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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Session: 3242 A Graduate Case Study – Integration of Capstone Concepts in Engineering Management Paul Kauffmann and Bill Peterson Old Dominion UniversityAssessment and Capstone Case ProjectsMany master in engineering management programs are considering accreditation by ABET,ASEM or similar organizations as a means to demonstrate and assure quality. In manyassessment systems, a capstone project is employed to provide a consistent and controlledopportunity for students to demonstrate proficiency in key learning outcomes. This papercontributes to the literature

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Bugliarello

, Polytechnic also received a 3-yearNational Science Foundation grant for a pilot endeavor to introduce technology (computerizedscanning) to bodegas in the Bronx – a complex socio-technological project. The Center is guidedby a Policy Board chaired by a leading exponent of the retail industry and composed of retailersand suppliers.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Page 8.493.8ConclusionThe ultimate goal of technology in services is to increase through technology the effectiveness ofa

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

as theyformulated plans for integrating ethics into their curricula, e.g., IIT 1, Towson State2 and OregonInstitute of Technology.3) It became clear that if departments were to be successful in integratingethics into engineering courses, some form of development would be required for most facultymembers.Shortly after the need for a faculty development activity became clear, the College of Engineeringand the College of the Liberal Arts received a gift from an Alumnus to start joint activitiesinvolving engineering and ethics. This gift explicitly linked the Douglas and Julie Rock EthicsInstitute in Liberal Arts and the Leonhard Center. When the Directors of the Institute and Centermet to discuss possible joint projects, they quickly decided

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Somerton

level mechanical engineering course in thermal design. There wereno homework assignments in this class, only projects, and only one of the 55 students in the classhad been in a previous class of mine, so that there should be little bias towards my view ofhomework. The results of the survey are provided in Table 2. The response to the first questiondemonstrates that most students appreciate the value of homework in enhancing their learning.They also are very definite in their thinking about other aspects of homework, and these resultswill be discussed further in this paper. Many of the students provided written comments, perquestion #5 on the survey. Some of the more interesting comments will be provided whereappropriate. Concerning its value in

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Callahan; Paul Givens

,projects, etc. Honeywell provided the initial funds to get the program off of the ground. Fromthis humble beginning, the MSEM program grew to be the largest program on all of the FEEDSnetworks. There were as many as 200+ students working on their degrees.The initial FEEDS delivery system at USF was ITFS low power microwave TV. This TVprogram could be successfully delivered for up to 35 miles direct line of sight. One of the FEEDS concepts was to establish agreements with corporations for deliveringof master degree courses to the corporation sites. Courses were not to be delivered toindividuals. As a result USF at its peak delivery cycle was delivering courses to 80 differentcorporate sites. Corporations in fact built 80 classrooms for USF

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wilmorat Ratchukool; Arnold Lumsdaine

administrationof the educational module. Several software packages are available that can easily collatestudent results, including not only the percentage of problems answered correctly, but thepercentage of certain classes of problems that were answered correctly, and the amount of timetaken for each problem.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe authors wish to thank the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee for fundingthis course development, the College of Education for supporting the project that produced it.Thanks also to Dr. Wes Hines in the College of Engineering coordinating and overseeing thecollaboration between these two colleges. Page

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

. Page 8.165.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationRevisions made in response to student’s input • Academic minors were introduced. • All laboratory experiments have been reviewed and updated. • More options have been added for senior design projects. • Course offerings have been modified to avoid time conflicts. • Supplemental instructors and tutors have been introduced for core courses.Revisions made in response to faculty input • Changes were made to the 2001 – 2002 Bulletin, which include new course offerings, changes to course numberings, and changes of prerequisites for

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Natela Ostrovskaya; Jan Rinehart; Susan Metz

. in Higher Education Administration from Texas A&M University.Her interests include equity, leadership, and engineering education.SUSAN STAFFIN METZ is the Executive Director of the Lore-El Center for Women in Engineering & Science atStevens Institute of Technology and is co-founder and past president of WEPAN. She eared a bachelor’s degree inpsychology from Boston University and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Seton Hall University.She directs national projects and serves on advisory boards focused on workforce diversity in science andengineering.NATELA OSTROVSKAYANatela Ostrovskaya is a graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. Sheearned an M.S. in applied mathematics from

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lan; Karlene Hoo; Jason Williams; Harry Parker; Charles Smith; Theodore Wiesner

equipment and about operational issues. Theequipment used is comparable to pilot-scale units of industrial laboratories. The major pieces ofequipment used in this project include a double-pipe heat exchanger, an ammonia gas-absorberpacked column, and a cooling tower. Figure 1 Flowsheet Simulation of Celanese Towers T-54 and T-15.With greater computational power, more costly pilot scale equipment, safety concerns andhuman resource allocation, the chemical process industries (CPI) are leading toward computer-based simulations rather than the traditional pilot-scale experiments. With this in mind, the unitoperations laboratory at Texas Tech University is emulating the industrial switch, by producingcomputer-generated simulations based

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill; Willie K. Ofosu

facilities. While thesecan supply the basic needs, they may not be entirely sufficient in cases where the student-computer ratio may be high for highly populated institutions or in cases where a student needs tocomplete some project or assignment at home. It is therefore within reason that institutions mayrequire students to own personal computers. This can be a problem for economicallydisadvantaged persons. Considering the wealth of information that can be accessed electronically, more and more,instructors are directing students to the Internet for research purposes. This therefore places aburden on the economically disadvantaged minority and the person from a low-income family tohave a telephone and Internet access in the home in addition

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

, 1998, ISBN 0-924886-00-5.7 VICKI COBB, Blood & Gore Like You’ve Never Seen!, Scholastic Inc., New York, 1997, ISBN 0-590-92665-9.8 LINDA GAMLIN, Today’s World: The Human Body, Shooting Star Press Inc., New York, 1988, ISBN 1-57335-331-0.9 GAYLORD JOHNSON AND MAURICE BLEIFELD, Hunting with the Microscope, Arco Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1974, ISBN 0-668-03249-9.10 BETH B. NORDEN AND LYNETTE RUSCHAK, Magnification, a Pop-Up Lift-the-Flat Book, Lodestar Books, New York, 1993, ISBN 0-525-67417-9.11 CHRIS OXLADE AND CORINNE STOCKLEY, The World of the Microscope, A Practical Introduction with Projects and Activities, Usborne Publishing Ltd., London, 1989, ISBN 0-7460-0289-0.12 TAY SLOAN AND DORIS SLOAN, Under the

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Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shelia Barnett; Joan Burtner

conditioning, hospital, paper mill, power companies,telephone companies, various government contractors, and a biomedical pharmaceuticalcompany. Comments from employer evaluations on the students’ strengths and weaknesses werealso obtained in addition to data for the EC2000 a-k criteria. A synopsis of the employercomments for strengths were: 1)good communication skills, strong work ethic, well roundedness,teamwork, analytical skills, quality of work and initiative. Some comments related toweaknesses were: 1) needs to continue improving general engineering skills, and 2) could bemore assertive in verbal communication, project planning, organizational planning, and self-confidence. The combination of qualitative and quantitative feedback offers a richer

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

Industrial Engineering Department, Binghamton University) andCathy Jeremko (Mathematics Teacher and Coordinator of MathCounts math club, Vestal CentralSchool District, Vestal Middle School). It was funded by the Vestal School Foundation. Thirty-seven 5th and 6 th grade students from several local middle schools participated in the event.Figure 2. Professor McGrann and Mathematics Teacher, Cathy Jeremko. The students worked with the robots all of one day. During this day, a presentation onmechanical engineering started the project. The lecture supplied the students with a betterunderstanding of mechanical engineering and set forth several example careers for a mechanicalengineer. During the presentation students were asked where they thought a

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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R. Stephen Dannelly; Carl Steidley

, students understand and are able to implement search asan abstract method of information retrieval. However, in this paper we describe a project inwhich students implement one kind of goal-based agent called a problem-solving agent. Thedevelopment and implementation of this agent required the construction of a search process tofind solutions to real-world physical problems.4,8IntroductionA main element in analyzing a problem is the state space in which the problem exists, whichdescribes all the possible configurations of the environment. In robotics, the environmentincludes the body of the robot itself. Both the configuration of the robot’s body and the locationsof objects in physical space are defined by real-valued coordinates. It is therefore

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

interaction will broaden in scope and frequency with the newMaster of Architecture program at the University of Hartford.The CommunityThe Department of Architecture will prove to be a major and vital part of the life of the academic and publiccommunity it serves. The community focus of the program could build a bridge to the City of Hartford as alaboratory for our architectural projects and research. The program could provide some “gowns to towns”opportunities the University so desires. The advantage to the University of Hartford of committing to create such aprogram is to attract more quality students while adding to the reputation we have already established in art, music,business, education, and engineering.The UniversityThe University of Hartford

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

distance learning opportunities for students are beingdeveloped. The program will be fully launched for the academic year 2003-2004.II. General Structure of the Program The ACCEND program will include four quarters of regular cooperative jobs coordinatedby the Division of Professional Practice for the students, and two quarters of paid researchcooperative experiences in which the students will work on research projects on campus underthe supervision of a faculty member. During each of the four outside cooperative jobs, the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Page 8.1099.2

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Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Hovde

pilot study to enablerepresentatives of all seven of our departments to be trained to assess studentcommunication. (See Figure 1). Page 8.237.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session #1601 On-Going Training of Faculty Pilot Project Members (each fall) Discussed

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

for full professors at Stevens. John Wiley published his book, “The SelectionProcess for Capital Projects”. Dr. Merino received two Centennial certificates from the ASEE in EngineeringEconomics and Engineering Management. He is past Chair of the Engineering Management Division andEngineering Economy Division of ASEE.Dr. Merino was awarded the B. Sarchet Award from the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM)and the B. Sarchet Award from the Engineering Management Division of the American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE). He is a Fellow of ASEE as well as a Fellow and past president of ASEM. Dr. Merino has 25years of industrial experience in positions of increasing managerial responsibilities. Since joining academe 18 yearsago

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Ciocci

DACUM sessions included communications, computers, problemsolving, and life skills. Data collection and report writing were identified as duties for engineeringtechnologists but were seen as tasks for engineering students. Mathematics, on the contrary, wasdetailed as a duty for the engineers, while only a task for applied mathematics for thetechnologists was suggested. Whereas learning was an appropriate duty for engineering transferstudents who will pursue the bachelor degree, it was not included in the technology session.Technician-level jobs, such as design/drafting, equipment repair, and project management wereincluded in the technology session as duties and were excluded by the engineering panel.Item

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Paul Marnell; Graham Walker

computerscreen were projected onto a large screen and taped using a video camera. Then in an effort to Page 8.444.6improve the image quality the video output from the computer was capture directly and recorded“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”onto video tape, however, even using this approach the picture quality was poor. CD-ROM wasalso considered but it was not possible to store enough data to encompass a whole lecture. Toaddress this problem DVD is now being considered as the storage medium, since this will allow alarge

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

opportunities such as lectures, labs, field trips, case studies, and projects are organized topermit the student schooled in the basics of science and technology to develop into an apprenticeengineer. This paper focuses on incorporation of the teacher’s engineering experience intohis/her teaching style. The teaching style that is infused with lessons drawn from experience inengineering practice is called experience-based instruction (EBI).All engineering instruction is to some degree experience-based. Experienced engineers know theskills needed by entry-level engineers. The engineering community influences the content ofengineering curricula to ensure that necessary topics are addressed. The presentation of theinstruction provides an opportunity to

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

sciences and learning technologies in biomedical engineering. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Annual Reviews. 4, 29-48.[2] Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (CTGV). (1997). The Jasper Project: Lessons in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[3] Schwartz, D. L, Brophy, S., Lin, X. & Bransford, J. D. (1999) Software for managing complex learning: Examples from an educational psychology course. Educational Technology Research and Development. 47(2). p 39-60[4] Schwartz, D. L., Lin, X., Brophy, S., & Bransford, J. D. (1999). Toward the development of flexibly adaptive instructional designs. In Reigeluth (Ed

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

calculators (Texas Instruments and HewletPackard) connected to the teacher’s computer with cables at each seat [3,4,5]. Recently, TexasInstruments rolled out a system called Navigator, which uses wireless hubs located strategicallythroughout a classroom. Students connect to the hub through their TI calculator. This workswell in many engineering schools where the calculator is a ubiquitous device. Other manufacturesuse infrared (IR) technology to provide wireless connectivity with the instructor’s computer.The VaNTH ERC has created their own version of a CCS to leverage the wireless laptoptechnology students are using as part of the laptop initiative at Vanderbilt. One of our strongestmotivations for this project is to explore the value added by

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Streaming Video Software. Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 91, no. 3, pp.267- 274.4 - Novak, G.M. (editor), Patterson, E.T., Gavrin, and A.D., Christian, W. (1999), Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning With Web Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.5 - Baratuci, W. B., Linse, A., (2002), Heat Transfer On-Line. Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE Conference, Montreal. New York: American Society for Engineering Education.6 - Linse, A., Denton, D. and Adams, R. (2002), Making Assessment Projects Sustainable: Using Mid-Term Class Interviews to Gather Student Feedback. Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston. American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

ofsophistication that is challenging but still understandable by the target audience was sought.Other requirements influenced the design of the activity. These were derived from the nature oflaboratory projects for non-SME&T students. The activity must be able to be set up and takendown in less than approximately 15 minutes. No permanent installations are possible. Materialsneeded should be inexpensive and readily obtained. Total cost for any materials needed shouldnot exceed US$ 200. The space needed should not exceed that of a gymnasium floor or smallparking lot. Materials should be durable and be able to withstand some rough handling withoutthe need for extensive repairs or adjustments.3 Organization of the Simulated ComputerThe organization of the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Glenn Lipscomb

at $70,000 each;the extra $30,000 would be used to make the experiment Internet accessible and purchase higherquality equipment. The total expenditure would be $1.26 million and students would have accessto 18 new experiments. The cost of renovation is cut by $1 million (~50%) and students haveaccess to 12 more new experiments (~ 3 times more!). Use of the equipment would requireefficient scheduling but with the equipment available 24 hours a day significant flexibility exists.Such savings could be realized across the curriculum at all educational levels.To realize the benefits of Internet delivery, however, the educational experience must beequivalent to or better than that of a hands-on experiment. The project described here seeks

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

is an ongoing initiative, originally funded by the NSF, to“reinvent” engineering education, with an emphasis on teaching to diverse learning styles. Thisfits nicely with our goal of maintaining a positive learning environment. Page 8.224.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAs Fall 2002 was the first semester of implementation/planning for the activities listed in Table 5,it is not possible to offer an analysis of their success at this time. However initial feedback fromthe mentoring project is

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

basis • Class lectures are strictly out of the text book with no discussion or feedbackTable 3. Some Cited Weaknesses and Deficiencies in Math/Science Component of a TypicalPrimary School in the Arab Gulf States • Modify offerings to allow for electives • Widen selection of courses to cover additional areas such as: world history and culture, human psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc… • Encourage group projects, library and internet search, and field-related projects • Introduce one or two courses (per year) using simplified English. Thus, helping learners of English to improve their English skillsTable 4. Suggested Modifications and Improvements in the

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

, are being measured. Evidence that may be used includes, but is notlimited to the following: cadet portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject contentexaminations; alumni surveys that document professional accomplishments and career developmentactivities; employer surveys; and placement data of graduates.DFAN Program – In 1997, DFAN drafted nine statements that defined the educational outcomesfor the aeronautical engineering program. After faculty and EPAC review, the nine statementswere adopted, and in 2000, they were reviewed, modified and reduced the six statements shownabove. These six statements are specific to the aeronautical engineering program, concurrentlysupport the Institutional Educational Outcomes, and are

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

and then later, in 1984 by Ranky at Nottingham and Siemens-Plessey in the UK,and then in 1992 when together with Mick F. Ranky, supported by CIMware Ltd.,http://www.cimwareukandusa.com and FESTO Ltd. an interactive multimedia CD-ROMwas developed as an electronic support system for servo-pneumatic positioning, as wellas part of another project for bio-medical engineering with Prof. T. Pato in Berne,Switzerland. In 1997 Paul G. Ranky and Mick F. Ranky developed a 3D browserreadable, virtual computer disassembly method, supported by industry, that has led toseveral other R&D grants (including major DOD grants for NJIT) and publications,including the 3D Multimedia Case Based Library (1995 to date).Since then the topic as well as the