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Discover Science and Engineering Day with an increase of Page 6.386.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationover 100% high school participation and an expected impact on roughly 2000 pre-collegestudents.VIII AcknowledgementsFunding for Discover Engineering Day has been provided by grants from the General MotorsFoundation, Raytheon, The Boeing Company and the Agilent Technologies Foundation throughits Diversity in Education Initiative. This work is also partially funded by the National

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Heather Nachtmann

Page 6.617.5course. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIncorporating research into lower level undergraduate engineering courses can facilitate a life-long learning process, which is emphasized in today’s engineering programs. In the 2000-2001criteria for accrediting engineering programs as defined by the Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology (ABET), one of the program outcomes is that engineeringgraduates must have a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.The integrative research/teaching techniques discussed in this paper are not limited to

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in the class.The class engages entering students in critical inquiry of one or more related academic topics. Theseminar is designed to increase studentsÀ knowledge of the role of technology in the academic Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.909.6 Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcommunity. Information acquisition, critical thinking, and communication are integrated in anactive learning environment. Students conduct library and electronic research to support one ormore academic projects which vary with instructor

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broader skills needed to prosper in the twenty-first century.”Eleanor Baum of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art suggests that "Wewill expect engineers to have a background well beyond technology and science…the biggestchange for universities will be to turn engineering into a liberal art”4. Baum claims engineers arehired for their analytical and problem-solving skills more than their technical skills. Yetcommunication skills are equally important because information becomes knowledge only whenconclusions drawn from analyses and potential solutions to problems are effectivelycommunicated to those who need to make decisions or implement solutions. Sister Joel Read,President of Alverno College states that “When problems arise

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Engineering Education: An Integrated Writing andCommunication Program for Materials Engineers.” Journal of Engineering Education, 85:4:343-352.LISA LEBDUSKA is Director of the Center for Communication Across the Curriculum and an adjunct assistantprofessor of writing at WPI. She received her PhD in English from the University of Rhode Island. Her most recentarticle, “Peer Writing Tutors,” will be appear in Student-Assisted Teaching by Anker Publishing, and reflects herresearch in peer tutor training, writing in the disciplines, and technologies of writing.DAVID DIBIASIO is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and assessment coordinator for theInterdisciplinary and Global Studies Division at WPI. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from

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systems design, and desiccant technology. He serves as Director of the MSU Industrial Assessment Centerand was the ASEE Southeastern Section President for 1999-2000.W. G. STEELEW. G. Steele is a Giles Distinguished Professor and Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering at MississippiState University. He received degrees in mechanical engineering from MSU (BS) and North Carolina StateUniversity (MME and Ph.D.) and has industrial experience with Westinghouse (Bettis Atomic Power Lab). Sincejoining the faculty at MSU in 1979 he has pioneered the use of uncertainty analysis in experimentation and design,has authored the leading book on the uncertainty in experimentation, and has served on national and internationalcommittees concerned with

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William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

contextual basis forpresenting and tying together different engineering and CS topics in this part of thecourse.Selection of a Course ThemeIn searching for a good course theme we had to keep in mind several criteria: (1) itshould be interesting for first year engineering and computer science students, (2) itshould be a contemporary topic in technology that has a significant impact on society, (3)it should be broad enough so as to be relevant to several different disciplines includingEE, CS, ME, and CE, and (4) it should lend itself to the application of some fundamental Page 6.34.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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engineeringeducation, very few studies have examined what students themselves think of sustainability.Studies on student perceptions of sustainability-related topics give us some indication of theinterest and motivation students may have in learning about sustainability. Researchers at theUniversity of Washington10 examined engineering students' conceptions of their profession. Thestudent group as a whole had conceptions covering all eleven of the United States AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology graduate attributes11. There was, predictably, a strongfocus on technical concepts and great variation in the range of outcomes included in individualschemas. The study suggests that students' conceptions of what it is to be an engineer varywidely, from

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Ronald E. Musiak; Richard A. Grabiec; Eric W. Haffner; Steve Schreiner; Alan K. Karplus; Mary Vollaro

at Western New England College in Springfield,Massachusetts. Dr. Haffner received his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, his M.S.E.G. at Illinois Instituteof Technology, his M.S.I.E.O. at the University of Massachusetts, and his B.Ed. at Keene State College. He iscurrently the Dean of the School of Engineering at Western New England College.STEVE SCHREINERSteve Schreiner is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Biomedical Engineering at Western New EnglandCollege in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Schreiner received his Ph.D. and M.S.B.E at Vanderbilt University, andhis B.S.E.E. at Western New England College. He held a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoralfellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He has held

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Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

EngineeringDesign, was developed to bring these freshmen into the College of Engineering and Technology,expose them to the various engineering programs available at Northern Arizona University, andto develop their skills as problem solvers and communicators. Other important objectives for thecourse are to develop teaming skills, to provide exposure to ethical issues, and to initiate thedevelopment of skills that will be used in the subsequent three engineering design courses. Thiscourse is the initial step in the Design4Practice1 curriculum, first described in 19952, and whichwon the 1999 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award.3II. BackgroundThe first engineering design course developed and offered at Northern Arizona University was acapstone course which

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

Session 1315 Experiential Learning from Internships in Construction Engineering Robert K. Tener, Michael T. Winstead, Edward J. Smaglik Purdue University, West Lafayette, IndianaAbstractThe fundamental, educational value of internship experience in undergraduate construction engineeringeducation is explored. Analysis of learning outcomes from the structured, construction internships requiredfor the B.S. degree in Construction Engineering and Management at Purdue University are compared withexperiential learning theories of Kolb and others, providing

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Linda Broadbelt; L. Catherine Brinson; Kathleen Issen; Brad Kinsey

(research institution) and OCC (two-year community college) represent the extremesin engineering education, we sought local panelists from institutions with other CarnegieFoundation classifications 3, such as Illinois Institute of Technology, Bradley University,Valparaiso University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology. Although travel and lodging was reimbursed and a small honorarium was provided,we encountered difficulties in locating outside faculty who were both interested and available.Ultimately, faculty from Rose-Hulman and OCC participated, while the remaining panelists wereNU faculty with previous experience at other institutions.The PFEF coordinator solicited and compiled seed questions for each topic

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

emotion and intelligence, areopen to various interpretations.2 EEI attempts rather to distill from a broader constellation onecrucial and overlooked concept in engineering and technology curricula. And that is thatemotions are real and important, and as significant an indicator of success as intellectual andacademic ability.3 By beginning with this main concept, we can help our students to movetowards developing the self-awareness necessary for acquiring and honing other criticalcompetencies.II. BRIEF BACKGROUND OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCEDaniel Goleman, psychologist, journalist in behavioral and brain sciences, and author ofEmotional Intelligence and Working With Emotional Intelligence, writes: “In a sense we have two brains, two minds

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Session 2586 Project Lead The Way® A Pre-engineering Secondary School Curriculum Prof. Guy Johnson Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractProject Lead The Way® (PLTW) is a nonprofit corporation that developed a national programforming partnerships among public schools, higher education institutions and the private sectorto increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating fromour educational system. The Rochester Institute of Technology has joined in a partnership withPLTW by establishing the

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Are We Losing Our Minds (2470)

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Educating EngineersDPD courses focus on providing students with the knowledge, understanding, andsensitivity to work and live in a diverse society. While many of our institutions,organizations, and neighborhoods remain largely segregated, particularly byrace/ethnicity, the overall trend toward greater diversity is well documented1.Engineering is one field that lacks the gender and ethnic diversity reflected in other fieldssuch as biology, medicine, and law. This lack of diversity was recently noted by formerPresident Clinton, resulting in the establishment of a national mentoring award forpersons bringing under-represented students into engineering2. In addition, formerPresident Clinton directed the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC

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Richard Alexander; Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

Session 3375Synergy of Applied Research and Education in Engineering Technology Rainer J. Fink, Jay Porter, James A. Ochoa, Richard M. Alexander Texas A&M UniversityAbstractEngineering technology programs at Texas A&M University are housed within a College ofEngineering that enjoys ever-increasing success in research productivity. Faculty across thecountry who serve in engineering technology programs are often attracted to those programsprimarily because of their desire to devote most of their time working with students in theclassroom and laboratory, while minimizing the time devoted to research

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Thomas Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

Session 1520 A Survey Course on VEE Pro Software for Engineers and Technologists Thomas E. Hulbert, Robert B. Angus Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115-5096AbstractData acquisition requirements for manufacturing, development, and research applications havegrown significantly. A continued need is predicted for standards and software to efficientlyprocess and store that data.The authors, who created Just-in-Time (JIT) Education™, were invited to meet with a multi-national, high-technology company. Their corporate team identified a critical

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Session 2525 FRESHMAN ENGINEERING COURSE MODULE UTILIZING A 3 D MODELING TOOL Lisa Anneberg Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI Roger Ferguson Department of Computer Science and Information Technology Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MIABSTRACTInstructors of freshman level Introduction to Engineering and Design courses are facedwith numerous objectives, some of which are conflicting:1. interesting projects - from both the professor

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engineering courses.A needs assessment for teaching writingIn 1998 the University of Dayton Department of Engineering Technology was re-evaluating andre-structuring the entire curriculum. Several environmental changes drove this need including areorganization of faculty and a change in leadership. The department chose to focus its offeringson engineering technology courses. For instance, the math and chemistry courses that weretaught by faculty within Engineering Technology were discontinued and were replaced withcourses offered in the general university curriculum.Another course that was offered within the department was technical writing. It had been a two-credit-hour course in the curriculum for decades. This course was highly valued and it

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. Introduction Technological change has significantly influenced the fields incorporated in engineeringtechnology. The area of engineering graphics is a good example of how an industry has beenaffected by this change. Just 20 years ago, a majority of all drafting was performed on a draftingboard. With this traditional form of drafting, an engineer or an architect would design a productand the drafter, using drafting equipment such as paper, pencils, and a scale, drew the productiondrawings of the object that was to be constructed or manufactured. The final drawings would bedistributed to contractors and manufacturing industries to build the product. Traditional boarddrafting, even though it could be very tedious, was not particularly technically

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Session 3551 WebQuests as an Integrative Experience in Introductory Environmental Engineering Mary Cardenas Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CaliforniaAbstractAn Integrative Experience was developed as part of an introductory environmental engineeringcourse at Harvey Mudd College. The Integrative Experience was developed to help the collegestudents consider the relationship of science and technology with contemporary society. Juniorand senior students enrolled in the course designed WebQuests

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Session 2525 Accessible Design Issues and Principles in the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Robert F. Erlandson, Ph.D. Enabling Technologies Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202IntroductionEthical concerns and market potentials provide compelling reasons for the inclusion of accessibledesign issues and principles in undergraduate engineering programs. Federal laws, rules andregulations mandating accessibility to products, services, jobs and public places for people withdisabilities, however

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Session 3249 Assessment of an Engineering and Technology Summer Program for Underrepresented Students Richard Ciocci Harrisburg Area Community CollegeAbstract Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) offered and administered three-weeksummer programs for high school students from 1993 to 1997 inclusive. The primary goal of theEngineering and Technology Summer Institute (ETSI) was to provide high school students withinterests in mathematics and sciences a preview of engineering studies at the college level. Thestudents were chosen from populations that

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Salman Talahmeh; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

Session 2793 Web Based Active Server Pages Module for Engineering Students Dr. Lisa Anneberg Lawrence Technological University (LTU) Southfield, MI 48075 Dr. Ece Yaprak Wayne State University (WSU) Detroit, MI 48202 Dr. Salman Talahmeh (PPU) Palestine Polytechnic University Hebron, West

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engineers. 2. Assess current instructional and student evaluation practices. EVALUATION 3. Assess state-of-the art teaching practices and inclusion of high technology techniques for instruction. 1. Propose revisions to current educational system, where necessary. 2. Integrate state-of-the-art instruction and learning practices, e.g. Distance Learning. 3. Determine the cost and socioeconomic benefits MODEL of the new educational model. DESIGN 4. Identify and implement role of computer in the educational model. 5

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Session 2793 Enhancing a Graduate Biomedical Engineering course with the Web Dr. Ronald H. Rockland New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Internet has been used to increase the understanding of various technical topics. In thegraduate biomedical engineering program at New Jersey Institute of Technology, there is acourse that deals with medical instrumentation, including both the theory and applications for awide range of instrumentation. While the textbook, which is one of the standard texts used bymany biomedical programs, covered most of the material adequately, the author merged

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Rebecca Blust

Session 3249 Increasing Diversity Within the Field of Engineering: Closing the Minority Gap Rebecca P. Blust University of DaytonAbstractAlthough minorities have broadened their career choices in the past few years, they have notincreased their numbers in science and technology. The current US workforce is comprised of77% White, 4% Asian and 19% Minority, but these numbers do not hold for engineeringprofessionals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics in conjunction with the National ScienceFoundation states that among engineering

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William Sullivan; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

project and the technology and ideas behindit. In particular, it will look at the motivation behind and the types of tools developed and usedin the virtual classroom. Finally, it will examine the role of the virtual classroom in today’sclassroom and its potential for future use. The final objective of this paper is to convey results ofan experiment to determine whether a virtual classroom environment will improve proficiency inthe economic principles of engineering design and its design process.II. The conveying of information online and web-site designThe goal of any user interface or technology is to maximize the perceived usefulness and theease of its use1 (See Figure 1). How easy a system is perceived to be used will directly influencehow

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Session 2255 On Developing Integrated Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering Courses at RIT Wayne W. Walter, Paul H. Stiebitz Rochester Institute of TechnologyIntroductionThe Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, theUniversity of Detroit Mercy and the Naval Post Graduate School have joined with industryleaders to create a two-year product development program at the Master’s Degree level for mid-career technical managers. Using a common curriculum framework, each member of theconsortium, named the Educational

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Session 2530 Bringing the K-12 Stakeholders onto the Engineering Education Team J. Clair Batty, Karen O. Batty Utah State UniversityAbstractThe enhanced global perspectives brought on by exploding information technologies haveprecipitated dramatic changes in industry. Recognizing that suppliers and customers arestakeholders in the product realization process and bringing them onto the production team hasresulted in significant improvement in quality and efficiency.Engineering education would do well to follow this model. Communication and cooperationbetween colleges of