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Alisha Waller

Session 3630 Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods: Bridging the Gap Alisha A. Waller, Ph.D. Georgia State UniversityAbstractIn the past decades, engineering educators have published interesting research, mainly usingquantitative research methods. A few studies have used qualitative research methods, but nonehas effectively combined both approaches for a more comprehensive understanding of theunderlying issues. In this paper, I discuss qualitative and quantitative methods and theirtheoretical frameworks, and review the work of Tonso, published through the

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Glenn Moffett; Thomas Hall

Session 2150 Delivering Electronics Engineering Technology Courses on the Web Thomas M. Hall, Jr. and Glenn W. Moffett Northwestern State University of LouisianaAbstractIs it feasible to offer an associate’s degree in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) on theWeb? The faculty in the Industrial and Engineering Technology (IET) Department atNorthwestern State University (NSU) have begun planning to do just that. While the universityhas been proactive in distance education using a variety of media, going on-line with a programthat demands extensive “hands-on” laboratory work has been greeted

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industry are, and how it can be used to monitor and control remote processes. Acase study of remote-control computing software in operation is also presented, describing howone off-the-shelf package was setup to monitor and control a plant floor production system.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control at its

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Wayne Hamilton; Stephen Tennyson; Robert Hamilton

explicitly demonstrating application of generalstructural principles. That is, the principles of static equilibrium, geometric compatibility,constitutive relations, and superposition are applied in a systematic manner. Alternatively, andalmost without exception, a technique commonly referred to as the transformed-section methodis presented as a way to solve problems involving bending. By imposing a strain compatibilitycondition, materials making up the cross section are transformed into a fictitious homogeneousmaterial. This is accomplished by adjusting the geometry of each material by a ratio of its elasticmodulus to that of the base material modulus, creating a fictionalized shape of homogeneousmaterial. The resulting single material cross section

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James Fuller

Session 2306 Classroom and Site Integration: Utilizing Site Documentation and Classroom Assignments to Make Connections Between Theory and Practice James E. Fuller, AIA University of HartfordAbstractThe late Italian master builder Luigi Nervi said “A good architect is someone capable ofseeing the main problems of a design, capable of examining with serenity the variouspossible solutions, and who finally has a thorough grasp of the technical meansnecessary to accomplish his project.” Ernest L. Boyer and Lee D. Mitgang, in their reportBuilding Community: A

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Andrew Rose

Session 3148 Distance Education the Old-Fashioned Way – Take Me To Your Students Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown GAI Consultants, Inc.AbstractDuring August 2000, I had the opportunity to teach a course on Transmission Line Design andConstruction in Bangkok, Thailand. This opportunity came about through my summer consultingexperience with GAI Consultants, Inc. (GAI). The Pennsylvania State University’s AdvancedSchool of Power Engineering hired GAI to teach the course to engineers from

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Rosemary L. Parker; Arthur Johnson

Session 2470 The Effects of Technology on Diversity or When is Diversity Not Diversity? Arthur T. Johnson, Rosemary L. Parker University of MarylandThe University of Maryland campus community is proud of its diverse student body. It is acampus where diversity is celebrated and nurtured, even defended before the U. S. SupremeCourt. The University has invested heavily in building and maintaining a student bodyconsisting of 12% African Americans, 13% Asian Americans, 5% Hispanic, and 4% ofinternational origin.The mission of the University

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William Szaroletta

Session 1520 WEB PAGE AND LIST SERVE UTILIZATION TO APPROACH 24/7 STUDENT-FACULTY COMMUNICATION William K. Szaroletta Purdue UniversityABSTRACTAs a general trend, 24/7 is becoming an industry standard for information availability. Studentsare no different in demanding 100% “up time” of communication with the professor anddemanding quicker feedback to their non-lecture-time questions, quizzes, exams, homework, andlab reports. In a nutshell, students desire office hours on a 24/7 basis. This paper details theestablishment and testing of a part-public, part

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Paul Givens; Anita L. Callahan

2642 FEEDS-Growth of Engineering Management in Florida Dr. Paul E. Givens, Dr Anita L. Callahan University of South FloridaAbstract The Florida Engineering Education Delivery System (FEEDS) is a statewide consortiumof the engineering schools in the state of Florida. It was created to provide distance educationfor engineers in the state. It has grown over the years from a few students in a few programs tomany students in both graduate and undergraduate programs at more than eighty sites. Thispaper describes the growth of one of those programs, Engineering

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Sean DiBartolo; Linfield Brown; Chris Swan

Session 3651 The WERC Design Contest: Tufts University’s Experience Christopher W. Swan, Linfield C. Brown, and Sean T. DiBartolo Tufts UniversityAbstractTufts University has participated in the annual environmental design contest of the Waste-management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) for 5 of the last 6 years. Beyond itscompetitive aspects, the design contest serves as a valuable educational tool in the undergraduatecurriculum. For example, students are exposed to "real world" aspects of environmental design,learn the importance of working in multi-disciplinary teams, and

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Raymond Desrosiers; John Rivera; James Gregory; Don Baggert; Lloyd Heinze

Session 1323 Nature of College Advisor in the Twenty-first Century James M. Gregory, Raymond Desrosiers, Lloyd Heinze, Don Bagert, John Rivera Texas Tech UniversityAbstractAdvising is an important task for success of college students, especially students withprofessional majors, such as engineering. In addition to meeting the breadth of a collegeeducation, students in a professional major must also complete depth of study in mathand science and the application of this knowledge in professional development. Therequirements are strict and the sequencing of courses is critical for both academic successand efficiency in

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successfullower-division classes indicated the need to introduce ABE students to engineering courseworkearly in their academic careers. The benefits of early interaction with lower division studentshave also been discussed by Yokomoto, et al.1. While retention of ABE students is the primarydriving force for this change, offering an introductory course in Agricultural and BiologicalEngineering has the additional potential of recruiting students who are undecided in selecting anengineering major. In addition to the learning process, a possible benefit to the students is thedevelopment of support networks that include ABE classmates, faculty and staff. Suchnetworks, according to Hewitt and Seymour2, enable students to persist in their chosen major.Creation

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Jr., Oscar Barton; Edward Lenoe; Clinton Cornell

the potential, the resulting beams are examined using opticalmicroscopy exploring both welded and brazed joint characteristics, hardness tested to generatehardness profile through the joined sections, and sectioned across the both the brazed andwelded section producing tensile properties. Tensile test specimens were also machined fromthe flanges and web sections of the box structure and will provide needed mechanical responseinformation. A final comparison comes through the free vibration dynamic analysis comparingfundamental frequencies of the beams. The four box beams were hot formed formed using twoC shell sections. Each C section was fabricated using pre-formed, plasma sprayed compositemetal sheets. These unidirectional sheets were

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Frank Hughes

Asession2793@ “Achilles Heel of University-Industry Partnerships” Frank W. Hughes, Ph.D The Boeing Company University-industry partnerships are far from the ideal that the name might imply.Although most of these collaborations technically meet the definition of partnerships bybeing associations which have joint interests and benefits, the benefits to the participatingparties are usually not equal because of a fundamental weakness in the way that the vastmajority of these partnerships are set up. The principal weakness (e.g. the Achilles heel)of university-industry partnerships is that the basis of the terms and conditions for mostof these relationships

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M. Silva; Sheri Sheppard

Session 2330 Enabling and Sustaining Educational Innovation M. Kathleen Silva, Sheri D. Sheppard The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/ The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Stanford UniversityAbstractThis paper reviews the responses to questions regarding innovation in engineering educationposed to a nine-person panel assembled for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement ofTeaching’s pre-conference workshop at the Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2000 in Kansas City.Questions were focused on the

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Nicholas Arcolano; Richard Vaz

Session 2632 Teaching Signals and Systems through Portfolios, Writing, and Independent Learning Richard Vaz, Nicholas Arcolano WPII. IntroductionThis paper describes an integrated approach to outcome-driven instruction and assessment of acontinuous-time signal and system analysis course at the sophomore level. A set of seven courseoutcomes was established: four relating to traditional topics in frequency domain analysis ofsignals and systems, and three relating to broader educational outcomes, including effectivecommunication

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Andrew Rose

develop improved student writing skills. The “Writing Assignments for TechnicalCourses” workshop sponsored by the Liberal Education Division at the 2000 ASEE Conferencediscussed how student peer review can be used with well-designed writing assignments intechnical courses. Based on this workshop, writing assignments in a junior level civil engineeringtechnology course have been used to help students improve their writing skills. Writingassignments varied from transmittal memos, technical memos, laboratory reports and a five toseven page research paper on topics that time constraints prevent from being covered in class. Tocompare the effectiveness of peer reviewed writing assignments with non-peer reviewedassignments; the peer review process was

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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

Session 2460 Engineering Education & International Management Initiatives Arthur Gerstenfeld, Maria F. Flores Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Worcester, MassachusettsAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe a project, which has been in work for the past two years,which we believe, has several implications for education. This project has been partially fundedby the Department of Education, Business and International Education Division. While we allagree that the economic and technical world is smaller and closer every day, we do not agree onhow we should handle that in terms of educating

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Raymond Kliewer

Engineering (FE) examination, prepared by the National Council ofExaminers for Engineering and Surveying, is an obvious potential assessment tool 2.NCEES is exploring ways to work with academia to heighten awareness of using the FEexamination to help programs satisfy the outcomes assessment required under the revisedABET 2000 criteria. A NCEES white paper has been prepared addressing this issue forEAC of ABET programs 3.The FE ExaminationThe NCEES examinations are used universally by all states in the US as well as by otherrelated government jurisdictions. Thus, these examinations are identical across the US,making them an ideal benchmark for comparing the academic attainment levels of USgraduates of engineering and ET programs. Some states do not

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Martin Trethewey; John Gardner; Thomas Litzinger

Session 2566 Integrated Design, Experimentation, Analysis and Life Skills (IDEALS) Courses Thomas Litzinger, Martin Trethewey, John Gardner Penn State University/Penn State University/Boise State UniversityAbstractA number of teaching/learning reforms are underway in the College of Engineering at Penn Stateto enhance student learning with a special focus on providing opportunities for students to applyand integrate their knowledge and skills, and to develop lifelong learning skills. All of thereforms use problem-based, collaborative learning approaches to achieve the

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Mark Evans; Joe Hanus

does notdiminish the professional requirement to train new instructors in techniques for delivering high-quality instruction. Engineering students will rise to the high educational standards set for themin the classroom. Sending untrained instructors into the classroom can result in a lower standardof instruction, can diminish the expectations and interest of the students, and may ultimatelyreduce the quality of engineers in the profession.The Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academyplaces great emphasis on training instructors prior to their entering the classroom to teachengineering courses. Our goal is that students, on the first day of class, will not be abledistinguish between rookie instructors

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Sara Soderstrom; Chris Lorenz; Michael Keinath; Donald D. Carpenter

HispanicProfessional Engineers Regional conference, which was held at the University of Michigan.ASEE student members will be participating in an informational panel about applying to andchoosing a graduate school. We will also be hosting an informational booth about graduateschool during the conference’s Career Fair. Secondly, we actively perform service to theUniversity community with our annual Martin Luther King Jr. Event. In the past few years wehave organized various events including a seminar on the climate of graduate school for minoritystudents and an outreach program to inner-city middle schools. This year, we plan to again focuson the climate at the College of Engineering. We hope to organize both informational and socialevents that will welcome

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Raju Dandu; Doug Oliphant; David Delker

Session 1150 Reviving the Technical Currency of Engineering Technology Faculty Raju Dandu, David Delker Kansas State University-Salina Doug Oliphant KASA Industrial Controls, Inc, SalinaAbstractEngineering Technology faculty development is a continuous challenge. Enrichment of facultythrough real-life industrial experience provides the opportunity for continuous improvement oftechnology faculty technical currency. In the summer of 2000, one of the mechanical

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Enno Koehn

Session 1615 Assessment of Student Work Experiences in Civil Engineering Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has adopted a revised set ofcriteria for accrediting engineering programs. Nevertheless, as in the past, civil (construction)engineering departments will be required to demonstrate proficiency in specific subject areaswhich are included in the ABET program criteria.This paper investigates, according to civil engineering and construction related students, the levelat which their

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Philip Young

colleges and universities. Appendix I lists all the EPprograms identified from an Internet search. All the programs share the same title -Engineering Physics - and include at least some physics and some engineering, but that isabout all they have in common. They differ in academic administration, relative amounts ofphysics and engineering, and both physics and engineering content. This paper looks at boththe differences and the similarities in all the programs in an effort to better define what ismeant by Engineering Physics.Most of the information for this paper was taken from the EP program web pages. (AppendixI includes the URL’s for the university home pages.) A total of 47 programs were identified.The web sites for 14 of the 15 accredited

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Roman Stemprok

simulation using the latest microprocessor technology. The laboratory exercises includedfeedback and control systems, computer control in process and real time simulation. Researchactivities outside the classroom included computer-based activities and power engineeringlibrary research. The gender mix of students was about 50/50. This teaching experience posed anumber of questions in terms of the use of existing resources (electronics hardware and software)to direct transfer of previously developed technologies at a new university, or to develop theprograms that followed the increase of faculty skills.I. IntroductionThe Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. (MUCIA) was selectedby the Ministry of Education-Malaysia to

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Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

Session 3563 Teaching Factory Sema E. Alptekin, Reza Pouraghabagher, Patricia McQuaid, and Dan Waldorf Cal Poly - San Luis ObispoI. IntroductionAcademia must develop a new approach to teaching in order to better prepare engineering studentsto function efficiently and adjust readily within the framework of the factories in the real world.Some engineering programs emphasize theory, while others emphasize application as isolatedblocks. The "Teaching Factory" being developed at Cal Poly combines both theory andapplications. It

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Mary Curran; Doug Bill; Catherine Etter

students have used the ion chromatograph. Over 50 students have used thegroundwater simulators. The instructors and students have learned a lot from the experience.However, we have many suggestions for improvement in student instrumentation activities.Modifications to the lab exercises have improved instrumentation usage and student knowledge,skills, and problem solving abilities. Community projects have used this instrumentation too.Community pollution concerns are being investigated with this instrumentation. Localemployers have requested students trained with this instrumentation to apply for employment.High school students, college students and high school teachers view groundwater plumedemonstrations and water analyses on this instrumentation

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Andrew Jackson

as a member of a two or three-member team to workclosely with an industry sponsor throughout the term. Students must coordinate their activities toaddress a significant and challenging issue facing the manager within the sponsor’s organization.Each sponsor commits to a mentorship role for the student team(s) assigned to the organization,while at the same time, serving as the manager who is responsible for personnel performancewithin his/her department and/or division.The AMT Capstone course provides each student with real-world exposure to problems andissues faced by line and staff managers across a wide variety of aviation-oriented disciplines.Recently completed capstone team projects include: evaluations of current and pending

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Robert Weis

Session 3486 Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Laboratory Development for Chemical Process Operator Technology Education Robert S. Weis Delaware Technical & Community CollegeAbstractDelaware’s chemical industries are critical to the state’s economic viability and requiretechnicians entering their workforces to have greater academic knowledge and laboratory-basedexperiences related to current and future job responsibilities. To meet this community needDelaware Tech has initiated a new Associate Degree in Chemical Process Operator Technology.Delaware’s