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Heidi Diefes; William LeBold; William Oakes

of courses has been developed to meet the needs ofPurdue's diverse student body. These courses supplement the Engineering 100 experience andprovide a small group setting conducive to student interaction Several different models of thesupplemental courses are offered and each is detailed below. The students are not required totake a supplemental course, but approximately half of the incoming freshmen do choose at leastone of the options with a small percentage taking more than one.Introduction to the Engineering Profession Supplement CoursesFreshman Engineering offers two small group discussion courses that supplement ENGR 100.Engineering faculty members lead and teach ENGR 195D. Upper-division engineeringstudents, under the direction of a

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Arnoldo Muyshondt; Ing-Chang Jong

Session 1668 Interactive On-Line Testing and Learning Utilizing a Hub on the WWW Arnoldo Muyshondt, Ing-Chang Jong Sandia National Laboratories / University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is written to contribute an easy-to-use software, with illustration, for creating interac-tive on-line testing and learning utilizing a hub on the World Wide Web. The software is seg-mented into eight program files, where the first two are subject specific while the other six areuniversal. The two subject specific program files are used by an instructor to create a gatewayweb

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Tava Lennon Olsen; Joyce Yen

Page 4.56.1Because many of the concepts regarding Markov processes require higher-level thinkingskills, an active and cooperative learning experience seems suitable for teaching theseskills and developing students’ intuition about Markov processes. In particular, we havedeveloped laboratory classes for the new course in order to achieve an active andcooperative learning environment. Furthermore, the labs have been designed toencourage students to question results and eventually derive for themselves, concepts andtheorems of Markov processes. The labs facilitate higher-level thinking skills, asstudents must synthesize lecture concepts and lab observations. Students may not havehad previous exposure to a particular concept but will have seen

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David E. Hornbeck

2 achievement." -- National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education .Much of the anxiety expressed about the proposed ABET criteria for technology stems from their lack ofnumbers and specificity when compared to the existing criteria. The proposed criteria have beenperceived as allowing an institution to do anything it wants: diminishing mathematics and sciencerequirements, dumbing-down courses in general, hiring unqualified faculty, reducing quantity and qualityof laboratory classes/facilities, etc. With the current criteria, TAC has operated under the concept thatspecifying inputs to the educational process would assure quality of the output.However, the current form of criteria lacks flexibility to accommodate the number of

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Albert Lozano-Nieto; Willie Ofosu

electromagnetic waves in other equipment, with this course being the continuationof a traditional Electromagnetic Fields course. We believe that, especially for ElectricalEngineering Technology, a more hands-on experience EMC/EMI course will better suit theneeds of graduates. An outline of such course is shown in the next paragraph. We believe thatthe topics described in the outline would make up a rigorous course in which the weight hasbeen shifted from a theoretical to a laboratory content. We believe that this course should betaken by EET students in their senior year when the have the basis to comprehend and interrelatethe concepts from different areas in the profession.A model of a course in EMI/EMC1. Introduction to Electromagnetic

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Shann Coleman; Megan Gaberell; Harold W. Walker

the City of Columbus, and (2) a survey ofthe water quality in the Olentangy River for a community group called Friends of theLower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW). A major component of these projects was theparticipation of both the City of Columbus and FLOW during all stages of the project.At the beginning of the Autumn Quarter, the students were introduced to the two projects.Different teams of 3 students each were assigned to each of the following tasks: watersampling, sample analysis, synthesis and report writing, and preparing a finalpresentation. To guide student’s efforts, each team was given a detailed outline of thetasks to complete. Handout materials were also given, including a sampling proceduresmanual, laboratory analysis manual

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Michael Robinson

Session 1655 Cooperative Learning of Neutron Diffusion and Transport Theories Michael A. Robinson Bechtel Bettis, Inc. Bettis Atomic Power LaboratoryAbstractA cooperative group instructional strategy is being used to teach a unit on neutron transport anddiffusion theory in a first-year-graduate level, Reactor Theory course that was formerlypresented in the traditional lecture/discussion style. Students are divided into groups of two orthree for the duration of the unit. Class meetings are divided into traditional lecture/discussionsegments punctuated

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Gearold R. Johnson; Dueb M. Lakhder

materials. The Open University ships some of the educational materials on the basis of license fees to requesting countries in Europe, Japan, China and others. Fifty-six percent of the funding for the Open University comes from the government, thirty-five percent from tuition and nine percent from other sources. In terms of the quality of teaching, the National Scheme for assessing quality of teaching in universities, has assessed nearly seventy universities and only fifteen have received a score of excellent. The Open University is one of them. In 1997, the OU quoted 124,946 undergraduates, 25,000 post-graduates and 25,000 international students.Ç The Stanford University instructional television

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Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

. For the present structure of our integratedcurriculum, cf. Tables 1 and 2. It should be noted that while we consider the new alignmentof content an improvement, it is by no means perfect and will be refined over the next severalyears. Since the first two mathematics courses are presently in further reorganization (fromseparate precalculus-calculus to an integrated course) and since the key shifts discussed herehappen later in the sequence, we will focus more heavily on the last four mathematicscourses.The Situation at the Start. Teaching mathematics to engineers requires not only thecoverage of certain topics (generally single and multivariable calculus and differentialequations plus some linear algebra and statistics), but also, if one wants

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Yousry S. El-Gamal; Sherif M. Tawfik; Abd-Elhamid Elmaghrabi

Figure (1) The Proposed Model Diagram Page 4.35.5 Introduction to computers course The course main pages teaching Software course courseintroduction registration webmaster follow staff needed advisor menuCourse Student Teaching Webmaster Download Chating Offlineintroduction registration

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Patrick E. Connolly; Theodore Branoff

for theircourse. Students signed up to complete the instrument outside of class time. Students at PurdueUniversity were given the option for completing the instrument at the end of a laboratory session.Although most students elected to complete the PSVT, formal and informal analyses of responsetimes indicated that many students might not have given their best effort. Page 4.506.6 6 Table 3. Overall Mean Scores for Both Universities. 24 23.5 Mean Score 23

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Russell Dean; Charles F. Yokomoto

conducted workshops on outcomesassessment. In the area of learning styles, he has been using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in researchand classroom applications and has published extensively in that area of teaching and learning.RUSSELL K. DEANRussell Dean is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Provost for Curriculum andInstruction at West Virginia University. He earned his BSEE, MSME and PhD degrees from WVU. Heserves as chair of the WVU Assessment Council which is responsible for oversight of all learning outcomesassessment activities at the University and serves on the statewide Assessment Council. He has served as Chair ofthe Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE and has served on the ASEE

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Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

are text files that contain information regarding the objects and linkages betweenobjects in a virtual world. It can be applied to a number of areas including web-basedentertainment, 3-D user interfaces to remote web resources, 3-D collaborative environments,interactive simulations for education, virtual museums, virtual retail spaces, and more. Theability to animate, to play sound and video within the virtual world, to interact with the virtualworld and to control and enhance the virtual world with scripts, allows development of dynamicand sensory-rich virtual environments on the Internet 9. These features of VRML can bebeneficially utilized to build teaching aids that will supplement classroom instruction.As part of ICMLS the authors are

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Scott Wayne; Alfred Stiller; Kristine Craven

with the fields of engineering and aid them in their choice of a specificengineering major. This choice must be made at the end of the student’s freshman year.In the spring semester, it is assumed that the students have narrowed their choice to twoengineering majors and thus they are only required to attend two of the ten seminars. Due tothis, the total time frame is condensed to one week of seminars on Monday and Tuesday evening. Page 4.523.3Each program is again presented two times in one evening. The focus during this semester is toshow the students the laboratory facilities and some of the current research, however the actualprogram content

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Michael McGeen; Larry Groser; J. Michael Hassler; Douglas C. Stahl; Craig Capano

first teach the rest of the teachers.We have obtained funding to allow a few of our faculty to create a curriculum which will teachthe rest of the faculty what the PSWS is all about and how it is incorporated into the coursework.We will develop this curriculum during the spring and summer months of 1999, and present it toour faculty during late summer in a formal seminar.V. ConclusionsProject Specific Web Sites are already having a significant impact on the construction industry.It is too early to know the impact they will have in our capstone design projects. Onepreliminary observation is that posted CAD files and HTML versions of student assignmentsand presentations have become a reliable method of reviewing student work. Also, in

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John G. Nee

based on assessment information Demonstrated cost-effectiveness Specific process for evaluating assessment plan Page 4.99.2IV. Summary of Key ComponentsA plan should:• define your more general goals and more specific objectives for student learning and academic achievement for each of your EDG related programs in terms that allow for assessment;• state explicitly how your EDG program goals and objectives articulate with the Academic Mission Statement for your university;• discuss the links between your EDG goals and objectives for student learning and achievement, your curriculum, your teaching approaches, and

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William Swart

leave academia for private sector jobs, and several of my fellow deans at otherinstitutions have had similar experiences. Furthermore, the bottom line of the faculty rewardsystem at many universities is research and teaching. Getting effective faculty participation inservice activities, including committee work, requires more than assigning them to a committeeand expecting results. To get effective faculty participation in service activities, they must bemotivated very much like volunteers. They must know and believe in the organization’s missionand be challenged by the task to be accomplished. Thus, as Peter Drucker2 points out, themanagement of people, faculty in this case, is increasingly a marketing job. And, in marketingone does not begin

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Raffaello D'Andrea

and Industrial Engineering, and Computer Science.I. IntroductionAs engineering systems become more and more complex, there is an increasing need fromindustry for engineers who not only have expertise in a particular engineering discipline, but whoalso possess diverse interdisciplinary skills, can integrate system components, can ensure totalsystem operability, and can understand the various economic forces in the marketplace. Thisskill set and process is often referred to as Systems Engineering (SE).In order to effectively teach SE principles to students, a project course that embodies many of thekey elements of SE, is being developed. The project entails the construction of fullyautonomous, fast moving robots which will work together as

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Frederick Orthlieb

research, problem definition, specification setting, projectplanning and evaluation phases of a project-based design course and analogous stages ofinformation gathering, program description, goal and outcomes identification, performancemeasurement and evaluation that comprise an engineering program assessment task. NCIIA-designated level I, II and III projects are covered, including both embedded laboratory modulesand full semester efforts. Students not only benefit from interdisciplinary interaction amongand outside of engineering fields, but also get to specify, acquire, use and evaluate componentsand equipment items not commonly found in many undergraduate labs, particularly at smallerinstitutions. In developing their own project plans, reports

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

in a combined lecture, discussion, and computer laboratory setting. In thecourse, we try to blend traditional topics in conceptual and detailed process development,optimization, and engineering economics with more applied topics including de-bottlenecking ofexisting processes, using heuristics and engineering judgment to validate process simulatorresults, and process troubleshooting. Short exercises, process case studies, and open-endedprojects for external clients are all utilized to provide students with ample opportunities toachieve the learning objectives summarized in Table I. Table I Process Design Course Learning Objectives Apply process design principles

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Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

; Page 4.61.10 Pensive, and receptive to instructions given twice before. He towered before me glaring, moving not and stiffly staring, Uttered words no longer sparing, shaking me unto my core, - “Your assignment measures knowledge that you’ve taken into your core - It’s that simple, and no more.” “Out in Utah there’s a lake, its elevation you need to take; Fluctuating with sporadic rainfall events that came before - Digital data sent through space from such remote a place Removed, distant from the base; location of our laboratory door Power consumption must be small

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John Parsons

CreditsCH 101, 102 General Chemistry I and Laboratory 4 CH 201, 202 General Chemistry II and Laboratory 4E 100 Introduction to College of Engineering 0 ENG 112 Composition and Reading 3E 115 Introduction to the Computing Environment 1 MA 241 Analytical Geometry & Calculus II 4ENG 111 Composition and Rhetoric 3 PY 205 Physics for Engineers & Scientists I 4MA 141 Analytical Geometry & Calculus I 4 Physical Education Elective - Activities Course 1PE 1_X Fitness and Wellness 1Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3

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Bahador Ghahramani; Stephen A. Raper

Systems in the U.S., Washington, D.C.: IVHS America, 1993.[8] K. Wark, and C. F. Warner, Air Pollution: Its Oriin and Control, 2nd ed. New York: HarpersCollins, 1981.BIOGRAPHYDr. Bahador Ghahramani Dr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was a Distinguished Member ofTechnical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His work experience covers several years of academics,industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani has presented and published numerous papers and is an activeparticipant and officer of various national and international organizations and honor societies. He holds a patent,“Eye Depth

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, MechanicalLaboratory Technician, Mr. Peter Bennett, Mechanical Laboratory Machinist, and by JasonMisiaszek in the recording of data.Bibliography:ALAN K. KARPLUSAlan K. Karplus is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Western New England College, Springfield,Massachusetts. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Tufts College, a Master’s degree from Iowa State University and aPh.D. from Colorado State University. He has been involved with the freshman engineering program, coordinatesthe senior mechanical engineering laboratory program, teaches Materials Science and supervises M.E. SeniorProjects. His interests include materials and design. He is a member of ASME and ASEE. He has contributed tothe National Educators’ Workshop and ASEE Annual Conference for several

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Nanette Veilleux

Interpretation Laboratory. Her current research focuses on statisticalmodels of speech and language. In addition, she teaches traditional freshman in the Science and EngineeringProgram and non-traditional adult graduate students at the Metropolitan College. Dr. Veilleux chairs the AcademicPolicy Committee at the Metropolitan College, originators of a college-wide review of grading policies andpractices. Course material is posted on Dr. Veilleux’s Web site: http://metcs.bu.edu/~nmv Page 4.100.11

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Tze-Leong Yew; Kian-Huat Tan; Kurt C. Gramoll

syllabus. Theextensive use of the computer with the implementation of the laptop program inUniversity of Oklahoma further encourages the need for virtual machines and a factory tosupplement an engineering coursework. Also students can access the virtual modelsanytime and anywhere with a computer and a VRML player. The use of visualizationtools also promotes interest and curiosity towards a manufacturing course.IntroductionFrequently, mechanical and aerospace engineering students don’t have enough exposureto the use of basic industrial and manufacturing equipment. It is not possible to bring realmachinery into the classroom and on the other hand it is not easy to teach studentsoutside the classroom particularly in the workshop. Therefore there is a

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John Cervantes; Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

of industrial experience, primarilyrelated to R&D, pollution control, combustion, and safety. Mr. Fournier received B.S. and M.S. degrees inMechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1986 and 1988, respectively.JOHN CERVANTESJohn Cervantes is employed by Peavey Electronics Corporation as an Environmental/Safety ComplianceCoordinator. John received a B.S. in Business Administration-Economics and a M.S. in Engineering Technology-Environmental Science from The University of Southern Mississippi in 1992 and 1998, respectfully. Beforeattaining his M.S. degree, John was employed as an environmental laboratory manager.CYNDI GAUDETDr. Gaudet is an Assistant Professor of Workforce Training and Development in the School of

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John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

performance on traditional engineering exams,consisting exclusively of problems graded with partial credit, has acquired sufficient knowledgeand skill to merit a passing grade and subsequently a degree from your program? Are yousearching for innovative methods and tools for providing the program documentation demandedby EC2000 accreditation requirements1? We believe that most of our colleagues haveconsidered some, if not all, of these questions at some time in their teaching careers. Ourmotivation in writing this paper is to share with those colleagues a pedagogical tool that can helpserve as a partial answer to all of these questions – Direct Competency Testing, (DCT).The experience reported herein evolved from a chance discussion between the two

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Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

is to prepare the MSOE BE student to practice the profession ofengineering after graduation. The Biomedical Engineering curriculum provides both the high level of education andpractice required to become a Professional Engineer. The educational component of courses inengineering, mathematics, sciences, communications, humanities, social science, business andlaw, serves the overall needs of the student seeking to achieve professional status. The practicalcomponent is composed of the many laboratories and the more than 24 credits of engineeringdesign contained in the curriculum. As the student moves through the curriculum, he/she isexpected to apply the knowledge gained in each course to the solution of a particular

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Peter Kwok; Eron Flory; Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

section, to the search engine for the Library of Congress, with this link their database can be searched for more references, including more specific areas of FEM. Figure 10. References Page from the Bar Element Module.3. Format of the Finite Element CourseThe Introduction to Finite Element Method course of this discussion, (ME3512) at WPI is aseven week junior/senior level course that meets four class hours (fifty minutes) per week andhas two, one-half hour design laboratories per term. The course typically enrolls forty to sixtystudents and consists of approximately ninety-percent mechanical engineering majors and therest come from civil engineering. The textbook by Logan [8] was used and the topics coveredChapters