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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Liezl Van Dyk

outside the classroom have to be integrated into the body of information for each course. Traditionally, the primary data-capturing device during lectures is pen and paper. The limitations of this data capturing are obvious. A system is proposed13 that uses ubiquitous computing technology in order to create a classroom that Page 7.498.3 automatically captures much of the rich detail of a lecture experience. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education2.2

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

topics. Faculty activities do little to encourage development and use of theseskills to improve engineering education.1.3 Engineering Education AdvancesIt is unfair to contend that no trends in engineering education have sought to recognize thechanging requirements for those in engineering practice. The recognition of the desperate needfor change has been a prominent topic in recent engineering education literature. Attempts toconsider the systems approach have led to attempts at course integration; and increasing use ofinformation technology has introduced new teaching methods and allowed students access tosoftware used in practice.Integration is primarily visible in the form of capstone senior design projects common in mostengineering schools

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh

Session 3460Redefining Engineering Education Methods Using New Technologies Bahman S. Motlagh, A. Rahrooh, Nick Safai University of Central Florida/University of Central Florida/Salt Lake City CollegeI. IntroductionAs our global community increases its utilization of new technologies in the distributionand acquisition of knowledge and information, new paradigms in engineering andtechnology education emerge. Engineering education’s traditional standards, methods andeducational models must be reassessed in order to proactively address future needs in thetraining of engineers and technologists.A successful engineering education model must

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ribando

program. Over the last 15 years he has played a very active role in the development of the Page 7.1275.6infrastructure for making use of technology in instruction at the University. The work reported here wasbegun under the University of Virginia’s Teaching + Technology Initiative faculty fellowship program.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3430TIMOTHY C. SCOTTTimothy C. Scott is Instructional Laboratory Director and an

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Marketing Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathy Franck; George Sehi; Surinder Jain

IMAGE & MARKETING OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: A Follow-up to A National Agenda for the Future of Engineering Technician Education (Funded by National Science Foundation Grant, NSF 99 – 53) George H. Sehi, Kathy L. Franck, Surinder M. Jain Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street, Dayton, OH 45402-1460The Engineering and Industrial Technology Division of Sinclair Community College (Dayton,Ohio) administered a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) from January 1, 1995through December 31, 1996. The grant project sponsored a workshop at Sinclair CommunityCollege held on October 26 - 28, 1995 to

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Marcellus; Omar Ghrayeb

presentation of problem solving. Smartclassroom presentation is suited to transmission of basic facts and information. The classroomexperience of students is very different for the two types of instruction. The relative benefits ofthe two types of instruction depend strongly on the students’ learning preferences and personalcircumstances.1. IntroductionRecently, the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Northern IllinoisUniversity equipped four classrooms with audio-visual systems that allow display ofvideocassettes, paper documents, Internet pages, and interaction with commonly used softwaresuch as Microsoft Office. These classrooms are called “smart classrooms,” multimedia lecturehalls, or electronic classrooms. Their purpose is to

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

Session 3557 The Virtual Industrial System: A Tool for Learning Production Planning Concepts and Techniques Uanny M. Brens Garcia, Douglas A. Bodner, Spyros A. Reveliotis, Chen Zhou, Jane C. Ammons, Marc Goetschalckx, T. Govindaraj, Paul M. Griffin, Leon F. McGinnis and Gunter P. Sharp Keck Virtual Factory Lab · School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology1. IntroductionRecent advances in technology have enabled greater use of computational tools within theundergraduate engineering curriculum, changing the

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

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H. Oner Yurtseven

Society for Engineering Education the institution. Engineering technology faculty members need to ensure that in-class performance is documented through student evaluations of the course and instructor, as well as peer evaluations of classroom teaching ², which has to be performed periodically. Engineering technology faculty members have the challenge of following the rapid changes engineering, science and technology and bring the knowledge of these changes to the classroom. This results in continuously changing course content as well as using new technologies such as the Internet in their teaching. For example, faculty members can, therefore, become coordinators

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Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Albert Koller

, Contact: EdVenture Partners, 510.653.8585, Institute of Computer Technology.”Hosting the FutureA nation’s success in any economic sector is directly related to the strength of itseducational system, and the aerospace industry is no exception. To address the need forskilled technicians and to spur student interest and motivation to study, CommunityColleges for Innovative Technology Transfer (CCITT) has prepared a proposal toestablish SpaceTEC, a national aerospace science Technical Education Center ofExcellence under the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technical Education(ATE) Program.There is wide interest in space activities, especially among young people, and the appealof space can be used to stimulate interest in many subject

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

Programming ToolsThe authors have used most of these software packages reviewed above in theirresearch and also in their classroom teaching. The professional copies of some of thesesoftware packages are expensive and require annual maintenance fee for licensing.This paper will describe the following three PC based graphical programming toolsused by the authors in their electrical engineering technology courses. These packageswere donated to the college for classroom usage.1. STK of AGI Inc.2. SignalPro of EDX Inc.3. System View of Elanix Inc.Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Riesbeck; Joseph Walsh

learning in well defined tasks by encouragingdeeper reflections by the student. We have used SASK to build the Dialysis Mentor, a programthat uses Socratic questioning to improve student performance and learning in an undergraduatebiomedical engineering lab. Small usability tests and a pilot run in a dialysis lab suggests thatDialysis Mentor and SASK systems in general can improve the value of pre-defined learn-by-doing task experiences. We are now working on improving our SASK Mentors 1 and buildingauthoring tools for them.KeywordsLearning Technologies, Rule-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Socratic Tutoring, Inquiry-Based Education, Advanced Classroom Technologies, Interactive Learning Environments,Improving Classroom Teaching, Human-Computer

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Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”LabView Internet Development Toolkit (www.ni.com). This technology allows students theopportunity to view the virtual instrument displays in real-time and have the ability to interactwith the experiment. The first experiment to be developed was based on a SpectraQuestvibration simulator. Faults in the system were detected and diagnosed using data basedtechniques taught in the class.4.0 RESULTS:The newly offered distance education programs are in demand by nuclear engineeringprofessionals. The distance students enjoy the convenience and flexibility offered by theCyberClass delivery system. In fact, the University of Tennessee was selected by Knolls AtomicPower Laboratory (KAPL) to be their

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Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

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Carlos Sun

Page 7.334.1the transportation engineering process. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The goal in the use of instructional technology is to enhance both the teachinginfrastructure and instructional techniques and to help achieve greater depth. Morespecifically, one goal is to help students consider complete pictures of transportationareas instead of isolated snapshots. Traditionally, the introductory transportationengineering course utilizes only homework problems and not projects. The hypothesis isthat students will gain greater depth and appreciation for transportation areas if they workon

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Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz; Cathy Maltbie

the first year of the study.Results to be reported are based on data from a sample of more than 400 students.Preliminary indications are that the use of streaming video and interactive video mayimprove student performance among personality preferences and learning styles that are Page 7.764.1less common among students in most engineering classes.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionSociety has long searched for ways to improve learning and to increase teachingefficiency. What learning style and technology have

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Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Smith; Adam Siurek; Jamie Workman

and will be tested in full scale in the fall of 2002.MET 141MET 141 is a freshman level, Introduction to Materials course taken by students within theMechanical Engineering Technology (MET) and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Page 7.411.1Technology (CIMT) programs. As with many courses within the MET and CIMT programs, “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction to Materials has a laboratory component associated with it. The goal of thelaboratory experiments is to supplement and

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Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Chris Randell; Marty Bowe; John Feland; Daniel Jensen

Session 2125 A STUDY OF RAPID PROTOTYPING FOR USE IN UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN EDUCATION Daniel Jensen*, Chris Randell, John Feland, Martin Bowe * Department of Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force Academy Department of Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force Academy Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford Univ. Director of Technology, Perry School District, Canton OHABSTRACTDevelopment and use of rapid prototyping (RP) has drastically expanded in the last 10years. Although use of the technology has been predominately focused in industry,academic use has become somewhat

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Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

Session 1615 “Powerful Play: Using Toys as Tools in Engineering Education”AbstractAs engineering education has changed to reflect less of a traditional teacher-centered classroomand more of a learner-centered environment, new instructional methodologies have also evolved.Many of these curricular modifications look startlingly different from traditional engineeringeducation at first glance; however, a closer look reveals that some curricular modifications areable to glean the substance of the traditional lecture, mix it up with some learner-based,collaborative, hands-on activities, and integrate the new mandates for technical communicationand

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

, active and collaborativelearning are not widely used in technical programs. For these and other reasons, manyengineering and technology students often find themselves frustrated and sometimes lose interestin pursuing such degrees. The present paper outlines a creative approach to curriculumdevelopment and delivery that is designed to improve engineering and technology education andto bring real-world problems to the classroom. In fact, this is one objective of the three-yearNSF-funded grant ($1.8 million) entitled “The South-East Advanced Technological EducationConsortium, SEATEC.” The consortium is a collaborative effort of five institutions acrossTennessee. Each team at the host institution includes multi-disciplinary faculties

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Cooper; Wayne Burleson; Ken Watts; Santhosh Thampuran

-processing, and storage devices drop in price and become increasinglywidespread, there has been increasing interest in their use in developing asynchronous, distance-based education software and content.. While there are numerous commercial and public domainsystems being used for such purposes, there is little reported data on how students actually usesuch systems. Moreover, with the continuous, rapid change in technology comes a continuous, Page 7.171.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Hartman; Louis Plebani

was devoted to discussion of the World Wide Web, how the web works, how browsersfetch and display pages, and the various standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium. As Page 7.1082.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfor all the topics discussed in the course, the Internet accessible resources were used as thetextbook.CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): After basic HTML, advanced HTML discussion concentrated onstyles. Styles define how HTML elements are displayed and are normally saved in

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Willie Ross; Denise Jackson

information,including software packages that are available for nominal fees – some of which are free. Thissoftware is referred to as shareware. Numerous shareware programs can be used for industrialengineering applications.This paper offers guidelines for selection and evaluation of shareware resources on the web foracademic use and interjection of these resources into the industrial engineering curriculum. Theobjective is to leverage the Internet and the interest students have in it to increase both theefficiency and effectiveness of the IE educational process.IntroductionThe Internet can be used or accessed almost anywhere on this planet. Although the Internet isknown as a great resource, it is not often used fully for educational purposes within

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Koen

the schedule of reinforcement used. Of the simpleschedules, the highest rate of behavior is generated by the variable ratio schedule (the one used bythe one-armed bandits in Las Vegas) and a low rate, by the fixed interval schedule (the one usedin most cases in education). Design of the learning environment so students learn in anyeducational situation is essentially determining the appropriate reinforcers, creating thecontingencies of reinforcement, and scheduling these reinforcers. See any good book onlearning theory such as those already cited or the programmed text 4 for a more detailed look atthis theory. Page 7.26.2 Proceedings of

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

that personal computers, laptops, multimedia, and other information technologieshave been considered in non-technical courses. Handheld computers represent the latestevolution of personal computing. Their low price and portability offer opportunities for learningactivities both in the class and outside of the class. We are actively exploring theseopportunities. We believe that handheld computing has a place in computer science andinformation technology education, and we are attempting to determine to what extent they shouldbe used and how they should be used. This paper discusses our ideas for using handheldcomputers in college education, our experiences in introducing handheld computing in computer-related courses, and the results of our

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Carter

Session 1647 A Successful Model for Web-Based Engineering Technology Education John W. (Jack) Carter University of North Carolina, Charlotte “How does one go about teaching a student to ski using the Internet as the only medium for training?” This is the question I first asked when the department of Engineering Technology, WilliamStates Lee College of Engineering, UNC Charlotte, made the commitment to make its upper-division baccalaureate degree programs in Fire Safety Engineering Technology and ElectricalEngineering

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Morel

require the students to construct sensors for the LEGO robot as well as program thesensors to complete a final problem-solving project. The short-term results include increasedinterest in the course objectives and graded assignments. Long-term results have yet to bemeasured but we are encouraged by both the students’ and instructors’ positive feedback.Introduction The United States Military Academy requires all incoming plebes (freshmen) to enroll inCS 105 – Introduction to Computing. This 40-lesson course provides an introduction to theprinciples of computing along with an overview and introduction to information technology (IT).The course has two objectives, which are accomplished using hands-on activities, group projects,and active

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kip Nygren

Teams in Academia," TheReview of Higher Education 22, no. 4 (1999).KIP NYGRENProfessor and Head of the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the US Military Academy since 1995,he has served on the faculty since 1987. He earned a PhD in Aerospace En gineering at Georgia Tech in 1986.Current interests include the interaction of technology and society, the history of technology, and engineeringeducation. Page 7.1049.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Fan Lau; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

on.Fuel Cell Optimization and ConstructionStudents were given a small prototype fuel cell for initial measurements. A simple microbialfuel cell developed by Bennetto (similar to that pictured in Figure 2) served as a prototype15. Thekit may be purchased from the University of Reading’s National Centre for BiotechnologyEducation (www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk) for GBP£40.00, or approximately US$57, per set. The kitrecommends but does not include all of the following materials: Page 7.270.4Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American

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Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn Berne

, quantum computing, cyber-intelligence and geneticengineering are examples of newly developing technologies that hold the potential to Page 7.529.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationradically alter the fundamental nature of human biological life. The quest for enhancedbrains, eradication of disease, and even the indefinite extension of human life, areactually imaginable today within the realm of technological ingenuity.To some, the uses of technology to transcend physical and mental limitations of

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ET ABET Pilot Visits Using TC2K

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

. However, it was time worth spending as it gave our new faculty group a chance to developa coherent EET program view. Another useful outcome was reaffirming the curriculum contentswith regional industry needs.By the end of the year, guidelines for TC2K self-study[2] were available from TAC of ABET. Itwas now becoming clear how much work remained to be accomplished. In addition to the self-study guidelines, representatives from each of our five Engineering Technology programs were Page 7.978.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

, are used today in computer software that requires improvement inthe event of an unexpected situation. The application of generic algorithms to active control ofstructural vibrations may provide safer structures that operate under uncertain environmentalconditions.Examples of Active Structural Control∗ Moby Dick ProjectProfessor Yukio Meada, Honorary Member of the International Association for Bridge andStructural Engineering (IABSE) considers that “Control Technology” is a critical discipline forstructural engineering6. He wrote: Page 7.497.5 Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and