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Ronna Turner; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

was defined, along with a MS Applied Physics degreewith the same core physics block but with electives in either engineering or physics coursesallowed.Even so, these changes only begin to address the need for changes in traditional physicscurriculums because they concentrate only on flexibility in the academic courses. The need forgraduates to be increasingly creative in the application of their academic knowledge has been leftto apprenticeship-like on-the-job training by their research professors. While this is certainlyvaluable training, it lacks the systematic approach to teaching that we demand in our academiceducational methods. This apprenticeship method of training physics student to unleash theircreativity often results in

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Frank Krygowski

Session 2649 Modernizing a Physical Measurements Laboratory in Engineering Technology Francis R. Krygowski Youngstown State UniversityAbstractIn 1997, the Mechanical Engineering Technology faculty at Youngstown State University wereawarded a National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant tomodernize a Physical Measurements laboratory, NSF-ILI Grant # DUE-9750992. This paperdetails the experience of that project.The objectives of the project were: to greatly increase the number of sensors available forstudent

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), 342 - 347.14. Rice, R. E. (1998). 'Scientific writing' - A course to improve the writing of science students. Journal of College Science Teaching, 27(4), 267 - 272.15. Sharp, J. E., Olds, B. M., Miller, R. L., & Dyrud, M. (1999). Four effective writing strategies for engineering classes. Journal of Engineering Education, 88(1), 53 - 57.16. Tobias, S. (1990). They’re not dumb, they’re different: Stalking the second tier. Tucson, AZ: Research Corporation.17. Tobias, S. (1989). In Paul Connolly and Teresa Vilardi (Eds.), Writing to Learn Mathematics and Science. New York: Teachers College Press.18. Hein, T. L. (1995). Learning style analysis in a calculus-based introductory physics course. Annual conference of the American

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Jerry A. Caskey

Session 2551 A Supplemental Lab Project to Reinforce Physical/Chemical Processes in an Environmental Engineering Course Jerry A. Caskey Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractNo matter what their learning style students at Rose-Hulman appreciate hands-on experiences toreinforce principles taught in the classroom. Over the past several years a supplemental labproject has been developed to reinforce several topics covered in our “Unit Operations ofEnvironmental Engineering” course. This course is an elective course offered by the ChemicalEngineering

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Lighting Programs for the College of Engineering. He is also a teaching faculty member of the Colleges ofEngineering and Science. He spent 33 years in the aerospace industry where he was Chief Scientist for LockheedAeronautical Systems Company and Manager of Materials, Processes and Manufacturing Technology for GeneralDynamics. His research interests have been in spectroscopy of high temperature gasses and combustionmechanisms. He has published over 20 papers in the classified and unclassified literature. He is a member of theAmerican Chemical Society, Illumination Engineering Society and the Engineering Educators of America. Page

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John Olson; Georgia Ehlers; David Lovelock; Ali Mehrabian

(Henderson 1999).The opportunity to study, conduct research, and establish a career in these fields is a reachablegoal for students regardless of physical ability.In the Spring of 1998, a group consisting of students with physical disabilities, faculty fromSMET disciplines, and staff at the University of Arizona (UA) proposed a program to the Page 6.418.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”National Science Foundation (NSF) aimed at encouraging more students with physicaldisabilities

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S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

Session 1464 Innovations in Teaching Mechanics of Materials in Materials Science and Engineering Departments David Roylance Massachusetts Institute of Technology C. H. Jenkins and S. K. Khanna South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractTraditional mechanical design employs experimentally obtained or handbook material properties in selection andsizing to develop a product. This approach is increasingly inefficient as designs come to employ

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Jr., Donald Horner; Dr. Jack Matson

Session #3242 Teaching Creativity, Innovation, and Change in the Leaderless Classroom Donald H. Horner, Jr., Jack V. Matson, The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroductionCreativity: having the power to create; marked by originality; imaginative. Innovation:the act of innovating or producing something new or unusual. Change: to makedifferent; to alter; to transform.1 Different concepts? Yes. Related concepts?Definitely. Teachable concepts of particular relevance to engineers? Without question.Definitional differences notwithstanding, there exists a shared essence

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Molly Johnson; Cathie Scott; Cynthia Atman

materialssciences engineering disciplines. The course met for 100 minutes twice a week for 10 weeks.The course content was defined by the instructors, but the instruction was (to a high degree)tailored to the understanding of the students because it was the students themselves whodesigned the instruction. The course focus was on reflective practice and on findings fromcognitive science and education research and their application to engineering teaching andlearning. Throughout the quarter, we tried to maintain a tension between theory and practice. Onthe theory side, students became familiar with conceptual change, memory, motivation, and otherlearning concepts. On the practice side, students were exposed to innovative teaching methodsthrough the example

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Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; David Huggins; Winston F. Erevelles

Evaluation, National Science FoundationWINSTON F. EREVELLESWinston Erevelles is the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science at Robert MorrisCollege. He also serves as the Director of the PRIME. His teaching, research, service, and publishing interests arein the areas of Manufacturing Processes, Automation, Robotics, Rapid Prototyping, Programmable LogicControllers, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing. He has worked as a Manufacturing Engineer and PlantManager at Mykron Engineers, India. Dr. Erevelles earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from BangaloreUniversity, India and his M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering management (manufacturing engineering emphasis) fromthe University of Missouri-Rolla.DAVID HUGGINSDavid

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235 INNOVATIVE (new teaching technique) COMPUTER SIMULATION OF ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THREE- PHASE INDUCTION MOTORS USING MATLABTM ANIMATION. Bruno Osorno Department of Electrical And Computer Engineering California State University Northridge 18111 Nordhoff St Northridge CA 91330-8436

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/. In 2000 wedecided to allow more freedom and let the groups choose both their topics and theirdelivery methods. The two projects in 2000 were: “Engineering ABET 2000 “Soft Criteria” into the Classroom.” This project involved a survey of Purdue engineering professors to determine their familiarity with ABET 2000 and the development of teaching methods to satisfy ABET criteria 2000. This group actually did a limited amount of original research. “Use of the World Wide Web in Engineering Education: A Status Report.” This group did a thorough literature review of both the web and the paper literature on web use in engineering education. The report was turned in as both a web document with suitable

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Valarie Arms; J. Weggel; Aly Valentine

introduces the student to engineering. The student feels as if he/she is "treated like anengineer". Students indicate that they understand and are able to see the integration ofcoursework. Students appreciate the hands-on aspect as it "helps you to get ready for a coop job- in particular, freshmen design and research are helpful". Students appear to have a deep-seatedappreciation for the faculty teaching within the program; indicating that faculty are willing tohelp and are accessible.While the program appears to have maintained many of the original characteristics, it is theimplementation of various program aspects that are cause for concern. Continuous qualityimprovement is a necessity for the longevity of the program. The concerns are detailed

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Session 1639 Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy: Web Delivery, Excel Calculation, Teamwork Support David E. Mandeville Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractAdvancing technology has affected both the classroom-learning environment, the methods ofperforming economic analysis and the expectations of employers. This paper describes aninnovative course, delivering engineering economics training that integrates three newtechnologies: web delivery, spreadsheet calculations and team support. • The classroom environment allows Web delivery

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Engineering at theUniversity of Pretoria over the period 1998 to 2000. The experiment was conducted bymeans of a new course called Technological Innovation. The motivation for the teachingmodel used in the course is founded on research done earlier in the same department on thedeterminants of creative design in Electronic Engineering students1,2. The earlier researchdemonstrated the correlation between the students' own perception of their extrovertivenessand their ability to come up with innovative product ideas. The methodology used in the firstyear course which is the topic of this paper focused on group projects, the use of the NeddHerrmann four quadrant brain model and the various mindsets of the creative problem solvingheuristic of Lumsdaine3

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Stephanie Eisenbarth; Siddhartha P. Duttagupta; Robert Walters; Paul Dawson; Joseph Guarino; George Murgel; Christopher Pentico

effort with partners from higher education, government, and industry. Notableexamples include (i) $12 million in a community funded effort to construct two new engineeringbuildings that became operational in 2000; (ii) $5 million in laboratory equipment donationsfrom Micron, HP, American Microsystems, SCP, Cascade Microtech, Teradyne, and Zilog;(iii) $5 million in research and equipment grants in the Year 2000; (iv) development of four new“distance” graduate courses to be offered to the industry and the community-at-large via variousvideo delivery modes; (v) participation of four industry experts as adjunct faculty for teachingBSU graduate courses; and (vi) 10,000 man-hours donated by industry engineers to train BSUfaculty and technicians in the

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Larry Williamson; William Drake

Session 2526 NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race - Innovative Student Projects William H. Drake, Larry Williamson Southwest Missouri State University/Pittsburg State UniversityIntroductionThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers student chapter at Southwest Missouri State Universitydecided to follow the lead of another student group and build a “Moonbuggy” to race in theNASA sponsored “Great Moonbuggy Race” held annually at Marshall Space Flight Center, inHuntsville, Alabama. The first buggy was designed by a small team and constructed as a part ofa senior level capstone course. The buggy completed the preliminary

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Vadim Guliants; Eugene Kopaygorodsky; William Krantz

Session 3513 Scaling Analysis – A Valuable Technique In Engineering Teaching And Practice Eugene M. Kopaygorodsky, William B. Krantz, Vadim V. Guliants University of CincinnatiAbstractThis paper describes a scaling technique that can be used as a teaching tool in engineeringcourses that involve the development of mathematical models for physical processes. Thisscaling technique provides a systematic means for achieving the minimum parametricrepresentation of a physical problem. Moreover, since it involves order-of-one scaling, it permitsassessing the relative

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. Atman, Director of the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching in theCollege of Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle), stated inspiration forinnovation in engineering education at the University of Washington came from keyadministrators making "student-centered learning" a major goal for the College of Engineering.There was also recognition that to accomplish this goal there was a need to provide resources forinstructional services specifically designed for engineering faculty. In addition, changes in theclassroom needed to be based upon research in engineering student learning. Key enablers forthe implementation of innovation included faculty buy-in, funding, time, shared goals, a unifiedfocus, and the creation and

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D. Smith; James Squire

Session 2425Role of the Community in Teaching Undergraduate Engineering Design James C. Squire, D. Todd Smith Virginia Military InstituteAbstract: The local communities surrounding universities provide a wealth of opportunities forengineering students to practice engineering design while making real contributions that affectpeople’s lives. Such design projects also directly address ABET EC2000 criteria that studentsshould understand the impact of engineering in a societal context. This article identifies severalsources within the community that supply engineering problems suited for

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Kathryn Jablokow

Change has been incorporated into several modules that support the Systems andSoftware Engineering degrees. It may be taken as part of a core skill-based module, which alsoincludes courses in communication and project management, or it may form one leg of a modulethat focuses on innovation and change. Other courses in the innovation module include Inventionand Creative Design and Engineering Ethics (both developed by this author). Creativity,Innovation and Change remains open to all students in the School’s three Divisions:Engineering, Management, and Education.3.0 Course ObjectivesThe main objective of this course is to teach students to think differently about their ownthinking and to apply what they learn about their thinking as they

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Richard Alexander; Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

. An important questionthat must be continuously addressed is: how do engineering technology faculty, who live in anenvironment of research expectation, combine their classroom and laboratory teaching interestswith research interests? This paper will discuss a process for bringing together what manyfaculty feel is a dichotomy between teaching and research. How engineering technology facultymight develop a rewarding career in both teaching and research will be outlined.I. IntroductionMany engineering technology faculty in the United States are employed at universities whereresearch is an integral part of the university’s mission. Faculty performance at those schools ismeasured in various combinations within the triad of teaching, research and

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Otto Loewer; Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Greg Salamo

providethe proof of concept necessary to secure larger developmental funding or private capitalization.Finally, the paper will discuss the early implementation current status of program elementsthrough March 2001.I. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation in fall 2000 funded the University of Arkansas under the Page 6.1087.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationPartnership for Innovation program to initiate a new effort based on the “teaching through doing"paradigm. This effort would

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Katherine Liapi

Session #2306 Innovative Instruction of Computer Graphics Katherine A. Liapi The University of Texas at AustinAbstractFor over 20 years fundamental and applied research from various disciplines has beeneffectively integrated into Computer Graphics resulting in developments that undoubtedlyhave had an important impact on the way Architectural Engineering is taught. Courses onComputer Graphics that have replaced the instruction of Descriptive Geometry in mostArchitectural Engineering curricula, are mainly focused on methods for the communicationof knowledge and information about the design

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Ron Eglash; Larry Kagan; Gary Gabriele; Frances Bronet; David Hess

varying complexity, and to work individually or in teams toproduce innovative design solutions that reflect this “genius for integration.The PDI program was begun with the incoming class of the Fall 98 semester and we have taughtthe first 6 design studios of the sequence. This paper describes the curriculum design for PDI andour experiences teaching some of these first studios. Page 6.811.2Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationTHE BASICS OF PDIThe institutional and administrative infrastructure for the PDI program is a dual

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William Plymale; Scott Midkiff; Luiz DaSilva

, NJ, 2000.9. Capilano Computing Systems, LogicWorks 4 (software), Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999.10. URL: ftp://schof.colorado.edu/pub/TTLSystem/ARCTools/.11. URL: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat.SCOTT F. MIDKIFFScott Midkiff is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech.He teaches courses in computer networks and computer engineering and is a member of the Master of InformationTechnology program’s steering committee. He conducts research in computer networking. Midkiff received thePh.D. in 1985 from Duke University. He is a member of the ASEE, IEEE, and ACM.LUIZ A. DASILVALuiz DaSilva is an Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

with Visual Basic 5.0 for computation and graph, 3) the layout ofonline interface through WebPages and the online application for modeling. This is thefirst attempt to combine applications of Visual Basic to the web page on the Internet orthe Intranet with teaching and research in conceptual, physical, mechanical andmathematical modeling in soil mechanics using one-dimensional consolidation theory sothat problems in engineering such as land subsidence due to ASR (Aquifer Storage andRecovery) applications can be simulated and predicted. Therefore, this online modelingtool not only provides an alternative way to pass knowledge and to enhance studentsunderstanding of principles taught in geomechanics, but also it offers an online useful

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Wang Chien Ming; Mohamad Ridwan; Ang Kok Keng

Civil Engineering at the National University of Singapore since March 1987. He is presently theDirector of Centre for IT & Applications (CITA), Faculty of Engineering. Professor Ang is a Singapore registeredProfessional Engineer, a member of the Institution of Engineers Singapore and a council member of the SingaporeStructural Steel Society. He is also the recipient of the prestigious inaugural NUS Teaching Excellence Award foruse of IT in Teaching in 1998 and winner of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for Innovative Teaching in1998 for outstanding innovative teaching.WANG CHIEN MINGC.M. Wang is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the National University of Singapore (NUS). Hisresearch interests are in the areas of

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Rosalyn Berne

Session # 1661 Reaching and Teaching through "The Matrix"; Robosapiens, Transhumanism, and the Formidable in Engineering Ethics Rosalyn W. Berne University of VirginiaAbstractMuch of what is taught in engineering ethics is a matter of practical decision-making andprofessional responsibility—the avoidance of harm and the doing of good in industrialand technical settings. But what about the questions of metaethics; those issues aboutwhich there is deep concern, but also great difficulty in formulating a system of ethicswhich can be applied

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Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

-Western Reserve University. She is a Senior Member of the American Societyfor Quality.DAN WALDORFDr. Daniel Waldorf is currently an assistant professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department atCal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Ph.D. inMechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dan spent two years in industry as aQuality Engineer at a Midwest automotive parts manufacturer. He currently teaches several courses related tomanufacturing processes and systems and performs research on problems in machining of metals