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Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

managing civilinfrastructure in the 21st century. Students must learn to integrate this traditional civilengineering knowledge base with an understanding of deterioration science, economics, finance,decision and management theory, maintenance management, and public policy. This paperdescribes efforts to address this gap in civil engineering education. The authors began with asingle course at Carnegie Mellon University and have modified the original material in differentways to serve the needs at other institutions.IntroductionOver the past twenty years, civil infrastructure has received considerable attention in the popularpress as bridges collapse or are closed, underground pipes burst, and trains derail. However,gradual deterioration has a more

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Migri M. Prucz

Session 3253 Broad-based, Sustained Initiatives Benefit Recruitment of New Students Migri Prucz West Virginia UniversityAbstractA consistent and diverse recruitment effort, planned to reach prospective students on a regularbasis, through a wide variety of communication channels, has paid off for the College ofEngineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) at West Virginia University (WVU). The size ofits freshman class has risen considerably in recent years, with the current enrollment exceedingby 62% that of 1995, despite a declining pool of high-school graduates in the state of

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Terry L. Ballinger; Craig W. Somerton

Session 1566 An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Program for Middle School Students Craig W. Somerton, Terry L. Ballinger Michigan State University/Lansing Catholic Central High SchoolI. IntroductionThe Mathematics, Science, and Technology (MST) program at Michigan State University is atwo week, summer residential program for academically talented middle school students. Thispast summer, for the first time, a mechanical engineering academic class was offered. Thestudents attend the class for two hours each day. An MSU faculty member is paired with a localmiddle or high

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

Session 3422 Leading Learning in the New Millennium Barbara Licklider, Carol Fulton, and Kandace Martin Iowa State UniversityThe world we live in today is much different from the world that existed several decades ago. Advances incommunication and transportation link nations together. Finance and trade are conducted in a globalmarketplace. Due to developments in education and technology, other nations have progresseddramatically. These developments have alarmed government and business leaders who have expressedconcern that America is being outpaced

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Michael J Batchelder; Iyer L. Srinivasa; Daniel F. Dolan

education is changing tomeet the needs of the changing role of engineers. In response to these changes, the goal of the Centerfor Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP) is to improve the education of undergraduateengineering students through team-based multidisciplinary projects. CAMP focuses on combining theindividual student’s discipline expertise with the multidisciplinary team requirements in design andmanufacture of a complex product. Realistic projects large enough to require teams provide the basisfor experiential learning in communication skills, teamwork, and leadership abilities. Engineeringstudents with at least a 3.0 GPA or special expertise are invited to join CAMP as juniors. In addition totaking required courses in

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Terrence P. O'Connor

antennas intended to receive signals from single hertz toapproximately 100 hertz. The intent of the physics students research was to detectand analyze signals, especially those of terrestrial origin such as the Schumannresonances, lightning resonances, and the postulated electromagnetic signals thatare pre-cursors to earthquake activity. Purdue Electrical Engineering Technologystudents designed amplification and active filter circuitry for the IUS physicsstudents to use in their research. The Purdue students did this as a part of their RFand Power Electronics class. The relationship between these two universitiesrespective programs proved to be mutually beneficial. The Purdue students hadthe experience of designing and fabricating a device which

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Sally J. Steadman; Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman

performance is increased and they choose to remain inengineering longer than the students who are non-participants. Clustered scheduling isespecially successful for students in underrepresented groups; female and ethnic minoritystudents in the Power Groups have significantly higher GPAs and a higher retention inengineering majors. Clustered scheduling is a relatively low-cost, effective strategy forincreasing the retention of engineering students.IntroductionStudent retention can be improved through a variety of strategies. One such strategy, thecommunity building model,1 has produced impressive results for minority student success. Thismodel promotes a high level of collaborative learning by clustering students in common sectionsof courses and

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Patricia L. Fox; H. Oner Yurtseven; Stephen Hundley

Session 2348 Engineering Technology Faculty Salaries: The Past, the Present, and the Future Patricia L. Fox, Stephen P. Hundley, H. Oner Yurtseven Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractFor the past twenty-two years, the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has sponsored a national survey ofengineering technology faculty salaries. The Engineering Technology Faculty Salary Survey isconducted annually in cooperation with the Engineering Technology Council (ETC) and theEngineering Technology

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Peter J. Shull

Session 2559 Formal Laboratory Reports Pros and Cons: An Interim Report Peter J. Shull Penn State University, AltoonaI. IntroductionEngineering programs have historically faced the major challenge of providing engineeringstudents with a solid foundation in written communication skills. In response, most engineeringcurricula include fundamental writing courses focused on developing and improving writtenperformance. With this emphasis in mind, the use of writing exercises in the classroom providesan opportunity for engineering

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Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

alternatives, an increasing amount of interest is being given to UNIX on thePC desktop. We offer some of our observations on the suitability of freely-available UNIX (andUNIX-like) systems for a variety of activities commonly associated with the personal computerdomain, with particular emphasis on inter-operability across various system platforms. Includedin our discussion are the increasingly-popular Linux, which can be used on many different typesof computer hardware, FreeBSD, and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris. In addition, we discussAT&T’s U/WIN system, which provides robust traditional UNIX services, and facilitates the useof many so-called open-source applications, on personal computers running Microsoft Windows.IntroductionOur goal for this

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Mike Klingman; Margaret Owens; Jim Papritan; Ann Christy; Evangelyn Alocilja; Marybeth Lima

Session 1408 Student portfolios for learning, CQI, accreditation, and industrial ties Marybeth Lima, Evangelyn C. Alocilja, Ann D. Christy, James C. Papritan, Margaret E. Owens, Michael H. Klingman Louisiana State University / Michigan State University / Ohio State UniversityAbstractStudent portfolios are defined as “a purposeful collection of materials capable of communicatingstudent interests, abilities, progress, and accomplishments in a given area.” The authors haveinitiated student portfolios in biological and agricultural engineering, and

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Marjorie T. Davis

heartburn on hundreds ofengineering professors around the country; the ones who are not experiencing the pain simply have notyet begun to deal with EC 2000 in a substantive way.Lost in all this shuffle is Criterion 3-g, requiring that students demonstrate effectiveness incommunication. Most engineering professors will want to address communication last, after they havedealt with the criteria relating to the “hard-core” engineering subjects. Many of them may be assumingthat they can just leave all this assessment to their local English teachers. The problem with thisassumption, however, is that English teachers are not typically ready to engage in the kinds of assessmentthat will be most appropriate for achieving EC 2000 goals. There will not be

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

graduation.Students are exposed to “real-world” practices, extending what they have learned in ourclassrooms and laboratories. They are aware that their professional success in their first years inindustry depends on how confident they feel about their technical abilities as well as their actualknowledge. Internships in industry serve both cases, expanding their knowledge and giving themthe confidence that they need to be successful. However, while everybody agrees that aninternship experience in industry is a key component in undergraduate education in engineeringand engineering technology, it certainly requires more planning and preparation than traditionalclasses. Some faculty may feel overwhelmed by the logistics involved in preparing an internshipwhich

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Sheila R. Curl; Leslie J. Reynolds; Brent Alan Mai; Alexius E. Smith

coursedevelopment, experiencing them first-hand enabled us to identify their resolutions. Technologyis developing at a rapid pace. In order to keep up with all the challenges these developmentsimpose, it is essential that educators not only learn from their own mistakes, but that they sharethose experiences with colleagues and together advance the field of teaching. We will addressproblems encountered by both instructors and students and discuss how we improved our coursedelivery for subsequent semesters. “As this century comes to an end…the defining characteristic of the current wave of technology is the role of information.” Alan Greenspan, 14 June 1999 testimony before

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Norm Pumphrey; William M. Jordan

engineering courses taught indifferent engineering programs. This has been reduced to one course for all disciplines. Sincemuch engineering practice is cross-disciplinary, this allows students to learn about materialsfrom other than just their own disciplinary perspective. This course is integrated with thestatics/strength and math courses they are taking at the same time. Faculty teaching thesedifferent courses meet regularly to make sure that the integration between them is working well.For example, this integration allows us to discuss mechanical behavior of materials, whilerelying on the statics/strength course for their mechanics background.Connected with this new materials lecture course are two revised lab courses: a civilengineering materials

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Murali Krishnamurthi

Session 1358 Enhancing Student –Teacher Interactions in Internet-based Courses Murali Krishnamurthi Northern Illinois University AbstractIn face-to-face courses, instructors usually have a number of opportunities to interact withstudents, engage them in active learning, stimulate their critical thinking through discussions, andmonitor their progress. These essential components of student – teacher interactions should alsobe incorporated in internet-based (online) courses to enhance student learning and capture thepositive aspects of

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

these new requirements, which are being met by application of technologyand fostered by some educational institutions as well as their partners in corporate andindustrial sectors.The fundamental principle of access to education ‘at any time, any place, any where, andany how’ have resulted in an explosion of new alliances such as Western Governors,Southern Regional and Open University – USA. At the same time, a review of theSociety of Manufacturing Engineers, Manufacturing Education Plan clearly outlinesemerging skills such as Personal attributes (values), communication and teamwork asprerequisites for success.This presentation specifically focus on: • A historical perspective

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

five different teams across Tennessee. Each team includes multi-disciplinary faculties from two-year technical college, industry partners, four-year engineeringtechnology university partners, and high school tech-prep teachers. A brief account of the grant’sactivities is described here and a sample case targeted for introductory courses in electricalcircuit analysis is presented.I. IntroductionThe fast introduction of new technology in the workplace has greatly affected the daily operationof most industrial institutions. Automation, telecommunication, and computer applications haveresulted in higher efficiency, reliability, and/or lower production cost. In face of this fact,however, companies currently encounter the new challenge of staying

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Richard Layton

Session 2793 Creating and Measuring an Awareness of Professional Ethics Richard A. Layton North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an approach for creating in students an awareness of the ethical responsibili-ties of practicing engineers. Using a case study in professional ethics, students in a junior-levelmechanical engineering design course are given two consecutive writing assignments which arethe basis for four classroom discussion periods that focus on student responses to the case study.The student assignments are in addition to, and do not

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

Session 2348 Trends and Developments in Engineering Technology: Who Are We and Where Are We Going? Patricia L. Fox, Stephen P. Hundley Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractIn 1977, a longitudinal survey was developed by a group of engineering technology colleagues tolook at trends and developments of baccalaureate engineering technology programs in the UnitedStates. Engineering Technology Division (ETD) representatives of the four American Societyfor Engineering Education (ASEE) zones conducted the surveys in 1977, 1981, 1985, 1990, and1995. Results of

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Robert Davis; Laura J. Genik; Craig W. Somerton

the concepts and ability to perform the necessary manual calculations, computerprograms can be used to allow the students to study more advanced topics in the materialwithout being bogged down in the calculations. To ease the considerable calculationsinvolved in solving vapor-compression refrigeration (VCR) cycle problems in the course,a text-based computer program was written, complete with property evaluation for 3three substances, by L.J. Genik and C.W. Somerton at Michigan State University. Thisprogram has recently been revised to be compatible with the Microsoft Windowsoperating environment prevalent today in engineering software. In addition, a fourthrefrigerant, R-134a, was added to account for the addition of new refrigerants in

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Gilbert J. Groendyke; Frank G. Lopez

to fill this need.Two such degrees are Process and Piping Design and Structural Analysis and Design.These are four year, Bachelor of Science degree plans that are accredited by TAC ofABET. The Engineering Technology Department offers two courses in the field of Page 5.677.1engineering modeling which support these specialized degrees. They are called "PipingModels" and "3D Modeling, Rendering and Animation".Piping ModelsPiping Models (ET 4301) is a senior level, required course in the Process Piping Designdegree plan. Students begin this course with prerequisite basics in 2D AutoCAD andMicroStation. The software that forms the primary basis for the

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Paul Kulowitch; Asad Yousuf

andthis study to demonstrate that laser-induced fluorescence offers a great promise as a powerful,innovative approach for rapidly detecting incipient thermal damage in polymer. Finally,discussion on future work will be presented to refine software and hardware components todevelop a robust and automated system.ApproachLaser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy is a sensitive and powerful approach for Page 5.160.1detecting molecules and atoms, measuring species concentrations and energy-level populationdistributions, and for probing complex materials such as polymer composites. LIF is anattractive approach for detecting heat damage because it

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

that could be implemented in future. Adopting these measurescreates a win-win situation for both the institutions of higher education and to the same extentbenefits the other organizations involved in these cooperative endeavors.I. IntroductionWith the rapid pace of technological changes and the need for qualified personnel graduatingfrom colleges and universities it has become very challenging for the institutions of highereducation to stay up-to-date in multiple venues. Often students graduating from theseinstitutions need to be retrained at the company level to become compatible and qualified withthe work force working in industry. One of the reasons for this technological gap is the financialcapability of these institutions to purchase and

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Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

Lexington campus College of Engineering dean. The motivation for developingthese programs was to provide engineering graduates and further engineering educationalopportunities for local industries in the area. The programs were initiated after Kentucky’s Council onHigher Education passed a resolution, based on a needs assessment, directing three educationalinstitutions (University of Kentucky, Murray State University, and Paducah Community College) tocooperate in establishing ABET-accredited undergraduate programs in mechanical and chemicalengineering in the western Kentucky region, with the University of Kentucky designated as thedegree-granting institution. This paper will provide an overview of the development of the extendedcampus program in

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Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

Session 2330 Peer Evaluations in Teams of Predominantly Minority Students Richard A. Layton, Matthew W. Ohland North Carolina A&T State University / University of FloridaAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of student peer evaluations in project teams where the majority ofthe students are African-American. Peer evaluations were used to assign individual grades fromgroup grades for design projects in a junior-level mechanical engineering course taught byLayton for three semesters in 1997-99. This study is similar to and complements a 1999 study byKaufman, Felder, and Fuller. The results of the two

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Peter J. Graybash

Multi-Media Session 2793 Selecting Communications Technology for Delivering Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs Peter J. Graybash, Jr. Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractWith the convergence of major shifts in economy and society, competency developmentprograms for professional employees in American corporations are increasing in demand andavailability. Communications technologies now allow unprecedented linkages betweenContinuing Professional Engineering Educators (CPEE) and their organizational consumers.As development programs become more available, a

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Donna C.S. Summers

Session 3248 An Industrial Engineering Technology Curriculum for the Millennium Donna C.S. Summers University of DaytonAbstractThe Industrial Engineering Technology program at the University of Dayton has completed amajor effort to study our existing curriculum and courses as the means to improve thecoordination and dissemination of knowledge. While courses within our program have been andwill continue to be updated each time a course is taught, this improvement effort was more far-reaching. We sought insight into future curriculum structure as well as future courseconfiguration. The

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Rita L. Endt; Eyler Robert Coates

economycourses, the concept of risk is either not introduced at all or is mentioned briefly at the end of acourse and in final chapters of a textbook5. Yet, engineering economy problems with all Page 5.372.1deterministic inputs are actually rare in “real life.”There are a number of approaches for handling economic risk that are used today. One approachis scenario analysis. However, as Park has pointed out, worst-case and best-case scenarios arenot easy to interpret and do not provide probabilities of occurrence of those possibilities nor dothey normally provide additional information such as the probability of losing money on aproject or the probability

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Willie Ofosu

levels. Generally, the few minorities whohave from time to time enrolled in engineering programs have consistently proved thatminorities are just as capable, and have just as much chance of completing their programsas do well represented groups. Different suggestions for improving the numbers ofminorities in universities and colleges are presented.IntroductionHistorically, minorities have not had equal opportunity in pursuing academic goals.Though there has been a dramatic change to this situation over the years, minorities areunder represented in colleges and universities at the present time. The numbers ofminorities in professions that require associate, baccalaureate, or in some cases post-graduate degrees as entry level qualification, such