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2000 Annual Conference

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

students.“Internet Explorers3,4” is a summer internship program where female high schoolstudents serve as mentors across the internet to younger girls by researching engineeringtopics and creating web page explanations written at the sixth grade reading level. This Page 5.177.1program started with a NSF grant and has been continued with industrial support for thelast three years.“SEM on the Web” provides a scanning electron microscope accessed across the web andallows K-12 students to investigate the microscopic world from their own schools on apiece of equipment not found in K-12 classrooms. The Department of Materials Scienceand Engineering operates the

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

correlated with retention (2, 3).While it is true that a number of students who enter a particular program do not belong there, mostare highly motivated towards earning a degree in a technical field. The majority of the students whofind difficulties with their initial degree choice leave IPFW altogether while only a small percentageexplore other programs within the School of ETCS or pursue different majors available in otherschools on campus. To address this situation, we have developed and implemented a high-techfreshman success course, ETCS 101 - Introduction to Engineering, Technology, and ComputerScience that helps students acquire sufficient computer and personal development skills for asuccessful college career. The course provides students

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Redfield; Michael Guarraia; Suzanne Keilson

pairs, as one element of the paircontracts the other extends to create the appropriate smooth control of motion around a joint.The tendons are the whitish tissue that attaches the muscle to the bone and the muscle willusually wrap itself over the joint. As the muscle contracts, force is exerted on the joint forcing itto move or rotate. These same principles of biomechanics were applied in this design project.An anchoring point, joint design, and biasing spring were some of the necessary elements tocreate a potentially useful robotic part (Figure 3). The final project idea was a three-fingered robotic hand. Many researchers are intriguedby the far-ranging potential of robotic applications. What makes this example so interesting isthat no

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Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Mooney

since 1985. 1 Coupled with the well-chronicled mathand science deficiencies in primary and secondary school levels, 2,3 this has promptednumerous entities to develop and funding agencies to finance K-12 engineering outreachprograms. The Adventure Engineering program addresses some of the critical issuesassociated with these trends by encouraging more students to consider technical careers atthe time when they are likely to be exploring possible career paths, the 5 th through 9thmiddle grade years.Adventure Engineering (AE), launched in 1999 with funding from the National ScienceFoundation, is a middle grade science and math outreach initiative aimed at students whowithout the benefit of a positive mathematics and/or science applications

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

backgrounds and programs of study. This may be true because as another writernoted “Few opportunities exist in most undergraduate engineering curricula for students ofdifferent disciplines, even within engineering, to work together 4.” When in fact, that is exactlythe scenario that our graduates will encounter when they begin their career. Multidisciplinedesign and research teams are used extensively in industry to reduce the time required to completea complex process or a task. Inexperienced teams must deal with self-imposed barriers based onthe individual's preconceived expectations of other team members (and often their own) value tothe team based on their education or position. As another writer pointed out “It is no longeradequate to teach

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2001 Annual Conference

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Salvatore Marsico

analysis; technical reportwriting.” Components of this course were revised to incorporate multimedia software intothe laboratory experience. For the first time students were given an opportunity tointegrate communications software, online web research, photo and video software,spreadsheet software, word processing, and presentation software. Accomplishments andfuture goals in the evolution of this course are discussed.IntroductionThe Associate in Mechanical Engineering Technology degree candidate arrives with a setof expectations that this program will provide them with state of the art training. As withmany institutions, maintaining state of the art laboratories is quite expensive, virtuallyimpossible to maintain, and is even more challenging for

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2001 Annual Conference

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Richard Smith; Marv Abrams

the co-author of several books and haspatents in the medical field. His current research interests are in the biomedical instrumentation and illuminationengineering field. He is director of the Photo-optical, Lighting, and Electrical Systems Laboratory and technicaldirector of the Lighting Education Program. He is a member of the IESNA and ISA and is also a registered engineerin both electrical and controls.MARV C. ABRAMSMarvin Abrams received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Nevada and Ph.D. in PhysicalChemistry from Washington State University. He has undergraduate minors in biology and mathematics, and agraduate minor in physics. For the past eight years he has been Coordinator of Technology Initiatives and Managerof

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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Barnwell III; Monson Hayes III; Joel Jackson; David Anderson

/streaming.1. IntroductionGeorgia Tech is involved in a number of distance learning initiatives, including a new onlineMasters program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a campus situated in Metz, France,that also offers Masters degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This campus, known as Page 6.569.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationGeorgia Tech Lorraine (GTL), opened its doors to students in the Fall of 1991. Since the numberof faculty at GTL has never been large enough

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2001 Annual Conference

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Georg Mauer

. Page 6.170.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationStep 2: Conceptual Solution: A second ’Conceptual Solution Window’ (Fig. 2) is displayed nextto the opening window of Fig.1. The equation set applicable to our kinematics problem is shown inthe window labeled ‘Equations’ in Fig. 2, with five parameters initially undefined and positioned tothe right of the Equations window. Known parameters are declared in the checkboxes labeled‘Check Known Parameters’ in Fig. 2, and the software moves icons for declared parameters to theequation’s left side, thus providing visual feedback to the student. In addition, the ‘MessageWindow

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2001 Annual Conference

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Don Horton; Chad Kidder; Mark Yeary; Rainer Fink

can be reduced even further. Only when a piconet is established cana park mode be initiated. A slave unit in park mode only listens to the access code at a very lowduty cycle. The sniff mode is another low powered mode whereby the slave unit does not scanevery master-to-slave slot within a piconet. 3This seems to be a major hurdle in the progress of launching Bluetooth products in the market .Two of the major problems we faced are also dealing with interoperability. The two problems arelisted below: Page 6.179.3 Proceedings of the

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WIED Olio

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Chester J. Van Tyne, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryne Van Tyne, University of Chicago

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Women in Engineering

culturalinfluences.Analysts of the innate aptitudes of men and women for the skills related to engineering workemphasize that, unlike 19th and early 20th century beliefs, there are no inherent genderdifferences in general intelligence.9 Results in the 1930s from the Primary Mental Abilities(PMA) test led to a belief in significant gender differences in verbal, mathematical, and spatialabilities. More recently, through a combination of meta-analysis and the division of these threemajor types of abilities into more specific skills, researchers have found greater differencesbetween skill levels among people of the same gender than those of differing gender.8 Anyperceived gender differences in engineering-related abilities may influence the behavior of bothmale and

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamal S. Yagoobi, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-124: INTEGRATING INNOVATION INTO ENGINEERING EDU-CATIONMatthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology Matthew Spenko is an assistant professor in the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prof. Spenko earned the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, at Stanford University from 2005 to 2007. His research is in the general area of robotics with specific attention to

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Innovations in Materials Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Ferro, Gonzaga University

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Materials

. Students were also required to evaluate thepodcasts, as part of the listening assignment.After producing their own podcasts, students in MENG221 were then required to listen to fourother podcasts from their own cohort and provide an evaluation. Previous studies have shownthat students gain pedagogical value from listening to their peers’ podcasts [3]. The two topranked podcasts from the semester were submitted to the ASM podcast contest [2].The reason that the MENG221 podcast project is a Rich Learning Experience, according to Fink,is that it involves Learning How to Learn, Caring, Foundational Knowledge and Applicationtypes of learning. Traditional projects in materials courses, such as writing a research paper,may also be considered as a Rich

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Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Light, Lewis-Clark College

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Community Engagement Division

AC 2012-3230: CASE STUDY INCORPORATING SERVICE-LEARNINGIN A STATICS AND DYNAMICS COURSE: THE WHEELCHAIR RAMPDESIGN/BUILDDr. Jennifer Light, Lewis-Clark College Jennifer Light is an Associate Professor at Lewis-Clark State College where she teaches foundational engineering classes. She obtained her Ph.D. from Washington State University in interdisciplinary engi- neering and M.S. and B.S. degrees in environmental engineering from Idaho State University and Montana Tech, respectively. Light has extensive industry experience in the environmental engineering field with air and water quality. Research interests include improving the first-year experience, service learning, and retention in engineering, in addition to

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Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration; Thavavigna Thanikachalam, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

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International

worked as a Transportation Engineer for VHB. Inc., for one year.Mr. Thavavigna Thanikachalam, University of Florida Thavavigna Thanikachalam is a student pursuing a master’s in civil engineering at the University of Florida and an acctive member in ASCE, ASTM, ACI, and AASHTO.Dr. Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida Fazil T. Najafi a professor of civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida earned his B.S.A.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has more than 35 years of experience with government, industry, and education. He has more than 300 research papers published and presented to international, national, and local

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Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University; James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University

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Architectural

AC 2012-4324: TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION: THE USE OF CUTTINGEDGE NUMERICAL METHODS IN TEACHING STRUCTURES TO AR-CHITECTS.Dr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse UniversityProf. James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University Jamie Guest is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests focus on topology optimization and structural engineering. He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania, all in civil engineering. Page 25.1363.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Use

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Lessons Learned through Community Engagement of Engineering Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; J. Kevin Taylor, California Polytechnic State University; David W. Hey, California Polytechnic State University

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Community Engagement Division

AC 2012-5534: WHY THE HUMAN CONNECTIONS FORMED THROUGHSERVICE-LEARNING MATTERDr. Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University Lynne Slivovsky, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001), has led service-learning initiatives both within the College of Engineering and across the univer- sity at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In 2003, she received the Frontiers In Education New Faculty Fellow Award. Her work in service-learning led to her selection in 2007 as a California Campus Compact-Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Faculty Fellow for Service-learning for Political Engagement. She currently oversees

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Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; Edward A. Pohl, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-3401: RAISING THE LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION IN STUDYABROAD BY INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE STU-DENTSDr. Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas Kim LaScola Needy is Department Chair and 21st Century Professor of industrial engineering at the Uni- versity of Arkansas. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Wichita State University. Prior to her academic appointment, she gained industrial experience while working at PPG Industries and the Boeing Company. Her first faculty appointment was at the University of Pittsburgh. Needy’s research interests include en- gineering management, engineering

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CoED General Technical Session I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

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Computers in Education

AC 2012-4384: TECHNICAL LITERACY IN AN INTRODUCTION TO EN-GINEERING COURSE FOR FRESHMAN ENGINEERSDr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention, and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Dr. Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville Jeffrey Hieb is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville. His research interests include the use of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kevin Murphy; Ismail Orabi

based on the Shannon sampling theorem. Next, you will be using the impact hammer to initiate vibrations in the golf club (you don’t have to hit it very hard! Be gentle). Save the spectrum information to a file. Do your results look reasonable or do you think aliasing may have occurred? Now choose a much higher sampling rate (say, 10 times higher) and recompute the spectrum. Save the results to a file. How does this new result compare to the previous? What does this tell you about the Shannon sampling theorem?3. Carry out a series of tests to arrive at a “rule-of-thumb” for choosing a good sampling rate (for this golf club system).4. Now that you’ve figured out a good sampling rate for this

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Halliday; Israel Urieli; Gregory Kremer

/mechanical systems design project was selected tointegrate material from all of the core mechanical engineering courses and to ensure that ourgraduates have a basic understanding of engineering science and how it relates to the art ofengineering design.The purpose of this paper is to describe the key features of the new course and to evaluate itssuccess in meeting its educational objectives. The “soft skills” component of the courseemphasizes development of skills for lifelong learning, including research skills, teamworkskills, and communication skills. The year-long sequence of courses is being team-taught, withextensive use of a Blackboard course web site for organizing group activities, and is beingmonitored by referees from the industrial

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2000 Annual Conference

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Debbie T. Brown; Masoud Rais-Rohani

Page 5.231.8order to see the effects of various parameters on support reactions and internal member forces. 2 14 5 3 Fig. 6 A truss model developed using T-DATFig. 7 T-DAT showing the calculation of reaction forces Page 5.231.9Once the model is defined, the student initiates the steps necessary to perform the analysis. TheT-DAT analysis engine was designed with the purpose of helping students to solve trussproblems using the methods of analysis taught in both elementary and advanced courses in solidmechanics

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William Biles; Carroll Hyder; Mark R. Rajai

costlyand time-consuming difficulties of traditional product development methods. This trend ofbreaking away from traditional approaches was initiated over a decade ago with the introductionof several concepts or logistics such as Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Computer-AidedDesign and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), QualityFunction Deployment (QFD), and Just in Time (JIT). These concepts and others were rapidlythrust onto engineering firms by consultants, to assist them in designing and manufacturing high-quality products at lower costs and in time to meet market demands.Many researchers have been promoting the idea that some of these concepts could beincorporated and utilized within a CE environment. There

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock

Page 5.387.7Figure 7. Video-Clip of Experiment in ProgressBibliography(1) Iskander, M.F., Catten, J.C., Jones, A., Jameson, R., and Balcells, A., "Interactive Multimedia Lessons forEducation," 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings.(2) Green, R.A., and Huddleston, D.H., "Changing the Engineering Undergraduate Experience by Appropriate Use ofComputer Technology," 1998 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.(3) Chin, R.A.., and Frank, A.R., "The Multimedia Instruction Initiative: Implications for Engineering Education," 1996American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings.(4) Mutharasan, R., Magee, W., Wheatley, M., and Lee, Y., "Multimedia Assisted Instruction in Upper

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ashraf M. Ghaly

were structured required complete command of the theoretical principles before adesign could be made. The implementation of the design required comprehensive research intovarious types of construction materials. In each of the assigned projects, students were given ahandout detailing the goal of the project, methodology, procedure, and grading criteria.Students were given complete freedom to use the theoretical approach which they believedwould yield the desired results. They were also allowed to experiment with different materialsand different construction techniques. Students who wished to perform some testing onpreliminary designs before finalizing their projects were encouraged to do so. This approachmade it possible for students to refine

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe; Christa Weisbrook

necessary to review the basisfor its use. Research has long shown that individuals behave and learn according to certaincognitive styles. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one well known method ofanalyzing personality traits and behavior. It has been widely used in education to explore howstudents behave with regard to learning. Other methods exist which provide more emphasis onthe individual’s learning strengths and weaknesses. One such learning style inventory is the Page 5.74.1Kolb Learning Cycle. In this description learning is modeled as a four stage cyclic process.The four stages in the process relate to Concrete Experience, Reflective

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2000 Annual Conference

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Yong Y. Kim; Rakesh K. Kapania; Kamal B. Rojiani

instructional units have been used in several undergraduate courses taught at Virginia Tech.They were used primarily as supplementary material, reinforcing and complementing classroomand textbook instruction. For example, the BeamSpan Analysis applet was used in theundergraduate civil engineering Theory of Structures course for several semesters (approximately150 students). An initial survey was conducted and the results of the survey clearly indicate thatthe response from students has been extremely positive. Based on comments received fromstudents, several of the applets have been enhanced and modified.Since the instructional units outlined above and the embedded applets are small and self-contained

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2001 Annual Conference

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Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

as a basis for laboratory exercises as a means to incorporate design contentinto courses 4, 5 and as an illustration of the multi-disciplinary nature of engineering projects 1.Cases can be taught differently, including through a discussion format, as debates or trials, or asa scientific research project 3. The latter includes providing students with backgroundinformation and a problem to be solved, and having students make hypotheses, developexperiments, collect data, and evaluate results with respect to the hypotheses. Here, the proposedlaboratories will implement case studies based on real industrial problems in the areas ofworkstation and work process design. The case will be similar to the research project format butbe adapted to a

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1998 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey S. Beasley; Charles T. Townley

using the Internet.Authors are given time to make changes in their article after the review process and their paperhas been accepted. However, once a document has been placed on-line, the article can not bechanged. Articles may be updated in one of two ways: either by providing a letter to the editoror by submitting an updated article for possible publication. In both cases links may beestablished with the initial article.All articles appearing in the Technology Interface are copyright protected. Information printedin this Journal may be used as needed for instruction and research. This includes making copies Page 3.279.6of any

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

the specialty areas. Students chosen for this program have expressed aninterest in engineering as a possible career choice. Essentially, the students can be divided intotwo groups – those who know (or think) they want to become engineers and those who want tofind out more information about the engineering profession before they make a decision.For the last two summers, the authors have been the instructors for the engineering component ofGovernor’s School (Pionke in ’96, Parsons in ’97). Also during the past two years, the authorshave been involved with two new curriculum initiatives: the development of a sophomore levelintroductory course in engineering design; and a total redevelopment of the entire freshmancurriculum at the University of