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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

Session 3453 Residential Innovations for Engineering Students Sally Steadman and David Whitman College of Engineering, University of WyomingAbstractClustering engineering students in the residence halls has proven to be a successful strategy forstudent retention at the University of Wyoming (UW). This model is based on the highlysuccessful theme floors offered by many housing departments on campuses across the nation.Since the first students that were selected to live on the Engineering Floor during the Fall 1995semester, an ever-increasing number of students are choosing this

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Kurt C. Gramoll

is integrated with current course material on an intranet. Thisis particularly useful when all students have their own personal laptop computers and thelearning environment is connected with a wireless network. This paper will demonstrate anddiscuss the experiences at the University of Oklahoma trying to teach the basic Statics classusing laptop computers, CD-ROMs, and the intranet.This project did not develop new courseware, but instead used the Multimedia EngineeringStatics CD-ROM (published by Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) for the main course content.The CD was supplemented with newly developed intranet-based material such as homework,examples, quizzes, solutions, and lectures. The outcome of the course showed that students canuse

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Ron Goodnight; Thomas Zickel; Dennis O. Owen

adult learning is self-directed through one’s life-based roles, experiences and interactions.The andragogy method is infinitely more superior when a more modern definition of college oradult education is used, especially in this electronic age. The learner must be the focus of thedefinition, which is “ the preparation for and the acquisition of knowledge, skills andunderstanding to become an adaptable human being.”2 As adults mature their readiness to attainadditional knowledge and skills increases primarily if the subject matter content (1) relates totheir job/social role, (2) is task or problem centered, and (3) has a time perspective of immediateapplication.This paper presents the basis of andragogy and alternative approaches those in

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Nick J. Kok

Session 3148 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING TO PROMOTE STUDENT LEARNING Nick J Kok Cape Technikon, South AfricaAbstractThe Cape Technikon is an institution offering educational programmes up to the doctoratelevel. The engineering programmes offered are characterised by a system of co-operativeeducation, i.e. work-integrated learning.The Cape Technikon is committed to providing and facilitating quality career and technologyeducation. To fulfill its mission the Technikon introduced a comprehensive quality assurancemodel some years ago whereby the outcomes of its

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Gary P. Langenfeld; David Wells

Session 2563 Creating an Environment for Lifelong Learning David L. Wells Focus: HOPE; Detroit, U.S.A. and Gary P. Langenfeld The Boeing Company; St. Louis, U.S.A. Abstract: Learning is a continuum, without beginning or end. As applied to product and manufacturing engineering, learning must be a matter of the routine of professional life. In the ideal learning spectrum, university education would form the foundation for professional

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

linear algebra, single degree of freedomspring, bar element, beam element and industrial applications of FEM. These modules can beaccessed by students and engineers twenty-four hours a day since they reside on a World-WideWeb server. This paper will review the format of the bar and beam element learning modulesand the experiences of the first author in integrating all five modules into the introductoryundergraduate finite element course at WPI. The issue of student feedback is also addressed.1. IntroductionThe Internet/World-Wide Web (WWW) is emerging as a new medium for transmittinginformation globally, created in multimedia form. Engineering educators have been using theWeb the past few academic years in courses, for posting course guidelines

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Sue Schroeder; Patrick Daniel; Carole E. Goodson; Susan Miertschin

Session 1649 Experiences with Video Enhanced Collaborative Learning Carole Goodson, Susan Miertschin, Sue Schroeder, and Patrick Daniel University of HoustonAbstractAn ever-present problem with freshman-level courses is the diversity of student backgrounds.During the Spring 1998, a project was funded by the University to develop a differentinstructional approach which was later piloted in the first required Technical Mathematicscourse. The intent of the project was to address a wide diversity of student backgrounds andproblems associated with commuting

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Anthony Brizendine

Session 3549 An Independent Learning Experiment: Software Series in Civil Engineering Technology at Fairmont State College Anthony L. Brizendine, Ph.D., P.E., P.S. Fairmont State College, Fairmont, WVAbstractThe author offered a series of one- and two-credit special topics software coursesfor students in the Civil Engineering Technology Program at Fairmont StateCollege. To date the courses offered have concentrated on software forhydraulics and hydrology, and construction management and estimating.Courses offered in the hydraulics and hydrology area were TR-55®, HaestadMethods®, and KYPIPE®. Courses offered in the construction

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Chotchai Charoenngam; Abdul Samad Kazi

Session 1606 Construction Communications Simulation Through Virtual Set-Up Environments and Information Technology Abdul S. Kazi, Chotchai Charoenngam School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, ThailandThis paper describes and presents Construction Communications Simulation through Virtual Set-Up Environment and Information Technology which was embedded as a pilot learning moduleinto the course Information Technology in Construction which is taught in the Spring term at theAsian Institue of Technology, Thailand. It was felt that while the course did justice to thetheoretical

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Russell Dean; Charles F. Yokomoto

Session 3431 DEVELOPING YOUR OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT PROCESS Charles F. Yokomoto, Russell K. Dean Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis/West Virginia UniversityAbstractIn this paper, we describe several issues related to the development of an outcomes assessmentprocess, a key element in an organization’s assessment plan. We will present a comparison ofseveral examples of high-profile outcomes assessment processes, explain why an organizationshould develop its own assessment process instead of adopting one written by anotherorganization, and highlight the difficulties caused by the lack of standard terminology

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John G. Nee

Session 3538 Assessment Strategies for Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) Related Programs and Courses John G. Nee Central Michigan UniversityAbstractFew education issues have received more scrutiny over the last decade than how to measurestudent achievement. Pressures from all levels of policy making - from local school boards toCongress - for higher academic and skill standards, more accountability and better certification ofwhat students know have led to a flurry of activity in the realm of assessment. Faculty areexperimenting with a variety of

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W. Thomas Calder; Gerald W. Jakubowski

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING ABET ENGINEERING CRITERIA 2000 Gerald S. Jakubowski, W. Thomas Calder Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractThe Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology has established new criteria for the accreditation of engineering programs. Thenew criteria, called Engineering Criteria 2000, are significantly different from the old criteria.In the past, the accreditation criteria focused almost entirely on resources and curriculum. Incontrast, EC 2000 is a remarkably shorter, less prescriptive, much broader document that alsofocuses on processes and outcomes.EC 2000 has eight

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Timothy Robert Wyatt; Emir Jose Macari

proficiency task also increases accordingly. After completing the finaltopic (calculation of incremental strains), the student is given full capability to simulate a varietyof stress and strain paths, such as true triaxial soil tests, including three-dimensional display oftest results. Preliminary post-test evaluation has revealed that the scaffolded approach allayedstudent concerns and increased student motivation.I. BackgroundThe Geosystems graduate program at the Georgia Tech School of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Students in both degree tracks are required totake four core courses: a course in fundamental soil mechanics (CE 6150), two lab testingcourses (CE 6151 and 6161), and a course in field testing

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Sema Alptekin; Deena Daggett

success.Currently, a need exists for new promotional materials that utilize visual tools and provide a“hands-on” approach. We have developed several exercises that successfully introduce IE.Two such exercises are explained in this paper. The first exercise demonstrates the differencesbetween Assembly line and Cellular Manufacturing by engaging the students in various stagesof a production line. The students are then asked to study the effects of different strategies asthey manufacture a simple product. The second exercise introduces Mechatronics. Studentsare asked to build a model car that responds to a source of controlled light. In limited trials,these exercises have proven successful.IntroductionAs academicians, we work in the community a great deal to

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J. Hardwick Butler; Burton Courtney

Session 1649 Distance Learning for Georgia Surveyors J. Hardwick Butler, Burton M. Courtney Middle Georgia CollegeAbstractThe Engineering faculty at Middle Georgia College has a well-established program in place toserve practicing and potential surveyors who need course credits to meet the educationalrequirements for registration as a professional surveyor in Georgia. Using state-wide distancelearning facilities and innovative approaches to promoting the classes, facilitating registration,and providing remote instruction, the program is in continuing demand by practicing

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Russel C. Jones

, education forsustainable development, exchange mechanisms in engineering education,academic/industry collaborations, international mobility, linkages between developed anddeveloping countries, and management of academic and engineering institutions. Thispaper attempts to summarize the major themes and discussions at the Congress, as well aspresenting recommendations from the assembled international group of engineeringeducators.IntroductionThe Global Congress on Engineering Education, sponsored by the UNESCOInternational Centre for Engineering Education, was held from 6-11 September 1998 atCracow, Poland. Some 140 papers from authors in 40 countries were presented, withlively discussion from the 150 Congress participants ensuing. A preprint

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

Session 1355 An Innovative Strategy to Integrate Relevant Graduate Professional Education for Engineers in Industry with Continual Technological Innovation D. A. Keating and T. G. Stanford University of South Carolina 1. INTRODUCTION As we approach the 21st century, the leadership of technology development and the graduate professional educationof the nation’s engineers in industry who create technology will become increasingly critical components of theU.S

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Shani Francis; Neal Pellis; Keith Schimmel

Session 3613 Integrating Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum – NASA’s Microgravity Bioreactor Shani Francis, Keith Schimmel / Neal R. Pellis North Carolina A&T State University / Johnson Space CenterAbstractCurrently, there is an emphasis in many funding agencies on integrating research results into theundergraduate curriculum. The basic rationale is that research expenditures will thus beleveraged to improve the quality of undergraduate education by providing students withinteresting, real world engineering problems that will motivate, provide opportunities forstudents to

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Steven Schneiderman

indicators of future environmentalimpact.TEXTComprehension of environmental modeling is a reasonable expectation stemming from auniversity education in engineering or technology. And though neither employers norgraduate schools anticipate specific software expertise, confidence toward skillfulutilization of company-wide programs, whatever the source, whatever the operatingsystem, will enhance a graduate’s prospects. Therefore, the task facing educators, usuallywithin the context of one semester, encompasses three phases. These are; first: the abilityto foster maximum impact from the most ubiquitous software; second: the ability toderive and program models based upon mathematical tenet. In environmental technologyphase two includes laboratory

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Badrul H. Chowdhury

engineering areas of the curriculum. The proposed lab includes experimentation withdispersed resources (DR) in a utility-integrated mode. The most suitable DR types for the lab arephotovoltaic and wind power sources, although other sources could also be used with somechanges. Some of the issues that are becoming important in recent years, such as power quality,and renewable energy impact can be studied easily in the lab. At the same time, the lab allowsconventional experimenting with machines. For situations where actual DR installations are notavailable, opportunities exist for simulating their characteristics.1. Introduction Dispersed resources (DR) are considered by many experts as promising andenvironmentally friendly solutions in the

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Jerome P. Lavelle; Robert Martinazzi

Session # 1339 Facilitating Student Learning in Engineering Economy Classes Through Context: “Making Horses Thirsty While You Lead Them To Water” Robert Martinazzi and Jerome Lavelle University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown and Kansas State UniversityAbstractIt is absolutely essential that students acquire a fundamental understanding of the basic concepts ofengineering economics early in the semester. If they fail to do so they become frustrated anddisheartened with the course. This in turn seriously impedes their learning of the more complexmaterial encountered later in the term. This scenario poses

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Jerry W. Samples

Session 3675 Managing Your Career and Your Personal Life: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThere is no single answer to this age-old question, but one answer is “yes, if balance in life isachieved”. Everyone who experiences the rush of the tenure years hopes that life after tenurewill be more reasonable after the first measure of success has passed. But, success breedssuccess, and the natural desire to be successful often becomes the driving function that leads tomore success. A

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Matthew Dettman

Session 1421 Professors As Practitioners: Is This Important to Students? Assistant Professor Matthew A. Dettman Western Kentucky UniversityAbstractIt seems like every recent education conference has a significant amount of discussion on theneed for tying together educators and practitioners by either educators practicing or practitionerseducating. The value of incorporating practical application is clear to both educators andpractitioners, but is it clear to the students? The purpose of this study was to question studentsin the application-oriented field of Civil Engineering Technology

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

therefore proposed to develop a series of virtual realitybased laboratory accidents, that will provide valuable learning experiences in the relative safetyof computer labs and dormitories. This paper describes preliminary steps taken in this newproject, and outlines future plans.BackgroundLaboratory safety is extremely important, particularly in undergraduate laboratories wherestudents first develop practices and habits that they may carry with them throughout theircareers1-3. Because this importance is widely agreed upon, all undergraduate chemistry and unitoperations labs include some amount of safety training, encompassing at a minimum a long listof safety rules4 . These rules are often handed out on the first day of lab, along with the

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Juan Lucena; Gary Lee Downey

Session 1461 Engineering Cultures: Better Problem Solving through Human and Global Perspectives? Juan C. Lucena, Gary Lee Downey Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University/ Virginia TechAbstractThe purpose of this paper is both to call attention to the need for a new focus on problemdefinition in engineering education and to outline one curricular approach to helping studentslearn to define and solve problems in the context of competing perspectives. The main goal inthis approach, which draws its conceptual insights from the interdisciplinary field of Science andTechnology

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Michael Ruane

Session 2625 SPECTRE - An Extended Interdisciplinary Senior Design Problem Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractSPECTRE - the Student-run Program for Exoatmospheric Collecting Technologies and RocketExperiment, is a sounding rocket experiment in NASA’s Student Launch Program. Electricaland computer engineering seniors have worked on the flight hardware as a continuing capstonedesign project for five semesters, as part of an interdisciplinary student project team. Studentshave faced rich technical problems and unique project management challenges arising

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Session 1526 0XOWLGLVFLSOLQDU\$VSHFWVRI1RYHO3URFHVV(QJLQHHULQJ C. Stewart Slater and Robert P. Hesketh Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Abstract This paper describes a NSF-funded Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshop on NovelProcess Science and Engineering. The project DUE-9752789 supports two hands-on, industry integratedworkshops that will have a major impact on

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Claudia House

Session 3586 Faculty Internships in Industry* Claudia House Nashville State Technical Institute/SEATECFaculty internships in business and industrial settings serve both the academic and thebusiness communities. The Tennessee Exemplary Faculty for Advanced TechnologicalEducation (TEFATE) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, utilizedfaculty internships as a fundamental component in two of its focus areas: (1) facultydevelopment and (2) instructional product/case study development. The mission of theTEFATE internship program is to assist in the development of faculty who

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S. Kant Vajpayee

Environment as athree-credit-hour elective within the General Education Curriculum. As an introductory coursewith annual enrollment in hundreds, ESC 301 attracts a variety of majors, including engineeringtechnology. Most enrollees are liberal arts major, while some are non-degree adult students.Besides discussing the strong correlation between human population and environment degradation,we cover most problems of pollution and resource depletion. Sustainable development and aworldview of the environment are the integrating themes. While several relevant topics arecovered in ESC 301, I make special efforts to emphasize the first R. Page 4.401.1The

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G. Ivan Maldonado; Anne M. Ahrens

Criteria), Criterion 3 (Program Outcomes andAssessment), Item (h), states: “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.”Furthermore, for accreditation purposes, institutions will have to demonstrate (anddocument) that an outcome assessment program is in place to effectively “measure” theextent to which objectives, such as that noted above, are being fulfilled. Finally, amidstthe many clues, Criterion 5 of the Engineering Criteria ABET 2000[1] makes it very clearthat the faculty is indeed “the heart” of the overall process.Re-Engineering of Engineering Education at Iowa State UniversityIn response