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David G. Meyer

variety of report formats generated are also described. INTRODUCTION In the early 1970’s, the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue Universityadopted a course & instructor evaluation system to be used in all courses (undergraduate and graduate, lectureand laboratory classes). The evaluation system adopted was based on a series of questions that students couldrespond to using a five-point scale, with answers ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" (the Pur-due Center for Instructional Services has compiled a large set of such questions — referred to as theCAFETERIA System — from which "customized" course & instructor evaluation forms can be

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

Session 1220 The Design of Optimal Digital Filters Directly from Analog Prototypes Aaron Robinson and Fred O. Simons, Jr. High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering Florida A&M University and Florida State UniversityAbstract - Generally analog prototype filters are not candidates for the design of optimum digital jilters because the processingrequirements to convert from the analog protoppe jZter to the target digital

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Lucian P. Fabiano

over two semesters. Eachsemester consists of fourteen weeks . During each week of the firstsemester two hour lectures are given on the basic topics related to theproject development process. The topics covered including thefollowing: - Projects and their .inter-dependencies . - Th~ project life cycle and- its phases. - Project life cycle deliverables. - The development process as its relates to the project life cycle. – Project management. - The-concurrent engineering design process. – Design review meetings. - Project development evaluation and reporting.The second semester consists of two hour, weekly laboratory

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L. F. Borjón; F. Martín del Campo

establishes basic requirements for each course but thelecturer is free on the way he teaches and other topics that could be included. This way new interesting topicsare continuously inserted in the curricula. This process is supervised and evaluated by a program coordinator inorder to control the overall quality of the engineering degree. 2) Hands-on experience: This is one of the main concerns of the engineering programs and is enforcedby means of laboratories, workshops, demonstrations, and work field experiences among others. The academicdepartments have operational and development plans to guarantee that the student obtains an experience thatwill be significant and useful when he/she works. 3) Lecturers evaluation: Students fill out

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Joan A. Burtner; Benjamin S. Kelley; Allen F. Grum

courses during the fall term(five credits each), and one review/problem solving course during both the winter and spring terms (two creditseach). The instructors for these courses were recruited from the regular engineering faculty, based on theirteaching excellence and interest in and sensitivity to the needs of freshmen. -We also hired one or more studentassistants each of the AIMS courses. The two AIMS courses offered in the fall term were the benchmark courses of the program. One ofthese five-credit courses (AIMS Math) consisted of guided laboratory exercises and exploring calculusconcepts through the use of the MAPLE software package. The other five-credit course (AIMS Chemistry),which is the primary focus of this paper, emphasized

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Susan B. Millar; Steve Kosciuk; John C. Wright; Debra Penberthy

-- —.. - .- Acknowledgements The Chem 110 evaluation research was funded by the ARPA TRP “Diversity and Cultural Change:Mafifacturing Engineering Education for the Future” grant, EEC8721545 (administered by the NSF), theNew Traditions: Revitalizing the Curriculum” grant from the NSF's Course and CurriculumDevelopment: Systemic Changes in the Chemistry Curriculum program (Grant No. Due-9455928), and aHilldale Foundation grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor to the LEAD Center. References1. For a thorough description of the course design and the underlying rationale, see “Authentic LearningEnvironment in Analytical Chemistry using Cooperative Methods and Open-Ended Laboratories in LargeLecture

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Silvia G. Middleton; Monika Lumsdaine; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt

HBDI was used to form the teamsfor the semester, which were multi-disciplinary. The team projects were also interdisciplinary in nature. Theteams in ENGR 1202, offered first in the spring 1996 semester, are disciplinary, as are the projects. This isintended to assist in the formation of “base groups,” or teams of students that move through the curriculumtogether. The class focuses further on the development of team and design skills, with a laboratory for thedisciplinary work. All entering students in the engineering technology program are required to complete EGET 3071.Offered for the first time in the fall of 1995, this one credit-hour course taught team skills and organized theteams to learn eight computer programs on the college’s

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Sandra L. Bishop; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre

Activities Mentors are used as student resources for two major annual engineering recruitment programs. In addition,there are twelve scheduled admissions office programs. The major engineering program dates are mandatory for thementors to attend. As mentioned previously, all mentors are trained to give engineering building tours, which includeengineering laboratories and facilities. A major focus of the tour is the interaction that occurs between the mentor andthe prospective engineering student. Phone-a-thons are another recruitment responsibility of the leadership team. Prospective engineering studentsare contacted following admission into the engineering school to congratulate them and to answer questions.Prospective students are

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John H. Damell

. Procedure This section of the proposal includes a logical, organized, and detailed explanation of the procedures thatwill b used to accomplish the objectives of the project. The procedure section may include a technical plan anda management plan. A technical plan includes highly specific details of the methods, tests, instrumentation,quality control, materials, design approach, and special techniques. A management plan includes a descriptionof key personnel with their qualifications to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Also, include organizationsupport or collaborative effort; resources, such as equipment, space, laboratories; and schedule for completion ofthe proposal in the procedure section. Tables or diagrams used to simplify the

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John H. Damell

. Procedure This section of the proposal includes a logical, organized, and detailed explanation of the procedures thatwill b used to accomplish the objectives of the project. The procedure section may include a technical plan anda management plan. A technical plan includes highly specific details of the methods, tests, instrumentation,quality control, materials, design approach, and special techniques. A management plan includes a descriptionof key personnel with their qualifications to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Also, include organizationsupport or collaborative effort; resources, such as equipment, space, laboratories; and schedule for completion ofthe proposal in the procedure section. Tables or diagrams used to simplify the

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Z. T. Bieniawski

salaries and expenses of a system of “laboratcxy units” - each typically consisting of five persons: fullprofessor, associate professor, post-doe, secretary and technician. Also included am students (some onfellowships but most self-supporting): 2 Ph. D.’s, 5 MS, and 2-3 undergraduates (writing their final year thesis).Professors may not consult for private gain (bt5ng state employees) but may direct consulting fees to improve Page 1.249.3 ----- .-their laboratories and obtain support for travel, supplies, and graduate and undergraduate students. They do nothave=~n[” for research grants as in the USA. Teaching is not

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Partha P. Sarkar; Kishor C. Mehta; James R. McDonald; Ernst W. Kiesling

Foundation sponsored project, Cooperative Program for Wind Engineering (CPWE) with ColoradoState University for a five-year period which ended in 1994. This multidisciplinary project involved facultyand students from various departments such as Civil, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, as well asAtmospheric Science. CPWE has been extremely successful and it is being continued into the next five-yearphase (1995-2000). In addition to extensive wind-related damage documentation and research regarding wind effects onbuildings and structures, these research centers have excelled through accomplishmen~ such as developmentof a full-scale low-rise building test facility, a missile impact test fi~cility, a glass testing laboratory, and a

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Judith E. Miller; James E. Groccia; David DiBiasio

teaching. It provides hands-on activities in many areas of teaching such as syllabus preparatio~ design and grading of assignments and exam problems, laboratory instruction, project management, cooperative learning tasks, and lecturing. This is done under the mentorship of experienced faculty in the student’s discipline, and with advising from the course faculty. The general structure of the practicum is that each student selects a course and a mentor within their discipline. Presumably the mentor is the one teaching the selected course, though this is not necessary. One of us (the seminar faculty) serves as the advisor of the practicum. The mentor and the advisor may be the same person, in the case of students in one of the

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Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

,and each team meets company representatives as the project gets underway. During the second course, Internship in Engineering, student teams pursue and complete theproject. During this time, students take two other courses and therefore remain in residence at ThayerSchool, seeking advice from faculty, and availing themselves of school facilities (machine shop,prototyping facility, computers, and assorted laboratories in optics, electronics, fluids, etc.). Numerousvisits are paid to the sponsoring company. The writing of reports and delivery of oral presentations helpstudents sharpen their communication skills. The third course, Master of Engineering Project, takes the form of an individual engineeringproject addressing a

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Nancy L. Denton; Christine L. Corum

carefully considered,continuously pursued fashion which must be incorporated into your strategic plan. Preferably these milestonesshould be established before the granting of tenure and promotion, since many of the corresponding actionsneeded will also assist in that endeavor. For example, you have determined that a textbook is needed in yourarea of specialization, and you decide to accept the challenge. Writing a textbook before achieving tenure is notrecommended, but some of the preparatory tasks such as developing a set of excellent, well-documentedpublished course notes and original laboratory exercises could assist you in establishing a case for promotion onthe basis of teaching contributions while aiding in the creation of your future

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Steven Beyerlein; John Law; Donald M. Blacketter; Herbert Hess

in the powercourse.[18] Laboratory sessions in the mechanical course were conducted from 'activitysheets' drafted by the primary instructor and refined in email/telephone discussions withthe facilitator.[9] A common 'activity sheet' format was used throughout the semester.This consisted of a short explanation why the activity was important, a list of objectives,supporting discussion and computer models, a list of questions about the models, andhands-on exercises. All lab activities were developed around teams of 2-3 students.Students were required to submit written answers, notes, and software print-outs from thelaboratory session as part of their grade. Important discoveries and unresolved questionswere inventoried and answered

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John K. Estell

see and appreciate why we previously spent all that time over “boring, useless” material. Andas the threads that enter a loom are woven into patterns, so too were the concepts that the students used indesigning their project woven into a fabric that gave them the opportunity to learn about processes and tofurther their knowledge of the architecture, organization, and operation of a computer system. REFERENCES1. M. Cartereau, “A Tool for Operating System Teaching,” SZGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 51-57, September 1994.2, J. L. Donaldson, “Teaching Operating Systems in a Virtual Machine Environment,” SZGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 206-211, February 1987.3. T. Hayashi, “An Operating Systems Programming Laboratory Course,” SZGCSE

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Michael H. Gregg; Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld; Dr. Bevlee Watford

women in engineering. The origins of engineering education in military organization has led toeducating engineers through ‘ordeal’ -- ‘learning how to deal with difficulty and failure, to go beyondwhat one thought was possible. A student learns to keep trying when things go wrong. One learnsdiscipline by striving, and failing and striving again and finally succeeding. Some will learn how to dothings that no one else has done.’ ‘The ordeal in engineering education has three primary parts -- students are asked to dohomework and quiz problems that are often beyond their ability, they receive grades that are generallybelow their expectations, and must spend what many consider to be an inordinate amount of time ontheir studies and laboratories

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Sylvia D. Pifion; Elsa Q. Villa; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

team building among program participants.PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SEEE is a one-week, 40 contact-hour, non-credit, required program for all engineering and computer sciencestudents admitted into the university who are entering their freshman year in the subsequent fall semester. Sixsessions are administered each summer which provide students with a preview of college life on the UTEP campuswhile discovering the worlds of engineering and computer science through design laboratories. Students have theopportunity to meet faculty, staff, and undergraduate/graduate engineering students. A non-credit college level mathshort course and workshop is conducted to strengthen students’ mathematics background and assist them inappropriate mathematics

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Gary E. Wnek; C. T. Moynihan; Mark A. Palmer; John B. Hudson

Departmentwithin the School of Science, and the Materials Science and Engineering Department withinthe School of Engineering, working together as a team. We have taught this course using thelectrue-recitation format. The large lectures help ensure that all students enrolled in thecourse during a given semester are exposed to consistent material; the Internet can serve asimilar purpose.Use of Computer and the Internet Computers have been used extensively in other freshman year courses at Rensselaer.MAPLE has been successfully integrated into the calculus course 2 . Physics courses includeMAPLE and other software to demonstrate abstract concepts 3 . Recently a new laboratory forthe two freshman chemistry course was developed that uses LABVIEW for data

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Rick L. Homkes

taking additional graduate classes at Purdue University, wherehe is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Technology Department. Mr. Homkes has worked for the last twosummers coding C in a prototype test laboratory at Delco Electronics, Inc. Page 1.530.7 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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Leonard Sokoloff

Session 2259 Acoustical Radar Leonard Sokoloff DeVRY Technical InstituteVirtual Instrumentation is making a significant impact in today’s industry, education and research.DeVRY Technical Institute selected LabVIEW as an excellent representative of this technologyand is implementing LabVIEW into its curriculum at all DeVRY campuses in the United Statesand Canada.LabVIEW@ (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) a product of NationalInstruments@, is a software system that incorporates data acquisition, analysis and presentation,and

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Dean R. Johnson; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

Computer Engineering, WesternMichigan University. His expertise focuses on the computer systems and fiber opticscommunication systems. He is the author of a book on fiber optics and was a facultyfellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 1982, 1991, and 1992. Page 2.61.12 12

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Michael D. Amos; Bruce E. Segee

, April 1987), Artificial Neural Networks: Theoretical Concepts, V. Vemuri (Ed.), IEEE ComputerSociety Press, pp. 36-54, Washington, D.C.[McFedries, 1995] McFedries Paul (1995), Excel for Windows 95: Unleashed, SAMS Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.[Wasserman, 1989] Wasserman Philip D., 1989, Neural Computing: Theory and Practice, Van Nostrad Reinholdpublishing company, New York, NY.Biography Dr. BRUCE E. SEGEE received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. He hasbeen an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving

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Randall L. Kolar; David A. Sabatini

experience, we have identified five key measures to easethe transition and enhance the educational experience: 1) use "real-world" projects to motivatethe learning process and introduce them at the beginning of the semester; 2) follow establishedkeys to using groups successfully; 3) ensure sufficient "coverage" by having students learn basicmaterial outside the classroom, which also fosters life-long learning; 4) team teach courses; and5) use laboratory sessions for group-learning activities. While the concepts have been tested onupper-level courses (junior, senior, graduate), we feel they are appropriate for lower-divisioncourses as well.INTRODUCTIONLocal and national surveys consistently point to several weaknesses in engineering education

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Thomas Lenox; Stephen J. Ressler; Robert J. O'Neill; C. Conley

registered professional engineer in Virginia. He graduated from USMA in 1975, and received a Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 1993. He has taught courses in statics & dynamics, mechanics of materials, geotechnical engineering, hydrology & hydraulic design, and advanced structural analysis. DR. CHRISTOPHER H. CONLEY completed his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 1983 in Civil/Structural Engineering. Since then he has held positions as a member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Conley is currently the Director of the Civil Engineering Research Center at the US Military Academy. LENOX, O'NEILL

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Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

improvement inteaching effectiveness or student learning. The MET Department’s contribution to this effortinvolved a project that focused on a restructuring of the credit hour count in the existing plan ofstudy with an emphasis on overall reduction of hours required. Outcomes for this project havebeen summarized in another paper by Hutzel, et.al [5]. A second project involves planning andimplementation of a more comprehensive recruitment/enrollment development plan. Thetechnical staff is working on a third project aimed at standardizing and documenting laboratoryprocedures to allow smoother transitions when laboratory courses are taught by different facultyor with different technical support personnel.In general, the university community has

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Widgets, Add-ons, Toolbars, and Videos: Web 2.0 Tools for Searching, Managing, and Teaching about Engineering Literature and Information

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E. Michael Wilson, Ohio University

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Engineering Libraries

. Retrieved March 18, 2009, doi:10.1300/J101v18n35•052 Bernard, M.L. (2003) Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability) Software UsabilityResearch Laboratory (Wichita State University). Retrieved from:http://www.hcomtech.com/documents/index.php?docid=5.3 Brown, M. (2007, September). Library Toolbars for Use and Development. Library Hi Tech News, 24(8),33-35. Retrieved March 18, 2009, doi:10.1108/074190507108360274 Rice, S. (2006) Take the Library with You on the Web: A Mozilla Firefox Toolbar. Brick and ClickLibraries: Proceedings of an Academic Library Symposium, Maryville, Missouri, 6, Nov. 3. ED493910. 78- 81.5 Booth, C., & Guder, C. S. (2009). If you build it, will they care? Tracking student receptivity to emerginglibrary

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Collaboration, A Cool Tool: Librarians/Faculty/Students Work Together for Quality Results

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Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; John St George, University of Auckland; Li Wang, University of Auckland

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. In thispaper the authors will discuss the structure and outcomes of these changes to the programmeand the benefits of this collaboration. Page 14.676.3Fourth Year Project structure and collaborationThe final year project is intended to give students an exercise in conducting and reporting onthe investigation of a topic in civil or environmental engineering, and demands independentthought and action. It normally comprises some combination of information research, theoryand laboratory work. Students work in pairs on the project with the work shared betweenthem. The civil and environmental engineering field offers students a wide variety of

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Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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Andrea Ogilvie, University of Texas, Austin; Jessica Jimenez, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberly Sills, Intel(r) Higher Education Program Manager

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uniqueopportunity to establish strong links with faculty, gain hands-on laboratory experience, anddevelop an appreciation for research careers in academia and industry. TREX participantsreceive a $2,600 research stipend ($1,300 per semester) and are required to spend an average of10-14 hours per week on his/her research project throughout the fall and spring semesters. Inaddition, TREX participants are required to submit: (1) a research plan; (2) monthly progressreports; (3) a daily research journal; and (4) a final written report. Finally, TREX participantsare expected to attend weekly seminars/group meetings and prepare a poster and oralpresentation.Since Fall 2001, 97 students have participated in TREX. The retention rate in engineering forTREX