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1998 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Keilson

areas of biomedicalengineering, signal processing, acoustics and auditory sciences. Following a post-doctoral appointment atthe Johns Hopkins Center for Hearing Sciences, she has been an assistant professor at Loyola College in theDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Engineering Science since 1994. She is currently the newslettereditor of the Mid-Atlantic section of the ASEE. Page 3.293.6

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard Devon; Wayne Hager; Dhushy Sathianathan; Dominique Saintive; Michel Nowé; Jacques Lesenne

. At Penn Page 3.74.1State, the costs for 3 student travel vouchers, one faculty trip, the student interpreters, and theISDN line costs were approximately $5,000 for one class of 33 students. The same collaborationcould work for two sections for a slight increase in budget. These costs are modest, and industrysupport is a real possibility since industry interest in this type of project is growing. AlthoughISDN lines guarantee quality connections, they are expensive and accounted for almost half ofthe total cost. WWW technology is a cheaper alternative for universities.The Collaborative Design ProjectThe design teams were formed for the first

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1998 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Keilson

an assistant professor at Loyola College in the Department of Electrical Engineering Page 3.340.6and Engineering Science since 1994. She is currently the newsletter editor of the Mid-Atlantic section of the ASEE.

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1998 Annual Conference

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Narayanan Komerath

decide that engineering is not for them. A greater fraction, being goodat anything they do, find themselves following their classmates, the majority of whom areenrolled in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. They hear too often that these disciplines aremuch more “general” than A.E., and that A.E. is “too hard”. These superstitions are general, bothworldwide and through the decades. In the mid-90s, attrition rates climbed as bad news keptpouring in from the traditional employers of A.Es.Getting into TroubleThe Introduction to Aerospace Engineering course has existed for a long time, intermittently. Itsadvocates pointed to the perspective and motivation it provided; its detractors called it an “easy-A” waste of a good 3 credit hours on PR