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Peter W. de Graaf; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

Session 2532 Evaluating and Improving Students’ Technical Presentation Skills Peter W. de Graaf, Cameron H. G. Wright Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Air Force Academy, CO Thad B. Welch Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Abstract Faculty members in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy have been experimenting with methods to evaluate and improve our

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Phillip Farrington; Mel Adams; Mary Spann; Dawn R. Utley

Session number: 2242 ASSESSING THE TRAINING OF TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS MOVING INTO MANAGEMENT Dawn R. Utley, Mel Adams, Mary S. Spann, Phillip A. Farrington University of Alabama in HuntsvilleIntroduction Even undergraduate engineering students want to become managers. In fact,statistics indicate that the career aspirations of 50% of all engineering students includemoving into a management position within 5 years of their graduation 1. Moving from atechnical professional to a tech-manager requires a different skills set. Technicalprofessionals are required to be task-centered specialists while managers are asked to

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Sohail Anwar; Paula Ford

Session 2548 Teaching Technical Communications to Engineering Technology Students: A Case Study Approach Paula Ford, Sohail Anwar The Pennsylvania State University—Altoona CollegeAbstractOne alternative to a long term-paper assignment in a technical writing course is the short memo.Engineering technology students enrolled in Ms. Ford’s sections of Technical Writing, English202C, at Penn State University—Altoona College are required to write a number of memos andshort reports in response to case studies. These case studies are designed to approximate thetypes of writing

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Michael Lee; Charles Sampson; Ingrid St. Omer

achieve great heights in this male domineering field. One day, I have a dream to make an impact on this society as well as to my race in the area of science and engineering. At Opening Session, I met the seventh Secretary of Energy, Hazel R. O’Leary. The keynote speaker was Dr. Mae Jemison. Both of these women gave me inspiration to continue on in a tough field such as engineering.Impact of Technical Sessions & Graduate School ExposureAnother common theme expressed in the student responses was a change in attitude towards Page 4.384.8their academic life in general and the possibility of a graduate degree. Students seemed

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John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

Session 3530 Effective Strategies to Motivate Engineering Students to Develop Their Technical Writing Skills Ann Peck, John E. Nydahl, Colin K. Keeney Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Department of English University of WyomingAbstractMany engineering students have a real aversion to writing-intensive assignments. This paperdiscusses several curriculum changes incorporated in a mechanical engineering program todemonstrate just how vital communication skills are in an engineering environment

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Howard A. Smolleck; Nadipuram Prasad; Barbara Powell; Bhargava Jayanti; Shakir Manshad; Sashadry Divakaria; Paul Arellanes

Session 1620 A SOFTWARE LEARNING TOOL FOR VECTOR AND COMPLEX-NUMBER FUNDAMENTALS: TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT Howard A. Smolleck, Nadipuram R. Prasad, Barbara Powell, Bhargava Jayanti, Shakir Manshad, Sashadry Divakarla, Paul Arellanes Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Mexico State UniversityAbstractWorking under a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF/ATE)grant, the authors have been involved for two years in the development of graphical, interactivesoftware for use by students in Engineering and Technology

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Ernest M. Kim

at the University of SanDiego was made beginning in the Spring 1992 semester. The vehicle chosen is a course taughtby the Electrical Engineering program for non-engineering and non-science/math majorsentitled, "Engineering 2 - Introduction to Electro-Technology" which is taught every Springsemester. This new technology course is unique in that it fulfills the General Education PhysicalScience requirement for non-engineering and non-science/math majors. The goal of Engineering2 are:1. Provide an additional opportunity for General Education study in science and technology in the liberal arts curriculum which develops the foundation sciences necessary to understand the nation of fundamental technical applications.2. Integrate the scientific

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James N. Peterson; Herbert Hess

, Ben Seitz, Gary Harwood,and Cesar Salire. Their technical paper on the topic is reference [1]. The College of Forestry,Wildlife, and Range Sciences (CFWRS) at the University of Idaho funded this project. Dr.Edwin Krumpe, Professor of Wildlife and Recreation Management represented the CFWRS.The photograph shown in Figure 3 was purchased from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News,Pullman, Washington.Bibliography[1] B. Seitz, C. Salire, G. Harwood, J. Peterson, and H. Hess, "Taylor Ranch Micro-Hydroelectric Generation System," Proceedings of the 30th North American Power Symposium, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 October 1998, pp. 7-13.[2] B. Seitz, C. Salire, and G. Harwood, "A Feasibility Study for Installing a Hydroelectric Generating Facility at Taylor

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Emma Torbert; Eleanor Abrams; David Bourgeois; Carmela Amato-Wierda; Anneliese Mueller; Christopher F. Bauer

Session 2253 A Laboratory-Driven General Chemistry Course for Engineering and Physical Science Majors Carmela Amato-Wierda, Christopher F. Bauer, Eleanor Abrams*, David Bourgeois, Anneliese Mueller*, and Emma Torbert Departments of Chemistry and Education*, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824AbstractA laboratory-driven General Chemistry course for engineering and physical science majors hasbeen implemented at the University of New Hampshire. The centerpiece of this effort is thedevelopment of Chemprojects. Chemprojects are three-week long

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Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

. Page 4.247.2 Table 1. Academic institutions (controlled by the Ministry of National Education) involved in engineering education in the fields CS, CR, EE and ET academic institution fields of study University of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow CS, CR, EE, ET Bialystok Technical University CS, CR, EE, ET Cracow University of Technology CR, EE Czestochowa Technical University CS, EE Technical University of Gdansk CS, CR, EE, ET Koszalin Technical University CS, CR, ET Lublin Technical University

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James A. Jacobs

Session 0564 A Workshop on Experiments in Materials Engineering and Technology From NEW:Update 98 James A. Jacobs School of Science and Technology Norfolk State UniversityThe experiments demonstrated at this workshop resulted from the National Educators’Workshop:Update 98 - Experiments in Engineering Materials, Science and Technology(NEW:Update 98). The workshop was held in New York, on November 1 - 4, 1998 and hosted byBrookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University and University of

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Ronald E. Barr

distributed to all engineering, technology, and two-year collegefaculty who are identified as teaching Engineering Design Graphics. It will also be distributed to allengineering and technology deans. It is expected that the information and details contained in the finalMonograph will be seminal and will spawn the next generation of EDG textbooks and other class materialfor the 21st Century.Preliminary PlanningEnthusiasm and support for this project was demonstrated by the convening of a pre-proposal planningmeeting. The planning session was held on July 30, 1998 in Austin, Texas in conjunction with theopening of the 8th International Conference on Engineering Computer Graphics and DescriptiveGeometry. Sixteen EDG faculty members attended this pre

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

Session 2515 Innovative Master’s Degree in a Professional Program Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractThe American Society of Civil Engineers has directed the Society’s Educational ActivitiesCommittee to develop a policy for the first professional degree in civil engineering. Twodegrees, the Master of Engineering (ME) and the Master of Engineering Management (MEM),are recommended as programs which may satisfy the criteria for the first professional degree.The ME can, in general, be considered a technically oriented program without a researchcomponent. The MEM has

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Nadia A. Basaly

pinpoints some of the important exercises that could serve as good tools for the open mind thinking. Page 4.181.25. A team work concept where students learn how to work in groups, as well as individuals.3. Developing the required competencies To provide students with skill building through workshops, it is important to define what weneed to foresee in our students upon graduation from high school. This can be represented bydeveloping a number of competencies that deal with basic practical engineering life [1]. Examples ofcompetency fields (e.g., technical, physical laws, etc.) and competency objectives are listed below:1

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Timothy A. Paull; J. Michael Jacob; Robert J. Herrick

manuallygraded homework.I. General BackgroundAll students entering Electrical Engineering Technology at West Lafayette and each ofthe five Purdue State Wide Technology locations take EET 107, Introduction to CircuitAnalysis, the first semester. It lays the technical and instructional foundation for a tightlyintegrated series of six courses, involving at least twelve faculty across the state. Itestablishes the foundation of information and expectations upon which all remainingcourses rely. Students must finish with a high level of knowledge, good work habits, self-confidence and an excitement for the material. Failure often means that the studentdecides to leave both the department and the university. For these reasons it is paramountthat every effort be

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Mary S. Bonhomme; Edward R. Alef; Edward G. Borbely

Session 2322 Developing Product and Manufacturing Integration Engineers: Integrating Graduate Education, Training, and Managed Job Assignments into a Strategic Career Path Edward R. Alef, Mary S. Bonhomme, Edward G. Borbely General Motors Corporation/Purdue University/University of MichiganAbstractThis paper describes two separate but interrelated learning programs that integrate advancededucation and training into a twelve-year experiential learning process. One program is inintegrated product (vehicle) engineering and another in integrated manufacturing engineering.The objective of these programs is to

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

Session-2547 Industrial Partnership for the Enhancement of Engineering Technology Education Saleh M. Sbenaty Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractPreparing and increasing the number of technology students in order to meet demands in the 21stcentury through industry-based case studies curriculum development approach is one of thegoals of a two-year National Science Foundation, NSF, grant titled “Tennessee ExemplaryFaculty for Advanced Technology Education, TEFATE.” A coalition of five teams, each ishosted by a two-year technical college and includes

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John Hoover; Arnold F. Johnson

Session 1380 DREAMS: Strengthening Math and Science for Native American Students with Disabilities Arnold F. Johnson, John H. Hoover University of North DakotaAbstractThe Disability Research Encompassing American Indians in Mathematics and Science(DREAMS) project was designed to facilitate the entry of Native American students withdisabilities into science and technical careers. Students, their teachers, and family members attendtwo summer institutes annually where university faculty and a core planning team design andimplement hands-on, integrated science

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William E. DeWitt; William J. Hutzel; Timothy L. Skvarenina

electricalsystems.Introduction Facilities engineering is becoming an important career option for students in the PurdueSchool of Technology. The continuing boom in industrial and commercial construction, alongwith an increased emphasis on energy efficiency, has helped create a strong demand fortechnicians and engineers who manage mechanical and electrical equipment in moderncommercial buildings. In fact, the Office of Manpower Studies within the School of Technologyprojects that facilities engineering will be one of the fastest growing technical careers over thenext ten years.1 Figure 1 illustrates the technical skills needed by today’s facility engineer.2 Althoughmechanical and electrical skills are essential, the distinction between the two is

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Zenaida O. Keil; Robert P. Hesketh; James A. Newell; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater

car.They were also given unlimited freedom to design and build their cars, provided that they usedonly the above materials, plus whatever they needed from a large stockpile of general materialsof construction, including 1/4 inch foam core, assorted balsa wood, steel and brass tubing andwire, wooden wheels of various sizes, rubber bands, adhesives, paints, clear plastic sheet, etc.As with most novice designers, the young scholars were anxious to begin construction right fromthe start. However, they were instructed that the best designer is the one who puts his or herideas down on paper, refines them, and then efficiently builds what has been designed. Thus, thefirst three sessions were devoted to placing the design on paper. When the young scholars

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

andprogramming, manufacturing, andelectrical/electronics are taught by a team of facultymembers from school system, community college,and WSU. In our first phase, a group of 12 teachersparticipated in pilot setting of a two week summersession at WSU. This paper shares the curriculumcomponents, teachers’ learning, laboratory setting,teacher perceptions of technical curricula, andlessons learned. Additionally, this brief reportidentifies and compares outcomes of this enrichment Page 4.537.1activity for middle school teachers and counselors. 1 The Southeast Michigan Alliance for

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William Daughton

Page 4.11.1underlying concepts and principles during the course of the program. Ideally, lessons learnedcould be applied on the job soon after their introduction.Based on the issues highlighted above, the program’s guiding principles can be summarized as:• A primary focus on engineers preparing for early management assignments• A rich mix of relevant management theory and practices• Flexibility and portability to meet the work and personal demands on students• A format that effectively engages remote students• An opportunity to include a technical area of emphasis associated with the manager’s functional area• A provision for an original research project on a management topicProgram ModelThe model of the program is shown in Figure 1. This

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Voula Georgopoulos; Constantinos Vassiliadia; Brian Manhire

. In addition to general information, an example program is discussed andinformation on accreditation is provided. Section 4 deals with employment of engineers inGreece, section 5 with women engineers, section 6 with graduate studies and section 7 is thepaper’s summary.2. Educational SystemIn Greece the educational system is as follows: Kindergarten, elementary school consisting ofsix grades, Gymnasium (equivalent to Junior High school consisting of three grades), andLyceum (equivalent to High School consisting of three grades). Lyceum graduates can thentake national entrance exams to enter institutions of higher learning. These includeUniversities, Technical Educational Institutes (TEI), and Military Colleges, all of which arepublic. In

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Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

manufacturers’ catalogs and data sheets.In addition to developing design skills and familiarity with a wide body of biomedical relatedtechnical knowledge, an important goal of the course was to develop the communication skills ofthe students. The activities directed towards these activities included weekly progress reports tothe instructors and clients, a midterm oral presentation along with a written status assessment,and a final poster session with oral presentation, and a written final report.The weekly reports were intended to provide an update of the team’s progress, identify anyparticular difficulties (technical, group dynamics, gathering information, facilities, etc.) that thegroup was having, provide an updated schedule, and identify plans for

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Marcus Huggans; Nystrom Hal

engineering management we struggle with the wide breadth of material that our students areexpected to learn, and new material is continuously identified as key to their education. Howeverwe are constrained by market forces to limit the length of our degree programs. We, aseducators, have several options: 1) reduce the depth of the material we cover, 2) eliminate someof our core material, 3) ignore some of the new material or 4) find methods to improve thelearning the effectiveness of our students’ learning. Other fields of engineering education as wellas technical training programs face similar pressures to improve learning effectiveness.However, there are opportunities to make some of these needed improvements

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T. Scott; John P. O'Connell

mechanical/aerospace engineering and inchemical engineering. We find that though some of the content such as material conservation,work/energy concepts, chemical reactions, ideal gases, etc. are covered in these courses, studentsview the treatments in markedly different ways. Unlike the other courses, most students findengineering thermodynamics very difficult and confusing. We suggest there are several reasonsfor this. 1. The basic thermodynamics principles are set down in a few general laws first. Fromthese, the student is expected to master the technique of going from the general to the particular,that is, to understand the general laws well enough to decide which terms do or do not apply tospecific problems and to use his or her own

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Lawrence B. Korta

presented to the sponsoring technical group and appropriate management personnel addition of interactive sessions on subjects of creativity and innovation…especially focusing attention on the value of deferred judgement, and both individual and group ideation techniques increased attention on developing an understanding of group dynamics and team behavior…including the use of group behavior assessment instruments more effective utilization of visiting faculty MSOE students involved as full participants, with the opportunity to subsequently study at Czech Technical University the following semesterAll recommendations were accepted and, despite some challenges, fully implemented. The

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Badrul H. Chowdhury

time. The main reason isthat a PV array exists on campus. Some of the technical issues with wind will be similar to PVbecause both produce intermittent power. Hence the discussion in this paper is equallyapplicable to other DR types, which produce dc electricity and need to have a dc/ac inverter forinterconnection with the power grid.2. Lab setup A schematic of the laboratory setup for performing the experiments is shown in Fig. 1.The power from DR feeds into the distribution line represented by the variable resistance andreactance. The flexibility of placement of the DR system on any part of the feeder is indicatedby repeated drawings of the same at different locations on the diagram. The ac generation side isrepresented by the motor

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Paul Seaburg; Patricia S. Brown

without the encouragementof the academic AE Departments, the students may not be convinced of the need to participate inprofessional activities throughout their careers.Building on the strength of the AED, the national technical committees of AEI are beingencouraged to expand their membership and activities. These national committees conduct theirwork through periodic meetings, conference calls and E-mail. The results advance the state-of-the-practice by producing publications and informative technical sessions at national conventions.The start-up of the AEI has been a success. The membership of the two organizations combinedwas slightly over 900 on October 1, 1998. Within 5 months, the membership grew to over 2100.As the groups put into place

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Sallie (Lee) Townsend; Howard A. Canistraro

4.442.2II. Mechanical Engineering Technology - The Balance Between MET Courses and General University CoursesIn order to make most technology programs viable, as well as any university major, courses fromboth within the major as well as from the greater university must compose the curriculum.Typically, there are a minimum number of dedicated courses for a given major that must beoffered in order to give the major a sense of “identity”. These core courses are also critical interms of ABET accreditation. As an example, the MET curriculum offered at Ward College isshown in Table 1. It can be seen that there are 10 required MET courses constituting 32 credithours, along with 12 credits of technical courses which may either come from within the