic methods are at the heart of

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

learning at a pace set by theindividuals attempting to learn the new features of a CAD package.II. Conventional training methodsFor years CAD educators prepare for classes using what was at their disposal, textbooks andmanuals. These resources play an important role in the growth and self education of theseindividuals, but the information presented in textbooks generally lag behind the softwaredevelopment for at least several months, plus the fact that “many people don’t do well whenforced to slog through a lengthy book”1. Page 6.1136.1“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Orlins

classes(Clinics), which cross disciplinary boundaries and span the entire four-year undergraduateeducation. The origins of the Clinic program at Rowan have been described previously1. Thecontent and nature of the Clinics vary, as shown in Table 1. Table 1: Overview of Engineering Clinic Content Year Engineering Clinic Theme (Fall) Engineering Clinic Theme (Spring) Freshman Engineering Measurements Competitive Assessment Sophomore Discipline Specific Design Interdisciplinary Design Junior Open-ended problem solving in small teams Senior Open-ended problem solving in small teamsThe four engineering programs at

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Srinand Karuppoor; Ravinder Chona; Christian Burger

the stages of a design. Thepaper shows how the philosophy and the process enable the designer to design effectively,efficiently and still be innovative.1. IntroductionDesign is the culmination of knowledge in engineering and the distinguishing feature of a goodengineer is the ability to design. Research at universities and industries have shown thatengineering design is a process that can be developed and imparted to engineers 1-3. Theseresearch findings have increased our understanding of both the design process as well aseffective means for teaching that process. In that spirit, a design methodology was developed atthe Institute for Innovation and Design in Engineering (IIDE), Texas A&M University. Thismethodology incorporated methods

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Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

theirremedies through outcome-based curricula. Third, it presents the distinction between leadershipand management with reference to new models espoused in the Theory of Constraints (TOC).Fourth, it outlines the skills needed for the professional development of an individual totransform him or her from a traditional quantitative/verbal thinker to a future-oriented visionaryby redirecting the whole-brain thinking. Finally, critical success factors in the development of aneffective and efficient knowledge worker for the 21st century are enumerated.I. IntroductionChange is in the air for all organizations from seeking training to seeking wisdom.1 The change isthe only constant that traditions do not survive. Organizations are now discovering

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Frank Wicks

. Accordingly, the efficiency of the ideal fuel burningengine has been defined and derived as the Wicks cycle efficiency with Ewicks=1-Tcold*ln(Thmax/Tcold)/(Thmax-Tcold). Prior papers have shown the importance of understanding that the Wicks cycle rather than the Carnotcycle represents the ideal fuel burning engine. These papers have been of practical as well as academicimportance. They have explained that while the Stirling engine may be a method to implement the Carnotcycle, a fuel burning Rankine cycle is more efficient than a fuel burning Stirling engine. These papers havealso used the Wicks cycle standard to show why a combination of internal and external combustion enginesis more efficient than either one separately. This paper will use the

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Shirley Fleischmann

conference table for Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationa discussion of largely non-technical issues), it did provide important closure for theproject. Even the students who did not make major contributions or who feltuncomfortable in a discussion session benefited from hearing the discussion and fromseeing the impact of applied engineering in a social context. This is one purpose ofcriteria f, h, and j of the ABET 2000 criteria.Case 1 – Bikes for KidsFor the past 2 years the ASME student section at GVSU has been involved in Bikes forKids. We have received funding from Michigan Campus Compact, an

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Robert Brown; Francine Battaglia; Donald R. Flugrad

and engineering graduate programs or professional degree programs,and position them for future careers as managers and entrepreneurs. Our department adapted 1student outcomes appearing in ABET EC 2000 criteria to our own needs. These fifteen programoutcomes are listed in Table 1.III. Course ObjectivesDuring the Fall 1998 semester, two or three-person teams of faculty known as coursedevelopment committees (CDC) were assigned responsibility for developing objectives forindividual core courses and design courses in our new curriculum. The objectives of a courseinclude specific knowledge (such as the Second Law of Thermodynamics) as well as generalskills (such as an ability to work on

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Julia Williams

who possess effective communication skills representsa significant dimension of current industrial and accreditation demands. The call is not,however, new and may be traced to calls for engineering curricular reform from the1950's’and earlier.1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 Historically, industry has exhibited a recurrent interest inensuring that the engineers they hire possess communication skills that will serve theirtechnical work. And yet, even the language with which this demand is expressed, forexample in EC 2000, creates an inaccurate picture of what constitutes successful writingand speaking. “The ability to communicate effectively” suggests that engineeringcommunication is itself uniform, no matter whether one is writing a report to

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Stephen Stafford; Rosa Gomez; Daniela Castaneda; Connie Della-Piana

unfortunately,minimizing their utilization of academic support activities.Findings support that efforts to foster academic and social integration are especiallyimportant for commuters 1. A sense of community plays an important role in retention.Campus integration can be achieved by providing students with an academic and socialenvironment that enhances learning and various opportunities to connect with others. TheProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.979.2congruence of the SEM core curriculum lends itself

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William J. Norman; Jerald Rounds

the complexity of the project, a great deal was achieved in the initial year, however,specific year 1 objectives were not met. As a result of lack of progress and lack of team building,several industry partners elected not to continue the project beyond the initial year.The Shared Curriculum Project, Version 2Fortunately, one industry member, the National Electrical Contractor’s Association has a clearvision of the fundamental importance of the project and has agreed to continue funding at asignificantly higher level. The 6 diverse academic members have been reduced to three muchmore closely aligned programs: Virginia Tech, Penn State and University of Kansas. After a yearof rebuilding, the project restarted in January of 2001 with a two-year

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Dick Bickerstaff; Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Robert Speckert

College, Washington State Community Colleges and North Central State College), and the department of engineering technology at Miami University’s regional campuses have developed and will deliver a unique plus 2 engineering technology degree completion program at instructional hubs in the state of Ohio (figure 1). These strategic locations, for the purposes of delivering courses leading to a baccalaureate degree in engineering technology, serve as access campuses and for students who have already completed an engineering technology associate degree program.• Engineering Technology: Building Bridges between 2- and 4-Year Colleges The hub sites, building bridges between 2- and 4-year colleges, identified are locations for

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John Weese

BSprogram engineering technology that is TAC/ABET accredited provides assurance of quality at alevel where the graduating senior should be granted access to the FE examination because theTAC/ABET accredited programs are quite capable of standing on their own merits. Thebroader interpretations of engineering afforded by the Engineering Accreditation Commission’sCriteria 2000 1 may be helpful.There are many sound reasons why seniors in TAC/ABET accredited ET programs should beallowed to sit for the FE examination. Their education suits them well for performingcompetitively on the examination itself. Engineering technology curricula are properlypositioned to equip graduates to take the general FE examination as well as most of the disciplinespecific

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Robert Erlandson

accessibledesign principles or issues.Table 1. Strategies for inclusion of AD material into various class categories. Category of Example Strategy class Dedicated Rehabilitation Engineering Dedicated content covering Human Factors accessibility and AD principles. Telecommunications and E&IT Design Capstone Design AD issues raised and considered as part of the design specifications. AD principles applied as appropriate. Engineering Any

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Frank Hughes

condition. The condition is that theuniversity expects complete exoneration of any product liability resulting from the use ofthese results. Finally, the university wants to have open publication of all results except,of course, for whatever restrictions are necessary to protect their ownership interests. What is it that companies want? Most companies want, and need, to have a highereducation system which functions effectively to provide the following three basicoutputs: 1) well-prepared new employees for a diverse workforce in a technicalenvironment; 2) high quality continuing education for that workforce; and 3) effectiveand efficient research of value to their businesses. Expressed another way, companieswant exposure to students as

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Jin Tso; Daniel Biezad

.” Peter Drucker3II.1 Program conceptThe distance learning program we developed provides students at VAFB an access to advancedtraining at the master’s degree level in aerospace engineering. By design, it has the samefaculty, curriculum, class schedule, and catalog as the main campus. All students at VAFB areconsidered regular Cal Poly students. They apply directly to Cal Poly’s main campus, and thefaculty and graduate coordinator of the Aerospace Engineering Department make the admissiondecision, just like for any other on-campus students. Also like the existing M.S. degree programat the main campus, the VAFB program is not offered as a cohort model. Students can enroll atthe beginning of any quarter to start the graduate program