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Ralph O. Buchal

Session 2358 Engineering Education in the 21st Century Ralph O. Buchal The University of Western OntarioAbstract Changing educational needs and reduced funding for traditional educational institutions are forcing a re-examination of the educational process. At the same time, emerging information technologies are enabling atransition from traditional instructor-centred teaching to a new model based on student-centred collaborativelearning. The importance of the physical university is diminishing as information

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Zenon Jan Pudlowski; Peter LePoer Darvall

learning processes and assess the effectiveness of teaching programs designed for developing technologies. ● Carry out research on equipment, textbooks, courseware and software utilised in engineering education and encourage further research in these areas. ● Collect information on advances in engineering education and develop modern techniques for the dissemination of this knowledge. ● Promote collaboration in the field of engineering education between institutions in developed and developing countries. ● Provide short courses and seminars on engineering education for academic staff, industrial management and community leaders and organise conferences on the advancement of engineering

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Robert P. Morgan; Nirmala Kannankutty; Donald E. Strickland

I Session 2242 ‘ Forging Links Between Engineering Education and Industry: The Research Connection Donald E. Strickland*, Nirmala Kannankutty**, and Robert P. Morgan** Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville*/Washington University, St. Louis**The mutual needs of society, industry and universities are creating opportunities for closer ties betweenindustry and academia. Many new, and old, forms of university-industry collaboration are

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R. Rinker; J. Peterson; H. Hess; Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

Session 2432 Two-University Cooperation: Paradigm for the Future of Statewide Engineering Education H. Hess, R. Rinker, R. Wall, J. Peterson, K. Belknap University of Idaho Cooperative Engineering Education in Boise Boise, IdahoAbstract To establish engineering education in a new location, a method of cooperation betweenuniversities is recommended as an alternative to the "build another college to satisfy local demands"mania. Motivation for this

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Gad Engler

Session 3541 Engineering Educators and Scholarly Literature: optimizing expenditures for customer need Gad Engler Louisiana State UniversityABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to provide engineering educators and librarians with a quantitative measurefor ranking scholarly journals by relative value for use with cost-benefit analyses. The Serials Redesign Projectat Louisiana State University Libraries is a major multi-year attempt to satisfy the actual needs of faculty

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Erdogan Sener

engineering education is the development of intellectual skills and knowledge that willequip graduates to contribute to society through productive and satisfying careers as innovators, decision makers,and leaders in the global economy.” It is expected that today’s engineeringkehnology graduates will bechanging jobs several more times compared to a deeade or two ago. This inevitably leads to the requirementthat emphasis given in higher education to skills and attributes that are transferable from one type of endeavorto another be as much as, if not more, than that given to purely technical skills, which beeome obsolete quicklyin face of rapidly evolving and changing technologies. In line with above, it is anticipated that the following would be the

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Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins; D. C. Davis

). This work is part ofthe TIDEE project described below. The “Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education” (TIDEE) project, fundedby the Course and Curriculum Development and the Undergraduate Faculty Enhancementprograms of the National Science Foundation, is a collaborative effort among Washington StateUniversity, University of Washington, and Tacoma Community College with activeparticipation from over 25 institutions in the state. The overall goal of this project is to structureundergraduate engineering design education during the first two years to produce flexible yetconsistent engineering design preparation for a diverse pool of students following a variety ofpaths toward their degrees

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Michael H. Gregg; Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld; Dr. Bevlee Watford

greateropportunities for networking.’8 Dr. Raymond B. Landis, Dean of Engineering and Technology at California State University, haspropounded collaborative learning techniques. He instituted a highly successful program at hisinstitution for enhancing the retention of minority students. He has offered his expertise andexperience through a series of workshops. Through funding provided by NSF’s SUCCEED(Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education), two engineering facultyfrom Virginia Tech attended Dr. Landis ‘NSF Chautauqua-Type Short Course for College Teachers’entitled ‘Achieving Excellence in Minority Engineering Education: Improving the AcademicPerformance and Graduation Rates of Minority Engineering Students.’ Although this

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Henry G. Ansell

to be expressing the positionthat significant improvement in the processes of teaching and learning in school can be achieved. ” In engineering education, industrial advisors sometimes indicate the need for engineers to be capableof good teamwork. The increased use of collaborative learning may be an appropriate response to thatneed. By the time the fall semester started, this instructor decided to try the idea of having learningpartners in an engineering class. The class was Introduction to Digital Systems, in the Computer Scienceand Engineering Department of the College of Engineering of Penn State University. The course was givenat the Berks Campus.Pairing There were 14 students taking this course, so seven pairs were

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Richard J. Jardine

engineering departments develop math courses within their own programs, theencouragement of interdisciplinary activities at West Point has created a collegiality that enhances the overallundergraduate engineering education. The course MA366, Vector Calculus and Introduction to PartialDifferential Equations, completes the mathematical foundation which supports subsequent study ofenvironmental engineering. This paper addresses the development and implementation of the course, whichaccentuates hydrogeologic applications. Emphasis in this paper is placed on the cooperative efforts of thedepartments involved and course activities. Suggestions for further course improvements are included. Introduction

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Jerry W. Samples; Colonel Kip P. Nygren

. Collaborative learning, active learning, student centered learning, teamteaching, interdisciplinary teaching, guided learning, problem based learning, and interactive learning strategiesbecame the words that described the way forward. Implementation of these methods is a dramatic paradigmshift, especially in the field of engineering education where lecture is the norm. Introduction of design curriculaand the need to develop team skills in engineering education opened the door for utilization of advanced teachingmethods. In many other fields of study, these skills found immediate favor, both with the students and the faculty.The humanities and the social sciences embraced these methods and quickly became advocates of thestudent/faculty

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Jose A. Macedo

. D., “Assigning Students to Groups for Engineering Design Projects: A Comparison of Five Methods,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 3, July 1994, p. 259-262.[4 Dally, J. W. and Zhang, G. M., “A Freshman Engineering Design Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 2, April 1993, pp. 83-89.[5] Fentiman, Audeen W. and Demel, John T., “Teaching Students to Document a Design Project and Present the Results,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 329-333.[6] Harris, T. A. and Jacobs, H. R., “On Effective Methods to Teach Mechanical Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 343-349.[7] Johnson, S. H., Luyben, W. L

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David G. Meyer

. Opportunity #1: Perhaps the greatest opportunity currently available is the ability to effectively teach in the visual arena,i.e., to make increased use of computer-generated text, graphics, and images in classroom presentations. Theargument for increased use of visual media in engineering education has been aptly articulated in the litera-ture.6−8 Since print dominates our environment and educational methods, students are forced to process infor-mation and learn predominantly with the brain’s left hemisphere. Most of what engineering students mustlearn, however, requires them to develop right-brain processing skills. This leads to a fundamental incompati-bility in the general learning process, an incompatibility which is particularly acute

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William E. Barnes; Michael Khader

expected. The INTERNET willbe the access medium for this system. The details of these projects are part of an NSF grant proposalaimed at improving laboratory instruction in undergraduate engineering education. Page 1.114.4 {ii’i’a-’} 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..*,yyLwc: . Inourproject wearetreating the~TE~T asoneofthe shared computer applications. TheNETSCAPE browser will be integrated into the set of computer applications available to students duringclass and collaboration sessions. We believe this will

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Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman; Sally Steadman

group processing.Another option for engineering educators is to informally introduce these cooperative learning techniques in aless structured way. One such example is the implementation of cooperative study groups at the University ofWyoming. The specific techniques utilized and the associated results that have led to improved studentacademic success are presented in this paper.Introduction Formal cooperative learning (CL) strategies have been incorporated by engineering faculty memberswith noted successes.1,2 Felder reports that students have greater intrinsic motivation to learn and achieve andexpress deeper understanding of course material, they achieve higher grades and greater persistence tograduation, they develop better teamwork

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Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

solidfoundation in hand, an engineering education was the next logical step, adding technical depth andtheoretical understanding of the underlying physical principles. Previous physical experiences provided real-life examples which reinforce the theory, enhanced its retention and served as a kind of mentalbookmark Page 1.298.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsfor future recall and application. The reason these people went into engineering was primarily because theyliked to work with their hands, on machines. A similar straw poll of current engineering students shows a much different

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Robert Foster; Denise Dorricott; Dhushy Sathianathan; Richard Devon

faculty collaboration and classroom use will be piloted at several sites in theSpring, as will industry involvement in class design projects. Full on-line participation of practicingengineers will be implemented in Fall of '96.Conclusions The use of information technology with an appropriate delivery network, and an integrated learninginfrastructure will continue to be a priority for future engineering curriculum. The technologies we use toaccess to information, the volume of this information, and the format of this information will rapidlychange the pure nature of engineering education. To keep up with this change we must provide facultyincentives to take “ownership” of the course and nurture faculty collaboration. Providing “ownership

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institutions to better leverage state resources whichallowed The University to implement these courses without purchasing new manufacturing lab equipment.Introduction The United States’ negative trade balance has steadily increased over the last several decades. TheNational Research Council report Improving Engineering Design [1] cites manufacturing goods as a primarycontributor of the trade deficit. They concluded the best way to correct this is for concurrent engineeringtechniques to be practiced by industry and taught by the engineering educational establishment. Manufacturingcourses taught in the traditional hands-on laboratory format have fallen from vogue as they were viewed, oftenunfairly, as lacking sufficient scientific content. As a

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wide range of rapidly evolving technology areas. References1. Jefferies, M.J. and Peruish, Karl, “Differentiating Engineering and Engineering Technology” Towards a Better Education. ASEE 1992, as quoted in Ziolkowski, 1994.2. Richman, Louis S. “The New Worker Elite.” Fortune, August 22, 1994, pp.55-66.3. Ibid.4. Lopardo, V.J., and Wu, C., “Engineering Education: Future Directions. ” 1994 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.5. Bordogna, Jr. from Ernst, E. W. “Engineering Education: Innovation Through Integration”. Journal of Engineering Education. January 1993

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Lawrence Genalo

. Genalo, Lawrence J., “Cost Effective High-Technology Classroom Delivery Systems,”Proceeding of the ASEE Annual Conference, Vol 1, pp620-623, June, 1993.5. Genalo, Lawrence J., “NEEDS: High Technology Delivery Systems, ” Proceedings ofthe Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington DC, pp598-600, November, 1993.6. Agogino et al, “National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS),”Proceeding of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington DC, pp592-597,November, 1993.7. Ingraffea, Anthony R., “Synthesis: National Engineering Education Coalition,”Proceeding of the Frontiers in Education Conference,” pp359-362, November, 1992.8. Huston, Jeffrey C. et al, “Multimedia Courseware in the Instruction of UndergraduateDynamics,” Proceedings of

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III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

-—--, . . . . . - Session 1463 ‘ ‘Teaching Fixturing for Manufacturing Processes within the Learning Factory between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Pratt & Whitney Fredric M. Gold, John J. Bausch, III Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract: Engineering education is undergoing serious scrutiny by industry and academia due to perceived gapsin undergraduate education. Project based learning, at the undergraduate level, is an important facet ofaddressing this perception

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John A. Fillo

I Session 1255 Reforming the Master of Science in Engineering John A. Fillo State University of New York at BinghamtonIntroduction To place in context the current discussion to “re-invent” engineering education we go back fifty years.World War II disclosed that American engineering education was inadequate to meet the new realities producedby the war. Prior to the war the typical engineering graduate

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T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; C. Stewart Slater

. Inductothermis the world’s leading and largest induction melting equipment manufacturer with plants located internationally.The gift has challenged Rowan College with the opportunity to develop an innovative and forward lookingengineering school. The Rowan School of Engineering will educate engineers who will serve as innovators andentrepreneurs for the future. As the State’s comprehensive institution for Southern New Jersey, one of themissions will be to contribute to the economic growth of the region. With the help of the industrial communitythe School of Engineering will help set the pace for engineering education into the 21st century. The Rowan School of Engineering offers baccalaureate degrees in Chemical, Civil, Electrical andMechanical

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Mohamad Qatu; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

isespecially true for new general education courses and unique freshmen and senior level courses. As aresult, the instructors often come from different disciplines. This team instruction approach has bothstrengths and weaknesses depending upon the course needs and the style of team teaching that is employed. In recent years, a renewal of general education has resulted in an increase in both the quantity andquality of the general education programs.’ Two specific areas of interest to engineering educators are an 2increase in courses that integrate ideas from a variety of fields and engineering-focused courses that non-majors take for general education credit.3’4’5 Engineering

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Leevones Dubose; Jean Newman; Cecil Ramage; Burke Johnson; Brenda Litchfield; Edmund Tsang

implemented for the first time in Fall Quarter, 1995; (b)a two-credit hour, sophomore-level course employing writing to explore the social impacts of technology and Page 1.265.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsengineering ethics will be implemented in Spring Quarter, 1996; and (c) a two-credit hour, sophomore-level"Introduction to Design" will also be implemented in Spring Quarter, 1996.METHOD Course development of ME125, "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering," is guided by a recentreport on engineering education for the 21st Century2. The report, "Engineering Education for a ChangingWorld

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George Bugliarello

and Chancellor of Polytechnic University of which he was president from 1973 to 1994;member of the NAE; has chaired the Advisory Comm. for Science and Engineering Educ. of the NSF, was amember of the Board on Engineering Educ. of the NRC, and was honored by ENR (construction) in recognitionof the creation of Metrotech; holds a SC.D. from MIT and several honorary degrees. Page 1.194.3 -. ?$iiia-’} 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘o.,~yy’,: Table 1 -MS in Financial Engineering .— -Core Courses

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Steve Howell; Ken Collier; Debra Larson; Jerry Hatfield

College to produce computer animated renderings of the sitebefore and after site construction. Page 1.13.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference ProceedingsBACKGROUND The call for reform in engineering education has been widely discussed in variousconferences, journals, and forums for several years (Evans et al., 1990; ASEEEngineering Deans Council, 1994; and NSF DUE Restructuring Engineering, 1995).Industry and society are no longer satisfied with traditional undergraduate engineeringprograms that provide only a limited exposure to design and synthesis (McMasters andFord, 1990; Tadmore, et. al., 1987; and Tarricone, 1990

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Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

besuccessful in their studies. Involving the students in their learning process through enhanced active learningmethods has resulted in improved interest and participation in their engineering education. A change in curriculum has introduced a new course into the freshman year, Fundamentals ofEngineering Design, FED 101. The course introduces the new engineering student at NJIT to the variousengineering disciplines and the design process that engineers experience in industry. The course is taughtby a team of professors representing the various traditional engineering departments who direct projectsrelated to their areas of expertise. Freshman students work through these projects in teams of three or fourwith an emphasis on active learning

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Mary Kantowski; Marc Hoit; Matthew Ohland

those developed for anIntroduction to Engineering class recently adopted as a permanent course in the engineering curriculum at theUniversity of Florida. This class is one of the projects developed under the Southeastern University and CollegeCoalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED). This class replaced a one hour per week lecture. Eachlaboratory is intended to expose participants to hands-on experiments representing concepts related to thediscipline’s specialty.In addition to their hands-on focus, the laboratory activities were to be designed to use simple equipment so thatthey could be exported to programs such as the summer institute discussed here. The four laboratory activitiesincluded in the SECME summer institute were those which

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electronics. The effect achieved is a bridging of the “two cultures” by viewing technology through alternating sets of glasses. Introduction Directors of university engineering curricula are besieged by ever noisier clamour for more and earlier “hands-on” experience, and for more exposure to, and practice in, reading and writing “across the curriculum” in course-centered formats. The freshman year is a logical target for new course innovation, e x c e p t f o r t h e o b v i o u s p r o b l e m t h a t t h e f i r s t engineering year often has few, if any, elective spaces for new, widely available experiments in engineering education. Therefore, new first y e a r c o u r s e s a r