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TechnologicalUniversity. He received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1978) from the University ofMissouri-Columbia. Prior to joining Tennessee Technological University he spent 6 years inMechanics of Materials and Structures at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group. He is a member ofASEE, ASME, ASTM, ASM International and Sigma Xi. He teaches Machine Design, PhysicalMetallurgy, and Mechanical Behavior of Materials and does research in related areas.JAMES CORBEILJames Corbeil is a candidate for a Doctoral Degree in Engineering at Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity. He received his B.S. (1996), M.S. (1998) from Tennessee Technological University.He is a member of Pi Tau Sigma. Currently, he is involved in studying the dynamics of designteam interactions

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Sarah E. Irvine; Teresa L. Hein

Session 2380 TECHNOLOGY AS A TEACHING AND LEARNING TOOL: ASSESSING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING IN THE INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS LAB Teresa L. Hein, Sarah E. Irvine Department of Physics/School of Education American University Washington, DCAbstractTechnology, particularly computer-based applications are currently being incorporated withinmany domains of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education. Theprimary goal of this incorporation is the improvement of student learning. In this

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

objectives. It has aninterdisciplinary content that relates General Chemistry principles to other fields because theprojects are developed from topics related to the disciplines representing the career goals of thestudents in the course. Particular emphasis is placed on students working collaboratively onopen-ended investigations which do not have predetermined procedures or outcomes. Thus apremium is placed on development of decision-making ability and understanding of chemicalconcepts necessary to solve a problem. Faculty from the chemistry and engineering departmentshave assisted in designing these projects and have been guest lecturers in the course. Thesefaculty will be drawn into a reflective discourse about the teaching and

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Jim Henry

Session 1526 WEB OPERATION OF REAL, PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS --WORLD WIDE RESOURCE CENTER Jim Henry University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractEngineering laboratory experiments have been made available for students to use via the WorldWide Web, from remote sites, anywhere in the world. This paper describes the hardware andsoftware that is used for this facility, describes the development of a resource center forengineering laboratories on the web and discusses new paradigms for engineering laboratoryexperimentation that

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

outcomes assessment committee for the past four years and served on the campusProgram Review and Assessment Committee since the 1994-95 academic year. He has presented papers onoutcomes assessment at the 1998 Frontiers in Education Conference and the 1998 Rose-Hulman Best AssessmentProcesses in Engineering Education II, and he will be presenting another paper at the 1999 ASEE AnnualConference. In the area of learning styles, he has been using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in research Page 4.88.9and classroom applications and has published extensively in that area of teaching and learning. In the field ofelectrical engineering

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Badrul H. Chowdhury

Session No. 3532 Designing an Innovative Laboratory to Teach Concepts in Grid-Tied Renewable and Other Dispersed Resources Badrul H. Chowdhury* bchow@ece.umr.edu. Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409-0040 Tel: 573-341-6230; Fax: 573-341-6671*Work performed while at the University of WyomingAbstract An undergraduate laboratory is designed for use as part of the energy conversion andpower

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Y. Omurtag; T. Ioi; S. Enomoto; M. Matsunaga

Session 2263 Collaborative Manufacturing Engineering Education and Research in Japan T. Ioi, S. Enomoto, K. Kato, M. Matsunaga, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, Research Committee of MOT, Japan , Y. Omurtag, University of Missouri-Rolla, USAAbstractThis paper describes an emerging engineering education system for manufacturing professionalsat Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) in Japan, based on the principles of industry academiacollaboration and case study methodology in teaching and research.First, the Department of Project Management (DPM

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missions.4 In essence the modelfor engineering leadership of systematic needs-driven continuous technological innovation has evolved as:ContinuousCreative Recognize “Ideas” Proof of Advanced TestingEngineering Need(s) for Concept Feasibility Development Modification à TechnologyDevelopment Improvement Testing Ãà Applied Scientific Research Conducted to better understand the physical phenomena involved in

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1983 and spent the followingseven years as a practicing design engineer. He received his Ph.D from the University of Victoria in 1994 andassumed his current position at Queen’s University in 1996. Peter teaches machine design and mechatronics andconducts research in a variety of fields with strong collaborative links to industry.BRIAN SURGENORBrian Surgenor is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University inKingston Ontario. He received his B.Sc. from Queen’s University 1977, his M.Sc. from McMaster University in1979 and his Ph.D from Queen’s University in 1983. He joined the faculty in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Queen’s University in 1983. Brian teaches control theory and

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Debi Switzer; Siegfried M. Holzer; Richard M. Felder; Douglas E. Hirt

adoptionof instructional methods and materials that have been proven effective by classroom research; (2)to improve institutional support for teaching at each of the coalition campuses; and (3) to have asustainable engineering FD program in place on each campus by the end of Year 10.Many universities throughout the United States have faculty development programs, usuallycoordinated by a campus-wide teaching center. Some of these programs have played animportant role in raising the quality of instruction in colleges of engineering, but most have hadrelatively little impact on the engineering faculty. For various reasons, many engineers lackrespect for pedagogy as a discipline and consider programs sponsored by campus teachingcenters as largely

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William F. Reeve

Electronic Troubleshooting in Electrical Engineering Technology, 1992 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp 1947-50.2. Naylor, W.R. & Dennis, D.S., Troubleshooting Featuring ALFRED II, Learning Systems, Lafayette, IN, 1993.3. Aubrey, R.A., Dennis, D.S. & O’Connor, T., Adaptive Instructional Tools and Techniques Used in Teaching Electronic Troubleshooting, 1994 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp 2655-59.4. Aubrey, R.A. & Brelage, T., A Temperature and Voltage Monitor Board for the Electrical Engineering Technology Laboratory, 1995 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp 484-87.5. Reeve, W.F., Graphical Analysis Applications in an Electrical Engineering Technology Laboratory, 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.6. Tomal

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Sam Thompson; John I. Hochstein; Tom Benson; Jeff Marchetta

Session 2366 Using Computers in Teaching Gas Dynamics Sam Thomason, John Hochstein, Tom Benson*, Jeff Marchetta The University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee 38152 and *NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio 44135AbstractTo assist in the teaching of undergraduate gas dynamics in the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at the University of Memphis, two workstation-based interactive flow simulators,VU-INLET and VU-SHOCK, developed at the NASA Lewis

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

lectures of each MRI course in digitized form, links to information on theNMR facilities on the campus, and help with administrative and financial aspects of theirgraduate study program.I. IntroductionOne of the main objections raised by engineering and physical science graduate studentsplanning careers in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was that the typical MRI textbooks didnot give them adequate technical details. Discussions of MR physics, MRI system design, anddata collection and image generation were typically “watered-down” for casual reading, andwere inadequate for preparation for careers in MRI technical research and development. Thecourses offered on the Web site to be discussed in this paper provide a rigorous technicaleducation in MRI

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Kevin Schmaltz; Morrie Walworth; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Session 2526 THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY THAT EMPHASIZES VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN MULTIPLE ENGINEERING CURRICULA David McDonald, Kevin Schmaltz, and Morrie Walworth School of Engineering and Technology Lake Superior State University Ajay Mahajan Department of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleAbstractThe current paradigm in engineering instruction builds on a lecture prerequisite structurebut ignores the need for a laboratory prerequisite structure. This

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Objectives, David McKay, New York, NY.3. Carneson, J., Delpierre, G., and Masters, K. (1997). Designing and Managing Multiple Choice Questions,University of Cape Town, South Africa, http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/cbe/meqman/mcqman01.html.4. Cross, Patricia (1998). “What Do We Know About Student Learning and How Do We Know It?” in Proceedingsof the 1998 AAHE National Conference on Higher Education, Atlanta, GA.5. Danielson, S.G., & Danielson, E.B. (1994). “Teaching problem solving via non-traditional methods.” In: 1994Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, Vol. II, June 26-29, Edmonton,Canada (p. 1675-1680). New York: American Society for Engineering Education.6. Freilich, M. B. (1987). A Student Evaluation of

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Maurice Walworth; Kevin Schmaltz; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

General Engineering and Engineering Technology, and teaches courses inElectrical Engineering and Engineering Technology. His primary interests are in control systems, data acquisitionand control, and modern instrumentation. He is also actively involved in the development of innovative teachingmethodologies for undergraduate education.MAURICE WALWORTHMaurice Walworth is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at LakeSuperior State University. Before coming to LSSU, he worked at Purdue University and Lawrence LivermoreLaboratory. His teaching and research interests are in biomedical engineering, machine vision and 3D positioningsystems. He is also actively involved in the development of innovative teaching

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Francis Ting

Session 1526 Using Inexpensive Modern Equipment in Teaching Turbulence to Undergraduate Engineering Students Francis C. K. Ting South Dakota State UniversityAbstractThis paper summarizes the development of four laboratory experiments designed to enhancelearning of turbulence theory by undergraduate engineering students. The concepts taught bythese experiments included boundary-layer structure, flow separation, vortex shedding, surfacepressure distributions, Reynolds stress, and statistical description of turbulent motion. Therequired equipment included an

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David S. Kelley

Session 1438 Mastery Learning as a Teaching Methodology in Engineering Graphics David S. Kelley Western Washington UniversityAbstractMastery learning has been utilized successfully in education in such fields as English,Mathematics, Physical Education, and Science. Mastery learning is defined as the “attainment ofadequate levels of performance on tests that measure specific learning tasks” [5]. TheEngineering Graphics Technology Department at Oklahoma State University in Okmulgee hasutilized various forms of mastery learning for the teaching

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Richard L. Coren; C. John Carpenter

to Electromagnetism," IEE Proc., Vol. 135, pp. 477- 486 (1988);"Electromagnetic Energy and Power in Terms of Charges and Potentials Instead of Fields," IEE Proc., Vol. 136,pp. 55-65 (1989); "Comparison of the Practical Advantages of Alternative Descriptions of ElectromagneticMomentum," IEE Proc., Vol. 136, pp. 101-114 (1989); "Electromagnetic theory without electric flux," IEEProc.A 139 (4) pp189-209 (1992); "Understanding Electromagnetism I, II, III," IEE Engineering Science andEducation Journal: vol.2 (6) pp 273-280 (1993), vol.4 (5) pp 231-240 (1995), vol 4 (6) pp 269-274 (1995);“ Teaching Electromagnetism in Terms of The Potentials Instead of The ‘Maxwell’Equations” (1992 IEEE Conf.on EM Field Computation), IEEE Trans, Educ. 36,223-226

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Winston F. Erevelles

Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and

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Clark Colton; Bonnie D. Burrell

Session NO. 2642 How to Initiate Dialogue in Student Research Teams Bonnie D. Burrell and Clark K. Colton Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139AbstractIn the process of integrating teambuilding training into a chemical engineering projectslaboratory, we concluded that a pedagogical tool was needed to move the student teams throughthe early team life cycle and communication stages in order to create the needed trust to begineffective communication. The tool we developed consists of two parts: (1) an

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institutional or disciplinary policiesand procedures. Overall, a certain insularity is observable within engineering colleges asreflected in the lack of attention given to systemic reform (surprising given the premise of theengineering coalitions), and the complete lack of explicit adaptation of innovations from otherdisciplines.V. Future High Leverage Priorities in Engineering Education ResearchThe last point made, may provide an indication of how engineering education can identify highleverage priorities for the future. For example, there may be value in emulating the physicseducation research community (e.g, basic research on what it means to learn physics,development of assessment instruments, implementation of modified teaching strategies

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for enhancingtheir problem solving skills and encourages them to pursue graduate studies.IntroductionThe College of Engineering at Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift fromHenry and Betty Rowan in 1992. The College of Engineering’s key features includecollaborative teamwork in inter- and multi- disciplinary laboratory and coursework and theincorporation of state of the art technologies and innovative teaching methodologies. Activitiesof the freshman and sophomore engineering clinic classes at Rowan have already receivednational recognition (1-8). The freshman clinic focuses on primary principles, measurements,and competitive assessment. The sophomore clinic focuses on formalized engineering designtechniques. The junior and

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Robert Voigt; Patricia Warren; Charles Cameron; Anne Madsen; Eric Twite

/index.html, Voltage Circuit SimulatorBiographies:ROBERT VOIGTCDR Robert J. Voigt USN is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at the U. S. Naval Academy inAnnapolis Maryland. His research interests include real time, fault tolerant computer architecture and networking,particularly hierarchical multicast. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1979 and received his MSEE in 1986and his Ph.D. in 1996 both from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.PATRICIA F. WARRENLtCol Patricia F. Warren USMC is an instructor of Electrical Engineering at the U. S. Naval Academy in AnnapolisMaryland. She graduated from the University of California, Berkley in 1980 with a BS in Civil Engineering andreceived an MS in Applied Physics in 1998

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Hakan B. Gürocak

Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 89-96, 1995.[7] Shoureshi, R., "A Course on Microprocessor-Based Control Systems," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, June 1992.[8] Mansour, M. and Schaufelberger, W., "Software and Laboratory Experiments Using Computers in Control Education," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, April 1989.HAKAN GUROCAK is Assistant Professor in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Hereceived his Ph.D. degree from Washington State University at Pullman in 1993 and has five years of professionalexperience in teaching undergraduate mechanical engineering. His research interests are robotics, automation,fuzzy logic and haptic interfaces

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

. ConclusionsThe technological process has caused deep transformations in the entire producing system andas a consequence in the work relations. What occurs is that an increasing number of people havework and not job. This situation demands extra abilities.The University is an Institution created quite more than 700 years ago and it is also in constantevolution. Presently the Modern University is very important to the generation and the diffusionof knowledge. Besides its fundamental function to prepare citizens for life teaching them aprofession is one of among other things. Its compromise is above all with the research and theappliance of new scientific knowledge that it generates.As Engineer is the agent of progress and so the agent of transformation of

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toassure the students a good professional performance and the ability to face the challenges offuture world.The high level of Education is a consequence of a good Teaching Staff, Researchers,Technicians as well as the high level Students who are rigorously selected. Besides the goodmaterial conditions which includes Libraries very well equipped as well as the Labs, Internetaccess and so on. The Professors can also count with all sort of extra equipment they eventuallyneed for the classes.IV. Engineer of Conception and Engineer of ApplicationThere are two types of Engineers that are named Engineer of Conception and Engineer ofApplication 1,2. In developed countries there is a clear distinction between them. The first onehas a university formation

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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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willunderstand many of the details of designing the plant without losing focus of the ultimate goal ofthe process. Most importantly, however, at some point in the project they will have to makesome of their own decisions. There will be more than one way to attack the problem, and thestudents will have to make appropriate assumptions, research several alternatives, use commonsense and think both logically and physically in order to arrive at a practical solution. If thisproject accomplishes its goal, the chemical engineering curriculum at Penn State University willtake a step away from being a mere extension of theoretical science and a step toward being anactual preparation for a career in thoughtful problem-solving and design.1 IntroductionLike many

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Robert Engelken

Session 0575 Engineering Research at Predominately Undergraduate Institutions: Strategies and Pitfalls for the New Engineering Educator Dr. Robert D. Engelken Arkansas State UniversityAbstractThis paper will discuss challenges and opportunities experienced by new engineering educatorsin conducting research at primarily undergraduate, nonresearch, teaching-oriented colleges anduniversities. Such institutions often contrast with flagship research institutions in regard tofacilities, support, philosophy, and policies regarding