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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

Session No: 2793 THE GENESIS OF A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIVE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE PROPOSAL Carol Davis Turtle Mountain Community College G. Padmanabhan, Robert Pieri, Wei Lin, Floyd Patterson, Sharon Cobb North Dakota State UniversityAbstractA proposal for a collaborative educational initiative between the five tribal colleges in NorthDakota and the North Dakota State University was funded ($1.27M) recently by the Office ofNaval Research. The initiative is aimed at increasing the

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Nizar Al-Holou; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

Session 1526Beyond the Initial NSF-ILI Grant - Planning for the SubsequentDevelopment Ece Yaprak Wayne State University yaprak@eng.wayne.edu Lisa Anneberg Lawrence Technological University Anneberg@ltu.edu Nizar Al-Holou University of Detroit-Mercy Alholoun@udmercy.eduAbstractIn 1996, Wayne State University’s Division of Engineering Technology was awardedNSF ILI grant for

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Hakan Gurocak

Session 2663 Initial Steps Towards Distance Delivery of a Manufacturing Automation Laboratory Course by Combining the Internet and an Interactive TV System Hakan Gurocak Manufacturing Engineering Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686Abstract: In this paper a new approach for distance delivery of an upper divisionManufacturing Automation laboratory course is presented. The enabling technology is thecombination of an

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Stephen Simms; Jane M. Fraser

thatmuch of the first two years of engineering education occurs outside engineering, in math,physics, chemistry, and English. Paradoxically perhaps, we believe that qualitativeresults may speak more forcefully to our colleagues in these predominantly quantitativefields. We believe the qualitative research methods will give us ways to approach ourcolleagues with solid evidence on what engineering students are actually experiencing,learning, feeling, and thinking in those initial classes. We believe that this evidence willnot match what those professors believe is happening in their classes.We undertook this investigation of qualitative research methods in order to be able to usesolid methods in tackling our “why” questions. We hoped that and have

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

research & student mentoring, 3) industry collaboration, 4)outreach, and, 5) assessment. This paper describes the curriculum development strategy andexpected major outcomes.I. BackgroundThe University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Diagram 1. Project Model(UPRM) has established, through NASAGrant number NCC5-340, the Partnership The “Learning Factory”Conceptfor Spatial and Computational Research An outcomes-based, student centered initiative(PaSCoR). The main goal of this 5-yearproject is to strengthen academic programs Curriculum PaSCoRand integrate

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Robert J Niewoehner; Joshua Filbey

Session 292 Using the TetrUSS CFD Suite in Undergraduate Research CDR Robert Niewoehner, USN ENS Joshua Filbey, USNR United States Naval AcademyAbstractWith the growth in computational power and the availability of maturing software,Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is crossing the threshold from a specialized discipline to awidely accessible tool. Specifically, the difficulty of the enabling mathematics and the challengeof mastering the available codes has heretofore restricted substantial application of CFD tograduate studies, or

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P. K. Mallick

characteristics. There is a great need foremphasizing interaction between material science, design and processing. Application-orientedcourses and research, such as the ones described here, seem to be more appropriate for theautomotive industry of the future.This paper describes first the graduate degree program in automotive systems engineering,followed by the curriculum in automotive materials and how it is integrated in the graduateprogram on automotive systems engineering. The automotive materials program is part of theCenter for Lightweight Automotive Materials and Proceessing, which was established in 1998with funding from the US Department of Energy under the auspices of the Graduate AutomotiveTechnology Education (GATE) initiative

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Sima Parisay

Session 2257 Multimedia and Assessment Techniques in an Operations Research Course Sima Parisay California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper discusses the implementation of multimedia, and its effect on the learning process, inan Operations Research course. WebCT, a World Wide Web course tool, was used for thecourse web site. Web technology was applied extensively in the form of video lectures (thatwere streaming), course web pages, discussion board, email, and Internet search. Students wererequired to prepare an extensive

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Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

Session 3551 Using Research Projects to Enhance Environmental Engineering Laboratory Course Victor F. Medina, Valarie Akerson Washington State University, Tri-Cities Nina Wang Merrimac SystemsAbstractThe current paper describes a qualitative research study of an Environmental EngineeringLaboratory Course taught to a group of graduate students in the Spring of 1999. Thecourse structure was changed from a traditional mode of instruction to a project-basedcourse that allowed students to design and carry out a

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Steve Picker; Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan; Christina Weigand; Amy Chen

ones. Discuss the findings.• By utilizing the findings obtained by other groups at different operating conditions, perform the following:I. Analyze the effect of yeast type, substrate initial concentration, cell initial concentration onthe ethanol and CO2 production, cell growth and kinetics parameters.II. Design a large-scale fermentor for ethanol production. This includes identification of therequired equipment and process engineering components and their specifications.RemarksA biochemical experiment to produce clean fuel via the ethanol fermentation process has beendeveloped and tested at a very reasonable cost by undergraduate students as research projectssupervised by the laboratory instructor and the laboratory technical assistant

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Pierre Chauvet; Gilbert A. Chauvet

Session PhysioLAB edu : An Interactive, Modeling and Simulation System for Learning and Research in Biomedicine Gilbert A. Chauvet1,2 and Pierre Chauvet3 1 IBT, Fac. Médecine, 10 rue A. Boquel, 49100 Angers, France / 2 BME, Univ. South. Calif., Los Angeles CA 90089, USA 3 / Inst. de Math. Appl., UCO, rue Rabelais, 49000 Angers; France)Abstract:PhysioLAB edu is an educational and research tool that provides numerical experiments within a simulationsystem. It uses simulations of

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Sohail Anwar

undergraduate research program on theacademic progress of the participating minority students is described.I. IntroductionAs described by Chickamenahalli & Barker1, Madler 2, and Kitto3, initiatives have been taken bymany universities and colleges in the past few years to improve participation of undergraduatestudents in research. Also, many educational institutions have increased their efforts to involveundergraduate minority students in research projects. The undergraduate research opportunitieshelp both the faculty and the students. Students involved in research get valuable researchexperience and the opportunity to publish papers. Faculty members participating inundergraduate research programs get valuable research work done. The undergraduate

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Nora Valeiras; Luis A. Godoy

Session 2793 A Strategy for Faculty Enhancement Related to Scientific Publications Luis A. Godoy, B. Nora Valeiras Department of Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, PR 00681-9041 / Department of Science and Technology Education, FCEFyN, National University of Cordoba, ArgentinaAbstractThis paper reports on an initiative to strengthen the research activities of engineeringfaculty at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. As a specific objective the projectattempts to improve the number and quality of publications in peer-reviewed journals byyoung

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

their importantrole in society. Sustained U.S. technological progress is directly linked with the nation’s policy for graduateeducation of its creative professional engineers. The lack of a coherent national policy to support the advancedprofessional education of the nation’s engineering leaders in industry has hindered U.S. competitiveness. The U.S.civilian technology policy and its supporting graduate education system were initially devised in 1945. This policywas based upon a linear research-driven model of technology innovation, wherein academic research would begenerated at the nation’s top research universities through public funding and the results would be transferred forexploitation and commercialization in industry. After four decades

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Albert B. Grubbs; Michael R. Kozak

, indicate a near drasticshortage of Engineering Technology faculty for four-year colleges and universities. As a result,some institutions are "solving" this problem by requiring only a masters degree - knowing thatmost individuals who posses only a masters degree have not completed a thesis - and, in manysituations, are expecting these people to compete in a university’s research-dominatedenvironment. For those graduates that enter or remain in industry, degree requirements that arebased solely on completion of courses without the requirement for the student to conduct andreport on a meaningful applications-oriented project may result in graduates that are notrepresentative of the mission of engineering technology. A possible solution is to require

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

commitment translated into matching funds from the University in the grant budget. 3. Request that ITT select areas of applied research with direct application to the weather satellite instruments built in Fort Wayne. 4. Involve faculty from Electrical Engineering to show collaboration between departments. 5. Find the best faculty members for the areas of applied research chosen by ITT 6. Rewrite and proofread the application until it was flawless. 7. Submit the application in a timely manner.To meet these goals, cooperation and assistance from ITT managers was required. In late1995, one ITT manager took the initiative and determined the most promising areas ofresearch by requesting

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

. Page 5.407.2The intent of the program is to prepare the students for faster acclimation and initial success inany industry-like environment upon graduation. By creating an environment where studentssupport each other in classes and research outside their academic background field, they learnhow to reach a common goal a part of a diverse team. They view the success of all the group’smembers as important as their own individual success.This talk will present the activities implemented at program start-up, with a discussion ofeffectiveness of each activity after completion of the first three semesters of operation.II. Student recruitmentThe program was initiated late in the spring 98 recruiting season, forcing the recruiting effort tobe

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Sam Wanis; Erian Armanios

conducting a thorough literature surveyon what had been done related to acoustic levitation and positioning. This search turned up overa hundred Patents, and a large number of technical papers3. The abstracts of all these were read,and several contacts were initiated with authors and researchers in the field. The search showedthat the idea of forming whole walls, and the behavior of large numbers of arbitrarily shapedparticles, remained unknown, as did the effects of using audible-frequency sound sources ofrelatively low power. In this phase, obviously, the advisor had to play a major role in Page 5.78.2summarizing for the

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William J. Craft; Sunil Shenoy; Ronald Bolick; Ajit D. Kelkar; Devdas M. Pai

are light, cheap, and so energy absorbent that they will revolutionize commonground transportation systems.NC A&T State University has a number of grants involving research into impactdamage including impact behavior of sandwich structures. The authors feel thatthis research is sufficiently mature and important so that impact experimentsshould be added to our laboratory sequence within the department. Researchinvestigations of these materials in our labs involve static and dynamic testingincluding shear testing or impact testing, and it is relatively simple to include theimportant attributes of impact testing as a laboratory experiment. Motivatingfactors for us in developing new impact experiments include:• providing our students with

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Richard Felder

. Mentorships are most likely to succeed if someone in the college or departmentoversees them, reminding pairs to meet regularly and arranging a joint meeting of all pairs once asemester to broaden the networking.One approach to mentoring is to assign one mentor to assist the new faculty member in allaspects of professional development in the first year. Another approach is to assign each newfaculty member one mentor for research and another for teaching. 8 The research mentorship isbuilt around joint projects. The mentor initially takes the lead, showing the mentee how toidentify funding sources, write proposals, supervise graduate students and publish results, andthe mentee gradually assumes an increasing amount of responsibility. After 1–2 years

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Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

included one or two participantsfrom outside Civil Engineering, such as Engineering and Public Policy or the Heinz School ofPublic Administration, and one or two part-time students. While the majority of the graduatestudents would be classified as focusing on Engineering Planning and Management, students arealso drawn from the other disciplines offered, namely Environmental Engineering, ComputerAided Engineering, and Computational Mechanics. The course has also served as a core coursefor the National Science Foundation funded Graduate Research Traineeships “IntegratingScience, Technology and Management in Global Civil Infrastructure Systems.”The parent of this course is a course initiated in the Department of Civil Engineering atMassachusetts

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Therese A. Mylan; Ravi K. Ghai; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary E. Rafe; Bopaya Bidanda

database in thefollowing section. As objects are added to the VRML scene graph hierarchy using the ExternalAuthoring Interface (EAI),12 the identity and behavior parameters of objects participating in thesimulation are recorded. Objects that have no behaviors associated with a particular exercisescene are rendered in that scene statically. Figure 5 depicts the distributed virtual laboratory’sVRML scene viewer and Java applet running within the Netscape Communicator browserfollowing its initialization. Page 5.213.5 Figure 5 Virtual laboratory VRML scene and Java applet panelOne of our research objectives considers the measurement

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Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

of on-line resources by the incoming freshman andthe incoming graduate student. Freshmen, in this initial assessment, tend to embrace newmethods of learning, while graduate students may only use it when necessary to clarifyinformation from textbooks and other traditional sources of learning. Further study is underwayto assess this, as well as to assess the most positive utilization of ADL in the classroomenvironment.VII. Bibliography1. Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time", Bantam Books, 1996, p.191.2. "Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education". Report of a Workshop, National Research Council, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering

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Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

with professionals in the field. In this initiative,real-time statistical process control data is being continuously collected on the factoryfloor. Once it is collected it is automatically transferred from the production facility toGVSU via the Internet for use in a statistical process control course. The data is updatedon a daily basis and is continuously available to students for analysis purposes. Thispaper describes the experiences of the authors and their students with this approach overa period of two years. The authors will discuss how student projects were utilizedthroughout the semester and how a plant tour (at the beginning of the semester) was setup and leveraged throughout the course.Good data is a critical need of an applied

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Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

Senior clinicsprovide the opportunity for the most ambitious part of our project-intensive curriculum: team projectsemploying modern technologies that tie together many engineering and scientific principles.Institutions that have similarly named engineering "clinics" are Harvey Mudd College and CaliforniaState Polytechnic Univ. Pomona [Ann95]. Our .flexible clinic model allows departmental andinterdepartmental initiatives that to satisfy programmatic and faculty/student/university developmentneeds. We plan an ambitious project taking a leading-edge technology such as membrane processesand using it as the focal point of curricular innovation in the College of Engineering. We will involveteams of engineering students in process research

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

percentages of the undergraduate population are first generationcollege students. Their personal and family aspirations are to get a baccalaureate degree and finda good job. Many of these students know very little about graduate school as a career option. Infact, often they have many misperceptions and incorrect information about attending graduateschool.In an effort to determine why students choose to go graduate school, a survey was developed andcirculated to graduate students in engineering at Michigan Tech. This paper summarizes theseresults, and gives some of the initiatives that the authors have used in an effort to recruitadditional students in the graduate program at Michigan Tech.I. IntroductionAs universities make more and more partnerships

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Duane L. Abata

, Project Management: A Critical Area of Study for Engineering and Engineering Technology Students, proceedings, Annual conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 1998. Page 5.343.6DUANE ABATADuane L. Abata is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity. He is also the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Propulsion which is a graduate andundergraduate center focused on engine research and curriculum development. Dr. Abata served in administration forseveral years before returning to the department to initiate ICAP. Dr. Abata is a

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Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

. This collaborative initiative wasvoluntarily undertaken by these educators to maximise their teaching effectiveness in order tominimise first year undergraduate transitional issues. Therefore, this paper seeks to promotethe strengths of this alternative approach to professional development in relation to theimplementation of a common first year civil engineering subject ENG1201.2.The short comings of linear professional development.As the need to address the effectiveness of learning and teaching has become a nationalconcern, The Monash Learning and Teaching Operational Plan [1] has been created toredirect academic staff to personally assess their current teaching practices in conjunctionwith the professional development short courses

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

coordinators. In addition to his initial invitation, the dean delivers a welcome message to new faculty to begin the workshop, and continues to participate in workshop events throughout the day and a half. Additionally, the associate deans of undergraduate studies and graduate studies and research also participate in workshop activities. Of course this not only lends credibility to the activity but provides an important opportunity for new faculty to interact with these key college players.• As previously described, the workshop is coordinated and primarily delivered by directors of two teaching and learning oriented centers in the college of engineering. These individuals bring a combined set of qualifications that

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Athula Kulatunga

Session 2647 Creating a Successful Academic-Industry Partnership with Industry: Southeast Missouri State University’s Experience Athula Kulatunga, Ph.D., CEM Southeast Missouri State UniversityAbstractPartnerships between academia and industry can be beneficial to both parties in many ways.Through such partnerships, new experiential learning opportunities for students can be initiated,professional development opportunities for faculty can be enhanced, and new technologies canbe introduced to area industries and students. This paper discusses how to initiate university-industry