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Bob Lahidji

Session 2275 Preparation for Tenure and Promotion- Quality and Quantity Bob Lahidji, Ph.D. College of Technology Eastern Michigan UniversityIntroduction Today, it is a challenge to secure tenure status in academic institutions. Some faculty arenot granted tenure because they failed to prepare their materials properly, or they did notunderstand the evaluation criteria. The process of organizing materials for tenure is very tediousand takes a lot of time. Some faculty are not adequately informed by their supervisor regardingthe evaluation

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Patrick E. Connolly

needs that are driving those developments. The impact ofthese changes and trends on academic programs is addressed, including recommendations as towhat portion of these developments should be incorporated into the curriculum, and what collegeand university engineering graphics programs should do to prepare their students for thesedevelopments in industry.IntroductionTrying to analyze the ever changing and dynamic trends and directional movement of the CADsoftware industry can be roughly compared to trying to analyze the stock market: one must dealwith a seemingly infinite number of outside forces affecting an incredible number of constantlymoving reference points at an ever accelerating rate of speed. The complexity of the task can

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Terry Hrudey; Stanley Varnhagen; Shelley Lorimer; Roger Toogood; Bill Lipsett; Art Peterson

describes a series of Computer Based Learning (CBL) modules for courses inEngineering Mechanics (Statics, Dynamics of Particles, Rigid Body Dynamics). The format,content, and pedagogical approach is described. Student reaction and responses to the use of themodules is presented and discussed. Some lessons learned by the authors through thedevelopment and implementation of these modules are also presented.IntroductionUniversities throughout North America are looking for alternate modes of delivery of educationalresources: asynchronous learning, distance education, WEB-based resources, and so on. In thenext decade, there will be a tremendous change in the way courses are presented and in theresources required. Some observers have likened this

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

Session 3513 Virtual Reality in The Chemical Engineering Classroom John T. Bell, H. Scott Fogler Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-2136I. BackgroundVirtual RealityVirtual reality, VR, is an emerging computer interface that utilizes immersive interactive three-dimensional graphics as well as audio, psychology, special hardware, and numerous othermechanisms to produce simulations so realistic that users believe ( if only for a few moments )that what they are experiencing is “real” [1]. In addition to high-speed graphics

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Wayne L. Brown

Session 1559 THE PC-BASED DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM SIMULATOR Wayne L. Brown, P.E DeKalb Technical Institute ABSTRACT This paper is intended to provide faculty, who teach control system principals, with aconceptual approach to the design of a personal computer-based distributed control systemsimulator employing industry-grade components in lieu of prepackaged trainers. INTRODUCTION Until recently, personal computers were never considered to be employable as the hostcomputer in distributed control system (DCS) schemes

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Nancy L. Denton; Christine L. Corum

Session 3675 PLANNING BEYOND PROMOTION Nancy L. Denton, Christine Corum Purdue UniversityABSTRACT Obtaining tenure and receiving one level of promotion often seem to be the overriding concern for newand/or untenured faculty. Administrators and tenured faculty generally encourage this viewpoint, based on theknowledge that, at many campuses, tenure is a requirement for continued employment. While continuedemployment is certainly desired by most faculty, satisfaction with professional and personal accomplishmentsand the

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; Michelle Bothwell

Session 3213 Recruitment and Advising of High School Students from “non-traditional” Groups Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort and Michelle Bothwell Chemical Engineering/Biological Engineering, Oregon State UniversityABSTRACTThe Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth (SESEY) programwas initiated in the summer of 1997 with the goal of promoting ethnic and economic diversity inthe science and engineering fields through the recruitment of underrepresented minority highschool students. Offered as a collaboration between Chemical Engineering and BiologicalEngineering at Oregon State University, the

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

of every engineering discipline. One such fundamental concept ismolecular diffusion. Although traditionally a hallmark of chemical engineering education,historically, civil engineering education has presented diffusion concepts as a “just in time” toolto solve particular problems. However, a change in this presentation paradigm is necessary if thediscipline is to meet one of the major challenges of the 21 st century. It is anticipated thattomorrow’s employers will give junior engineers assignments that require an expandedexperience and knowledge base of such concepts so that they will be able to immediately relateto and work effectively within interdisciplinary engineering and science teams. It is relatively easy for civil engineering

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Wayne Woldt; Mohamed Dahab; Bruce I. Dvorak; Dennis Schulte

Missouri). Matching funds are provided by the University of Nebraska.Support for the program is provided by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. Thethree main goals of this program are to provide: 1) an intensive educational experience inpollution prevention for engineering students, 2) technical assistance to small businesses andindustries in Nebraska, and 3) research on complex pollution prevention problems. The technical assistance is delivered each summer by 15 to 18 undergraduate engineeringstudent interns and three graduate students. The undergraduate interns participate in two weeksof intensive formal training before spending nine weeks in an assigned (industrial, smallbusiness, or regulatory) location providing a

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Lib Crockett

calculus courses, two generalchemistry courses, one physics course, one humanities/social science course and twointroductory engineering courses. After completion of these courses with minimum grades of“C”, students select a specific engineering major. Each fall approximately 750 new freshmenenroll in the General Engineering Program. (The other 350 consist of students who have notcompleted the GE curriculum.)Visits to the GE Office are voluntary; students are not required to meet with advisors. (The onlyexceptions are students on academic probation who must meet twice during the semester withadvisors.) Students are not assigned to a particular advisor but may request a specific individualshould they so desire.INTRODUCTIONThe transition from high

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Josef Rojter

1 Session 2560Development of Social Literacy in First Year Engineering Curriculum Josef Rojter Department of Mechanical Engineering Victoria University of Technology P.O. Box 14428, MMC Melbourne VIC 8000 Australia Page 3.211.1 1 2ABSTRACT A revised first year

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J.P. Uyemura; J.A. Buck; H. Owen; D.J. Blumenthal; C.M. Verber

students in each new term base their work onthe final written report of the students in the previous term. They choose leaders andorganize themselves into teams as appropriate to accomplish the assigned tasks. At theend of the term, they write their own report, which details their work in upgrading thenetwork, and which includes new designs for consideration by the next class. Thus, inaddition to its primary goal of providing a high-level technical experience, the coursestresses multidisciplinary teamwork, and provides incentive for the development ofeffective oral and written communication skills. Results of three offerings of the courseare described.INTRODUCTIONDeveloping a design laboratory course in optical communication is a

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James E. Fuller

.” Ken Sanders, AIA The Digital Architect1Software technology has taken enormous leaps in recent years in the ability to interrelateinformation between different applications. The successful development and global adoption ofMicrosoft Windows and Apple OS operating systems has lead to a world wide awareness of theability to share information between applications on your desktop, between users in remoteoffices and, indeed, around the world.The implications for this are staggering for any discipline but even more so for architecture.Architects must constantly analyze information cloaked in a variety of shrouds from the highlytechnical and somewhat obtuse building codes and life safety codes

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Erdogan Sener

Session 1221 Design of the Learning Environment : Professional-project- Based Learning in Construction Education Erdogan M. Sener Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractWith increased emphasis on the end result of student learning rather than on the process ofteaching/instruction, the design of the learning environment has become a major task for faculty. For engineering and technology curricula not only should this environment include involvementof students in simplified versions of their professional practice but also emphasize both

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Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

initiated such a program in Fall 1996, which is broad; practice- oriented andintegrates diverse areas of engineering and technology. It is a thirty three-credit program and iscurrently in the second year of its offering. This paper discusses the development andimplementation of the program. Outcomes of the implementation of the program are presentedand analyzed for further development.INTRODUCTIONThe SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome is an upper- division transfer college forstudents who have already completed their first two years of college. It also offers graduateprograms in accounting, business, computer science, nursing and telecommunications.Graduate programs in engineering and technology are generally taken by engineers to

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Session 1148Internship Experiences in Biomedical Engineering Technology: An Overview of Students and Prospective Employers Perceptions Albert Lozano-Nieto, Ph.D. Penn State University. Commonwealth College, SETCE Wilkes-Barre Campus P.O. Box PSU. Lehman, PA 18627 Phone: (717) 675-9245. FAX: (717) 675-7713 email: AXL17@psu.eduABSTRACTStudents pursuing an Associates Degree in Biomedical Engineering Technology at Penn StateUniversity are required to complete a 400-hour internship

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Lori S. Cook; Lawrence S. Aft

Session 3557 MSQA ON-LINE: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT Lori S. Cook, Lawrence S. Aft Southern Polytechnic State University Department of Industrial Engineering Technology Marietta, GA 30060 ABSTRACTSouthern Polytechnic State University’s (SPSU) mission includes providing educationalexperiences to all of the citizens of Georgia. The Internet provides a mechanism for providingthese educational experiences to all qualified students regardless of geographic location andability to be in a

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Michael Tarnowski; Sara Wadia-Fascetti

adequately meet the needs of students engaging in civilengineering professional careers. A new laboratory curricula (presented in this paper) designedto combine modeling and experimental activities with computer analyses and theory enablesstudents to achieve an improved understanding about structural behavior. The resultingcurriculum (description of each laboratory) and strategies to increase student learning arepresented in this paper.INTRODUCTIONAt Northeastern University all civil engineering students are required take a theory-basedstructural analysis course and a structural laboratory course simultaneously. Building offelementary statics and mechanics courses, the theory-based course teaches students how tocalculate deflections and forces in

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W. Poppen; J. E. Seat; G. Klukken; D. Knight; J. Roger Parsons

Session 2553 Training Engineering Upperclassmen to Facilitate Freshman Design Teams D. Knight, W. Poppen, G. Klukken, J. Parsons, J. E. Seat The University of Tennessee College of Education/College of EngineeringIntroduction As part of a comprehensive effort to redesign the freshman basic engineering curriculum,members of the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee are utilizing design teamsin first year engineering courses. Industry representatives and faculty who teach engineeringdesign have suggested that freshmen

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Steven E. LeBlanc

Session 2230 Some Thoughts on Teaching Problem Solving Skills to Engineering Students Steven E. LeBlanc University of Toledo Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Toledo, OH 43606Why bother teaching problem solving skills to engineering students? They'll pick theseskills up along the way just like we did as we went through school, right? Well, maybe,then again, maybe not. Problem solving is an acquired skill much as any other skill, likeshooting baskets, throwing a baseball or riding a bike

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J.R. Phillips

. As such, the program is classified as non-traditional underCriterion 8. The program is compared to Criterion 2, “Educational Objectives”, and 3,“Outcomes and Assessment”. From the start Harvey Mudd Engineering hasbeen highly structured while responding to clear and long-standing goals.With respect to process, we chose to present the assessment and evaluationprogram that existed as opposed to creating something for this visit. Ourassessment instruments are presented. Finally, the outcomes of our visit arediscussed. Because this was a pilot visit, an open discussion is in order.The Institutional Setting Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a coeducational, undergraduate collegeof engineering and science with 638 students and 77 full-time

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Scott Huff

Session 1421 Transportation Technician Qualification Program E. Scott Huff Portland Community CollegeIntroductionTransportation agencies throughout the United States face several challenges related todeveloping and maintaining a qualified pool of technicians involved in quality control/qualityassurance (QC/QA) testing of highway materials.• New federal regulations requiring that all personnel involved in the acceptance of federally funded highway work be ‘qualified’by 29 June 2000• Increased

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Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

Session 2566 INTEGRATED CURRICULUM DESIGN IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES SWAMI KARUNAMOORTHY and K. RAVINDRA Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis University ABSTRACT The undergraduate engineering curriculum around the nation is being modified to meetthe needs of the next century; to prepare the students to accept the challenges of a new century,and to satisfy the guidelines of ABET 2000

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Nancy Y. Amaya; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman

will be concerned as muchor more with outcomes rather than inputs or processes. More important, accreditors will belooking at how problems are identified and improvements are made in order to affect theprogram’s outcomes. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation system should not only accuratelymeasure student outcomes, through proper instrument development and administration, but alsopossess a well-designed feedback mechanism that allows for the tracking of these outcomes overtime. By appropriately tracking outcomes, engineering educators should be able to identify areasfor improvement, as well as monitor the effectiveness of programmatic interventions.One basis for such a feedback mechanism is provided by process control charts 2. However,when

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Session 3257 Technology Education in the Next Century: Is the Proposed TAC/ABET Criteria Compatible? Amitabha Bandyopadhyay State University of New York, Farmingdale,NY 11735 IntroductionAmerican higher education in the last decade of the twentieth century faces escalating costs,uneven demographics, faltering revenues, and serious erosion of public confidence [1]. Thisdepressing picture of academia is emerging at a time when concern over the decliningcompetitiveness of the products of American businesses and industry has made

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Mary J. Sarmiento; Dr. Takeshi Kubo; Dr. Shigeo Matsumoto

Session 2560 The Engineering Design I and II at Kanazawa Institute of Technology Mary J. Sarmiento, Dr. Shigeo Matsumoto, Dr. Takeshi Kubo IEEE JSEE/JSME ASEE/JSEE1. IntroductionEngineering Design Education (EDE) was introduced in 1995 as a primary focus of educa-tional reform at Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT). It consists of two introductorycourses: Engineering Design (ED) I and II. Starting in the Fall and Winter Quarters of 1996,ED I and ED II are taught respectively to all sophomore engineering students, comprised ofabout 2,000

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Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

This paper presents the findings of a research survey/questionnaire (hereafter referred toas a survey) project conducted by the Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS)Department of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University PurdueUniversity at Indianapolis (IUPUI). The survey, distributed to all faculty and students in theschool, sought information related to the following topics: formation of teams, frequency ofclassroom usage, evaluation of team projects, grading of team members, benefits and challengesin the use of teams, and attitudes of professors and students toward the use of teams in theclassroom. The survey was effective in producing informative and interesting results. In addition to the

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Michael Khader

Session 2647 TS/4 FOLLOWING THE CAREER PATH OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES Michael Khader New Jersey Institute of TechnologyABSTRACT Technical innovations, coupled with the divestiture of AT&T and deregulation of thetelecommunication industry, as a whole, has significantly altered the exciting field oftelecommunication. With these changes, a multitude of career opportunities has becomeavailable to aspiring telecommunication professionals. Trained telecommunication professionalsare currently in short supply and the-long term career opportunities are very

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

. This paperpresents the result of authors involvement in applied sponsored research, and discusses the impacton the development of courses and curriculum in the department of electrical engineering technologyat the State university of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome.INTRODUCTIONState University of New York (SUNY) Institute of Technology is an upper division transfer collegefor students who have completed their first two years of higher education at a community college.It also offers graduate programs in accounting, advanced technology, business, computer science andtelecommunications.University research in engineering, according to Lester A. Gerhardt [1] is both a process and aproduct. It serves to create an environment for

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

other technical subject with minor modifications.INTRODUCTIONEducation in Engineering Technology is aimed at training future professionals in the arts ofmaintenance, repair, acquisition and management of technical equipment. However, it is widelyrecognized that Technology is today undergoing major changes. The training of these futureprofessionals needs to be reviewed and updated. The traditional educational approach consistedof theoretical lectures complemented by hands-on experiences in the laboratory. However, at thepresent time, students will have to compete in a career that demands not only that they be well-trained professionals, but also that they possess a broad vision of the profession (Buchal, 1997).To provide the breadth of