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Rebecca Blust

professionals, 88 % are White, 6% are Asian and only6% are minority. Studies indicate that both industry and society benefit from diversity;furthermore, teams function at higher levels when there is diversity among colleagues. Thisoptimization enhances competitiveness within companies, enabling them to outperform theircompetitors. However, even though there are many benefits from increasing diversity, the factstill remains that a minority gap exists within engineering.This paper will explore philosophies and provide methods and recommendations to promote anincrease of minority participation within science and technology. The main discussion will focusupon the “minority gap” model, which is a triad. Each side - personal, education, and industry

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Arthur Johnson

voltage to lower, that heat mustflow from higher temperature to lower, and that water must flow downhill. If it is explained tothem that higher to lower potentials needed for flow to occur actually expresses the second lawof thermodynamics in another, more general, way, then a very abstruse concept can be mademore real.The analogy can be extended to other physical systems including mechanics (force, velocity)electricity (voltage, electric current), magnetics (magnetomotive force, magnetic flux), andothers not normally taught to undergraduate engineering students as transport processes.The effort and flow variable analog can extend much farther into such disparate areas as thespread of disease, traffic flow, technology transfer, psychological

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Keith V. Johnson; Mark Rajai

into classroom 2000 arediscussed. A joint design course between two universities and an industrial partner, utilizingIPTeam software is also presented. Some of the other new cutting edge educational deliverymode and software such as Asynchronous Learning Networks and ZenPad used in pilotprograms in leading universities are also studied.I. IntroductionDue to highly competitive working environment, modern businesses have adopted cutting edgetechnologies as a way to compete in global market place. Because of the perceived benefits ofthese technologies in transmission of information and the extensive use of them by the modernbusiness world, colleges and universities have begun integrating these technologies into theclassroom 2000 environment

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Tina Varma; Virendra Varma

Session 1675 Important Steps to Skillful Mentoring of New Faculty: Avoiding the Pitfalls Virendra K. Varma, Tina Varma Missouri Western State College / Northwest Missouri State UniversityAbstractThere is a high rate of turn-over of new faculty members at colleges and universities. Many newfaculty members elect to leave their current institutions and join new ones only after a year ortwo of service. Research shows a lack of support and mentoring as major causes of turn-over ofnew faculty members at institutions of higher education. Turn-over of new faculty is costly

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Heather Nachtmann

Session 1639 Integrating Research into the Cost Engineering Classroom Heather Nachtmann University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is based on the author’s positive experience of integrating research into the classroomat two levels of engineering education, graduate and freshman. Several integrative teaching andresearch activities were conducted in a graduate Cost Estimation Models course. These activitiesincluded article reviews, presentation of current faculty research, and student research projects.The freshman level course, Industrial Cost Analysis, introduced

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Harold Hultman

Session 2486 Two-Year college Computer/Electrical Engineering Transfer Program Cost-Effective Laboratory Facility Hal Hultman Department of Physics, Engineering, and Geoscience, Montgomery College Rockville, Maryland, 20850AbstractThe constant evolution of the Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering curriculum hasnecessitated a downward migration of basic engineering-content courses into the freshman andsophomore years. This has presented a challenge to two-year institutions in regard to articulationof content-rich introductory engineering courses

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John Klegka; Robert Rabb

Session 3425 Designing an Engineering Experience for Non-Engineers Major Robert J. Rabb, Colonel John S. Klegka United States Military AcademyAbstractThe United States Military Academy (USMA) has a balanced core curriculum to help promotethe ability of all graduates to be creative problem solvers. Part of the core curriculum provides abasic knowledge of physical systems for all graduates. All graduates receive a B.S. degree invarious disciplines, many in a non-engineering major or field of study. However, all graduatesare expected to be technically competent in their future

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William Schultz; Marc Smith; Marc Perlin; John Foss

Session 1155 Improving Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics across the Curriculum Marc Perlin, William W. Schultz, Marc K. Smith, John F. Foss University of Michigan/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology/Michigan State UniversityAbstractWe initiated an NSF-sponsored workshop of Faculty and a few representatives from industry toinvestigate methods to increase student expectations and performance in the fundamentals ofundergraduate fluid mechanics education. We originally planned to build a pool of fluidmechanics exam problems and a consortium to provide feedback on evaluation of these

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Kevin Davis; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

Session 2793 An Interactive Web-Based Analog Grade Computer as an Electrical Circuits Capstone Lab Project Kevin Davis, Damon Miller and Frank Severance Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the use of an interactive web-based circuit demonstration system to providea mid-semester superposition capstone experience for electrical circuit fundamentals labstudents. The particular circuit to be interactively demonstrated is a simple electronic artificialneural network which is used

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Sanjiv Gokhale; Hadi Yamin

areconvenient to these students who are attempting to complete school while maintaining full-timejobs and family life. However, many educators are concerned with the “learning outcomes” ofsuch non-traditional courses and quite often the perception of both the faculty and students is thatthese time-shortened courses some how lack the academic rigor of the more traditional courses.This paper addresses the teaching techniques for intensive courses, the use of such courses in theconstruction discipline, and the student and faculty perceptions of these courses.I. IntroductionIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis is a comprehensive urban university locatedin the heart of Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. As is the case with other urban colleges

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Saeed Foroudastan

changing needs. Target areas whichrequire attention include those which directly or indirectly affect the students: to keep thosecurrently enrolled interested in staying within the department, to convince undeclared majors toselect a degree and a career from Engineering Technology programs, to actively recruit highschool students and older nontraditional students currently working, and to improve the attitudeand professional development of faculty and staff, as well as curriculums. A timeline should beutilized to structure the execution of these ideas. Innovative methods for recruiting are discussed. Implementation plans need to bedeveloped which are directed to these target areas. When any of the goals are achieved via theretention and

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J. Giolma; Kevin Nickels; Farzan Aminian

FPGAs) exhibit a superset of SSI and MSIfunctionality, enabling instructors to completely eliminate construction of circuits using SSI andMSI chips if they so choose.This paper describes the approach taken by the authors for introductory digital design laboratoriesin the Engineering Science Department of Trinity University, and explains some of the reasons forthe given approach. The approach begins with construction of SSI and MSI circuits, includes abridging laboratory where a complex SSI/MSI circuit is reimplemented in a CPLD, and finallymoves to more complex designs utilizing no SSI/MSI constructs. The student base forintroductory digital logic in our engineering program is quite broad, with all engineering studentsutilizing digital design

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Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

Session 15470 Building Critical Thinking, Teamwork, and Communication Skills Through Professional Ethics in Engineering and Chemical Technology Beverly H. Swaile, Maria C. Kreppel University of CincinnatiAbstractAn interdepartmental faculty team has developed an upper-division general education coursedesigned specifically to introduce ethics into technical education using a case-study approach.The course is designed to place students in a team problem-solving environment forcing them tosift through and critically analyze information related to the ethical topics studied during

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Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

Section 1526 Case Study Based Laboratories for an Undergraduate Human Factors Engineering Curriculum Ann M. Bisantz, Victor L. Paquet Department of Industrial Engineering University at Buffalo, State University of New York Amherst, NY 14020 bisantz@eng.buffalo.eduAbstractThis paper describes the ongoing implementation and evaluation of a set of design-orientedlaboratory exercises for two undergraduate Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) courses,which draw

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Ross Staffeldt

the course segment on the classification of critical points. In particularstudents should learn how to locate critical points graphically, by studying fields of gradientvectors and plots of level curves; formally, by solving explicitly for the zeroes of the gradient;and numerically, when formal solutions are infeasible. They should also learn to interpret theclassification theorem verbally and graphically. The computations needed to locate the zeroes ofthe gradient of a function are almost always difficult, so it helps enormously to have thecomputer help solve equations. But a complete analysis of an example is a multi-step procedure,and, if it is all done on a computer, the procedure requires the use of many commands andthoughtful evaluation

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Carl Zorowski

Session (to be assigned) An Experiment in Pseudo-Asynchronous Course Delivery Carl F. Zorowski North Carolina State UniversityAbstract This paper describes an experiment in delivering a graduate level course in a pseudo–asynchronous manner using modern digital communication technology. The purpose of thiseffort was two-fold. One was to reduce the logistics and increase flexibility in an existingdistance educational delivery system for engineering graduate courses. The second goal was toimprove the efficiency and academic effectiveness of graduate course offerings for both on-campus

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Daniel Waldorf

Session # 2263 Computer-Aided Engineering for Tool Design in Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Daniel J. Waldorf Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department Cal Poly State University – San Luis ObispoAbstractAt Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, a variety of tool design issues are covered in a junior-levelmanufacturing engineering course called Tool Engineering. In the course, designing fixtures –for any process – is a major component of the content. The process of designing a fixture issimilar to the method a mechanical

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Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

courses.The project involved in developing a long term scalable system and a strong backbone whichconnects different kinds of resources and has an integrated system wherein any instructor can setup his own class, manage his own set of students and administer testing and evaluation methods.But unlike similar systems like WebCT or Blackboard, this system includes content so that theinstructor does not have to develop problems and it is freely available to all institutions. Thesystem has been used at University of Oklahoma (OU) where selected Dynamics and Static’sengineering courses are taught using laptop computers (required at OU with wireless networkconnection), CD-ROMs, and the Internet. This project involves giving all instructors theopportunity to

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David Hergert

Session 2559 Instrumentation I/O and Visual Basic David Hergert Miami University Ohio1. IntroductionIf a college wants to implement a computerized instrumentation system without usingcommercial software, Visual Basic provides a quick and easy solution. Visual Basic is capable ofcreating ActiveX controls to display data, as well as providing numerous methods to transfer andstore data. Data can even be displayed on the web using ActiveX . When developing VBcomputerized instrumentation systems, the following must be taken into account

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Sundar Krishnamurty; Robert Gao; John Ritter; Donald Fisher; Janis Terpenny

Massachusetts (UMass)Amherst. Entitled “Senior Design Projects to Aid the Disabled,” the capstone sequence includesclose collaborations with the Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center (LATDC) atHampshire College and Adaptive Design Services (ADS) under the Massachusetts Department ofMental Retardation (DMR). The new design course allows students to work directly withcollaborators and disabled clients to solve specific assistive technology design problems.Through these projects, students enhance and reinforce concepts learned in their engineeringeducation. At the conclusion of the sequence, each student will have conceived, modeled,analyzed, and built a functional prototype of a mechanical and/or electromechanical device thatsatisfies the

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Bob Lahidji

Session 2148 Lecturing versus self-study in a first year Engineering Technology course. Bob Lahidji, Ph.D.,CMfgE Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI. 48197 734-487-2040 bob.lahidji@emich.eduAbstractThis experiment compares the degree of learning and comprehension between lecturingand self-studying methods of educating. The result of this experiment is reported and acomparison between the two methods of learning is examined.I. IntroductionCurrently, the majority of

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh; Nashwan Younis

supported will be presented.I. IntroductionThe students in the mechanical engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue University atFort Wayne are required to complete a capstone senior design project. This is carried out duringthe two semesters of the senior year. In the first semester, basic conceptual designs aregenerated and then evaluated. The best conceptual design is then chosen and a complete anddetailed design is generated by the end of the first semester. In the second semester, a proto-type of the finished design is built, tested and evaluated. The projects are either in the solid orthermal areas of the mechanical engineering.Whenever it is possible, the students are exposed to real life design problem experience bygetting them

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Ranil Wickramasinghe; William Timpson

Session 3213 Mid-semester feedback enhances student learning Ranil Wickramasinghe, William M. Timpson Colorado State UniversityAbstractSoliciting mid-semester student feedback encourages a more responsible attitude by thestudents as they reflect upon the course. Making use of a third party facilitator to obtain thisfeedback results in constructive suggestions by the students. Implementation of some of thesesuggestions, will often result in an improved learning environment. A junior-level fluidmechanics course was modified over a two-year period. These modifications together

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Zhongming Liang

internship rather than of summeremployment.I had a good record of industrial experience before these two summers. I worked for ten years ina manufacturing company as a mechanical engineer from 1968 to 1978. I became a registeredprofessional engineer in my state in 1993. Nevertheless I felt that I gained a lot of newknowledge and new ideas during the summer interns.The four areas in which I benefited from the summer interns were: • Teaching method improvement • Teaching material enrichment • Continuous professional development • Application of mathematics in manufacturing technologyEach of them will be slightly discussed in the following sections.The summer interns were in two large orthopedics manufacturing companies. The

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John Bridge

submits that in most classes, some degree of direct instruction is necessary to “actively”engage the student’s minds, particularly in introducing new material, but also insists that student-based class activities are essential to reinforce and “connect” this knowledge. Materials sciencenaturally lends itself to a variety of interesting and exciting activities that allow the student tointeractively learn about the world of engineering materials. Some of these activities arediscussed in their application to atomic structure, diffusion, strengthening mechanisms, failuremechanisms, and ferrous and nonferrous materials.I. IntroductionIn a typical college-level engineering materials science class, which is part of an accreditedmechanical engineering

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Terrence Freeman

Session: 2793 Recruiting and Retention Effectiveness Terrence L. Freeman St. Louis Community College at Florissant ValleyIntroductionThe twenty-first century will be dominated by technological change as the United Stateseconomy becomes increasingly dependent on a technically literate workforce. Engineering is oneof the careers that will help fuel the engine of economic growth1. If the United States is tomaintain its technological leadership in this interdependent global economy an inclusiveengineering education is a must.Brainard and Carlin (1998) report that undergraduate

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Robert Avanzato

applications and data. A brief chronology and overview of the Penn State Abington experiences withPalm handheld integration follows. Through support from 3Com and Palm, thirty-five students in an introductoryInformation Sciences and Technology (IST) course were each provided with a PalmIIIx™ handheld computer in the fall of 1999. Classroom activities supported by the useof these handhelds included electronic team quizzes, distribution of notes, interactivesoftware reviews, collaborative database projects, and access to web-based materials.Student teams developed prototypes for commercially feasible PDA applications in areassuch as health care, inventory management, and law enforcement. The handheldcomputer requirement for students in

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Micheal Parten; Heath Keene

systems along withthe high frequency of transmission makes it difficult to develop undergraduate laboratories that can beused to teach the needed concepts. Some teaching systems exist but cannot be easily tied to existingcommercial systems. Equipment to test and characterize these new commercial communicationsystems is complex and expensive.To overcome some of these problems, student projects can be developed using a PC-based system forsimulation and application. The PC-based system used in this example is LabVIEW, or LaboratoryVirtual Instrument Engineering Workbench, a graphical programming language developed by NationalInstruments. It is used extensively for data acquisition, instrument control and analysis.4 In thisexample, a communications

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Jerome Schubert

Session 2478 SubSea MudLift Drilling: from JIP to the Classroom Jerome J. Schubert, Ph.D. PE Texas A&M UniversityAbstractAs the worlds proven oil reserves continue to be depleted through consumption by theindustrialized nations, oil and gas producing companies must continue to explore for newpetroleum deposits. Although there is production in the GOM in water as deep as 5000 feet, someof the most promising deposits may be in water depths in the 6000 to 10,000 foot range. Currentdrilling technology will not allow exploration in these

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Session 15470 Modernization of an Aircraft Maintenance Curriculum: Measuring up to the TAC of ABET Aaron R. Cowin, Terrence K. Kelly Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe Department of Aerospace Technology at Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, SaintLouis University has offered a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautics with a concentration inAircraft Maintenance Engineering since 1949.1,2 The degree was developed in an era when aircraftmanufacturing was in its infancy and