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Nora Valeiras; Luis A. Godoy

difficulties in their activities andproduction. Thus, the workshop also introduces the participants to problems related to thehistory of science, philosophy and methodology of research, ethical dilemmas that arisein research, and aspects of sociology of the publication process. During the workshop theparticipants also work on a manuscript reporting a research already carried out by them.The initiative has been running for three years, and an initial assessment shows a clearincrease in the motivation of the participants towards research activities and an increasein the publication of papers.1. IntroductionThe Engineering School of the University of Puerto at Mayagüez (UPR-M) has beenconcerned for some time about increasing the publication of research

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

should be focused on pre-secondary education because students’ attitudetoward science and mathematics become fairly well established at the age of 10 to 14 (the middleschool years).Our survey on current status of middle school education reveals the following three problems: 1)many middle school teachers in mathematics and science are inadequately trained. 2) subjectmatters in these two areas are being taught with inadequate coverage on the application of basictheories. 3) while teachers prefer to use a learner active, hands-on form of education, their contentbackground makes this very difficult. The combination of these three problems has an adverseimpact on students’ interest in these two subjects.One promising way to deal with these problems

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Richard A. DeVries; Douglas C. Stahl

, donations from regional industry, and a 1998 Instrumentation and LaboratoryImprovement (ILI) grant from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education. The test frame inits two main orientations is illustrated in Fig. 1. The frame provides all reactions for the loadings,so it loads the floor only with its own weight and the weight of the specimen. Heavy W18 beamsections and moment-resisting connections minimize the frame’s flexibility. The frame wasdesigned by the senior author.The base of the frame consists of a pair of parallel bottom-beams approximately 1.5 m apart andapproximately 9 m long with cross-beams spanning between them every 1 m. The columns areplaced 2 m from each end, and each is diagonally braced back to the adjacent bottom-beam

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Dennis J. Miller

two weeks to prepare the final reportfor the laboratory assignment. Page 5.649.1III. ImplementationThe student consultant exercise has two major purposes: 1) to develop interactive, small groupcommunication skills in undergraduate students, and 2) to help students become familiar with theoperation, theory, and safety considerations of their laboratory experiments. The exercise isconducted during the first three-hour lab period of an assignment, typically for the last threeexperiments assigned during the semester. One student from a group who previously completeda particular experiment serves as the consultant to another group currently

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Douglas M. Mattox; David D. Mattox

Session 3654 Student Experiences with the Financial Basis of Entrepreneurship Douglas M. Mattox, David D. Mattox Ceramic Engineering Dept., University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO/ Swank Motion Pictures, Inc., St. Louis, MOAbstractThe fourth offering of a Junior level course aimed at stimulating engineering student’sentrepreneurial interests in the interplay between engineering decisions and businesseconomics has been completed. In the course, students increasingly experience (1) marketidentification; (2) plant design; (3) staffing, and (4) the generation of basic financialstatements. A novel grading

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Mark R. Rajai; Keith V. Johnson

, it is extremely vital that innovative techniques areimplemented, and current programs revamped in order to retain those students who are enrollingin engineering and engineering technology.Faculty and staff in the Department of Engineering Technology at ETSU are trying to do justthat. During the fall of 1994, the department offered a freshmen orientation course. The goals ofthis course were to: 1) provide students with a department mentor, 2) engage students inactivities that will better introduce them to the university and the technology department, 3)include activities that will allow students to socialize with one another, and the departmentalfaculty/staff outside of the classroom, 4) encourage creatitivity, and 5) improve

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Mike Klingman; Margaret Owens; Jim Papritan; Ann Christy; Evangelyn Alocilja; Marybeth Lima

agriculturalconstruction and systems management courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, and arenow extending this assessment method across curricula and universities. The core objectives areto (1) enhance student-centered learning, (2) obtain immediate feedback for continuous qualityimprovement (CQI) in the courses, (3) address accreditation issues that are of great importanceas biological engineering programs prepare for new evaluative strategies set forth by ABET EC2000, and (4) encourage industrial ties and community service such that graduates of biologicalengineering curricula will have more opportunities for employment. The authors detail theirmethodologies and discuss progress with regard to implementing portfolios across curricula anduniversities

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Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

Session 3513 Student Portfolios — Assessing Criteria 2000 Carolyne E. García, Edgar C. Clausen University of ArkansasAbstractABET’s Criteria 2000 identifies 11 desired outcomes for engineering education. Engineeringprograms will be evaluated according to their success in producing students with the ability to:1) apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; 2) design and conductexperiments and interpret data; 3) design a system, component, or process; 4) function on multi-disciplinary teams; 5) identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; 6) understand

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Winston Conway Link

the term, students are separated into student projectgroups, each of which elects a captain who is in charge of coordinating the group’s work. Although thegroups have some flexibility in choosing a project topic, each project should be worthwhile, in thateach group’s findings should be useful to some segment of the community, whether it be a business,industry, government agency, the students themselves, and in some cases, politicians running foroffice. Over the past four years, many projects have been completed, and while none have beenspecifically focused on engineering topics, several could have easily been extended to industrialengineering topics, such as quality control.In this paper, the following points will be covered: (1) setting up

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Jan Genzer; Amy Michel; Hugh Fuller; Richard Felder

potentially embarrassing manner.While the potential of computer-assisted instruction to enhance learning is unarguable, rigorousdemonstrations of its true effectiveness are in short supply, and the results of most studies thathave been carried out have not been conclusive. For example, a group at Purdue Universityevaluated the use of computer-simulation experiments in a senior-level chemical engineeringcourse.1 They found that the computer-simulated experiments led to better learning for somestudents, while others got more out of a traditional lab experiment. The authors caution againstusing instructional technology without evaluating its effectiveness.The effectiveness of any instructional software for a given student depends on a variety offactors

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Bernard Hoop; Eric W. Hansberry; Gerard Voland

on a leading motive presented in lecture, or on her/hisown major disciplinary or extracurricular interest. The project, intended primarily as anexercise in preparing an experimental scientific protocol, addressed three characteristics:that the experience be cross-disciplinary, that it mesh seamlessly with study within aparticular discipline, and that individuals conducting the experience recognize the directrelevance of the experience to the discipline. Students’ written reports of term projectscited printed and web-based sources and were required to adhere to the followingoutline:1. Purpose and relation to lay science discipline (“Why should I bother?”)2. Scientific question to be asked (“Why is it important? So what? Who cares?”)3

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Shannon Birk; James Fonda; Christopher C. Ibeh

fabricated MCFC matrices from the semi-conductive to the conductiverange.IntroductionIn a previous paper(1) presented at the 1999 ASEE Conference in Charlotte, NC, the concept anduse of the term (project) paper was espoused. The term paper embodies such concepts as choiceof topic relevant to course content, literature search for development of knowledge base,experimentation for acquisition and analyses of data, report writing for development andimprovement of communication skills, and report presentation for effective communicationskills. The ultimate goal is to inculcate in the student the need for creativity and critical thinkingskills. In this effort, the early 1990’s students of the thermodynamics and heat transfer coursesat Pittsburg State

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Jennifer Temple; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

, studentsacquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes outside the classroom through work experiences,mentoring relationships, undergraduate research experiences, and other opportunities.As engineering educators, we hope that students will be able to integrate lessons from theseexperiences. However, this may not be the case. Concern that engineering school graduates arenot sufficiently prepared for professional practice has led to calls for engineering educationreform and reports on how this can be carried out [1, 2]. One of the most prominent results ofthese engineering education reform activities has been the changes in accreditation standards forengineering programs. Specifically, ideas about the nature of engineering, and the skills andknowledge of a

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Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

nearly 40 ELAs.The objectives of the Engineering 100 Program are several fold: 1) to introduce students to theuniversity environment, 2) to acquaint students with engineering resources, programs, and theirparticular department, 3) to develop student relationships and networks, and 4) to keep studentsabreast of campus/college events and activities.As first year engineering students are not only new to the College of Engineering, but also thecampus at large, Engineering 100 attempts to provide an introduction to the whole universityenvironment. Thus, the typical Engineering 100 class might include everything fromexplanations of the campus bus system or locations of important student services buildings, to aninteractive lesson on using Engineering

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Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

difficult concepts in these courses, have shown more than usualenthusiasm in taking part in class activities, and, in general, have retained a positive feelingabout the subject matter.1. IntroductionRose-Hulman Institute of Technology has incorporated the new studio style of teaching in theintroductory physics courses involving Mechanics, Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics1. JackWilson of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) developed the original idea. At RPI, thismethod reduced class sizes, increased teacher-student interaction, and enhanced students’interest in the topic. At Rose-Hulman, the class size is always small, usually not exceeding 30per section; and the new method received very good feedback from the students as they took adecidedly

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Munir Mandviwalla; Chang Liu; Azim Danesh

Channel:Pedagogy Goals: -Multiple Channels-Motivation COMMUNICATION -Structural Constraints ll-Activity -Contractual Constraints l-Understanding-Feedback Instructor Learner Interface Interface Page 5.61.10 Figure 1: Interaction ModelReferencesBaird, M. and Monson, M., 1992. “Distance Education: Meeting Diverse Learners’ Needs in a Changing World,”New

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Young Hoon Kim; Sung Hwan Cho

mechanical related) in Korean junior collegeswith 530 different kinds (213 technical, 44 mechanical related) [Table 1] 1. Junior colleges offer2-year regular programs in technical areas, which require 80 credit hours for an associate degree.Nursing and some of the medical related programs require 3-year and 120 credit hours for asimilar degree. Some short term, non-degree programs are offered regularly, but limitedly. Table 1. Overview of Korean junior colleges (1998) Types of Number of Annual Student Number of Faculties Department Departments Quota (1997) Total 530 2,643 278,630

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Pete Tschumi

the study and the effect on the curriculum.The Information Technology CommitteeAn Information Technology Committee was composed of faculty from across the campusincluding two from psychology, two from engineering technology, one from computerinformation systems in management, and four from diverse areas on campus. The Committeedeveloped six operational goals. These goals were as follows: 1. Develop a data gathering strategy to determine desired and needed competencies of employees in the information technology industry in Arkansas. Page 5.63.1 2. Determine the competencies that could reasonably be expected for a

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career. It is almost an even greater certainty that the code they develop will beused again or modified at a later date. It has been shown that 40 to 60% of all code is reusablefrom one application to another, 60% of the design and code in all business applications isreusable, 75% of the program functionality is common to more than one program, and only 15%of the code is unique to a specific application1.Reuse and maintenance of code typically means code modification. The modification may ormay not be minor in scope. But with today’s dynamic employment market, we can expect thatthe individual modifying the code did not originally write the code and will therefore have torediscover the architecture of the system2. With an expected shortfall of 1

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

activities for the participants and alsoprovides valuable feedback to the faculty in the weekly staff meetings.Participants: Over the six years, we have attracted a diverse population to the program. Table 1: Quest I Participants 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Number of Participants 56 50 50 45 55 47 Native American M 0 1 0 0 1 0 Native American F 0 0 0 0 0 1 African American M 2 6 5 8 4 4

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Karen Al-Ashkar

College Publishers.6. Gibson, C. (1996). Academic self concept – its nature and import in distanceeducation. The American Journal of Distance Education 10 (1), 23-36.7. Hara, N. & Kling, R. (1999). Students’ frustrations with a web-based distanceeducation course: A taboo topic in the discourse. Working paper, Indiana University.8. Lundin, R. (1998). Being unreal: Epistemology, ontology, and phenomenology in avirtual educational world. The American Journal of Distance Education 12 (3): 53-65.9. Paul, R. (1990). Open learning and open management: Leadership and integrity indistance education. London: Kogan Page.10. Paulsen, M. (1998). The online teaching system. In Moore, M. (Ed.) DEOSNEWS 8(7).11. Portman, P. (1993). Barriers to change in

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Richard Barke

terms of which common outstandingproblems can be identified"), while the social sciences and emerging fields such assustainability studies are diffuse or “would-be” disciplines, characterized by an "absence of aclearly defined, generally agreed reservoir of disciplinary problems, so that conceptualinnovations within them face no consistent critical tests" (Toulmin, 1972). Gibbons andcolleagues (1994) describe engineering disciplines as somewhere between Mode 1 (compactdisciplines, such as the natural sciences, with clear norms about what constitutes good practiceand relevant problems) and Mode 2 (transdisciplinary, applied and context-aware, sociallyaccountable and reflexive, performed by a heterogeneous array of academics and practitioners

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

engineering, teamwork and communication are given specialattention.I. BackgroundAlabama A&M University, (AAMU) was granted the authority to offer two new engineeringprograms in August 1, 1995. The mechanical and electrical engineering programs became apart of a larger legal desegregation law suit resolution in the civil case CV 83-M-1676. Thissituation brought to AAMU both a challenge and a unique opportunity to develop twoengineering programs from “a clean sheet of paper” perspective. Dr. Arthur J. Bond, Dean ofthe School of Engineering and Technology, formed a team to develop both the electrical andmechanical curricula. This paper describes some of the elements that influenced the design ofthe new curricula for the Mechanical Engineering

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Kenneth Kelly; Etienne Khayat; Fouad T. Mrad

, which includesanalysis and display functions traditionally attributed to stand-alone instruments. Thepackage is called a ‘Virtual Instrument’, which is differentiated from other traditionaldedicated instruments by the fact that the PC-based system can play roles of numerousdedicated instruments. The main stages in a PC-based data acquisition system are illustratedin Figure 1.II.1 TRANSDUCERSBefore one measures physical phenomenon such as temperature or force, a transducer orsensor must convert these phenomena into a measurable electrical signal such as voltage orcurrent. Some common transducers used for temperature measurements are thermocouples,thermistors and RTD’s. Otherwise, Strain Gauges are considered to be very popular for forceor

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Yaw A. Owusu; Tarsha Dargan; Kimberly M. Richardson; James Thagard

long-term consequences of the ways in which it goesabout satisfying needs. James Wei of Princeton University3 has collected examples of a few ofthese interactions; we adapt and display that information here as Table 1. The table indicatesthe difficulties created for society in a world in which industrial operations are perceived asessentially unrelated to the wider world. It is important to note that the relationships in Table 1were not the result of disdain for the external world by industry. Several of the solutions were,in fact, great improvements over the practices they replaced, and their eventual consequencescould not have been forecast with any precision. What was missing, however, was any attemptto relate the techniques for satisfying

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Douglas M. Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

and half of the impaired lake acreage surveyed by states, territories, and tribes." At thesame time, urban nonpoint source runoff is the largest source of water quality impairments tosurveyed estuaries (Figure 1). As Figure 1 indicates, there must be ever-increasing emphasis onthe effects and criticality of nonpoint source pollution, control and abatement of it in the newmillennium. Three Leading Sources of Water Quality Impairment Rank Rivers Lakes Estuaries 1 Agriculture Agriculture Urban runoff 2 Municipal point source Municipal point Municipal point

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Brandon Ian Reed

only be achieved by exposing and exciting its students to coretechnologies during their formative years.There are very few schools in South Africa that have access to these sorts of facilities yetthere is an inherent expectation that when school leavers enter the market place that they arecompetent in these areas. The South African Government identified Technology as one of theeight basic learning areas in its plan for their new curriculum framework, Curriculum 2005[1, 2]. However, in an environment of ever shrinking resources, schools are struggling tosuccessfully accomplish this when the cost of introducing this technology is often more thantheir annual budget.It is often the tertiary educational institutions that have made the significant

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David R. Haws

disappear so quickly and Page 5.576.1completely?Why was PSI initially grasped by the engineering community? It may have beenepistemological—engineering scientists may have been attracted to the objectivity of PSI. Onthe other hand, PSI may have been a practical response to the National Defense Education Actof 1958, and the Higher Education Acts of 1965 and 1968 [1], which flooded our universitieswith scantily prepared baby-boomers in need of a structured educational experience. As a thirdpossible alternative, I would like to think that our attraction to PSI revealed an expanded senseof social justice—the desire to create a non-elitist playing field

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Jr. , John A. Hamilton; Jeanne L. Murtagh

data types (thoseprovided by the programming language) and data structures (e.g., linked lists, trees, queues andstacks). Our students had extensive exposure to the concept of abstraction, starting from theirfirst computer course. The students had also had a preliminary introduction to the morecomplicated object-oriented concepts of inheritance and polymorphism. Therefore, studentsenrolling in this design-focused class had mastered the fundamentals of computing, and wereready to use these concepts in the design of much more complicated programs.III. Desired Student Learning OutcomesThere were several desired student learning outcomes for this design-focused class: 1) Students shall make use of knowledge acquired in their previous

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Roman Stemprok

68HC11microcontroler and the xx86 Intel processor, which are available on PCs. Coursesinvolved included Introduction to Microprocessors, Digital Systems, and EmbeddedControllers.The MC68HC11A8 microcontroller was used in a variety of lab assignments andprojects at the undergraduate and graduate levels to interface output commands fromthe microcontroller to relays, motors, displays and ICs. The Motorola microcontrolleroffers high-speed in control-related embedded operations. The 8K bytes of on-chipmemory (ROM), 256 bytes of RAM, 512 bytes of EEPROM and an 8-bit analog-to-digital converter were used with several I/O ports [1]. Students designed processcontrols using, for example, the A/D converter input from a variety of sensors ortransducers.System I/O design