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enhancelearning, some proponents still favor the traditional lecture. Barger et al.8 reviewed thecharacteristics of good information transfer procedure and showed how the traditionallecture meets those requirements.Some state university systems such as the state of Florida have instituted a TeachingImprovement Program (TIP) to enhance the quality of teaching, primarily at theundergraduate level. Recipients of this award receive an additional $5,000 to their basesalary as long as they remain employed in the State University System9. The authorreceived such an award while at the University of South Florida. Throughout histeaching career, he has tried a variety of techniques to enhance and improve learning inengineering education. This paper discusses the

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engineering degree. Texas Tech University gains additional students for itsengineering graduate program, and the industrial sponsor gains access to students with anunusually diverse academic background.An important potential outcome of this program with Texas Woman’s University is theattraction of students to careers in engineering who otherwise might not have considered thispossibility. Ordinarily the leveling requirements to enter a graduate program in engineeringweigh heavily against students with non-engineering baccalaureate degrees. Coordination ofprograms between the faculties of two cooperating institutions mitigates this issue to a majordegree. Graduates of these dual-degree engineering programs are very well prepared to enter theengineering

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their college careers, many engineering professors still complain about the quality ofwritten work their undergraduate students turn in. An informal in-house survey administered inthe fall of 1999 to the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atPurdue University revealed that professors commonly found the following problems in theirstudents’ writing, in order of decreasing frequency: cohesion, organization, grammar,punctuation, content, vocabulary, and spelling. Page 6.422.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationChattanooga State Technical Community College was founded in 1967 at the urging of a groupof engineers who were influential with local and state politicians. They needed a technicalcollege that produced high-quality engineering technicians. Since then, the college has grown toover 9,000 students with over 45 different career programs. Over the years, Chattanooga Statehas demonstrated to the Chattanooga community its commitment to quality educationalprograms and services.As is Chattanooga State, Dupont is committed to staying competitive and producing qualityproducts. Training and education are important pieces of Dupont’s commitment

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-engineers. They cannot simply retreat to the comfort of the “technical aspects” of the matter at hand, but must meldthe technical with the social, the economic, the political, and the ethical. In this sense, the group project becomes apracticum in modern engineering. Even those students not intending to pursue careers in engineering gain first-handexperience in the ways an informed citizenry influences technology and engineering design. Without necessarily intending it, with these changes we aligned our course almost perfectly with the objectivesembodied in the ABET 2000 criteria. The course material and assignments combine an appreciation for design withan emphasis upon the social, economic, and ethical dimensions of engineering. Unlike some

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intent of the proposals provided by this paper is not to compromise traditional engineeringdisciplines, but to compliment them. Companies have committed a significant portion offunding to upgrade skills to meet engineering system management needs using many of the toolsand processes mentioned in this report. Many of these activities have had to be learned on-the-job with no prior understanding of core concepts and applications. Many of the trainingprograms used by companies to enhance employee skills may not adequately address the givensubject in a way that compliments an engineer’s core knowledge and talents. It is at this point inan engineer’s career development that America’s engineering education programs realize theopportunity, and some may

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. Other students designed and built some sensor circuits, and research wasperformed in electromagnetics.The skills learned in constructing the IEEE car and entering the competition, and thosetaught in the Project class and the Advanced Electronic class, has prepared the studentsto prioritize their needs, to brainstorm effectively, and to work together to get the jobdone. Obstacles were defeated by the use of the collective group imagination, bypersistence, and by perseverance. These are exactly the skills that will allow students tosucceed in their careers, and in life.Bibliography1. URL: http://www.ieee.org2. URL: http://www.tntech.edu/www/life/orgs/ieee/SECON/INDEX.HTML3. Gerhard, G. C., ”Teaching Design With Behavior Modification Techniques in

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Jeremiah Neubert; Cynthia Widstrand; C. Swanson; Arthur Ellis; Ann Pumper

Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAnn M. Pumper received her B.S. in Mathematics and Chemistry Education from the UW in Madison, Wisconsin in1997. She is currently working on her M.S. in Science-Education at UW and is teaching chemistry at James MadisonMemorial High School, in Madison, Wisconsin. During the summer of 2000, she participated in the ResearchExperience for Teachers program.C. BRUCE SWANSONC. Bruce Swanson currently teaches at James Madison Memorial High School, in Madison, Wisconsin. He receivedhis B.S. in Chemistry from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois in 1965 and his M.S. in Chemistry-Education from theUW in Madison, Wisconsin. Throughout his 34-year teaching career he has taught chemistry and physics

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thismode of lab instruction could be at four-year dorm-based engineering schools. Students at suchschools can easily collaborate and do basic lab experiments in their dorms. This would free uptheir in class lab time to explore larger more meaningful projects not possible before because oftime or preparation constraints imposed by the need to do basic experiments there. Such studentswill also feel empowered to try experimentation on their own and further inspire their creativeskills.The Future for e- LAB and Online Lab InstructionThere is a call, nationally, to stimulate interest for studies and careers in science and technology Page 6.168.7by

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Michigan University, 1998-2000 Graduate Catalog, The Graduate College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 19982. Webster’s New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition, Victoria Neufeldt (Editor in Chief), Simon & Schuster Inc, New York, 1988WILLIAM R. PETERSONWilliam R. Peterson is an associate professor of Industrial Engineering at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Dr.Peterson received his BIE from Auburn University, his MBA from Kearney State College, and his Ph.D. inIndustrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University. Dr. Peterson had a 20-year career inengineering between his first and last degrees

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Introduction to Engineeringcourse, a planned activity, and a Technical Communication course, an unplanned activity.Outside of teaching, my contributions to my Departmental hosts included performing a numberof small studies I was asked, and able, to lend my talents to. I even did a small amount ofinformal career counseling for students who saw my open, approachable style as a comfortablealternative to some of the more formalized advising taking place within the system. At the endof it all, I was welcomed home with open arms by my Department Head and my Dean.Introduction – Everything’s Planned, Right? In a 1999 paper on sabbatical leaves in higher education1, it was noted that such programsin U.S. higher education began at Harvard University in

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Session 2793 A Tool to Measure Adaptive Expertise in Biomedical Engineering Students Frank T. Fisher, Penelope L. Peterson Department of Mechanical Engineering / School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208AbstractWhile engineering programs must continue to cover the maximum breadth and depth of contentinformation possible, these programs can also take an active role in encouraging and fosteringadditional dispositions to help their graduates adapt to their professional career. We define anadaptive expert as an

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textbooks. For the last part of his career he held the special designation of Eminent Professor. Page 6.190.8 "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"

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use of it. We also expect to get ample publicity through cooperation of the College Marketing and Public Relations department. Page 6.685.5XV. Let the World Know At some point this monster that has been created will be ready for the world to discover. We are planning a Technology Awareness Day at the school. We will also participate in the college wide Career Awareness Day. Several student projects and services will be profiled. The emphasis should be on student achievements, not faculty work. Peer attraction is many orders of magnitude higher than faculty attraction. Membership applications will, of course

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faculty member and if the work will generally take place away from the campuslocation. Sabbatical leaves involving other criteria have been approved but most commonlythese criteria are followed. The requirement for an industrial position recognizes the Schools’mission of preparing students for successful careers in industry. The “away” requirement is totry to maximize the probability the faculty member will not be tempted to partake in “normal”on-campus activities such as faculty meetings!The author’s first sabbatical leave proposal, for the 1992-1993 academic year, was to spend ayear working as a Senior Project Engineer at Delco Electronics Corp. The involvement by theElectronics Manufacturing Development group at Delco was easy to solicit and

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curriculum objectives, industry can serveas a valuable partner in this process.As a requirement for EC 2000 a program must present evaluators with evidence that indicatestheir graduates are achieving professional growth and development. Programs must also showthat students are effectively advised and monitored throughout their academic careers. Industrycan work hand in hand with programs to demonstrate these criteria. As employers, industry canadvise programs regarding the strengths and professional development of active students andgraduates.Through the development of industrial advisory boards, many programs are able to monitor theeffectiveness of their curriculum and performance of past graduates. Industrial advisory boardscan not only provide

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family of devices that are usedin final product designs. This technology is especially important for small production runproducts and initial product designs. Therefore it is more important that students areexposed to these devices early in their academic career. In the migration of the course tothe second semester it was necessary to remove the portion of the course that dealt with themigration of the design from CPLD to a custom device. Thus a new course has beendeveloped that concentrates on that technology, along with advanced VHDL designtechniques.The prototyping board we’ve developed can be used in a variety of courses that rely ondigital logic. We are currently using the board in two courses. The first course we teachusing the board is

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Stephen Stace; Janice Margle

Session 2793 ME and COMP SC (Music, Engineering, and Computer Science) Janice M. Margle and Stephen Stace Engineering/Music & Integrative Arts Penn State Abington College Abington, Pennsylvania 19001Abstract Indications are that more scientists, mathematicians, and engineers will be needed tocompete in the world markets1, 2. However, the majority of young people entering the workforcewill be women and minorities, who traditionally have not pursued careers in

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Kenneth Roberts; Eric A. Cheek; Joseph Monroe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar

GeorgiaInstitute of Technology and North Carolina State University. The NASA-SURE programis currently schedule to continue through 2003.Reasons for the SURE ProgramThere is an increasing demand for a highly-skilled technical workforce in the UnitedStates for the 21st Century. Because of the changing demographics of the United States,there is also a need for increased gender and racial diversity in the advanced science,mathematics, engineering and technology career paths for the next century. For manymathematics, engineering, science, and technology (MSET) academic programs engagedin NASA-supported research there are limited mechanisms for the integration of cutting

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Stephen Maybar; Jerome Zornesky

Session 3547 A New Paradigm for Teaching Circuit Analysis Stephen H. Maybar, Jerome Zornesky Department of Electrical Engineering Technology Technical Career Institutes, New York City NY 10001AbstractTraditionally, circuit analysis has been taught as a two-term sequence with DC circuit analysis inthe first term and AC circuit analysis in the second. The normal two-term sequence may beshortened to a single term if DC and AC analysis are taught concurrently rather thanconsecutively. In the modified sequence, DC circuit analysis is considered as a special case ofAC

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-served segment of research laboratories’traditional educational outreach programs. It gives students from mainstream ruralschools opportunities for research careers while it familiarizes them with modernequipment and techniques in research. Its aim is to enrich this vital, yet historicallyneglected segment of the science and technology education spectrum. Secondly, itinvolves faculty and students working and learning together. Third, it goes beyondcurrent education paradigms to a networked based collaborative approach that enables“hands on” at a distance. Fourth, it guarantees an echo effect which will involve amyriad of students at each home school as well as the local high school students who willbe introduced to the technology and to the

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) graduates enter the research anddevelopment workforce. Eighty five per cent of the graduates enter the manufacturing industryworkforce where they are required to apply and maintain designed and developed pieces ofequipment and devices for production processes. As such, in order to prepare these eighty fiveper cent, it is important to present a course which is more real world and application orientated,such as a course in PLC systems. The author’s own experience is a perfect example of betterpreparing engineering (technology) students for an engineering career in one of themanufacturing industries. One of his first assignments after graduation was working with anelectrical schematic with many -| |- symbols in it. He kept asking, “What are all those

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and career?National Graphics TestsMost recently, graphics educators have concentrated on testing students’ abilities to visualizethrough a number of instruments ranging from spatial visualization through mental rotations.One of the most popular visualization tests is the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotation.With this test, students are given an object and are shown a rotation of that object. They thenmust view a second object and determine its view if it were rotated in the same way as the firstobject. The test is composed of 30 questions and students are given 20 minutes to answer all 30questions. Although some researchers have reported this test as a significant predictor of successin an engineering graphics course6, it is limited to

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American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education “ Mr. Jonathan Bailey Kettering University 1700 W. Third Avenue Flint, Michigan 48504-4898 Hi Jonathan, I am really looking forward to our term together. I hope you're eager to learn new ideas and develop new skills which will serve you well in your professional career Jonathan. It's not unusual for me to have learned more from you that you learned from me. Kettering is a relatively small school so you'll have ample opportunity to get to know your professors personally as well as they you. That's one reason I love teaching so much. I want to invite you to drop by often to see me

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/Resources) (SCANS: Secretary’s Commission forAchieving the Necessary Skills), provided guiding principles for career-oriented curricula.SCANS calls for all courses to strengthen the skills the student will need as a graduate--in theworkplace. In addition to the basic skills the student will need, SCANS calls for students toacquire Thinking Skills and positive Personal Qualities. The three-part foundation is measuredby five competencies: (1) ability to use resources, (2) ability to work with others, (3) ability toacquire and use information, (4) ability to understand complex interrelationships, and (5) abilityto work with a variety of technologies.As a result of SCANS, we began to include more complex projects in mathematics courses. Theprojects

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student who is only there for the grade and not the subject.It must be remembered that it is the demand for technical competence by society that is drivingpeople to technical careers. Students seem different to teachers today partly because they aredifferent. Society is demanding more technically competent workers. Students often do nothave the same internal desires that they once had.However, students actually do have a desire for relevant information, but it seems to them thatmuch of the information that they are being force-fed is not relevant to their situation. The factthat the teacher is a much better judge of relevance is itself irrelevant to this discussion. Theteacher must establish the relevance of the subject for the student in order

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of these subject areas are required by ABET as criteria that must be satisfied for a programto be accredited. Specifically, they are included in Engineering Criteria 2000 which wasadopted by ABET and will be required by all programs for accreditation purposes in the year2001-2002. It appears, therefore, that the knowledge and experience gained by students workingon steel bridge and concrete canoe projects complements the criteria required for accreditation.In addition, the activities should enhance the skills required by engineering students for asuccessful career involving the design and management of engineering and construction projects.AcknowledgmentThe author wishes to recognize Mrs. Debbie Graves for her assistance with the

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pursue a career in that particular area. Can one startwork directly, or does one need further education? Is this a focus more conducive to the researchlaboratory or industry?A third general objective is to evaluate the student’s preparation. The papers written as part ofeach course give evidence as to the student’s preparation. Feedback from each research advisor(at the laboratory site) helps to evaluate both the individual student and the program's ability toprepare the student scholastically. This evaluation is important as part of the senior yearexperience for ABET 2000 goals, as these courses form a capstone for the basic engineering andbiomedical engineering educational experience

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, CA: Sage. Stolze, W. J. (1996). Startup: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching and Page 6.312.11ManagingProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3454 a New Business. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press. Taylor, J. (1997). The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next. New York: Harper Business. Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers Wall Street Journal http

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Terrence Freeman

Session: 1148 Critical Thinking, Communications, and Teamwork Terrence L. Freeman St. Louis Community College at Florissant ValleyIntroductionThe last quarter of the twenty-first century has witnessed a time of accelerating change andincreasing complexity. One of the complexities is the change in demographics that employersand academic institutions are experiencing. Another complexity is the changing nature of work.Today’s graduate can anticipate several job and/or career changes before retirement. Beyondtechnical competence, employers consistently rank communication skills, teamwork