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Elizabeth Godfrey

faculty members comes not from planning but from friendshipsand informal conversations where shared academic interests are discovered and intellectual cross-fertilisationoccurs. Dean, Nov 199814Our tea room, the common room - a very strong point – many visitors who come here make that comment. Weare able to be housed together, that is a distinct advantage HOD2, 14/1/98 The comfortable chairs were arranged in rough circles around low coffee tables, with acouple of larger tables and chairs at either end of the room. Traditionally, staff brought theirtea or coffee to the circle which was not yet filled, and only sat separately if they wished

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

retention measured in this program did not go unnoticed. With someresults from early Gateway pilots, and after the study of retention of OSU engineering students,18in 1996 the Dean formed a Task Force charged "to formulate a plan for a new Lower DivisionProgram to be taken by all engineering undergraduates in the College which both addresses theneeds of all our stake holders and provides an open framework for continuous improvement; andto develop proposals for the implementation of that plan." The Task Force originally suggestedthe development of a 3-course sequence for all freshman entitled Engineering Fundamentalswhich would incorporate a series of hands-on laboratory exercises in a variety of engineeringdisciplines. This would have been modeled

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Zhong Gu; Sheela Ramanna; James Peters; Hal Berghel; Daniel Berleant; Steve Russell

established through an ongoing project in which weapply software engineering to assist in the pedagogy of diverse courses at Iowa StateUniversity, University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, and University of Nevada, LasVegas. A review of courses and topics affected is given next, followed by a procedure we havedeveloped for applying the approach to a particular course.Table 1 lists courses that we have addressed, and Table 2 lists courses that are soon to beaddressed and for which plans for how to do this are fully in place. These tables show thediversity of courses to which our approach can be applied. In fact, we hope eventually toaddress the full range of courses in electrical engineering and computing curricula (except forsoftware

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Wil Clouse; Terry Goodin

freedto innovate and to think creatively about future ventures. The course is targeted atstudents who would like to create their own business and they are given the opportunityto develop a business plan from one of their own ideas. Students from entirely differentprograms, like Human and Organizational Development and Engineering, areencouraged to work collaboratively on joint projects. Opportunities to share their ideaswith other entrepreneurs are made possible. The course is meant to teach students howto dream about new ideas and how to take new business ventures to the marketplace. Inpart, entrepreneurship is defined as a "state of mind -- artful, insightful and innovativementality rather than a business management or administration concept

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Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Session 3213 Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory V.L. Young, D. Ridgway, M.E. Prudich, D.J. Goetz, and B.J. Stuart Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractGoals for student learning in Unit Operations Laboratory are diverse. Students are to developskills in the planning and execution of experiments, the interpretation of experimental data, andthe communication of technical information. Additional goals include gaining familiarity withprocess equipment, improving teamwork skills, and developing professional habits in

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Shirley Fleischmann

of tools, machines, and components), and cultural literacy(knowledge of how to communicate and how to properly place a design into a socialframework). Design-based instruction includes aspects of all 5 steps in design and alsoincludes the supporting types of literacy for those steps. A planning matrix that enablesthe instructor to plan the mix and balance of design steps and types of literacy ispresented. This approach can also be used to clearly document how ABET 2000 criteriaare met in a given project or course presentation. Specific projects used by the author arepresented to illustrate the planning matrix and also the ABET 2000 documentation.IntroductionImagine having a major design project that is so popular that students enter

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Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

;attending lectures on codes and standards, ethics, intellectual property, and safety/productliability; undergoing project planning/scheduling experiences; and developing an awareness ofdifferent career paths. This is also accomplished through teamwork exercises where studentslearn to work on disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams.To ensure that students are on a path for life long learning the senior experience needs to leadstudents to realize that they must continue to learn on their own after graduation to remaincurrent in technological world that is rapidly changing. The senior experience should helpstudents develop confidence in their ability to learn on their own. It should stimulate theirintellectual curiosity. These things can be

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once a week• Effectively plan appropriate activities designed to meet the specific needs of the first year engineering student.• Must take initiative with regard to programming for seminar, as well as office specific record keeping and data base management• Work closely with freshman advisors in disseminating registration and scheduling information to all first year students• Hold at least 2 hours of office hours in the Engineering Student Services Center each week• Work with the faculty for ENGR0011 and assure each student makes their oral presentationMentor Job RequirementsObviously the main requirement of the mentor is to facilitate their seminar section, howeverthere are also a number of responsibilities, requirements

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Constantin Chassapis; Kishore Pochiraju; Sven Esche

wholeeducational experience is the fostering of independent entrepreneurship through Technogenesis, acornerstone of the institute’s strategic plan. Technogenesis is the educational frontier at SITwherein faculty, students, and colleagues from industry jointly nurture the process of conception,design, and marketplace realization of technology.The scope and complexity of the planned curriculum developments to address the above requirecareful planning of assessment procedures to ensure the educational integrity of the resultingprogram. Therefore, the School of Engineering (SoE) formed an assessment committee andcharged it with the implementation of outcomes-based assessment by quantitative measurements ofperformance and attitudes throughout a hierarchical

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

develop his/her oral and written communica-tion skills for work in the schools, all fellows take a 2-credit course in the fall semester titled“Communicating Science.” In this course the fellows are taught to develop lesson plans and todevelop age-appropriate oral and written materials. Fellows are also familiarized with the nationaland state standards and the Michigan Educational Assessment Program--these are some of thedriving forces behind the course and program changes that teachers request. During the course, Page 6.1031.3the fellows also help deliver Family Science, Family Math, and Family Computing nights at localProceedings of the 2001

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

transmitted via onboardtransmitters and has been received on the ground using a receiver and displayed on televisionmonitor. The captured images are currently being analyzed using Multispec1 an image analysispackage developed at Purdue University. A commercially available software package calledERDAS2 will also be used for image analysis in the future. Future plans also includeexperiments/applications in the infrared region as well. The scientific objectives includegenerating information concerning vegetation growth, shoreline erosion, changing land usepatterns and wildlife management. Initial tests are being performed on surfaces that havedistinctly different spectral signatures such that pattern classification can be done with relativeease.More

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George DeLancey

education and to satisfy Criterion 3. The individual programobjectives at the Program Level, required in Criteria 2 and 8, can then be expressed as matters ofemphasis and application within this general structure. The implied learning objectives arefinally expressed at the Course Level.An interdepartmental committee developed a comprehensive set of educational goals over twoacademic years. The committee considered the outcomes stated by ABET in Criterion 3,published studies from the engineering community1 and Stevens’ Strategic Plan. The committeefollowed very closely a well-known model for the development of an outcomes-basedassessment plan2. The following definitions were extracted from that model and constantattention was paid to terminology

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Frederick Orthlieb

permit3. Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing in Engineering.4. Textbook: none Reference: Martin, J. Campbell, The Successful Engineer: Personal and ProfessionalSkills - a Sourcebook, McGraw-Hill, 1993. ISBN 0-07-040725-85. Course Objectives: To give Engineering students the opportunity to select, plan, execute, complete and report asignificant open-ended project intended to confront and, if possible, solve a significant problem of interest to themunder the guidance of an Engineering faculty member. See Course Outcomes Matrix.6. Topics Covered (actual experiences): Selecting a problem of interest within one’s range of competence and of suitable scope Preparing a pre-proposal letter of intent Drafting, revising and

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Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

student/group prepares a “Project Proposal”. Thisproposal includes the formulation and statement of the design problem, and provides a generaldescription of the planned approach to the design activity. It also specifies the outcomes anddeliverables. The proposal also specifies the faculty members who have agreed to formallyadvise the project, and the basis upon which Senior Project I and II will be graded.At the end of the first semester (Senior Project I), a preliminary design report is submitted alongwith a formal preliminary design presentation. The written report redefines the statement of theproblem, the analysis of the problem, and a preliminary design of the system. The reportincludes: a) Formulation and statement of design

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

be compelled to use all styles. Individuals whose preference for a givenstyle is particularly strongcan determine the niches within which they will be more likely to succeed. According to Wankat andOreovicz51, accommodators tend to move toward management, sales and marketing; divergers movetoward personnel and creative positions. Convergers tend toward hard-core engineering jobs such as plantoperations, design, and construction. Assimilators gravitate toward research, development, and planning. Page 6.486.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Thompson

2 3 4 1 5 0 4 5 0 4 1 5 4 1 5 0 6 5 0 5 0 7 4 1 4 1 8 5 0 4 1 9 4 1 4 1 10 4 1 3 2 Total 42 7 39 10 Note: PE = Petroleum Engineers, GE = Geological EngineersThe teamwork can be described as interdependent self-directed teamwork. The assignedproblems were open-ended and required the input from multiple disciplines and data sources.Students define specific objectives, plan, and schedule their work to meet deadlines set by thefaculty team. Based on these parameters, the participants were ideal for studying the

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William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

is associated with oneor more educational outcomes, and students are encouraged to attach electronic copies of their actual work,e.g., reports, PowerPoint presentations, CAD files, spreadsheets, programs, digital pictures of designprojects, etc., to their descriptions. The descriptions submitted by instructors are used to generate a matrixof coursework vs. educational outcomes that is used for curriculum planning and evaluation. Thedescriptions that are submitted by students serve two primary purposes.First, students develop and maintain a personal, electronic portfolio that serves as an extended resume andcan be used for professional advancement. The usefulness of this extended electronic resume is theprimary motivation for students to

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Kathryn Jablokow

this component/stage.The final component, Preparing for Action, includes two stages: Developing Solutions andBuilding Acceptance. In this component, students focus on giving promising ideas or options thebest chance of becoming successful solutions by considering sources of assistance and resistanceand looking for ways to overcome the latter. The final result of this component is a specificAction Plan for each idea to be carried forward. The CPS model forms the foundation for thesemester-long course project, which will be discussed further in Section 7.0. Page 6.1041.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Waleed Smari; Jon Stevens; Andrew Murray

project’s web site. The next two sections present the problem statementdeveloped by the team and summarize their final designs.2.1 Problem StatementStatement of Need: The University of Dayton’s School of Engineering resides in Kettering Labs, KL for short. The building houses the majority of the School of Engineering’s classrooms, offices, and laboratory space. Civil Engineering uses a lab space located on the first floor as storage space. The existing floor plan and an interior shot of the lab’s largest room are shown in Figure 1. This lab is situated in the middle of space otherwise used by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MEE). A recent space audit by the School of Engineering has advanced the notion of moving three

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Edgar Conley; Linda Riley

computer andemail systems. A small percentage of our classes focused on discipline specific engineeringtools. For example, in a couple of class during the semester the mechanical engineers studiedgears, bolts and 4-bar mechanisms while the IE students explored process improvementstrategies using such tools as Lego activities and simulation.Project design - We expended considerable effort in creating project assignments that containedthe ‘right’ assortment of task planning, logo design, hands-on fabrication, testing, and reportwriting. The assignments were undertaken in teams consisting of both mechanical and industrialengineering students and in all cases stressed informal and formal communication skills. Aswith any design class, the problem was

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Molly Johnson; Cathie Scott; Cynthia Atman

shown in the summary of the course syllabus in Table 1, the course was divided into threeparts. Several other topics that were deemed too important to exclude, such as teachingportfolios, teaching for diversity, ABET criteria, and course planning, were integrated intoclassroom activities during the term. These topics were covered in various ways, includinglectures given both by visitors and the instructors. The primary course text was McKeachie’sTeaching Tips.13 This text was extensively supplemented with selected readings. One additionalsignificant activity in the course was the writing of a personal statement of teaching philosophy.This activity was integrated into the last half of the course and took place primarily outside ofclass, although

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D. Yogi Goswami

introduction to Photovoltaics (cells, arrays and College Email: aurora@crest.org systems).Solar, Heat Transfer, http://aurora.crest.org/basics/index.htm Basic information on topics of solar, heat transfer, electricity CollegeElectricity and Email: aurora@crest.org and energy consumption.Energy ConsumptionSolar Project http://www.picoturbine.com/projectlist.htm Describes and lists solar project plans and kits including Solar Grade 5 through Email: comments@picoturbine.com Stovetop Cooker Pattern, Basic Solar Electricity Education

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Priya Olden; Nikunja Swain; Maurice Robinson; James A. Anderson; James Parker; Cristal Caroll; Alan Seedarsan

limitations. However, we will be glad to present few of them during our conference presentation.C. Team Presentations to K-12 community The team presented their work in local conferences. We are glad to say that one of their presentations received a second prize in a local conference. They also demonstrated their work to third graders, fifth graders and seventh graders to simulate their interest in math, science and engineering technology. The teachers and students liked the presentation/demonstration to the K-12 community.IV. On-going Work The student team is currently working on VIs related to Internet. We plan to use these VIs for remote control, data acquisition, and distributed computing

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Saeid Y. Eidgahy

critical in engineeringeducation is the ability to communicate effectively with people who have preparationsother than engineering. In other words, in order for a new innovative technical project tobe funded, a marketing manager or someone with an accounting or managementbackground must be convinced of its benefits. An engineer must be able to constantlycommunicate in verbal and written forms with non-engineers. This will facilitate thegathering, integrating and conveying of information in many formats.Engineers often work as part of a team composed of many members with variedbackgrounds. As a result, developing skills in managing other people and accomplishingrequired tasks is a universal requirement for any engineer. This may involve planning

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Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

;M University College Station, TX 77843-3123AbstractMechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University is reducing the required number ofundergraduate degree credit hours from 138 to 130 or 132 credit hours. Two long-standingcourses, Properties of Materials (4 credit hours) and Manufacturing Processes (3 credit hours),will become one new junior level course (4 credit hours). Both of the predecessor courses hadlaboratory components as will the new course. This paper describes the process used to developthe course. An outline of the topics covered and the laboratory activities are included in thepaper. One thrust of the laboratory portion of the course will allow students to make choices andto plan their

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Jamie Workman

advise, always have more planned that can be accomplished, andalways have a backup plan. Patience is not one of children’s best characteristics, and much oftheir impression on how well the course is executed is based on the success of the activities andwhether or not they were “bored.”This program is also an exercise for the instructor. Unlike the traditional lecture hall setting, thisenvironment requires the instructor to be very dynamic and flexible, use multiple modes toconvey ideas, be able to “think on their toes,” as well as be patient, supportive, and creative.This experience for the students can be the one that sparks their interest in the ET fields, orpotentially the one that turns them off the subject forever. Probably the results are

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The program was run through a partnership between Penn State and Westinghouse ElectricCorporation until 1992, when Penn State assumed sole responsibility for the program.2Approximately 1,200 engineers from 58 countries have attended the 13-week intensive program.2The Advanced School of Power Engineering program provides a comprehensive graduate leveleducation in power systems engineering. Topics covered include generation, transmission,distribution, operation and system planning.3 The program is intended to provide a balance of Page 6.389.1 3theory and

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Jerry Samples

oriented, relevant to real world issues, and thatevoke student motivation.”4 Student motivation is one of the most important factors to academicsuccess. Poorly developed instruction can reduce motivation. So, is it the technology or theprofessor that causes this loss of motivation? Essentially it is the lack of pedagogy: an instructorproblem.The issue of teaching with technology is not new; although the explosion of technology isaccelerating the rate of implementation of technology in many forms. Wankat7 provides a list ofguidelines for the successful use of technology based on a 1977 study. These include: 1. Plan use for a specific audience. 2. Define objectives which are relevant to the audience. 3. Pick a technological medium

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Craig Johnson

discussions. Timelyclass discussions and feedback helped motivate the less self-directed students.Implementing this web-centric course caused minimum impact to the program and measurableimpact to the educational environment. A similar effort is planned for another elective courseMET382 Plastics and Composites.IntroductionWeb-based education is a growing field and is making an impact at all levels. The recent reportof the Web-based Education Commission 1 states: “The power of the Internet to transform the Page 6.406.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela Mack; Yacob Astatke

course was to make sure that none of thestudents placed in the Math 106 - Basic Algebra remedial course. The results of theprogram which had 13 participants were excellent: 7 students placed in Math-241(Calculus I) and 6 students placed in Math-141, which is one semester Pre-Calculuscourse. Plans are on the way to expand the program and offer the course to 50-75students next summer. Page 6.126.1‘‘Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering 1 Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education’’I. IntroductionThe biggest concern