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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beth Kolko; Linda Whang

learning to use such a wide variety of electronic resources responsibly andeffectively, and this paper is an attempt to bring together many of those efforts, compilingdifferent strategies and providing a framework for extending and refining them. Ultimately, ofcourse, our goal is to discuss the utility of proposing discipline-specific criteria for dealing withthese general issues and laying out some general strategies for engineering educators.The Internet as a Research Resource for StudentsThat the World Wide Web has become integrated into higher education is clear. Both studentsand teachers continue to find novel uses for information technology both inside and outside theclassroom. And despite worries of plagiarism and reinforcing sloppy writing

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Fan Lau; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

- Compel students to work effectively in teams, as much of the work required skills from the various engineering disciplines - Reinforce core concepts from engineering pre- and co-requisites such as chemistry, physics, and biologyMicrobial Fuel Cell TechnologyFuel cell technology and alternative energy sources such as biofuels and photovoltaics aredeveloping technologies that are exciting to students. Microbial fuel cells operate on the sameprinciples as the more widely used (and more powerful) hydrogen fuel cells. Rather than a non-renewable source such as natural gas, however, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use biomass as thesubstrate and microorganisms as the catalyst. While MFCs in which various types of subtratesand waste

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vamsy Chodavarapu; Bill Kirkey; Alexander Cartwright; Pratibha Gopalam

correctly pointed out by "Wallace and Mutooni" [2], merely presenting thematerial using World Wide Web based multimedia technologies does not guarantee thatstudents will use it effectively. Therefore, in addition to developing the online materials,we have taken utmost care in seeing that all students can benefit from these resources bymodifying the three photonics courses to address many of the guidelines pointed out bythe "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs" [3] set by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET).It is a daunting task to develop sufficient simulations to cover all areas of photonics. Thearea of photonics is vast and overlaps with many diverse areas such as SemiconductorPhysics, Opto-Electronics, MOEMS

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Thompson

Session 2793 Engineering Center Residence Hall Program David R. Thompson, Steven D. Langstraat, and Virgil Nichols College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Oklahoma State UniversityIntroductionPlanning in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma StateUniversity throughout the decade of the 1990’s, called for increased student recruitment andretention. Engineering and Architectural programs in the College operate under the professionalschool concept. Students are admitted to the first two years of pre-professional study and thenmust be

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

skills, or program outcomes, are also thecornerstone of the program's self-study report for ABET accreditation.) This paperaddresses the planning and development of portfolios for assessing students' achievementat the end of their programs in aerospace engineering at MIT.BackgroundIn its strategic plan of 1998, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) committed to major reform of itscurriculum, teaching and learning methods, and laboratory environments. To achieve itsgoals, the department framed its curriculum to model a product system life cycle. Thefour phases in the curriculum are referred to as Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate(CDIO). The Conceive stage includes defining the need and

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationmore apparent as worldwide manufacturing and experimentation becomes more automated.References1. Agilent Technologies staff, Advanced Programming Techniques, Ma rch 2000.2. Agilent Technologies staff, Agilent IO Libraries Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows, 4 th edition, May 2000.3. Agilent Technologies staff, User’s Guide, March 2000.4. Helsel, R., Visual Programming with HP VEE, third (1998) edition, Pren tice Hall, Inc.5. Hewlett Packard staff, Controlling Instruments with HP VEE, 1998 edition.6. Hewlett Packard staff, Getting Started with HP VEE, 1998 edition.7. Hewlett Packard staff, HP VEE Advanced

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Betsy Dulin

Session 2461 Teaching Engineers How to Make A Difference: Integration of Public Policy Concepts into Engineering Curricula Betsy Ennis Dulin Marshall University College of Information Technology and EngineeringAbstractEngineers, regardless of their areas of specialization, routinely are involved in projects withbroad public policy implications. For example, engineers usually play a leading role in thedesign, permitting, and construction of controversial facilities. In addition, the design anddevelopment of any new technology

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ann McKenna

generate another report for presentation at the quarterly Director’s meeting to take place in Maui, Hawaii, in November. Figure 2. Example of one challenge used in Bioprocess Technology, fall 2001.Topics addressed in this challenge include microbial kinetics, stoichiometry of growth andproduct formation, biomass formation and substrate utilization. Similar to the bio-optics and Page 7.230.7biofilms courses students worked in teams to solve the challenge and engaged in class “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

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Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Analysis Financial Statements Simulation methods Bottom Tier (< Financial Statements Bottom Tier (< Valuing Stocks, Bonds, and IPs 2.6) Valuing Stocks, Bonds, and IPs 3.5)Bibliography1. Farragher, Edward J., Robert T. Kleiman, and Anandi P. Sahu, “Current Capital Investment Practices,” TheEngineering Economist, Vol. 44, No.2, 1999, (pp. 137-150).2. Klammer, T., B. Koch, and N. Wilner, “Capital Budgeting Practices – A Survey of Corporate Use,” Journal ofManagement Accounting Research, Fall 1991, (pp. 113-130).PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at Old DominionUniversity. His

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Prusak

. IntroductionSignificance accorded to engineering knowledge, engineering skills and inventiveness vary fromcountry to country. Learning process starting in early childhood and teaching methods usedreflect functioning of the society a person is raised in. The result is formation of a professionalmolded by the society to its cultural and ethical environment and largely to its self-perceivedneeds. Technological competition on the global market requires a deeper insight into asignificance of various aspects of engineering knowledge and inventiveness. Different approachesto the education of engineers should be scrutinized and recognized for their strengths andweaknesses.It is widely accepted in North American culture, that reasons a person is gifted intellectually

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Haws

“professional” degrees are in Civil Engineering (an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah; and amaster’s and Ph.D. from Brigham Young University). I also have an undergraduate degree in English from theUniversity of California at Berkeley, and a master’s in Instructional and Performance Technology from Boise StateUniversity. I will complete a third master’s in Technical Communication this coming winter at Boise State. Page 7.957.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

manufacturing engineering curricula that produces engineers whocan problem solve and are ready to face real issues from the manufacturing engineering field, theGreenfield Coalition (GC) needed to develop a methodology for incorporating course contextualinformation and issues into all three of its degree programs. Furthermore, candidates at theFocus: HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) have a unique learning environmentwhereby they work in a manufacturing environment in addition to attending classes.Manufacturing engineering students from other colleges and universities generally do not havethe same opportunity. Therefore, GC devised a blended learning system including threecomponents:· Facilitated classroom activities and discussions

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

Session 1566 Developing Assessment Tools for Outcome Based Engineering Courses Drs. Z.T. Deng, Ruben Rojas-Oviedo and Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University P.O. Box 1163, Huntsville, AL 35762 Voice: (256) 858-4142, E-Mail: AAMZXD01@AAMU.EDUAbstractThe implementation of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2000 (EAC 2000) into Mechanical Engineeringundergraduate curricula is critical to the success of the education program. The EAC Criteria2000 emphasizes an outcome

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Rabb; Ronald Welch

Oar Design USMA Crew Team Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCompetition projects are conducted at regional and national levels. Funding for these projects isprimarily through our alumni organization, the Association of Graduates (AOG). These design,build, and compete projects usually involve various technologies and bring out the best effort inthe students. Students are very knowledgeable about their project, and the competition designteams are structured and very organized. Competition projects are highly desirable to thestudents since they are

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

recourse toless sophisticated technology (see Figure 10). Figure 10 – Can prepared for dome reversal investigation Page 7.330.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe numerical simulation could be improved by using thin shell elements, by refining the lidseam modelling allowing for separation and by performing a fully three-dimensional analysisbased on very precise geometrical and material data. In order to completely account

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Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

teach the use of majorengineering resources. As technology has advanced, more publications and research toolshave become available, but the one-hour lecture in the engineering class has remained thesame. The result is that the students are significantly shortchanged in their introduction to Page 7.491.1the key tools for engineering information retrieval. Dissatisfied with these circumstances, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationour solution to these deficiencies was to develop an alternate tool—an

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

acknowledge the help of Ms. Linda Steele, who prepared Tables 1 and 2 -Undergraduate Programs in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering - Curricula, respectively.References1. McIssac, M.S. and Gunawardena, C.N., Distance Education, in Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology: A Project of the Association for Educational communications and Technology, Jonassen, D. H. (ed), pp. 403-437, Simon, Schuster & MacMillan, New York, 1996.2. Jepson, N.A. The Beginning of English University Adult Education - Policy and Problems, Michael Joseph, London, 1973.3. Jones, E.C., Jr., Distance Education, Undergraduate Programs, and Accreditation, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 1566 Addressing Manufacturing Challenges in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum A. R. Jalloh, A. A. Mobasher, Z. T. Deng, R. Rojas-Oviedo, X. C. Qian Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University Huntsville, Al 35762 Phone: (256) 851 5891 email: ajalloh@aamu.edu; amobasher@aamu.edu; aamzxd01@aamu.edu; rojaso@aamu.edu, cian@aamu.eduAbstractEmerging technologies in engineering challenge the new generation of engineers to workin more specialized environments

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Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell

Chemical Technology, vol. 6, K. Othmer, Ed., 3rd ed. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1979, pp. 177-199.Biographical InformationKATHRYN A. HOLLAR is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Shereceived her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and English at North Carolina State University in 1993, and herPh.D. in 2001 from Cornell University. Page 7.599.5MARIANO J. SAVELSKI is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Hereceived his B.S. in 1991 from the University of Buenos Aires, his ME in 1994 from the University ofProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jerz

-snippet.avi.RICHARD JERZDr. Richard Jerz is the Director and an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at St. Ambrose University inDavenport, Iowa, where he has interest in teaching industrial engineering and computer related courses. He has aB.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, an MBA from St. Ambrose University, and a Ph.D. in IndustrialEngineering from The University of Iowa. In 1995, he was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the United StatesDepartment of Energy (DOE) in “Integrated Manufacturing.” He has more than 15 years manufacturing engineeringexperience primarily with John Deere, and 12 years teaching experience

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

of the freshmanprograms, a summary of changes accomplished, and the retention statistics for the College ofEngineering.IntroductionIn 1988, at The Ohio State University the retention of engineering students to the junior yearranged between 40 and 50 percent. See Figure 1. This followed the national norms. In the early1990’s the Ohio State College of Engineering became part of the NSF funded GatewayEngineering Education Coalition. The other members of the Coalition were Drexel University,Columbia University, Cooper Union, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University ofPennsylvania, University of South Carolina, and Florida International University. One focus ofthe Coalition’s efforts was to improve retention to the junior year by using

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Reischman; Eugene Brown

result, the United States needs to fill this void by importing them from foreign countries. This has the potential of jeopardizing the quality of undergraduate engineering education as well as putting the United States at a technological disadvantage in comparison with other countries. ASEE needs to help promote the importance of graduate level engineering education.I hope that the Society will accept Gerry’s challenge and find multiple opportunities in itsCouncils, Divisions, and meetings to explore, debate, and formulate appropriate actions on thisimportant topic. However, any discussion needs to be well grounded in the data which concernsthis topic. With this end in mind, to stimulate discussion of the trends in

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

in a business firm, it is required that he/she focus on the central purpose ofthe firm; this most often is maximizing shareholder equity. As has been widely quoted, thebusiness of business is business. Leaders of technology-based firms should have technicalcompetence and business savvy. There have been notable cases of engineers who have risen tothe top of major corporations. In recent history, Jack Welch, Andy Grove and Lou Gerstner arewidely known as engineers who have leveraged their technical capabilities while also clearlysucceeding in business. There are unfortunately many more counterexamples of engineers whohave entered corporations with strong technical capabilities and interest in promotion within thecorporation, but who have

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

; Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcolleges in the United States whose centers have web sites. However, few centers exist whichfocus specifically on engineering education. In a report for the National Academy of Engineering[3], nine universities with centers for engineering education are listed, as are three proposedengineering education centers. The nine established centers and their associated websites arelisted here.¨ Arizona State University: Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (www.eas.asu.edu/~cresmet/)¨ Colorado School of Mines: Center for Engineering Education (www.mines.edu/research/cee/)¨ Georgia Institute of Technology

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

from Engineering EducationThe course now has two design projects, a technology push project ba sed in the strain gage thathas its origins in the laboratory curriculum developed in the late 1970s and a market pull projectusually from industry. Occasionally the second project is in the public sector. Documentation ofthe second project is now web based.In hindsight, the changes seem to have happened slowly but they have been far reaching andgraphics is now only about 15% of the course with perhaps 20% devoted to CAD. Of what hasbeen lost, there are a few casualties that stir second thoughts. The lab-based curriculum used tobe rather more extensive and it is hard to give up any of that. Also, tolerancing is not taught byall instructors and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Duggins

of the organization’s standard software process fordeveloping and maintaining software.4. Managed: Detailed measures of software process and product quality are collected. Both thesoftware process and products are quantitatively understood and controlled.5. Optimizing: Continuous process improvement is enabled by qualitative feedback from theprocess and from piloting innovative ideas and technologies.” Page 7.944.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi; Ibibia Dabipi

cannot avail themselves to access the stateuniversities with engineering programs. The non-existence of an engineering school onthe Eastern Shore coupled with the constant demand for skilled workers in the arearesulted in the collaborative program between UMES, SU and UMCP. These demandswere well documented in the form of the results of the industry survey conducted byUMES/SU. The survey result shows that 95% of the respondents indicated that theywould support the development of a cooperative engineering program at UMES/SU. Thechosen engineering programs are electrical engineering and mechanical engineering with65% and 45% need for the respective programs. The premise for the collaborativeprogram is to use technology to access the remote areas

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Missouri-Rolla. Prior tojoining the BE department in August 2000, she was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.at UMR from 1989 to 1999, and taught high school physics 1999-00. She completed her Ph.D. in ECE at NC StateUniversity in 1989. Dr. Hubing enjoys research involving educational methods and technology in the classroom.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall, Associate Professor of Psychology at UMR, will be moving to UMR’s new Information Scienceand Technology program in the fall of 2002. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of NorthTexas, and PhD degree in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’sMedia Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Skubic

Session 1526 Event-Driven Computing Projects for Software Engineering Education Marjorie Skubic and James LaffeyComputer Engineering and Computer Science Department / School of Information Science and Learning Technologies University of Missouri-Columbia skubicm@missouri.edu / laffeyj@missouri.eduAbstract There is a growing need in the software industry for the development of systems with adynamic, event-driven behavior, such as interactive human-computer interfaces, client-serverarchitectures

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

competency, we see a similar pattern. More females say that theydeveloped an ability to use technology, teamwork skills, life-long learning skills, and humanistic values"to a very great extent" than the males. Tables 4, 5 include data from the Engineering Student Council Survey conducted during thespring of 2000. In Table 4 we see the results by gender of a question asking the students to evaluate thequality of a number of aspects of Cooper Union. Table 5 presents the responses to a question asking torate preparation on a number of competencies. If we look at the average figures at t he bottom of thetable, we see that no significant gender difference is noticeable. There are of course some individualcases where the differences are greater, but