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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyssa Magleby, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

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Electrical and Computer

not been able to follow studentsthrough multiple years. We have also implemented our own department-wide writing class andwill be developing templates for a number of other types of writing. Finally, we will beexperimenting with better ways to have TAs provide electronic feedback to the students, andtracking the changes they make to their writing as a result of these comments.Acknowledgements:The design of these laboratories was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant0431958.Bibliography1. Alyssa Magleby, Cynthia Furse. “Improving Communication Skills Through Project-Based Learning.” IEEEAntennas and Propagation Systems Magazine. Submitted for publication.2. Cynthia Furse. Personal Communication. January 2008.3

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Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shripad Revankar, Purdue University

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Nuclear and Radiological

experimental runs (6) Introduction to special techniques as required for the experiments such as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) (7) Laboratory note book entry (8) Weekly written reports on progressFor analytical and code modeling research work the following training and materials wereprovided (1) An computer account and access to the code usage (2) Reading material and (3) Topical presentations by undergraduates to demonstrate understanding of reading material (4) Research note book entry (5) Weekly reports on progressLaboratory experimental faculties included (1) Hydrolysis experimental facility that includes high pressure reactor chamber (15 MPa or 2000 psi max), precision

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

) program at Georgia Southern University(GSU) is presented in this paper. The curriculum of the CET program at GSU includescoursework in three major areas within the discipline of civil engineering: environmental,structures and transportation. All CET majors are required to take three courses in this area –TCET 3142 Structural Analysis, TCET 4142 Reinforced Concrete Design and TCET 4146Structural Steel Design. Each course has three hours of lecture plus one two-hour or three-hourcomputational laboratory per week, with four semester credit hours. The intent of the paper is nota comprehensive assessment of the program, but instead a focused assessment of student learningin the area of structures, that contributes to several program outcomes. The

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Graduate Studies

decisions.Second, ASEE student chapters teach skills to equip graduate students to be successful as futureengineering educators. These vital skills include preparing a curriculum vitae (CV), applyingand interviewing for a faculty position, writing research funding proposals, starting andmaintaining a research laboratory, teaching effectively, and balancing teaching and researchresponsibilities. Equipping graduate students to be successful educators is the most direct way to Page 13.674.2impact the future of engineering education.Third, ASEE student chapters promote engineering and careers in engineering education.Promoting engineering and academic careers

Conference Session

Been There/Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Harding, Purdue University; Benedict Kazora, Purdue University; Robert Smethers, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

academictranscript. Also, when appropriate, it is wise to investigate funding. There may be internal orexternal grants available for certain types of development. Alternatively, corporate funding maybe an option in some cases.The details will vary from project to project, professor to professor, and school to school, but theresults of this effort will hopefully be an encouragement to others, and the aforementionedsuggestions helpful.Bibliography1 Gonzalez, R. V., Lopez, J., &Leiffer, P. (2004). Is a successful research laboratory possible with undergraduate students alone? Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.2 Formwalt, B., Hayes, M., Pittner, D., & Pack, D

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Catherine Didion, Association for Women in Science; Patricia Paddock, NYC Department of Education; Suzanne Jenniches, Northrop Grumman; Annette Gildea, Gildea Media Group; Katie Gramling, Diamax; Greta Zornes, Tulane University

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Women in Engineering

who oversaw day-to-day construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her engineer husband fell ill • Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), an engineer involved in the development of the first computers • Shruti Pai, a biomedical engineer who works for the Center of Excellence for Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering • Ayanna Howard, who worked on the next generation Mars rover while employed at NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory Page 13.497.3More recently, historical information on women engineers has been gathered from libraries andwebsites. After sifting through multiple sources of biographical information

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Wierer, MSOE; Steven Reyer, MSOE

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

do an acceptable job in the analog course they wouldoften express displeasure regarding the level of rigor required by the course. It was suspectedthat the calculus content of this first course dealt a blow making the material somewhat abstract.Plus, the course had no laboratory, so the only exposure to signals problems was “on paper.”Four years ago the EE program was changed significantly1,2 to a model that includes teachingmaterial on an as-needed basis. For example, we teach the ideal op amp topic to freshmen,delaying the details of the internal workings to a later course. The freshmen could then see theutility of, and use in simple designs, a powerful circuit tool.Another change was to institute DSP as a required course, and to be taught

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Geoff Bennett, Tennessee Tech University

the RP technologies. These links are easily accessible from the home page andincludes over 25 different institutions and laboratories for all users to access.Along with the Institutional contacts, a real time news ticker is located on the home page of the Page 14.1201.5website. This ticker gives up-to-date information about RP and related topics. This functiongives users a real world aspect of how RP is weaving its way through our everyday world outsideof the collegiate and research atmosphere. Another tool that accomplishes the same thing is theinstant quotes link which is located on the home page of RPIDS. This link offers a variety

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Techniques

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, component-based software architectures, software and systems engineering process models, intelligent control, the semantic web, and real-time artificial intelligence. In 1999, Dr. Hawker joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor focusing on software engineering, and in 2004 he moved to the Software Engineering Department at RIT. Dr. Hawker is also co-director of the Laboratory for Environmental Computing and Decision Making, which focuses on modeling and understanding the impact of freight transportation and automotive industry activities and public policies. Dr. Hawker is a member of the ASEE, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Sherra Kerns, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Paige Smith, University of Maryland; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

these questions. Rather we seek to use ourdiscussion to stimulate further study.Diversity in Graduate ProgramsIncreasing the number of underrepresented students in graduate programs is inherentlymore difficult than at the undergraduate level. Many undergraduate programs areadministered at the college level, where resources for supporting diversity can be usedmore efficiently and assessment can be supported more easily. At the graduate level,admission decisions and support for developing study groups or other communityactivities are more likely to be focused at the department level or even at the level of anindividual professor's laboratory, so it may be more difficult for students inunderrepresented groups to meet one another and to develop

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, and professional skills in diverse inengineering environments. This paper describes the University of Southern California, Viterbi School ofEngineering’s response to this important National Academy of Engineering challenge. Thispaper will describe both curricular research and metrics associated with global preparedness forworking in diverse engineering contexts. In this study, engineering students receivedinterdisciplinary globally focused training via their coursework and laboratory experiences andwere assessed as to their preparedness to work in global workforces and research environments.A global preparedness index was developed and administered to assess the impact of theseeducational and research experience with a summative focus

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Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; William Hurley, Villanova University; Edmond Dougherty, Villanova University; James Klingler, Villanova University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

excited and inspired thestudents and taught them much about the process of innovation.One of the key concepts we wanted to drive home to the students was that theentrepreneurial spirit does not reside exclusively in small start up firms, but that sameexcitement, attitude and vision can be found in businesses of all sizes and maturity levels.In fact, the entrepreneurial force is a key component in the continued success of some ofthe largest businesses in the world. To illustrate the point, a field trip to the AdvancedTechnology Laboratory (ATL) of Lockheed Martin Corporation was arranged to providethe students the opportunity to see intrapreneurship in action. A Lockheed managerexplained that encouraging intrapreneurship is a key goal in ATL’s

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Technology Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Harding, Purdue University; Benjamin Scott, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

dissipation (i.e., attenuation wouldbe proportional to the distance from the speaker instead of the square of the distance from thespeaker).Other possibilities include measuring electrical-to-sound power conversion efficiency and addinga digital signal processor (DSP) to create sound effects, such as reverb, bass/trebleboost/attenuation, etc. This would be a fun addition to a course that teaches DSP.ConclusionOverall this project experience was positive. Our local department now has a useful piece of testequipment to use in conjunction with some laboratory activities, and it doubles for show-and-tellduties at recruiting events, open houses, etc. It was encouraging to find some small businesses inthe area that are very willing to support our program

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clara Fang, University of Hartford

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Civil Engineering

. I then incorporate the projects into my class lecturesand laboratory tutoring so that the students have the theoretical background and necessary skills Page 14.342.3to complete all components of the project. A description of two projects is provided below: 21) Land Surveying Project in CE 250 Geomatics (Sophomore Level)In the past two years, sophomore students have conducted several projects involving landsurveying on the University’s conservation easements. As an example, shown in Figure 1, thesurveying area includes 12 sectors (A-L) and the sectors

Conference Session

Develop Course / Materials / Topics for a Global Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety; Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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International

. The modular curriculumThe EE curriculum is a modular one as follows: Module Description Credits at least Core Modules 8 Theoretical and Practical Engineering Pedagogy 6 Laboratory Methodology 2 Theory Modules 4 Psychology and Sociology 3 Ethics (1 credit) or Intercultural competencies (1 credit) 1 Practice Modules

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering as a Career Path to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

disabilitieswhile the lectures and discussions will center on the impact of disabilities as well as thepsychosocial aspects of those disabilities. The sensitivity training module includes roleplaying and simulation to explore the interaction of a student with a disability and his/herenvironment. The workshop will also focus on the barriers to learning that are oftenapparent yet frequently overlooked within the classroom, laboratories, campus, andcommunity.School teachers are continually challenged with their task to teach 30 or more students,four or more times a day. If we add to that task the need to accommodate a student with adisability, then the challenge may become overwhelming and may cause the teacher to beless effective. The goal of the workshops

Conference Session

Engineering and Other Disciplines

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Weese, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

objective of EI courses is to enhance the critical ability of citizens tocomprehend technological systems, to improve their abilities to make intelligent choices.The EI courses should include most of the following characteristics: ≠ Contain well-founded engineering principles; ≠ Relate to engineered systems with which students readily identify, ≠ Involve good science, introductory-level analysis, economics, societal/environmental impact, and such topics as global engagement, ethics, and cultural aspects; ≠ Provide, as appropriate, hands-on laboratory experiences; ≠ Require well-conceived reports based on literature and database searches that include critical assessments and elements of analysis; and ≠ Include basic

Conference Session

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bahr, Washington State University

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Materials

were primarily distributed around thestate to three junior high school teachers in conjunction with visits from the WSU students.Initial anecdotal feedback has been quite positive. Kit distribution is continuing in the 2008-9academic year to another five schools.Acknowledgements The fabrication, development, and distribution of these kits would not have been possiblewithout the financial support of the ASM International Foundation, HiRel Laboratories, CastleMetals, Pacific Metals and Recycling, and the DeVlieg Foundation. The students whoconstructed, tested, and delivered these kits across Washington include Kale Stephenson, SarahMiller, Monica Zosel, Nicole Overman, David Koch, Megan Dahl, Stefhanni Jennerjohn, andmany others from the

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1996 Annual Conference

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Ron Darby

responsible for octane reduction during dehydrogenation with a new catalyst.The Dow Chemical Co. MS Experimental and analytical study of mixing efficiency in a Freeport, Texas tank with jet mixers in various configurations. Brown & Root ME Process design for removal of low level impurities from Houston, Texas feed stream to a polyethylene reactor. Lyondell ME Analysis of relationship between properties and processingChocolate Bayou, Texas conditions and product properties for HMW HDPE blown film. Core Laboratories MS

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1996 Annual Conference

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra R. Sekhar; Omer Farook

other related parameterswill be discussed in a subsequent paper. VII. References[1] Leonard M. Weinstei~ “The Voice Spectrum Would be Mapped to Frequencies where the Ear Remains Sensitive”, NASA Tech Briefs, p. 45, December 1994.[2] Doug Hall, “Analysis-Synthesis Methods Lower Encoder Rates to Unheard of Levels”, Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, Vol. 12, No 7, July 1995.[3] Robert F. Kubichelq “Using Matlab in a Speech Signal Processing Class”, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 2-5, July-September 1995.[4] Hewlett Packard, “The Fundamentals of Signal Analysis”, Application Note 243.[5] Vinay K. In@e, John G. Proakis, Digital Siiznal Processimz Laboratory

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1996 Annual Conference

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Barbara Blake Bath

Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..,yHlyL: I sensitivity analysis of the parameters which had been identified in their geology class. The students perceived their projects to be much more valuable than the regular EPICS projects as they emphasized connections and enabled them to use material from a variety of their classes. —----- The mathematical and computer sciences department is presently assessing the value of the use of technology in the teaching of the first two semesters of calculus. The biggest problem we have faced is the aging of our NeXT Laboratory and the frustrations that

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1996 Annual Conference

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Philip J. Morris; Martin L. Brady; Lyle N. Long; Ali Haghighat

/laboratory facilities to promote the teachingof high performance computing. One of these labs has 31 IBM RS/6000 Model 40P computers and apodium/LCD panel. The other room has two IBM RS/6000 SMP machines and 30 IBM X-terminals.We intentionally chose these two different computing configurations to evaluate the effectiveness of eachapproach. During the first year of service approximately 37 courses have used the rooms and roughly1000 students have accessed these facilities. The software installed includes: ProEngineer, IDEAS, , Page 1.132.4Patran, MSC/NASTRAN, Tecplot, Matlab, Maple, Mathematical, gnuplot j Fortran 90, and

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1996 Annual Conference

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Youlu Zheng; Xiaoan Hou

Mandelkern, `GUIs: The Next Generation', Communication of the ACM, 36, (4) 37-39 (1993)2. Douglas A. Young, The X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, 2d ed.; Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994, pp. 1-50.3. Donald L. McMinds, Mastering OSF/Motif Widget, 2d ed.; New York:, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993, pp. 1-20.4. Joel Snyder, ‘SNMP revealed’, MacWorld, 28, (8), 182-186 (1994)5. James R. Davin, The SNMP Development Kit Release Notes, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1994. (this reference is available in postscript file format from the ftp site: allspice.lcs.mit.edu)About the Authors:XIAOAN HOU is an programmer/analyst from Science Application International

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1996 Annual Conference

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Corneliu Berbente

cooperation on the managerial education in technical universities.The seven-years cooperation program between WSU and PUB hasalready important effects on the managerial education inPolitehnica of Bucharest, representing, at the same time, a modelfor any technical university of Romania.The main achievements in this direction are: a. the cooperation with the excellent team of WSU topspecialists from the highest developed country in the world USA,a real model for what business practices and free markedcompetition means; b. the training and up grading at WSU of a large number offaculty members (about 25 people); c. the material support to establish and endow a CBE, aseminar room and a computer - laboratory

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1996 Annual Conference

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III, Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner

other engineersat NCSU and the University as a whole. The data were as of October, 1995 for each class. Therefore, thesecond year is represented for the 1994 entering cohort while the sixth year is represented for the 1990 cohort. The quality of the design experience seems to be very good, although seniors leaders do not seem tohave a substantially better design experience than other senior design students. Virtually all students who hadtaken other design and laboratory courses at NCSU found this experience superior to those. The multi-semesternature of the course does seem to have some appeal with most students surveyed saying that they would takethe course again if their schedule permits. Nearly 30% of the participants have taken the

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1996 Annual Conference

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Melissa Mattmuller

the campus radio station fascinated the campers and provided another opportunity to draw in the technical theme of the camp.12:30 Lunch The campers were left to eat in the dorm by themselves. This gave them the opportunity to be coeds without constant supervision.1:30 Laboratory Explorations At this point the campers were taken from one EET lab to another, each time getting a mini-lecture and participating in an activity representative of the work they would be exposed to as freshmen. In one lab they discussed sound waves and what the spoken word looks like on an oscilloscope. They each spoke the same word into a microphone for comparison and then they each spoke their names and these were stored and

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1996 Annual Conference

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Josann Duane; Amgad Saleh

. 427-431.4. Heil, R. and S.Brych,(1978), “An approach for Consistent Topographical Representation of Varying Terrain,” Proceedings of the Digital Terrain Models (DTM) Symposium, Falls Church, VA:ASP, pp. 397- 411.5. Males, R., (1978), “ADAPT - A Spatial Data Structure for Use With Planning and Design Models,” in G. Dutton, cd., Geographic Information Systems: Cartographic and Analytic Applications, First International Advanced Symposium on Topological Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems, Vol. 3, Page 1.461.6 Cambridge, MA: Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Harvard University

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1996 Annual Conference

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Tomasz Traczyk; Krzysztof Antoszkiewicz; Eugeniusz Toczylowski

Session 2560 Flexible Enrollment Information System ERES 2: A Tool for Managing Teaching Activities* Krzysztof Antoszkiewicz, Eugeniusz Toczy}owski, Tomasz Traczyk Warsaw University of Technology IntroductionThe increasing need for smooth management of all academic and administrative activities, and require-ments for more efficient utilization of limited academic resources (academic staff, space, laboratory equip-ment and financial resources) imply increased needs for more cost-effective organization and better

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1996 Annual Conference

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Robert P. Morgan; Nirmala Kannankutty; Donald E. Strickland

formalCenter, Institute, Laboratory, an so on). This was somewhat surprising given that almost half our samplewere participants in an organized engineering research unit and given the higher levels of industry findingassociated with organized research units.21 The average number of research grants awarded to researchers in 1992 and 1993 did not diner bymajor source of tiding. The average duration of research grants, however, did difller depending onwhether the primary tiding source was industry or the federal government. In particular, faculty with highindustry support were more likely than those with high federal support to receive grants for less than sixmonths duration (34°/0 vs. 14°/0) and for durations of six to 12 months (73°/0 vs. 5 10/O

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1996 Annual Conference

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa

difficulties in finding a compromise solution between analysis (scientific emphasis) and synthesis (designemphasis) in the curriculum;3) the difficulties of students with introductory disciplines like calculus, chemistry and physics;4) the compartmentalized curriculum, which lacked an interdisciplinary content;5) not enough, if any, industrial practice and experience embedded in the curriculum;6) insufficient hands-on and laboratory experience in the curriculum;7) absence of societal factors, especially those concerning ethnic and cultural diversity;8) student lack of adequate communication skills upon graduation;9) difficulties in strengthening extra-engineering training, such as that related to managerial, ecological, social .and political areas;10