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Anna Phillips; Charles V. Camp; Paul Palazolo

engineering educators in higher education, all instructors in thisprogram are experienced educational researchers in this genre, and many of the principles thatare successful for college students have also been demonstrated to produce success with middleschool students. We also patterned our curricular approach to model previously successfulsimilar programs4,5, with modifications for our own program. One example of a customization isour inclusion of writing instruction integrated with the technical content of the program.Because research has demonstrated a strong connection between the transfer of skills fromcontent to writing to application, we designed our instruction to reflect this knowledge6.Most of the current curricular modifications are based

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

extraction to disposal inthe life cycle of a product, the design process is where we make, or reflects where others make,the most important decisions; the decisions that determine most of the final product cost,3 and thedecisions that determine most of the ethical costs and benefits and to whom they accrue. It paysto do design well, but design is much bigger than our pursuit of profit, protection, or pleasure. Itis revolutionary behavior that has become routinized and institutionalized. Whether in theOlympics, in the laboratory, or on the operating table, we can no longer even decide wherehuman nature ends and technology begins. Every generation lives in a very new world withradically fewer natural species and many new technological species. Few, if

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Sanjiv Gokhale; Hadi Yamin

Habitat for Humanity organization was in keeping with thefact that typical Habitat project is “fast paced” and despite the limited time (8 hours) that astudent is required to spend on the project, he or she is exposed to various facets of construction.The specific learning objectives in this course targeted by service activities are: • Achieving “breadth” of knowledge in the field of construction, • Developing skills to understand, accept, and relate to people of different background, and • Ability to think rationally, form informed opinions, and comprehend new ideas.A particularly important aspect of any service learning course is the opportunity given to eachstudent to “reflect” and thereby gain a significant understanding of the

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Isadore Davis; Gregory Lush; Connie Della-Piana; Andrew Swift

otherdepartments, to think about the ABET process, and provided an opportunity to reiterate whatneeds to be done in the department to get ready for the ABET review. Most of all, the MockVisit “forced programs to become more serious about the ABET visit.”The ABET Mock Visit provided participants with (1) the opportunity to reflect on theirdepartment’s ABET process and documentation before the ABET accreditation visit; (2) criticalreview of the College’s and department’s ABET process; (3) feedback on the strengthens andweaknesses of each program’s self study; and (4) recommendations for improvement of theprocess and self-study in time to improve both.SummaryUTEP and Raytheon have taken the university-industrial constituency relationship to the level ofa

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Jr., Eugene Niemi

of flight tests required of the students: (1) Determination of rate of climbversus velocity, (2) Determination of maximum speed in level flight, (3) Determination of poweron stalling speed, and (4) Determination of power off glide characteristics. The students couldchoose to do the project in groups of two or three. Three of the groups consisted of two students,and one group consisted of three students. The groups with two students did performance itemsnos. 1, 2, and 3. The group with three students did item nos. 1, 2, and 4, since this reflected morework for the larger group. In each case, one student acted as a pilot performing the maneuver,while another student acted as a flight test engineer standing behind the pilot and recording

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Trevor Harding

engineering students in greater depth. The survey will be administered to studentsat Kettering University as well as a large, 4-year public university and to one or morecommunity colleges to examine demographic influences on perceptions and frequency ofcheating among students. Students will also be asked to reflect on their own moralfeelings about cheating and the situational factors that might influence those beliefs andto comment on a wider range of faculty approaches to dealing with cheating. In a laterphase of the research, focus groups will be formed that will seek to compare student andfaculty perceptions of the severity of cheating on campuses

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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

Design ModelOnce the written comments from all jury members are collated, they are distributed to thestudents without screening by the faculty. Each student typically receives from ten to fifteencomment sheets from the professional jury members, not all of which are in agreement regardingthe student’s project. After considering the jury comments, the students revise their designs andcontinue working towards the completion of the Design Development Phase. At the DesignDevelopment jury, the students discuss the progress they have made in developing their concept,and they prepare and present a site plan, floor plans, elevations, and sections at a scale of1 /8”=1’, a lighting scheme with specific fixtures represented in a reflected ceiling plan, a

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James Wade; Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz

, engaging technology.Results of this survey suggest that a web-based course, enhanced with an in-person lecture, is asignificant enhancement over the traditional setting. The other instructional technologies werenot viewed as being more effective than a traditional class by the students. Some additionalresults of the student surveys:• Results of the various evaluations indicate the students' acceptance of the web-based technology as an enhancement to regular classroom instruction. The surveys reflect the student view that this is an appropriate method for teaching Mechanics I and is more engaging than traditional teaching and more effective than traditional teaching alone.• Students were neutral on the effectiveness of streaming video

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Paul Flikkema

summarized in Table 1. The last three (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) arerecognized as higher-order skills that need to be developed as part of undergraduate education.Because of their importance in engineering, we add to this list Design and Teaming [2]. (Laterwe refer to this list as the ‘extended Bloom taxonomy’.)Our method for accomplishing these objectives is the integration of active learning and Kolb’sexperiential model [3]. The latter has been used successfully in engineering education reform[4] to encourage development of the skills comprising Bloom’s taxonomy. It is characterized bylearning via case studies, reflective observation, active experimentation, and abstract conceptual-ization. Active learning (see, e.g., [5]), is

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Jeffrey Mountain

prototype. High quality, formal written documentation and oral presentations highlightingthe process were expected and delivered. The expectation of high quality of academicdeliverables was additionally reflected in the quality of prototypes produced by the studentteams. Three of the solutions to the rail rider problem are illustrated in Figure 2. While allsolutions tended to produce prototypes with suspended battery carriers, keeping the center ofmass low, it is apparent that a variety of drive wheel and drive train configurations evolved. a. b. c.Figure 2. Rail Rider Solutions: a) worm driven rail rider with rubber wheels located illustratingthe grade of the test rail

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John Klegka; Robert Rabb

curriculum and recommended changes to the goals and curriculum. Therevised Academic Program Goals of USMA are reflected in the following statement: Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.54.2 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education We expect graduates to “anticipate and respond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world.” Graduates must have experience and competence in the following areas: 1) Moral Awareness 2) Communications 3

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Karen Davis; Jr., James Caffery; Jr., Fred Beyette

diagram to implement functional specifications. This assignment gives them aforetaste of future design classes. The computer organization background prepares the studentsfor the next ECECS course they take, Computer Science I (introduction to programming in C++).We follow the same bottom-up approach taken by Patt and Patel to understanding the basicunderpinnings of computers prior to studying high-level programming concepts.Many of the academic orientation-type lectures are part of a single goal-directed activity: the finalassignment of the term is for each student to write his or her dream resume 2 that reflects thestudent’s college accomplishments and experiences. The dream resume embodies positivevisualization that sparks both investigation

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Robin Redfield; Brian Self

given.This is definitely reflected in the survey scores, which were 2.20 for student motivation andinterest and 2.57 for understanding. Comments included “The habitrail project sucked my will tolive” and “best was catapult and worst was habitrail”. A similar project (probably an Air Forcetraining centrifuge) will be used in the future, but it will not be as open-ended a problem. Moreguidance will also be provided to the students to aid in their understanding and performance.COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS PROBLEMSTypical of many dynamics’ classes and textbooks, most of the posed problems ask for kinematicand kinetic variables at a specific point in time, rather than over periods of time. The thoughtmay be that the dynamic concepts are new and tough enough

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Michael Warren; Jay Porter

Capture Same as abovePower Supply E3631 (Agilent) – GPIB Controlled Triple Output Power SupplyOptional Equipment 54645 (Agilent) - Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope or any digital oscilloscope with 10 ns resolution* - currently being used at A&MBecause experiments such as measuring power supply rejection ratio require the ability to change powersupply voltages, a networked power supply such as the E3631 is required. Finally, optional equipmentsuch as a good digital oscilloscope allows students to make timing measurements such as propagationdelay as well as investigate concepts such as transmission line reflections. A picture of the completeequipment setup can be seen in Figure 1. The protoboard seen in

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Thomas Kullgren; David Pape

2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Student DemographicsAfter the first two full years of operation, some interesting statistical information hasbeen gathered by the university’s graduate admissions office. Table 1 shows thedistribution of students by gender, broken down by both full time and part time students.A strong majority (93 percent) of the students are part time, reflecting the target audienceand intended nature of the program. The 2-1 ratio of male to female students isremarkably strong for a technology based graduate program, and possibly indicates theappeal of this program to a diverse audience including women

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David DiBiasio

evaluation of the "ethics" outcome from EC 2000. The evaluationquestion probes the handling of proprietary information, licensed software, confidentiality,conflicts of interest, citation of sources, quotations, and copyrights. It also evaluates the extent towhich discussion of the impact of technology on society reflected recognition of the socialresponsibilities of scientists and engineers. The rubric is shown below, but data is not availableas of this writing. Our international experience is not necessarily designed to address ethicsissues but we will use this year’s analysis to assess the degree to which this ability may be anindirect outcome of the student experience

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C. Richard Helps

. Such a simulatedenvironment obeys a strict set of rules known to the designer of the simulator and these rules arehopefully closely reflective of the system being simulated. Design rules in such environmentswill always work, for they are specifically designed to meet the needs of the known, simulatedenvironment.The technologist, on the other hand, is required to make a design work in the real world, theoperation of which is only partially described by the known laws of physics, chemistry and othersciences. While knowledge of the sciences combined with mathematical skills is essential tounderstand the approximate nature of the problem, it is frequently insufficient to solve all theproblems encountered. A good technologist must be able to

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Leah Akins

, reducing workers’ comp rates,slashing job-choking red tape, and making sound investments in education, we turned crisis intocomeback”.4Naturally, this announcement has increased the pressure to meet our original mission: Increasethe supply of skilled engineering technicians. As a direct result of IBM’s announcement, alongwith other high tech investments in the region, we expect at least 400-500 job openings forengineering technicians within the region by 2003. This workforce need has not been lost on thelocal population as reflected by the strong increase in ELT course enrollment for Spring 2001.The Technology Career Paths partnership hopes to meet those workforce needs by continuing toattain our goals. We expect to offer all ELT students

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Donna Summers

understandable and conducive to learning.”We all would like to have student evaluations positively reflect our sincere efforts inkeeping both technical learning and skill acquisition on track in project courses, wouldn’twe? We’ve all struggled with organizing and encouraging such learning in a project-oriented course. Sometimes the efforts required to juggle technical learning with generalskill enhancement while keeping a project-oriented course on track seem enormous.Industries that hire our graduates expect our students to have enhanced communication,teamwork, interpersonal and project management skills in addition to their technicallearning in project courses. From some students’ perspective in project courses

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Stephen Bronack; Horace Moo-Young

hassparked reform in colleges of education. Accrediting and advising organizations such asthe Association for the Accreditation of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) areencouraging colleges of education to produce educators who are problem-solvers, criticalthinkers, and reflective practitioners. Unfortunately, education students are oftenexpected to develop such attributes while engaged in design, development, andassessment activities divorced from any real contexts and real instructional problems. Page 6.805.1 Proceeding of 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2001, American

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Nam Kim

course and the lectures, were redesigned to accommodate in-line digital computercontrol.Three processes reflecting the unit operations commonly found in modern chemicalmanufacturing plants were implemented in the restructured laboratory: a bench scale housemodel for temperature control, an air-pressure tank farm for relative gain analysis anddecoupling, and two interacting water tanks for multiple and cascade control. To add to thesethree processes, the implementation for a separation process is currently being designed. Theselaboratory experiments have sensors (temperature, pressure, flow, and level) for data acquisitionand final control elements.Stand-alone control stations are used to govern each process. Each station has a PC withWindows NT

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Floyd LeCureux

CSC1 and CSC8 was easy and required very little additional effort. The primary work involved modifying existing slide sets by incorporating interactive questions, live demonstrations and picking useful web pages to illustrate specific topics. Students had good response time from the server and participated regularly by answering questions, asking questions and by modifying the "color" of their respective dots on the seating chart to reflect their understanding of the current topic. Due to the developmental nature of the software, I did encounter about one "system crash" per semester, where the server went down with no warning. I was always able to start over by logging in to the

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Christopher Ibeh

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationKurfiss: (2)(3) “Critical thinking is a process of inquiry that involves the interplay of knowledge,skills, beliefs, attitudes and conditions directed toward forming understanding of a complexproblem, question or issue. The outcome of this inquiry is a well-reasoned, well-supportedargument, interpretation or other product that reflects a disciplined pursuit of the question.”This definition encompasses such essential elements of critical thinking as: knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, goal setting and motivation, metacognition or the capacity to control and utilize mental processes in

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Wayne Wolf

they have come to the forefront ofconsciousness of both industry and education in the past few years. In order for the potential ofhigh-performance microprocessors to be realized, industry needs designers who are comfortablewith the large-scale system design problems presented by complex hardware and software. Uni-versities need to revamp their microprocessor education in order to keep up with these advances.A good approach is to update the microprocessor-based systems course to reflect the realities ofmodern embedded system designs. This requires more than just updating labs—it requires shift-ing the balance in the course toward the intellectual underpinnings of embedded system design.This approach presents new intellectual challenges and

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Carlos R. Morales

server applications, Active-X componentsprovided application sharing and allowed the client stations to receive live video streams,and Microsoft Media Services provided the ability to send a live multicast stream.Crucial to the development for the UMDS was the establishment of a control mechanismamong the client applications. By using Net Lingo to create a chat channel among theclient applications and using Macromedia Multiuser Server as a hub to reflect messages,the author established an inter-application message loop. Event handlers were thenwritten to intercept events sent through this mechanism. This provided the neededcontrol among the individual program pieces.The author then focused on developing the mechanism for the delivering CD-ROM

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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

Electronics and Battery Enclosure Disk of Control Arrayed LEDs Switches Figure 4: Overall physical design of the lantern. The integration of the electronics required wiring from the base where the battery andelectronics were enclosed to the “shade” where the photovoltaic cells were positioned and thedisk of arrayed LEDs was mounted under the “shade.” The concave disk for the LEDs wasconstructed of a reflecting material and the individual LEDs were distributed to create reflectionsthat gave a 4 foot diameter circle of light when the lantern is used at a table

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John Razukas; Jean Le Mee; Gerardo Del Cerro

students will beasked to provide feedback to each other. The open-ended format and experimental character ofEID 103 makes it suitable for a close integration of such formative assessment procedures intothe course format. Innovative engineering work by undergraduate students generates substantialamounts of process information which is worthwhile to preserve and use in-time to helpstudents reflect on their own learning in a coherent, systematic way.The assessment of EID 103 has been integrated into the current effort of the MechanicalEngineering Department and the Cooper Union School of Engineering to develop a system forcontinuous quality improvement of the educational process, consistent with ABET 2000

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

discussions, if problems are perceived or not, and progress towards thegoals.The authors share the view that nowadays, engineering education is not an isolated activityrestricted to engineering schools/colleges. We consider that a sound strategic plan in theengineering program shall consider all of the parts; infrastructure, human resources,constituencies input, university mission and a business plan (i.e. funding/financing ). Thatis, we welcome a systems approach for planning. Therefore, we also support the view thatthe goals of strategic planning and development in the engineering program shall reflect theintended or desirable outcomes. This is consistent with the accreditation criteria referredherein as AC2K, developed by The Accreditation Board

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Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

experience to the classroom.The class is broken into two periods. The first period has a lecture format; readings are assignedin advance, and PowerPoint notes are provided and projected directly from the computer in theclassroom. The second period is a mix of class activities, videos, or software demonstrations.This course continues to evolve and reflect the emerging discipline in this area. Students inpractice call to say that they found this course extremely valuable as they “manageinfrastructure” in their jobs.Four ExperiencesThe Carnegie Mellon infrastructure course serves as a foundation for other courses. The authorshave either been an instructor or student in the Carnegie Mellon course and have subsequentlydeveloped courses to serve other

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

has been modified to reflect many of these suggestions.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank Drs. Karen L. Proudford and Janet Schmidt for their commentsand suggestions on the BESTEAMS assessment forms and the student workshopmodifications.References1. Desjardins, C., “The Meaning of Gilligans Concept of Different Voice for the Learning Environment,” Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, Eds. C.S. Pearson, D.L. Shavlik, and J.G. Touchton, MacMillan Publishing, New York, (1989) pp121-133.2. Felder, Richard M., Silverman, Linda K.,”Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering Education, April 1998.3. Gibbs, Graham, Learning in Teams: A Student Manual, rev. ed., Oxford