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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

information is not lost, since it is held in the localdatabase. We have developed a system that provides an interactive World Wide Web (WWW)front end to the main database storage and provides management with the appropriate worktracking tools. The main database storage is refreshed at regular intervals to reflect the contentsof each local database. The local database contains information from a small number of barcodedecoders running on a dedicated network. Utilizing this system, it is possible to track product inreal time at various locations around the world.I. IntroductionProblem DescriptionA local company with several manufacturing locations separated by many miles needs a way totrack work in process (WIP). The current system in use involves a

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

.” In New Paradigmsfor College Teaching edited by Campbell, Wm. and Smith, Karl. Interaction Book Company, Edina, MN.23. Yost, Sandra (1997). “Reflection on Cooperative Learning: Look Before You Leap.” In the Proceedings of theFrontiers in Education Conference. Pittsburgh, PA.24. Wankat, P., & Oreovicz, F. (1993). Teaching Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York. Page 5.647.7SUDHIR MEHTASudhir Mehta is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University. He was named the 1997North Dakota Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and has received the HP award for excellence inlaboratory instruction in 1999

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Jan Genzer; Amy Michel; Hugh Fuller; Richard Felder

, and enthalpies ofsaturated and superheated steam and liquid water at any temperature and pressure. Finally, itcontains built-in polynomial expressions for heat capacities and an integrating function, so thatstudents can specify a species and an initial and final temperature and get an immediate value ofthe enthalpy change for the transition between the two temperatures.Index of Learning Styles. The ILS is a 44-item questionnaire used to assess preferences on fourlearning style dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, andsequential/global).3 After completing the survey the student receives information on his or herlearning style preferences and suggestions for using the CD and studying in general based on theresults

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Bernard Hoop; Eric W. Hansberry; Gerard Voland

ahabit of reflective thought. ACE proposes that the hallmarks of every universitystudent’s education are to build on knowledge already acquired, to develop skills andunderstanding that can be transferred from one academic discipline to another and fromthe classroom to life experience. The second model offers team-based projects tostudents across the University which are integrated with traditional programs of study.The IPRO Program is distinctive in that it builds broad participation by students andfaculty in projects that integrate professional programs (engineering, science, business,design, law, psychology and architecture) with graduate and undergraduate teammembers from all educational levels, and faculty advisers who contribute

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Shannon Birk; James Fonda; Christopher C. Ibeh

, most of the MCFC electrolyte matrix produced in our laboratory have resistivity valuesin the semiconductor range (103 – 105 ohm-m) (11)(12)(13). Ofcourse, these are room temperaturemeasurements; the MCFC operates at 650 o C, and any meaningful resistivity evaluations of theMCFC electrolyte matrix would need to reflect this. The electrolyte matrices are expected tohave lower resistivities at higher temperatures. The current lack of high temperature resistivityanalyzer head is a limitation of this research. To simulate or approximate high temperaturebehavior, the binder composition of the electrolyte matrix is burnt off prior to resistivity testing

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Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

opportunityfor improvement and there is opportunity for regression to the mean. Which will we get?Student organizations are very good at achieving innovation and creativity and notoriously weekat sustained improvement. Our challenge is to strengthen the transitions and the continuity—nosmall task.Finally, as we are more successful and become more integrated into the college, more peoplewill want to attach their programs, courses, and ideas onto Engineering 100. Can it sustain theextra efforts—should the program even try to expand its influence?ConclusionThe Engineering 100 Program at UIUC serves two primary purposes, each reflecting animportant concern for the College of Engineering. Born out of a need for a better orientationprogram for new engineering

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

central themesthat emerge in regard to this topic of study.As part of our self-assessment process the graduate student assistants and the three instructorsmeet on a regular basis to reflect on what is working, what is not working, and areas that can beimproved. Data from formal assessments, informal assessments, journals, and progress towardsassigned projects is considered as part of the feedback loop for evaluating and modifying thecourse design and implementation. Page 5.176.6VI. ConclusionIn a society dedicated to preparing our nation’s children for the future work place, it is essentialthat scientific rigor and depth of content are stressed

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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

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

styles as well. Research has shown that most engineeringundergraduates are visual, active learners, and that this reflects the styles of the generalpopulation1. For this reason, most SMET concepts can be learned best through incorporation ofhands-on exercises. This is especially true for hearing impaired students and students for whomEnglish is a second language, for whom verbal explanations may have reduced effectiveness.Although these types of curriculum modules may be the most effective and memorable forstudents, they also represent the greatest investment of time and resources for teachers. TheFellows augment the teacher’s efforts in many different ways: assisting in a teacher-led activity,leading the class in a module developed by the

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Christine L. Corum

reflect on as they prepare in the future for bothTAC-ABET and Regional accreditation reviews. That is, can one method of documentationefficiently satisfy both parties?I. Initial Assessment ActivitiesA brief description of activities Mechanical Engineering Technology was involved in l998follows. More detailed information is provided in a previous paper that this author co-authored.1Continuous Improvement Committee (CIC). This committee was the starting point for mostactivities undertaken by the Mechanical Engineering Technology faculty. CIC responsibilities Page 5.288.1included recording and maintaining documentation efforts for visiting assessment

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Douglas H. Baxter

. Figure 9 - Excel Spreadsheet for the Welded Beam Example Page 5.290.10 Figure 10 -Excel Solver Setup for Welded Beam ExampleThe advantage of using the macros to visualize the optimization is that students can see how theoptimization code behaves. The deflection constraints can be modeled with datum planes dis-played in the SolidWorks session. The color of the datum plane can indicate if the constraint isactive or inactive. Similarly, the color of the parts can be changed to reflect the status of the otherconstraints. The final shape for this example is a long slender beam as shown in Figure 11

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evaluation of the students’ reports is a meaningful way to assessthe students’ performance2. We concur with this opinion and feel that the essence of the class isthe report produced, as it reflects the understanding that the student has of the process and servesas an indicator of the students’ ability to collect data and present it in a format acceptable forengineering practice.Student grades for classes held in the laboratory during the period from 1994 to 1999 and for the1998 and 1999 asynchronous sections have been tabulated as shown in Table 1. Only the datafor the author is included to eliminate any differences in course perspective or grading practicesby other faculty. Only students that completed the course have been included, eliminating

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industrialengineering. The establishment of a new department located in Muskegon (with offices in theHEC at MCC) placed WMU faculty on-site for teaching, student advising, and studentrecruiting and retention. It also allows the manufacturing engineering department to set policyand procedures to reflect the expectations of the college for this faculty unit. The chair of theDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering serves as chair the Department ofManufacturing Engineering.The startup phase of the program was projected to take 4 years. During the first three years,reduced course offerings and smaller class sizes (plus one time startup costs) were projected to

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Scott White; Kirsten Lowrey; George M. Bodner; Dawn Del Carlo; Ala Samarapungavan; William C. Oakes

experiences they encounter in the freshman year varysignificantly reflecting the diversity of these experiences. The faculty of the engineering schools feltdisconnected from the freshman year. The faculty from science and engineering felt that more criticalthinking and problem solving was important to introduce into the classrooms.The findings of these data and continual assessment have rekindled discussions of how to best servethe freshman engineering students. As opportunities for change arise, the student voice will beincluded in the decision process. Page 5.623.7ReferencesMarton, F. (1981). Phenomenography – Describing conceptions of the

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Sidney J. Brandon; Michael R. Sexton; Justin W. Douglas

shining an LED onto a disc attached to the turbochargershaft. The disc was painted half flat black and the other half was polished aluminum. As theshaft turned the light from the LED was reflected from the polished half of the disc to aphototransistor. The output of the phototransistor produced a frequency that was measured usinga frequency counter. The shaft speed was determined from this frequency.For a complete comparison of actual operating data to the predicted results of the enginesimulation additional instrumentation would need to be installed. This additionalinstrumentation would include: a turbine inlet thermocouple, a pitot-static tube to measure bleedair velocity, a pitot-static tube to measure duct air velocity at the

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Katherine A. Liapi

concepts:POLYHEDRA Platonic & Archimedean Polyhedra • Golden means and the mathematical . basis of the Platonic solids • Rigidity of polyhedra (Maxwell’s law) • Truncation of regular polyhedra Symmetry in Polyhedra • Rotational symmetry • Reflection symmetry Duality and Enantiomorphy in Polyhedra • Duality in regular polyhedra • AntiprismsJOINING POLYHEDRA/ SPACE FILLING PROPERTIES OF THE POLYHEDRA

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Lisa Wipplinger

group projects has beenrelatively positive. There is often some initial frustration with the open-ended nature of these projects,as students seem to be used to being told exactly what to do. In some cases the professor may have toovercome the students perception that the professor is the enemy trying to trip them up rather tryingto help them think and learn. The benefits and frustrations of doing group projects in the structuralclasses are reflected in the following journal excerpts: $I was also very pleased that M s and W s level of craftsmanship and professionalism was Page 5.324.11 high# $I feel this project not

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John A. Kleppe; Eric L. Wang

team, which often requires largeamounts of contact hours, the faculty perform informal assessment of both the group’s work andindividual contribution. During the time spent mentoring, the faculty member usually gains a fairunderstanding of who is doing what within each team.At the end of each semester the course logistics, which deals with the execution and planning ofthe course, are also assessed using student evaluations, faculty/TA reflective evaluation,evaluation by industrial representatives, and alumni feedback. Like all classes in the College ofEngineering, students complete an end-of-term course evaluation. However, since we are nottrying to assess how much students like the course, but rather how to improve the mechanics ofthe course

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Donna J. Michalek

. There isno differentiation between team members, so both members receive the same grade on the examregardless of their relative contributions. The students realize this before the exam is given as it isclearly stated in class. When the exams are handed back to the students it is made clear to themthat the grade they received may not reflect their knowledge of the material, and that only they canaccurately assess their contribution to the exam. It it also stressed that the material covered on theexam will be needed on the last hour exam and on the final exam. Therefore, if they feel they havenot yet learned the material they need to do so immediately, and are encouraged to seek help if itis desired.Upon the initial implementation of the team

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Donna C.S. Summers

for the new millennium.The Method: A Process OrientationTo revitalize our program, the Industrial Engineering Technology (IET) division decided tofocus our efforts on creating alignment between student learning, curriculum design, and careerpaths following graduation. This placed the emphasis on education as a process. We felt thisapproach would enable us to improve our customers’ perception of value, thereby increasingboth enrollment and employment opportunities upon graduation. Page 5.94.1When education is viewed as a process, the curriculum reflects an understanding of the links ofmaterial within a course, links between courses within a

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Mohammad A. Zahraee; Lash Mapa; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

stakeholders -- parents, employers, legislators, alumni,citizens -- who have placed their trust and futures in the hands of the institution.References1. Beering, Steven C., http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/ex21/greetings/index.html2. Morrision, Harry, “Reflections on Excellence 21 Within the School of Science,”http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/ex21/new/reflect.html3. Montano, Carl B., and Utter, Glen H., “Total Quality Management in Higher Education,” Quality Progress,August 1999, pp. 52-59.4. Summers, Donna C.S., Quality, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000.5. South, Robert.C., “Tenure and Promotion: Ask Questions and Plan Success,” ASEE Conference Proceedings,1995, pp.1340-1345.6. Depew, Dennis R., “Purdue’s ‘Excellence 21’ Journey: Evolution

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S P Maj; D Veal

.8. DEVELOPMENTSThe Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) invited the National Utilities IndustryTraining Advisory Body to submit a proposal to develop generic competency standards tomeet the needs of electrical and electronic skills of workers irrespective of the industry. Theaim of the generic standards is to move away from the traditional labels of activities in orderto reflect the current flexibility and diversity of electrical and electronic workers. The genericcross-industry standards aims to ensure consistent and quality education that is portablewithin a nationally recognized qualification and to for the basis for a core nationalframework. The standards were developed in two phases. The first phase was to conduct anational

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William N. Smyer

that the use of pre-printed overhead transparencies significantly increases the pace of a lecture compared to atraditional "chalk and board" lecture.The fall 1998 final grade distribution for students who completed the course is given in Table 1.Table 1. Fall 1998 Final Grade Distribution. Grade A B C D F ALL Frequency 43 44 32 16 15 150This distribution results in an average class grade point average (GPA) of 2.56 on a 4.0 scale.III. Course Changes for the Spring 1999 SemesterThe most important change for spring 1999 was to provide an environment in which studentscould both take adequate notes and reflect

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

. The laboratorieswould deal with time and motion study, job design, and various managerial aspects ofengineering. The projects, however, needed to be multi-discipline and outside the usual range ofIE material.Similarly the accreditation standards from the Commission on Accreditation of Physical TherapyEducation Programs1 also reflects this wide spectrum of curricular goals and educational standardsfor the graduate of a Physical Therapy Program. Among the standards that emphasize theevaluation and treatment of patients, there are standards that relate to communication, collaborationwith other disciplines, management, legal considerations and consultation. The ADA project meetssome aspect of all these standards. In order to succeed in this

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John W. Nicklow

students were consciously aware of the intended audience.VII. Student Comments and AssessmentThe students participating in this first implementation of ‘writing in an undergraduate designcourse’ were asked to provide feedback on the assignment and provide their opinions on theincorporation of writing into engineering on a broader scale. Since this project essentiallyrepresents a pilot study, the comments received from students will be used as an assessment tool toimprove the assignment in subsequent semesters. Additionally, the provision of feedbackinfluences students to self reflect on their educational experience and become more self-sufficientlearners5.Approximately 70% of enrolled students responded to an end of course questionnaire that