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, (February, 1994).4. Sheron, S., Lecturer Envisions Art of Engineering, San Antonio Express-News, 6F, (Feb. 7, 2000).5. McCauley, L. “Learning 101”, Fast Company, 101-106, (October, 2000).6. De George, R.T., Ethical responsibilities of Engineers in Large Organizations: The Pinto Case. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 1,1, 1-14 (1981). Reprinted in Johnson, D. G., Ethical Issues in Engineering. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 175-186 (1991). Page 6.278.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for

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surveys, item concerns come to the forefront at the data analysis stage. Here, E-mailcorrespondence helped to identify and resolve issues well before they could become problems ofdata interpretation. Additionally, this means of communication appears to reduce tensions andincrease the willingness to respond among persons who aren’t fond of surveys in general or whowere frustrated by the nature of this survey in particular. Clayton and Werking (1998) asserted that “ . . . World Wide Web collection virtuallyeliminate[s] the traditional labor-intensive activities [of mail surveys]” (p. 556). We found that,although the nature of the work changed from that associated with traditional mailed surveys, oursurvey required significantly more

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Teach Engineering – T4E”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 1, 2000, pp. 31-384. Seymour, Elaine and Nancy M. Hewitt, Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 19975. http://www.asce.org/exceed6. Samples, Jerry W., Mark F. Costello, Christopher H. Conley, Thomas A. Lenox, and Stephen J. Ressler, “Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering: A Year Later”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19977. Samples, Jerry W., Anu Maria, Joseph W. Newkirk, Peter L. Silsbee, Valerie L. Young, and Bradford L. Snowden, “The Team Approach to Developing Baseline Teaching Skills”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19978. Wankat, Philip C and Frank S. Oreovicz

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Pomeranz, Shirley, “Some Observations for Teaching Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Conference and Exposition, Seattle.10 Hillsman, Vernon S., “Combining Finite Element Analysis Software with Mechanics of Materials,” Page 6.282.8 1994 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 2289-2292. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education11 Middleton, D.E.S., “Better Than Guessing the Stressing: Applications of the Finite Element Method in an Undergraduate Course,” in

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communities are important. Students who feel that they belong from the beginning are more likely to persist, even if the intervention terminates.3. Content of integrated programs, while important, does not have the impact that personal contact has. Faculty should think carefully about designing first-year programs. We learned that our expectations and our students’ expectations didn’t necessarily match.4. Resources spent up front to allow top faculty to teach and mentor first year students pay dividends in increased retention and overall satisfaction with the educational experience.AcknowledgementWe would like to thank the U. S. Department of Education FIPSE Program (Fund for theImprovement of Post-Secondary Education) and our program officer

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education of future engineering technologists, while attaining their own career goals, as well.Bibliography1. Technology Accreditation Commission, ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs(2000-2001)” URL http:/www.abet.org/tac/TAC_2000-01_Criteria.htm, November 1, 1999, 35 pp.2. Lipscomb, J.W. “The Benefits and Problems of Consulting as a Means of Faculty Development.” Journal ofEngineering Technology, Spring 1992. pp. 22-23.3. Pfile, R.E. and Conrad, W.R., “Bring Realism Into the Classroom Through Your Consulting,” Proceedings,ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1348 (1998).4. Qazi, S. and Ishaq, N., “Impact of Applied Research in Engineering Technology,” Proceedings, ASEE AnnualConference, Session 1348 (1998).5. Rose, A. “Role

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. 28-29 (1999).12. Knowles, M. S. The adult learner: a neglected species. Houston: Gulf Publishing Company Division. (1978)13. Dyrud, M. A. The third wave: a position paper. Business Communication Quarterly. 63 (3), pp. 81-93 (2000).14. Haque M.E. Web-based Visualization Techniques for Structural Design Education. Submitted for ASEE 2001 Annual Conference Presentation at New Mexico.15. Schank, R. "Basic Training" Chief Executive, 140 (16), pp. 54-57, (1998)16. Hall, M. Managing and motivating students performance in the university classroom. Journal of Construction Education. 2 (1), pp. 24-30 (1998).17. Conti, G. J. Identifying your teaching style. In M. W. Galbreath (Ed.), Adult learning methods (pp. 79-96). Malabar, Fl: Krieger

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financing. First year marketing expenses wereto be $114,500 with most of the expense going to magazines typically read by amateur racers.The price for the car was determined to be $12,000 with COGS of $8,500, giving a gross marginof $3,500 per unit. Break-even was projected for the seventh month.The form of business was determined to be a Subchapter S Corporation which provided the bestoptions for raising equity while limiting the liability of the owners and allowing pass through toinvestor's IRS 1040s. The management structure for the proposed company is shown inFigure 2. A total of 60 employees would be needed to produce the number of cars indicated. Figure 2: Company Management Structure

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

70 to 80% effectiveness. Additional work on outcomes assessment iscurrently in progress and will be reported in future work.Bibliography1. DeLancey, G. A unified and quantitative approach to assessment, Proceedings of the Fall Regional Conference of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, November 3 – 4, 2000.2. Preparing for ABET EC 2000: from curriculum mission to assessment planning. Report by Engineering Assessment Committee, Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998).3. Esche, S. K. & Hromin, D. J. An open approach to undergraduate laboratories. Enabling Engineering and Technology Education through Information Technology, Proceedings of the Fall

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Thomas Rich; James Baish

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographyForm and FunctionM. French, Invention and Evolution, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1994).D. Gartman, Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design. London: Routledge (1994).J. Kappraff, Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.(1991).M. Levy and M. Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., (1992).D’Arcy. Thompson, On Growth and Form, Canto Edition ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press(1961).S. Vogel, Life’s Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress (1988).Designing PeopleJ

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total learning during this period. The latterperiod of the lab period is used to complete the experimental objectives. Two instructors dividetheir time between the five workstations as the different experiments are being conducted.Formal reports are submitted for about half of the experiments while informal reports aresubmitted for the others. The reports are due two weeks after the experiment is completed. Thestudent grade is evaluated with the lecture portion counting 30% (10% for homework and 10%each for the midterm and the final exam), the laboratory portion counting 55% (42% for reports, Page 6.350.35% for oral presentation(s), and

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Engineering Educationfacilities for basics and laboratory portions of the courses, and lessons learned during andsince the renovation.3.1 Constraints of Available SpaceSpace designated for renovation consisted primarily of 6 rooms, each 22 ft by 63 ft, onone floor of one building. The current facilities, designed in the early 1960’s, would notmeet the needs of the new program. Having done pilot programs in computer classroomsconverted from Engineering Graphics instruction and having shared laboratory spacewith environmental engineering, the College recognized that a major renovation wasneeded.Early in project planning, the decision was made to use a section size for laboratory of 36students. Based on experience gained in a prototype lab facility

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access or conditional sequential access to a defined set of the LRM library. The professor controls when and how the LRM sets are made available to the student.The second project goal is to integrate the learning system into the department assessment plan.The currently accepted, two-loop pictorial best represents how Criteria 2000 functions within adepartment. The second loop assesses student learning in relation to defined outcomes.Departments then use these assessment results to determine how well they are meeting statedprogram goals and objectives in the primary loop. By linking the objectives of each LRM and itsassociated assessment(s) to an outcome, a major portion of the assessment process becomesautomated. The system should

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

challenge of mechanizing the process of removing the tailmeat fromboiled crawfish has seemingly been undertaken by comparatively few people. This couldbe due in part to the local nature of the crawfish industry. A possible hindrance to thedevelopment of a machine may have been the development of the automated shrimppeeling machine in the 1940’s (which, incidentally fuelled the rapid expansion of theshrimp peeling industry). Many, as evidenced by archival newspaper stories and U.S.patents, have mistakenly believed that the techniques so successfully used to peel shrimpcould be used to peel crawfish. However, this is not the case since the exoskeletons of thetwo species are held to the tailmeat by very different mechanisms. While the

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= (3) µV where, G: velocity gradient, (sec-1) P: power input to the fluid, (N-m/sec) V: volume of tank, (m3) µ : viscosity of the fluid, (Kg/m-s) Flocculation tests have shown that intense mixing (e.g., high velocity gradients), also knownas rapid mixing (used in coagulation), can greatly reduce the efficiency of the flocculationprocess. These tests have also shown that in addition to velocity gradient, the efficiency of theprocess depends on the overall residence time and the configuration of the tank. These Page 6.375.6conclusions could lead one to believe

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Session 1608 Development of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, R. Guardiola, and T. J. Brumm Iowa State University/Iowa State University/ Development Dimensions, International/Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe opening paragraphs of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 state: “To be considered foraccreditation, engineering programs must prepare graduates for the practice of engineering at theprofessional level.” Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment, states, “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that

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William Clark; Lisa Comparini; Anthony Dixon; David DiBiasio

is a great advantage compared tomany other methods. The next challenge is to use the results to improve the learning process.AknowledgementsThe project was funded by the U. S. Dept. of Education (FIPSE) under grant numberP116B60511. Page 6.993.7Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Clark, W.M., DiBiasio, D., and Dixon, A. G., "A Project-based, Spiral Curriculum for Introductory Courses in Chemical Engineering: I. Curriculum Design", Chem. Eng. Ed., v. 34(3), 222-228 (2000).2. Dixon, A.G

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, decision, implementation, and confirmation) usually occurs in "a time-orderedsequence."4 The nine members assembled for the panel on enabling and sustaining engineeringeducation innovation seem to be firmly established in the implementation stage and bordering onthe confirmation stage. This observation may be applicable to the state of current engineeringeducation in this country; the Foundation’s current investigation of engineering education maycontribute empirical evidence to support this observation.Bibliography1. Rogers, E. M., Diffusions of innovations, 4th ed. New York: The Free Press (1995), 11.2. Sheppard, S. D., and Silva, M. K., Taking stock--A study of engineering education at the end of the twentiethcentury and beyond (in progress

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

amenable to significant change in this regard.Bibliography1. Fournier-Bonilla, S., Watson, K., Malavé, C., Froyd, J. "Managing Curricula Change in Engineering atTexas A&M University," International Journal of Engineering Education, to appearPRUDENCE MERTONPrudence Merton is a qualitative researcher and adult educator with Peace Corps training experience. Ms.Merton has a Masters of Science degree in Horticulture from Texas A&M University and is currentlyworking on her dissertation in Adult Education that she plans to complete by December 2001.CAROLYN CLARKM. Carolyn Clark is an associate professor of adult education at Texas A&M University. She received herdoctorate in adult education from the University of Georgia in 1991. Her research

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discussed subsequently.Bibliography1. Sims, R., “Usability and Learning in on-Line Environments, A Case Study of Interactive Encounters”, retrieved from http://www.unb.ca/wwwdev/naweb2k/papers/simspaper/html in November, 20002. enter the Merlot web address3. Baylor, A., “Cognitive Strategies for Training with Technology”, TechTrends, 44(5), p 13-15.4. Rodenburg, D., “Web-based Learning: Extending the Paradigm”, retrieved from http://horizon.unc.edu/TS.commentary/1999-11.asp in October, 2000.5. Smaldo, S., “Instructional Design”, TechTrends, 43(5), p 9-13.6. Williams, M., Distance Learning: the Essential Guide, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 19997. Ubell, R., “Engineers turn to e-learning”, IEEE Spectrum, October, 2000, p 59-63REBECCA

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. But it does not guarantee that the listener will be able tomanage differences in culture.One completely bilingual and bicultural middle manager at a U. S.-owned multinationalhealth care products manufacturing plant in Costa Rica, provided an example of howmisinterpretation occurs even when local personnel speak English. At his plant, Englishis a prerequisite for employment as a manager. In a training session for middlemanagers regarding a new product, the native English-speaking trainer from theheadquarters in the U.S. gave instructions to the group to take apart a product beforereassembling it with new components. The bilingual-bicultural participant was able to dothe task easily, but not one of the others could. The problem was that

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P. Watta; N. Narasimhamurthi; Adnan Shaout

. 5 References [1] Z. Nababi, (1993). VHDL, Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems, McGraw- Hill. [2] S. Yalamanchili, (1998). VHDL Starters Guide, Prentice Hall. [3] D. E. Ott and T. J. Wilderotter, (1994). A designers Guide to VHDL Synthesis, Kluwer Academic. [4] J. D. Carpinelli, (1993). "Bridging the Gap between Digital Circuits and Page 6.457.12 Microprocessors", IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 36, No. 3, 334 - 339. 12[5] G. Brown, N. Vrana, (1995). "A Computer Architecture Laboratory Course Using Programmable Logic", IEEE Transaction on Education, Vol. 38, No

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Joseph J. Delfino

agriculturalpractices to reduce non-point source loading to receiving waters; (p) implement pollutionprevention strategies in production facilities; (q) reduce water consumption byencouraging conservation and reuse; ( r ) improve flood control and flood protection; and(s) work toward implementing international integrated water resources management.This list could go on and on, but it serves to illustrate the extent of environmentalengineering involvement that will be necessary in just one region of the world as it seeksto implement its Water Vision.3. Engineering Education and the World Water VisionThe World Water Vision can succeed through the efforts of thousands of individualsthroughout the world working toward the common goal of insuring water security

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encouraged to add their own rules to the list, as well assome of the key relations and equations that they find valuable in estimation (e.g.,Bernoulli's equation). Some Material Properties Density thermal Viscosity Heat Melting tensile Elasticity Thermal (kg/m3) conductivity (m2/s) capacity temperature strength modulus expansion (W/mK) (J/kg) (K) (Mpa)AirWaterSteelAluminumConcretePlasticNotes: Viscosity is very sensitive to temperature; both concrete and plastic can have widely varying properities§ An apple weighs a

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freshman engineering program and has published numerous articles onengineering education. She was a member of the team that implemented the E 4 Program.J. RICHARD WEGGEL is the Samuel S. Baxter Professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Dean of the Collegeof Engineering. He holds a BS degree in civil engineering from the Drexel Institute of Technology, and MS andPh.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He teaches and conductsresearch in the areas of hydraulic and coastal engineering. He was a member of the team that implemented the E 4Program.ALY VALENTINE has a bachelor degree in psychology from Assumption College in Worcester, MA and amaster’s degree in education from Drexel University. She is

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CFD which combines theapplication of commercial solvers and code development experiences.1. IntroductionIn the 1980's, the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was dominated by governmentand academic entities; users typically had many years of relevant training. Over the last decade,however, the ever-increasing performance/price ratio of personal computers and workstationscoupled with improvements in commercial codes has lead to the widespread adoption of CFDtechniques for research, development and design tasks in industry. However, industry iscurrently faced with the difficult task of finding engineers skilled in the use of CFD.In response to this need, integration of CFD into both the graduate and undergraduateengineering education is

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/pressure relationships for Refrigerant-134a and Refrigerant-12. For each Page 5.103.5refrigerant they calculated the compressor work required for specified operating pressures. Thestudents were asked to discuss the environmental considerations of the increased work requiredfor Refrigerant-134a in light of Refrigerant-12’s impact on the ozone layer.Lessons Learned: It was very important to thoroughly prep the students for the tour, as thenoise level was significant.Unit 6 - PropulsionLecture Summary: The students were introduced to a variety of propulsion systems used onland, water, and in the air. It was noted that almost all propulsion systems work

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traditional schematic approach. Students like this lab verymuch and many of them continue on to take the elective course about hardware descriptivelanguage.Lab 10. Bistable Memory Devices Simple latch circuits are being constructed here such as S-R and D. Internal structure of theselatches are analyzed. First they have to build latches out of digital primitives, then using edge-triggered flip-flops, the students construct a ripple counter. This lab is the first exposure tosynchronous design.Lab 11. Stepper Motor Controller The purpose of this lab is to design a state machine that controls a stepper motor. During statemachine designs, students often have a real problem of figuring out why they have to study thisconcept and what the practical

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Education and Human Resources (1996).2. O’Banion, Terry . Launching a Learning Centered College. League for Innovation in the Community College (1999) . Barr. R.B., & Tagg, J. From teaching to learning- A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change, 13-25 (1995)3. Springer, L., Stanne, M.E., & Donovan, S. Effects of small group learning on undergraduates in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology: A meta-anlysis. National Center for Improving Science Education. Prepublication Manuscript, July 23, 1997.BARBARA LICKLIDERBarbara Llicklider is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration at Iowa State University andreceived numerous awards for teaching excellence. Her specific areas of interest include

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of this, the SDLRS, the most widely usedmeasure related to self-directed learning, has been the subject of debate regarding its utility in Page 5.434.7measuring self-directed learning readiness. One begins to wonder whether ABET understoodthe complexity of this area when they wrote the outcome – “a recognition of the need for, and anability to engage in life-long learning,” and asked us to give them a reliable measure of thesuccess of our students in achieving it.References[1] A. S. f. E. E. G. Committee, “Goals of engineering education; final report of the goals committee,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 58, pp. 367-446