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Jennifer Temple; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

Session 1330 Students’ Conceptions of their Engineering Discipline: A Word Association Study Jennifer Turns, Jennifer Temple, and Cynthia J. Atman Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching Industrial Engineering University of WashingtonAbstractA goal of engineering education is to prepare students for professional practice by helpingstudents acquire important knowledge and skills as well as an overall schema of engineeringpractice. In this paper, we report on an exploratory study to investigate civil

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Ron Baddock; Catherine S. Bolek; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

knowledge of theprevious participants for curriculum development and new experiment designs.Lab-Volt Systems and Amtek Company are also providing a "Partnership EquipmentGrant". The grant provides complementary communication equipment and modules at nocost in the first year of the partnership. To ensure the best use of the laboratory andequipment, UMES has agreed to allow Lab-Volt Systems and Amtek Company access tothe advanced communication lab on an as needed basis for the purpose of demonstrationand training of their customers.The partnership between the University, Lab-Volt Systems and Amtek Company hasbeen envisioned to meet several goals for each partner. The university goals include:• Enriching the engineering and technology curriculums

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Paul F. Hadala; Freddy Roberts; David Hall

, The College of Engineering andScience at Louisiana Tech University has implemented a common, integrated curriculum for allengineering majors that spans the freshman and sophomore years4,5. The first of the threefundamental engineering courses taught in the sophomore year is ENGR 220, an introduction toengineering mechanics, which integrates selected topics from statics and mechanics of materials6.Prior to the full implementation of the integrated curriculum in the 1999 - 2000 academic year, atraditional mechanics sequence of statics, mechanics of materials, dynamics and fluid mechanicswas in-place for civil and mechanical engineering. One of the most significant problems associatedwith this traditional sequence is that students were taught to

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Resit Unal; Derya Jacobs; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

University offers a Masters ofEngineering Management (MEM) degree as its core product. In the fall of 1998 the faculty recognizedthat the MEM curriculum should be examined to ensure relevancy to existing conditions. Industrial basechanges in the southeast Virginia region, faculty personnel turnover, administrative pressures toincrease enrollment, and other environmental changes highlighted the need to critically examine theMEM curriculum.The curriculum redesign effort adopted an outcomes based methodology in which the curricular topicswere to be directly tied to desired outcomes. Through a series of facilitated meetings the facultydeveloped MEM program objectives and associated goals. These are summarized in Table 1-ProgramObjectives and Goals

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Edward F. Young; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

the students to apply thespectrum of their mechanical engineering knowledge. It's also exciting to the students. As thestudents progress through the series of experiments, they are increasingly involved inexperimental design (selecting sensors, sensor locations and experimental operating conditions).The course culminates in a truly open-ended design of an experiment of their choosing. Thiscourse development project is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Instrumentationand Laboratory Improvement Program, the NSF’s Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program, and the University of South Carolina. This paper describes the work inprogress.I. Motivation and Context for this ProjectAn integral part of the undergraduate

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Oguz A. Soysal

Maryland, http://mfg-57.umd.edu/ecsel/enes100kit/files/99_report.html4. G. Zhang, "A Support Structure of Teaching Engineering Design to Freshman Students," ASEE’99 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999.5. T. M. Regan, G. Zhang, P. F. Cunniff, L. Schmidt, and J. W. Dally, "Curriculum Integrated Engineering Design and Product Realization," ASEE’99 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999.6. J. Schmidt, C. H. Yang, O. Wilson, G. Zhang, "Assessment of the Teaching-Learning Effectiveness of a Freshman Design Course," ASEE’99 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999.7. M. Horenstein, Engineering Design-A Day In The Life Of Four Engineers, Prentice Hall, 1998Oguz A. Soysal received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D

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Steven B. Shooter; Catherine A. Shooter

through meaningful reflection. The result is thatstudents gain more than just the experience of completing a design, but an enrichment andrealization of the methods and skills developed.I. IntroductionMany engineers contend that design is the heart of engineering. Traditional engineeringcurricula were based on the concept that a strong foundation in engineering sciences wouldnaturally lead to better designers. The curriculum would often contain some form of a capstonedesign experience where students would be given a design problem to resolve. The students mayor may not have been taught how to best approach the solution to the design problem. At the endof the allotted time period (a semester or some other number of weeks), the design project

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Doug Jacobson; Barbara L. Licklider

transition from high school to college and ultimately into society by: • developing a learning community of computer engineering students, • providing an opportunity for students to develop connections and friendships to aid in their collegiate transition, • encouraging persistence in the program, • developing a professional identity, and • supporting academic progress through the freshman basic engineering curriculum. Page 5.508.23. Provide teamwork and leadership skills through: • dealing with diversity, • understanding of group/team dynamics, and • developing social competence.4. Meet the demand of society for students in

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Terry Dwan; Kiriakos Kiriakidis; Jennifer Waters; George Piper

Engineering and the Ocean Engineering Departments atthe U.S. Naval Academy have collaborated to offer an innovative course sequence inenvironmental engineering [1]. In this course sequence, a host of engineering principles areexplored under the umbrella of environmental topics for non-environmental engineeringstudents. The course sequence is a technical elective track that is offered to systemsengineering majors during their senior year. The systems engineering curriculum at the U.S.Naval Academy is a four year, undergraduate, ABET accredited, program specializing in theinteraction between mechanical, electrical, and computer systems. The curriculum focusesmainly on linear systems theory, feedback control, and mechatronics. Throughout thecurriculum

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Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

assessment study. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85(2): 123-131.6. Jenison, R. D., S. K. Mickelson, R. Sidler-Kellogg, and C. Bouton. 1996. Mechanical dissection and design-build integrated into an introductory design graphics course. Paper presented at the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference, June 24, Washington, D. C.7. Cyr, M., V. Miragila, T. Nocera, and C. Rogers. 1997. A low-cost, innovative methodology for teaching engineering through experimentation. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86(2): 167- 171.8. Aglan, H. A. and S. F. Ali. 1996. Hands-on experiences: An integral part of engineering curriculum reform. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85(4): 327-330.9. Johnson, D., R. Johnson, and K. Smith. 1991. Active

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Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

uniqueaccredited five-year Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering. In addition to developing a solidfoundation in engineering principles, the degree program also provides the undergraduatestudent with a background in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The program offers a“hands-on” curriculum that is consistent with the department’s philosophy that “the studentmust learn by doing it, not just reading about it.”Although the pursuit of an Industrial Engineering degree at the University of Louisville is achallenging task, recruitment of African American students to the discipline of industrialengineering is also a challenge for the department as well as the university at large. TheUniversity is a state supported, urban institution located in

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Dick D. Desautel

enhancement inturn depends primarily (but not exclusively) on assessment and enhancement of individualcourse learning objectives. However, the Outcomes A&E loop is the key element, because itinstitutionalizes the process for holding individual courses, their sequencing and their “verticalintegration” through the curriculum accountable to achieving the program educational objectives(through the Outcomes). Briefly stated, achievement of Program educational objectives isevaluated in terms of achievement of the supporting Outcomes, which involves the degree towhich students meet specified Outcomes performance criteria. Outcomes achievement occursthrough accumulation and integration of achievement of individual course learning objectives.Stated bottom

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

. It discusses the importance of some social rituals for a living and the seeking for socialjustice. The goal is to form Engineers with good skills more creative, more critics and moreattempt to the quick transformations in every aspect of professional life integrated to the newconnected and global world. This experience has showed good results and has also brought upthe changes in the way of seeing the Engineer as an agent of Science and Technologydevelopment for the well fare of humanity.I. IntroductionIt is legitimate to say that globalization expresses a new wave of Capitalism expansion as aproducing way and a civilizing process in a wide level. The 180 Countries in the worldapproximately 100 of them receive together around only 1% of

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Prawit Potsawatsuk; Mohammed Enamul Haque; Amarneethi Vamadevan

soil tests are simulated withmultimedia interaction and visualization techniques, the student’s conceptual understanding ofsoil mechanics is enhanced. The methodology presented in this paper is based on presentingstudents with simulation of laboratory soil tests, which creates an individualized, interactive andguided learning environment. The main elements of this approach are: a means of assimilatingthe students' interactive learning knowledge and behavior (user model), representation of theinstructor’s guidance and assessment knowledge (tutor model), utilization of motivationaltechniques such as multimedia, animation (visual model) and simulated laboratory test model(simulation model). As an example, the presented paper provides the learning

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Sudhir I. Mehta; Scott Danielson; Pratap Kotala; Clark Merkel

NSC also features a content submission tool allowing user (statics’instructors and students) input of new information and reviews of existing items for inclusion inthe database. In addition, the NSC is dynamic in nature and includes links to other sites orresources related to statics teaching and learning.This paper describes the design of the NSC database, the types of articles and resources included,and current database content. Content will continue to be added during the spring 1999 semester(a live demonstration of the database will be included in the paper’s presentation at the ASEE2000 Annual Conference). This paper is also an advertisement of the database and a request forall interested parties to help in its development by suggesting

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

with industry, colleges of engineering arestriving to be "one-stop-shops". As part of these partnerships, the role of research and graduateeducation is often a central focus. Indeed, in addition to tangible research results, companies areoften very interested in hiring advanced degree candidates as well as traditional undergraduateengineering students. One of the key ingredients in working out such partnerships is findingways to entice outstanding students into completion of an advanced degree.Despite the increasing prevalence of such opportunities, graduate school is not often thought ofby students as a career path, especially early in their undergraduate curriculum. Mostuniversities and colleges do discuss graduate school as an opportunity

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E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

Page 5.273.7uncertainties regarding engineering students’ preparation to read, write, correctly interpret, hqÃprÃtrvtÃhqhqÃvÃhÃtyihyÃvq strial environment.Motivated by these expectations and the challenged by additional concerns about minimizingtime to complete an undergraduate degree, Professor Raisor, developed an integrated graphicscourse. The course combines the fundamentals of graphics principles and descriptive geometry,dimensioning and tolerancing standards (ASME Y14.5M-1994), interactive computer graphics,and the fundamentals of geometric modeling (CAD). Significant developments in organization,preparation, and delivery were required. Time-related problems demanded innovative andcreative teaching/learning solutions that affected both

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Kenneth Manning

in this paper. Theseinclude Drag Forces, Constrained Optimization, Mass Transport, and the MechanicalOscillations subgroup.I. IntroductionProject Links is a five-year, NSF supported undertaking to develop web-based interactivemodules that integrate mathematical concepts with contemporary topics in science andengineering. The project is based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with collaboration fromthe University of Delaware, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hudson Valley Community College,and Siena College.1These modules are to be used in a studio setting, with an instructor present, and with studentaccess to the Internet. The modules are topic-specific, intended for use over one to three days inthe normal course of the term. They rely

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Mark R. Rajai; Hollis Bostick; Byrne Bostick; Mel Mendelson

the student projects. This partnership was for developing and implementing acurriculum in integrated product development between Loyola Marymount University’sEngineering and Production Management graduate program and East Tennessee StateUniversity’s Engineering Technology Department. Since industry was ahead of the universitiesin this area, the industrial consultants did the advising, coaching and training, and the universitiesdid the listening and applied the lessons learned in the curriculum. This method was applied totwo courses: new product development and entrepreneurship. Our industry experts consulted inthe areas of patent law, team formation collaboration, and project evaluations. A product review

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

it has some limitationswhen it comes to nurturing creativity, synthesis and engineering design1. Therefore, a prudentcombination of teaching by lectures and active learning techniques are perhaps the ideal way toenhance student comprehension and creativity. Modern simulation software provides an efficientway of involving engineering undergraduate students in the active learning process. The reformmovement in engineering education inspired by Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) ofAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)2 is consistent with this approach. Itis attempting to integrate a continuous improvement cycle (Fig 1) with an experiential learningcycle (Fig 2) within engineering education3

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John Razukas; Jean Le Mee; Gerardo Del Cerro

them in suitable formats forfurther analysis of the design process. The use of journals, photos, sketching, andbenchmarking for reassembly is emphasized. A written report with illustrative visual materialand an oral presentation by each group (with each student participating) is due on the fifthweek.III. Chronology of EventsWeek 1 We begin by showing students a CD ROM we prepared illustrating Leonardo's difficulty with his flying machines. With the wisdom of hindsight and the accumulated experience of five centuries of discoveries, inventions and know-how in the natural sciences, mechanics, aeronautics, material science, engineering and other arts and sciences, it is easy for us to see how and why

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Patricia Davies; Leah H Jamieson; Laura A Guedelhoefer; Edward J. Coyle; James D. Jones

to the factthat the course is a requirement for graduation, roughly 120 students enroll in the course everysemester, 88% of which are male and 12% female. In an effort to reinforce the lectures using hands-on experiences, a lab also accompanies the lectures. In the labs the students are provided with designproblems that require they use material learned in lecture, such as Decision Matrices, Gantt Charts,and a variety of other tools. An integral part of design is understanding the manufacturing process.Therefore, the design course devotes a few lectures to show videos on the different manufacturingoptions. Following the goals of providing hands-on experiences, one lab is set aside to practicemachining. The project chosen is the Purdue Hammer

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William Biles; Carroll Hyder; Mark R. Rajai

integrated latest technological innovations (IPTeam software by Nexprise, Inc) intotheir product development with great success. The results of a survey and the role of ConcurrentEngineering and latest technological innovations in enhancing U.S. competitiveness in the worldmarket are also presented.I. IntroductionThe competitive and intense manufacturing market and global economic recession haveprompted many manufacturing companies to re-evaluate and reconstruct the process theyundertake to design and manufacture a new product. Rapid changes in technology are changingthe basis of competition throughout the world. Weakness in design and manufacturingcapabilities in U.S. firms is often cited as a major factor in decline of their

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Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

Session 1453 Students Teaching Students: Engineering 100 Jonathan Dolle, Ray Price University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignAbstractThis paper describes an orientation course every first year student entering the College ofEngineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign participates in during the first sixweeks of class, fall semester. The program is unique in that it is entirely organized and taught bythird and fourth year engineering students, each of which facilitates one or two sections of thecourse, known as Engineering 100. Although the sections group students

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Traxon Rachell; Kaori Sakaguchi-Hall; Chris Swan

. Byincluding service learning in the course design project, the students then had a dual vehicle inwhich to refine their designs in ways that deepened their understanding and learning. From ourexperience overseeing this course, we conclude that to truly realize the benefits of servicelearning, integration of CSL throughout the curriculum is needed along with better managementof service learning components.I. IntroductionSite remediation, as a profession, requires a broad range of technical expertise including, but notlimited to engineering (civil, mechanical, chemical, and electrical); natural sciences (geology,hydrogeology, chemistry, physics, and biology); advanced sciences (microbiology,geochemistry, toxicology, etc.) and engineering management. At

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Arleen Anderson; Gwen Lee-Thomas

reform theirfreshmen and sophomore engineering curriculum, and in some cases, upper divisioncurriculum. Rose-Hulman’s Foundation Coalition (FC) related curricula include theIntegrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (IFYCSEM)for freshmen students and the Sophomore Engineering Curriculum (SEC).As a cooperative effort, the competencies measured in the integrated curriculum forfreshmen and the sophomore engineering curriculum look at the same competencies asthe co-op program which all fall within EC 2000. These include integration of subjects,teaming, communication, technology, problem-solving, and life-long learning. Therefore,this report looks at whether or not those students in the Foundation Coalition rate theirco

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Steven H. VanderLeest

introduced into the curriculum as part of a technical course or inseparate courses. These two are not mutually exclusive – one could strategically planexploration of technology perspectives across the curriculum within technical and non-technicalcourses.Perspectival issues can be interwoven throughout a technical course, discussing the issues as theycome up. This “just-in-time” curricular approach emphasizes the integrated, holistic nature ofreality – one cannot neatly separate the broader issues from the detailed technical aspects.Unfortunately, this approach often shortchanges the larger issues since they are only touched onin passing. Some instructors take a slightly different route, going into more depth on technologyperspectives using a more

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

. These instuctional tools are useful for: (a) demonstrating to students the synergistic effect of interdisciplinary scholarship in solving fundamental problems using innovative, computer-based instructional modules; (b) developing simple practical polymer materials science demonstration kits for high school science students and other distant education teaching aids; (c) developing cooperative student learning groups, and (d) disseminating the authors' key research findings to students via the web. The interactive web-based multimedia instructional modules of lectures that students can access on a 24-hour are expected to be attractive to engineering students with diverse backgrounds and to other students who desire an introduction to the

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Suzanne E. Keilson; Randall Jones; Lester Coyle; Elliot King; Duane Shelton

Experiments, 2nd ed. D. C. Heath, Lexington, MA, 1986.18. Baxter, Martin, and Andrew Rennie, Financial Calculus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1996.19. Black, Fischer, and Myron Scholes, “The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities,” Journal of PoliticalEconomy, 81, 637-659, 1973.20. Cox, John, Stephen Ross, and Mark Rubinstein, “Option Pricing: A Simplified Approach,” The Journal ofFinancial Economics, 7, 229-263, 1979.21. Harrison, Michael, and Stanley Pliska, “Martingales and stochastic integrals in the theory of continuous trading,”Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 11, 215-260, 1981.22. Neftci, Salih N., An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives, Academic Press, San Diego,California, 1996.23

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

realities of professionalengineering. Manufacturing and engineering companies around the world have begun to buildvirtual products and processes that can communicate across the barriers of time, distance,discipline, and culture.In the metal forming area, these firms are finding that the return on investment from the applicationof virtual forming technology is one of the most exciting recent developments in computersimulation. So far, metal forming is still considered more of an art than science. This is due to thedifficulty of transferring the forming technology into a knowledge database for proper parametricmodeling and analysis using high-speed computational tools. Early adopters have alreadydiscovered that the integration of such software can