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R. J. Helgeson; Troy Henson

course content sheet should reflect that using a word processor such asMicrosoft Word to type a homework assignment requires a lower computer skill level than usingthe Simulink package within Matlab. In addition, the course content sheets should also show, atleast in a qualitative sense, the amount of time or effort the student expends on a given areawithin each of the five content categories. An example of a course content sheet is shown inFigure 5. ENGIN 471 HEAT TRANSFER ENGINEERING ELECTIVE (ME) DESIGN COMPUTER USAGE LABORATORY EXPERIENCE WRITTEN COMMUNICATION ORAL COMMUNICATION BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

transmitting objective knowledge to passive students, laboratoryfaculty use coaching and socratic questioning techniques to help students understand complextechnical phenomena by constructing mental models which reflect reality as perceived byacknowledged experts while minimizing models containing significant misconceptions. Use ofconstructivist pedagogies creates an ideal context for assessing students’ abilities to completeauthentic engineering tasks rather than relying on artificial examinations which emphasize non-contextual recall of facts and closed-ended problem-solving.In this paper, we briefly describe the course structure, the process we used to create and validatea new performance assessment scoring rubric for written laboratory reports

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Chuck Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

4.36.3with the career development example that is discussed in the following sections. The specificinformation used in this example generally reflects the authors’ experiences but has beensimplified to emphasize the method and to highlight basic model concepts. Exhibit 1 Comparison of QFD Applications Product Development Application of Quality Function Deployment Whats: Customer or Hows: Technical characteristics that Product Development Product Requirement impact customer product requirements Data Characteristics desired Mapping of interrelationships of customer Importance ranking of by customer. product requirements and the

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Halvard E. Nystrom

results make sense. Any result that does not seem right is discussed until there is a consensus that the method and the results are reasonable.4. The results are modified to comply with the consensus opinion of the users.5. The model is used by the decision-makers and continuously modified to reflect the changing realities.There are many advantages to this approach. It generates a financial estimate that can becompared to other alternatives to facilitate the decision making process. The analysis enables Page 4.108.6organizational learning since the analysis points out the key factors that generate the value,which are based on explicit

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Howard I. Epstein

reduced the 144 credit hour requirement to more nearly liberal arts standards as engineering enrollments decreased. The 5-year baccalaureate programs of the 1950s that he mentioned were, in the writer’s opinion, an excellent idea except for one defect. They should have awarded the M.S. degree then. Had they, all schools today would be regarding it as the first designated degree for entry into the profession. The 1968 ASEE Goals Study did recommend that, but its suggestion was also ignored.Curricula in accredited engineering programs is definitely influenced by ABET. It has been theauthor’s experience, from the viewpoint of both a faculty member and an ABET visitor, thatprograms quickly reflect changes in ABET

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

reached the senior design class, they have a number of experiences in simulationand have overcome the initial fear associated with the use of simulators. For some, thependulum has swung to the use of simulators whenever possible, sometimes with minimaljudgment imposed on the simulator results.The object of our design course was to provide a process troubleshooting experience whichwould integrate and stretch our students’ education, while reflecting some of the new trendslisted above. At the same time, we wished to build upon the positive base of traditional designclasses which have been time-proven for engineering students.The Design CourseProcess design at CSM is taught in one three-semester credit course meeting approximately fourhours per week

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Hakan B. Gürocak

bothanalog and digital control systems, as well as their actual physical implementation in a singlecourse. Consequently, the total credit requirement for the degree is not increased yet thestudents graduate with a working knowledge of both analog and digital control systems.Course ContentME 375 Manufacturing Control Systems course is a three semester-credit course with two hoursof lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. The course was offered for the first time inSpring 1998 in the Manufacturing Engineering program at Washington State University inVancouver. The course content (Table 1) has been carefully organized to reflect the basicconcepts, namely, dynamic system specifications, stability, concept of feedback and dynamiccompensation

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Anton Pintar

integral part of the day to day work in the laboratory. Theimportance of safety in the unit operations laboratory is reflected in the course syllabus(Caspary, 1998); the first objective of the course is stated as: “Develop a constant awareness ofsafety in the laboratory so that all laboratory work is carried out in a safe manner.”The MTU unit operations laboratory involves safety hazards typical of an industrial pilot plant:high-voltage electricity, moving shafts and belts, steam and condensate lines, gas cylinders,remotely located valves that require the use of stepladders and potentially hazardous chemicals.The chemicals include kerosene, glacial acetic acid, ethanol, sodium hydroxide, potassiumhydroxide, siloxanes, mercury (in manometers and in

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Sal Arnaldo

points for URL sites that contain instructional resources for ethics are:National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) http://www.nspe.org/eh-home.htmTexas Tech Engineering Ethics Site http://murdough.ttu.edu/Ethics Center for Engineering & Science http://ethics.cwru.edu/These sites link to other useful sites.VI. Adaptations of Teachable Topics to Technical CoursesWe will now look at ways that ethical principles can be applied within actual technical coursesin the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. Most of the examples cited reflect theauthor’s own experience in public works engineering practice.VII. Computer and Numerical MethodsIn this example, incorrect output values that are not fully explained on a homework cover

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

byMehta and Schlecht (1998)12 Page 4.490.2To encourage active participation and to keep the students engaged, a typical class period isdivided into two or three mini-lectures of 15 to 20 minutes each. After a mini-lecture, studentsare given one or two multiple-choice questions. Students discuss answers to these questions inan informal group of neighbors. The voice level during these two to three minute periodsincreases, reflecting the level of interaction and collaboration going on in the classroom. Themultiple-choice questions can be formulated to test knowledge and comprehension as defined byBloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956)2. The taxonomy

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Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

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).Table 1 shows demographic information of the respondents. Note that not all 360 respondentscompleted all survey questions, which accounts for the Total values in Table 1 being less than360. Generally, respondents from larger campuses (Clemson, Georgia Tech, NCSU, Florida, andVa Tech) are comprised of more Full Professors than Associate or Assistant Professors. Theremaining, generally smaller, schools have a more uniform distribution between the three ranks.All schools show a low percentage of Adjunct, Instructor and Other faculty

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Trevor Harding

a brief overview of the developmental process thatGSIs undergo.As they progress from new student to experienced student to Ph.D. candidate, graduatestudents are invariably changing how they think, behave, and reflect on theirenvironment. This same process is occurring among students who are teaching. In fact,the two are closely interconnected. Sprague and Nyquist7,8 have conducted much of thework on developmental processes in GSIs. They established three primary stages thatGSIs pass through on their way to becoming potential professors: senior learner,colleague-in-training, and junior colleague.At the senior learner stage, students have just recently become graduate students and arestill striving to shed the identity of being an

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Sam Thompson; John I. Hochstein; Tom Benson; Jeff Marchetta

determine how a component performs. The final output from this process was aperformance curve which was compared to results presented in typical compressible flow textbooks. In using this program the student saw the same output presented in three ways;performance plots, numerical data, and bar graphs.This software was particularly useful in gas dynamics in demonstrating many basic conceptssuch as oblique and normal shock waves and Prandtl-Meyer centered expansions. The packagedemonstrates intersecting shock waves of the same family when considering two wedges insuccession. The intersection of shock waves of opposite family occurs in the opposed wedgeproblem. By setting one of the opposed wedges to zero degrees, simple shock reflection from asolid

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Michael Werner

to merit application in other courses.The experience clearly demonstrated that students are motivated and able to acquire theknowledge needed to complete projects from the Internet, rather than from the professor. Theprofessor in turn needs to function as a coordinator, facilitator, and evaluator, and is alsoresponsible for providing the minimum infrastructure. Finally, it should be noted that studentsbecome more self-reliant and confident as a result of their usage of the Internet.1 C.J. Pilgrim And Y.K. Leung. Appropriate Use of the Internet in Computer Science Courses, SIGCSE Bulletin,Vol 28, Special Issue, September 1996, pp. 81-862 F. Eitel And M. Moore-West. Reflections on Problem-Based Learning, http://www.gma.mwn.de/wbl1

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Matt C. Smith; David K. Gattie

variousscientific stripes under the guidance of mentors who themselves have such skills. Such is thepurpose of the capstone project. Projects that have already been proposed are given in Table 2and reflect real needs for real customers. Complete solutions for these projects will require aninterdisciplinary approach.Benefits of the ProgramThe benefits of this interdisciplinary certification program will be institutional as well aseducational. At the institutional level, the University of Georgia will benefit from theestablishment of a conduit between engineering and basic sciences, not only of technicalinformation but of philosophical thinking, reasoning, approaches, etc. The University is in astrong position with its excellent engineering, basic sciences

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William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

potential effect, Trice’sAcademic Locus of Control Scale was administered at the beginning and at the end of theprogram.8 The scale is designed to measure the extent to which individuals view their ownacademic outcomes as being determined by internal (personal) or external (environmental)factors.Students were asked to answer “true” or “false” to the following questions. The scale wasscored by assigning a point to every response that suggested an “internal” response.Accordingly, higher scores indicate higher internal academic locus of control. Page 4.53.61. College grades most often reflect the effort you put into classes.2. I came to college because

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Parviz Famouri; Heather Collier; Brian Inman; Wils L. Cooley

, and then choosing the"best" alternative. When a team sees the construction and performance of the artifacts producedby other teams, they may see the result of pursuing a path which they had considered and rejected. This causes them to reflect about whether or not they did make the best choices, and whether ornot their modeling and analysis were appropriate.ConclusionsOur main conclusion is that design competitions offer a superb way of creating enthusiasm, andreinforcing and even evaluating learning at all levels of engineering education. The principalweaknesses are that they usually do not provide students with much with the earliest stages ofdesign (problem formulation, client needs analysis, development of design requirements), do notforce

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Melvin Cherno; Kathryn A. Neeley

when werealized that the term “integration” actually does not appear in the ABET 2000 accreditationguidelines. We believe that the models for thinking about integration that we have presentedhere reflect a philosophy that is remarkably similar to the one underlying ABET 2000, but we Page 4.142.6also realize that the integrative foundation of the new criteria needs to be clearly articulated ifpeople are to act on it in a meaningful way. At a minimum, we believe that a curriculum thatmeets the demands of ABET 2000 will transform the traditional disciplines that are includedwithin it and be permeated by a point of view that encompasses systems as

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Joseph R.V. Flora

the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of thefunding agency. Mention of any specific trade name does not constitute endorsement of theproduct by the sponsors.References1. Report of the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, 83(1), 74-94, 1994.2. ASCE Summary Report: 1995 Civil Engineering Education Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, 1995.3. Hertz, D.W. Collaborative Development of New Design Tools to Improve Productivity, Innovation, and Learning, Environmental Engineering Education – The Relationship to Engineering Practice, Association of Environmental Engineering Professors Publication, Orono, ME, pp. 15-18, 19964. Denton, D.D

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Linda M. Head; Zenaida O. Keil; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan

. (1994). Women in Engineering. Engineering Workforce Bulletin, 133.[3] How Schools Shortchange Girls. AAUW Report. Action Guide, 1992.[4] Honey, M., Moeller, B., Brunner, C., Bennett, D., Clemens, P. and Jan Hawkins (199). Girlsand Design: Exploring the question of technological imagination. Imagination, 77-90.[5] Lane, Melissa J., et al. (1990). Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.Washington D.C.: National Science Foundation.[6] Keller, E. (1985). Reflection on gender and science. New Haven: Yale University Press.[7 Carter, R. and G. Kirkup (1990). Women in Engineering. London: MacMillian Education Ltd.[8] Nobbe, George. (1990). How we are shortchanging women engineers. Graduating Engineer,Women’s Issue 52:60.[9] Robinson, G.M

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Aaron Blicblau

33.39.45.51.57.63.69.75.81.87.93. Figure 5. Overall distribution of final scores for the major project incorporating all the assessments.This has shown to be bias-free with regards to high or low grades and was a reflection ofstudent’s grades in other subjects. It has been found that students who perform well in thefinal year major project tend to perform well in their other subjects. In particular, whenstudents present for job interviews, it is their major report which shows the employers theirwell developed writing skills. Page 5.10.7It is their verbal skills which were

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Traxon Rachell; Kaori Sakaguchi-Hall; Chris Swan

structure for these activities that will benefit the students academic learningand progress.The second conclusion is gratifying, from an educators point-of-view, as students are often led toaccept liberal education as learning for the sake of learning. This conclusion suggests that manystudents desire learning for the sake of serving. Hence it is our job to help them appreciateserving for the sake of learning. To make this happen, the students gave the followingsuggestion:1. Provide more help and guidance on managing the project and on communicating across professions2. Have more reflection discussions with course professor, SL faculty, SLTA, community partners, etc.3. Have a firm relationship with community partners to facilitate

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James J. Alpigini

reason, the students may selecta project of their choice from the list shown in Table 3. It has been found that the students willgenerally attempt the most advanced project of which they feel capable. In fact, it is rare toobserve students select a project simply because they find it easy. The majority of studentsperform one of the Pentium comparisons, which again reflects their personal interest in thearchitecture. Students without any technical background tend to gravitate toward project 1,which is to compare the architectures of the Intel 8086 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors.While dated, these processors contain many elements of the newest chips and aptly reinforce theconcept of design tradeoff. The more advanced students, typically with

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1997 Annual Conference

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Richard H. Barnett; Mary A. Eiff; D. Perry Achor; Troy E. Kostek; William J. Hutzel; Bruce Harding

and optics, most notably that the "angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection", areapplied to solve a real world problem. Lasers are commonly used in engineering technology forsurveying and building construction. Similar instrumentation is also used for quality assurancein manufacturing assembly lines.Station 2: Unlocking the Factory Door After the raw timber is delivered to the factory, the door must be unlocked. The door iscontrolled by a combination lock based on weighted binary switches. The student’s task is tounlock the door by discovering the combination. Students compete to see who can unlock thedoor in the least amount of time.Functional Description Figure 2 is a sketch of the workstation that students use to

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Roman Kuc

data transmission. Reflectance sensors are applied to bar code readers and camera autofocus systems.2. Analog-to-digital conversion. Analog-to-digital conversion describes how analog in- formation is transformed into a sequence of numbers. The binary number system is introduced. Sampling and quantization effects are illustrated using audio, image and video signals. The Nyquist criterion is explained and aliasing effects are demonstrated by undersampling a selection of popular tunes. Digital-to-analog conversion illustrates how analog information can be generated from a sequence of numbers, using children’s talking books as examples.3. Digital logic. Combinatorial and sequential logic gates are introduced and used as building

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Paul Rossler

design. • I assumed too much at first concerning the exploratory analysis. Students did not know how to approach it or interpret its results. For example, one design team conducted an exploratory analysis that showed a unit change in MTTR produced an overall design score of 12. After spending an additional ten hours or so on the design experience, they achieved a design score of 13. None of their design alternatives reflected the MTTR change. • Because students did not properly conduct or fully understand the exploratory analysis, they did not have a feel for the maximum design score possible. Because their design grade was some percentage of the maximum design

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Matthew Hayes; David Pittner; Bryon Formwalt; Daniel J. Pack

will be controlled by the 68HC11 is a set of infraredsensors attached to the robot. If an object passes closer than 10” in front of the sensor,enough IR light is reflected back to the receiver to raise its output voltage to a calibratedlevel. The A/D converter on the 68HC11 samples the voltage at 100 Hz, and if thepredetermined voltage is detected, the 68HC11 will interrupt the movement of the robot. The IR transmitter is a simple high-output LED from Radio Shack. The detectoris a photo Darlington pair, also from Radio Shack. These components were chosenbecause they were readily available. The LED is forward biased with 97.4 mA of current.The photo Darlington pair converts the received light to an output current. This current ismeasured

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Hamid Khan

College, San Francisco: Jossey Bass, Inc.Schon, D.A. (1987). Educating the reflective practitioner: Toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. HAMID KHANHamid Khan is an Assistant Professor of Industry and Technology at Ball State University. He holds BS degree inMechanical Engineering, MS degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering; MBA degree inManagement Strategy, and Doctorate in Education. Dr. Khan is a Registered Professional Engineer with extensivemanagement experience. He has rendered numerous services to the engineering profession through the offices ofASEE, ASME, ASQC, IEEE, SAE and SME

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organizational structure. Training objectives include improving group effectiveness, re-invigorating burned-out managers, ensuring maximum [optimal] use of [appropriate]* technology, and developing high potential managers. (Chmura, Henton, and Melville, 1987, p.17)*[emphasis added to clarify the research objective] It will be inaccurate to claim that functionalism and technical rationality, which have served as our guides for so long, have been superseded. Nonetheless the alternative approaches represented by reflective practice and critical theory have a logic and appeal that are attractive to the entrepreneurs as well as the social activists in CPE. (Novak, 1992, p.63) Leadership

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

reflective mind love of learning and the promise of continuing learning throughout their lives"Technology and Socio-Economic Change" (TSEC) is a junior-level seminar moderated byCSM engineering and science faculty designed to critically analyze the impact of science andtechnology on American values and institutions. The role of technology in American society isstudied and the implications of technology transfer from developed to developing nations aredebated. As an outcome of the TSEC seminar, students learn to relate technological growth tosocio-economic, cultural, and religious aspects of society and probe into the moral and socialconsequences of technological innovations. Seminar sessions consist primarily of full groupdiscussions, small