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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

instructorsreviewed teamwork roles and guidelines for effective teamwork. During the course, the studentteams were required to develop a schedule for project management, to maintain a project log,and to make weekly progress reports. The instructors reviewed the project logs and metregularly with the teams. The course grade was based partially on team effectiveness. However,the instructors’ assessment of student performance in the course pointed to weaknesses in thestudents’ teamwork skills. In particular, the following skills were frequently weak: 1. Communication with external agents/industry and instructors (seeking information and reporting status) and within the group (active listening). 2. Planning with limited initial information, ambiguity

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M. Chaudhry; Jr., Bonifacio Doma; Edwin Obra; Consuelo Flora; Adrienne Cooper; Joseph R.V. Flora

four phases over a period of three years.Phase 1 involved an assessment of the state of environmental education and research in Mapúa.In this phase input from academia, industry, government, and NGOs was gathered through aworkshop on the local needs for sustainable development and pollution prevention education andresearch. During Phase 2, an education and research action plan was formulated based on theneeds identified in Phase 1 and experiences gathered from a workshop at USC. Implementationof the plan of action is currently occurring during Phase 3, and dissemination of experiences toother Philippine institutions through a workshop will occur in Phase 4.Baseline StudyThe Commission on Higher Education (CHED) of the Philippine Government

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Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

to writing in engineering. The goal was to graduate students with the writingabilities that they needed. Perhaps all of their education did not need to be contained in a 15-week, three-credit-hour format. The university had a few years of experience with “WritingAcross the Curriculum,” an approach that embraces the concept of “connected learning” where askill is developed and reinforced over a longer period of time with respect to other elements of astudent’s education. Championed by a professor in the English department, the effort resulted ina thoughtful plan to implement writing as a focus throughout the total general educationexperience. In fact the College of Arts and Sciences had already implemented it. Perhaps theschool of Engineering

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project responded to a real community need. Theenvironmental engineers determined the treatment process type, treatment basin size, andtreatment stream layout in plan and elevation. The civil engineers performed structural design ofthe treatment tanks, layout and design of the structure surrounding the treatment stream, andoverall site analysis and design. The students quickly realized that their counterpart group (CE orEV), not the instructor, was the primary contact for key information beyond the client’s concernsand needs. Students in both groups often found themselves waiting on the other group tocomplete work before they could proceed. While frustrating, they experienced the intricacies ofmultidisciplinary problem solving. In a typical class

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Raymond Desrosiers; John Rivera; James Gregory; Don Baggert; Lloyd Heinze

process and theability to consider and plan all activities--not just the courses. Advisors are also happywith the shift away from scheduling and toward professional and personal issues thatpromote long-term academic and professional success.College Advisers: Opportunity and Need for ChangeGood college advisors are typically overworked, under appreciated, and under rewarded.Yet, accrediting agencies for professional programs often demands quality advisement.Accreditation agencies sometimes even deny or limit accreditation if the student toadvisor ratio becomes too high. Thus, quality advisement opportunities must be providedto college students.With old technology, the student to advisor ratio is probably a good measure ofadvisement opportunity and

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Thomas McCormack; Franz Rad; Dale Richwine; Azad Mohammadi; Scott Huff

, bonds, warranties; construction documents, including specifications; cost estimating,planning, and scheduling; construction administration; group process, diversity and leadership.Prerequisite: senior standing in Civil Engineering.”The textbook used, “Engineering Project Management,” is by E.S. Huff, and is a set of boundnotes prepared as a textbook. The goals of this course are for students to learn the fundamentalsof engineering project management and to utilize that knowledge and design knowledge gainedin other classes in a project involving research, written reports, and oral presentations by teams.The topical outline of this course is as follows: The engineering process, including the players - owner, design professional, constructor

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Stephen Stafford; Rosa Gomez; Daniela Castaneda; Connie Della-Piana

Team or student managementstructure ensures a student-oriented agenda for the Center while facilitating the use ofmodern computer technology in the form of laptops, current software, peripherals, multi-media presentation equipment, and wireless Internet access. In addition to providingequipment and space, the Center offers workshops to enhance students’ personal,professional and academic growth in many topic areas. Visiting graduate schools andcorporate representatives utilize ACES for information programs since ACES assuresaccess to the students. Future plans for ACES include the opening of satellite facilitiesacross campus, online posting of class notes and homework solutions, and continuingevaluation of the ACES Model.IntroductionThe

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Pamela Hussen; Jose Castro; Robert J. Gustafson

1.11 8 Entrepreneurship 2.59/5 1.08 9 Business law 2.41/5 1.04 Other Topics List: Require a business plan for design Management projects increasing in completion Management of people. as you get close to graduation. People skills International studies/business. Public speaking, technical writing. Accounting Dealing with the corporate lifestyle. Business accounting. Quality system management. Activity-based accounting

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

” anticipated solution as prescribed by theory. This scenario allows theintroduction of practical topics like calibration, error analysis and design of experiments. Asvaluable as they are, laboratories are an expensive part of the operating budget of anyengineering department and in some cases hard decisions are made with regard to frequencyof upgrades or in the worst case scenario to drop the laboratory from the plan of study. Analternative is to build up synergistic connectivity among laboratories to distribute the learningas well as distribute the total cost of laboratory equipment.This paper examines the approach taken by the Mechanical Engineering program at AlabamaA&M University to increase the productivity of each laboratory using common

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Vikram Cariapa; Joseph Domblesky; James Rice

thatengineering students are both capable and safety conscious. Prior to beginning any new topic,students undergo orientation and training in equipment use and must be able to demonstrate thatthey know how to operate any piece of equipment prior to using it in any activity. Students canalso access detailed operation sheets at any time via the worldwide web to review machineoperation and nomenclature.Currently the Learning Factory is used in four junior level and one senior level course thatinclude Manufacturing Processes 1 and 2, Design of Experiments, Ergonomics, and WeldingEngineering. Plans are being made to incorporate other courses in the near future. In themanufacturing processes course, students engage in activities covering metrology, machining

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Robert Kilmer; Carl Erikson Jr

through similar concrete channels. Page 6.1089.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education From outer landscapes, too, they import nutrients in the form of food, use it once, then send it out through pipes as sewage waste.”[4]If local governments can become effective planners and plan implementers concerning ourcities, then the following quotation may indicate one way we can protect our planet and itsnatural resources as well as its inhabitants: “If we

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university research group including students at all levels from sophomores toPhD candidates. Each case involved a major research experiment involving new measurementtechniques, which had to be conducted during a specific time in a professional testingenvironment. To avoid missing many classes, each student could only participate for two days atmost, so that each team member had to be well-informed. The processes used to develop eachexperiment, train the team and conduct the project are discussed in the paper. KI techniquesincluded development of a Live Test Document, internet-based exchange of experimental detailswith the customers, mission planning using the internet, and training of the team using scaledmockups of the experimental configurations.I

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Joseph Cataldo; Gerardo Del Cerro

the new methods. This is animportant endeavor because it allows the instructor to not lose touch with her/hisstudents’ learning process, and it allows students to participate in their own learningprocess by providing feedback to instructors. In this sense, assessment works as acommunications tool between faculty and students 15 .The assessment was prepared by both authors in close consultation with one another.Early on during the conceptual development of the project, and before the course hadbeen fully planned, an assessment plan was developed. The plan (see Table 3 below)contains objectives and outcomes for the course, as well as relevant assessment methods.The ABET 2000 criteria addressed in the plan and the Civil Engineering

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Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

socio-economic system.Strategic planning is now becoming a norm to reap the benefits of advancing technologies andinnovations. Those organizations that resort to reactive planning—only when trouble appears at Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.1.1 Copyright©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir doorsteps—are toying with extinction. A strategic plan requires everyone in anorganization to examine his/her workplace and workspace for potential problems andopportunities that may arise. A leader in a knowledge-based organization

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W. Bernard Carlson; Rosanne Welker

professional responsibilities.Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a world-renowned Arctic explorer, organizes the expedition in search ofnew land, amassing the largest scientific staff thus far. Repeatedly, crew and scientific staff notein their diaries that they assumed that Stefansson, as the expedition leader, would take of: toensure an adequate ship, equipment, supplies and plan. Yet the ship was entirely unseaworthyand ill-suited to Artic exploration; the equipment was sub-par, stored sloppily, and at timesdangerous to the crew operating it; the supplies were insufficient for the number of men and thePolar conditions; and the overall plan lacked any contingency alternatives should the ship

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Wilfrid Nixon

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”SUPERCLIENT INVOLVEMENTThe instructor for the class sends out an invitation in December to a list of local civilengineers who have, in one way or another, expressed interest in the civil engineeringprogram at the University of Iowa. Many of these are contacts made through the IowaSection of ASCE, but others have given seminars to the undergraduates or are alumni ofthe program. This invitation asks them to submit projects that have not yet beendesigned, but that are real, and “in the works,” in the sense of being under considerationfor design in the next one to three years.In early planning of this approach it rapidly became apparent that projects that hadalready been designed could not be

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Richard Upchurch; Judith Sims-Knight

, self-assessment, reflection, planning, and collaboration. Wediscuss the intended uses for the system, and provide examples from our current uses of thesystem to highlight the potential. The paper includes a review of the literature supporting ourwork.I. IntroductionUndergraduate engineering education is experiencing a paradigm shift. An essential feature ofthis paradigm shift is a movement from teacher-centered to more appropriately student-centeredpedagogy. The teacher-centered tradition has been the cornerstone of higher education, withengineering education merely adhering to the dominant doctrine, for what seems an eternity. Theteacher-centered model characterizes students as products. As such, the educational outcomesare expressed as

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Vic Cundy; Don Rabern; David Gibson

Session 2793 A Model to Assess and Balance Faculty Workload Vic Cundy, Ph.D., P.E. Head, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering David F. Gibson, Ph.D., P.E. Dean, College of Engineering Don Rabern, Ph.D., P.E. Head, Department of Civil Engineering Montana State University-BozemanAbstractAn assessment and planning model utilizing an Excel-based spreadsheet is presented. The modelbreaks individual

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Eugene Ressler; Steven Schweitzer; Stephen Ressler

describe the contest goals and the planned sequence of events.We then discuss the unique challenges in software development, website development, andcontest administration that have been addressed throughout the planning process. We concludewith an assessment of the prospects for successful implementation of the contest in the comingyear.BackgroundThe United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, was established by Congress in1802. The Academy was intended not only to educate officers for the U. S. Army, but also toaddress the young nation’s critical need for engineers—both military and civilian. West Point isgenerally recognized as the first school of engineering in the United States, and its 19th Centurygraduates made a substantial

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education. It will enumerate the rewards that accrue to both facultyand students through an international exchange and the components that must necessarily beincluded in the program if it is to be successful and live a long and prosperous life. It willinclude such things as: making the initial contact, evaluating the proposed site, developing abudget, generating support, documenting the responsibilities of each institution, planning for thetrip, emergency contingency plans, orientation meetings with the students, language difficulties,academic credit, recruiting, technical projects, and final evaluation.The paper will conclude by reviewing two different exchange programs, one in Europe, which iswell established and has been operating for many years

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Gholam Omidi; Bill Oldham; Farouk Attia

project based on the interrelationships of cost andvalue. The problem addressed in this study was to identify the need for a trainingprogram specifically addressing cost engineering, planning/scheduling and estimatingand to develop and evaluate a single module of a basic project control curriculumoverview and outline. A commercial model to support the development of a cross-training program for project control personnel was also outlined. Questionnaires weredistributed to 20 senior construction Project Management personnel to perform a needsassessment for this training program, to cross-train personnel with skills and informationbetween elements of project control. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze theinformation received from the

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George Seaward

Session 2525 Converting Single Disciplinary Capstone Projects to Interdisciplinary Experiences George H. Seaward United States Military Academy West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper presents a plan for taking a single disciplinary mechanical engineeringcapstone project (designing and building a Mini Baja vehicle for operation over roughterrain and in deep water) and turning it into an interdisciplinary experience. An analysisis conducted on the potential benefits of including students with engineering managementskills to assist with

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Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

and environmental safety in the design ofchemical processes. This concern also served as a driving force for thedevelopment of this course.This course is divided into five parts: the problem(s), accidents, health risk,hazard risk, and hazard risk analysis. Part I, an introduction to HS&AM, presentslegal considerations, emergency planning, and emergency response. This Partbasically serves as an overview to the more technical topics covered in theremainder of the course. Part II treats the broad subject of accidents—discussingfires, explosions and other accidents. Parts III and IV provide introductorymaterial to health and hazard risk assessment, respectively. Part V examineshazard risk analysis in significant detail. This final Part

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Ernest Tollner

Session 2451 Defining a new engineering course and emphasis for the 21st Century – Natural Resources Engineering Ernest W. Tollner University of Georgia(paper No 39)Abstract The goal of this paper is to evaluate the transition of the soil and water conservationagricultural engineer to the natural resource engineer considering questions of changing society,current student demographics, institutional priorities, current instructors and field of knowledge.Natural resources engineering is defined as the design of planned activities

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

Session 2793 Web-Based Technology for Long-Term Program Assessment Heidi Diefes-Dux, Kamyar Haghighi Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstractDuring its first round of assessment plan implementation, the Department of Agricultural andBiological Engineering (ABE) at Purdue University collected data utilizing a variety ofassessment tools including ABET-compliant course profiles and constituent surveys. The man-hours involved in the development of program unique assessment tools and data collection andanalysis is astounding, especially when a university adopts a

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Stephen Zahorian; Sacharia Albin; William Swart

uses one-way video and two-way audio broadcasts to deliver educational programsthroughout Virginia and beyond. Today, TELETECHNET enrollment has expanded toapproximately 18,000 registrations, with approximately 15% of all student credit hours nowdelivered by distance education. In the international arena, Old Dominion now has over 1,000international students, slightly more than 5% of the student body. However, the percentage ishigher at the graduate level, and lower at the undergraduate level.To emphasize the institutional commitment to both distance education and internationalprograms, Old Dominion has addressed both of these in its five-year program strategic plan.2Specifically, two of the 10 strategic initiatives included in the plan

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Katherine Liapi

, grids, arrays and proportioning systems in building design.Assignment Geometric constructions IV The Pantheon plan developed from the golden ratio proportioning system.The second unit of assignments, Real World Applications, is based on a rather moretraditional approach to the instruction of CADD tools, that is for the production ofarchitectural drawings. Since this is a topic that is included in the instruction of computergraphics in most curricula I will not expand on the specifics. In general this unit ofassignments introduces students to typical drafting conventions and construction details ,and as such is complementary to the instruction of courses on Construction

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Patricia C. Tempel; Hisham Alnajjar; Beth Richards; Andrea Brick Ader; Ronald Adrezin

choices, and assigning them a number from the Page 6.609.2outcomes list. Our goal was to cover these objectives more than once during the semester, withProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationan eye toward shared activities that overlapped in numerous areas, thus deepening theintegration. The table below shows plans for weeks two and twelve: Week RLC 110 activities Content Overlap/Shared ES 141 activities Assignments2 Continue analyzing

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Robert Wells; Jeffrey Mountain; Donald Goddard

selected primarily for curing composite lay-ups, but can alsobe used for a variety of processes where heat and pressure are required. The desktop industrialrobot in Item 8 is of a type typically used to load and unload CNC machinery. We plan to use itin a simulated CIM workstation (including a student-designed ASRS system), as well as fordemonstrating automatic parts handling for assembly. The metrology instruments, whichcomprise Items 9 and 10, allow students to evaluate the dimensional accuracy of variousprocesses and machines, conduct tolerance studies and learn quality control practices.Figure 1 shows a schematic of the production end of the PRP, and indicates how the equipmentcan be used to study the steps involved. Here, the design process

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Andrew Otieno; Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

Microsoft EXCEL. Based upon input from the departmental advisory board, the department has switched from C to Visual Basic (Tech 395). In addition, we have dropped the EXCEL course and are instructing the students on this important software usage in a variety of other courses. The incorporation of Visual Basic is very important, as it will be the basic programming tool for several other courses in the curriculum.• Engineering Economy - This important course (Tech 443) was added as a requirement to the program. Introducing engineering economy as a core requirement challenged students to enhance their business skills, a serious deficiency among MET graduates across the nation (Manufacturing education plan, 1997) Further