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James Rehg

movement through the course content. However, web courses become non-linear, and student movement through the course must be carefully planned and controlled withsufficient and effective navigational aids. The ability of students to move along differentinstructional paths as they navigate the material makes it difficult to verify that every topic wascovered. In addition, the course designer must make sure that the learner does not get lost in ajungle of hypertext links among related materials.The work associated with step two, creating a course script in the HyperText Markup Language,is the most demanding because it is not uncommon for a course to have hundreds of HTMLpages. Links to fourteen course templates in HTML are provided in this paper to

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Walter Vincent; Nipha P. Kumar; Craig A. Bernecker

course development.'Noncontiguous' is the word that Shaba5 uses to describe this physical separation betweeninstructor and learner. However, as one becomes more involved in designing instruction in adistance environment, other pedagogical issues emerge. Should distance course workdevelopment, as Keegan6 suggests, attempt to 're-create' the face-to-face teaching and learning Page 3.220.1experience that takes place in the traditional classroom? Further, what kinds of learningexperiences can be included?Moore and Kearsley7 expand the definition of distance education to suggest that not only isdistance education "planned learning that normally

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Mahmood Nahvi

years the course and the lab have been offered in the spring quarters with animpacted average class size of 35 students. The course has been well received by the students.During the 1997-98 academic year the course is being offered twice. Because of the need forupgrading DSP workstations and adding image processing platforms, a new phase has beenstarted with support provided by an NSF/ILI grant and donations from industry. Our previousexperience in developing the DSP platforms was greatly useful in implementing the currentproject: how to plan, combine, and interface financial resources from the ILI grant and universitymatching funds with equipment donations from industry.The new lab is being used for the first time in the winter and spring

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Eric W. Tisdale

tapes and chemicals sent to homes. It is possible but expensive to send awell equipped electronic laboratory to an individual home. This would require a multi-meter,AC-DC signal sources, an oscilloscope, a prototype board, and RLC discrete components. It ispossible that given a very good video tape walk-through on all of the equipment and each of thelaboratory exercises, the student could learn something and that the equipment might survive.Should this plan be approached, considering the cost, the potential to teach electronics ismarginal. The opportunity to make mistakes in the presence of someone who can assist in therecovery from those mistakes is a necessary element of the hands-on-laboratory. A laboratorywithout the possibility of mistakes

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Douglas H. Baxter

compared to a Windows is much higher thus there is a possible costadvantage providing no loss of function is encountered using a Windows based system.The plan is to teach a trial section of EG&CAD on a Windows 95 system for the summerof 1998.6.0 References1. Bunk, Donald S., The Role of Solid-Modeling In Engineering Graphics, American Society for Engineering Education, Regional Meeting, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, October 2, 1993.2. Bunk, Donald S. and Baxter, Douglas H., An “On-line” Course in Solid Modeling, American Society for Engineering Education, Regional Meeting, Union College, Schenectady, New York, September 22- 23, 1995. This paper may be accessed electronically at: http://www.rpi.edu/~baxted

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Jeffrey S. Beasley; Charles T. Townley

education and industry, have appeared in theTechnology Interface. Forty of these articles were authored by representatives from highereducation and seven from industry. There have been 31,415 article hits for the TechnologyInterface as of January 12, 1998. Archival and Security IssuesIt is our intent to leave all issues of Technology Interface on-line. We also plan to place a searchengine on-line so that viewers can easily search past articles. In addition, the TechnologyInterface is on the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL)9 and the Internet searchengines Yahoo2 and Lycos10.Security includes password protection on the UNIX host. A CD ROM backup for the first year is

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Olusegun Odesina; Nicholas Akinkuoye

. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 21(2), 60-69.Blackburn, R. T., O’Connell, C., & Pellino, G. (1980). Evaluating faculty performance. In P. Jedamus, & M. W. Peterson (Eds.), Improving academic management: A handbook of planning and instructional research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Bowen, H. R., & Schuster, J. H. (1986). American professors: A national resource imperiled. New York: Oxford University Press.Bowman, C. C. (1988). The college professors in America. New York: Amo Press.Duff, J. M. (1988). Tenure and promotion: A response. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 25(2), 70.Dutton, J. C., & Addy, A. L. (1986). Clearing the hurdles along the tenure track. Engineering Education, 63(5), 660-663.Jones, M. S

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Craig Gunn

. Changes in your plans or future courseworkc. Impact of experience on potential career options.IV. Overall Evaluationa. The level to which your employment experience has met your expectations?b. Ways in which it has differed from your objectives?c. Ways that your assignment could be improved by your employer?d. Ways in which it could be improved by you?e. Level to which your assignment has provided a broad, developmental experience?f. Level to which your co-op assignment has given you a progressive, in-depth learningexperience?g. Information that your professors should know about your assignment, your educationalenrichment, your technical accomplishments and your overall development as an engineer?For the students then, the answers to the above

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Robert J. Hofinger

deploying such technologies, will be in the forefront. • Teamwork will become the watchword, and in an increasingly global marketplace, teamwork will be expected on an international level. Will our engineers be able to work effectively on multinational teams?As we go about our profession as engineering educators, plan our courses, and advise ourstudents, we must keep one question in the forefront: Are we preparing students to be 21stcentury engineers? The challenge is greater than ever before, and engineering educators must bebetter and broader than ever. What is being done to increase the instructor’s knowledge aboutthe increases in technology? We owe our students and the technical competitiveness of thisnation no less

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

authors were encouraged by how well web-based testing worked for the material in some portions of the course and plan to explore thattesting method more in the future. Student response to the web-based tests was generallypositive. However this may have been partially because of the novelty of the experience. Page 3.296.6Concluding CommentsAlthough there were a few disadvantages associated with the switch from C++ to Mathcad, inthe opinion of the authors those disadvantages were more than offset by the numerousadvantages provided by Mathcad. Student enthusiasm for the package has been much higherthan has been observed for any of the traditional

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Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft

, and Society (STS) demonstrate efforts to integrateseemingly disparate disciplines, but also show willingness to challenge traditional ways of as-sessing technical, economic, social, and ecological changes engineers bring about. When theUnited Nations Earth Summit of 1992 has heads of state and heads of government representingninety-eight percent of the world's population signing an agenda for the twenty-first century, im-pacts on curricular planning ought to be profound. Agenda 21 and “The Rio Declaration”(1992)—and the pronouncements of the Earth Summit plus Five in New York in June of 1997—are not the statements of radical fringe groups, nor are they merely vague statements of intent.Concepts in these documents demand rethinking our

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Barbara Olds

-point scale from 4 = strongly agree to 0 = strongly disagree): x The writing assignments helped me to think more analytically (2.5) x I have learned to write more effectively because of this course (2.5) x I am more confident as a writer now than I was before taking this course (2.4) x I have learned to see my own writing problems and work towards solving them (2.6) x This course has enabled me to write for a variety of audiences and purposes (2.5) x I have improved my own writing processes (2.6)We plan to use these responses as well as feedback from a summer 1998 evaluation by the CSMassessment committee to improve the writing component of NHV. We will also conductinterviews with faculty who

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Mualla ÖNER; Gürses ÖNER

preliminarydesign. Kister extended the McCabe-Thiele diagram to columns having multiple feeds, multipleside products, multiple points of heat removal or addition (e.g., intercondensers or interreboilers),and any combination of these features.[3] To plan the design roughly on a McCabe-Thiele diagramis a great help in obtaining a swift convergence of the simulation program. Hence, this type ofproblem is of value in making students consider the McCabe-Thiele construction as a flexible toolrather than a rigid routine. This simplified graphical procedure is suitable for making initial designestimates of columns. For the preliminary design, this method is very useful to provide anapproximate solution for analyzing column design and performance. The number of

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J.P. Trudeau; Alan R. Klayton; A.L. Clark; Daniel J. Pack

project, we conducted an in-house mobile robot maze navigation competition (see Figure 2). DISCUSSIONIn this section we present some overall course observations, made by those who designed and Page 3.330.4administered the course to the students, followed by student feedback. Figure 4. A photo of a maze and a robot traveling through it.A careful planning effort by multiple individuals before the first class meeting was the key factorin making the course successful. We had to design and construct simple but useful robot bodies;motors and sensors had to be selected, tested, purchased, and

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Francis D. McVey; James D. Lang

Engineering Solutions in a Global/Societal Context • Understanding that Engineering Solutions are Affected by and should be Responsible to Limited Resource Availability • Understanding that Engineering Solutions Impact the Environment (e.g. CFCs, Heavy Metals, Energy Consumption, etc.) • Understanding that Engineering Solutions alter the Structure of Society (e.g. Air Transportation)(i) Recognition of the Need For, and an Ability to Engage in Life-Long Learning • Understanding that Skill Training is an Employee’s Responsibility and a Part of Page 3.335.7 Life Long Learning • Plans and Commitments to Skill

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Ronald J. Bennett

responsibilities with strategic leadershippositions in manufacturing, science-based or technology dependent firms.There are six recurrent themes framed by the objective of integrating the technological andbusiness cultures:1. Integrating technology into the organization’s strategic plan;2. Promoting cross-disciplinary team building and total quality management;3. Managing technology-driven change;4. Promoting an environment conducive to change;5. Developing integrated systems; and6. Promoting global thinking.The program deals with the issues and methodologies involved in innovation, technologytransfer, bringing new technologies to market, the integration of technology into the strategicobjectives of the firm, managing technical

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Murali Krishnamurthi

careers, and 84% indicatedthat the assignments and discussions were sufficient to exercise the concepts on ethics covered inthe course. Students’ written comments indicated that the course activities raised their awarenessof ethical issues in modeling, the need for modelers to exercise professional responsibility, andhow tactfully one may have to resolve ethical dilemmas in real-life situations.The experiences gained from this effort can be summarized in the form of the followingrecommendations for those interested in integrating ethics into their modeling courses:1. It is necessary to plan ahead to integrate ethics into a modeling course without sacrificing course topics, design course activities that highlight ethical considerations, and

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Murali Krishnamurthi

careers, and 84% indicatedthat the assignments and discussions were sufficient to exercise the concepts on ethics covered inthe course. Students’ written comments indicated that the course activities raised their awarenessof ethical issues in modeling, the need for modelers to exercise professional responsibility, andhow tactfully one may have to resolve ethical dilemmas in real-life situations.The experiences gained from this effort can be summarized in the form of the followingrecommendations for those interested in integrating ethics into their modeling courses:1. It is necessary to plan ahead to integrate ethics into a modeling course without sacrificing course topics, design course activities that highlight ethical considerations, and

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Michael Tarnowski; Sara Wadia-Fascetti

motivational objectives. Additionally, faculty who teach the same students inlater years have noticed a marked improvement in student writing abilities. The laboratorycourse provides students with marketable skills in communication, teamwork, and with computerapplications. Furthermore, the new laboratory curricula helps them in the theory-based course.Future plans for the laboratory include the integration of data acquisition methods.SARA WADIA-FASCETTI is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University where she isactively involved in a research program on structural condition assessment. She completed a B.S. in CivilEngineering at Carnegie Mellon and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering at Stanford University

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Eldon D. Case

behaviors for houseguests. Carrying throughwith the same logic, the guest might walk around the host’s home, asking the price of variousitems. “Fifty dollars? Well that is a bit expensive... Fifteen dollars, not too expensive! I thinkI’ll steal it”. Such a person might show up at Bill Gate’s home with a semi-truck and a movingcrew, since for Bill, most household items would be inexpensive.The third “ethics” meeting of the MSM 885 class was held at the request of the class. In fact, wewere obliged to arrange for another time and classroom for the third ethics session, since onlytwo case study discussions had been planned, and my colleague, who taught the “regular” part ofthe seminar course needed all of the remaining class meetings to finish the

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Sohail Anwar

Pennsylvania State University, the SETCE Head has had theauthority to enter into this collaboration. Also, both the French Government and thePennsylvania State University recognize the importance of international collaborations.3. Continuous Evaluations - Assessments are conducted immediately after each activity andthe planning for the next activity is carried out while the results of the previous activity are stillfresh in everyone’s mind. OBSTACLES1. The Penn State students who obtain industrial placements in France get paid for workingin industry. The IUT Bethune students who get industrial placements in the USA usually do notget paid for their work. The industrial internship is an unpaid

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D. Raj Raman

. While it may have been possible to coverthis material in the 15 weeks available, covering material and teaching students are notsynonymous. The mid-term exam bore this out clearly; until that point the course had beenmoving according to plan. But the midterm results were dismal (57% average), and stronglyindicative of a failure on my part to adequately explain the fundamentals of mass and energybalances. A two week period after the mid-term was spent carefully reviewing thesefundamentals, and the course contents were reduced to allow slower, more considered coverageof the remaining material.Student performance ranged from excellent to poor, with two students making A’s, one making aD, and an average grade of 3.1/4.0. Student evaluations of the

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

have been devoted to plans, achievements, problems, and experiences of various coali-tions and/or coalition member institutions. The results and experiences of these coalitions shouldprovide guidance for change and the process of change.Factor 24: Curriculum emphasis and nressuresThe future of engineering education will include fewer hours (many state legislatures havealready decreed a set number of hours, generally fewer than in unregulated engineering curricula,for curricula in state-supported schools). University core curricula committees are demandingmore and more hours in existing curricula; engineering curricula problems are not viewed withmuch sympathy by most of the university community. See also the discussion for Factors 3 and9

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Carol Richardson

pp. 7-156 It appears that many of the peaks in attrition in Table #2 occur whenadministrative reorganization at RIT has been implemented. The attrition rates for CASTwhich houses all of the engineering technology programs have decreased each year withexception of 1995. In 1995, CAST eliminated three large schools in CAST and moved allfunctions of the schools either down into the departments or up to the College toeliminate staff to provide funding for the new RIT strategic plan initiatives. The schoolseliminated were the School of Engineering Technology, the School of Computer Scienceand Information Technology, and the School of Food, Hotel, and Travel Managementwhose programs enroll the majority of the CAST students. Table 2 shows

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the last 10 years, nearly two-thirds of all public institutions have received less statefunding. In the same period, however, nearly eight in 10 colleges have increased their overallenrollment12. This means that the potential for minorities to get lost in the institutional mazecould be compounded due to the stretching of resources. MEPs across the nation should haveassessment plans that demonstrate their value to the overall success of students. Each shouldhave specific achievable goals by which to measure success. MEPs must have a strong sense ofidentity as to what they bring to an educational institution from mapping the national and stategoals to aligning with the university goals for quality education. MEPs must be able to provethat they

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Kenneth Belanus; John Hartin

thecomponents are not made due to the inability of the existing laboratory equipment to provideaccurately controlled excitation of the structure. It is being planned as a future improvement to Page 2.127.6extract mode shape data from four channel data for comparison to the analytical predictions.Conclusions The total experience requires the use of the computer, both as an experimental tool, toacquire and manipulate data, and as an analytical tool to analyze large quantities of data and toconduct sophisticated matrix analysis of structures. Some conclusions to be made concerning theoutcome of the effort. 1. The usefulness of a frequency

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

session to generate new ideas to solve the problems posed.Each student design team presented an oral and written proposal for their chosen approach. Theapproved proposal was then developed into an implementation plan. Each stage of the projectwas evaluated by the group and their professor through the use of project review sessions,progress memos, and individual journals.12 Page 2.134.5One requirement for each team was to develop tests for selected aspects of their proposeddesigns. We believe that this is another essential component in developing our students’ designskills by presenting them with opportunities to design experiments in support of

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T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

PRIDE will maximize the likelihood of inclusion at various levels into different typesof curriculums. Finally, PRIDE presents a general curricular structure useful to many areas of researchand education.References 1. Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, “Optoelectronics Technology Road Map: Con- elusions and Recommendations,” (1994). 2. National Research Council, “Photonics: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Information Era,” Na- tional Academic Press, (1988). 3. Critical Technologies Plan, Report AD-A234 900, Department of Defense, submitted to Committee on Armed Services, US Congress, (1991). 4. Guide to Optics Courses and Programs in North American Colleges and Universities, published annually by

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Richard Ciocci

cleanliness of the surroundings, where their effects on theperformance and the reliability of the product are of primary concern. As important as the use environmentis to the performance of the product, the manufacture and the use of the product are important to the globalenvironment. All product and process materials come from and eventually return to the environment, suchthat the residual effects are critical to global well-being. The main drivers for environmental consideration activities can be divided into those that are internalto the organization and those that are external. Internal drivers are those that result from conscious businesspolicies, such as environmental stewardship, and from an employee- or community-oriented business plan

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Samuel P. Clemence; Daniel J. McGinley

innovative approach to include these important subjects in the engineering curriculum Page 2.268.7prepares engineers for their future. IPP programs address the proposed accreditation criteriafrom ABET, the education action plans of professional societies like NSPE and ASCE, and the“visioning” of ACEC. Being exposed to this information during the formative stage of anengineering career is undeniably necessary. Now is the time for engineering professionals to“plant trees under which they may never sit.”Endnotes1 ABET (1996), Engineering Criteria 2000, December 1995, Criteria for Accrediting Programs inEngineering in the United States approved for a two