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Robert L. Powell; Michael J. McCarthy; Michael H. Buonocore

Session 1526 Graduate Research and Education Program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Michael H. Buonocore, Michael J. McCarthy, Robert L. Powell University of California, DavisAbstractThis paper describes the development of a Web site for research and technical education inmagnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This site has been developed with funding from the NationalScience Foundation, and emphasizes MRI theory, medical and biological engineeringapplications. This Web site is now actively used by UC Davis graduate students. The graduatestudents find the entire

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William Daughton

Session 2642 A Distance Education Program in Engineering Management A 10-year Success Story William J. Daughton University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThe Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program at the University of Colorado has beenoffering graduate degrees and professional certification for ten years. The program has beensubstantially funded by Lockheed Martin Corporation and was created to prepare full-timeworking engineers for early management assignments. Over 150 engineers at many companies,large and small, have successfully completed the

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Voula Georgopoulos; Constantinos Vassiliadia; Brian Manhire

. In addition to general information, an example program is discussed andinformation on accreditation is provided. Section 4 deals with employment of engineers inGreece, section 5 with women engineers, section 6 with graduate studies and section 7 is thepaper’s summary.2. Educational SystemIn Greece the educational system is as follows: Kindergarten, elementary school consisting ofsix grades, Gymnasium (equivalent to Junior High school consisting of three grades), andLyceum (equivalent to High School consisting of three grades). Lyceum graduates can thentake national entrance exams to enter institutions of higher learning. These includeUniversities, Technical Educational Institutes (TEI), and Military Colleges, all of which arepublic. In

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William E. DeWitt; William J. Hutzel; Timothy L. Skvarenina

Session 1333 An Interdisciplinary Facilities Engineering Technology Graduate Course William J. Hutzel, William E. DeWitt, and Timothy L. Skvarenina Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstract A new graduate course called “Facilities Engineering Technology” is addressing thegrowing demand for multi-skill employees who can solve problems associated with mechanicaland electrical systems in buildings. Identifying energy conservation measures and evaluatingtheir economic impact is an important focus of the course for both mechanical and

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Ernest M. Kim

General Education Requirement in the Physical Sciences.I. IntroductionIn typical Engineering programs, there is desire to integrate technical education with traditionalliberal arts studies to educate a well-rounded engineer. Those studies include written and oralskill development, exploration of human existence through studies in philosophy and religion,and analysis of ethical issues. The liberal arts studies are usually an integral part of anengineering curriculum.Through this integrated approach to technical education, the Engineering graduate is prepared tobecome a responsible member of the technical community, and society as a whole.Unfortunately, there is fragmentation of knowledge in the undergraduate liberal arts experiencebrought

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Emma Torbert; Eleanor Abrams; David Bourgeois; Carmela Amato-Wierda; Anneliese Mueller; Christopher F. Bauer

projects in which studentteams investigate chemically-related problems from various disciplines, including chemistry,engineering, materials science, biochemistry, earth science, soil science, and environmentalscience. Chemprojects are developed in consultation with faculty from these disciplines andindustry. Science education experts are evaluating the effects Chemprojects on student practices,attitudes, and performance. This paper discusses various aspects of the Chemprojects curriculumreform, including: objectives, description of implemented Chemprojects, modifications to lectureand laboratory format, student teams, description of evaluation methods, and preliminary studentreactions.The General Chemistry Curriculum: What Is Needed?There is an

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Paul P. Mathisen

and employees at the remote site, as well as a number of students from other sites,attended the interactive sessions, and graduate students who were unable to travel to the remoteinteractive site still were able to view the presentation on videotape. An interactive video sessionwas also used for the final class, in which each graduate student gave a 10-minute presentationdescribing his or her individual project topic. The topics generally expanded upon coursematerial and applied it to different problems. Thus, the projects provided graduate students withan opportunity to investigate an individual topic of interest. Each graduate student also provideda short handout to distribute to all other students so that every student would benefit. A

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Trevor Harding

?). A supervisor of GSIs couldeasily identify these concerns early in the semester with a simple questionnaire orinformal discussion.How do they talk about their discipline?GSIs, like all graduate students, go through a period of learning the discipline’s lingo andhow to use it appropriately. Students in the senior learner stage tend not to understandthe complexities of the topics they are discussing and have a limited grasp of thelanguage. They are thought to be "pre-socialized" to the field8. But for the same reasons,these GSIs have an appeal to their students who are in a similar situation. At thecolleague-in-training stage students are becoming more "socialized". Through theirresearch they have become more focused on the language and ideas

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Marla E. Hacker; Thomas M. West

admitted to the program. Since completion of theprogram requires approximately four years of part-time study, we have just recently reached apoint of having a critical mass of graduates from this program. Twelve students representingeight companies have received their Manufacturing Engineering Masters Degrees through thisdistance learning program.III. Graduate Level Distance Education LearningsFrom the Perspective of the Graduates- A survey was recently administered to the graduates ofthis program in order to gather data for continuous improvement. The graduates of this programare engineers and/or managers at Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix, Intel, Wacker Siltronics,Sun, Sequent Computers and S.E.H. America. The survey requested information

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Rosemarie M. Evans; Madison Daily; Susan L. Murray

rooms to create a alternative means for the delivery of coursematerial. This paper will draw these following conclusions from more than a year of research,which included over 100 students in six different course offerings. First, the Internet-basedstudents performed equally as well as the control group students. Second, students tend to haveexaggerated time requirement expectations for Internet-based classes. Third, students tend tohave positive course effectiveness experiences. Fourth, students tend to be very skeptical ofelectronic lectures but their experiences are positive. Fifth, learning styles play a roleinfluencing student expectations regarding Internet-based education. This influence is especiallystrong in student course time

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Francois Michaud; Mario Lucas; Gerard Lachiver; Andre' Clavet; Jean-Marie Dirand; Noel Boutin; Philippe Mabilleau; Jacques Descoteaux

the supervision of Pr. Maja J. Mataric. He is now the principal investigator of LABORIUS, aresearch group working on software/hardware design of mobile robots and intelligent systems, funded by theNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI).His research interests include mobile robotics (learning, group and social behavior), fuzzy logic and appliedartificial intelligence.MARIO LUCASMario Lucas teaches human relation in working environments at the School of Engineering of the Université deSherbrooke. He has a Master’s in Psychology – Human Relations (1980) and he is currently completing his Ph.D.in adult education on the topic of leadership in action. He is associated to a firm

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Paul Mooney; Michael A. Mooney; Gerald Miller

related issueswithin a general topic (the issues are assigned at least two weeks in advance). For example,within the general topic of clay soil properties in the ASM course, assigned issues might includethe following: (1) Explain the difference in mineral composition between clay and sand; (2)Elaborate on the nature of, and the differences between types of clay minerals; and (3) Explainhow the Atterberg limits relate to clay-water interaction and why they differ across clay types.Students develop an understanding by seeking multiple references (e.g., textbooks, periodicals,internet) and are strongly encouraged to both collaborate with their peers and to consult theinstructor for feedback and clarification during preparation. During class

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Edward Gehringer

increasingly large numbersof graduates to foster further innovation. Both of these factors increase the demands onengineering faculty, who are faced with large numbers of students and large amounts of newmaterial. To meet these demands, faculty need to get students involved as never before in theirown education, helping to educate their peers. For if faculty provide an environment wherestudents are actively engaged in teaching other students, members of large classes may actuallybenefit from more, rather than less, personalized instruction.For generations, the academic community has relied on peer review as a way of enhancing theknowledge base and encouraging serious scholarship. It has been praised as a cooperative

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Omar Barkat

Session 3660 Engineering Final Projects in a 5-Year Program Higher Education Institution Omar Barkat, Ph.D., Dr. es-Sc., P.E. McNeese State University College of Engineering and technology P.O. Box 91735 Lake Charles, Louisiana, 70609-1735AbstractIn this paper, final projects work for engineering graduates in Algeria during the students lastyear are discussed. The Industrial Chemistry Institute at The University of Science andTechnology of Algiers is taken as an

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Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

by some universities, or are pursued without course work, typically by teaching andresearch associates of academic institutions.Besides mainstream programs of higher education, there are correspondence and eveningstudies. These studies account for about 20 % of all students at technical universities. Classesare organized over the weekend for correspondence students and during the evenings over theweek for evening students. There are also some forms of continuing education in Poland, mainlyvarious post-graduate studies which last 2 or 3 semesters and terminate with a certificate ofcompletion; courses offered at these kinds of studies vary depending on current market needs.Engineering curricula have traditionally been based on a rigid core of

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E. H. Shaban

and free down load of software from their home page in the Internet.This is a good but limited opportunity for developing countries to surface the Internet and download available software in CAD that can facilitate and enhance their engineering education.Electrical MachinesElectrostatic forces, magneto-static forces, and electro-dynamic fields and waves are thefundamentals for an introduction to DC and AC motors and generators theory and operation. Thefollowing topics: motor speed control, DC and AC generators, single and three phasetransformers, require a sound background in circuit analysis, physics, electrodynamics, andmathematics. At the same time, experimental operation and measurements in electric machinerequire the state of the art

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national boundaries.Graduates must understand the cultures, traditions, and languages of countries where theywill work, or where their designs or products will be utilized. It was also noted thatengineering education in a given country or region must reflect and respond to localconditions.The amount of practice orientation in the curriculum was explored by Congressparticipants, with wide differences of opinion on the desirable amount. It became clearthat engineering programs in a particular country needed to provide graduates attuned tothe current and future needs of their local economies, so that there would generally besignificant differences in the amount of practice orientation that was deemed appropriateby the local faculty. In some countries

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Sadikin Djumin; James J. Mager; Jane M. Fraser

understanding of why one transition rate shows aparticular trend may lead to better predictions about another transition rate. While Dr. Fraser hasleft OSU, it is possible that Dr. Mager will work with another faculty member in the industrialengineering department at OSU to continue along these lines.3. What went well – and what didn’tData collection proved to be a much more serious undertaking than predicted, but, as all of thereaders of this paper know, that statement can be made of almost every industrial engineeringproject. Indeed, the graduate student learned that fact very well and it can be argued this learningwas a very valuable educational outcome. Also, the difficulty of data collection led toimprovements in the data system so that the model

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Padnos School of Engineering’s emphasis on environmentally responsible design - http://engineer.gvsu.edu/pse-info/mis_val.html) • Does the data appear to be technically accurate?Graduate students were asked to do a similar research effort but with the topics dealing with re-cent developments in materials engineering that they might be able to apply to the product line attheir place of employment. Since the materials to be researched were fairly new, the students hadto rely on journal articles and web resources rather than texts or reference books in most cases.IV. Problems with Web Based ResourcesAlthough the Internet is a useful tool for materials study, there are still many problems that pre-vent it from being the only resource

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William B. Hudson; Donald M. Gruenbacher

Session 2632 Evolving Education Paradigms, Friend or Foe? William B. Hudson, Donald M. Gruenbacher Kansas State UniversityIntroductionNot long ago successful instruction required only that an instructor be current with subjectmatter and present this material in a logical and cohesive manner. Many instructors wentbeyond the lecture and provided students with laboratories to reinforce key concepts. Recentlythe instructional landscape has begun to change. Some say these changes are in response to achanging student population, others believe that asynchronous instruction must be

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Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

other universities.The results showed a high correlation between interest in attending a workshop with a low skilllevel with the workshop topic, as expected. When account was made of both high demand andexisting skill, the priority of workshops was changed. Page 4.502.8AcknowledgementSupport of this work by the SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition, funded by the NationalScience Foundation, is gratefully acknowledged. The assistance of the TBCD Focus Teamrepresentatives on each SUCCEED campus is also appreciated.Bibliography1 Flori, RE, Journal of Engineering Education, 86(3), 269 (1997).2 Felder, R.M. and Silverman, L.K. “Learning and

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Lawrence H. Trachtman; David Ringholz; Carolyn M. Sommerich

, students informally presentedtheir evolving projects to the class in order to receive feedback, suggestions, or other commentsfrom the students and faculty. The form of the final presentation and product was left up to thestudent, allowing them to summarize their ideas in formats with which they were mostcomfortable. In general, design students opted for visual presentation board displays whilepsychology and engineering students prepared written reports. Some students made functional orform models. All students made oral presentations to the class. Final project topics included an Page 4.215.4adjustable desk for use in classroom settings; a

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Sandra Courter; Ruthie Lyle; Ranil Wickramasinghe; Lisa Schaefer; Kevin Nickels; Jodi Reeves; David Noyce; Annie Pearce

University/Polytechnic UniversityAbstractIn July 1998, more than 40 graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, and new faculty from around thenation converged at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering to participatein the Engineering Education Scholars Program (EESP). EESP consisted of presentations bynationally and locally recognized speakers, workshops to help attendees bridge the gap betweenpedagogical theory and teaching practice, and activities to develop course objectives, outcomes,activities, and assessments. This paper highlights how some Scholars have already started toimplement new teaching strategies gained from EESP in the areas of group problem-solving andadjusting teaching styles to fit a diverse student audience

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Lawrence B. Korta

better known as Allen-Bradley)approached MSOE with a challenge: develop a summer engineering program which would beattractive to graduate level Eastern European engineering students; specifically for engineeringstudents in what was then Czechoslovakia The program was to be used as a way to bring “thebest and brightest” engineering students to the US and to Rockwell, anticipating a kind of“internship” relationship in which the students learn about the host company while the companyhas an opportunity to observe the participants. Participants were to be selected on the basis oftheir command of the English language and being enrolled in a field of study relevant to the workof Allen-Bradley (Rockwell)….this generally meant the students were majoring

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Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

Page 4.239.1undergraduate curriculum; 2) development of an undergraduate degree in constructionengineering and management; and 3) development of graduate level programs in constructionengineering and management. This research project— aimed at future “managers ofconstruction”— primarily targets the undergraduate civil and construction engineering curricula.II. Construction Engineering EducationOver the past few years national organizations such as American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), National Science Foundation(NSF), and National Research Council (NRC) have sponsored numerous studies to gauge thecurrent status of undergraduate engineering education and to develop an agenda forimprovement

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Charyl Delaney; Alejandro Scalise; Larry J. Shuman; Harvey Wolfe

closelymatching our teaching styles to the students’ learning styles. It is important to learn studentnames, maintain office hours, assist students in solving their problems, and be supportive. Asimilar commitment is needed from staff. Though the retention issue at the upper levels isprimarily left to the individual departments, there are two area in which a School wide effort mayaddress retention issues: cooperative education and ABET accreditation.Cooperative Education Program: Approximately half of the School’s graduates enter as transfers.These students have a graduate rate of 85 percent. The Co-op Program, which was re-establishedin 1988, also appears to be a major factor in reducing attrition. For the first 501 students who co-oped for at least one

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some class time and several previous courses provide for designmethodology education. During the last term, the team produces a final report and presents theirwork at a symposium including the sponsoring companies.This approach has a number of advantages in providing a long-term project on a real problem.The students get a good look at typical industry practices including the darker side such ashaving to work for resources and attention from supervisors. The teams have the opportunity tosee a large part of the total design process including documentation, but generally don’t getinvolved in the mass manufacturing and revision stages because of time limitations.The senior project approach is the best coursework method for dealing with time

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Julie A. Phillips; Dewey A. Swanson

University.Quality Course: The Organizational Leadership and Supervision degree program is designed toprovide long-term educational emphasis on real-world work concepts and principles ofenlightened leadership, rather than short-term supervisory approach. One of these real-worldwork courses is entitled Leadership Strategies for Quality and Productivity (TQM). This is asenior level course that focuses on how organizational leaders create an environment conduciveto high levels of employee self-motivation, quality and productivity. The course is based on theteaching of Dr.W. Edwards Deming, a quality guru. Topics covered are variation, SPC, systemsthinking, quality tools, tampering, Baldrige Award, Deming Prize, QS 9000, and ISO 9000.These topics are taught in

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Timothy Robert Wyatt; Emir Jose Macari

and measurement (CE 6162). Anumber of other courses are offered in topics such as advanced soil mechanics and constitutivemodeling, practical design (such as foundations and retaining walls), and geo-environmentalengineering. Upon completion of the core courses, most students pursuing M.S. degrees electnot to take the advanced mechanics courses such as Constitutive Modeling of Soils andComputational Soil Elasto-Plasticity due to a fear that the concepts may be too complex forthem to understand. Despite the fact that the purpose of the classes is to instill a more completeunderstanding of soil behavior, M.S. students generally consider the mechanics concepts tooabstract for practical application. Thus, M.S.-level students tend to focus their

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William M. Maalouf; Fazil Najafi

Session 3460 Effective Educational Delivery Tools Using Multimedia and Distance Learning Fazil T. Najafi, William M. Maalouf University of FloridaAbstractDistance learning, or the delivery of educational programming to remote sites, has recentlycome in vogue again as a hot topic, although it is far from being a new subject. There aremany world remote areas and sites consisting of a single individual, a whole classroom, or acorporate training center. Existing delivery methods are the Internet and the World WideWeb (WWW), emails, hardcopy documents, disks, CD’s