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Scott White; Kirsten Lowrey; George M. Bodner; Dawn Del Carlo; Ala Samarapungavan; William C. Oakes

Session 3653 The Freshman Engineering Experience: The Student Voice George Bodner, William Oakes, Kirsten Lowrey, Dawn Del Carlo, Scott White, and Ala Samarapungavan Purdue UniversityIntroductionDiscussions between program officers from the GE Fund and faculty in the Schools of Science,Education and Engineering that began in September, 1996 eventually lead to a multi-year commitmentto support an examination of the Freshman Engineering Program at Purdue University, as a first steptoward a re-examination of the process by which engineers are educated at that

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S. S. Venkata; Doug Jacobson

Session 2632 An Active Learning Complex: Can space be used to foster student interaction? Doug Jacobson, S. S. Venkata Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State UniversityAbstractOver the last ten years the engineering academic community has experienced increased pressure tomodify educational practices so their students would be better able to meet the challenges ofengineering in the future. A special emphasis has been placed on the students’ development ofteamwork skills, multidisciplinary work, and

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Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

) This paper will describe a case study we developed at the University of Virginia for teaching thesocial and ethical dimensions of technology to engineering students. The case study concerns Monsanto’sefforts to be a cutting-edge life-sciences company in agriculture, developing genetically-modified seeds. Inorder to understand the case study, one has to understand the program out of which it emerged.A Graduate Option in Engineering, Ethics and Policy At the University of Virginia, we have created a graduate option in Engineering and Ethics thatlinks the Darden Business School, the Division of Technology, Culture and Communications and theDepartment of Systems Engineering. This engineering graduate option attempts to overcome the

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Chi-Wook Lee

acquisitionand control system parameters. With a series of experiments, students learn basic experimentaltechniques to use sensors for measuring various mechanical system quantities. After the basicexperiments, students develop LabVIEW programs working with Signal ConditioningeXtension for Instrumentation (SCXI) chassis as computer-based data acquisition exercises. Thestudents relate the LabVIEW based data acquisition systems with their other course projectsincluding senior design.IntroductionInstrumentation and Experimental Methods is a required junior-level course for mechanicalengineering students at the University of the Pacific. This course covers experimental techniquesin the measurement of mechanical quantities, statistical analysis, errors in

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Steven T. Walsh; Frederick Betz; Donald D. Myers; Halvard E. Nystrom

Session 3242 Electronic Management of Technology Case Journal Donald D. Myers, Fredrick Betz, Steven T. Walsh, Halvard E. Nystrom University of Missouri-Rolla/University of Maryland /University of New Mexico University of Missouri-RollaAbstractTo satisfy the need for management of technology (MOT) cases, a journal is being established on theInternet for management of technology cases. The concept will utilize the strengths of the Internet toprovide a new tool to motivate the creation, collection, and dissemination of technology managementcase studies. The paper discusses the

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Richard Gilbert; Wayne E. Wells; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

Florida/University of Texas at BrownsvilleAbstractThe goals of the Minority in Science Program Project, “Working in Teams to Enhance Pre-Engineering Curriculum” are encompassed in the overall objective of increasing the success ofminority students in gatekeeper engineering and science courses. The mechanisms proposed toobtain this goal include the development of a number of instructional modules for pre-engineering and science courses that will specifically address many of the barriers encounteredby minority students in these courses.A number of instructional modules are being developed for each of the following college levelcourses, that have been identified as gatekeeper courses for minority students: Calculus, pre-Calculus I, Physics

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Barbara L. Christe

Session 1347 Web-based Courses: What Students Need to Know Aside from Content Barbara Christe Indiana University – Purdue University at IndianapolisAbstractWhen learning takes place far from campus via the web, the student has only one direct link tothe resources of the college or university: the course instructor. Information that may seemobvious to traditional students must be clearly identified to the distance learner. This is criticalwhen course participants are older and have been away from a classroom for many years. Afour-course certificate is

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Jennie Si; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Forouzan Golshani; Donald W. Collins; Christian Ringhofer; Kostas Tsakalis

the ongoing interdisciplinary research work of a group of faculty and students workingwithin the Systems Science and Engineering Research Center at Arizona State University (SSERC) in collaborationwith INTEL and Motorola.One of the strongest driving forces in the economy of most developed countries ismanufacturing. In the United States, one of the most important components of this driving forceis the manufacturing of semiconductors in fabrication facilities (FAB). Not surprisingly,tremendous efforts have been expended to reduce the art of semiconductor manufacturing to ascience.While the improvements in scale and yield of semiconductor manufacturing has beenspectacular and are well known, the improvement in operational methods of process flow

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Yi Shang; Michael Jurczyk; Hongchi Shi; Anupam Joshi

this laboratory are solely forthe purpose of instruction in computer engineering and computer science, allowing system-levelclass projects to provide students hands-on experience. Science and Engineering of WWW(CECS 383) and Parallel and Distributed Processing (CECS 486) are two of the system areacourses enhanced significantly by the laboratory. Science and Engineering of WWW introducesthe fundamental technologies and their applications on the Internet and the Web. Students takingthe course are given a sequence of projects to experiment with the technologies. They are askedto set up and configure their own Web servers, study performance and security-related issues,develop e-commerce applications supported by their Web servers. Parallel and

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Douglas H. Baxter

employed throughout a four-year program. By taking advantage of the comput-ing power available to students in the studio classroom, key concepts can be visualized with theaid of solid models.IntroductionThe use of computers in engineering education has continued to increase. Computers were oncethe subject of courses, and were also used as one of the many tools engineering students needed intheir course work. Today, computers have become major teaching tools, the dominant tool for theengineering student. At Rensselaer, incoming students are now required to purchase laptop com-puters to a minimum performance specification. Many of the freshman courses now use the laptopcomputers in the classroom; the most common type being the studio classroom. Such

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Robert D. Knecht

, and an ability to adapt to the changing demands of the next century1, 2, 3. Manyschools have adapted their curriculum to include engineering design courses that focus upon thedevelopment of these important skills and that include industrial partners in the curriculumdesign effort 4, 5, 6. Aaron Collins7 received a grant from the National Science Foundation toinstrument a laboratory for a four-year design sequence at Mercer University. Their curriculaserved as an example of the organizational advantages of a four-year sequence by developingprocess skills as students developed their technical skills. This sequence used data collectionand processing as a basis for enhancing students’ engineering design skills. The School of CivilEngineering and

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Rhett J. Allain; Jeff Saul; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

Session 2380 Evaluating introductory physics classes in light of the ABET criteria: An example from the SCALE-UP Project Jeffery M. Saul, Duane L. Deardorff, David S. Abbott, Rhett J. Allain, and Robert J. Beichner North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics (SCALE-UP) projectat North Carolina State University (NCSU) is developing a curriculum to promote learningthrough in-class group activities in introductory physics classes up to 100 students. We arecurrently in Phase II of the project using a

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Evelyn Hanna

Session 1692 The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology (TARGET) Evelyn Hanna School of Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of NJAbstractToday, a necessity for an increase in the number of women in the fields of engineering,mathematics, and science is prevalent. Early exposure to such fields, is an effective wayto motivate young women to pursue professions in these fields. The Office of SpecialPrograms at the School of Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of NJ prides itselfon the many successful programs run throughout the summer months. One such

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W. Bradford Cross; Susan M. Morgan; Mark P Rossow

Session 2251 Innovative Outcome Portfolios for ABET Assessment Susan M. Morgan, W. Bradford Cross, Mark P. Rossow Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleAbstractThe EC 2000 criteria require the assessment of program outcomes. While some engineeringdepartments are using student portfolios for this assessment, the faculty charged with developingthe undergraduate assessment plan in the Department of Civil Engineering at Southern IllinoisUniversity Edwardsville decided that student portfolios would be cumbersome to manage. Inorder to assess the outcomes directly, the faculty developed a new type of

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W. Ernst Eder

Session 1625 THEORY OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS -- UNIFYING THEME FOR DESIGN W. Ernst Eder Royal Military College of CanadaAbstractCourses in an engineering program are mostly taught in isolation. Designing, the unifyingexperience of engineering education, is treated a "an art", without guidance about procedure. Asingle "capstone" course attempts to unify the curriculum, which is almost impossible toachieve. A formal structure can help to unify the experience by showing the relationshipsamong parts of engineering knowledge.A suitable formal structure to

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Tamara Balac; Daniel M. Gaines

Session 2793 Dynamic Multiple Assessment: An Instructional Method that Captures the Symbiosis of Assessment and Instruction Tamara Balac, Daniel M. Gaines Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractStandard instruction does not typically make effective use of assessment to improveinstruction. Assessment is generally used only to assign grades to students, and nofeedback is used to inform instruction. As a consequence, students may develop multiplemisconceptions and receive no deep understanding of the domain. Furthermore

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William J. Hutzel

2333 Leveraging Campus Resources for HVAC Laboratory Development William J. Hutzel Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore innovative opportunities for stretching limited universityresources for laboratory development. The context of this discussion is an ongoing renovationproject in the Applied Energy Laboratory, which is part of the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology Department at Purdue University. A relatively small initial capital investment bythe University has been leveraged to provide more than $150,000 worth of heating

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Roger Green

Session 3232 Mastery Learning with the MATLAB Webserver Roger A. Green North Dakota State UniversityAbstractMastery learning, as introduced in the 1960’s and 1970’s, includes three distinguishing features:(1) the use of proctors, which allows tutoring, repeated testing, and immediate feedback; (2) theunit-perfection requirement, which requires students to document subject mastery beforeadvancing to new material; and (3) the self-paced feature1. Significant resource demands,particularly for proctors, has discouraged the widespread use of traditional mastery

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William E. Murphy; Jimmy L. Smart; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

Session 2313 Development of an Extended Campus Chemical Engineering Program Jim Smart, William Murphy, G.T. Lineberry, and Bonita Lykins University of KentuckyAbstractEfforts are underway to establish a new University of Kentucky College of EngineeringExtended Campus Program at a location far removed from the flagship campus of the Universityof Kentucky (Lexington, KY). New chemical and mechanical engineering undergraduate degreeprograms are being established on the campus of Paducah Community College (255 miles fromLexington) in Western Kentucky, to provide a needed supply of new engineering graduates toregional

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Sheila Horan

Session 2332 Encouraging More Science in the Elementary School Sheila Horan New Mexico State UniversityAbstractElementary school teachers try to incorporate science into their curriculum, but do not alwayssucceed. Sometimes all they need is a little help. Especially in the lower grades, where there are20 or more students to a class, it is difficult to keep the students focused and on task. This paperexplores an alternative that aids the teacher and allows students to demonstrate their abilities inscience.The Science Intern program was started six years ago, using 4th

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Charles T. Jahren

ofTransportation and the Associated General Contractors of Iowa.Several steps are involved in the mock bid letting process and the students work ingroups of three or four. They obtain contract documents from the contracting authorityand attend presentations on transportation construction cost estimating. Then each groupis assigned to a professional cost estimator who acts as a mentor. The groups visit the jobsite with their mentors and then develop a prime contractor cost estimate. A substantialportion of the cost estimate is subcontractor and supplier quotes. Such quotes areprovided to students directly from actual subcontractors and suppliers as if they werequoting professional contractors. The bids are submitted to the contracting agency at thesame

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M. David Burghardt

Session 2530 Developing the Field of Children’s Engineering M. David Burghardt Hofstra UniversityAbstractEducational requirements for grades K-6 are increasing, students and teachers are being held tohigher standards with inherent increased expectations learning. Because this is a time ofchange, the engineering profession has an opportunity to link with the K-6 science curriculum,complementing an existing science curriculum that finds itself challenged. Engineering alsoprovides a contextual situation to reinforce important mathematical concepts. As the field ofchildren’s

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Rebecca K. Toghiani; Donald O. Hill; Craig Wierenga; Hossein Toghiani

the need to augment the traditional instruction of this subjectwith laboratory experiences so that their graduates are conversant in state-of-the-artinstrumentation and control as it is practiced in industry today. These laboratory experiencesallow the student to gain an appreciation for the contribution these tools make to the successfuloperation of a process unit or plant, to become familiar with instrumentation, and to be exposedto advanced control strategies in practice. This paper describes efforts at Mississippi StateUniversity to transform the process control instructional methods to facilitate the transition fromundergraduate student to practicing engineer in the area of process control. The Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

Session 2557 Interdisciplinary Teams? An Industrial Engineering/Physical Therapy Project Dennis E. Kroll1, Ph.D., Andrew J. Strubhar2 1 Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering & Technology 2 Physical Therapy Bradley University Peoria, IllinoisAbstractAt the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, we reported on a newly developed project combining 4thsemester Industrial Engineering students and 8th semester Physical Therapy(PT) students.[3]This project required them to

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Ralph Dusseau; Carlos C. Sun; Kauser Jahan

Session ____ OPEN SPACE DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Carlos Sun1, Kauser Jahan1, and Ralph Dusseau1 1. Faculty of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701Abstract - Many areas in Civil Engineering often deal with large-scale and system-level projects.These projects cannot be packaged into a "canned" laboratory for educational instruction.Consequently, a real-world field experiment is a logical way of executing such a project. Thispaper describes an on-going real-world clinic laboratory that addresses both technical and non-technical issues. The real-world clinic involves the development of open spaces

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Harry L. Hess

mechanical andmanagement engineering students are introduced to manufacturing concepts during theirsophomore year using the practical learning experiences approach. This course providesstudents the opportunity to: • Work in teams • Develop communication skills • Study design principles • Practice critical and creative thinking • Operate processing equipment • Participate in hands-on learningThe Manufacturing Processes course goes one step further to stimulate the creative thinkingprocess and will be detailed in the following paragraphs.In a standard manufacturing process course, a class assignment might be the engineering of aproduct and the manufacturing design it requires. The real problem is how to

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Augustus K. Uht

Sessions 1526 & 2526 The URI Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum: Progress Report Augustus K. Uht University of Rhode IslandAbstractThe University of Rhode Island started the ICED curriculum in the Fall of 1997. The key featureof ICED is a substantial 2-3 year long project tying together important but normally disjointcomputer engineering concepts across the major. The students learn how to make criticalhardware/software tradeoffs with long-term implications. Courses in processor design, compilerdesign and networks are required, and

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Yellamraju Vikas; Tony Ramanello; Kurt Gramoll

Session 3666Teaching Dynamics Online with only Electronic Media on Laptop Computers Yellamraju Vikas, Tony Romanello and Kurt Gramoll Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of OklahomaAbstractThe benefits of electronic media in engineering, such as interactive simulations, three-dimensional visualization and animations are widely known. However the implementation ofsuch media has been difficult because of lack of classroom facilities and student access to theprograms. Most of the implementation problems can be overcome and a true asynchronouslearning environment can be

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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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Keith K. Knapp

Session 2793 Learning to Teach Engineers: The Applicability and Compatibility of One Approach Keith K. Knapp Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently initiated a program that hasExcellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) as its goal. In 1999 the author attendedthe first ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop (ETW) at the United States Military Academy inWest Point, New York. The ETW participants consisted of 24 new (i.e., less than four yearsexperience) civil engineering faculty. For this reason, the focus of