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opportunity for students to puttheir book skills to work solving real problems and making real products that work. TheCommission believes that it is imperative to establish a coordinated and properlysupported Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Design and Research (RUDR) program to (1)strengthen the design and research opportunities for undergraduates and (2) steer us topreeminence in this area." Page 6.997.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDuring the next seven years, the Institute was awarded a series of grants

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to include these highly qualified, non-traditional persons in our search and screen process.Introduction In a recent survey of universities and colleges, 55% of the bachelor programs indicated atleast one funded faculty position unfilled and 13% have 2 or more unfilled positions. Sixteenpercent of the schools with an associate program report 1 funded but unfilled position and 42%report having 2 or more unfilled.1 This is a nationwide problem and it is becoming more andmore difficult to employ qualified faculty. Page 6.421.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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, engineering educators are trying to decide how to satisfy the program outcomespecified in Criterion 3 (g)…”Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduateshave:…an ability to communicate effectively”1. The ability to communicate effectively is vitallyimportant for engineers. Over fifty percent of an engineer’s time is spent writing, and thatpercentage increases with job seniority2; more recently, the figure has been put at anywhere fromthirty percent to ninety-five percent 3. Those students who say that they chose engineering as amajor so they “wouldn’t have to write” tend to be shocked when they hear the role of writing intheir future careers.Even though engineering students typically take one or more courses in English compositionearly in

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

how three of the FC institutions: RHIT, TAMU, and UAhave dealt with them and what lessons they learned.ISSUE 1: Transition: Pilot Curriculum to Mainstream Curriculum Page 6.423.2Although it seems logical to design a new curriculum and then pilot it with a small“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”number of students, starting with a pilot program may create significant obstacles whenmoving toward implementation for the entire college. All three schools piloted their newcurriculum with a small number of

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, Engineering Design and CreativityTable 1 presents a summary of the cognitive processes required at each level of Bloom and thecorresponding engineering design activities. As one reads across the table it becomes clearer howthe design process maps to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Once the mapping becomes evident it ispossible to conclude that design is a cognitive process that can be addressed in a systematic,disciplined manner.Many are quick to point out that creativity plays a major role in the synthesis (or designalternatives) level. Psychologists have discovered that there are phases to the creative process aswell13. The first stage consists of acquiring the knowledge and gaining understanding of thephenomenon in a domain. These are the same tasks described

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notonly possible, it was highly rewarding and yes,...quite fun!1 Director, Council of Science and Technology of Queretaro (CONCyTEQ)2 Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership Studies - International Education3 Associate Professor Page 6.426.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education 1I. Introduction To bring the international and multicultural dimension to engineering educationis easier said than done. One reason is the fact that most engineering

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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

Telecommunication and Energysectors are the most representative ones overall in the region. Page 6.427.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1 – The 100 Largest Businesses in Latin America Sales by sector Others Telecom 26% 18% Beverages Gas

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

shown in the appendix section as well asa summary table of a review of the AT’s. The numbering of the tools is somewhat arbitrary toavoid implying a level or priority.1) AT6 Program Objectives Student Survey . Designed to evaluate the student’s awareness of the Educational objectives and Educational outcomes that the ME program has defined as its Program Objectives.2) AT1 Student Observation Form. Designed to make instructors aware of the ways to improve their teaching methodology. Page 6.428.43) AT 3. Course Content Interest Survey. Designed to make instructor aware of student's suggestions to spend more or less time on course topics

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significantdifferences were found with respect to self-regulation, attitudes, gender, or verbal ability.1. Education and the InternetDevelopments in media and communication technologies are revolutionizing education.Cyberspace has opened an information highway. Technology has gained attention in educationtoday because of its prevalence and its promise to provide low cost education; and it may helpsome people to participate more easily, to learn more effectively, and to enjoy learning more23.Given adequate access to technology, the internet can provide both teachers and students with anever-growing resource of information. Teachers can introduce and use information from theWWW for instruction and supplement almost any subject matter. It is now possible to

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has shown to be a powerful diffusion vehicle of these programs and (1)of this methodology, being replete of web pages about the variedest matters, with virtual ex-perimental exercises very detailed . This ones applications, however, have a common and im-portant characteristic : the necessary hardware and software resources are relatively simple anda lot accessible and, perhaps, this is the only reason to be so spread. Few doubts on the validityand benefits of these application for the learning acceleration nowadays remain. The higher education, especially Engineering, has differentiated characteristics that makemore restricted and specific the development of applications aiming at

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Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

(15 contact hours + 3.5 hours experiential lab)Hours Topic Pre-Class Readings Subject of Readings ½ Intro/Ch. 1: EQ Cooper, Robert K. Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Introduction Leadership and Organizations. Pp. xxvii-16 [~24 pgs]3 Introduction to Goleman, Daniel. “What Makes a Leader?” ½ Ch. 2 & 3: EQ EEI theory Introduction

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education.II. DefinitionsWhen examining this question, it is critical to define terms. The authors will start with thedefinition of "Entrepreneur". Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines entrepreneur as follows: Definition 1. "Entrepreneur--- one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise".Starting with this definition, it is difficult to conclude that the study of Entrepreneurshipshould take place in a college of engineering as opposed to a college of businessadministration. Topics of personnel and asset management, accounting, finance, marketing,advertising, asset management and faculty better handles related topics in business.Furthermore, it is not immediately clear what engineering topics emerge

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element decreases asit heats up.Vent and Lid - The unit has a 2 13/16” x13/16” vent in the lid to exhaust the gasvapors from the heating chamber. The lidis plastic on the outside with an innermetal insert on the interior of thechamber. The lid is equipped with a 1/8”thick, 2 ¾” square sight glass.Motor and Pulley - ECM Motor CA-161200-T, 01R06, 120 V 60 HZ 30 W.Motor Shaft 1755 RPM Full 1300 RPM Pulse SpeedPulley Ratio 130 teeth on kneading blade shaft / 20 teeth on motor shaft = 6.5 Turn down ratioKneading Blade Rotation 270 RPM Full 200 RPM Pulse SpeedMotor Load – No load 0.58 Amps 67 Watts Mixer Blade Motor Drive

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Doria Hickman; Bala Ram; Sanjiv Sarin; Paul Stanfield

identify them as being either “team-oriented” or“individual” in nature. In this discussion, “teams” are implied to be some appropriate subset ofthe faculty members. Although some processes or tasks are identified as “individual”, all mightbenefit from a team approach. Only tasks and processes that must necessarily be performed byteams are identified as such. Table 1 summarizes the above functions, the tasks and processesunder each of them, and their team-orientation (team activities are italicized). Table 1: Processes and Tasks in Academic Departments by Function Student Educational Educational Faculty/ Department Support

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Session 1653 Engineering Freshman Seminars K. Arthur Overholser Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractEngineering freshman seminars at Vanderbilt University incorporate several features that makethem attractive to faculty and students: (1) they are limited to one-semester hour; (2) they areoptional for students and for professors; (3) they are staffed entirely by full-time professors; and(4) the faculty may teach anything they please within their own area of expertise. Theseseminars were developed in response to student requests for more intimate

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Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

prepared for a possible move away from the current one-on-one instruction they are receiving. This article outlines current trends in campus computing,the current state of computer literacy of students taking engineering graphics courses, andcurricular issues impacted by these findings.II. Current trends in academic computingThe new millennium closes a decade that has seen a rapid expansion of the use of networkedcomputers on college and university campuses. By the Fall of 1995, half of all college studentsand faculty had recurring instructional experience with information technology while more thanhalf of all college students and three-fourths of faculty had access to the Internet and WWW 1.More recent surveys show a continuing upward trend in

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Vladimir Nikulin; Victor Skormin

Session 1526 Engineering Laboratory Accessible via the Internet Victor Skormin, Vladimir Nikulin Binghamton University, State University of New YorkAbstractThis paper presents a system facilitating remote multiple-user access to advanced laboratoryinstrumentation via the Internet. The technique itself, and its potential for the enhancement ofengineering laboratory courses and, consequently, engineering programs nationwide andinternationally is discussed.1. IntroductionThe on-going revolution in information technology results in noticeable advancements inuniversity education. These

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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

groups, locations, and periods. Examples of different programs and atypical exercise are included. Initial implementations of programs based on this framework havebeen quite successful, with positive feedback from students, faculty, and industrial advisoryboard members.1. IntroductionCurrent accreditation standards require engineering programs to demonstrate not only that theirgraduates have the appropriate mathematical, scientific, and technical knowledge and skills butalso that they can function in teams1. Results of employer surveys and interviews indicate,however, that the ability to work on a team is an important skill that is lacking in many of today'sengineering graduates2,3. The development of teamwork skills is thus a critical issue

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Educational OutreachCenter,” ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2000.4. Genalo, L.J., Athreya, K.A., Dieterich, A.K., “Internet Explorers: An NSF Sponsored Internship,”Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, on CD - Session # 1692, June 1998.5. Genalo, L. J., Windom, K. D., Jolly, S., and Semple, A., "K-12 linkage for women engineers - studentscreating courseware for other students," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 1033-1036, June 1995.6. Bishop, B. E., “Design of a Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robot System at the UndergraduateLevel,” on-line Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2220, June 2000.7. Rosenblatt, M., Choset, H., Graveline, A., and Bhargava, R., “Designing and Implementing a Hands-On Labs for an

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James Holt; Hal Rumsey; E. Ray Ladd

we use:1. Direct Throughput Value -Did your project produce any more product? If you produced one more at negligible increase in resources, the value is the sales price less truly variable costs (gross profit margin). -Did your project protect any sales? (Prevented lateness, Retained customers, Maintained relationships). The value of retained sales is the gross profit margin value of the product times the number of products per your influence time (say your influence extended for three months and you saved three per month then multiply the gross margin by 9).2. Inventory Value -Did your project reduce any inventory (physical items or queued paperwork)? Inventory is valued at its raw material purchase price

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. Now we hover around 90,000. Withthe U. S. Population at 281 million, we should be enrolling 142,000, had we sustained the samepopulation-enrollment ratio of 1982. To cloud our local picture even more, half of the engineeringfreshmen at Santa Clara are choosing computer engineering, leaving the traditional engineeringfields in peril of long term survival. To attract 50,000 additional freshmen to engineering hasbecome a very real goal. But to do this, something has to change.New Engineer PerceptionsWe asked fifty of our young engineering graduates why they thought freshmen engineeringenrollments were flat. Their evaluation: 1. The engineering curricula are viewed as too difficult. 2. There is more money in alternate business

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Mark Otter; Ken McLeod; Yi-Xian Qin; Partap Khalsa; Michael Hadjiargyrou; Danny Bluestein

equal to the height of the ceiling? From the roof of your house (assuming two stories) about 20 feet (6 meters)? From a three story roof (30 feet - 9 meters)? Four stories - 40 feet? Five stories - 50 feet?Try to construct a table of safety jumping on a scale of jump height.What about for different animals? Is there a difference in safety for jumping height between an elephant (5000 Kg)and a mouse (0.1 Kg)? Interactively (i.e., with student input) construct a table such as the following:Animal Mass (Kg) Safe Distance to Fall (animal height)>100 (102) <1102 - 10-1 ~210-1 - 10-4 any height< 10-4

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Philip Young

. But as we prepared for our initial ABET inspection in fall 2000, we began to ask“What does Engineering Physics mean in other schools?” This paper is an attempt to answerthat question.Engineering physics (EP) has been around as an educational discipline in the United Statesfor about 75 years. ABET began accrediting EP programs in 1949 with University of Maineand University of Oklahoma both achieving accreditation in that year.1 The Physics andEngineering Physics Division of ASEE was started by Prof. Bennett who also started theprogram at University of Maine.2 In 2000 there were 15 accredited and at least 32 non-accredited under-graduate programs across the country. The programs are located in all partsof the country and represent all types of

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Ahmad Ibrahim

”. Nevertheless, thisshould not deter educators from making use of them now, and then adapting as change occurs.Bibliography1. Ibrahim, A. M. The Internet in Classroom Engineering and Technology Education: A Critical View. 2nd GlobalCongress on Engineering Education, Wismar, Germany, 2-7 July, 2000.2. Ibrahim, A. M. Current Issues in Internet-Based Distanced Engineering Education. 4th Baltic Region Seminar onEngineering Education, Lyngby, Denmark, 1-3 September, 2000.3. Mannix,M. The Virtue of Virtual Labs. ASEE Prism, 8, 38-39, 2000.4. Meindl, J. D. A Multi-Campus Virtual Corporate Laboratory. Eur. J. Eng. Ed., 25, 2 139-144, 2000.5. Shen, H., Xu, Z. , Dalagr, B., Kristiansen, V., Strøm, Ø., Shur, M. S., Fjedly, T. A., Lü, J., and Ytterdal, T.Conducting

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follows. Students need morethan the computers and their programs. This article presents information about a 21st centuryprogram created in 1996: a comprehensive engineering program at Madison West High Schoolwithin blocks of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.I. IntroductionCourses including Principles of Engineering 1&2, Materials Science, and Computer AidedDesign, including mechanical design, 3D solid modeling and 3D animation, are the make-up ofthis 21st century high school engineering program.Students in engineering courses participate in at least fourteen different case studies. These casestudies are diverse in nature in order to give the students just a taste of many different types ofengineering. Engineering ethics

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Wilsonobserves, "Engineers who understand how their profession influences society are in a betterposition to consider the policy implications of engineering creations." 1 Through the years, thepractice of engineering has become more complex. This is true not only of the machinery, suchas nuclear power plants and Mars orbiters; but also of the systems in which they operate.According to Jolly and Radcliffe, "The modern engineer is asked to deal with ambiguous andchanging circumstances and in a social and environmental context."2 Graduating engineersshould be prepared to deal with such complex systems. A strong foundation in the liberal arts can help give engineers the perspective they needto comprehend the social, ethical, and environmental

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Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

-verbally, is vital to a person’s ability to perform inanother culture.1 Page 6.445.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe above statement is representative of a body of thought that examines the notions of“bilingualism” and “biculturalism” separately. According to that theory, while one canbe bilingual, one may not be equally skilled or knowledgeable in the two cultures 2.Language is considered to be only one, albeit an important aspect, of acculturation. Forexample, speaking a specific language may

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Chih-Ping Yeh; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3547 Enhanced Electric Machines and Power Course Chih-Ping Yeh, Mulchand S. Rathod Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents our experiences in developing a NSF-funded CCLI project for enhancing the‘Electric Machines and Power’ course. The objective of this project is to provide a new structure tothe existing course to enhance student learning of electric machines. The project involves (1) improvingthe long existing rotating machine laboratory by adding modern power electronic drives and devisingreal time data acquisition for measurement and analysis

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William Berg; Morris Boughton

Page 6.447.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationswitches for digital circuits. The suitcase used in the advanced courses additionally includes adigital multimeter, BNC and DB25 connectors for ease of input/output access, and its largesolderless breadboard is attached to the surface of the trainer by Velcro strips. These mini-labs areavailable from three different manufacturers, for prices ranging from $200 to $400 each.Introductory CoursesStudents are expected to fabricate and troubleshoot circuits outside of class. Figure 1 shows threedifferent circuits fabricated by the students outside