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Annual Meeting, 17-18 October 1990, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.3. ASEE, “Engineering Education for a Changing World,” Report prepared by the ASEE Engineering Deans' Council and Corporate Roundtable, Washington, D.C., American Society for Engineering Education, 1994.4. ASTD, "Workplace Basics: The Skills Employers Want," American Society for Training and Development and U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 1988.5. Astin, Alexander, Achieving Educational Excellence, 1985, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass6. Astin, Alexander, et al., “Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning,” AAHE Assessment Forum, 19927. Baltimore, Linda 0., "Collaboratives: Helping Hispanic Students

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Shahnam Navaee

Session 2520 Computer Utilization in Enhancing Engineering Education Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn June of 1998, with an initiative from the Board of Regents of the University System ofGeorgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology was placed in charge of developing plans to furtherenhance the educational opportunities in engineering across the state. Georgia Tech RegionalEngineering Program (GTREP) was specifically created to accomplish this objective. GTREP isbased in southeast Georgia and offers undergraduate programs in the areas of Civil andComputer

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NorthAmerican Higher Education Collaboration (Ed.). http://conahec.org/http://elnet.org.2. Mallea, John. In La Internacionalización de la Educación Superior y las profesiones. Notas de un Consultor. InColegios y Profesiones. SEP. Segunda Epoca (1997).3. Arredondo Galván, Victor Martiniano. El Papel de la Educación Continua en la Competitividad Internacional. InRevista de la Educación Superior. ANUIES N• 81. (Enero Marzo 1992).4. Wankat, Phillip C. Educating Engineering Professors in Education. In Journal of Engineering Education. ASEEVol. 88 No. 4. October 1999.5. Piaget, Jean. Le Jugement Moral Chez l’Enfant. Collection Bibliothèque de Philosophie Contemporaine (1932).Paris. Puf, 19736. Kohlberg, L & Turiel, E. Desarrollo y Educación de la Moral

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Ralph Olliges; Swami Karunamoorthy

Session 2793 Web Technology in Engineering Education – How and Why Swami Karunamoorthy, Ralph H. Olliges Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MissouriAbstractInnovation in computer engineering and information technology has an impact on ourtraditional classroom teaching in engineering education. The evolution of Web-basedinstruction is certainly a revolution in classroom education and may set new standards inthe new millennium. An emphasis is given in this paper to answer the question of whywe need the web technology and how we can apply it to augment the classroomeducation. Application of a typical tool (Web CT) to

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Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

Session 3464 Materials Engineering Education for the New Millennium Devdas M. Pai & Jagannathan Sankar North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractAdvances in engineering design have tested the limits of performance of traditionalmaterials. Developments in design can only be implemented suitable highperformance materials are developed in lock step. Engineering students of alldisciples must be provided a sound training in materials engineering beyond thescope of traditional materials. A new research center on campus, devoted toadvanced materials and smart structures, has enabled

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

Session 3253 Creating a K-12 Engineering Educational Outreach Center Lawrence J. Genalo, Monica Bruning, Barbara Adams Iowa State UniversityIntroductionAt Iowa State University, the College of Engineering is developing a center forengineering outreach to K-12 programs in the state and selected surrounding areas. Thegoals for this center are:• Iowa State University’s College of Engineering and its industrial partners will be a national model for K-12 partnering.• The College of Engineering will be a resource and delivery partner for every K-12 teacher in Iowa who wants to improve engineering-related content and

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Session 2793 Multi-media technology --- an opportunity for modern engineering education G. Kohli, S. P. Maj, and D. Veal Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.AbstractThe last few years have seen an exponential growth of multi-media applicationson the Internet. Video and audio data, is now in high demand as it can bedelivered in a cost-effective manner via the Internet and CD-ROMs. Multi-media has its roots in network and computer technology but represents theconvergence of a wide range of disciplines. There are considerable jobopportunities in this field within Australia however the requirements aretypically

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Oguz A. Soysal

to extend learning resources available in a large metropolitan university toremote areas. These programs combine the advantages of distance education and conventionalclassroom activities. Frostburg State University (FSU) has been offering electrical andmechanical engineering programs1 since fall 1997 in collaboration with University of MarylandCollege Park (UMCP). Students enrolled in the FSU/UMCP Collaborative Engineering Programtake all science, math, general education, and basic engineering courses on campus from residentfaculty. Upper level engineering courses are offered from UMCP over distance. The mainobjective of the Collaborative Engineering Education is to provide students located on a remotecampus the opportunity to access

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Global Engineering Education: Benefits and Limitations of Distance Education By Hamid Y. Eydgahi Dean/Associate Professor Engineering and Industrial Technologies Lima Technical College 4240 Campus Drive, Lima, Ohio 45804-3597 Phone: (419) 995-8230 Fax: (419) 995-8095 Eydgahih@ltc.tec.oh.us And Saeid Y. Eidgahy, Ph.D. Dean/Professor

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David R. Haws

Session 2793 Teacher Gone… The Marginalization of PSI In Engineering Education David R. Haws Boise State UniversityAbstractIn 1968 Fred Keller published his description of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), inthe first issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior and Analysis. Over the next 9 years, thisparticular journal published 21 additional PSI articles, but then virtually stopped, with only asmall handful of papers appearing over the following two decades. Between 1970 and 1978, theAmerican Journal of Physics published 35

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Hrishikesh Potdar; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2257 Internet-based, Interactive Software for Industrial Engineering Education Hrishikesh Potdar and Kurt Gramoll Research Assistant and Hughes Professor Engineering Media Lab University of OklahomaAbstractNew and developing electronic communication tools are rapidly changing the ways in whicheducators educate and students learn. Collaborative learning environments utilizing variousinteractive electronic technologies are now being used in all levels of education

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Manuel D. Rossetti; Harriet Black Nembhard

. Active learning: Cooperation in the college classroom, Edina, Mn: Interaction Book Company.6. Johnson, D., R. Johnson, and K. Smith. 1998. “Cooperative Learning Returns to College: What evidence is there that it works?”, Change, July/August, pp. 27-357. Kerzner, H. 1995. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 5th Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.8. Mourtos, N. J. 1997. “The Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Learning in Engineering.” Journal of Engineering Education, 35-37.9. Rossetti, M. D., and Nembhard, H.B., 1998. “A Tutorial on Active and Collaborative Learning in Simulation Education”, The Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. D. J

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Qiuli Sun; Kevin Stubblefield; Kurt Gramoll

information if available. If the user has no previously saved datathe simulation will use the default data set of information.A key aspect of this Virtual City is that each student builds and maintains his or her ownworld. There is not just one Virtual City, but also one for each student. Only the ownerof the world can change and add to the city, but others can view them on the web. In themanner, students can collaborate with other students and with the instructor. At the endof the four years, the student can also use the Virtual City as a visual portfolio of theirdesign work during their engineering education career. Fig. 7 An overview of the Virtual City

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Enno Koehn

. Bert, R. (1999). “Around the World in 24 Hours.” ASEE Prism, American Society for EngineeringEducation, 8 (7), 25 – 26.2. Black, K. M. (1994). “An industry view of engineering education.” Journal of Engineering Education,American Society for Engineering Education, 83 (1), 26 – 28.3. Budiansky, S. (1999). “A Web of Connections.” ASEE Prism, American Society for EngineeringEducation, 8(7), 20 – 24.4. Criteria for accrediting programs in engineering in the United States. (1993). Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Report AB—7, 8.5. Engineering Criteria 2000. (1999). Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.http://www.abet.org/eac.6. Koehn, E. (1995). “Interactive Communication in Civil Engineering Classrooms

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Mrs. Debbie Graves for her assistance with the productionactivities involved with the preparation of this paper.Bibliography1. Bert, R. (1999). “Around the World in 24 Hours.” ASEE Prism, 8 (7), 25 – 26.2. Black, K. M. (1994). “An industry view of engineering education.” Journal of Engineering Education,American Society for Engineering Education, 83 (1), 26 – 28.3. Budiansky, S. (1999). “A Web of Connections.” ASEE Prism, 8(7), 20 – 24.4. Criteria for accrediting programs in engineering in the United States. (1993). Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Report AB—7, 8.5. Engineering Criteria 2000. (1999). ABET, http://www.abet.org/eac.6. Koehn, E. (1995). “Interactive Communication in Civil Engineering Classrooms.” Journal

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Shirley J. Dyke; Phillip Gould; Kevin Truman

Session 1526 Current Directions in Earthquake Engineering Education: The University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables S.J. Dyke, K.Z. Truman, and P.L. Gould Washington University in St. LouisAbstractAlthough considering the dynamic behavior of buildings and bridges is of fundamental impor-tance in modern structural design, undergraduate civil engineering students seldom develop anunderstanding of the way that these structures respond when acted upon by time-varying loads.Because this topic is of great social and economical importance, there is a need in current

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamic DesignOptimization. He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in Fluid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. He'san Associate Fellow of the AIAA and a member of the AIAA Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee.DAVID RADCLIFFEDavid Radcliffe is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Queensland. Hisscholarly interests include engineering systems design, manufacturing systems, engineering education andrehabilitation engineering. He co-founded the Engineering Process Research Group (EPRG) which carries outempirical research focused on the process of engineering in the context of natural work settings. This researchdraws on and involves collaboration with the social sciences especially

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William L. Call; Saleh M. Sbenaty

Session 3280 Curriculum Integration Using Case Study Approach for the Enhancement of Technology and Engineering Education William L. Call, Saleh M. Sbenaty Murray State University (Kentucky)/Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractIntegrating physics, mathematics, and communication skills in engineering and technologyeducation is one objective of the three-year NSF-funded grant titled “The South-East AdvancedTechnological Education Consortium, SEATEC.” The consortium is a collaborative effort of fivedifferent teams across Tennessee. Each team includes multi-disciplinary faculties, industrypartners

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

engineering education experiment titled “Computer-Aided Design Across Universities” (CADAU) between the mechanical engineering (ME)department at Iowa State University (ISU) and the mechanical systems (MS) department at theUniversite de Technologie de Compiegne (UTC). The objective of the experiment is thedevelopment and assessment of an international collaborative infrastructure between the twodepartments at the undergraduate level.1. IntroductionEvery four years, ASME sponsors the Mechanical Engineering Education conference. The themeof the conference depends on the general consensus regarding the critical issues facingengineering education in the following years. The theme for the 1997 conference, which washeld on March 19-21 in San Diego

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Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

Session 3230 A Collaborative Work-Embedded Approach to Professional Development in Engineering Education. Monique Osborn, Dilip Nag Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Australia1.IntroductionAn ever increasingly diverse age, cultural and socio-economic student population has createda need for Australian Universities to reassess the educational processes that become part andparcel of the daily internal concern of the university. These processes can be summed up asteaching and learning effectiveness. Until the late eighties professional development foracademics remained as a low priority, the

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Mark McNeill; Steven Shooter

Session 2325 Enhancing Design Education by Processing the Design Experience Steven B. Shooter, Catherine A. Shooter Bucknell University Tresseler Counseling ServicesAbstractExperiential learning can be simply described as learning through doing. It is a process throughwhich individuals construct knowledge, acquire skills and enhance values from directexperience. Traditional engineering education has included experiential components throughlaboratory assignments often linked with a course. Students would read the lab handout, performthe procedures, and then write a brief lab report

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Ron Baddock; Catherine S. Bolek; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

-year electrical engineering program served as the impetus for the collaborativepartnership.The Lab-Volt Systems is recognized as one of the leading designer and manufacturer ofeducational and training systems that meet the high standards required by the technologyand engineering educators. Lab-Volt produces equipment and curriculum for teachinglaboratories in many different areas of engineering and engineering technology.The Amtek Company is a representative and provider of high-technology training andeducational equipment from a number of manufactures and provides sales and consultingservices. Amtek Company is the liaison between Lab-Volt and the university.To structure this agreement, a faculty from UMES’ Department of Engineering and the

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Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Association of MEP Administrators, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1999, 5 pages.• “Developing Collaboration and Leadership Within Minority Engineering Student Societies,” Reyes, Maria A.; McCartney, Mary Ann; Anderson-Rowland, Mary R., Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, D.C., June 1996, Paper 2570, 5 pages.MARIA A. REYESMaria A. Reyes is the Director of the Office of Minority Engineering Programs. She is a graduate of the MinorityEngineering Program (MEP) at ASU, where she obtained a BS in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Geo-Environmental Engineering. She spent two years as a staff engineer at a local consulting firm. Maria developed theMinority Bridge Program. She also developed

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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

Engineering Chair at NDSU. Ten years of his teaching career were spentas an instructor/professor at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). Dr. Pieri has a ten year involvementwith the American Society for Engineering Education and has served as a co-chair for ASEE’s new EngineeringEducator Division.WEI LIN, NDSUDr. Wei Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at NDSU. He received his Ph.D. incivil/environmental engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Lin teaches severalenvironmental engineering courses at NDSU. He incorporated computer application and experimental studies in his

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Claire Hill; Gulcin Cribb; David Radcliffe

Engineering Education annual conference in 1999. Theseworkshops gave delegates an opportunity to trial a beta version of AVEL. As potential users ofAVEL, they provided much valuable feedback and ideas on how to enhance and improve thesystem.As most of these focus groups, and workshops were held during the formative stages of AVEL,this also gave us the opportunity to get feedback on prototype versions of the user interface; thehome page and the search screens. Through a process of trial and evaluation, a simple openingscreen with limited graphics was chosen to minimize bandwidth requirements for accessing thesystem. Page 5.118.6

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Andre Clavet; Mario Lucas; Gerard Lachiver; Francois Michaud

Session 2220Designing Toy Robots to Help Autistic Children - An Open Design Project for Electrical and Computer Engineering Education Francois Michaud, André Clavet, Gérard Lachiver, Mario Lucas Université de Sherbrooke (Québec Canada)AbstractIn our curricula, freshmen use an autonomous robotic platform to get introduced to fundamentalconcepts in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Using this platform, teams of studentsinterested by the challenge are invited to apply knowledge acquired during their first year ofstudies by participating in a toy robot design contest. Initiated in 1999, the challenge is to

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Robert Engelken

Session 2793 The Role and Scope of Engineering Consulting in a Balanced and Integrated Career and Personal/Family Life of a New Engineering Educator by Dr. Robert Engelken, Professor of Electrical Engineering Arkansas State University P.O. Box 1740 State University, AR 72467 (870) 972-3421 (870) 972-3948 (FAX) bdengens@navajo.astate.eduI. Abstract/IntroductionThis paper will

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thebeginning some are a reluctant to participate but as they work together through out the years theybecome more comfortable communicating with their fellow students until at the end they arealmost enthusiastic in doing so. They readily work together with little supervision. Quite often noone leader appears but all work together as a group.Bibliography1. Lewis,Philip et al. “Assessing Teaming Skills Acquisition on Undergraduate Project Teams” Journal of Engineering Education 87 no2 (April 1998): 149-552. Rockland,Ronald H. “Enhancing Communication Skills in a Laboratory Course through Computer Application Training” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 28-July1,1998 Seattle, WA. Available: CD-ROMEd GohmannEd Gohmann is an Associate Professor

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Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock

andtraining in all areas. It can be very cost effective and increase retention rates dramatically [1].Computer technology and multimedia applications are particularly relevant in engineering education[2- 4]. They give students the opportunity for self-paced learning in an interactive environment [5,6]. The format is nonlinear; allowing the student to review certain parts in a manner that is mucheasier than with simple videotapes or audiocassettes.The effectiveness of computer-based instruction has been widely documented in numerous studies.These results are summarized in three survey papers [7 - 9]. Web-based classes have been alsoproven to be effective [10], allowing class time to be spent in other ways [11]. Multimediainstructional modules tend to

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

lectures and case studies, an important part of this course is a “hands-on” Internetbased simulation project called GLOBETECH. The GLOBETECH International TechnologyManagement Computer Simulation was developed for the first time in the summer of 1995 as aGateway Engineering Education Coalition2 funded project. The project was based on the verypositive experience gained by Prof. Jacoby and the EID-372 students who participated in theICONS3 simulation in the fall of 1994. The ICONS simulation was sponsored by the University ofMaryland at College Park, and represented an early experiment of using the Internet research, chatand e-mail for long-distance collaboration among several student teams at various colleges todiscuss specific topics in politics