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Peter J. Graybash

obtaining it. Distance Education, for example, has been re-defined to describethe teaching-learning relationship in which participants interact through advancedcommunication technology.Career competition with growing numbers of increasingly sophisticated fellow "experts" is onthe minds and tongues of those in virtually every profession. Just as our appetite for continuedcareer education grows, the diversity and sophistication of ways to deliver that educationcontinues to expand. Therefore, it becomes complex, expensive, and difficult to pick from. Weare not sure which of these delivery systems is the most effective. There are ways to measureeffectiveness from an engineering standpoint, but a large portion of the choice is behaviorallyoriented.II

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right triangle are variables that depend only onthe angles and not on the size of the triangle. The student might memorize the words but withoutthe principle the idea will not be understood.Functions"Functions are sets of ordered pairs." "Functions are mappings from a domain to a range.""Functions are by definition single valued." These statements may provide good starting pointsfor mathematical proofs, but they fail to convey the idea. I cannot imagine any calculus studentexpressing a desire to study and acquire information about ordered pairs or mappings from adomain to a range. This certainly is not the image in the minds of engineers who use functions.The functions that are meaningful to engineering students are primarily studied in

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Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

Session 2793 Learning Across Disciplines: Aerospace Digital Library Narayanan Komerath, Marilyn J. Smith and Bethany Bodo Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Aerospace Digital Library, http://www.adl.gatech.edu is a resource used by learners at all levels,to solve engineering problems by learning across disciplines. At its core is a growing body ofbasic technical knowledge, used by college students to explore far beyond the normal reaches ofengineering courses. A learner-centered gateway, set at the level of a college freshman, links thefundamental logic of technical disciplines. A

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Richard Layton

Session 2793 Creating and Measuring an Awareness of Professional Ethics Richard A. Layton North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an approach for creating in students an awareness of the ethical responsibili-ties of practicing engineers. Using a case study in professional ethics, students in a junior-levelmechanical engineering design course are given two consecutive writing assignments which arethe basis for four classroom discussion periods that focus on student responses to the case study.The student assignments are in addition to, and do not

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written code is readable, reusable and maintainable. One style guide is not suitable forall programming languages and therefore each language will normally have it’s own style guidecovering a standard set of topics.Topics of the paper are a detailed description of a style guide, how to develop a sound styleguide, introduction of the style guide concepts through visual examples and methods ofenforcement in the class room environment.I. IntroductionIn this age where software is embedded in practically every consumer product sold, topics suchas software reusability and maintainability are on the minds of all software managers. Asengineers, our graduates can almost be guaranteed that they will be expected to develop code atsome time in their

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capitalinvestment in these facilities and they are generally situated in well-developed urban areas.Unfortunately, it is in the historically disadvantaged rural areas where there is the greatestdirect need for the students to be exposed to this technology.This paper will describe the authors work in implementing video conferencing using standardlow bandwidth analogue telephone (POTS) lines to bring the advanced technology that isavailable in the University of Cape Town’s Department of Mechanical Engineering into theclassroom in a way that fosters a feeling of hands on experience of the equipment being usedby the students.2. Effective Use Of Distance Learning For Technology Education in a Rural EnvironmentIn South Africa, students in rural areas have little

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Peter J. Shull

Session 2559 Formal Laboratory Reports Pros and Cons: An Interim Report Peter J. Shull Penn State University, AltoonaI. IntroductionEngineering programs have historically faced the major challenge of providing engineeringstudents with a solid foundation in written communication skills. In response, most engineeringcurricula include fundamental writing courses focused on developing and improving writtenperformance. With this emphasis in mind, the use of writing exercises in the classroom providesan opportunity for engineering

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William F. Horton; Thomas Agayoff; Saul Goldberg

Session 3532 A Virtual Power Laboratory Saul Goldberg, William F. Horton, Thomas Agayoff Electrical Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California 93407AbstractThis paper describes VPLab, a virtual power laboratory designed to offer a virtual laboratoryexperience to students in the area of power conversion. Power conversion is a standard course inthe electrical engineering curricula of many colleges of engineering. It deals with the conversionof electrical to mechanical power (motors); electrical

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Pedro E. Arce

Session 3413 Principal Objects of Knowledge (POK’s) In Colloquial Approach Environments Pedro E. Arce Chemical Engineering and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, GFDI Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida1. Introduction and MotivationDoes the following describe your class: Students unhappy about their lack ofunderstanding of core material despite your efforts to present such material in awell (i.e., hierarchical and sequential manner)? Students are visibly discouragedabout assignments and about their weak ability to apply your

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incorporated into theclassroom experience. One of these tools is a nifty shareware software package that allows youto produce animated gifs4 very easily. Unfortunately, it is still a rather time consuming process.My best estimate based on the work reported in this paper is that an experienced user can expectto spend at least an hour to produce a simple ten-second animation.But why use music? My experience is that a majority of the engineering and technology studentsrelate well to music. I choose familiar tunes that most students will recognize. I would like tothink that when they hear a particular tune in the future, their minds will connect with a technicalconcept. But pragmatically, I use this method because of my long experience with the BoyScouts

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Donald D. Carpenter

Session 2686 Employing Graduate Students at Two-year Colleges: A Missed Opportunity? Donald D. Carpenter University of Michigan/Jackson Community CollegeAbstractA good opportunity that is rarely exploited exists for both graduate students and two- yearcolleges. Supplemental faculty play an important role at many two-year colleges, yet for avariety of reasons, schools often have trouble finding enough people to meet their needs. Thisauthor feels that engineering graduate students can play a fundamental role in filling the void.Many graduate students have a strong

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David R. Haws

classical mentoring that comes to mind, fromearlier in the 20th Century). But I would probably be more thorough, in that I would initiatementoring activities that I felt more important, even if they were unrequested.Because my mentoring has been most extensive with older students, my existing “student-centered” approach is probably more appropriate. I have not seen many freshman engineeringstudents, outside of the Fundamentals of Engineering class that I occasionally teach, or the Page 5.308.3infrequent assigned advisee. But because freshmen typically require more direction in theclassroom, it’s only natural to assume that they would also require

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Hans H. Kuehl

the students to use of Mallard in the teaching of electric circuits.3. Our approach in the development of problems with a structure that helps to guide the studentalong the path toward the correct solution.I. IntroductionEE 202 is a basic sophomore linear circuits course at the University of Southern California(USC) with a large enrollment consisting of both electrical and biomedical engineering students,which is well suited for Web-based enhancements and asynchronous learning networksteaching/learning techniques. Because of this, we have developed a new version of this coursethat incorporates an innovative Web-based learning technology that we find strengthens studentinterest in learning the course material. The principal thrust of this

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Jeffrey A. Jalkio

Session 1359 Incorporating Design, Communications, Teamwork, and Modeling in a Controls Laboratory Experience Jeffrey A. Jalkio Department of Engineering University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN 55105AbstractIt is now widely recognized that engineering education must include training incommunication and teamwork skills in addition to traditional engineering science anddesign topics. This paper presents a control laboratory experience designed to providesuch training in a realistic manner. This experience centers on the

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Stephanie G. Adams

students to acquire and apply knowledge central to one or more discipline or content areas? • Does it challenge students to use methods of inquiry Page 5.505.2 central to one or more disciplines? Session 3557 • Do students develop higher order thinking skills and habits of mind? Applied Learning • Does the learning take

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Mike Papadakis

hole. A smoking hole pre supposes a defectof some kind. I get to grade the papers, I do not have to take the test. “ I come to bury thewidget, not praise it”As a trial lawyer, I am going to try and persuade the jury made up of twelve nonengineers that there was a defect within the product or that some act of negligence doneby the defendant company caused the harm that befell my client. I will try to paint apicture in the juries mind ‘s eye that will indelibly mark your product defective as theresult of bad engineering. Do not allow that bad engineering to be yours.The law gives me two favorite ways to win for my client, while making your productliable for the accident.The first is through application of NEGLIGENCE LAW, The second is

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Barbara Olds

Session 2261 Reflection as an Assessment Measure Barbara M. Olds Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 80401I. IntroductionAs I teach and advise engineering students, I am constantly amazed at their motivation, theircapacity for hard work, their intelligence. But I am also often amazed at their lack of self-awareness, at their “can’t see the forest for the trees” approach to getting through each hour, eachday, each semester, a college education. They refer, often jokingly, to “getting out,” instead ofgraduating, and they

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Craig W. Somerton

Session 2425 Using Student Evaluations for Individual Grading in Team Projects Craig W. Somerton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityI. IntroductionOne of the challenges involved in using teams in the engineering educational process is theassessment of individual performance in the team activity. Typically, there are two extremeapproaches to this challenge. One approach is to ignore individual contributions and assign thesame grade to all members of the team. This approach can lead to poor student morale, andeven more important good

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Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

2660 New Information Technology in an International Context Ian R. Simpson, Yvon Kermarrec Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (ENST Bretagne)AbstractAs the world undergoes the phenomenon of « globalization », more and more colleges ofengineering have given their courses an international flavor by offering modules which,traditionally, had no place on the « old style » engineering syllabuses. In a European context,these innovations include :• The study of Foreign Languages.• Elements of Economics and Business.• Short courses involving

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Sharon A. Driscoll

group learning activities?Will active learning be a large part of the class? While minor changes can be made based on theclass character, the answers to these questions and more should be made prior to the start of thesemester and discussed with the student during the first week of class. In most cases, the answerto all of these questions for chemical engineering students should be YES. Not only are activelearning activities important for promoting student learning, recent results of profiling studentlearning preferences have indicated that the majority of chemical engineering students learnmore effectively by working problems themselves. This paper provides suggestions for non-course material activities for the first week activities, followed

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Jerome Tapper

Session 2647 Building Industry Partnerships by Enticing Industry to Work for You Jerome Tapper School of Engineering Technology Northeastern UniversityAbstractWhy should industry get involved with you or your college? The answer to this is the key tounderstanding the mechanisms involved in attracting industrial partnerships and using thisrelationship to your advantage. In fact, both parties as will be seen here will benefit and prosperby your appropriate application of some simple rules in establishing corporate

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Marilyn J. Smith

to the required course, which contained both performance- and learning-orientedstudents.In experimental courses, internet and multimedia technology becomes a natural asset in findingknowledge across disciplines and levels, as well as presenting experimental results. Technologyfacilitates group projects, enabling people with different schedules and other constraints to shareinformation and work as effective teams.Bibliography1. "Criteria For Accrediting Engineering Programs," URL: http://www.abet.org/eac/EAC_99-00_Criteria.htm2. Tooley, M. S., and Hall, K. D., "Using a Capstone Design Course to Facilitate ABET 2000 Program Outcomes," ASEE Paper, Session 1625, 1999 Annual Conference of the ASEE.3. How People Learn : Brain, Mind, Experience

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Teresa L. Hein

’ understanding of the content into an accurate and effective mental model.For most individuals, the development of a mental model occurs through a process of makingconnections between new information to be learned and past personal experiences.Arons 9 has also indicated that students in introductory physics courses display very basiccognitive difficulties. He further asserted that instructional materials have not traditionally beenof much use in helping students overcome these difficulties. The courses described in this paperwere designed with these very issues in mind. The instructional strategies used in these courseswere developed, in part, to aid students in eliciting and confronting their misconceptions byproviding students with “non-traditional

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Teresa Larkin-Hein; Dan Budny

Session 3280 Why Bother Learning about Learning Styles and Psychological Types? Teresa Larkin-Hein/Dan D. Budny American University/University of Pittsburgh Washington, DC/Pittsburgh, PAAbstractA growing body of research suggests that increased learning gains can be achieved with adultlearners when instruction is designed with learning styles in mind 1 - 3. The adoption of any typeof new teaching and/or learning approach has the potential to require a good deal of valuablefaculty time and energy. In this paper, the question of why

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Robert Davis; Laura J. Genik; Craig W. Somerton

the concepts and ability to perform the necessary manual calculations, computerprograms can be used to allow the students to study more advanced topics in the materialwithout being bogged down in the calculations. To ease the considerable calculationsinvolved in solving vapor-compression refrigeration (VCR) cycle problems in the course,a text-based computer program was written, complete with property evaluation for 3three substances, by L.J. Genik and C.W. Somerton at Michigan State University. Thisprogram has recently been revised to be compatible with the Microsoft Windowsoperating environment prevalent today in engineering software. In addition, a fourthrefrigerant, R-134a, was added to account for the addition of new refrigerants in

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O. Kenneth Sergeant; Linda O. Hardymon

à à Session 3433 Solar BikeRayce Competition Caps Success in Technology Student Team Project Linda O. Hardymon, O. Kenneth Sergeant Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractAfter a solar bike workshop was held at Middle Tennessee State University, the“we can do this” syndrome hit some of the students and faculty on campus. Agroup of engineering technology and industrial studies students felt they coulddesign, engineer, manufacture limited parts, construct, and compete in a vehicleof their own creation. The ongoing demands of

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Hamid Khan

Page 5.579.1say the least, where a student's original work is compromised. With due regards to students’ work, itcan be said that serious ethical violations are not frequently encountered or suspected. However, theresponsibility of correct assessment of student’s work lies solely on the instructor. Objective exams aregiven separately to assess concepts and processes in engineering design, visualization, 2D and 3DModeling. Five three-hour skills exams are administered under supervised instructional controlcondition to ascertain the "design process" ability and applicability of students in two dimensional andthree dimensional modeling framework to judge their competency based "affect" and mastery of thesubject learned. This concept has been

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Lisa Wipplinger

Session 2606 Group Projects Lisa Wipplinger Kansas State UniversityAbstractAccreditation boards and industry are telling educators that the ability to work together in groups orteams is an important skill for engineering and construction graduates to have. As a result we aretrying to integrate this more fully into our classes. This paper presents several group projects thathave been tried in structural engineering classes over the last two years in the ArchitecturalEngineering and Construction Science programs here at Kansas State

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Stanley J. Pisarski

Session 3547 The UPJ EET MicroMouse: This New Addition Impacts Learning In Embedded Microcontrollers Stanley J. Pisarski University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil,Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Technology. Many of the courses offered in UPJ’sEngineering Technology Program rely on laboratory experiments to supplement the lectures. TheEmbedded Microcontroller course offered by the Electrical Engineering

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Phillip J. Cornwell

dynamics and it was good.On the second day a creature came along called “Professor”. Professor saw that dynamics wasbeautiful and was the foundation of all engineering science. Professor wanted to share thebeauty of dynamics by shouting its praises from a mountaintop. Instead, being scared of heights,he wrote dynamics on a blackboard – unable to take his eyes off of what he was writing becauseof its beauty. And it was good. Thus ended the second day.On the third day Professor was disturbed by a noise coming from behind him. He turned aroundand, lo and behold, there were other creatures in the same room with him. He learned thesecreatures were called “students”. Many of the students had glazed eyes, some were asleep, andsome copied frantically