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James Thom; Caroline Hoy; Raymond Thompson

THOMMark Thom is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University. He received hisB.S. from Purdue University in 1981 in Aviation Technology and was employed in aerospace engineering flight testfor eleven years. He received his M.A. in Industrial Psychology from the University of Missouri in 1989 and cameto Purdue in 1992.RAYMOND E. THOMPSONRaymond E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Aviation Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette.Prof. Thompson founded the AOT Advanced Composite Laboratory and coordinates student services within thedepartment. His current research includes assessment, technology in the classroom, distance education, and

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Vincent Gallogly

collegecomputer, library and laboratory resources were available to students in the course. Andso it went, a scrambling semester with constant change.FIRMING UPBut, I had not truly involved the Engineering Advisory Council. As luck would have itduring October ‘96 the Council was meeting and I was invited to attend. I reviewed thebackground of the members in advance and found that several were financiers or venturecapitalists, others were leaders of large entities. I spoke with as many as I could before,during the breaks and after the meeting, two expressed strong interest in participating.My audience for the presentation of the plans was forming. At term end the reviewersincluded: Pierre Schoenheimer and Don Friedkin, principals of the Radix Group Inc

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Richard Upchurch; Judith Sims-Knight

Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1998.36. Mourtros, N. “Portfolio Assessment in Aerodynamics,” Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997.37. LaRose, G. “Documenting your course with course portfolios,” http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/%7Eglarose/courseinfo/portfolios/page00.html.38. Stanford Learning Laboratory “Learning Careers,” http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/hlc/index.html.RICHARD L. UPCHURCHRichard L. Upchurch is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of MassachusettsDartmouth. He is currently working with the assessment team of the College of Engineering, under the auspices ofthe NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition, in developing software support for assessment and reporting. He and Dr.Sims

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Robert Anderson; Paul Duesing; Marty Zoerner; Kevin Schmaltz

), phone, and e-mail accounts thatallow for scheduling with faculty members. Teams are given extended access to thisfacility during evenings and weekends. University purchasing personnel are often usedto acquire necessary project components, and a lecture covering proper purchasingprocedures is given to the students in the Fall semester. As projects enter theconstruction and testing phases, teams may ask for a certain area in the workshop to bedevoted for their senior project, or for access to existing laboratories and equipment toconduct certain tests or use certain equipment.Interaction with the industrial contact is perhaps the key to project success or failure.Close communication with a limited – ideally just one – number of company contacts

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Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

, ’The Use of Computers in Laboratory Automation’, which wascommissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, ’Language Independent DesignMethodology - an introduction’ , was commissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr S P Maj hasorganized, chaired and been invited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level. He has alsoserved on many national and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of the Institute ofInstrumentation and Control Australia (IICA) educational sub-committee he was responsible for successfullydesigning, in less than two years a new, practical

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Larry Shuman; Graciela Perez; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Harvey Wolfe

the area of operations researchmethods to the health field, he is now active in the development of models for assessing engineering education.MARY BESTERFIELD-SACREMary Besterfield-Sacre is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University ofPittsburgh. Her principal research interests are in empirical and cost modeling applications for quality improvementin manufacturing and service organizations, and in engineering education evaluation methodologies. She has beenassistant professor at the University of Texas -El Paso, and has worked as an Industrial Engineer with ALCOA andwith the U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory

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Sarah Lewis; Renate Fruchter

Engineering Education”RENATE FRUCHTER 5Renate Fruchter is the director of the Project Based Learning Laboratory (P BL Lab) in the Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering, and a senior research associate at CIFE, at Stanford. She leads a researcheffort to develop collaboration technologies for multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teamwork, and e-Learning. She is the leader and developer of the innovative “Computer Integrated A/E/C” course launched in1993 and currently offered in a global setting including universities in US, Japan and Europe.SARAH LEWISSarah Lewis is a Graduate Student in the Learning, Design, and Technology M.Sc. Program in the School

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Michael Lucas; Catherine Latterell; Andrew Vavreck

at the campus. InMechanical Engineering Technology 206 (Dynamics and Machine Elements), students are givenclass assignments (laboratories) involving several aspects of the vehicle design. Studentsmeasure suspension components on an existing vehicle, develop a kinematic model in softwareand analyze the kinematics and dynamics of the structure. They also investigate a gearbox andanalyze a complete vehicle drive train. In Engineering Graphics Technology 114 (SpatialAnalysis and CAD), students draw vehicle components in AutoCAD for class assignments.Students in Mechanical Engineering Technology 210W (Product Design) work on assignmentsinvolving drive trains and gearing using the vehicle systems as examples. Students inElectromechanical

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Medhat Morcos; David Soldan

., E.C., Challenges of Delivering Undergraduate Engineering Programs to Place-bound Members of the Technical Work Force, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Paper F1B.3, 1997.30. Kiernan, V., Rewards Remain Dim for Professors Who Pursue Digital Scholarship, The Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. A45-A46, April 28, 2000.31. Bruce, R.G., Distance Delivery and Laboratory Courses, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Paper F1B.1, 1997.32. Buchanan, E., Going the Extra Mile: Serving Distance Education Students with Resources and Services, Syllabus, Vol. 13, No. 9, 2000, pp. 44.47.33. Walker, D., Britain Plans A Major E-University with Goal of Competing

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Philip Parker; Max Anderson; Michael Penn

Page 6.792.11 Proceedings of 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationSite VisitDuring the site visit the evaluator spent Sunday through Tuesday on campus. During that timehe met with the program coordinator on Sunday afternoon to review the course folders and tourthe laboratories. On Monday he met with students and faculty in the program as well as facultyfrom chemistry and biology in the morning. In the afternoon he had more detailed discussionswith the program coordinator. He had questions about environmental engineering programcriteria coverage in the curriculum and what constituted proficiency in a

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Lynn Mack; James Wood

Technology Students, South Carolina AdvancedTechnological Education Center of Excellence, South Carolina Technical College System, 2000.5. Wood, J. C. and Mack, L. G., The Impact of Interdisciplinary Faculty Teams on Engineering TechnologyCurricula, ASEE Annual Conference 1997.6. Wood, J. C., An Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Engineering technology Freshman Curriculum, ASEEAnnual Conference, 1998JAMES C. WOOD, PH.D.James C. "Jim" Wood has B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Clemson University a Ph. D. from the Universityof Virginia in physics. He has seven years of research experience in laboratories for American Cynamid and TRW.He has 25 years of teaching experience in physics and engineering technology at Tri-County Technical College.Since1984

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

-century. This culture is predominantly based on a science-driven, basic-research model that findsits roots in policy developments arising out of the 1945 Bush report, Science: The EndlessFrontier. The reality, however, is that most modern industrial innovative technologydevelopment does not find its genesis in the research university laboratory. Hence, it is driven bythe everyday, nitty-gritty details of living in a complex world of markets, needs, opportunitiesand responses to complex social, technical and policy problems.13 Most “real world” innovativetechnology development occurs through a purposeful, systematic needs-driven process using thecreative engineering method.3,14Re-engineering ETL graduate professional education so that it is

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John S. Klegka; Robert Rabb

anindustrial partner. The department coordinator can accept the project if it will provide ameaningful design experience for the cadet. If a prospective sponsor has an AIAD project andwould like cadet participation, we ask the agency to use our web site and enter projectinformation (Appendix A)2. The main categories are: Agency Information, Project Information,and Cadet Sponsor Information.The Agency Information simply states the organization that is providing this AIAD opportunity,its location, and a web address if cadets want to learn more about the sponsor. The agency isusually an AMC subdivision or an independent organization such as Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory or Boeing.The Project Information is the most important category for both the

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Murali Krishnamurthi

, andlaboratory exercises. The laboratory exercises required students to complete and submit by email Page 5.279.3several exercises on information system application design and development using MS-Access ™.3.1 Discussions: Getting engineering students to discuss in a newsgroup, listserv, or a chatsession on the concepts covered in the course, engage them in a constructive dialog, and helpthem reflect on the course material is generally a difficult task. Many of them would rather solvenumerical problems than convey their thoughts in writing. But there are several ways to enhancestudent – teacher interactions in asynchronous or synchronous

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Merredith D Portsmore; Martha N. Cyr; Chris B. Rogers

, National InstrumentsWeek 1998.3. Martha N. Cyr, Chris B. Rogers, Enhancing Education with LEGO Bricks and Paperclips, FEDSM98-5137,Proceedings of FEDSM’98 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, June 21-25, 1998, Washington,DC.4. Martha Cyr, V. Miragila, T. Nocera, C. Rogers, A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching EngineeringThrough Experimentation, J. of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 167-171, 1997.5. John Paul Osborne, B. Erwin, M. Cyr, and C. Rogers, A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-onEngineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation, Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.63-66, 1998.MERREDITH PORTSMOREMerredith Portsmore is the Educational Technology Coordinator for

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Marty Bowe; John Feland; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his S.B. inMechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineeringfrom Stanford University. He is currently a Captain on active duty in the Air Force pursuing academic research withthe Center for Design Research at Stanford University regarding the development of large-scale defense projects.BRIAN P. SELFBrian Self is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received hisB.S. and M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University ofUtah. He has four years of experience with the Air Force Research Laboratory. Areas of research include impactinjury mechanisms

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Jin Tso; Daniel Biezad

will award its first graduate degree in 2001to students working at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The program is unusual in that itdeveloped from within the aerospace engineering faculty with full faculty support. Severalimportant lessons and pitfalls in the program development and in obtaining accreditation aredescribed in the paper. Foremost among these are issues of faculty ownership of educationalmaterials, faculty training requirements for the distance learning environment at the graduatelevel, course scheduling so that the students can graduate in two years, integrating the web intolecture and laboratory courses, and funding negotiations with the administration. The paperconcludes with a few strong recommendations for other

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Dick Desautel

industry.2. Provide students with a strong foundation for graduate studies in ME or AE and related fields.3. Provide students with experience in using computers and information technology in problem solving and learning.4. Provide students with hands-on experience through laboratory courses.5. Develop students’ ability to communicate and work effectively in teams.6. Develop students’ understanding of multicultural and global perspectives, as well as ethical choices inherent in the engineering profession. Supporting Outcomes of the BSME and BSAE ProgramsGraduates of these Programs will:1. Have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.2. Have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as

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Stephen R. Fleeman

credit hour is awardedfor each lecture hour. In contrast, two laboratory hours are required to produce one credit hour. These Page 3.233.6general guidelines are modified occasionally in unique course situations. -6-The class hours listed in Table 3 are given on a per-week basis. Each semester is 15 weeks long (notincluding final examination periods). Consequently, we must multiply each of the total class hours by 15.When the number of class hours is tallied, we obtain a total of 1,392 hours. While this seems to bewoefully short of the total training hours provided in Table 2, we must

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P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

Consultants and is a current board member of the Association for Business Communication.JOHN ANDERSON is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Northwestern University. In addition to being one ofthe EDC core faculty, he serves as Webmaster and instructional technology coordinator for the course.GREGORY B. OLSON is Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,and Co-Director of the Materials Technology Laboratory at Northwestern University. Author of over 170publications in materials research and education, he is a founding member of QuesTek Innovations LLC, acomputational materials design company.DAVID M. KELSO is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department of NorthwesternUniversity's McCormick

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Daniel Jensen

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Robert (Bob) M. Anderson

homework scores, laboratory scores, etc.) can be uploaded; classaverages can be uploaded. Each student can thus know all his/her own scores and how his/herscores compare with the entire class.The secondary reasons for my selection of Mallard™ in no particular order are:1) Mallard™ is very user-friendly to students.2)Mallard™ is reasonably user-friendly to faculty and instructional developers.3)Mallard™ accommodates easy and clear integration of a traditional, public web site, the use of Page 3.11.3a newsgroup, and the use of e-mail.4) Mallard™ offers a very wide range of automatic grading policies that involve the number oftries permitted without

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

. Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the craft of reading, writing, andmathematics. In Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essay in Honor of Robert Glaser, 453-494.Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (1989).6. Special thanks to Julia Claeys for her demonstration of this activity. Original author unknown. Page 3.350.137. Special thanks to both the Synthesis Coalition and the Electronics Research Laboratory at UC Berkeley for theirdonation of old disk drives. 138. Yu, D. & Agogino, A., "Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio," CD ROM, Synthesis Coalition, 3112 EtcheverryHall, UC

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Robert L. Reid; Bruce D. Hoeppner

. HOEPPNER. Prof. Hoeppner is the Computer Systems Manager at Marquette Universityand was formerly the director of undergraduate laboratories for the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering. He graduated from Marquette University in 1982 and earned his masters in 1985. Prof. Hoeppnerworked for the U.S. Air Force in electronic warfare systems, specifically in radar warning simulation and testing. Page 2.201.14

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; David D. Clark; David W. Rosen

Session 1625 Function-Behavior-Structure: A Model for Decision-Based Product Realization David D. Clark1, Farrokh Mistree2, David W. Rosen3 and Janet K. Allen4 G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Systems Realization Laboratory Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405AbstractA significant problem in engineering design is the translation of a design from a set of functionalrequirements into a system design specification. To facilitate this transition we are

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M. N. Borges; F. H. Vasconcelos; M. Lewis

to teach in a particular course structure andresources for laboratories, are examples of factors which demand fewer staff-student contacthours and less practical (hands-on) learning experiences. On the other hand: (a) the continuousexpansion of the content to be covered (with a soaring number of new topics and techniquesbrought into the curriculum); (b) the flexibility of the curriculum and options to be madeavailable to students and (c) also a more student-centered approach being recommended in highereducation requiring more staff time and more physical resources to run courses. Coursedevelopers are consequently responsible for designing a structure which takes account of bothsets of pressures. They are also urged to change the pedagogical

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

questioning. A field trip was taken to the regional airport. There were also two"hands-on" workshops analyzing the workings of a refrigerator and air conditioner. Theseworkshops utilized the laboratories and benefited from the participation of the laboratoryinstructor for the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering. TABLE 3 UVa PD Attributes in First Year Course Objectives, Fall 1996 Engineering Design (ENGR 164) Objectives 1. Expand Industrial Readiness: Engineering analysis and conceptual designs, including issues such as safety, quality, reliability and optimization 2. Sharpen Technical Communication Skills: Written and oral reports describing

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Marc A. Mesmer; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

evaluation form. The students listed thefollowing categories as the most important: Attendance, Time on Project, Quality of Work,Communication with Team, Team Player, and Shows Initiative. Holter [6] develops a peerevaluation method for implementing a formal method to remove irresponsible team members froma team. Singh-Gupta and Troutt-Ervin [7] review literature on collaborative writing and discusshow peer review techniques can be used in group writing projects.Design Team Peer Evaluation ProcessThere are four course components of ENGR 111 that contribute to team building and the peerevaluation process: four one hour laboratories on team work, emails of weekly team progressreports, midterm evaluations, and endterm evaluations. This paper Ôs focus

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Ronald E. Terry; Kurt Sandholtz

currently serves as the Chair of the ASEE Rocky Mountain Section. He holds B.S. and Ph.D.degrees in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University and Brigham Young University, respectively.KURT SANDHOLTZKurt Sandholtz is a partner in the Provo, Utah, office of the Novations Group, a strategic change managementconsulting firm. He has helped design and implement career development systems based on the Four Stages modelat DuPont, Dow Chemical, Sandia National Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard, and similar organizations. He holds aMaster of Organizational Behavior degree from Brigham Young University. Page 4.228.7

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David E. Hornbeck

2 achievement." -- National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education .Much of the anxiety expressed about the proposed ABET criteria for technology stems from their lack ofnumbers and specificity when compared to the existing criteria. The proposed criteria have beenperceived as allowing an institution to do anything it wants: diminishing mathematics and sciencerequirements, dumbing-down courses in general, hiring unqualified faculty, reducing quantity and qualityof laboratory classes/facilities, etc. With the current criteria, TAC has operated under the concept thatspecifying inputs to the educational process would assure quality of the output.However, the current form of criteria lacks flexibility to accommodate the number of