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Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

Session 2275 Conquering the hurdles of the tenure and promotion process for Junior Faculty Members Keith V. Johnson, Mark Rajai East Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe process of tenure and promotion can be a harrowing experience for faculty in highereducation. A tenured faculty member is one whose job, with a few exceptions, is secured forlife. These exceptions typically include the closure of the department, (although a good faitheffort may be made to place them in a related department within the university), grossnegligence, and sexual harassment

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Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Bonnie Osif; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

/ Penn State/ Penn StateRecent trends in education have included learning strategies that employ complex, often multi-disciplinary, problems as centerpieces. They are then employed as beacons toward which coursetopics, concepts, or solution methods are directed. Generally, the learning strategies can becategorized as case-based, problem-based, or inquiry-based. These three new approaches tend torely on the use of technical papers or briefs, whether electronic or printed, to support and drive thediscussion of the topic. As a result, the traditional role of the lecturer, moving sequentially throughchapters in a textbook, has been challenged. However, the qualities that make for an effectivetraditional lecture are also present in these new

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Miguel Torres-Febus; Jaime Pabon-Ortiz; Jose Cruz-Cruz; Jorge Velez-Arocho

Session 2354 Technology Based Entrepreneurship … an effective tool for promoting teamwork, creativity and innovation in students José A. Cruz, Jaime A. Pabón, Miguel A. Torres, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezI. IntroductionTraditionally engineering and business education has been oriented towards preparingprofessionals for the private sector. Today this sector demands from the universities a newgraduate with skills that go far and beyond the traditional skills and competencies. Today’sgraduates should be able to communicate their ideas effectively both orally and

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follows. Students need morethan the computers and their programs. This article presents information about a 21st centuryprogram created in 1996: a comprehensive engineering program at Madison West High Schoolwithin blocks of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.I. IntroductionCourses including Principles of Engineering 1&2, Materials Science, and Computer AidedDesign, including mechanical design, 3D solid modeling and 3D animation, are the make-up ofthis 21st century high school engineering program.Students in engineering courses participate in at least fourteen different case studies. These casestudies are diverse in nature in order to give the students just a taste of many different types ofengineering. Engineering ethics

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Nels Madsen, Auburn University

AC 2001-910: SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW DYNAMICS?Nels Madsen, Auburn University Page 6.880.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2001 Session 1668 So You Think You Know Dynamics? Nels Madsen Auburn UniversityExtended AbstractThis interactive presentation will explore undergraduate dynamics. The objective of thispresentation is to encourage you to take a fresh look at undergraduate dynamics and mechanics.Hearing this presentation just might change your paradigm! Keep reading this abstract

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Bruce Segee; Isaac Horn

Session 1520 Computer Building Seminar for Engineering Students Isaac Horn, Bruce Segee University of MaineAbstractWhen comparing today’s first-year computer engineering student with one of five to ten yearsago a troublesome trend can be observed. Although today’s students have used PersonalComputers (PCs) longer, by and large, they have never touched (or even seen) the inside of a PC.This is a reflection of the changing role of the PC from a hobby item for the technically inclined,to a household appliance not to be broken. Based on that premise a seminar

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Hugh Blanton; Mark Rajai

Session 2525 Designing Global Monitoring System to Locate Missing Children and Alzheimer Patients Mark Rajai, Hugh Blanton East Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a joint effort between engineering students from various majors, and theiradvisors to design a sophisticated global monitoring system to monitor location of children,Alzheimer patients and other valuable items. This project was part of a capstone design coursedeveloped to introduce engineering students to real world problems. This funded project wasdeveloped in response to

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Nolan Hertel; Heather Gepford

Session 2477 Distance Delivery of the MS HP Degree at Georgia Tech Heather J. Gepford, Nolan E. Hertel Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe Center for Distance Learning (CDL) at Georgia Institute of Technology has been deliveringhigh-quality, graduate level courses in engineering to off-campus students since 1977. Currentlyoffered courses can be applied towards a master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering,Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and HealthPhysics. The video MSHP program has been available to students since 1984. In

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Kathy Bearden; James Bandstra

Session # 3548 Finite Element Analysis for the Engineering Technology Student Kathy C. Bearden and James P. Bandstra University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownFinite element analysis (FEA) is a tool widely used by engineering professionals. It canalso be a valuable educational tool for illustrating the distribution of stress, strain, andtemperature in a component. However, it is also a tool that can be misused by those thathave not received proper training. It has been offered as an elective in the MechanicalEngineering Technology program at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for anumber of

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Rosalyn Hobson; Kenneth Burbank

Session 2270 Richmond Area Program For Minorities In Engineering Summer Engineering Institute Rosalyn S. Hobson*, Kenneth Burbank** * Virginia Commonwealth University/**Virginia State UniversityAbstractThe Richmond Area Program for Minorities in Engineering (RAPME) is a non-profitorganization whose primary goal is to influence minority middle and high school students toconsider engineering as a profession. RAPME developed two programs to aid in accomplishingits goal: the Summer Engineering Institute and the RAPME Annual Scholarship. This paperprovides an

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Mohammad Naraghi; Bahman Litkouhi

Session 2520 An Effective Approach for Teaching Computer Programming to Freshman Engineering Students Mohammad H.N. Naraghi and Bahman Litkouhi Department of Mechanical Engineering Manhattan College Riverdale, NY 10471I. IntroductionComputer programming is an essential and integral part of any engineering program.Engineering students in their junior and senior years face the task of solving problemsusing numerical approaches. Good programming skills will enable them to tackle thoseproblems easily. Furthermore, a good

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Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

Session 2238 Engineering Graphics Instruction Outside of the Lab: How prepared are our students? Eric N. Wiebe, Aaron C. Clark NC State UniversityAbstract The 1990’s have seen a rapid expansion of the use of networked computers on college and university campuses. By the Fall of 1995, half of all college students and faculty had recurring instructional experience with information technology while more than half of all college students and three-fourths of faculty had access to the Internet and WWW. This infusion of computer

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Joseph Betit; William Swart; Sushil Chaturvedi; Gary Crossman

on a global workenvironment. This cluster will prepare the growing numbers of students who will acceptemployment with global firms or find themselves part of a merger or strategic alliance involvingmultinational corporations. This newly approved cluster of five courses described in the paperhas been approved by the University for satisfying University upper-division general educationrequirements. As a consequence, students choosing this route to meet their general educationrequirements do not have to take additional courses to obtain a global perspective in their chosenfield of study.IntroductionOld Dominion University is a comprehensive, state-supported institution located in Norfolk,Virginia, home to one of the world’s largest naval bases

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Jerome Tapper

Session Number 3247 Industry Driven Curriculum Development, the Key to Successful Courseware Jerome Tapper Northeastern University, School of Engineering TechnologyAbstractDesigning a curriculum of courses based upon donated equipment can be made easier if thedonors help with this task. Not only are equipment manufacturers the best sources for gainingdonated state of the art equipment, but they can also be an important resource when it comestime to develop the actual course material and content needed for new courses involving the useand application of their

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Edward Gehringer

Session 1461 Building an Ethics in Computing Website Using Peer Review Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractAn Ethics in Computing Website covering almost 100 topics has been developed using peer-reviewed student contributions. Students in the author’s one-credit Ethics in Computing courseselect a topic to research from a list provided by the instructor, or propose a topic of their ownchoosing. Their contributions are then reviewed, and ultimately graded, by three other studentstaking the course

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Eugene Rutz

particularly desirable because of the asynchronous nature of the delivery.While the convenience of web-based delivery is attractive, courses must be developed anddelivered in a manner that facilitates student engagement and learning. At the University ofCincinnati, courses are not usually designed exclusively for professional development of theworkforce, but rather also have a traditional graduate student audience. Ensuring that the contentand framework of the course is appropriate for both types of learners requires planning andpurposeful instructional design.The development and delivery of a web-based course in environmental risk assessment to bothtraditional graduate students and professionals in the workforce is described. The paperdiscusses the

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David Braun

Session 2275 Greasing the Tenure Track 2 David Braun California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractSome new faculty must balance the competing demands of the desire to teach effectively whilemaintaining a heavy teaching load. Oh, and, by the way, along the way to the tenure hurdle,research, professional development, and service duties may distract from family, friends, andreal life.Based on the author’s participation in the NSF's New Century Scholars (NCS) Workshop atStanford University as both a scholar (1999) and, subsequently, as a senior

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Virendra Varma

Session 1321 Undergraduate Student Research in Construction Engineering: The Current Status Virendra K Varma Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractUndergraduate student research is common in schools of liberal arts and sciences but is not inundergraduate schools of engineering. In schools of engineering technology, undergraduatestudent research is limited. Student research at the undergraduate level is gaining ground inschools of engineering where faculty are engaged in research and a structure in their curriculumexists whereby students

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Harry Franz

than High Schools. The average age of the UHD student is justunder 30 years old. The UHD is one of the most diverse Universities in thecountry. Students in the UHD ET Department come from community colleges,junior colleges, proprietary schools, the military, international sources, a lot fromindustry, and from the University General College at the UHD itself. A discussionof how students are recruited and retained from each source is given.Methods for attracting and keeping students are discussed. Included are theproject team and industry connections through the professional societies thatinclude the ISA, IEEE, SPED (Society of Piping Engineer and Designers). Inaddition, a discussion is included about the interaction with counterparts at

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David R Finley

Session 2275 Tips for Greasing the Tenure Track 3 David R. Finley Tri-State UniversityAbstractUtilizing knowledge gained from participation in NSF’s New Century Scholars (NCS) Workshopat Stanford University as both a scholar (1999) and subsequently a senior scholar (2000), bestpractices for new engineering faculty are identified based upon the author’s four years ofpersonal experience in academia. This third paper in the series, all by NCS senior scholars,provides the perspective of an engineering educator at small, private, undergraduate

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Ron Hart; Marvin Adams; K. Peddicord; Ian Hamilton; Beth Earl; Alan Waltar

Session ???? Turning the Tide on Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment Alan E. Waltar, Marvin Adams, Ian Hamilton, Ron Hart, Lee Peddicord, and Beth Earl Texas A&M UniversityThe steep drop in undergraduate enrollments in nuclear engineering since the early 1990s is aserious threat to nuclear engineering in the U.S. and to the leadership that the U.S. has shown innuclear matters around the globe. Without a feedstock of fresh nuclear engineers into thenational nuclear infrastructure, America is on a clear course of self-destruction of an extremelyvaluable capability.As a consequence, substantial efforts have

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Hugh Jack

Session 0458 Linux Workshop Session Hugh Jack (jackh@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractLinux is a free UNIX clone that was developed by volunteers around the world. Although Linux isalmost a decade old, it went largely unnoticed by the general public until a couple of years ago.Since then it has become very popular with individual users, universities and large corporations.For example, IBM has made it a major part of their business strategy for server hardware. Manysoftware companies already offer Linux versions of their software

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William Miller; Stephen Lombardo; Christa Weisbrook; Patrick Tebbe

Session: 1526Development of Software Applications for Thermodynamics Related Courses: The THERMOVIEW Project Dr. Patrick A. Tebbe The College of New Jersey tebbe@tcnj.edu Dr. Christa Weisbrook, Dr. Stephen J. Lombardo, Dr. William Miller University of MissouriAbstract The College of New Jersey and the University of Missouri are collaborating on a NSFCourse, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement proof-of-concept grant to develop educationalsoftware for use in

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Mohammad Haque

Session 2793 Web-based Visualization Techniques for Structural Design Education Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E. Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith the advances in information technology over the last decade, the traditional teaching formatof having an individual lecture to an audience has been supplemented, and in some cases,replaced by the rapid development and implementation of new distance learning methods. Astechnology rapidly changes, the importance of educating and training diverse populations ofcivil/construction engineering/science students becomes more critical

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S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

Session 1464 Innovations in Teaching Mechanics of Materials in Materials Science and Engineering Departments David Roylance Massachusetts Institute of Technology C. H. Jenkins and S. K. Khanna South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractTraditional mechanical design employs experimentally obtained or handbook material properties in selection andsizing to develop a product. This approach is increasingly inefficient as designs come to employ

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William J. Daughton

graduate program. Thechallenge has been how to present this broad set of material in an integrated fashion that createsa cohesive picture of what technical managers face in the work place. To address this challenge,EMEN 5010 has been built around the framework of the Baldrige National Quality programCriteria for Performance Excellence. The seven Baldrige categories provide the broad scopenecessary for such a course while the integrated nature of the criteria addresses the need for acohesive and integrated picture. Student response to this approach has been positive with respectto the format, presentation, and value of the course.BackgroundThe Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program (the Program) is in its 13th year ofoffering a Master of

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James Haberly; Iskandar Hack

Session 0047 Low Cost FPGA Development System For Teaching Advanced Digital Circuits Iskandar A. Hack, P.E., Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne James Haberly, BMT Microelectronics CenterAbstractThis paper covers the development of student development system to use with the AlteraMax+ PLUS software for teaching Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’s) andComplex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLD’s). This software is available free ofcharge from Altera directly for students to download for use in at home or can be installedvia an educational license in any university laboratory. The

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Tammi Robson; Tayeb Giuma

Session 2793 MicroTutor – An Interactive Web-Based Tutorial for Microprocessors and their Applications Tayeb A. Giuma, Tammi Robson Department of Electrical Engineering University of North Florida Jacksonville, Fl 32224 Ph: 904-620-2970; Fx: 904-620-2975 tgiuma@unf.eduAbstractThis paper describes the design of an interactive web-basedmicroprocessor and applications tutorial “MicroTutor.” Thebasic goal of this interactive web

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Don Zeller

Session 1547 PLC Systems - University Course Material or Industrial Training Material ? Don Zeller Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Department, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State UniversityIntroductionIn the late 1960’s, a new electronic device made its debut, at the request of the automotiveindustry. It was called a programmable logic controller (PLC) and its function was to replace anexisting system of machine control logic. The existing system was based on an electro-mechanical device called a relay and the machine

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Devdas Shetty

Session 1409 DESIGNING FOR PRODUCT SUCCESS Devdas Shetty, Vernon D Roosa Chair Professor in Manufacturing Engineering, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117 (USA) 860- 768-4615(Tel) 860-768 –5073(Fax) Shetty@mail.hartford.eduAbstractThis paper is about the techniques used by world-class companies to guide the design,development of high quality products in a step-by-step manner using analytical tools and casestudies. Many