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William Miller; Stephen Lombardo; Christa Weisbrook; Patrick Tebbe

thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and thermal systems courses. TheTHERMOVIEW software is being designed within the LabVIEW programming environment. Itis hoped that by making use of the visual environment of THERMOVIEW and LabVIEW thatstudents will gain greater insights into the processes involved and the flavor, if not the actualfeel, of how systems behave in the real world. The purpose of this paper and presentation will beto provide an overview of the project to date and a description of current evaluation results.I. Introduction Advances in technology and pedagogy imply that the engineering curriculum must beperiodically reformed or supplemented in order to provide the best education possible forstudents. Particular shortcomings must be

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Session 1675 Consulting and Industrial Experiences as Related to Promotion and Tenure of Engineering Technology Faculty Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractTo successfully achieve the goal of tenure, a well thought out professional development plan isessential. For engineering technology (ET) faculty, the requirements of the ET tenure process maybe well suited for utilizing consulting and industrial experiences as a portion of the professionaldevelopment plan. Engineering technology programs are different from engineering programs

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in proper engineeringanalysis at the beginning of a project (through techniques such as QFD) are more palatable to abusiness than dollars spent rectifying a problem once a design or product has been released.Utilizing QFD applications requires cross-functional communication of all internal and externalplayers involved with development and production of a given product or process. Here again,human relation skills associated with program and project management activities are a must forthe engineer functioning in this arena.Opportunities are becoming increasingly obvious for engineers to come equipped with the abilityto work through cross-functional team dynamics and have a sound level of knowledge of designand / or product configuration and

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

machinery is purchased but also influences a wide arrayof other issues such as, the relevancy of the CNC programming language presented by themachine compared with what is being used in industry, topics that can be included in thecurriculum, maintenance problems related to the upkeep of the machine, cost factors comparedto the technology purchased, etc.This article evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of selecting either kind of equipment bycomparing features and capabilities, cost, limitations and capabilities of these machines inmaterial processing and operations. Other issues such as resale value and cost of maintenancewill be discussed providing current data and information useful to the institutions deciding toupgrade or purchase new

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David Silverstein

specific computing-relatedrequirements of their employer as rapidly as possible. When combined with a large projectedshortfall in qualified personnel to fill computer related jobs over the next ten years, chemicalengineers may find themselves required to fulfill some computer based duties previously delegatedto MIS and other support personnel.One approach to preparing students for the wide variety of computer related issues that may arisein their engineering duties is to take a template-based approach to developing engineeringsoftware. This method provides students with a software infrastructure, or template, that handlesbasic tasks, such as input and output, and requires them to utilize the basic programming skillslearned in an introduction to

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; William LeBold; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie

important. The 1500-2000 students who startin engineering at Purdue from all over the world have great diversity in their pre-collegepreparations. In a wide variety of retention and grade assessment studies of admissionsinformation, pre-college course grades, test scores and other background factors, grades inbeginning level courses were identified as the critical elements related to student success[3,4,5,6,7]. A multifaceted placement program was developed to optimally place students inbeginning math, chemistry, physics, computer, and communications courses. A by-product ofthose background studies was the development of a Department of Freshman EngineeringStudent Information Form. The information provided another way to examine trends in

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Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses that are unique to each program. This leads to a discussion of ABET requirements and tothe types of activities performed in each engineering discipline.Videotape presentations and visits from officers of student organizations are also used to informstudents of the various engineering disciplines. Petroski’s To Engineer is Human9 videotape isused to illustrate the lessons that can be learned from errors made in the engineering designprocess.Ethical issues are introduced in two formats. The team board game, The Ethics Challenge10,provides an opportunity for serious discussion of workplace ethical decision-making. Scenariosfor academic ethics and how they relate to engineering are

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Rosalyn Hobson; Kenneth Burbank

. Everything else is provided by RAPME, including a T-shirt uponsuccessful completion of the program. The total cost to administer the program isapproximately $10,000 annually.PHASE I is a three-week program for rising 7th – 9th grade students. Because this is the firstlevel and targets the middle school student, there are no academic requirements. This phaseintroduces students to practicing engineers and familiarizes them with the profession. This isaccomplished by inviting engineers to talk to students about their jobs and educationalbackground. Students also participate in a classroom setting completing assigned tasks andengineering related projects. Projects include a truss made of toothpicks, rocket kits and dragsterkits. Students also attend

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Umid Nejib

Session 2560 The JSS-Wilkes Scholars: A Unique Engineering Program in International Cooperation Umid R. Nejib Wilkes UniversityAbstractWe are entering the new century in the midst of a technological revolution potentially more profoundin its impact socially, politically, economically, and educationally than the industrial revolution ofthe last century. We have scarcely begun to identify its implications and adapt our institutions tochange, although the first massive repercussions already have been felt with diminishinggeographical

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Jahan Kauser; Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

engineering principles that form the basis of civil engineering.Students work individually and in multidisciplinary teams to identify and solve engineeringproblems using their accumulated knowledge and experience along with advanced technologysuch as computers and laboratory equipment.Every CEE course can be characterized as a problem-solving course. Engineering design issuesand experiences are integrated throughout the undergraduate CEE Program, beginning with twosophomore courses in the curriculum sequence, Introduction to Environmental Engineering andStructural Engineering I. Issues related to safety, economics, ethics and social and global impactare discussed and considered in virtually every course. Students are also exposed to a widerange of

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represented 26% of the workforce. In 2000, 19% of the Chattanooga Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.1163.2 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationworkforce is in manufacturing3. Tourism and service related jobs are replacing themanufacturing jobs.The second factor relating to enrollment declines in technical programs at Chattanooga Staterelates to the strong economy that we are presently enjoying. In the latter half of the decade ofthe 1990’s, unemployment across the nation has been as low as it has been since the post WW IIera

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Larry Shuman; Graciela Perez; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Harvey Wolfe

Session 3530 Measuring Continuous Improvement In Engineering Education Programs: A Graphical Approach* Graciela de L. Perez, Larry Shuman, Harvey Wolfe and Mary Besterfield-Sacre University of PittsburghAbstractThis paper presents a method for developing assessment metrics that can be used to efficientlyreduce survey data to a format that facilitates quick and accurate faculty feedback as part of anEC 2000 continuous improvement process. Our methodology, the Pitt-SW Analysis, is anadaptation of the competitive strategy principle of SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities

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Ilya Grinberg

Power Corporation were involved in equipmentfailure analysis, development of manuals, and other technical activities. Interns at the BuffaloGeneral Hospital perform design and maintenance duties.7. Student Development and Creative ActivitiesStudents in electrical engineering technology program at Buffalo State College are constantlyprovided with opportunities for personal and professional development. The College sponsorsannual research and creativity celebration events that include conference-style presentations andposter sessions. Engineering technology students of the Power/Machines option successfullypresented their cases of creative problem solving related to their field of studies.Many students were involved in applied research projects

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David W. Elizandro; Jessica Matson

Session 2457 Industrial Engineering Program Management in the ABET 2000 Environment David W. Elizandro, Jessica O. Matson Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThe ABET 2000 Criteria have had a major effect on the approach to Industrial EngineeringProgram Management. Integral components of programs that are necessary to satisfy ABET2000 Criteria include formulating goals and objectives; developing and working a strategic planto accomplish stated goals and objectives; and assessing the effectiveness of the plan and relatedactivities to accomplish

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Alexandre Botari; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

natural resistance of a person to re-structure her/himself cognitivelyand emotionally making possible the learning and principally the creation of conceptscompletely new.So following these tendencies the engineering education institutions in Brazil are, let’s say,running fast to form a new engineer. New programs have been conceived, new approaches, newlaboratories and so on. Changes have been happening and many of them are successful.Lusiada’s program for engineering education is one of the successful new kind of forming goodengineers prepared to face next millenium.The premise that a global vision, therefore generalist, of the biological cycles and the cycles ofthe processes of human interference as well as its development. The co relations

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Mohammad Naraghi; Bahman Litkouhi

Session 2520 An Effective Approach for Teaching Computer Programming to Freshman Engineering Students Mohammad H.N. Naraghi and Bahman Litkouhi Department of Mechanical Engineering Manhattan College Riverdale, NY 10471I. IntroductionComputer programming is an essential and integral part of any engineering program.Engineering students in their junior and senior years face the task of solving problemsusing numerical approaches. Good programming skills will enable them to tackle thoseproblems easily. Furthermore, a good

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asked to form committees to do thefollowing: • assemble and/or develop print, computer and video materials that explain engineering careers and disciplines (to be shared and employed in structured presentations) • develop a more formal assessment process for the overall program • explore the development of project based high school curriculum that would bring engineering and pre-engineering experiences directly to high school students as part of their normal studies.There was a feeling among teachers that one reason students do not enter engineering is lack ofconfidence in mathematics skills. It is hoped that the introduction of engineering-related material intoclassrooms may help to alleviate this anxiety, and also increase

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Denise Nicoletti; John Orr

measuring and assessing student outcomes from the electrical engineering coursework, andrelating these outcomes to the overall EE program objectives and outcomes. These difficultieshave several origins, and result in challenges in both the design and implementation of anassessment program which is simultaneously meaningful, implementable, and sustainable withmoderate resources. The following guiding principles appear helpful: • Select a subset of courses and learning outcomes on which to focus (rather than attempting to measure and assess everything) • Carefully relate the learning outcomes from courses and projects to the overall educational outcomes • Obtain a complete set of measures for the outcomes, without excessive

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Satinderpaul Devgan

admission, student with B.S. degree in either electricalor related engineering discipline or computer science from an accredited program, must have acumulative grade point average of 3.0 or more on a 4.0 scale and must have most of the relatedprerequisites as identified in Table 1. Conditional admission is granted to student who has acumulative grade point average of 2.75 or better on a 4.0 scale or lacks some prerequisites.Students who need too many pre-requisites are recommended to complete requirements beforereapplying. All students admitted conditionally, are required to complete the undergraduateprerequisite courses with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 before they are allowed totake graduate level courses

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Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas

, Page 6.1132.2various software tools are adopted as learning aids for Control Engineering related Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses. The most common one being used at a number of schools is theMATLAB/SIMULINK environment. MATLAB has the advantages of requiring shortlearning curves and large collections of functions and toolboxes. However, we decidedto use VB to develop a tutorial for the course Automation and Control. First of all, VB isa standard and widely used programming language, and our students already have hadsome VB programming experience, it would be beneficial to consolidate and

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Rakesh Pangasa; David Scott; Marc Herniter

end Page 6.954.4 plot(t*1000,Vc); Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationendtitle(’RC Step Response.’);ylabel(’Capacitor Voltage (volts)’);xlabel(’Time (milliseconds)’)text(16.5,3.75,’C=10 \muF’);text(.3,4.75,’C=1 \muF’);gridhold offThis program is used to teach FOR Loops and IF statements, and also relates the programmingtechniques to circuit applications. Students may be taking the course that solves the RC circuit atthe same time they are taking this programming course. Students

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Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

Session #3647 Web-Based Programming Courses in ECET Hal Broberg, Paul Lin Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, INI. IntroductionIndiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) is a state-supported commutercampus with over 12,000 students. The School of Engineering, Technology, andComputer Science has 5 departments: civil and architectural engineering technology,computer science, electrical and computer engineering technology, engineering, andmanufacturing technology. Our department, ECET, provides instruction for accredited1A.S. and B.S. programs in Electrical Engineering Technology

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creative travel considerations can be very effective in keeping costs low. C. Time Many of our technical students participate in career related summer employment or internships. An exchange trip should not intrude excessively into this time. Central Michigan University (CMU) has many different types of international experiences available to the students. They range from yearlong residence programs to one-week visits. The CMU Industrial and Engineering Technology (IET) department has found that their students are most favorably inclined to a three-week experience, maximum. This gives them a solid feel for the culture they are visiting, the visit peaks before getting boring, and it does not consume too much of their summer employment

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Raymond Kliewer

andSurveying (NCEES) prepares the FE and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE)examinations. NCEES is working with academia to encourage the use of the FEexamination to help engineering programs satisfy the student outcomes assessmentrequired by the new EAC of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000). Could the FEexamination also be successfully employed as an outcomes assessment tool for TAC ofABET programs? What impact could an increase in engineering graduates taking andpresumably passing the FE examination have on the career potential of engineeringtechnology graduates? This paper explores these and other issues related to outcomesassessment using the FE examination emphasizing Electrical/Electronic(s) andMechanical Engineering Technology

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Leyla Newton; Shawna L. Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1392 The WISE Summer Bridge Program: Assessing Student Attrition, Retention, and Program Effectiveness Shawna L. Fletcher, Dana C. Newell, Leyla D. Newton, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Women in Applied Science and Engineering Program, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-5506AbstractFor participating university programs, summer bridge outreach has helped to significantlyincrease student retention in academic majors. For female engineering students, bridge programsnot only serve an academic need, but also serve to foster networking

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Lance Schachterle

Session 1161 Standards-Based Assessment of Humanities/Social Science (H/SS) Programs in the Liberal Education Division (LED) Lance Schachterle, Assistant Provost, WPI 508 831-5514; les@wpi.eduFor decades, curricula in the Humanities and Social Sciences (H/SS) for engineering studentsand faculty have been dominated by the now-displaced ABET “Conventional Criteria” whichrequired that engineering students devote “one-half year [of study to the] humanities and socialsciences” (“ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” I.C.3.a.[2].) The“Conventional Criteria” went

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Robert Taylor; Robert Green; Lesia Crumpton-Young; A. Bennett; Teresa Sappington

college level academic matters.TERESA B. SAPPINGTONTeresa Sappington is the Outreach Coordinator for the College of Engineering at Mississippi State University whereshe develops and manages numerous programs to encourage interest in engineering, science, and math in K-12students and teachers. As a former secondary school science teacher, Ms Sappington understands the difficulty ofkeeping students interested in these fields and is able to directly relate to the teachers.LESIA L. CRUMPTON-YOUNGLesia L. Crumpton-Young is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Outreach at Mississippi StateUniversity. She is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and is active in ergonomic and human factorsresearch. Dr. Young is responsible for

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

Session 2793 Web-Based Technology for Long-Term Program Assessment Heidi Diefes-Dux, Kamyar Haghighi Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstractDuring its first round of assessment plan implementation, the Department of Agricultural andBiological Engineering (ABE) at Purdue University collected data utilizing a variety ofassessment tools including ABET-compliant course profiles and constituent surveys. The man-hours involved in the development of program unique assessment tools and data collection andanalysis is astounding, especially when a university adopts a

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

evaluating departments on outcome-basedobjectives related to retention and graduation rates. These outcomes are typically highly Page 6.1099.1“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”correlated to the new ABET program outcomes criteria commonly referred to as A-K (availableat http://www.abet.org).In addition to the positive impact learning communities have on retention, learning communitieshave been found to help students meet both academic and social needs, “without having tosacrifice one to address the other”5. According to

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Jamie Workman

Session 2548Development of a K-12 Summer Program to Promote Women in Engineering and Technology Jamie K Workman Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Abstract As recruitment and retention of women in engineering and technology programs at the university level is a concern, K-12 programs are being developed to address this issue. Although many reasons exist for the low enrollment numbers of females in engineering and technology (ET) programs, several are related to the limited pre-college exposure levels in math, science, and applied technology areas and guidance of these students