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2001 Annual Conference

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Suzanna Rose; Mariesa Crow; Susan Murray

average and overall success was rated between average and very successful.Career Development Workshop Twenty-six women attended the daylong workshop emphasizing careerdevelopment for female faculty members. Topics included time management, goalsetting, negotiation, tenure, and succeeding in academia. Activities includedpresentations, breakout sessions, and self-reflection. Feedback from the workshop wasoverwhelmingly positive. Junior faculty freely asked senior faculty for advice onpromotion/tenure and sought insight into informal campus policies. On the evaluationform, one senior faculty member commented that she appreciated the "opportunity toexchange knowledge with colleagues." Several assistant professors expressed concernsabout the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Steven T. Walsh; Frederick Betz; Donald D. Myers; Halvard E. Nystrom

cases to support the study of management of technology1,2. Nystrom and Huggans made the following observations as a result of surveying current programs andcourses that were offered by engineering master’s level programs in MOT. • The development of more technology management case studies should be encouraged. A large number of courses use case studies and a number of respondents commented that it was difficult to find appropriate case studies that had sufficient content. • There is no common usage of textbooks. This might reflect a shortage of appropriate textbooks. It was noted, however, that it might be difficult to develop textbooks that satisfy the diverse demand that exists

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2000 Annual Conference

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John Chen; Mike Ellis

high of 40.4%.All disciplines of engineering (including technology) were represented among the respondents,and the number of respondents in each discipline roughly reflects their predominance oncampuses (e.g. electrical/computer, mechanical, civil engineering had the highest numbers,architectural, bio/biomedical, mining/minerals, nuclear engineering had the lowest).For the coalition as whole, there is relatively little variation between faculty of different rank forthree observed traits: (1) faculty skill level, as shown by the percentage of faculty who self-reportedly are either intermediate or advanced in skill level with various technologies (Fig. 1);(2) percentage of faculty already using various technologies (Fig. 2); and (3) percentage

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Peter J. Shull

respective individual class reports. • The remainder of the students prepared group reports that reflected less effort than individual assignments. • No group reports appeared to optimize the group scenario with the quality exceeding the individual reports.It is unclear whether these problems resulted from the length of the reports (which were at leastthree times as long as the class assignments) or the structure of the report (multi-sectioned,requiring analysis and discussion of the data) or the structure of the group scenario.There are numerous possibilities explaining the difficulty of incorporating group writing intolaboratory engineering courses. A major problem appeared to be the typical student’s

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2000 Annual Conference

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Hisham Alnajjar

theireffectiveness, reflect on the experience and offer other institutions a picture of what goeson in such an environment.IntroductionThe University of Hartford is an independent, mid-size comprehensive, primarilyundergraduate institution of about 6500 students (full & part-time). It is complex for itssize with seven baccalaureate schools/colleges—arts and science, engineering, business,engineering technology, and education/nursing/health professions, an art school, and aschool of music/dance/drama—as well as 2 two-year colleges. The COE enrolls about400 undergraduate students on full-time or part-time basis and offers ABET accreditedprograms in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. It also offers a practice-oriented Masters program in various

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2000 Annual Conference

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

in an effort to reach newstudents, with a particular emphasis on workforce development. In fact, a number ofprivate sector and College partnerships are allowing the institution to serve professionalmembers of business in new and creative ways such as credit-based professionaldevelopment programs, industry certification and other upcoming workforce needs.This paper has explored a number of central issues relevant to distance and engineeringeducation. The authors hope that such exploration will foster more discussions on thoseaspects of distance methodologies, which have the potential of benefiting distanceeducation most.Bibliography:1. Wedemeyer, C. (1981). Learning at the Back Door: Reflections on Non-traditional Learning in the

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

automobile and vans manufacturing jointventures in China and Thailand. In 1997, reflecting the world’s increased interest in environmentalissues, GLOBETECH-III explored projects in the air pollution control and abatement field. Theretrofit of a fossil power plant in Russia with air pollution control equipment, and a study tomonitor air pollution along the Autobahn in Germany were the two projects discussed. In 1998,the discussion shifted towards new, renewable energy sources. GLOBETECH-IV discussed an airpollution control project in China and photovoltaic equipped dispensary vans in Africa. In the fallof 1999 GLOBETECH-V discussed fuel cell equipped taxis for Los Angeles, California, andcontinued the discussion of photovoltaic equipped vans for

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Donald N. Merino

. Conclusions and ObservationsThe fact that there were no topics clearly eliminated suggests that engineers need to know a broadset of topics to achieve economic literacy. This result is reinforced by a survey done on the criteriamost important to supervisors of new engineering undergraduates (Koen, 1997, 1998), that indicateda large gap in these areas. The Engineers Workforce Project (Parker, 1997) showed that engineers inindustry spend a very significant amount of time in management/administration and accounting,finance and contracts which also indicates that engineers need a broad set of competencies.The relatively high ranking for Risk Analysis and Simulation may reflect the fact that many of the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Duane L. Abata

engine operation andanalysis rather than the mechanical design (noise, structure, vibration, balance, etc.) Studentinterest in these courses has always been very good. Typically, approximately one hundredstudents are enrolled in the first engines course each year. (The department enrollment isapproximately 1200-1400 students.) Interaction with industries in the automotive and dieselengine arena has been and continues to be strong. The quality of the engineering program at boththe undergraduate and graduate level is clearly reflected in the students which graduate from theuniversity. The Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics at MichiganTechnological University is well noted for national ranking, student balance, and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Alamgir Choudhury

engineering and technology graduates. To keep pace withthis change, engineering and engineering technology programs are upgrading their Page 5.368.1curriculum continuously [1-3]. Two-year institutions are behind in this regard due toprogram objective, student background and time constraint besides other reasons. During1997, as the college was preparing to switch from quarter to semester system, it wasdecided that need for instrumentation and control courses of both MET and EETprograms should be revisited. The result was to develop a joint course for both theprograms meeting these key objectives:(i) Reflect recent advancement in this field(ii) Fit the diverse

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2000 Annual Conference

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David S. Cottrell

. The course deliberately encouraged experimentation by the student leading to thedevelopment of his or her own style of project management. Throughout the course, studentsdeveloped their abilities in management fundamentals – planning, staffing, organizing,directing, and controlling – through practical exercises, graded homework, actual projectanalysis and in-class exams. The students examined the basic steps in development of amanagement work plan for each project phase from conceptual development to completionand close-out. However, just as projects are most often a unique, one-of-a-kind venture, theplans for construction are also distinctive and reflective of the manager’s experience,imagination, and creative insight into the needs of the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Andrew Sterian

reflected in popular textbooks) creates unnecessary difficultiesfor students. We propose spending less time on the transforms themselves and more time at thebeginning of the course in presenting a finite-dimensional vector space framework. The DFT thenbecomes a natural application of this framework: the projection of a signal onto a complex expo-nential basis. The remaining three transforms follow with the same interpretation, differing onlyin the domain of application. Thus, students are presented with a rigorous but tractable develop-ment (the DFT) that supports all four transforms with a common foundation.1. IntroductionElectrical engineering curricula traditionally include an introductory course on signals and sys-tems as a foundation for

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2000 Annual Conference

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Craig W. Somerton

contributions and worked toward the project completion when he showed up. He did not show up to meetings a couple of times, and was up to two hours late when he did show up. He did not attend lecture regularly, and therefore did not understand many of the equations. This required me to explain the equations to him before he could write any code. However, he did have a pretty good grasp of programming techniques which helped a lot.Once again Partner A did not submit an evaluation form.Our students seem reasonably honest and accurate in their evaluations, though considerablyforgiving. Clearly, these forms seem to reflect mostly major problems with an

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2000 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

flat dull quality that comes from much of thetext that is produced by students. This quality reflects a lack of flow in the wording, a conditionsimilar to reading a list that indicates no apparent connection among the various parts of the list.This lack of connection makes a reader quickly begin to wander, sometimes becoming lost inpersonal thoughts far from the actual text. The three items that may help improve all student text area focus on outlines, a review of simple paragraphing with topic sentences and supportinginformation, and an overview of the transitions that can be placed in a piece of writing to make thetext flow. These relatively easy elements in writing can make a great difference in the quality of astudent’s text.An additional

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2000 Annual Conference

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

elimination. Students can repeatquestions and answers as many times as they wish, however no points are awarded for repeatselections. The question data is all stored in a plain ASCII text file, such that the number andmakeup of the questions in the simulation can be easily changed. For our purposes, there aretwenty questions for a total value of 100 points. Page 5.73.4 5Recommendations for UseThe purpose of this simulation is not so much to teach new information or to test students’knowledge, but rather to stimulate reflective thoughts and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Pedro Febles Cortez; John Dahlstrom; Chris Mattus; Aleksander Malinowski; Gary Dempsey

otherhand, available videoconferencing software, or voice-over-IP is provided only in the ready to useapplications that are difficult to adapt to the specific needs of the system and incorporate as anelement of a larger program15.Web-based Controller ArchitectureAll aspects of the problem that are described in the previous section are reflected in the designedsystem that was implemented and is in operation at Bradley University. The Bradley Office Page 5.720.2Explorer system consists of seven main components:• Remote control interface that runs inside a Web browser of a remote user's computer.• Web server providing the remote interface for

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2000 Annual Conference

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

-campus engineers on a 24-hour basis, making it easier for these persons to develop someunderstanding of polymers. Studying the web-based instructional modules includes time for reflection on theinformation by the student that is unlikely to be possible in a traditional classroom-basedteaching. This use pattern may better accommodate individual student attention spans, allowingbetter learning and absorption of the material. The flexibility of the web-based teaching providesbetter educational experience for the students than that obtained from the traditional, contiguous(fixed length) classroom teaching format. This flexibility includes the range of a variety ofmultimedia available, and the opportunity for the student to study the material

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Christine D. Noble; Beth M. Myers; Karen E. Schmahl

270 # of problems reviewed 297 262 Newnan Chapters Covered 1,2,3,4,5,6 7,7a,8,9,10,11,12,13 & # of pages in Chapters covered 218 294 Lavelle # of problems reviewed 313 343 Sullivan, Chapters Covered 1,2,3,4,11 5,6,7,10 Bontadelli # of pages in Chapters covered 221 198 &Wicks # of problems reviewed 236 135Chapter problems were classified as one of six types of problems. The categories, presented inTable 3, reflect a continuum of problem types from general skill type

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2001 Annual Conference

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Dick Bickerstaff; Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Robert Speckert

). Learning at the back door: Reflections on non-traditional learning in the lifespan. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press. 2. Jepson, N. (1973). The beginning of English university adult education – policy and problems. London: Michael Joseph. 3. Brown, J.; Lewis, R.; and Harcleroad, F. (1969). AV instruction: Media and Methods. New York: McGraw-Hill. 4. Moore, T. E. (1997). The Corporate University: Transforming Management Education. American Accounting Association. Accounting Horizons, Vol. 11 No. 1, March 1997, pp. 77-85. BibliographyHAMID Y. EYDGAHIDr. Eydgahi is the Dean and Associate Professor of Engineering and Industrial Technologies at

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2001 Annual Conference

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Susan Creighton; Edward Young; Jed Lyons

-post testingraising the total to 44 percent. This is the lowest rating of any of the 16 skills on the survey.I can perform experiments. Seventy-four percent of the students feel proficient in this area.Student ratings increased 14 percent from pre to post. An additional 22 percent believe theyhave a moderate level of expertise.I can apply statistical methods to analyze and interpret data. On the posttest, slightly over halfof the students selected a proficient category for this skill. This reflected a 12 percent increase.Also notable was the 16 percent decrease in the proportion of students selecting the lowestproficient category.I have effective oral communication skills. Prior to this course, 65 percent of the students believethey were

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2001 Annual Conference

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A. R. Zaghloul

discussed lab skills are identified, educational behavioral objectives areto be written and associated with each of the TDM model domains. This facilitates thedesign and implementation of a proper assessment plan. This plan will have the followingpositive educational characteristics; i. Well Structured. The first important characteristic of a successful assessment plan is structure. In itself, this reflects a well structured educational experience that the students goes through to get a good education. It eliminates lots of frustration and miss conceptual education on the side of the student. And, it helps the instructor manage the educational environment more effectively. ii. Maximum Objectivity

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael Ruane

a geometric understanding of calculus, to reflect upon and write about theirmathematical work, to explore mathematical problems until they could create meaning andunderstanding for themselves and to participate in some forms of team-oriented learning.Early reform efforts frequently just added computer exercises to existing topics (similar to thecurrent 'add a CD in the back' approach to engineering textbook reform). It became apparentthat computer exercises alone were merely a patch on the older system, and that a moreextensive restructuring of the curriculum was possible with the new computational tools. Inparticular, students could learn the concepts of calculus and immediately apply them tocomplicated real problems with appropriate

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1998 Annual Conference

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Marcus Huggans; Halvard E. Nystrom

engineers, the profession has gained credibility. However,many respondents commented that this was not the case in technology management.The results from this study as well as some of the comments made by the respondents point to afew areas of opportunities. These include:• The development of more technology management case studies should be encouraged. A large number of courses use case studies and a number of respondents commented that it was difficult to find appropriate case studies that had sufficient technical content.• There is no common usage of textbooks. This might reflect a shortage of appropriate textbooks. It was noted however, that it might be difficult to develop textbooks that satisfy the diverse demand that exists.• There

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1998 Annual Conference

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Todd Nocera; Martha Cyr; John McDonald; Chris Rogers

Experiences Page 3.553.2After covering lab safety and the general workings of the course, we started them the first day onquantifying sound. Using a sound meter, they walked around outside, trying to find the loudestand quietest sound. This naturally led to how sound propagation, which they learned by makingtheir own wave tanks with picture frames (the cheap plastic box kind) and eye-droppers. Theytried using multiple sources and looked at interaction with the walls. A number of students putother objects into the tank and looked at how waves reflected off of arbitrary shapes. This wasthe first lab where the students were able to exercise their imagination

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1998 Annual Conference

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Spyros A. Kinnas; Hillary Hart

to let the student assess easily the effects of differentparameters on the physical phenomena being studied. The student can then compare theoreticalpredictions with experimental data. Thus far, the site developed for the wave-theory coursecontains several visualization tools of the flow field under the linear wave theory and Stokes 2ndorder wave theory. Several animated graphics already exist, demonstrating the following topics: • Particle trajectories and streamlines under linear waves • Particle trajectories under stokes 2nd order waves • Wave group • Wave reflection and standing wave • Combination of linear wavesOnly one of these animations (the first) is fully interactive at the moment

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1998 Annual Conference

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Susan M. Bolton; Scott D. Bergen; James L. Fridley

natural systems. This approach represents anew paradigm for engineering design. In another paper, we identified principles to guide thosepracticing ecological engineering that reflect our own thinking as well as ideas from others whohave written on engineering and ecological design (Bergen et al., 1997b). The five basic designprinciples we propose are: 1. Design consistent with ecological principles 2. Design for site-specific context 3. Maintain the independence of design functional requirements 4. Design for efficiency in energy and information 5. Acknowledge the values and purposes that motivate designWe define ecological engineering broadly and advocate its application to a number of problemareas. Potential applications

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1998 Annual Conference

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Parviz F. Rad; David M. Woodall

of degree delivery extendto the video outreach students who have enrolled in the UI EngineeringManagement program, but they reside outside the state of Idaho. On reflection,the outreach mode of instruction might not replace the traditional classroomdelivery mode, but it is exceptionally effective in reaching those students who,due to proximity or due to work obligations, would not have been able to pursuea degree otherwise.Bibliography1. Cobourn, W., and Lindauer, G., A Flexible Multimedia Instructional ModuleFor Introductory Thermodynamics, Journal of Engineering Education, July 19942. Harris, A., Evolution of Video Technologies For Distance Learning, SMPTEJournal, December 19963. Penfield, P., Master of Engineering; A Status

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1998 Annual Conference

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Alfred E. McKenney; James A. Jacobs

inEngineering Materials, Science, and Technology (NEW:Update) experiments includes paperspublished during the first ten years of the annual workshop compendiums. They have beenreproduced in their original peer-reviewed form, preserving the individuality among the papersand reflecting the author’s style and method. We have combined the convenience and capacity ofthe CD-ROM with the power of the Adobe Acrobat document format. The result is a medium forthese experiments which provides better support to your classroom and laboratory needs.There are some video clips on the EMSET CD-ROM. Of additional interest to you and yourstudents will be the Video Supplement bonus disk included in this package. This second disccontains video segments on new and emerging

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1998 Annual Conference

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Francis J. Doyle III; Ferhan Kayihan

Page 3.277.4zones are described by mass and energy balances of the following form (the interested readeris referred to the original paper for complete details): ∂ρ Si ∂ρ = −υ S Si + RSi i = 1,...,5 ∂t ∂z ∂ρ Lj ∂ρ Lj = µυ L + RLj j = 1,...,4 ∂t ∂z ∂T υ ∂T (1 + α ) = −υ S (1 ± α L ) ∂t υ S ∂zwhere the signs reflect the co-current and counter-current sections, respectively. There arethree primary zones, in which these ten equations are applied. In the implementation forPCM, a lumped approximation of

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1998 Annual Conference

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William H. Mason

) Page 3.305.4The weights of the body and tail are obtained by multiplying their areas by the paper density 4 Wbody = Bl Bw ρ paper g (5) Wtail = Tl Tw ρpaper g (6)while the weight of the paper clip is measured. Following Haftka,1 the weight of the wing (rotor),“was assumed to increase cubically with its radius to reflect strength and stiffness requirementsin a real helicopter”, 3  R  Wwing = Wwing0  r