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William W. Predebon; Peck Cho; Diana George; Linda M. Ott; Philip Sweany

focus of new faculty orientation will not do much to change the status of pedagogyacross campus. Once the quarter or semester begins, issues raised in orientation are rarely a priority as newfaculty struggle to find time to begin research projects, to learn and help do the business of the department, andto prepare new classes for a new student population. The pressures of beginning a university career, we wouldargue, too often make the talk of classroom practice infrequent and devalued. New faculty, in particular, taketheir cue from tenured colleagues and from university administrators. If there is little concern about ongoing 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

25 students in each of the three years.II.C. Discover Engineering A three-hour evening program, patterned as a "mini" Engineering 2000, is held specifically at the requestof a high school at the CUA facilities. It provides an opportunity for a targeted group to visit the School ofEngineering and meet with faculty and students and hear about its programs. This Open House activity need notbe restricted to affiliated High Schools.II.D. Telecommunications 2000 This summer enrichment program provides an guided tour of the information superhighway and themany career opportunities in the telecommunication industry to selected high school students. The programprovides a diverse experience to participants by providing seminars, hands-on

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Kim J. Manner

manufacturing and analysis, use of this category of software strongly supports amove toward concurrent design principles. Whereas early solid modeling systems required full dimensional specification for modelconstruction and hence could only be truly used as a design documentation tool, the dimensionally-driven systems allow the user tomodel in terms of “design intent”. 2) This software represents the tools which the student will be using in their professional career. By providing an introductionto its use and the theory behind it functionality, the student will be better prepared to enter the work force as a design engineer

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Jennifer M. Jacobs; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

workshops. Thisintense experience provides a strong teaching foundation for individuals who plan to teach as apart of their careers. Introduction Many academics view Teaching Assistant development programs as one way to prepare thefuture professoriate. The College of Engineering at Cornell University, along with a number ofother engineering institutions, offer or require Teaching Assistant training for noviceengineering TAs. 3 These programs are geared for novice teachers, and as such, can only providerudimentary advice. A unique feature of the Cornell TA Development Program is that it is designed and executedby top graduate student instructors called Teaching Fellows (TFs). While preparing

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George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

of these teams. Educational institutions, unlike business, continues to educate students within particular functionalareas. While education serves many purposes, including stimulating students to acquire and utilize knowledgeto think critically, from a more practical viewpoint, education should assist students in developing skillsapplicable to their future careers. To prepare graduates for work in an interdisciplinary environment, cross-functional courses should be developed at the undergraduate level to expose students to the types ofinterdisciplinary problem-solving and team activities they will encounter in industry. At the University of Dayton, the Department of Industrial Engineering Technology in the School ofEngineering

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Gary E. Wnek; C. T. Moynihan; Mark A. Palmer; John B. Hudson

acquisition,and Excel for data analysis. When students are introduced to computer-aided instruction early in theirundergraduate careers there are two benefits. The students learn course material better thanthey would have if the software had not been used. In addition they learn which computingtools are available, and how to make use of them. By the time the current freshman classgraduates, the Internet will be an important resource for professionals. Incorporating theInternet into a freshman course is therefore a natural extension of widely accepted educationalphilosophy 4.Assessment of the Net In this paper we will discuss how we used the Internet as a study aid in the Chemistryof Materials course. It is important to note that we used

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T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

friendly troops in the battlefield confusion of the Gulf War) wereconceived, protot yped, and manufactured in quantity in a few months. To succeed in such an environment, R&D professionals must be able to work across the entiredevelopment cycle. This includes applying fundamental science at the materials level, coordinating devicelevel constraints to implement products and services in an efficient and economic manner, and anticipatingsystems level requirements from manufacturing to end-users. Training for such careers must similarlyreflect the complexity and interactions found in real problem cent exts. Since warning calls were issued nearly a decade ago, why have we continued to fall behind in ourphotonics competitiveness, and

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Thomas Johnson; Mike A. Littlejohn; Jr., Thomas H. Brown; Carl F. Zorowski

model for other technology basedindustrial sectors looking to universities for the cutting edge discovery, invention and innovation necessary tocompete in a global marketplace.Background The proposed program has grown out of the interest by the Semiconductor Research Corporation indeveloping a Supplier CQI initiative and a project funded by the NSF supported Engineering EducationCoalition (EEC) SUCCEED. The SRC identifies its suppliers as the universities that conduct semiconductorresearch for SRC and that prepare graduate students in the physical sciences and engineering for careers in thesemi-conductor industry. The goals of the CQI initiative are to have the technical graduates enter thesemiconductor industry more quickly, become

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Samuel S. Lee; R. Narasimhan; M. Lewis Temares

several classes together helped them to learn from each other and with making friends2) Since the mathematics and physics teachers worked closely with each other, calculus as a co-requisite instead of pre-requisite was not a serious problem Page 1.242.7 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings3) Having a common set of rules for all the four classes was a great help4) Most students had taken algebra in the early part of their high school career and had forgotten most of it5) Students lacked good study habits and were poor at time management.6) Having physics at the same time as calculus

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Robert Pfeffer; Rajesh N. Dave; Jonathan Luke; Ian S. Fischer; Anthony D. Rosato

value addedby the chemical industry is linked to particle technology. Therefore the chances of our graduating engineersencountering problems related to particle technology in their future careers are very high, and it is important forthem to be exposed to this subject during their education. As a consequence of an NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development (CRCD) grant, aninterdisciplinary concentration of new courses in particle technology is now being created at the New Jersey Page 1.347.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference ProceedingsInstitute of Technology by professors in

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Michael L. Smith; Mary R. Marlino; Jeff V. Kouri; D. Neal Barlow; A. George Havener

briefings. I never gave a briefing before in high school. I think that (the briefings) was the best thing I learned to do. We’re kind of forced to use transparencies, which I had never used before in high school, and I used Powerpoint for the first time. I liked doing presentations. I know we are going to have to do that throughout our Air Force Page 1.364.8 careers and in our lives. I had no idea about the way it was supposed to be done before 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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Ph.D., J.G. Shiber; H.R. Bogale

makes spelling and/or grammar corrections along the way. Also, because students are toofrequently given multiple choice, true/false, and other such objective types of questions, throughout their educational career (K-12and on), they are overly "conditioned" to them. This not only makes them ill-equipped to cope with other types, but also severelylimits their ability to sort out, analyze, and verbalize on the material they have learned. Hence, it may be that some communitycollege teachers believe that students cannot handle essay questions, that they will do poorly on tests if they were to be giventhem, and this might retard efforts to "process" students through the system. With this type of reasoning, whether or not studentspass becomes the big