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own successesand failures to show them how applying IS can change situations in both the informationsystems and management areas.The transition from industry to education was interesting. In the process I learned that I neededto approach the presentation of information from the eyes of a student. Students are interestedin gaining skills to be applied and theoretical background knowledge. An industrial teammate,however, usually needs immediate information and skills to do their job better. Helping me inthis transition was the university center for teaching, which ran short courses for new instructors.AssessmentAssessment did not mean much to me when I came to Purdue. I soon learned, however, theimportance of assessment and the assessment

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Systems Approach, industry’s wider acceptance ofcontinuous improvement techniques and a faster search, acquisition, utilization, adaptation, anddeployment of technological breakthroughs.Engineering has become more interdisciplinary and team-oriented than ever before. Industryhas demonstrated and supporting this new practice by re-organizing members of engineeringdivisions into production teams which focus on new projects, products or processes.Professional engineering societies as well as the National Research Council and theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology are amenable in supporting attention to acall to new “Best Practices” for engineering from industry (i.e. elements of a constituency).However, in established engineering

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Ilya Grinberg; Jack Waintraub

Session 1333 Innovative Approach to Curriculum Development in Electrical Power Distribution and Loading Ilya Y. Grinberg, Jack L. Waintraub State University of New York, College at Buffalo/New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological EducationI. IntroductionThe past three decades have witnessed a technological explosion in the fields of solid-stateelectronics, microprocessors, lasers, fiber optics, signal processing, fields that have come todominate the technical interests of college faculty and students. Because of this significant shiftto new technologies, the

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to develop a curriculum that achieves the goal of producing a graduate with vision andflexibility, faculty need to incorporate hands on learning, develop communication skills, andinstill a sense of creativity and innovation which the students will need throughout theirengineering careers (7). To these ends, we have developed an approach to curriculum deliverycomposed of what we call Contextual Learning Modules (CLM).Goals of the Contextual Learning Module ApproachThe goals of the CLM approach are:1) To integrate physical science, life science, and engineering in each module.2) To provide at least one "hands on" experience each day.3) To use the module itself as an implicit model of how to tackle complex problems (i.e. break them down into

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Melvin J. Montgomery; Saleh M. Sbenaty

Session 2249 An Innovative Approach to Curriculum Development for Engineering Technology Programs Saleh M. Sbenaty, Melvin J. Montgomery Middle Tennessee State University/Jackson State Community CollegeAbstractThis paper describes a curriculum development and delivery approach that improves engineeringand technology education and increase student interests in pursuing these programs. This is oneof the goals of the three-year NSF-funded grant ($1.8 million) titled “The South-East AdvancedTechnological Education Consortium, SEATEC.” The consortium is a collaborative effort of fivedifferent teams

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Making in the Engineering Classroom,” Journal of Engineering Education, October 1997. 6. Gentner, D. and A. L. Stevens (Editors), Mental Models, Erlbaum, Hillsdale NY, 1983. 7. Capra, Fritjof, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1996. 8. Cheek, Dennis, Thinking Constructively About Science, Technology, and Society Education, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1992, page 63. 9. Joseph D. Novak and D. Bob Gowin, Learning how to Learn, Cambridge University Press, New York, Chapter 2. 10. Hyerle, David, Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1996. 11

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Saleh M. Sbenaty; Claudia House

Session 2793 SEATEC-An Innovative Approach to Engineering and Technology Curriculum Development Saleh M. Sbenaty, Claudia House Middle Tennessee State University/Nashville State Technical InstituteAbstractThe South East Advanced Technological Education Consortium, SEATEC, provides a creativeapproach to curriculum development and delivery that improve engineering and technologyeducation and revive student interests in pursuing these programs. This is one of the mainobjectives of this three-year NSF-funded grant (about $1.8 million). The consortium is acollaborative effort of five different

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2266 Synthesis of Engineering Best Practices and ABET AC2K into a New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, Amir Mobasher, Abdul Jalloh Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL 35762 Phone: (256) 851-5890. E-Mail: rojaso@asnaam.aamu.edu; aamzxd01@asnaam.aamu.edu; amobasher@aamu.edu; ajalloh@aamu.eduAbstractAggressive competition for global technological markets is driven by engineeringbreakthroughs in

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

institutions worried about the future ofthe country have been discussing the profile of the new engineer taking into account the SouthAmerica Economic Bloc the Mercosul which plan proposed by the Educational ministers of thefour Countries demands the application of a harmonic school system so that the instruction isequivalent in the four Countries.Some Colleges like Engineering College of University Center of Lusiada has developed a Projectin Engineering Education that considers not only the global changing but also the neweducational policy which has been implemented by Science and Technology Ministry of Brazil.The Project is the new program, which has a curriculum with extra courses of Social Sciences.The objective is to form engineers committed

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least eight years to get a four-year degree and four years to get a two-year degree. Formany, the financial burden is too great with the cost of education continuously increasing andthe time span too long for their education to be technically relevant in this rapidly changinghigh-tech New World. The Industrial / Mechanical Engineering Technology Division of StateTechnical Institute at Memphis (STIM) has developed an innovative High-Tech, Step-By-Step,School/Career Approach which is helping to elevate the high-tech manufacturing skill level ofthe Memphis and Shelby County labor force. This innovative Step-By-Step Approach can beadapted to other cities and communities. It is a seamless series of industrially endorsedcertificate programs centering

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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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William H. Sprinsky

plan to continue with analog curriculum and devices. Retaining the analogdevices helps students understand the physical meaning of the orientation angles “tip”, “tilt” and“swing”. Students need this to appreciate the analytical approach of modeling those motionsmathematically with more than an intellectual understanding. Our curriculum offers theunderstanding of analytical approach by requiring students to perform all necessary steps toproduce a digital terrain model and engineering scale map. The curriculum emphasizesadjustments of observations and their interpretation. Our students will be able to recognize whattool best provides a product used in the Civil Engineering design.To do this, we build on the lessons learned by students in their

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thecourse in September 2000.3) Using the web for international activitiesa) Teaching and ResearchThe web has opened up vast, new horizons for pedagogy. Until recently, designing a newcourse required an enormous effort from the faculty member. Nowadays, we can investigatehow other colleagues (anywhere in the world) have approached the problem when theydesigned a similar curriculum. Books play a major role to gain access, as, in many cases, theyconvey a pedagogical approach as well as a well-defined program and schedule.The web and the wide availability of resources open up new approaches, as large amounts ofinformation and course materials can be found. For example, the World Lecture Hall(http://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/world/lecture) provides an

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Lloyd Barrett; Edward Young; David E. Klett; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

introduction of these motorsports activities have been to stimulatethe ‘hands on’ approach to engineering education and to motivate the students. With the studentinterest shown in these activities, further automotive-related topics, experiences and courseshave been revived and/or introduced into the curriculum, as described below.IV.2. The ICAR Team and ‘Spin-Offs’The ICAR team’s purpose is to race – and for students to continue in this activity, it must be funfor them since they are not required to participate. However, in addition to the fun part, the raceteam has taken on responsibilities which provide several ‘spin-off’ benefits to the university,college, and ME department, including publicity, recruiting, and education. The publicitygenerated not

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Scott Johnson; Barbara Nepote; Shirley J. Dyke; Juan Caicedo; Euridice Oware

structures, K-12 education, earthquake hazard mitigation and many more. This program isexpected to serve as a national model for integrating structural dynamics into the undergraduatecivil engineering curriculum. The UCIST program is described in detail in Ref. 2.6. SummaryAn educational program has been developed at Washington University in St. Louis to familiarizeundergraduates with concepts in structural dynamics and with new approaches in structural con-trol. The students gain an understanding of structural dynamics and control through “hands-on”experiments. The experiments are designed to be performed using a bench-scale shake table. Thisequipment allows one to simulate an earthquake and study dynamic behavior of structures. Addi-tionally

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29 BS, 27 MS and 25 Ph.D. students in the last two years. Many ofthe undergraduates were influenced by the Center not only through their coursecurricula but also through research participation fellowships at A&T, NC StateUniversity and the Center’s partnering and collaborating institutions: Oak RidgeNational Lab, the University of Florida’s Engineering Research Center, and otheruniversities including Kumamoto University of Japan.Fostering Interest in Materials Engineering CareerResearch results are being transported to the curriculum through: • incorporation of new lab experiences into related undergraduate lab courses • development and modification of both existing and new curricula based upon an integrated approach of advanced

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Kandace K. Martin; Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

employers, eliminateunproductive layers of bureaucracy, get rid of outdated curricula, remove ineffective services, and createexpanded and improved student learning opportunities.2Included in this call to put learning first has been the recommendation to adopt a new system ofinstructional delivery. This recommendation, too, is not without merit. As it turns out, (based on currentadvances in research on learning) our traditional delivery system which emphasizes lecturing, competitivegrading, and individual effort is ineffective when it comes to promoting learning and to supporting skilland attitudinal development. On the other hand, new learning-centered instructional approaches whichincorporate

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work efficiently in a team.Over the past ten years, integrating design courses into engineering programs from the first to thelast year of the curriculum has attracted much attention6-22. Although there were concerns that thetechnical knowledge of new students might be insufficient to undertake a course in design,experience now shows that these courses can be successfully integrated into engineeringprograms as early as the first year7-12.Because design is a skill or behavior that is acquired with experience23 but also based ontechniques and tools10, it is advisable to offer students the opportunity to gain various experiencesthroughout their education from courses in engineering science and also from project-orientedcourses that specifically

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

. Page 5.430.1Guiding AssumptionsThe faculty development model we present is based upon a set of assumptions that apply to ourinstitution. In section “Getting Started : A Framework for Developing Your FacultyDevelopment Model” of this paper we discuss a general approach to creating a facultydevelopment model at your own institution.1. We define new faculty as any faculty member, tenure-track or otherwise, in our college who has joined the college at any of our university’s locations in the year prior to the workshop date. We also include “new faculty” from the prior two years who did not attend the new faculty workshop in their initial years. The vast majority of these faculty are at the assistant professor level, however we invite all

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Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

Session 2464 A Research Driven Multidisciplinary Curriculum in Sensor Materials Sheikh A. Akbar and Prabir K. Dutta Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM) The Ohio State University 291 Watts Hall, 2041 College Road Columbus, OH 43210, USAAbstract The multidisciplinary research at the NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurement(CISM) at The Ohio State University (OSU) has led to the development of an innovativecurriculum. The new multidisciplinary industry-oriented curriculum is currently being

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S P Maj; D Veal

significant developments were occurring. In1993, the Western Australian Universities were approached on behalf of two city councils toestablish a new regional campus. This coincided with a decision by the Federal governmentto redirect capital away from the established metropolitan campuses to other, more ruralareas, designated as high growth regions. The submission by Murdoch University, whichincluded establishing a new engineering program, was selected. This was followed in 1994by the WA state government decision that Murdoch University should develop newcampuses in the designated areas. Murdoch University, at this stage, had decided to design anew degree in Software Engineering. Furthermore, given their well-established programs inmineral science

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

Session 1566 Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Engineering Curriculum Richard N. Smith, Deborah A. Kaminski, Michael K. Jensen, and Amir Hirsa Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590AbstractWe present a new approach to teaching the core thermal/fluids curriculum for undergraduateprograms in engineering. Traditional introductory thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heattransfer classes are being replaced with two

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Ricardo Castillo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

and the use of knowledge.This course provides the students the theoretic and practical knowledge qualifying them toincorporate the knowledge of the areas of engineering and technology in the process of creationof project 7.This new scheme of Education mobilizes the whole Institution and so it was created a "Scientific and Technological Training Project” Congress for all students of engineering andtechnology to show their projects to the Academic / Scientific and Industrial Community 8.For the first year of the program of technological fields an extra curriculum week was included.It was named Preliminary Courses. It happens during the weeks before classes start and thestudents have some courses that will help them to have a better performance

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driven andmarket responsive university, creating and providing value for our customers. The difficulty withencouraging academic programs to become more market-responsive, is the lack of clear cut plansand examples on how to do so. This effort provides an example of how a process approach canbe utilized to redesign a curriculum to enhance its value.The improvement methodology used in this large-scale effort is based on Dr. W. EdwardsDeming’s Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. This paper describes the assessment measures we are usingto ensure the integrity and continuity of our improvement activities. The paper also discusseshow the surveys were used in order to gain insight into the changes necessary to create anIndustrial Engineering Technology curriculum

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William E Maddox; Theodore D. Thiede; Stephen H. Cobb; Scott R Hickman; John Crofton

advances and is replaced with an empty carton. Thus the focus of the project is on the design of practical systems for use in Page 5.195.5 industry and the applications are easily transferable to a multitude of realistic scenarios.I. Introduction to Principles of Design (PHY 398) This course is the first in the curriculum devoted entirely to the engineering design process. Taken by students in the first semester of their junior year, it covers the formulation of the design problem, creative approaches to the solution of design problems, material selection and economic analysis, and design considerations from

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inventories to measure these effects arethe Lancaster Approaches to Studying Questionnaire, LASQ, and the CoursePerceptions questionnaire, CPQ. Data from the short version of thesequestionnaires were analyzed for a group of students concurrently registered intwo programs. Students were registered in a cross-section of disciplines inhumanities, social science, science and engineering where the method ofinstruction was primarily the conventional lecture. Those same students wereconcurrently registered in the “Theme School” program, an interdisciplinaryprogram of 33 credits where the method of instruction was small group, self-directed problem-based learning. These sophomore students who selected theTheme School program scored high on the LASQ on both

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Thomas Litzinger

Session Number 2630 An Integrated Approach to Developing Professional and Technical Skills in Engineering Undergraduates Thomas A. Litzinger, Professor Mechanical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802AbstractThe general consensus in industry, government, and academia is that engineers will need morehighly developed professional skills to succeed in the new millenium. Of the ABET EC2000eleven basic outcomes, six relate to professional skills such as communication, teamwork, andunderstanding broader issues related to engineering. Thus, engineering programs must find waysto more effectively

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Charles V. Camp; Anna P. Phillips; Paul Palazolo

. In Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol 26 (3), 307-313, 1998.4. Hedges, P. and Walley, W.J. An Approach to the Integration of Communication Skills Development within an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Program. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 20, 165-175, 1990.5. Winsor, D. Joining the Engineering Community: How do Novices Learn to Write Like Engineers? Technical Communication, Vol. 37, 171-179 (1990).6. Redd, T. Exposition by Design: Using Expository Strategies to Link Freshman English and Introduction to Engineering. in Composition Studies/Freshman English News, Vol, 25, 67- 82, 1996.7. Bereiter, C. and Scardamilia, M. Fostering Self-Regulation. The Psychology of Written Composition

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Domingo L. Uy

Session 2225 Teaching Electrical Engineering Design Using the Modified Decision Tree Approach Domingo L. Uy Fort Valley State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the Modified Decision Tree Approach (MDTA) for teaching design in the contextof Electrical Engineering. The salient feature of this method is that it facilitates the generation ofalternative courses of actions, such that one can easily see the big picture, and at the same timeputting the design in proper context. The method is illustrated by designing a simple one

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globalcompetition. It is generally agreed that in the future engineers need to have a comprehensiveknowledge base to tackle complex, multidisciplinary assignments. Unfortunately, the currentengineering education has often failed in this aspect and that is why the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) has cooperated with several universities1 to establish pilot programs to deviseplans to implement a wholesale renovation of the engineering education.Among many concepts, NSF has identified “Engineering Curriculum Integration” as one of themost promising innovations2,3. It is proposed that new engineering curricula should teach theconnectivity of relevant engineering subjects and emphasize their relationship to practicalengineering processes. Positive results from