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James Landay; Francis Li; Anthony Joseph

Session 2525 Supporting Collaborative Teams in Engineering Education Francis C. Li, James A. Landay, Anthony D. Joseph University of California at BerkeleyAbstractProblem-based learning techniques involving small collaborative teams of students are widelyregarded as being effective in teaching engineering design courses. However, the heavyrequirements upon the teaching staff to support and coordinate such teams typically limit thesecourses to small numbers of students. In this paper, we describe the design of a computer-basedtool for supporting small collaborative teams with the ultimate

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Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 1647 Implementing Collaborative Learning in a Distance Education Setting Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202AbstractThis paper describes the process that was followed in transforming a course in Statics, previouslydelivered in the traditional chalk-and-board format, for delivery using live 2-way interactivetelevision. The issues discussed include the instructor’s familiarization with the technology,preparation of new teaching materials and visual aids for the course, and development andincorporation of computer-based animations to

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Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2468 Internet-based Distributed Collaborative Environment for Engineering Education and Design Qiuli Sun, Kurt Gramoll Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractThis paper proposes a Virtual City framework to investigate Internet-based distributedcollaborative environment for engineering education and design. This framework includes a 3Dvirtual world, an online database, multiple multimedia modules, and a distributed collaborativegeometric modeling module. An important part of this

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Thomas Kerlin; Belle Upadhyaya

Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"2. Development of Guidelines for Cyber-linked ProjectsThe following is a set of procedures that any two cooperating institutions are expected tofollow in order to achieve the objectives of cyber-linked projects. • Students, with the assistance of their professors, must define the project topic and the tasks to be performed in order to achieve the project objective. The collaborating teams must mutually agree upon the topic and the tasks. • There shall be an initial, get-acquainted session in which the student groups will discuss project plans. All instructors shall be directly involved to monitor and guide the

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William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Session 1554 Discover Engineering Day: Collaborations in Pre-College Recruitment William C. Davis, Elsa Q. Villa, S. W. Stafford The University of Texas at El PasoAbstractAs engineering enrollments across the United States are on the decline, the College ofEngineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has shown a 7% increase each year forthe past four years. To address this enrollment gap, retention and recruitment programs mustexist symbiotically at an institution to attract students and retain them through graduation. TheDiscover

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, Page 6.176.1making it easily adaptable by other institutions.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationParticipantsBoth collaborators on this project are part of large universities, but reside on smaller, remotelylocated campuses. Purdue University - School of Technology at Kokomo (PUK) is located 48miles (80km) from the larger West Lafayette, Indiana campus. The Slovak University ofTechnology - Faculty of Materials Science and Technology (MtF) is located in Trnava,approximately 30 miles (50km) from its parent campus in Bratislava. PUK shares resources withIndiana University Kokomo, a non

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industry cannot be supplied with a traditional algebra-based curriculum. Students Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationmust acquire a strong foundation (as defined in CROSSROADS [1], by AMATYC) inmathematics that must include statistics, modeling, functions, and problem solving.As we discussed the problem, we found we were not alone. As we discussed solutions to theproblem, we found there were many. However, there were some catalysts for change.3. Catalysts for Change3a. ScansThe 1991 report, What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000(http://www.stolaf.edu/stolaf/other/extend

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Rosalyn Hobson; Esther Hughes

Session 1432 Utilization of Active Collaborative Learning in Three Electrical Engineering Courses Rosalyn S. Hobson, Esther A. Hughes Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractEducational research has shown that students learn and retain information better when theeducational process includes active cooperative learning. As a result the face of the engineeringclassroom is changing to include more in-class and team activities allowing the students to take amore active role in their educational process. The use of teams not only enhances the

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John Brown; Patricia Click

Session 3661 Collaborative Learning About the Meaning of Professionalism Professors John K. Brown, Patricia C. Click Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication School of Engineering and Applied Science University of VirginiaIntroductionEngineering educators strive to promote a professional orientation among their undergraduates.The task is difficult, given the range of subjects and goals, both on and off campus, that crowdthe four-year curriculum. Yet the effort is extremely important, so much so that the ABETEngineering Criteria

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Michael Hailey; James Fridley; Jens Jorgensen; Ann Mescher

, organized, and readily available to those who need the information. This new Page 6.1076.2Virtual Project Management (VPM) [6] discipline requires development of additional skills, andthese, too, are learned chiefly through experience.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education”II The Future: CSCW and VPM ApplicationsA variety of collaborative tools are both available and utilized in the industrial setting, (e.g.,face-to-face meetings, video-conferences, tele-conferences, simple or sophisticated intranets,etc.) ranging from the very low

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

projects, are interdisciplinary andrequire faculty collaboration. At the same time, there is a perception that the only path to tenureis to create a unique and individual program. A study of the nature and organization of Page 6.272.1university-based U.S. engineering research, conducted by the Center for Technology Assessment Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationand Policy at Washington University in St. Louis in 1993 [2], found that many of the facultysurveyed “report being involved in

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period and as a result of the hard work of MSTCO instructors and students, wehave built a knowledge-sharing vehicle, our electronic campus, which is a real, living,continuously evolving knowledge asset that promotes graduate student growth, collaboration,and development.It is hoped that sharing information with you about this program, what makes it work, and what Page 6.274.6theories, methods, and environments are employed will help you as you formulate ways to Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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

collaborators and have all taught as adjunct faculty. Finally, funded programs will helpraise the profile of BSU nationally and internationally, and can create a more diverse studentbody (including international students) at BSU.For all of the above reasons, the Engineering faculty members have been strongly encouraged topursue research activities, especially focussing on the training of the graduate students in cuttingedge applications. External funding from federal, state, companies and venture capital funding Page 6.275.6“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2001

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Luiz DaSilva

Session 1658 Large-scale Synchronous/Asynchronous Collaborative Distributed Learning in a Graduate-Level Computer Engineering Course Luiz A. DaSilva Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Alexandria, VA 22314 USAAbstractRecent advances in telecommunications and network technology, increasing demand forcontinuing education for industry professionals, and the general mobility and geographicdistribution of the population are forcing major changes in both synchronous and asynchronousgraduate education. This paper describes the author's

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

andeconomically disadvantaged students. The first phase of the project has been a success. Theblimp with the instrumented payload has been flown over the UMES Campus to a height of 500feet. The acquired images are currently being analyzed. Subsequent launches for the blimp arescheduled to be at UMES agricultural fields and the Wallops Flight Facility of NASA. Page 6.1075.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionThe term “Remote Sensing” is attributed to the collection of information

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Mark Rajai; Mel Mendelson

Session 2793 Inter-University Team Collaboration to Design and Market a New Product Mark Rajai, Mel Mendelson East Tennessee State University/Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a joint effort between engineering students from East Tennessee StateUniversity and business students from Loyola Marymount University to design and market asophisticated global monitoring system to monitor location of children, Alzheimer patients andother valuable items. This project was funded by grant from NCIIA and was part of a two-capstone courses developed to introduce engineering students and business

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, product analysis, and facility layout1. Ten to twelvefunctional teams are formed to provide a means for students who are responsible for the samefunctional area to work together. Each student is a member of two functional teams. Page 6.546.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationPortions of the required analyses in the DIS class are subcontracted to two other IE classes and aMechanical Engineering (ME) class, as shown in Table 1. Overviews of the collaborations followin sections IV through

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Sutharin Pathomvanich; Fazil Najafi

different nations closer together.Bibliography1. Dahms, Holger. International Study Course (ISC) in Communications Engineering: Agreement between FHLubeck (FHL) and Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). Global Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.2.(1998) : 209-212.2. URL: http://www.uncep.org/ABOUT.html; The University of North Carolina Exchange Program. Viewed onDecember 4, 2000.3. Devon, Richard, Hager, Wayne, Lesenne, Jacques, & Pauwels, Jean-Francois. An International Collaboration inEngineering and Technology Education. Global of Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.2. (1998) : 57-64.4. URL: http://www.po.metu.edu.tr/IRO/Exchange.html; Middle East Technical University International RelationsOffice. Viewed on December 7, 2000.5. URL

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Eli Fromm; Jack McGourty

Session 3530 Measuring Culture Change in Engineering Education Eli Fromm, Drexel University Jack McGourty, Columbia UniversityI. IntroductionThe reform movement in engineering education is providing several lessons in culture changewithin the academic setting. From the development of interdisciplinary curricula to the newfocus on outcomes-based assessment, faculty, administration, students, alumni, and parents areexperiencing the push and pull of these changes. This paper focuses on the need to clearly definethe intended institutional outcomes. The process of developing culture change

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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

Session 2460 Engineering Education & International Management Initiatives Arthur Gerstenfeld, Maria F. Flores Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Worcester, MassachusettsAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe a project, which has been in work for the past two years,which we believe, has several implications for education. This project has been partially fundedby the Department of Education, Business and International Education Division. While we allagree that the economic and technical world is smaller and closer every day, we do not agree onhow we should handle that in terms of educating

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Nicholas Cain; Julia McLees; Jason Bara; Gary Wnek; Bradford Crosby; Gary Huvard

project, determine what Brad and Nicklearned, establish how their activities epitomize active and collaborative learning, and reportsome transcript data which, at least anecdotally, demonstrate the impact such activities can haveon your students. While money is usually the primary motivation for students to get involved,the educational benefits will, hopefully, draw some of you into advisory roles and help us realizeour long-term goal of helping to create ChemEngine “franchises” at other universities.In a remarkable series of recent papers 1-6, Felder, Rugarcia, Stice, and Woods have created aroadmap for the renewal of engineering education. Summarizing and reviewing most, if not all,of the relevant references from education literature over the

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Scott von Laven; X. Qian; A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

computational science activities through student scholarships, studentinternships, student work study, collaborative research projects involving Oak Ridge NationalLab (ORNL) scientists, and research proposal submission. The program promotes research andeducation relative to computational science and high performance computing. It broadens theresearch and educational capability at AAMU in a manner consistent with our overall growth insponsored research and with the teaching mission of the University. Page 6.540.4 Proceedings of the 2001American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Martin Morris; Fred Fry

Session 1552 Coupling Engineering and Entrepreneurship Education through Formula SAE Martin Morris, Fred Fry Bradley UniversityAbstractTeams of mechanical engineering students design, build, and race a Formula SAE car as theirsenior project assignment. Upon completion, the car is entered in a national competition. Theoverall task is to create a prototype racecar and to develop a business strategy capable of buildingfour production cars per day. A team of entrepreneurship students simultaneously had theassignment to create a

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John Martin; Mohammed Haque

Session 2793 The Continuum of Distance Learning in Engineering Education John W. Martin, Ed.D., M.B.A., Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E. Texas A&M UniversityAbstractDistance education has rapidly emerged in the global university. The American Council ofEducation estimated that 85 percent of traditional colleges and universities offered, or soonwould offer distance accessible classes. China alone produces more than 100,000 graduates, withmore than half of China’s 92,000 engineering and technology graduates having attained theirdegrees through distance education. As engineering education

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William Callen; Steven Usselman

Session 2793 History in Engineering Education: A Field Report W. Russell Callen, Steven W. Usselman School of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ School of History, Technology and Society Georgia Institute of Technology This is a paper about history in engineering education, not about the history of engineering education. Still, it isuseful at the start to take the historian’s perspective and to remember that curriculum reform has been a recurrenttheme of modern engineering education ever

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Hamid Khan

Session 2248 The Medical Theory of Engineering and Technology Education Hamid Khan Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 ahkhan@tech.purdue.edu “Problem solving in general, whether it is used to solve mathematical problems at the schoollevel, or in serious research that may lead to major (medical) breakthroughs, or simply to solveproblems we encounter during our daily lives, is an indispensable skill that every well-educated personshould acquire. There are some gifted people who

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Teacher Certification degree pro-gram, and 3) Professional Development through Engineering Applications for current teachers. 1) Integrating Engineering into Teacher Education focuses on developing a collaborative model of teacher education where faculty within the College of Engineering, the School of Technology, and the Department of Education at Michigan Tech develop and deliver courses suitable for future K-12 teachers. The goal here is to introduce preservice teachers across dis- ciplines to engineering concepts and the engineering problem solving method. For this thrust area a two tiered approach will be used. First, a new course titled “Engineering Applications in Math and Science

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education“The Program in Integrated Science and Technology (ISAT) educates students forpositions that are often filled by graduates of the traditional sciences, engineering, andbusiness programs. The ISAT graduate, however, is professionally prepared in a broadersense. ISAT students are educated to be technological problem solvers, communicators,and life-long learners. They are unique in having • breadth of knowledge and skills across a variety of scientific and technological disciplines; • formal training in collaborative and leadership methods, problem-solving techniques from many disciplines, and use of the computer as a problem-solving tool; • the ability to

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William Jemison; James Schaffer; William Hornfeck

Session 3630 The Role of Undergraduate Research in Engineering Education W. D. Jemison, W. A. Hornfeck, J. P. Schaffer Division of Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042AbstractThe establishment of formal research programs for undergraduate engineering students isone way to encourage critical thinking, life-long learning, and the pursuit of graduateeducation. This paper discusses issues associated with the participation ofundergraduates in engineering research, and describes the highly successful and firmlyestablished

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Paul Chinowsky

– Not Business As Usual, ASCE Journal of Management inEngineering, 16(6), 29-33 (2000).6 Russell, Jeffrey S., Stouffer, Brewer, and Walesh, Stuart G., The First Professional Degree: A HistoricOpportunity, ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 126(2), 54-63 (2000).PAUL S. CHINOWSKYPaul S. Chinowsky is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at GeorgiaTech. Professor Chinowsky is currently conducting research in two areas; the management of organizations in theAEC industry and the role of virtual teams in engineering collaboration. In the management area, Dr. Chinowskyhas published the book entitled, “Strategic Corporate Management in Engineering,” that introduces