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Kent Curtis, Northern Kentucky University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

headquarters to the NKUregion. In addition, Clarion manufacturing (electronics), Mazak Corporation (machine tools), andSachs Automotive (auto components) have announced the formation of similar centers in thenear future. More specifically, there are several trends that are shaping technical organizationsrequiring MST graduates. Some of these are: a) Technical training specialists will be needed to explore alternatives and faster methodsof delivering new skills and learning; b) Master's level prepared students are needed to manage the complexity of rapidlychanging organizations; c) The manufacturing sector for the area over the last five years has increased by 24.5%with a 42 % growth in non-durable output and an increase in durable

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Gerald Gillmore; Deborah Harkus; Angela Gengler; Suzanne G. Brainard

. & MacLeod, M. (1990). Gender in the College Classroom: An Assessment of the “Chilly Climate”for Women. Sex Roles, 23, 3/4, p. 101-22.11 Ibid., p. 116.12 Seymour (1995), p. 349.13 Rayman, P. & Brett, B. (1995). Women science majors: What makes a difference in persistence aftergraduation? Journal of Higher Education, 66(4), 388-414.14 Morgan, C.S. (1992). College students’ perceptions of barriers to women in science and engineering. Youth andSociety, 24(2), 228-236.15 Blaisdell, S. (1995). Factors in the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering: A review of theliterature. WEPAN Working Paper Series.16 Hall, 1984.17 Fischer, A.R. & Good, G.E. (1994). Gender, Self, and Others: Perceptions of the Campus

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John G. Nee

movement. The intent of these courses was to providestudents experiences that would allow them to introduce and teach students this (these) subject(s)in the public schools of the state. Early courses consisted of fine and applied arts, simplewoodwork, bent iron, and mechanical drawing. The mechanical drawing course included“projection of shadows, instrumental perspective and plane geometry.”Early inclusion of CAD/CAM concepts were taught via Tektronix CRTs, digitizing tablets,joysticks, binary tape preparation devices, customized 2-D software, very early versions of NCsoftware, all with output provided by a B-size plotter. By the early 1980s the CAD operation wasupgraded to a large mainframe computer with remote dumb terminals located in

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Woo Sik Kim; Song Yop Hahn; Byeong Gi Lee; Ki-Jun Lee

. Page 3.248.42) For details of the -structured educational system, refer to References [6]-[7]. 4 Advanced Major Major General Fundamental Attainment Major Studies General Education (a) Simple-Layered Structure (b) -Structure Figure 1. Educational Structures

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Josef Rojter

engineering occupation, education and training.TheWilliams Committee produced a set of recommendations based on intensive inquiry ofviews, surveys, opinions of the Institutions of Engineers, employer groups, engineeringacademics, practising engineers, engineering students and the government. Therecommendations dealt with the future direction of engineering education in Australia. Thispaper examines the response of the engineering education providers to one of therecommendations, to enhance the social and management literacy of engineering graduates,and finds that the engineering education providers were by and large bound by institutionalcultures and prioritized recruitment often conflicting with the set of recommendations topositively respond to the

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

effectiveness of a working group.The system that we have adopted for use in ChE 211 is the merit raise system. Each group isgiven $10,000 as a year-end bonus for a job well done, and each group member is given theopportunity to distribute this bonus money as they desire, based on how they view thecontributions of each member to the overall performance of the group and success of the project.Examples: 1) Group ABCD member A feels that everyone in the group contributed equally to the successful completion of the project within given deadlines, they would give $2500 to each member. 2) Group ABCD member A feels that they did most of the work and that D did not contribute, then the distribution might be $5000 for A, $2500 each to B and C and

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Todd Nocera; Martha Cyr; John McDonald; Chris Rogers

Session 3553 The Design and Performance of Musical Instruments Chris Rogers, Martha Cyr, John McDonald, and Todd Nocera Tufts UniversityAbstractBy challenging the students to design and build a musical instrument, we teach the fundamentalsof engineering design and acoustics, as well as introduce statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, andvibrations to liberal arts students and first-year engineers. Using the instrument as a non-threatening medium, students get a chance to do hands-on problem solving from the beginning oftheir college career. One of the unique aspects of this course is that it is co

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Stephen J. Ressler

Session 3206 The Project Management K’nexercise: Using Role-Playing to Facilitate Learning About Design and Construction Stephen J. Ressler United States Military AcademyINTRODUCTIONThis paper describes the use of a role-playing exercise to facilitate students’ understanding of theinteractions between the key players in the civil engineering design-construction process. It alsodescribes the use of student journals as a means of assessing learning outcomes.The role-playing exercise is used in CE400A, a 1.0 credit-hour seminar course taken by allseniors

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Michael D. Ciletti

Session 3532 “Software for New Directions in Undergraduate Circuits Instruction” Michael D. Ciletti, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Colorado at Colorado Springs P.O. Box 7150 Austin Bluffs Parkway Colorado Springs, Colorado 80933-7150 ciletti@vlsic.uccs.eduAbstract Many universities have dedicated personal computing environments supporting theirengineering curricula. A typical arrangement allows

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Thomas J. Crowe; Herman Budiman; Elin M. Wicks

Session 3557 Interactive Multimedia: An Alternative to Manufacturing Laboratories Thomas J. Crowe, Elin M. Wicks, and Herman Budiman University of Missouri - ColumbiaABSTRACTTo ensure the continuation of important laboratory experiences, a new approach tomanufacturing process laboratories is undertaken. A multimedia software package is beingconstructed to allow students to explore a virtual industrial park. The industrial park iscomposed of five virtual companies: a machine shop, a welding shop, a materials lab, a sheetmetal shop, and a foundry-forging company

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William Park

Session 1532 Electronic Music Techniques Used to Enhance Introductory Circuit Analysis William Park Clemson UniversityABSTRACTTo provide not only an interesting challenge but also experience in teamwork andcommunication skills, honors students in my introductory circuit analysis course areassigned a project involving electronic music synthesis devices. The students are teamedup into pairs, with each pair having responsibility for one of several modules whichtogether compose a working voltage-controlled sound synthesis system. In addition totheir individual

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Bernadette Longo

the February 1998 issue of TechnicalCommunication, George Hayhoe called for the same type of collaboration that Paynerecommended in an engineering context: “Technical communicators in the academy and industryneed to explore a new model of education for the next millennium, one that fosters, promotes,and actively pursues learning—and learning to learn.”2 It seems that at our current moment ineducational history, we find a meeting of minds from engineering schools, professionalcommunication programs, and industry on at least one issue: to effectively teach engineering andcommunication, schools and industry need to collaborate on ends and means.This increasing interest in industry/academy collaboration positions teachers as mediators in

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Engineering Technology Poster Session (1547)

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Eric J. Addeo, DeVry Institute

instructor and remote students. This canbe useful in many situations where it is impossible or expensive to gather an instructor andstudents in the same room. Distance learning systems could be used to allow home boundstudents to keep up with their studies, or for students to attend specialized classes not held withintheir school. Videoconferencing could also be used for students within a classroom tocommunicate with outside experts, or to work together with students in other classrooms. Inaddition to these scenarios, teleconferencing could be used to offer classes to remote students aspart of continuing education programs. In the work environment, distance learning systemscould deliver training courses to employees within their offices, or in their

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Herbert Hess

Session 1333 Practical Classroom Demonstrations of Power Quality Issues Herbert L. Hess Department of Electrical Engineering University of Idaho, Moscow, IdahoAbstract Several simple classroom demonstrations safely and conveniently illustrate commonpower quality issues: voltage distortion, voltage flicker, and current harmonics. A voltagedistortion demonstration shows the everyday effects of having many personal computers orswitch mode power converters in a small area. A flicker demonstration uses a light bulb toillustrate dramatically line

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Robin Carr; Andrew Gregorowicz; Adam O'Donnell; Robert Quinn

Session 3659 Enhancement of Freshman Engineering Laboratory through Remote Web-based Experiments Robin Carr, Andrew Gregorowicz, Adam O'Donnell and Robert Quinn Drexel UniversityIntroduction - Three remote web-based engineering laboratories were developed andimplemented on a large scale - approximately 500 freshman engineering students participated.Before performing the remote labs, students become proficient in the use of a general purposeengineering workstation which includes a precision DMM, function generator, high-speedstorage oscilloscope, frequency counter, multiplexer

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Josue Njock-Libii

important physical variables involved in the equation. Ineach case, a reference is given from which the interested reader can get the derivation ofequations and other relevant details. It is hoped that these illustrations can be of use to instructorsof mathematics if they need to illustrate how conic sections are used in a variety of applications. Conic sections in the study of the Mechanics of fluids:a) Steady Flow of a viscous fluid in a circular pipe: Hagen-Poiseuille’s equation If u(r) is the velocity in the axial direction and r is the radial distance, then (ef. 1),(see Figure 1, for a graphical illustration) R 2 ∂p ru( r ) = − ( )[1 − ( ) 2 ] 4 µ ∂x Ru( r ) = velocity; R = radius; µ

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Jeffrey P. Freidberg

Session 1377 The New Discipline of Nuclear Engineering Jeffrey P. Freidberg Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionLike many nuclear engineering departments throughout the United States, the department at MIThas been carefully analyzing and planning its future strategy in order to maintain a strong andviable program. This planning, which by now has extended over approximately half a decade, isfar more encompassing than the normal evolution of engineering curriculum. Extensive longrange planning has been required because of the particular problems facing the

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Frank J. Rubino

skills are enhanced during the semester. During the semester, the students concentrate on adesign project with a competitive and analytical component. All projects involve faculty andstudent assessment.This paper guides the reader through the development of the course, its implementation anddiscusses the outcomes. Examples of the courses’ projects are presented along with theassessment tools. The course outline will be discussed to provide an overview of all materialcovered. The paper will also present interviews with both students who took the course and thefaculty who taught the course.INTRODUCTIONIn 1994 the Department of Mechanical–Civil/Construction Engineering Technology atMiddlesex County College began a comprehensive review of all of its

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Daniel Nosenchuck

Session 2202 Global Engineering Design Daniel Nosenchuck Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton UniversityAbstractIn recognition that the engineering design process has radically changed and is increasinglycoupled to the global economy, the Design Curriculum has been restructured to introducestudents to elements of design in a global context. In conjunction with large internationalproduct firms, student design teams are challenged to design products for the worldwide market.A competition down-selects one or more teams

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Peter D. Heimdahl

Session 1692 Summer Technology and Engineering Preview at Stout for Girls (STEPS for Girls): Introducing the World of Manufacturing Peter D. Heimdahl University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstract: The University of Wisconsin-Stout hosted a tuition-free summer engineering andtechnology camp for 163 girls entering 7th grade in four one-week sessions in July 1997. Thepurpose of the camp was to expose women to the opportunities for technical careers earlyenough to influence their choices of math, science, and technical courses in middle and highschool. The camp was partially supported by

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James Stice

Session 0575 Tips on Proposal and Grant Writing Linda Martinez Duke UniversityYou’ve identified a need and developed a feasible solution. The next step is to locate anappropriate funding agency and to write a grant. Your goal is to create a document thatfunders feel: addresses an existing need; provides a realistic plan to achieve desiredoutcomes; and that you and your organization can deliver on your promises.Proposals generally follow this pattern: Introduction; Statement of problem/need;Objectives; Methods; Evaluation; Budget.Statement of Problem/NeedThe grant writing process can

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Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1392 Women in Engineering Scholars Program Mary Aleta White, Stephanie Blaisdell, Mary Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityIntroduction Women continue to be seriously underrepresented in engineering graduate programs. InFall, 1996, women accounted for only 19.2% of the masters students and 16.2% of the doctoralstudents enrolled in engineering programs (Engineering Workforce Commission, 1997). A recentsurvey found that only 44% of students majoring in engineering their freshman year were still inengineering their senior year. Women and minority students were more likely to

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Klaus Wuersig

Sessions 1547 Switching and Power Electronics An Innovative Approach Klaus Wuersig SUNY College of Technology at AlfredIt is found so very often that courses that are taught in College have very little relevance to whatis happening in the real world. So many times a laboratory exercise is just that, an exercise. Inorder for meaning and relevance to intrude into this scenario it is essential that a student takespossession of an idea, a concept or an assignment. To design a product , very

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Joe King

SESSION 2432 Web-Based Engineering Courses: Getting Started Professor Joe King University of the PacificIntroductionThe World Wide Web, or simply the Web, was developed in 1989 as a graphical version of theoriginally text-based Internet. However, few outside of academia and research sites heard of theWeb until Marc Andreesen and a few of his friends at NESA at the University of Illinois foundedtheir company Mosaic Communications in Silicon Valley. The company was later renamedNetscape Communications. In 1995, the Netscape Navigator Web browser began the craze wenow

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Francis J. Doyle III

Session 3513 Novel Use of the World Wide Web for Undergraduate Process Control Instruction Francis J. Doyle III Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware AbstractIt is becoming common practice to use the World Wide Web (WWW) as a vehicle tocommunicate valuable course-related information to the student (see, e.g., [1]). In this paper, theauthor describes first-hand experience with the Serf (Server-side educational records facilitator)package, an environment which exploits a Web interface to access a

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Robert M. Koretsky

Session 1253 An Integrative Approach to Computer Graphics for Freshman Robert M. Koretsky University of Portland School of EngineeringABSTRACT: The paper describes a multi-disciplinary computer graphics course with a finalproject whose basic intentions are 1) to provide motivation through creativity and cooperation forthe study of engineering and 2) to develop the graphical communication and visualization skillsof the student via the use of pencil-and-paper sketching supported by appropriate computersoftware. A majority of the course content was designed around a report

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Eric Leung; Cathy Godbois; Richard Ciocci

Session 2265 Applied Algebra with Laboratory Experimentation Richard Ciocci, Cathy Godbois, Eric Leung Harrisburg Area Community CollegeThis paper describes a work in progress. Students in a variety of majors at the communitycollege-level are required to take at least two courses in math and science. Often these studentselect to take college algebra, which neither prepares them for a data-oriented environment in theworkplace nor exposes them to scientific methodology. These students need an interdisciplinarycourse or a course with an interdisciplinary focus, which gives them these

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Jordan Cox; Alan Parkinson

facilitated if educators have a means forunderstanding and managing the curriculum as a whole.In the mechanical engineering department of Brigham Young University, we have beenexperimenting with ways to capture and manage the curriculum to insure that all desired attributesare addressed. We discuss what we have learned to date and the strengths and weaknesses of themethods we have tried. We discuss a web-based software tool for curriculum management that iscurrently under development. The software will enable us to manage curriculum to insure that allattributes are being developed and to maximize integration across courses. It will help provideconsistency in instruction, will be a complete repository of the curriculum that can be accessed atany time

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Mariusz Jankowski

New electronic courseware modules for selected upper-level electrical engineering courses. Mariusz Jankowski University of Southern MaineAbstractA recent award from the National Science Foundation (DUE-III program) was used toestablish a computer-integrated classroom to support instruction in selectedundergraduate electrical engineering courses. The new classroom is being used to addressthree pedagogically fundamental problems:(1) insufficient mastery of engineering mathematics by many students,(2) student passivity within the traditional lecture format,(3) insufficient use of computation and visualization in the learning process,New electronic

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Barbara E. Marino; Sandra Yost

Session 2275 Optimizing Mentor/Mentee Relationships in Academia Barbara E. Marino, Sandra A. Yost Loyola Marymount University/ University of Detroit MercyIntroduction The demands of a tenure track appointment at a university can seem overwhelming to abeginning faculty member. Many new engineering professors begin such appointmentsimmediately after a Ph.D. program or post-doctoral appointment. The decade or so of academiasitting in the student’s desk and serving as a researcher in the laboratory does not provideadequate preparation for life behind the podium. Launching a research