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Shahla Keyvan; Xiaolong Song; Rodney Pickard

regarded among educators as innovative, amore important consideration is the impact on the students who use it. They can actuallyknow how well they are doing on each topic, thus they can concentrate on the area needed tocatch up. Questions can be sent directly to the instructor, instead of stopping by theinstructor’s office during office hours or completely forgetting what to ask after a couple ofdays of putting off an office visit. Answers to electronically submitted questions can bequickly obtained by e-mail or from the frequently-asked-question database.The survey concerning the MC was conducted in a “free-form” manner. The informationobtained from the survey indicates that 80% of the students found this courseware to be quitehelpful to them

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

. I also approachedthe class with an understanding that becoming an effective lecturer is a process and that the skillsand techniques required for graduate courses in my own subject area will require a different sortof preparation and interaction than will large undergraduate level classes. Designing Problems, Evaluating Student Learning, and Developing a Course Alkim Akyurtlu, Graduate Student Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State UniversityThe EESP sessions by Ken Heller, Lillian McDermott, and Jim Stice were most influential inshaping my outlook on my role as an educator. The first two sessions concentrated on specifictechniques in the classroom, such as cooperative

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Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

. In this paper, we present the results of thisanalysis. These results include information on what our graduates are doing, what they find mostimportant from their education, their pursuits of further education, their professional associations(including registration), and general implications these results have upon the MET curriculum. INTRODUCTIONIn February 1997, we undertook a survey of the MET graduates from The School of EngineeringTechnology at Northeastern University. The main goal in this survey was to learn what skills ouralumni found most and least important in the work place. Particular interests were the balancebetween technical knowledge and skills versus the process skills including problem

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William E. Cole; Jerome Tapper

and show the students how to use math to solve problems.Also pointed out by this study is the need to strengthen certain technical areas that aretraditionally given only passing mention. These include ethics and safety. These are two topicsthat are generally acknowledged as being important. However, they are frequently only taught asauxiliary material within other courses. For example, the study of employers of Stevens Instituteof Technology engineering undergraduates found deficiencies in the ethical training of thegraduates7. We need to consider dedicated courses in these topical areas. CONCLUSIONSContrary to what we hear in educational circles, I am pleased to say that our graduates are beingaccepted

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Majdi Najm

courses described in this paper. An added uniqueness of these courses is thefact that they are taught mostly to professional graduate students at their work site.The product-based-learning approach used in some of these courses has been praised in manypublications (see references 1 to 4). Professor Leifer at Stanford University has described it asfollows [5]: “Direct experience is the learning medium of choice in our domain of higher education and parallels the fact that professional experience is the measure by which most engineers, scientists and other professionals are rated.... . Learning is best done by creating something, a product, that embodies our knowledge. This is product- based-learning”.A background of the degree

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Peter C.M. Burton; Fred Payne; Dinesh Kant

graduate course workprograms in electronics leading to the Master’s degree. Hands on experiential learning is stillemphasised and professional development opportunities are provided for practising engineers.This paper will describe the development of the program. It will discuss the rationale forintroduction, the aims and objectives, the program structure, and the first year of delivery. Inconclusion the paper will outline modifications and new initiatives planned for 1998.IntroductionRMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) is a dual sector university providing highereducation and TAFE (Technical and Further Education) programs to 38,000 students in theMelbourne metropolitan area. RMIT is internationally respected for its intellectual

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Gary Benenson; El Hadji Diop; José Sánchez; Alphie Mullings; Nadine Simms

Session 3630 Engineering Graduates: The New Wave of Teachers Gary Benenson, El Hadji Diop, José Sánchez/ City College of New York; Alphie Mullings / Nadine Simms, General Electric Corporation / Air Products Corporation BACKGROUND: A PROBLEM OF THE “MISSING MASS” Seen through the glasses of professional policy makers and educational reformers, K-12math, science and technology education are scenes of fundamental and sweeping change. Broadnational standards are establishing both the need for new pedagogies and strategies

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M. Wayne Hall; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

. Those documents recommended that, to insure a healthy and habitableenvironment for future generations, the world s businesses, industries, governments, andindividuals should adopt and work towards a goal of Global Sustainability. The years that havepassed since these documents were released have produced some movement towards this goal.Many observers, however, have considered this progress as too slow and too meager. Thissituation has changed somewhat during the recent past, with concrete examples of attempts toaddress Sustainability issues, in academia, government, and industry, beginning to emerge. Aspecial case of such emergence is found within today s institutions of engineering education .Engineering is by definition a discipline that

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J. A. Isaacs

Session 2251 A New Graduate Course on Environmental Issues In Manufacturing and Product Use J. A. Isaacs Northeastern UniversityA new graduate level engineering course, offered in the Spring of 1998 and entitled“Environmental Issues in Manufacturing and Product Use”, explores environmental andeconomic aspects of alternative materials used in a product throughout the product life cycle.The objectives of this course strive to introduce industrial ecology, life cycle analysis andtechnical cost modeling to engineering students who have not been

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Richard K. Keplar; Eugene F. Smith; Vernon W. Lewis

Session 3547 TS/ 2 A CURRICULUM MODEL FOR PREPARING CET GRADUATES FOR POSITIONS IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN Dr. Eugene F. Smith, P.E., Richard K. Keplar, P.E., and Vernon W. Lewis, P.E. Civil Engineering Technology Program, Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a curriculum model for preparing Civil-Engineering Technology (CET)baccalaureate degree graduates for positions in structural design. The evolution of this modelwas dictated in large measure by the nature of design positions that are available to civilengineering technology graduates in Virginia

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

had a very positive impact on the quality of education; this topic is discussed indetail in11,13. Here, we only mention that - despite diminishing interest in engineering studiesamong secondary school graduates in Poland - since the introduction of the new programs, thenumber of candidates who applied for studies at the Faculty has increased by almost 80%. As aconsequence, with an unchanged enrollment limit, capabilities and performance of the studentshave significantly increased. The grade point average for the group of students who entered thefirst-stage studies at the Faculty on October 1, 1994 (the first group admitted to the restructuredprogram), was - at the end of their third year of study - significantly higher than for the

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Samir B. Billatos; Nadia A. Basaly

topics such as environmental engineering. Weare therefore recommending the implementation of a Mechanical Design for the Environmentcourse as an advanced undergraduate elective course or a graduate course. The course will serve as an introduction to green technology and design for theenvironment. With this objective in mind, the course is divided into two parts. Topics of eachpart are shown in Table 1 below.Table 1: Course Outlines Part I Part II 1. What is Environmental Engineering? 7. The Manufacturing Process Design Rules. Page 3.563.7 2. Green Engineering and Environmentally 8

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

increasedproductivity a national obsession [2]. All national issues that emerge in American society sooneror later seem to surface on our campuses.The ABET accreditation process is a voluntary system that assures that graduates of an accreditedprogram are prepared for careers in engineering and technology. Engineering Education mustcontribute to the development of men and women who can face new and difficult engineeringsituations with imagination and competence [3]. The role played by ABET in standardizingengineering and technology education can not be denied. However, if it has fulfilled its statedobjectives is questionable. ABET according to its own objective statement; should encouragenew and innovative approaches to engineering and technology education

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Eric J. Addeo

switchingand issues of passive versus active remote electronics in fiber loops will be investigated.4.4 Main questions addressed in this sub-module are the conditions under which one would use packet switching and the conditions under which one would use circuit switching. This sub- module will cover circuit and packet switching. Comparisons of circuit and packet switching will be made and the basic principles of queuing will be applied to traffic structures of different media signals (i.e., voice, video data.)4.5 ProtocolsThis sub-module will deal with the general principles of layering associated with theOpen System Interconnection (OSI) architecture. Topics will include:• General Principle of Layering• Standard Layering

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Suzanne Keilson

twin themes of the globalization of the economy and job market as wellas a general trend towards increased enrollments of non-traditional students in higher education. We need to tap into that underutilized pipeline of women and minority students if we areto have healthy and vital programs in the sciences and engineering. If we choose, de facto, onrecruiting from a restricted applicant pool, we will find that pool very limited. The attraction ofthe physical sciences and engineering has always been limited, even among the general Americanwhite male population, and perhaps increasingly so. There is no reason to think that the nextgreat scientific breakthrough could only come for such a narrow segment of the population. Pragmatic

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Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

process is analogous to the type of work in which an engineering graduate will engage. Thus, we believe portfolios will better prepare engineering graduates for their careers. Most students demonstrated increased evaluative and creative skills. We were pleased with the extent to which most students used higher level learning skills to complete their portfolios. Putting students in charge of documenting their own learning generally caused them to make challenging choices, to generate novel ideas, and to be motivated. This instrument appears to encourage the use of evaluative and creative aspects of learning, and we believe that students

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Arnold F. Johnson

learn teamwork, while mostoff-campus students have already experienced teamwork during their involvement on various projects.Sixth, in general the off-campus students are usually older and have different interests than the on-campus students. Seventh, the off-campus students who have reached the capstone design course nearthe end of their educational experience are a highly motivated, self-achieving students who have attainedan extensive industrial background at this point in life compared to their on-campus counterparts.In addition, there are several other differences that come into play when offering the capstone designcourse via distance education. First, the faculty is not available on site to monitor the project. Secondly,the student will

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Aaron A. Jennings

responsibility of making software work properly. Peoplefear a generation of “software user” engineers who don’t really know how their designtools work. As educators it is our responsibility to ensure that this does not happen. The following are desirable attributes for software used in educational applications.They may not all be appropriate for each application, and the list is undoubtedlyincomplete, but we have found them to be helpful for evaluating the educational potentialof software products. These have been discussed in detail in Jennings (1997) and in aseries of papers intended to illustrate how they can improve the educational value ofsoftware (Jennings and Kuhlman, 1998; Mesania and Jennings, 1998; Jennings, 1998)Narrow Focus - It is

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William J. de Kryger; David A. Lopez

Dinner at faculty home 9 Oct 8:30 am Student project time 6:30 pm Dinner at department chairman’s home 10 Oct 8:30 am Student project time 11 Oct 10:30 am Homecoming football game 12 Oct 1:00 pm Northwood automobile show 6:00 Farewell dinner 13 Oct 8:30 am Depart for airportIII. SUMMARYAt first glance, a foreign exchange program may seem ideally educational, exciting, and exotic. Itis, and more! Many people have traveled and interacted with foreign cultures with few problems,but in most cases these experiences are in countries which are generally considered “western” in

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Cliff J. Schexnayder; Avi Wiezel

Session 1221 Construction Education Using the World Wide Web Cliff J. Schexnayder, Avi Wiezel Del E. Webb School of Construction Arizona State UniversityABSTRACTLecturing is not the purpose of teaching. The purpose is transferring knowledge. TheWorld Wide Web (WWW) helps in distributing information, but can it improve thequality and effectiveness of transferring knowledge? An Arizona State Universityundergraduate estimating course employs the WWW to support instructional delivery oftechnical materials. Cooperative learning, multi-media tools, and other electronicresources

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Andrew S. Crawford

develop their personal skills and abilities. This model assertsthat the most effective education and development occurs when all five processes are continuouslyemployed. This is the most general form of the model. The following are the five processesinvolved in the model for leadership and citizenship education.Self-Assessment: Individuals need to be able to identify and assess their personal skills and abilities.They need to be encouraged to continuously evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. Additionally,students should be encouraged to solicit and be open to others’ feedback so that they may betteridentify their strengths and weaknesses.Situational Needs Evaluation: Students need to be able to identify and understand the skills andknowledge

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Paul S. Chinowsky

Session 3215 The Civil Engineering Resource Library: Developing A Multimedia Education Resource Paul S. Chinowsky Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe delivery of civil engineering projects requires civil engineers to address a broad spectrum ofissues generated by both project participants and regulatory agencies. Providing tools that assistteam members in addressing these issues through the use of information and knowledge fromprevious projects may reduce project errors by creating informed decision-makers. Recentadvances in communications

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Matt W. Mutka; Betty H. C. Cheng; Diane Rover

education has been largely directed towards mainstreamsoftware-based applications, such as the development of client-server information systems,network management systems, and CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) tools.Most of the techniques taught in the software engineering courses are generically applicableto software-based systems, with little emphasis placed on hardware environments. In orderto complement the current material presented in software engineering courses and to providetraining in an area that is gaining increasing attention, we extended the SE course to coversoftware development techniques specific to embedded systems in addition to those that aregenerally applicable to software systems.The course has had a focus on object

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Melissa S. Goldsipe; Martha J.M. Wells; Harsha N. Mookherjee; Dennis B. George; Arthur C. Goldsipe

measures that will be used todetermine the effectiveness of the engineering program include more than merely engineeringdesign and ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have & an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, & an ability to communicate effectively, and & the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.These outcomes reflect the student’s ability to communicate engineering and scientific principlesand concepts to his or her peers and to appreciate the perspective and knowledge otherdisciplines offer to solve societal

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Ben Erwin

something different? I mean, can we just design something that hasn't been made before?" The teacher answers yes, and the boy turns to his LEGO partner and says "We are inventors!" "To understand is to invent." - Jean Piaget (in Papert, 1993)Introduction A New Perspective As the highly successful "Central Park East" school in Manhattan claims in their missionstatement, a worthy goal of education is to graduate students that can see and understand theworld from multiple perspectives. For problem solving and design, it is advantageous to holdmultiple ways of viewing a problem and be able to shift between those views. For working in acooperative learning group

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David E. Goldberg; W. Brenton Hall; Lindsay Krussow; Eunice Lee; Aaron Walker

increasing availability ofnew information technologies, and increasingly di cult budgetary constraints. Many of thereform e orts are starting to pay o in prototype form with both anecdotal and statisticalevidence of programmatic success, but increasingly a number of engineering educators|including those involved in the design and implementation of reform|are wondering if thesee orts will ever|can ever|scale up to the real world of engineering education with itsrelentless time, curriculum credit, and budget pressures. Time will tell which of the reform e orts make it to the everyday classroom, but thispaper o ers an incremental, low-cost, e ective alternative to the wholesale rearrangements ofcurriculum topics, ow, and chunk size that seem to

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Krzysztof Malinowski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

' capabilities. Those admitted in the 80's were good and very good students, almost all capable of pursuing a quite demanding program of study leading to the MS degree, and a large fraction of them could – at least potentially - successfully pursue a PhD program. Those admitted in the early 90's had generally a lot of trouble in pursuing the MS program, and only a small fraction of them were good enough to Page 3.491.2 enter the PhD program. 2• As a result of growing diversity in educational background and capabilities of candidates

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Fiona S. Crofton; Cynthia A. Mitchell

future. Page 3.485.1INTRODUCTIONWe need to be clear from the outset: this paper is about environmental education in a sense whichincludes the triple bottom line so eloquently advocated by John Elkington [1], incorporatingecological, social (and cultural and political), and economic ‘environments’. However, this paperis not about the role of GIS and environmental modelling in the conservation of biodiversity, northe role of human perception in modelling the response to the route of a new freeway, nor therole of economic theory in modelling the long run. These topics are important in their own right,but in this paper we are concerned with human

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Rona Colosimo Warner; Paul J. Warner; Kim LaScola Needy

(curriculum, materials, facilities, etc.) 1.6.2 Plan master schedule (dates, instructors, topics, etc.) 1.6.3 Track information required by contracts 1.6.4 Monitor performance of students 1.6.5 Solicit and compile feedback 1.6.6 Monitor safety procedures 1.6.7 Coordinate graduation ceremony and certificates 1.6.8 Coordinate public relations efforts Page 3.431.6 Figure 1. Work Breakdown Structure for the Eight-Week Advanced Manufacturing ProgramThe second part of the program, computers in manufacturing starts in week four. During the firsttwo days of week four

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Alexander D. Poularikas

industrial Page 3.436.1base assures employability of graduates from the field of optoelectronics. These industriesinclude lasers, laser sources into optical memories, precision optics, laser diodes, and fiber andguided wave optics.In addition to existing employment opportunities, trends indicate that photonics applications willenhance or displace many existing electronic and mechanical technologies. Prime examples ofthis tread are:♦ The information carrying capacity of optical fibers, perhaps using solitons, will displace copper cable systems in delivering computer and video information to the home and office. The eventual displacement of copper