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Walden S. Rio

discipline and enjoy prestige and authority, comparable to that of international universities. At least 75% of its programs must have attained Level III status for a minimum period of 10 years and must meet additional criteria or guidelines, such as excellent outcomes in research, teaching and learning and community service. There should be evidence of international linkages and consortia and well- developed planning processes, which support quality assurance mechanisms.The

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

to the Fellows include improvedcommunication skills and self-image. Page 5.270.1The ProgramThis paper describes the planning and implementation phases for a NSF sponsored GK-12Teaching Fellows program. Students from North Carolina State University College ofEngineering are placed in elementary schools in Wake County. The activity theme for theprogram has a primary focus on physics, engineering and math. Curriculum development is donewith consideration to various learning styles and to teaching science and math to diversepopulations. The particular diverse populations addressed are children who have been identifiedas “at risk,” hearing-impaired

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James N. Peterson

in this capstone design sequence, normally taken during the fallsemester, introduces students to the design process by first requiring individual students toaccomplish two assigned designs which are sufficiently simple that these two projects can beaccomplished within six weeks time. These initial projects serve to introduce students toseveral aspects of engineering design, including understanding of the project objectives,project planning and time schedule estimates, using available resources - time and devicesand lab equipment - to create a working solution, and written and oral reports.Following these introductory individual design projects, the students are then presented withthe industry-sponsored projects and choose among the half

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Igor M. Verner; Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

breakthroughs will not be made by adults, but by students who are still in college, or in K-12 classes. Building a robot offers Page 5.300.2 a unique educational exercise that provides hands-on experience in physics, mechanics, hardware, software, and teamwork. Students also learn how to overcome failure and how to plan and organize a long-term, multi-faceted project. Fig. 1. Contest MazeThe development of an autonomous fire-fighting mobile robot is a challenging problem forcompetitors at all levels. This design problem is ideally suited to solution by an interdisciplinaryteam, an approach that is

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

seniors or graduate students (Chemical Engineering-11, Electrical and Computer Engineering-7, Environmental Engineering-2, Civil Engineering-4,3 undeclared). Five of the respondents were Ph.D. students, fourteen were M.S. students, threewere seniors that are planning on attending graduate school next year and five were unspecified.Eighteen were U.S. citizens; five were non-US citizens and four undeclared.The survey was designed to get reactions related to when the students decided to go to graduateschool, why they went to graduate school, who or what influenced them to go to graduate school,and what were their impressions of graduate school during their first or second year inundergraduate school.III. Survey ResultsThe tabular results for the

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William Biles; Carroll Hyder; Mark R. Rajai

internationalcompetitiveness1. American companies not only have to compete with their traditional Japaneseand European counterparts, but with a surge of the newly industrialized countries (NICs) such asChina, Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia. In order to compete effectively, American firms muststrive to produce high-quality products at low cost and with short lead times, while providingoutstanding customer service. They also must be able to deal with shorter product life cycles.As the American manufacturing companies become more aware of their weakness, they aredevoting attention to the process by which they define customer needs and product performance.They plan concurrently for design and manufacturing with full consideration of the entireproduct life cycle, including

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Jeffrey A. Jalkio

course evaluations it also had theeffect of integrating a number of modeling and controls concepts in the students’ minds.Included in the presentations are feedback from students and plans for futuremodifications to the laboratory experience. Page 5.350.11. BackgroundThe University of St. Thomas mechanical engineering program seeks to combine theadvantages of a liberal arts school with a rigorous introduction to engineering. As part ofthis, we try to show students interconnections between fields and encourage thedevelopment of “soft skills” such as communication and teamwork which are muchprized by employers. Among other tools for accomplishing these

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Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

class covers all aspects ofengineering design, including problem formulation, conceptualization, design planning,optimization, reporting and implementation, etc. The class emphasizes “In-Practice” learning bygoing through the entire design cycle on specific projects. A team-based project is assigned to agroup of students at the beginning of the first semester. A complete hands-on implementation ofthe design process will be achieved at the second semester. It is our belief that through this two-semester design program, students can finally integrate their engineering knowledge, skills andcreativity gained throughout the years into the realization of a final design product

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William N. Smyer

whilemaintaining an incentive for students to attend class to complete their notes. As Paterson1 saysin his paper, "… partial notes allowed students to remain engaged during class." This "fill in theblank" plan was adopted for the spring 1999 semester, with the partially completed notes denoted"Lecture Outlines." An arbitrary target of 80% complete was adopted for the lecture outlines.That is, the student would need to attend the lectures to obtain the remaining 20% or so of lecturematerial.Two methods of lecture outline distribution were considered: hard copy and web. The web wasselected and that decision proved to be popular with the students, as will be seen later in theresults of a survey

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Bethany S. Oberst; Russel C. Jones

. engineering degree programs; and a five year,two-degree program in which B.S. engineering students acquire in-depth knowledge of aforeign language and culture and complete a semester-long capstone experience workingabroad as an engineer during their fifth year. A unique feature of the Lafayette programsis the use of two-way video conferencing to offer necessary technical courses to studentsabroad.In 1983, the University of the Pacific started sending its students to Japan for their Co-opplacements. Based on the experience and a similar program in Germany, a structuredprogram for preparing students for such international Co-op experiences has beeninstituted. Martin (11) describes how the University has made available a plan wherebystudents can take

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J. Nazalewicz; H. Hadim; D. Donskoy; B. Gallois; Keith Sheppard

students on the integration of theDesign laboratory with engineering mechanics course as well as the diversified skills that werecovered in the laboratory. A more comprehensive assessment based on carefully defined sets ofcourse performance criteria and assessment performance criteria are planned. This will beconducted through a variety of means, including web-based assessment surveys of the students,as we implement within the next year the Stevens Assessment Plan to meet ABET Criteria 2000requirements.VI. ConclusionsUsing an integrated approach, the new mechanics lecture and laboratory design courses atStevens Institute of Technology are developed to allow the students to understand more clearlythe role of mechanics in the design of engineering

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Ashraf M. Ghaly

surface Footing (substructure) Elevation of footing Shape of soil deformation Stiff box Column Footing Plan of footing and shape of soil deformation Figure 4. Elevation and Plan of footing in Project GeoChallenge.Project BeamBang: This project was a required component in the Reinforced Concrete Designcourse in which the design of reinforced concrete beams is covered in detail. The

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Zachary R. Kaufmann; Nickolas S. Jovanovic; Lance W. Laettner

speed. Figure 1 compares the price-to-performance ratios ofAthlon and Pentium III processors, and shows the large advantage of the Athlon for this metric.We used the SPECfp95 benchmark2 for estimating performance, and the Computer Shopper website3 and various other sources for estimating prices. Prices from many sources were averaged. Page 5.679.2One disadvantage of the Athlon processor is a lack of software that has been optimizedspecifically for the Athlon instruction set. In our case, we plan to develop our own software, sothe only things we really lack are C and Fortran compilers that can optimize for Athlon. So far,the Athlon processor has

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2000 Annual Conference

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

“standard” engineering curriculum. In particular, it requires a comprehensive view of engineeringeducation and an understanding of the skills and attributes that must form the core competenciesof future engineers. These skills are, at least partially cited in a number of references and can besummarized as follows.1 Engineers must:• Possess a solid foundation in the applied sciences and be able to apply this knowledge inpractice;• Have a creative outlook while maintaining a critical attitude in the problem solving setting;• Possess good communication skills;• Understand the significance of organizational, scheduling, planning, and decision-making skillsand are able to apply these skills in practice;• Possess functional knowledge of business concepts

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Bruce A. DeVantier; John W. Nicklow

; • Student-teacher interaction is reduced in an off-campus program, but can be maximized through effective use of the Internet and electronic mail; • Instructors must plan to allocate additional time and effort for planning and preparing courses, as well as for commuting to the classroom location. Page 5.582.6Bibliography1. Lewis, V.W. Jr. (1997). “Expectations of On-Campus and Remote Students in a Course in Civil Engineering Technology.” Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education, Milwaukee, WI, June 15-18.2. Lowman, J. (1995). Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. Jossey-Bass

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William J. Norman; Jerald Rounds

association, academic andprofessional advising, and work experience opportunities in place to support the new curriculum.Project members plan to meet several times each year to coordinate the project and do a lot ofcoordination on line.There has been significant interest among other schools in the shared curriculum concept. Theanticipation is that upon completion of the initial project, other schools with an interest inparticipating will be allowed to join the ECAA with the investment of a new course and a plan todevelop a new academic area of emphasis, together with its support infrastructure. Thecurriculum will belong jointly to the Alliance members, so expansion will be up to thosemembers.Summary and ConclusionsA second generation shared

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Charles Moore

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) class synthesizes theory and programmingapplications to provide a plan for the automation of a local feed mill. Following adequateclassroom training on sensors and the PLC relay ladder logic instruction set, the students go to alocal mill, where they take notes on the current non-automated method of operation. The teamsthen prepare a plan for automating the process and a formal report describing their new design. Ithas been gratifying to see the level of effort and quality of work emerge from just averagestudents when they are released to be creative. Figure 4 shows a

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Chris Lorenz; Trevor Harding; Jennifer Kadlowec; Kurt DeGoede

, worked toestablish the UM-ASEE Student Chapter. The process consisted of developing a framework and Page 6.206.1constitution, becoming a recognized student organization on campus and chapter of the American “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Society for Engineering Education, electing officers and planning events. With the constitutionratified in August 1994, the first events during the 1994-95 academic year included a few paneldiscussions on topics pertinent to graduate students exploring

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Danny Bee

continuing education opportunities for practicing manufacturingengineers. The M.S. program is currently in the curriculum planning stage with a projectedinitial program offering in the fall of 2002. This masters program will provide several additionalavenues of applied research for program faculty and students. In addition, the masters programwill provide opportunities to increase the scope of selective course offerings, especially in therealm of maintaining global competitiveness through applied manufacturing philosophies.Future plans will also strengthen the industry partnerships that funnel real industrial applicationsback to the classroom and lab. The masters program will significantly strengthen thesepartnerships as many of the survey

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James Newell; Kevin Dahm

rationale for the choice• A detailed cash flow diagram of revenues and expenses for a planning horizon of at least 10 years• Specification of how the cost of the stadium would be divided between the city and the team owners• A detailed, realistic time frame for paying back the loan, if any• A decision on who would own the stadium- city or team- upon its completionStudents were advised that both the city and the team had an absolute veto on any stadium plan,so their design must appeal to both groups to be effective.Public Speaking Skills: In recent years, many engineering educators have recognized5-7 thattechnical communication is a vital component of engineering practice and have sought ways todevelop these skills in their students

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Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

a continuing interest in environmental and analytical chemistry.MARIA CURRO KREPPELMaria Curro Kreppel is professor of English and Communication at the University of Cincinnati’s OMI College ofApplied Science. Dr. Kreppel teaches oral and written communication courses, concentrating on research anddesign project curricula within engineering technologies. Trained in English and American literature and holding adoctorate in Organizational Communication, her scholarship ranges from technical communication and policyanalysis to organizational systems, strategic planning and alternate dispute resolution (ADR). More specifically,her study of organizational communication has focused on planning and implementing the communication oforganizational

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. DeWitt; Timothy L. Skvarenina

consulted to help shape the new plan of study.For many years, the Purdue EET program prided itself as being one of only a few in the UnitedStates with a strong electric power program. The plan of study included a required electricmotors course, which was organized in a traditional pattern of magnetics, DC machines,transformers, and AC machines. Electives included a course oriented toward electric utilityoperations (generation and transmission), an electrical distribution course, 1 and two controlscourses. Despite this history, some faculty viewed the required course as a target for elimination,which would allow other topics to be included. Surprisingly, however, there were a few non-power faculty who felt the course should be kept exactly as it

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1998 Annual Conference

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Sameer Kumar; John Walker; Jeffrey A. Jalkio; James Rehg

of the class. FAX machine in the classrooms distributes any additional information during the session. 4. A document camera is a useful tool. One can display explanatory samples, notes and drawings and also transmits overheads. It is quite useful for students’ presentations. It allows students to present examples, notes, etc, without any special preparation. 5. Examinations require careful planning. Sending the material is easy, but getting it back in a timely manner is more difficult. Overnight Federal Express was found to be convenient. 6. Instructors have to be constantly aware of the fact that they are in a distant class to keep them actively involved in the class activities. Particularly, they need to be vigilant

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Marilyn Dyrud

relief work. 9An M.O. While understanding of what constitutes professional ethics and an examination oftroublesome issues is important, knowledge is useless without a plan for coping with thesesituations. Michael Davis, of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IllinoisInstitute of Technology, offers the following as a modus operandi for dealing with ethicalsituations:21. State problem (“There’s something about this decision that makes me uncomfortable.” “Do I have a conflict of interest?”)2. Check facts (Many problems disappear upon closer examination of the situation, while others may change drastically.)3. Identify relevant factors (Include persons involved, laws, professional codes, other practical constraints.)4

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David Wells

minimized and computer-based-learning modules are heavilystressed. Learning is designed to be modular, in-context, inquiry-based and competency-measured. Many of the modules are self-paced, employing only minimal instructor intervention.Greenfield courses vary widely in number of credits and in duration. Most of the courses are oftwo or three credits, but there are many at one credit and a few at four or five credits. Duration isplanned around the amount of time for a ‘standard’ student to absorb the designed subject matter.Thus, planned duration of course varies from five to fifteen weeks. However, with the emphasison self-pacing, methodologies are being devised to permit students to accelerate their learningand complete courses in shorter periods

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S. Cem Karacal; John A. Barker; Jacob Van Roekel

ideas about how science relates to engineering, and howthe content of their physics, mathematics, and chemistry classes bears upon even the simplestengineering problems. This is accomplished by pointing out the relevant theory on each projectthey work on. Even though they are not expected to perform a scientific analysis of the givenproblems, they are encouraged to use their knowledge of science to make predictions and/or Page 3.278.7investigations about given situations.Once the course is well established, we are planning to offer it to all undeclared freshmanstudents in the university. Many freshmen, even those interested in science, are not

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Steven H. VanderLeest; Edward G. Nielsen

veryimpressed by the sheer size of the project as well as by the careful planning and research thatwent into the engineering of the system. The design had to account for a variety of political,historic, and economic constraints as well as the more familiar technical constraints. Figure 1 Model of Storm Surge Barrier Practical Hints for Managing a Foreign-Travel Engineering CourseBefore the trip• Arrange site tours/meetings yourself , but let your travel agency arrange the airfare, hotel accommodations, etc.• Use a hired driver/tour guide who knows the language(s). This frees you to teach and plan rather than finding your way through traffic.• Incorporate variety to peak the interest of all the students. Work

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Jay S. DeNatale; Gregg L. Fiegel

dilatometer testing systems have been used inthe Advanced Geotechnical Testing course (CE 582). Students in this course spend much oftheir time in the field performing cone penetrometer and dilatometer tests under the directsupervision of faculty. Four or five person laboratory groups are used so that each studentreceives hands-on experience with the equipment. Data and soil samples retrieved during fieldexploration are examined as part of detailed design projects. The design projects teach thestudents how to plan and complete subsurface investigations, interpret field test data, and designsimple foundation systems.Student evaluations indicate that this course is very well received. Last year, the instructor of thecourse received an overall rating of

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Arthur B. Sacks

attributes of CSM graduates. The “Profile,”drafted by the CSM Academic Planning Council over the course of the 1993-94 academic year,was debated and subsequently adopted by the CSM faculty and finally by the Board of Trustees.’Key items in the “Profile” supported the direction which the Division of Liberal Arts andInternational Studies (LAIS) had already embarked upon in its own curriculum planningactivities. Specifically, the preamble of the revised “Profile” states, CSM is committed to educating students to become good stewards of the Earth and its resources. To do this, CSM must provide students with perspectives informed by the humanities and social sciences, perspectives which also enhance students’ understanding of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Michele H. Miller

meetings he attended at Boeing couldhave been more productive if everyone had that type of training.Engineering Drawing This skill is particularly important for design engineers and producibilityengineers. Beyond seeing the drawing, an understanding of geometric dimensioning andtolerancing (little emphasis at MTU) is very important. Our students do not spend a lot of timeworking with drawings during their 4-5 years here, which was surprising to some of theengineers I talked with. On the other hand, I met a design engineer who had no drawing orgraphics classes in college and who was able to learn this skill fairly quickly.Project Planning and Management The design build team manager emphasized this skill.Designers work on long lasting projects (1-3