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Sergy Lyshevski; Akhouri S. C. Sinha; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Mohamed El-sharkawy; Richard Pfile

career. An engineeringcourse that combines theory and design, practice with hands-on experiences, industrycollaboration, and teamwork across disciplines may require a development plan with a team offaculty from across majors with different specialties. The implementation plan of such a coursecan be developed to meet the course objectives. Unlike developing a course in common andpopular engineering areas where plenty of textbooks are available to assist in the development, anindustrial-based course in a new area may require heavy industrial collaboration in developinglecture notes and laboratory components from technical manuals and technical journals.The area of electric vehicle technology is new to engineering and technology education. There

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David M. Beams

material on phase-sensitive demodulation and design of constant phase-difference (quadrature) networks. Theprototype has since been used as a laboratory instrument in other courses and construction ofpermanent copies is planned. This paper describes the Project TUNA instrument and theintegration of its development into EENG 4409, including lessons learned along the way.I. IntroductionMeasurement of the sinusoidal steady-state frequency response of active and passive networks isperformed in several electrical engineering laboratory courses at the University of Texas atTyler. Voltage gain and input-to-output phase shift were computed from measurements ofoscilloscope traces of the input and output signals. This was tedious and repetitive

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Marehalli G. Prasad; Consantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

reviewers of the original NSF proposal that led topartial funding of this activity by the NSF-ILI program as well as by other individuals involvedin the planning and implementation of the laboratory. One of the main disadvantages comparedwith traditional laboratory setups is the significant investment in the up-front development effortand time required. This is caused by the tremendous logistical problems that need to be solved inorder for the system to be capable of properly handling task scheduling, request conflictresolution, and equipment and network failures. In contrast to the original plans outlining alaboratory to be accessed exclusively in a remote fashion, the development team changed to thehybrid on-site / remote approach described here

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Sharon A. Driscoll

by a brief discussion of teachingand learning. One suggestion related to both topics is to profile student learning preferencesusing VARK catalyst. This inventory will be briefly discussed along with the implications andresults obtained from classes in chemical engineering.II. First Week of ClassTake control of the class during the first week, but include some activities that are not directlyrelated to the course material. Before the first class, have the final syllabus prepared. Take timeto discuss the syllabus and the different requirements for the course. Talk about your teachingphilosophy. If you plan to use group activities, explain how interaction is of benefit to thestudents. If you want them to use their calculator and book in class

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Karl Smith

skills neededto help a group of people work together to accomplish a task (Lewis, 1998; Smith, 2000). BarryPosner (1987) conducted a survey of project managers, asking them “what it takes to be a goodproject manager.” He got the following results:1. Communications (84% of the 2. Organizational skills (75%) respondents listed it) • Planning • Listening • Goal-setting Page 5.555.4 • Persuading • Analyzing3. Team Building Skills (72%) 5. Coping Skills (59%) • Empathy

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Jr. , John A. Hamilton; Jeanne L. Murtagh

). Page 5.577.2 4) Students shall develop a test plan for each project. The test plan shall demonstratehow all software requirements are to be tested. The test plan shall also include a schedule forsoftware testing. 5) Students shall develop documentation showing how their software designs and testplan conform to the requirements appearing in IEEE/EIA 12207.Note that it was critical for the students to implement and test their projects, even though thefocus of this class was primarily on software design and the use of advanced object-orientedfeatures. This is because some design flaws do not become obvious until one attempts todevelop code based on the flawed design.IV. Solid RequirementsIn order to give the students a solid design

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Mark R. Rajai; Hollis Bostick; Byrne Bostick; Mel Mendelson

. These products will be developedfurther with additional outside funding.Product development will continue with Course 2 ("Entrepreneurship"). In this course, againmulti-disciplinary student teams will develop products. Their goal is to prepare a business plan,fabricate prototypes for field testing the product, and finalize the design of their product. Then aproduct review board will evaluate the potential success of the products from a business andtechnical perspective. Their approval will be necessary before the products are commercialized.This will be the same review board that selected the best products from Course 1. For thoseproducts that make it through the final screening process, both engineering and business studentswill be eligible to

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William E Maddox; Theodore D. Thiede; Stephen H. Cobb; Scott R Hickman; John Crofton

short order. To date these types of projects have not been too common. Our standard team size is two. Project proposals for groups of 3 or 4 should specifically delineate the responsibilities of each member. In order to evaluate individual effort, each student must submit project notebooks and weekly memos. Students are assigned to design review teams to evaluate another group’s project to provide a true team experience. We plan to incorporate students in PHY 398 into the design review teams in the future. These teams meet once during each semester. At these meetings each student provides written input based on his role on the team and the team assembles a design review report.7. Socially redeeming features

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Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill

(short-term). The OAC developed aseries of surveys to seek data on the perceived importance of outcomes and objectivesestablished for our current engineering programs and assess how well each program is doingrelative to its objectives. The surveys are intended to be an integral part of the data collected forprogram outcomes assessment including items directly relevant to the ABET EC2000 criteria.However, the results must be combined with other outcomes assessment information collectedby the College and its programs to support a plan of action for continuous improvement at eachlevel.This paper will briefly outline the process for survey development, the components of the surveyand then summarize the data from the first year of use. Generally the

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Belle R. Upadhyaya

program for engineering majors1. The estimatedmaintenance costs in all of the U.S. industry sectors exceeds $500 billion annually.Global competitiveness, product quality, and economics of manufacturing have increasedthe visibility of industrial maintenance organizations. A well-planned and efficientlymanaged maintenance activity, the implementation of condition-based maintenancetechniques, and the integration of plant maintenance and operations would enhance thechances of achieving the mission set out by the industry management2, 3.Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability Engineering is one of the four courses beingdeveloped as part of a National Science Foundation Combined Research CurriculumDevelopment (NSF-CRCD) project4. The course

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Scott Johnson; Barbara Nepote; Shirley J. Dyke; Juan Caicedo; Euridice Oware

ratherconventional content of several courses by integrating “hands-on” experiments in earthquakeengineering. The plans are designed to provide exposure to structural dynamics and control in thefreshman year, and then expand this knowledge through the senior year. Additionally, experi-ments in passive, active, and semi-active structural control will allow undergraduates to furtherexplore the implications of various design and mitigation strategies. Moreover, students at all lev-els will learn the fundamentals of using modern equipment and instrumentation, including sen-sors, actuators, and data acquisition/analysis systems. Additionally, on-line exercises are underdevelopment to allow students to familiarize themselves with basic concepts in the use of

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Winfred Phillips

answer is educators must strive to prepare engineers to work anytime, anyplace andanywhere. As a long time participant in the activities of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET), I believe ABET can provide guidance in reaching this goal. ABETdoes not and should not dictate the content of universities’ programs. But our policies andphilosophies furthering international cooperation and our new engineering accreditation criteria,Engineering Criteria 2000, can assist institutions as they plan strategies for the internationalarena.ABET currently has several policies aimed directly at the international community. When asked,we evaluate programs outside the United States, recognizing those that are comparable in contentand

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Karim M. El-Dash

. In the developed construction management courses it is required to widen the perspectiveof the syllabus instead of concentrating on traditional areas such as planning, scheduling, costcontrol. It is required to extend the contents of the course to the understanding of the designphilosophy, engineering affairs, decision-making methods, and negotiation approaches. It isonly with these skills, the young engineers (as well as older engineers) could be able to face theneeds of interdisciplinary engineering needs.Teaching Communication Skills The objective of a Construction Management curriculum is to prepare staff with abilitiesto enhance and control production and marketing competence for future needs. In addition tostringent core courses

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

the product suggested that the documentation project’s scope might be realisticfor completion within a one-semester three-credit course. The company was willing to workwithin the constraints of a standard semester timeframe. Course faculty agreed to undertake Page 5.285.1developing full design documentation for a cart-tipper as a student project integral to the seconddocumentation course. A sample cart-tipper, the hydraulic unit that tips and compresses garbagein a typical sanitation truck, was subsequently sent to Purdue University to confirm projectfeasibility and let course planning begin.II. MotivationThe Production Design and

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Kenneth M. Bryden; Donald R. Flugrad

design objectives and constraints.2. The student should be able to implement various phases of the design process and use different tools and solution methods in each phase in the context of engineering design problems.3. The student should be able to use a wide variety of creative thinking methods and tools to develop unique, meaningful, and viable design options.4. The student should be able to incorporate analysis tools into the design process, choosing the correct tools for each aspect of the design process and each type of design.5. The student should be able to determine the best engineering design that satisfies all implicit and explicit constraints.6. The student should be able to schedule and plan engineering projects

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Jeremy Koczenasz; Bradley Bashford; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

constructionprocesses. The key features of the ICMLS are: 1) the system uses the Internet as its launchingmedium, and 2) it utilizes multimedia databases, hypertext, 3-D modeling, and simulation to providestudents with an interesting and realistic view of the selected construction processes and constructionequipment. ICMLS uses an interactive and adaptive learning environment to train students in thearea dealing with the planning of construction processes and equipment. The system is process-oriented and mimics the challenges faced by a construction manager on a real life constructionproject. It allows students to apply their knowledge of construction materials and methods,estimating, scheduling, resource allocation and utilization, fleet size determination

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Massoud S. Tavakoli

severalinterested industrial partners, a design environment called “Total Design Studio” has been set upat Kettering University. Here, all necessary tools for conducting a complete design cycle havebeen gathered under one roof. Access to CAD software and internet has been provided. A fewkey technologies, such as rapid prototyping and imaging systems, have been incorporated intothe studio as well. As phase one, a capstone design course has been given use of the facilities.The impact of the studio on the students’ design output has been qualitatively evaluated. Also,the advantages and the drawbacks of introducing high technology into undergraduateenvironment have been documented. As phase two, two alternative plans have been developed toexpand the design

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Stephanie Blaisdell; Mona Moore; Marcela Castro; Mary Anderson-Rowland

designed to be particularly appealing to female andminority students. A case in point, one study found that young women planning careers inscience were drawn to them because of a desire to promote the well being of society [10].Although the ASU WISE Program spearheads the WI initiative, the program is the product of aunique collaboration of the ASU CEAS, ASU College of Education, six school districts, threecommunity colleges, and eight industry partners. At the heart of this collaboration are the Page 5.683.2engineering faculty members who are instrumental in the education of the teacher participants.Program DescriptionWISE Investments (WI) is an

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Martin Pike

and a definition of the division of labor among the groupmembers within the first few weeks. These ideas will improve the chances for success and alsocan be used with any of the other formats.The multi-term format There are various forms of a multi-term project, but the one the author has experiencewith was a three-term course sequence. This format was used exclusively for projects of thestudents’ choosing. As a result, the first course was a one-credit planning and proposal course. Page 5.135.2This course was a faculty guided self-study pattern where the students would accomplish threegoals. The first goal was to choose the

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Richard Barke

work, and international relations. To address these issues accurately, engineering and liberalarts faculty would need to work together, not simply broadening the syllabus or team-teaching,but explicitly identifying common ground and conflicts between approaches to problem- Page 5.570.4solving. For engineering, the goal would be to suffuse the content of a liberal education intostudents’ perspectives of what they will do as engineers. The civil engineering student wouldask: instead of minimizing the impact of building a highway through a wetlands, are thereother alternatives -- transportation, economic incentives, land-use planning -- that

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Robert J. Voigt

by real Navy and MarineCorps systems. We discussed the Navy’s plans for the next century and why we focused on thematerial we were learning. The concept of “Net-Centric Warfare” was much clearer in light ofthe topics we had covered. Net-centric warfare is the term being applied to the overall focus onnetworking and networked communications in the Navy and Marine Corps today.The next two modules focused on Software Engineering and Databases. The goal of these twomodules was to give the students an appreciation for the difficulty and complexity of large-scalesoftware and database development. We did want not this to be a programming course yet we didcover some basic software constructs and design philosophies and used the Java

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Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla; Shreekanth A Mandayam; Anthony J. Marchese; John L. Schmalzel; John Chen; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

development of original inventions by multidisciplinary studentteams within the Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics. Funding of up to $2500 per student teamper semester is competitively awarded based on student-generated proposals to the Venture CapitalFund. To qualify for funding, student teams must propose, plan and implement an original, semes-ter-long product development enterprise. The product idea must be successfully designed, devel-oped and prototyped in a single semester. The latter criterion is possible given the unique rapidprototyping facilities available at Rowan University, which include a stereolithography machine, amulti-jet modeling rapid concept modeler, a rapid circuit prototyping system and multiple consumerappliance test

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Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

experienced faculty members provide guidance to new faculty members on matters such as planning and effectively presenting courses, starting and building research programs, and balancing the inordinate time demands that are part of every faculty member’s life.Programs for graduate students• Orientation workshops and/or periodic seminars are offered to teaching assistants and graduate students contemplating academic careers, covering topics such as student learning styles, effective lecturing techniques, active and cooperative learning, dealing with common student problems, and survival skills.• Mentorships are organized in which graduate students interested in teaching are paired with experienced faculty to complete short

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

methodology to integrate novel processing into their curriculaand develop an action plan for their home institution. Active learning methods were employed in theworkshop and participants were encouraged to incorporate this experience into their teaching style. Introduction Two innovative and state-of-the-art workshops on the multidisciplinary aspects of novelprocess science and engineering were held at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, July 26-30, 1998 and July 18-22, 1999. These workshops are one of the many excellent programssupported by the National Science Foundation’s Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Program.The purpose of the workshops is to meet the needs of faculty who teach undergraduate

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Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

personal inquiry project related tocourse topics. Data was collected in the form of videotaped course sections, pre- andpost-interviews of the professor and students, and course documents such as lesson plans,syllabus, and student work. After data was analyzed it was found there were benefits toboth students and instructor in terms of knowledge gained and objectives being met forboth research and teaching. Challenges to using the project-based method were alsoidentified. A call for future research could be helping professors more easily transition tothe use of the project-based method.I. IntroductionEnvironmental Engineering Laboratory is a traditional part of the curriculum for graduateprograms in environmental engineering. The traditional

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Sheldon M. Jeter; Jeffrey A. Donnell

writing. This guidance should include a manual incorporating a uniformwriting standard that represents industrial and academic practice. Instruction can then refer to asingle consensus standard. Consistent grading and feedback based on this standard can thenreinforce the instruction. However, the instruction cannot be planned, nor the writing standard bedeveloped without a practical objective. The practical objective is the kind of technical writingand production quality that fits the needs of the curriculum and professional practice and that canbe expected from undergraduates. The objective is defined in terms of representative report typesand the corresponding contents, formats, and production qualities. Without such a common andwell defined

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Theodore F. Smith; Sharif Rahman; P. Barry Butler

engineers at various sponsoring companies. Future visions of PEDE and plans foroperating PEDE in the 1999-00 academic year are also presented.1. IntroductionOne characteristic of the engineering discipline that distinguishes it from the science disciplines isengineering design. Practicing engineers in industry spend a considerable amount of time involvedwith design of a product, process, or system. It is, therefore, essential that undergraduate studentspreparing for professional careers in engineering be exposed to the concepts of engineering design.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)1 defines engineering design as “… the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

faculty as part of a teaching team has on students’ perceptions ofthe importance of writing to engineering and the overall quality of student writing.Sophomore Engineering Clinic I, planned and taught by faculty from the College ofCommunication and the College of Engineering, combines argumentative discourse,technical communication, and engineering design labs. While the course is jointlyplanned, it had previously been individually delivered. Worth four credits, three creditswere devoted to writing and one to engineering design. As part of the present study,engineering faculty are attending 2 of the 4 writing sections. They actively join in classdiscussions, assist in peer critiques, ask questions, seek clarifications, and provide reallife

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Hajrudin Pasic; Gregory G. Kremer; Bhavin V. Mehta

learning styles, learning rates, and levels of understanding.V. Assessment and Evaluation We have mentioned assessment and evaluation throughout this paper, but its overallimportance warrants a special section. Assessment is an area of both current and future work.We have developed a student survey (and have already administered it to students in Dynamicsclass) to establish a baseline of data before the IPS is offered, and we are continuing to work onappropriate assessment questions and tasks. We plan to use surveys and evaluations (that are anintegral part of the IPS) along with focus groups and pre and post tests to determine what help ismost needed and how effective the IPS is in providing this help. Currently the determination ofthe needs

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Joanne M. Goode; James B. Stenger

. These studentsare typically using Applied Science & Technology; only about 8% report using Compendex. Inanswering questions concerning the use of the WWW, over 90% report using it to findinformation. Only 40% of the students, though, report being satisfied with the informationreceived from WWW searches.The InterventionWe undertook to develop an intervention to present to the students the various informationresources available to them and demonstrate how to use these resources. We wanted to provideinformation on the on-line resources of the library, to encourage students to think about whatinformation they are looking for and how they will use it before they go on-line, i.e., encouragethem to plan a search strategy before conducting a search