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Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Linda Head

committed to innovative methods of learning to better prepare students for entry into arapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace. Key objectives of Rowan University’sEngineering Curriculum include: • Creating multidisciplinary experiences through collaborative laboratories and coursework; • Stressing total quality management for solving complex problems; • Incorporating state-of-the-art technologies throughout the curricula; • Creating continuous opportunities for technical writing and communication, and • Emphasizing hands-on, open-ended problem solving, including undergraduate research.To best meet these curriculum objectives, the four engineering programs of Chemical, Civil andEnvironmental, Electrical and

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Thomas Walker; Patrick E. Devens

school of engineering at PrincetonUniversity.” 2 Johnson looked for a correlation in 1955, 3 Shell in 1982. 4 Van Mater’s5research is more current, 1990, but deals with engineering technology education as doesColwell6 and Devi7.In this paper, an analysis of the correlation between student SAT scores and their firstengineering course final class grade is presented. The analysis of student performance onthe in-house mathematics' tests and their first engineering course grade will be presentedin another paper. During the analysis, freshman-engineering students that have recordedSAT scores in addition to first semester introductory engineering course grades will belooked at as a whole and in selected demographic groupings. The purpose is to

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Brett Gunnink; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

differentiates the engineering program from the technology program. • The graduate of an engineering program needs to be able to apply knowledge to situations that do not have well-defined constraints, and to analyze, quantify, and develop a suitable solution. • Proficiency implies a depth of capability beyond the introductory level. • Proficiency increases throughout the educational experience, culminating in the ability to assess and resolve situations that require a depth and breadth of understanding of engineering principles, concepts, procedures, and ethics, as well as economic and social constraints.It is important to note that none of these paraphrased excerpts alone provides a

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Norine Meyer; Deborah Fisher; Cynthia Villanueva; Amy Strobel

situations such as labs when male students dominate the discussion. Many find it easierto express themselves in groups of women – which prepares them to enter mixed gender groupsat a later stage with more confidence. Vickers et al. demonstrated that females are more likely tothrive in a single (female) gender program.2In a citing gender differences, Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age, reportedthat girls “are not anxious or phobic about technology”…but just make the choice not to getinvested in computers. The report states that girls respond well when they are “engaged in thedesign and creation of technology.”3 The Engineering 116 video design format allowed theyoung women an opportunity to explore and develop design elements and

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Lorcan Folan; Gunter Georgi

presentationskills of the students.III. Overview of Course Content and GoalsLectures are given weekly by experts in the fields and vary somewhat from semester tosemester. Typical lecture topics are: Introduction to Course / Engineering Disciplines Robotics Safety & Reliability Large Software Projects Civil Infrastructure Aerospace, Apollo, and the Lunar Module Design for Manufacturing Chemical Technology & History Signal Processing Ethics in Engineering Quality Management Intellectual PropertyLaboratory work covers many disciplines. The undergraduate teaching assistants helpfreshmen get familiar with new technical tools and concepts. The primary weeklylaboratory activities cover

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Natalie Mello

Session 2560 Managing Global Experiences for Engineering Students Natalie A. Mello Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has long embraced a project-based curriculum that nowextends to the four corners of the globe. With established programs in Europe, the Far East,Latin America, Australia, the US and new initiatives in Hong Kong and Taiwan, WPI providesopportunities for undergraduates to complete meaningful off-campus experiences. WPI offersstudents the freedom to complete degree requirements away from campus in a professionalexperience under the

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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

Session 2460 Engineering Education & International Management Initiatives Arthur Gerstenfeld, Maria F. Flores Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Worcester, MassachusettsAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe a project, which has been in work for the past two years,which we believe, has several implications for education. This project has been partially fundedby the Department of Education, Business and International Education Division. While we allagree that the economic and technical world is smaller and closer every day, we do not agree onhow we should handle that in terms of educating

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Donald Richards

Session 2566 Integrating the Mechanical Engineering Core Donald E. Richards Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes a new paradigm for integrating engineering courses—a systems, conserva-tion and accounting, and modeling approach. The paper presents a historical background of thisapproach and discusses the motivation. The overall framework is presented, including the impor-tant concepts and definitions, the basic conservation and accounting equations, and a commonproblem solving approach. A detailed development is

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William Stratton; Ranaye Marsh; Jonathan Lawson; Jay Kunze

Session 1547 Bridging the Gap - between Engineers and Technicians Jay F. Kunze*, Ranaye J. Marsh, Jonathan Lawson, William E. Stratton Idaho State University, Pocatello ID 83209AbstractWorkplace contention between those trained in the engineering profession and those with associatedegrees (two or three years) in technology is commonly observed. The issues are generally createdby pride and misunderstanding. Improved communication would be an obvious approach tomitigating the contention. Further questions are how much of this contention and concern may befostered initially in the academic setting, and how much might

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William Callen; Steven Usselman

Session 2793 History in Engineering Education: A Field Report W. Russell Callen, Steven W. Usselman School of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ School of History, Technology and Society Georgia Institute of Technology This is a paper about history in engineering education, not about the history of engineering education. Still, it isuseful at the start to take the historian’s perspective and to remember that curriculum reform has been a recurrenttheme of modern engineering education ever

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Virendra Varma

Session 1321 Undergraduate Student Research in Construction Engineering: The Current Status Virendra K Varma Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractUndergraduate student research is common in schools of liberal arts and sciences but is not inundergraduate schools of engineering. In schools of engineering technology, undergraduatestudent research is limited. Student research at the undergraduate level is gaining ground inschools of engineering where faculty are engaged in research and a structure in their curriculumexists whereby students

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Joby Anthony; A. Henry Hagedoorn; Bahman Motlagh

approachesto both subject matter and content delivery. Introduction of new technology, in-class problem solving,and discussion sessions are important factors in the enhancement of students’ deep understanding ofmathematics. At the University of Central Florida the College of Engineering and the Department ofMathematics are “team teaching” calculus for engineering majors in a “high tech” classroom. Theinstructional delivery involves group work combined with the use of computer technology to analyzethe relationship between the physical problems and the mathematical modelsI. IntroductionA strong foundation in the knowledge and application of calculus provides a distinct advantage in thelearning of all engineering concepts. Learning and retaining complex

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Ricardo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

industrial paradigm recognized simply as:Globalization. Among all the characteristics of this new productive model, the most interestingone may be the intense use of information technology as an aggregation factor of people andmarkets. Immersed in this context of international integration of deep and radical changes insociety and in the producing system, that the engineering project of SENAC School ofEngineering and Technology has emerged. It is a Telecommunication Engineering Program,which contains in its curricula the "free period". It is called so because it is the time that thestudents can attend classes in the several other areas of knowledge, in one of the Units ofSENAC. They are free to choose among the many options like environment issues

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Melinda Gallagher; Jenny Golder; Lawrence Genalo

as elementary school. Elementary (andeven secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likelyconvey that appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons ofthese students regarding the opportunities they may have regarding careers in scientificand engineering disciplines. Engineering faculty believe the Toying with Technologycourse is a component of the long-term recruitment of K-12 students, particularlyminorities and women, into technology-based fields3, 4, 5.This course is designed to explain the principles behind many of the technologicalinnovations in wide use today via a collection of hands-on laboratory experiences basedupon simple systems constructed out of LEGOs and controlled by

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Roman Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

at the Faculty Electronics and Information Technology over the periodof the last 12 years. The following remarks must be taken into account when analyzing thepresented data:− The regular full-time students who received their degrees in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 are considered.− The data refer to the 5-year program leading up to the M.S. degree – the traditional model of engineering education in Poland and the predominant model of studies at the Faculty for students who graduated in 1998 or before. Only for 2000, the students who completed the 4- year program leading up to the B.S. degree are also considered. It must be noted that since the introduction of the two-stage system of studies (B.S. – M.S.) in 1994, only good students

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

Session 2793 The Role of Engineering in Pre-College Education Sheryl A. Sorby, Beverly J. Baartmans Engineering Fundamentals/Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931IntroductionAs engineering educators, we often complain about the lack of preparation in math and sciencethat our students exhibit when they first arrive on campus. Many who have been on the engineer-ing faculty for a long time remark that the situation is worsening with time (or maybe it’s just asign of aging

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Beatrice Isaacs; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; David Pines

Session 2793 Integration of GIS in Civil Engineering Curriculum M. Saleh Keshawarz, Donald Leone, David Pines, Beatrice Isaacs Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of HartfordAbstractGeographical Information System (GIS) has traditionally been used in geography and naturalresources curricula in the United States. The University of Hartford is among a few institutionsthat early on recognized the impact of the new GIS technology on Civil Engineering programs.GIS technology is rapidly expanding into most areas of Civil Engineering. As part of a

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Edward Fisher; Anton Pintar; Kirk Schulz

Session 1313 CAPSTONE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY COURSES AT MICHIGAN TECH Anton J. Pintar, Edward R. Fisher, and Kirk H. Schulz Michigan Technological University Session on Capstone Design Issues in Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering Division 2001 ASEE Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM June 25, 2001 ABSTRACTAfter a switch from quarters to semesters in academic year 2000-01

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John Martin; Mohammed Haque

Session 2793 The Continuum of Distance Learning in Engineering Education John W. Martin, Ed.D., M.B.A., Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E. Texas A&M UniversityAbstractDistance education has rapidly emerged in the global university. The American Council ofEducation estimated that 85 percent of traditional colleges and universities offered, or soonwould offer distance accessible classes. China alone produces more than 100,000 graduates, withmore than half of China’s 92,000 engineering and technology graduates having attained theirdegrees through distance education. As engineering education

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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

, engineers and management, and technology and societal decisions. These issues, though complex, are accessible to first year students. Encountering them early in the curriculum builds a base for further consideration of them later in the curriculum. • Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Michael A. Hiltzik 3. This book, read by students in a special honors section of the course, describes a remarkable group of people at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) who, in the 1970’s, pioneered networks (Ethernet) and personal computing (including the use of bit-mapped graphics, icons, the mouse, WYSIWYG word processors and laser printers) and yet were largely

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John Tharakan

pollution remediation and control. Scant attention,however, is paid to the social, political, economic, and technological, in short total, environmentwithin which environmental engineering principles and practices, mediated by legal and regulatoryforces, gets implemented. In this paper, I discuss the introduction of ethics, environmental policyand environmental regulatory issues into a regular introductory environmental engineering course.This is accomplished by beginning the course with a discussion of environmental ethics, followedby a general introduction to concepts in environmental law, focusing on what have become part ofaccepted legal practice, or have become evolving legal issues. Within the context ofenvironmental regulations and the

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session xxxx FOREIGN ADAPTATION OF U.S. ENGINEERING EDUCATION MODELS Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC Bethany S. Oberst James Madison UniversityAbstractThe U.S. model of engineering education is rapidly being adopted in one form or anotherby countries around the world. Given the enduring strength of the U.S. economy and itsstrong base in technology, it is not surprising that countries wanting to emulate the U.S.economic success would see our model of engineering education as

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Cynthia Villanueva; Amy Strobel

2.0 remained the same as before. We have also become more strictin the requirements of maintaining reasonable, “C”, or better grades in all attempted courses, andshowing progress towards their degrees.To increase matriculation of Engineering and Computer Science students and to maintainretention at the University of New Mexico, it is vital to personalize the requirements for eachprobation student. It is also crucial to have common components and strategies in place forevery student. This paper will specifically address three components for every student onprobation - mandatory advising, faculty collaboration, and technology in advising

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

Session 2553 An Assessment Study on Replacing the Engineering Graphics Course with the Fundamentals of Engineering Design Course Vladimir Briller, Deran Hanesian, Angelo J. Perna New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractAt New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), there has been a great effort in curriculumredesign. The initiative for this redesign was generated by the National Science Foundation(NSF) coalitions and many institutions of higher learning have responded. Our principalstakeholders, industrial colleagues, entering students, administrators and the faculty have

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Paul Chinowsky

developments, university programs must begin to broaden theirfocus to include subjects that address new economy realities. Specifically, the time has arrivedto require students to have exposure to management topics such as entrepreneurship, financialmanagement, and global economics. If the civil engineering industry desires to evolve into anew economy business, then it will require individuals who are as comfortable with the financialand technology components of the business as they are with design or constructionfundamentals.I. IntroductionThe facts are well known to civil engineering and construction industry constituents and oftendocumented and repeated by industry observers. An industry that is conservatively estimated toinclude over 250,000

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Marilyn Smith

Session 3202 Aerospace Engineering: Integrator for Cross-Disciplinary Learning Marilyn Smith, Narayanan Komerath School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150AbstractAerospace Engineers have a tradition of innovating across discipline boundaries. Each new flightvehicle design is a challenge requiring the application of advances in different disciplines. Thefast-changing technological marketplace makes it critical to prepare students to absorb andintegrate knowledge from any

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Peter Weiss; Donald Weiss

Session 3151 Hands-on Projects to Engage Non-engineering Students Peter T. Weiss, Donald J. Weiss Valparaiso University/Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThree hands-on projects intended to engage the non-engineering student in environmental issuesare introduced and discussed. In the first, students use different sized agar cubes with a diffusingdye to observe how surface area to volume relationships affect mass transfer rates. Results canbe used to introduce students to issues such as cellular diffusion, air stripping towers, tricklingfilters, and aeration processes. The

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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

Session 3242 Engineering Leadership and Teamwork Development Through Experiential Learning Kenneth W. Hunter, Sr., Jessica O. Matson Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThe development of teamwork skills has become an established goal of engineering education,and in recent years the development of leadership skills has begun to receive more attention.Experiential learning programs, including activities such as ropes courses and adventure training,have been extensively used in both the corporate and military sectors for teamwork andleadership

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Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock

being developed as a collaborative NSF-funded projectbetween the Civil Engineering Department and the Interactive Multimedia Program at SouthernIllinois University Carbondale. This presentation will be an overview the preliminary developmentand a summary of the formative assessment during the first semester of the two-year project.The labware is intended to enhance student learning through the development of and exposure toricher learning tools, resources, and advanced technologies. The pedagogy promoted by ourapproach is to engage students in active learning. The approach is to develop an interactivemultimedia program for the laboratory component of the courses, which in turn strengthens thebridge between application and classroom theory. For

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Paul Givens; Anita L. Callahan

evolving. New delivery systems are being tested everyday. The Internet is nowfunctioning as a delivery system. All of the six colleges of engineering are implementing thenew technology. However, older delivery systems will continue to have their place in thecontinuum of education delivery. As long as there is a need and as long as the State of Floridacontinues to support the FEEDS system, the engineering consortium of FEEDS will play its rolein the economic value to the state and its citizens. There will be new on demand courses on the Internet. This delivery system will fill aniche and be part of the evolvement of Florida’s Long Distance Education system. Othersystems, live TV, video tapes or CDs, live Internet, On-Demand Internet, and