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Samuel S. Lee; R. Narasimhan; M. Lewis Temares

and teaching schedules were closelycoordinated to ensure that students were provided with proper mathematics background for physics lectures. Totrain students to work in teams and to enhance leadership, homework assignments were worked out by studentsin groups of four and students took turns serving as leader. Each leader met weekly with the instructor andwould convey the results of this discussion to team members.3) Technical Writing/ English In the first semester, this course reviews the fundamentals of English grammar and composition, with anemphasis on analysis of text, basic scientific research, and the evaluation and presentation of argument andevidence. Recognizing the intimate connection between distinguished academic writing

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Scott Grenquist

and Technological Education, Vol. 11, Number 2, Pp. 141-56,(1 993) 4. Dickason, Donald G., Predicting the Success of Frdnnan Engineers, Personnel Guidance .lournal, Vol 47, Number 1 (), pp. 1008-1014, (1969) 5. .lagacinski, Carolym M. j I.eEk)ld, William K., A Comparison of Mcn and Women Undm-graduate and Professional Engineers, Engineering Education, Vol. Number 3, pp. 213-20, (December 1981) 6. Wollman, Wan-en; Lawrcnz, Frances, Identi@ing Potential “Dropouts” from College Physics Classes, .louma] of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 21, Number 4, pp. 385-90, (April 1984) Biographical Information Scott Grenquist is a tenured professor in

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Winston F. Erevelles

grant DUE-94511778. He acknowledges with thanks the work of Kimberlee Holtz, MichaelJohnson, and Joel Bollinger through their independent study projects. He is also thankful for the work investedby Brent Friday - Senior Lab Technician, and college work study students Shelly Russo, Abe Hartman, HughShadeed, Joel Bollinger, and Chris Freeman.Biography Dr. Winston Erevelles is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at GMIEngineering & Management Institute. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of CIM, Robotics,and Manufacturing Systems. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, India, andM.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolls. He

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is often a fragmentedcurriculum in need of more focus and cohesion. Even so, little regard was given to creating a methodology forengineering curriculum development until after World War II. Since that time, several curriculum design methods have been developed. As yet there is no universalagreement on a methodology for curriculum innovation or renewal, and in fact there is significant variation inopinion as to what constitutes a good curriculum. One reason for this lack of a universal methodology is thelarge number of constraints involved in developing any particular engineering curriculum (e.g., budget, facilities,identification of employer needs, and available faculty time), and effects of these constraints are almost certainto be

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T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

, resonant cavity enhanced photonic devices, and near-fieldscanning optical microscopy and spectroscopy. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of OSA.MICHAEL F. RUANE: [BEE (1969) Villanova University; SMEE (1972) and PhD (1980) MIT]teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in fiber optics, lasers, and communications. His researchaddresses magneto-optic data storage systems. He’s a senior member of IEEE, and a member of OSA andSPIE.BENNETT B GOLDBERG: [BA (1982) Harvard College; MS (1984) and PhD (1987) Brown Uni-versity] is an Associate Professor of Physics and also Electrical Engineering, His current research interestsinclude low- and room-temperature near-field scanning optical microscopy and spectroscopy in semicon-ductors and biological

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Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; John E. Gastineau; Ernest E. Burniston

Session 1261 TEAM-TEACHING IN AN INTEGRATED FRESHMAN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Richard M. Felder, Leonhard E. Bernold, Ernest E. Burniston, Philip R. Dail, John E. Gastineau North Carolina State University An integrated freshman engineering curriculum called IMPEC (for Integrated Mathematics, Physics,Engineering, and Chemistry Curriculum) is currently being pilot-tested at North Carolina State Universityunder the sponsorship of the NSF SUCCEED Coalition. In each semester, the students take a calculuscourse, a science course (chemistry in the first

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Forrest S. Keeler; Dr. Mihir K. Das

created an innovative graduate program in Systems Engineering (SE). Themain objective of this SE program is to offer to selected graduate engineers already employed in indust~ aMaster’s Degree curriculum which can significantly enhance their understanding of disciplines directly related totheir own assignments, increase their worth, and enhance their perilormance in the U. S. industry marketplaceusing up-to-date SE related disciplines and skills. Introduction A key issue of high industrial and national importance is the identification and translation ofsophisticated, state-of-the-art system techniques from independent research and isolated complex militaryprograms to university research, to

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa; Enno 'Ed' Koehn; J. G. P. Andrade; E. Luvizzoto Jr.

and undergraduate students. Older professors are watching this-movement with apprehension since they think the students may miss the physical sense of hydraulic phenomena.On the other hand there are new professors who have been following the most recent advances concerned withthe applications of computers to hydraulics, from the computational hydraulics stage up to the so-calledhydroitiormatics phase. Engineering courses usually have good computational support (hardware) fordeveloping research and teaching computational hydraulics. But there are few commercial packages (software).available for the teaching of hydraulics. Page

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actual workshop a year hence.References1. Barbara E. Biernat, “What Steps can Universities Take to Improve the Quality of Construction Education”, submitted to the James L. Allhands Essay Competition of the AGC Education and Research Foundation, 31 October, 1994.2. K.C. Womack, L. R. Anderson, M.W. Smith and K.A. Gorder, “A Teaching Workshop for Engineering Faculty”, Journal of Engineering Education, October, 1994, Appendix B. Page 1.427.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference ProceedingsAuthor BiographiesAll three authors are currently teaching in the Department of Civil & Mechanical

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Arvind Ramanathan

Session 2309 Teaching biomedical engineering in a nonspecialized engineering department: an integrated approach Arvind Ramanathan Department of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711Abstract The engineering department at Harvey Mudd College offers unspecialized Bachelor’s and Master’sdegrees in engineering. However, an engineering major may choose to emphasize a particular engineeringspecialty by an appropriate choice of three elective courses and two Engineering Clinic projects. Over the lastfew years, the department has witnessed a significant increase in

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Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

;: I those tvyo are increasingly becoming a necessity to convey the material effectively and to make the courses mor~ifit;resting to a student body with diverse skills and interests. This knowledge is especially necessary to attract into engineering majors those capable students who would not otherwise choose an engineering major. In this paper, an introductory course on manufacturing systems, tailored for a non-engineering student body, is proposed as a solution for addressing the needs mentioned above. The innovative design of this course along with the details of its ongoing development are discussed in this paper. 2. THE NEED FOR FOCUSING ON TEACHING AND LEARNING

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Manon Bourgeois; Gilbert Drouin

.: . The equivalent full-time graduate enrollment in engineering increased regularly since 1994 but dropped from859.39 students in fall 1993 to 835.83 students in fall 1994, As for the situation regarding the rate of degrees awarded, it does not seem much more brighter. Certainly, therate of degrees awarded in fust cycle studies is more stable: the students study fill-time and have a more structuredand supervised development, which allows them to finish their studies in an almost identical lapse of time (9trimesters). But the situation is not the same for research master or doctorate students: many of them abandonduring their studies, those who persevere take a lot longer time than is desirable to obtain their degree. In fact, theevolution of

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Innovative Techniques for Freshmen (0630)

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Mark A. Palmer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John B. Hudson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

organizing the materialso it can be presented by faculty teaching outside their area of expertise. We will presentresults of a one-year pilot program in which we have adopted the interactive format in thepresentation of our introductory course sequence in Chemistry of Materials. We will discusscourse content, student performance, student satisfaction with the course, and the facultyexperience compared to the traditional course. In addition, the in-class demonstrations andteam-oriented student exercises developed will be reviewed.IntroductionChemistry of Materials Background In the School of Engineering at Rensselaer, all students follow a common pre-engineering curriculum for the Freshman and Sophomore years. This curriculum includescourses in

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anticipated that upperclassmajors in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and in chemistry and physics will find the coursecontent complementary to their required core curricula.Anticipated BenefitsIt is anticipated that the two-quarter course sequence described here will enhance significantly the exposure ofundergraduate students to important areas within the field of materials processing. The concurrent exposureto research results and industrial practice in the five areas cited is expected to spawn increased student interestin this important area of materials technology. Thus, potential for career paths in materials processing shouldincrease - consistent with the manpower needs identified in the NRC report (1).Exporting the CoursesA

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university departments such as Education, Physics,Curriculum and Instruction, and the Office of Cultural Diversity, and also by a consultant from themanufacturing industry. The insight and the input provided by these consultants have been valuable forimproving the course.6. CONCLUSIONS In this poster session, the details of an innovative course on manufacturing systems that gives non-engineering students an opportunity to learn, appreciate, and understand the role manufacturing plays in today’ssociety and the potential it has for career opportunities was discussed. The course has been innovativelydesigned to accommodate the different learning styles of students and teaching styles of instructors. This courseis currently being offered as a

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William H. Tranter; Theodore S. Rappaport; Jeffrey H. Reed; Donna M. Krizman; Brian D. Woerner

an unprecedented demand for trainedelectrical engineers with the expertise to design and deploy new wireless communications services,encompassing the high growth areas of cellular telephone, personal communications, paging services, andwireless local area networks. The project described in this paper teams electrical engineering faculty fromVirginia Tech’s Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) and from the University of Missouri-Rolla to develop an innovative communications curriculum which draws from current research on radiosignal propagation modeling, computer-aided design and simulation of wireless communication systems, anddigital signal processing techniques to improve the performance and spectral efficiency of wireless

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W.E. Bair; P. Ng; D.M. Halsmer

’: . Conclusions Educational and research goals can be accomplished simultaneously by utilizing teams of undergraduateengineering students from multiple disciplines to conduct “real-world” engineering research and developmentprojects under the direction of faculty advisors. The development of an experimental apparatus to simulate thedynamics and control of spinning rockets at the Oral Roberts University Engineering and Physics Department isan example of such a project. Subsystem engineering of the spacecraft model, sphericaJ air bearing, and attitude tracking systems aresynthesized to complete the first phase of development. At this stage, students gain enhanced understanding ofthe torque free motion of a body in space through demonstrations

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David F. Ollis; Ann Brown

Session 1 2 6 1 Team Teaching: A Freshman Engineering Rhetoric and Laboratory Ann B r o w n ( C o l l e g e o f E n g i n e e r i n g W r i t i n g A s s i s t a n c e P r o g r a m ) and David F. Ollis (Chemical Engineering) North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Abstract Team teaching usually involves the back-and-forth trading of lecturing between two instructors. The present example illustrates a looser side- by-side collaboration consisting of a first year rhetoric, based upon readings, poetry, and videos in technology, literature and history, and a “hands-on” laboratory centered around consumer

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John Collura; David E. Kaufman

largest toll road agency. His research has beeninstrumental in the development of evaluation guidelines to assess advanced public transportationoperational tests and in the assessment of implementation issues encountered in the design and installation ofelectronic payments systems on U.S. transit systems. Page 1.264.10 1996 ASEE Annual Conference ProceedingsDAVID E. KAUFMAN, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University ofMassachusetts, teaches in the Industrial Engineering/Operations Research area. He conducts research intothe dynamic aspects of route guidance and

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Bryan Pfaffenberger; Susan Carlson-Skalak; John P. O'Connell; Timothy P. Scott; Mark A. Shields

. communication with a variety of engineering practitioners, self-discovery, and research skills.• Individual/Team Effectiveness After taking In teams of four, students were asked to TCC101, students will understand why some extensively research one of the fields of teams work well--and why others don't. They engineering offered at SEAS; to interview upper will know how to diagnose faulty small group class students, teaching and research faculty, and processes and take steps to remedy them. practicing professionals in this field; to identify the current

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T.C. Young; S.E. Powers; Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

and Environmental Engineering, ClarksonUniversity, where he has been a faculty member since completing his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in1977. His teaching and research interests are in environmental engineering and address topics related to thetransport and fate of pollutants in aquatic systems.SUSAN E. POWERS received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (1983) and M.S. in Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (1985) from Clarkson University. After two years as a project engineer with Engineering Sciencein Syracuse, NY, she completed the Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (1992) at the University ofMichigan. In 1992, Dr. Powers became an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering atClarkson University.ANTHONY G. COLLINS is

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Monroe L. Weber-Shirk; Leonard W. Lion

and specifications of the software. References MONROE L. WEBER-SHIRK is an instructor at Cornell University in the School of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering. He teaches courses in environmental engineering and in hydraulic engineering. Hecreates software for instrument control and data acquisition for research and teaching applications. His researchis on particle transport and attachment to surfaces in engineered and natural systems.LEONARD W. LION is a Professor at Cornell University in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He teaches graduate classes in water chemistry and physical/chemical processes and an introductory environmental engineering class. His research

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Dan Budny

articles on topics such as “small grouplearning, effectively teaching large lecture courses, computers in the classroom, incorporating advising into theclassroom, etc., and should be able to produce at least two conference publications per year. Thus, by the end ofyour fifth year, you should have at least 10 conference publications and 2 journal articles directly related to yourresearch area of improving undergraduate engineering education. As you present your work at variousconferences, your status should create the opportunity for you to get invited to give lectures on teaching atvarious universities or conferences, this data should be listed in section B.2. After you get your classesorganized, you will have time to begin a small research

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Paul Tidwell; Greg Walker

Session 2655 Self-Teaching College Teaching Greg Walker, Paul Tidwell Virginia Tech Abstract Preparing graduate students for a career in academia has become a substantial concern amongcollege educators. A new professor must obtain funding, develop a research program and publish to beawarded tenure. Furthermore, effective teaching techniques should be acquired before embarking on aprofessorate position, While some schools have begun to develop programs to train their graduates forcareers in

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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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Lucian P. Fabiano

. The reader should note that Table 1 does not identify all the work activities normally associated with an engineering project. There are other work activities which exist that are not show (eg. integration test of hardware and software, test equipment design, physical design, etc.) . RESOURCE AND SCHEDULE ESTIMATING: Once a WBS is created it can be used as the basis for continued project planning. The WBS only identifies project work to be done and project deliverables. It does not define the required resources to do the work or when the work must begin and end (i. e. its schedule) . The next steps in the planning process are, associated with achieving

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L. F. Borjón; F. Martín del Campo

particular demands for a specific program, not incurricula neither in facilities. For this reason, a Mexican bachelors degree is not recognized automatically bythe USA or Canada, meaning that the Mexican professional is requested to pass through a group ofprofessional examinations in order to be recognized at these countries. As has been previously discussed, NAFTA establishes the need of an evaluation and accreditationsystem for engineering programs that is reliable for the three NAFTA countries Counting on the support of theNational Association of Faculties and Engineering Schools in Mexico (ANFEI) and the Ministry of PublicEducation (SEP), the Council of Accreditation for Teaching Engineering (CACEI, Consejo para laAcreditación y la

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Leah H. Jamieson; Henry G. Dietz; Edward J. Coyle

has initiated a new program called EPICS:Engineering Projects in Community Service2. Under the EPICS program, students earn academic credit forlong-term, team projects that solve technology-based problems for local community service agencies. Each EPICS project team consists of seven to ten engineering students. The teams are verticallyintegrated - each is a mix of sophomores, juniors and seniors - and a student can participate in a project for upto three years. The continuity provided by this structure allows projects to last for many years. Projects ofsignificant size and impact are thus possible. The goals of the EPICS program include: providing students with multi-year, team-based, design anddevelopment experience; teaching

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Karl F. Meyer; Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

one-weekworkshop for engineering educators who want to be better teachers. * The teaching methodology described in this paper is used extensively by faculty members in theDepartment of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy. The methodologypredates both of the authors’ experience at West Point and, indeed, may trace its origins to the earliest years ofthe Academy’s existence. Though it can hardly be considered new or innovative, the technique is both effectiveand flexible. It has been used successfully throughout the civil and mechanical engineering curricula, fromsophomore-level engineering mechanics courses to senior level design courses. It is highly structured, yet easilyadaptable to the needs of

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planning concepts in a classroomsetting. In addition, the company has benefited from the students’ assistance in developing new products. This isdefined as the teaching factory approach, which has been successfully utilized with start-up companies in Japanand more recently in the United States [21. Over the last 6 years, Eco Tech has performed research in preseming fruits and vegetables for up to 6 months without spoiling. The process has been patented under the name of pressure j-esh technology B]. This process was jointly researched with universities under a Phase I small business imovative research (SBIR) grant H. In order to prepare for a Phase II grant, a technology plan was required for commercializing the pressurefresh technology