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exercises place an emphasis on visualization of complex processes insolid state device engineering. Apart from the conspicuous objective of learning thedevice behavior from “tweaking” design parameters. One might ask, Where is the designaspect? The design aspect is hidden in the production of the materials by the students.According to the premonitions and observations before and during the assignments thefollowing specifics were accomplished: • Incorporating small programs for data manipulation. • Designing an easy to understand data graph. • Choosing the best technology and approach to implement the illustration. • Comparison of various approaches and selection of the most viable approach in a group setting. • Using a time line with

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increase its enrollment. To keep the university competitive in the ever changing educational market. Overview In the past three semesters 5 courses were taught using the Internet as the primarymedium of communication. These courses were developed and taught through a joint effortbetween a Mechanical Engineering Technology faculty member at ODU and a Civil andConstruction Engineering faculty member from ISU. The majority of the students enrolled in thecourses were from a home education organization called the Advanced Training InstituteInternational. The students ages ranged from 16 to 38 years old. The table below illustrates thefrequency of courses offered, the total number of states from

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Dale Ross; Bill Taylor

Laboratory and presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1996.Biographical InformationBILL TAYLOR is the Principal Investigator for the NASA Educational Outreach Program entitled, “An IntegratedApproach to Engineering Education in a Minority Community.” Dr. Taylor is the past Chair of the NMHUDepartment of Engineering and served two years as the Director of the NMHU School of Mathematical Sciences andEngineering. He is also the PI of a NASA project entitled, “Fuzzy microcontrollers for CELSS applications.”DALE ROSS serves the NMHU Department of Engineering as an instructor in an innovative pre-Engineeringprogram and is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Technology. Mr. Ross has served as co

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

Session 2660 Some Underestimated Aspects of Quality Assessment in Engineering Education Andrzej Krasniewski, Roman Z. Morawski, Jerzy Woznicki Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology Warsaw University of Technology1. INTRODUCTIONOver the last decade, systems of external quality assessment and accreditation have beendeveloped in many countries1,2,5,6,7,9,10,14,15,16,18,21,22,23,24,25. These systems take into accountmany aspects of higher education, including curriculum objectives and requirements, teachingmethods and techniques, training of

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T. Chang; R. Barat; J. F. Federici; H. Grebel; A. M. Johnson

Session 1526 CRCD Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering Program at NJIT J. F. Federici, A. M. Johnson Dept. of Physics H. Grebel, T. Chang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering R. Barat Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Environmental Science New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Combined Research/CurriculumDevelopment (CRCD) program

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forsummative program evaluation or individual student feedback) if raters: 1) work together todevelop an appropriate scoring rubric, and 2) calibrate themselves using sample writing piecessimilar to those that will be graded in class. Based on these findings, we decided to experimentwith using holistic grading of written work in a class at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM)involving multiple instructors.An ApplicationOur first application of holistic grading occurred in an interdisciplinary course on technology andsociety taught yearly by one of the authors as part of the McBride Honors Program in PublicAffairs for Engineers at CSM, a 24 credit sequence of seminars and a practicum for students whowish to "explore the interfaces between their areas of

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Mark J. Sebern

Session 2632 Object-Oriented Programming for Freshmen Computer Engineers (and Their Professors) Mark J. Sebern Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractFor practicing computer engineers, the object model has become increasingly important. Recognizingthis fact, elective courses in object-oriented programming (OOP) have been offered a number ofyears. At some point, however, it becomes desirable to integrate this technology throughout thecomputer engineering curriculum. Such an effort raises many questions, such as language selectionand topic sequence. Some

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T.R. Hsu; P. Reischl; P. Hsu; J.C. Wang; F. Barez; B.J. Furman

application of electronics,microprocessors and software in designing electro-mechanical systems , mechatronicsproducts and process control systems. The laboratory development is a principal part ofan award for “ Undergraduate Curriculum Development on Mechatronics SystemEngineering ” by the division of undergraduate education of the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). Major task of the new laboratory is to support instruction and providehands-on study of two of the five new courses : ME106 Fundamentals of MechatronicsSystem Engineering and ME 190 Mechatronics System Design. This paper presents theprogress made in developing the new mechatronics engineering laboratory.1. Introduction The rapid advances of microprocessor and microcomputer technologies

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Richard Campbell; Irma Becerra-Fernandez; Gustavo Roig; Gordon Hopkins

academic work and the real-life workingworld.IntroductionRecent analyses have uncovered that the future will require the participation of greater numbers offemales and minorities in the increasingly technological work [4]. The U.S. Census Bureauestimates that individuals of African, Indian, and Hispanic descent account for over 30% of the U.S.population, yet they are woefully underrepresented in the technological fields. The Bureauestimates that by the year 2050, minorities will comprise half (50%) of the U.S. population.Minorities, therefore, will be expected to comprise half of the labor force in the technological fields,or a resulting shortage of scientists and engineers may result [8]. Therefore, as educators, we needto discover new and

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

forward by the formation ofnumerous NSF sponsored Educational Coalitions the Freshman Engineering Design programshave become an integral part of the curriculum. The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),as part of the NSF sponsored Gateway Coalition, a consortium of ten engineering institutions,has instituted such a program and developed numerous discipline and interdisciplinary courses.The basic intent of these programs is to move the traditional exposure to design concepts fromsenior year capstone courses into the entire undergraduate curriculum, beginning with enteringfreshmen. The overall objective is to introduce freshmen to the open-ended nature of designproblems, to give students “hands-on” experience, to expose students to teamwork

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Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Session 3260 CQI IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERS: Dynamics, Obligations and Myths S. Y. Eidgahy, Ph.D Jefferson Community College ABSTRACT: Professional development or continuing education of practicing engineers hasbecome paramount to our international competitiveness. Whether such educational efforts aredirected at learning new technologies and processes; simply updating existing skills andknowledge, or even completely retraining engineers for new careers; training is now an integralengineering activity. That is why this issue must be under constant

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William W. Predebon; Peck Cho

Session 2670 Engineering Learning Center Coach Training Program for Minority Students Peck Cho and William W. Predebon Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Michigan Technological UniversityABSTRACTThe objective of the program described in this paper is to help under-represented minoritystudents (African-American, American Indian, Hispanic, and Upper Peninsula Women) to besuccessful in a number of fundamental engineering courses during their sophomore year andmake a smooth transition to the junior and senior level courses in engineering

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

Session 3530 Development of Customer-Based Outcome Measures for an Engineering Programa Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, Harvey Wolfe, Cynthia J. Atman, and Larry Shuman University of Texas - El Paso/University of PittsburghbThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has proposed fundamentalchanges to their accreditation criteria that are performance based, rather than prescriptive. As aresult, engineering schools must now consider developing methods and measures to evaluatetheir engineering programs. One approach to developing program outcomes is to utilizefeedback from

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Brian S. Mitchell

Session 3513 Early Introduction of Design Fundamentals into the Chemical Engineering Curriculum Brian S. Mitchell Tulane UniversityIntroductionIn response to concerns raised by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), many chemical engineering departments have been revising the design components oftheir curricula. These modifications range from incorporation of open-ended problems inexisting courses to the development of new, design-oriented courses. At Tulane University inNew Orleans, both of these approaches

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Wessel Koning

: ‘Onderwijsconcept NHL van kennis overdragen naar zelfstandig leren’ , booklet, NHL, 1996.2 Ministry of Education : ‘The institutes of technology in the Netherlands’, information booklet, 1984.3 S.Smith, M.Mannion, C.Hastie: ‘Encouraging the development of transferable skills through effective group project work’, Proceedings SEHE ‘95 conference, Allicante, pp. 21, 1995.4 I.Moore, K.Exley, ‘Alternative Approaches to Teaching Engineering’, UK Universities and Colleges Staff Development Agency, university House, Sheffield, 1994.5 G. Gibbs, S. Habeshaw, T. Habeshaw, ‘53 Interesting Ways to Assess Your Students’, Technical and Educational Service Ltd., 1988.6 Joseph W. Wiess, Robert K. Wysocki. ‘5-Phase Project Management, A

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Roger A. Messenger

Session 3233 Photovoltaic Power Systems An Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Senior Elective Course Roger A. Messenger Florida Atlantic UniversityABSTRACT A 3-credit, undergraduate elective course in photovoltaic power systems was developedand taught during the spring, 1995, semester. A revised version was then offered during summer,1996, and the third offering was during spring, 1997. The objective was to create a course whichwould stimulate the interest of electrical engineering students in photovoltaic power production,while

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

students as possible. 2. To determine the optimal applicability of virtual reality to engineering education. 3. To develop a knowledge base of techniques for the display of, and interaction with, scientific and technological information and concepts in a virtual world, that can later be applied to practical engineering problemsThis paper outlines our findings to date regarding the second goal, which encompasses not onlyhow to produce effective VR applications, but also the identification of which students and topicswill most benefit from VR, and how best to incorporate educational VR into the engineeringcurriculum. The modules themselves ( Vicher1, Vicher2, and Safety ) have been described in [ 1-6 ]previous papers

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mining. Such fields tend not to have a distinguishing knowledge base. Other engineering fieldsare based on particular sciences, such as mechanics or electricity. These fields have usuallydeveloped consistent sets of technological methods appropriate to their fields, for example appliedmathematics in electrical engineering and unit operations in chemical engineering. Such methodsallow the study of the subject matter in rather generic form to give the ability to apply the impartedengineering knowledge to applications not completely known beforehand. If biological engineering is to successfully evolve into a branch of engineering dealing withthe entire field of biology, with all its diversity, methods must also be developed to

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Denny C. Davis; Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET, 1995) hasprovided a set of abilities or characteristics that graduates should exhibit when they completeaccreditable engineering degrees. This list defines a direction for engineering curricula, but it isnot a set of outcomes that can be assessed easily.The following two sections present elements of a categories-and-levels structure for definingengineering design outcomes.Categories of Design CompetenciesEight categories of engineering design competencies are defined in Table 1. The first fiveidentify five major repeatedly-used steps employed in engineering design. The next three identifythree over-arching competencies required to manage and support the design process. Thesecategories, when

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James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

). Biographical InformationJOHN KRUPCZAK, JR. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has aBA degree in physics from Williams College and M.S.M.E and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from theUniversity of Massachusetts (1994). He has worked in the Advanced Technology Divison of GTE Inc., and at theSuperconducting Super Collider Laboratory. His email address is: krupczak@hope.edu.BRAD MULDER is the director of the Science Division Shop at Hope College. His primary responsibilitiesinvolve the design and construction of electromechanical devices in support of teaching and research initiatives at thecollege. Prior to joining the Hope College staff, Brad worked for 15 years in the machine tool, process control

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J. M. Mendel; H. H. Kuehl

developed introduction to electrical engineering course provides ahands-on motivational experience in the freshman year. In addition, the new curriculum hasseveral unique interdisciplinary courses and options, which include: A course in communicationand innovation and a course in technical entrepreneurship, both of which were developed jointlywith the School of Business; A minor in multimedia and creative technologies, in conjunctionwith the departments of Cinema-Television, Computer Science, Fine Arts, and Music; A minorin music recording through the School of Music. Moreover, an option in computer engineering isavailable, as well as an interdisciplinary manufacturing engineering option in conjunction withthe departments of Industrial and Systems

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Jane M. Fraser; Dina R. Ismail

Session 1692Analysis of Men and Women Engineering Students at Ohio State J a n e M . F r a s e r , Dina R. Ismail Ohio State UniversityIntroductionEngineering mythology describes the dean who greets the entering engineering class bysaying: “look to your left and look to your right; only one of the three of you will make itthrough this program.” Whatever the truth of the mythology or whatever the motivationthis mythical dean might have in so greeting the class, the story highlights the enormousattrition that engineering programs have.Another part of the mythology has been, however, that some part of that

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, and quality.Engineering management is unique in that it combines the strong theoretical problem solvingskills of engineers with an understanding of how the business world operates. In addition totaking classes commonly taught in industrial engineering and manufacturing engineeringprograms, students also study marketing, finance, and management. This provides theengineering management students with a wide variety of skills to identify and solve problems.Funding was received from Missouri's Center for Technology Transfer and EconomicDevelopment and a small Missouri manufacturing firm to conduct an analysis of themanufacturing operation. The purpose was to recommend improvements. Suggestions could bemade in any area, but implementation decisions

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James E. Mitchell

searching using the web • Understanding of the World Wide Web / Internet • Web page creation and alteration including graphics conversion. • Use of a Cooperative writing toolThe total class time devoted to teaching these skills is approximately 1 class period out of 20(5%). The trade-off or loss is the deemphasis of traditional paper-oriented presentation skills.Knowledge DisseminationA somewhat unexpected result of this use of technology is the increased ability to shareknowledge generated during the course with succeeding generations of students. The moststriking instance of this new knowledge is the analysis of existing buildings.5 The final projectof the term is an Architectural Engineering analysis of a local building of some

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science, andin clarifying that distinction in the minds of engineering students.Modern engineering is a human cultural activity that involves an interplay between theory,experiment, and imagination, in which human beings form and transform nature, for practicalends and purposes, with the aid of tools and procedures.1 Those “practical ends and purposes”involve human society in all its multifaceted complexity. Thus engineering design requires aholistic and integrated perspective on reality before engineering problems can be properlyformulated and solved. The first two sections of this paper discuss that distinction betweenengineering (or technology) and science, and examine the difficulties that ensue when thatdistinction is not made. To

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

Session 2313 Building an Active Environmental-Chemical Engineering Research Program with Undergraduate Students Jeffrey G. Sczechowski Civil and Environmental Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ABSTRACTWith a University-wide theme of “learn by doing”, all Cal Poly undergraduates are required tocomplete a Senior Project. Environmental Engineering students are encouraged to conduct anexperimental or an applied design project

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Raymond B. Landis

W., What Matters in College?: Four Critical Years Revisited, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1993.8 Astin, Alexander W., “Involvement: The Cornerstone of Excellence,” Change, July/August 1985.9 Ercolano, Vincent, “From Sleep 101 to Success 101,” ASEE PRISM, pp. 25-29, September, 1995 Page 2.178.7AUTHORDR. RAYMOND B. LANDIS is currently Dean of Engineering and Technology at California StateUniversity, Los Angeles, a position he has held since 1985. He is a nationally recognized expert on“student development” and recently completed a National Science Foundation project titled“Improving Student Success Through a Model

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at Alliance Technologies inChapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Zelmanowitz is a licensed Professional Engineer. Page 2.231.8

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beenformally exposed to these issues.In the proposed Engineering Criteria 20001 that has been developed by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) it clearly states (Criterion 3. Program Outcomes andAssessment) “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have…(f) anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility.” This requirement, coupled withspecific proposed Program Criteria2 (e.g. Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering) stating“Graduates of the program must demonstrate an understanding of professional practice issues”warrants proven methods for delivering professional practice and ethics education.The Institute for Professional Practice (IPP) has developed an innovative approach to includethese

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faculty are taking a leadership role by using innovative methods ofteaching and learning, as recommended by ASEE in 1994 [2], to better prepare students for entryinto a rapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace. Key program features include: (i)inter- and multi-disciplinary education created through collaborative laboratory and coursework;(ii) stressing teamwork as the necessary framework for solving complex problems; (iii)incorporation of state-of-the-art technologies throughout the curricula; (iv) and creation ofcontinuous opportunities for technical communication. To best meet these objectives, the fourengineering programs of Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering have acommon engineering clinic throughout their