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Yousef Haik

concepts are covered. The course isconsidered one of the hard obstacles they need overcome to achieve their career goals. Thecourse is a four credit hour course. Its meeting schedule is set for two two-hour sessions perweek. The class usually has a mixture of sophomores, juniors and seniors.The variation in the academic achievement between students and in the students’ backgroundmakes it difficult to use one method of delivery to achieve the learning objectives. Thus, varietyof teaching and learning strategies for the engineering mechanics class at the FAMU-FSUCollege of Engineering has been developed and used. These strategies include:1. Integrated lecture notes: Conventionally the material for the engineering mechanics ispresented into two

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J. Morehouse; Edward Young; Jed S. Lyons

98-50749 “A Vehicle for Delivering aMechanical Systems Laboratory Experience”) is to procure all of the equipment and Page 4.166.1instrumentation needed for a capstone mechanical engineering systems laboratory course. TheILI project has been previously described 4 , so only a brief review is given here.In developing the Engineering Systems Laboratory, careful consideration was given to selectingan appropriate system for the student experiments. It is not desirable or even possible to attemptto expose students to every type of system that they might work with throughout theirprofessional career. In designing the systems lab, one must select a

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John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

performance on traditional engineering exams,consisting exclusively of problems graded with partial credit, has acquired sufficient knowledgeand skill to merit a passing grade and subsequently a degree from your program? Are yousearching for innovative methods and tools for providing the program documentation demandedby EC2000 accreditation requirements1? We believe that most of our colleagues haveconsidered some, if not all, of these questions at some time in their teaching careers. Ourmotivation in writing this paper is to share with those colleagues a pedagogical tool that can helpserve as a partial answer to all of these questions – Direct Competency Testing, (DCT).The experience reported herein evolved from a chance discussion between the two

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

: Educators and Interactions [Online]. Available:http://www.internetnorth.com.au/ace_conference97/cheng.html13. Cultural Diversity and Early Education. Cultural Contexts for Learning [29 paragraphs]. Cultural Diversityand Early Education [Online]. Available:http://www.nap.edu/readinroom/books/earlyed/chapter1.html .14. Allen, C. (1998). The Job Outlook for 1998 Graduates. Journal of Career Planning and Employment. Winter1998, Vol. LVIII, No. 2, pp. 56-58.15. Smith, K. A.; Johnson, D. W.; and Johnson, R. T. (1981). Structuring Learning Goals to Meet the Goals ofEngineering Education. Engineering Education, December 1981, pp. 221-226.16. Smith, K. A. (1996). Cooperative Learning: Making "Groupwork" Work. New Directions for Teaching andLearning, No. 67

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James Hanson

potentialresearch assistants.Assessment of the ProjectStudent reviews of the projects have generally been favorable. A number of student commentsrelated to evaluation of the project are shown below. • “The individual project is valuable because it gives the students an opportunity to do a project which can relate to any aspect of civil engineering that they choose. This allows the students to take a closer look at different types of engineering problems and help them to choose an emphasis which they may want to have for their careers.” • “Experimentation is the backbone to any kind of engineering. Having the ability to do this in a course shows that the school (through you) want to

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John H. Ristroph

hand, risks associated with larger, moreexpensive projects are extremely important to any company and hence to careers. Texts frequently show how to use spreadsheets containing single estimates of cash flows.This paper shows how to incorporate risk into such classroom examples quickly and easily byusing Microsoft's Excel. It illustrates extending the simple example in Table 1 into the spread-sheet shown in Table 3 first by explaining how to generate random cash flows. Then it describeshow to perform the simulation using a macro, compute statistics, and plot results, concludingwith a discussion of classroom use. A copy of the spreadsheet can be obtained by emailing theauthor at ristroph@usl.edu. Cash

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Jennifer Maynard; Anneta Razatos

use Bird, Stuart and Lightfoot’s text which was originally published in 1960. Older chemicalengineering text-books are outdated because they rely on examples almost exclusively from thepetrochemical industry6. Focusing on a single field fails to inform students of the broad rangeof applications for chemical engineering principles6. Engineering instructors must thereforetake extra measures to prepare students for careers in modern-day industry and academia.Graduating engineers must have the skills to handle non-traditional problems and also be ableto address emerging areas of research and development. One such emerging area within thechemical engineering giants is biology. The gap between the traditional chemical engineeringcurriculum and

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Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Approximate Reasoning Using Linguistic Synthesis", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 26, pp. 1182-1191, 1987.ALI EYDGAHIDr. Eydgahi started his career as a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in1985. Since 1986 and prior to joining University of Maryland Eastern Shore he has been withthe State University of New York, University of Tehran, and Wayne County CommunityCollege. He is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering andAviation Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Eydgahi awards includethe Dow outstanding Young Faculty Award from American Society for EngineeringEducation in 1990, the Silver Medal for outstanding contribution from InternationalConference on Automation in 1995, UNESCO

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Sung Kim; Kevin Logeais

-88049, 19885. Carius, Alan C., Effects of Grinding Fluid Type on CBN Wheel Performance, pg. 22 – 27AES Magazine, Summer 19906. Farago, Francis T. Ph.D., Abrasive Methods Engineering, Industrial Press, 19807. Mott, Robert L., Applied Fluid Mechanics, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall Career &Technology, New Jersey, 19948. Esposito, Anthony, Fluid Power with Applications, Fourth Edition, Prentice-Hall, NewJersey, 19979. Carius, Alan C., How To Grind Hardened Tool And Die Steels With CBN Wheels, pg. 51 – 58Modern Machine Shop Magazine, December 198510. Munson, Bruce R., Young, Donald F., and Okiishi, Theodore H., Fundamentals of FluidMechanics, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 199811. Cengel, Yunus A. and Boles, Michael A

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

a result, one should feel free to write down all kinds of new ideas. They can include • ideas for new products, software, or devices; • ideas for new procedures for manufacturing and marketing; •solutions to major problems confronting human society; •predictions about the future, or how one would like society to be; •plans for your education, career, family; •insights to personal problems; •activities you would like to try, such as new hobbies, sports, or places to visit; and •themes or topics for assignments and essays.In short, IMS provides a framework which can help individuals shape a notebook into a

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J. Bredeson; M. E. Parten

mission of the institution and the objectives of the program, including those listed above, are being measured. Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data of graduates.Of considerable concern is the assessment process. This is a measurement of the "outcomes"of the program to assure the objectives of the program are being met. Of equal concern,however, is the application of the assessment to the "further development and improvementof the program." The idea is to practice continued

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William B. Perry; Victor Barocas; David E. Clough

used in both of these courses must be considered when selecting theprogramming software for the modules.After completing GEEN 1300, students should feel very comfortable writing a Fortran 90program and will have an excellent understanding of the language. Fortran 90 is used for thiscourse because many engineers will find it useful in their careers. In addition to being anexcellent language for numerical calculations, Fortran 90 is supported by several libraries such asIMSL, Numerical Recipes, and NAG. It is also a good language for learning generalprogramming principles.On the other hand, most CHEN 4580 students prefer to use Matlab and the programminglanguage associated with it. The main strength of Matlab is that it is easy to learn and

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R. J. Helgeson; Douglas Sterrett

different. Thus, the first additional goal in the freshman designcourse has been the introduction of mathematical models, which exposes the student to themerging of mathematics and physics early in their engineering careers. There are manyattendant difficulties associated with this goal, and these will be discussed in a subsequentsection.An area which students typically tend to have difficulty with is the concept of energy. Studentsleaving high school will usually have heard of kinetic and potential energy, and will also havebeen exposed to energy concepts in other science courses. But the students are usually veryweak in their understanding of what energy actually is. Our faculty’s combined experience at theuniversity level, gained from many

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

(construction)engineering program criteria have been incorporated into the curriculum at a reasonable level.These subject areas will be required by ABET as criteria that must be satisfied for a program tobe accredited. Specifically, the Civil and Similarly named Engineering Programs Criteria isincluded as a section of the Engineering Criteria 2000 report which was adopted by ABET. It ishoped that consideration of the foregoing concepts by educators will provide engineeringstudents with the skills required for a successful career involving the design and management ofengineering and construction projects.AcknowledgmentThe author wishes to recognize Mrs. Debbie Graves and Mrs. Hope Scott for their assistancewith the production activities involved with

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Craig Johnson

individual Page 4.307.2achievements rather than team efforts.”Against this current backdrop of limited use of assessment in the classroom, assessment is a skillthat a student should have and use in their career. Even if it is unmanageable to convert entireuniversity curricula to incorporate TQM and foster student assessment skills, there are methodsof including the development of assessment skills into traditional ET curricula.This paper offers two methods of incorporating student assessment skills into traditional METcurricula.Student Assessment SkillsAn MET program outcome might include a statement like ‘the student will be able to select anduse

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

continuetheir education and/or to pursue careers in this field. In addition, this course attempts to createan appreciation of basic non-mechanical design trade-offs, so that students will be able tofunction effectively as mechanical engineering members of a mechatronics design team.3.4 Course descriptionFor students to appreciate and become excited about the design of mechatronic systems, theymust be able to design complete systems, even if these systems are relatively simple. Mech 452is, therefore, structured to quickly bring the students to a level where they are designing verysimple systems and then to increase the complexity of these systems as the course proceeds. Inaddition, the lecture material in Mech 452 is structured to emphasize signal

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

, Arizona, November 1996.[8] Statistics based on data furnished by the University Office of Institutional Analysis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.[9] Anderson-Rowland, Mary R., “Retention: Are Students Good Predictors?” Proceedings, Frontier in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1997, CD-ROM, 9 pages.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONMARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLAND is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Special Programs in the CEAS atASU. She earned her Ph.D. from the U. of Iowa. She has received several awards for her support of diversityincluding the Achievement in Gender Equity Progress Award from the ASU Faculty Women’s Assoc. in 1995. She isthe director of a successful Graduate Career Change Program in IE

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James B. Stenger; Karen E. Schmahl

of technical information. Mymentor also provided me with a critique of my teaching, which I have included with my tenuredocumentation. As I told him, I plan to use him as a mentor-for-life, and request his servicesthroughout my career. Page 3.409.4Schmahl: I met with my first semester mentor, a full professor from the School of Business, sev-eral times for lunch and we visited each others classes. Although I learned much from him wenever really “clicked” and seemed to run out of things to talk about. For the second semester, acolleague of mine from within the School of Applied Science did provide very valuable advice aswell as friendship. We

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Warren R. Hill

assist needy students may help inretention.We also need to make certain that as soon as possible in our student’s academic careers, they aremade to feel part of our institutions. There are a number of ways this can be done such as awelcoming letter from the dean and/or department head or holding an open house at thebeginning of the year for all new students. We also need ways to help students identify with eachother such as grouping new students together, providing them study sessions with tutors andhaving quiet places for them to study. Many of our students in engineering technology are firstgeneration college students and don't necessarily have the level of family support needed for

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Sanjiv Sarin

begiven that the results are applied to the further development and improvement of the program.The assessment process must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of theinstitution and the objectives of the program are being measured. Evidence that may be usedincludes, but is not limited to, the following: student portfolios, including design projects;nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data ofgraduates.Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to applyknowledge of mathematics, science and engineering, (b) an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as

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Randall L. Ness; Carl A. Erikson

/assessment.htm, page 5.2]Arter, J.A. and Spandel, V., “NCME Instructional Module: Using Portfolios of Student Work in Instruction andAssessment,” Educational Measurement, 1992, 11(1), pp 36-44.3] MacIsaac, D. and Jackson, L., “Assessment Processes and Outcomes: Portfolio Construction”, ExperientialLearning: A New Approach, Summer 1994, Jossey-Bass, pp.63-72.4] Landis, Raymond B., Studying Engineering; A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, Discovery Press, 1995.BiographyCarl Erikson is an Assistant Professor of Engineering. He obtained his BSEE from Rutgers University in 1969 andhis MSEE from Purdue University in 1971. Randall Ness is Director of Internship Programs. He obtained his BA in Behavioral Science from Messiah Collegein 1977 and his MA in

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Stefani A. Bjorklund; Patrick T. Terenzini; John M. Parente; Alberto F. Cabrera

. . . 1 2 3 4 5 Page 3.454.20f) The likelihood you will go on to graduate school in engineering has . . . 1 2 3 4 5 -5-g) The likelihood you will pursue a teaching career in engineering has . . . 1 2 3 4 5h) The likelihood you will become a practicing engineer has . . . 1 2 3 4 5i) What grade do you expect to receive in this course? 1 = A-/above 2 = B+ 3 = B 4 = B- 5 = C+ 6 = C 7 = C- 8 = D/belowj) On average, how many hours per week do you spend studying for this course?____hrs./wk. Thanks very much for your help

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Hamid Khan

LARGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEENIMPORTANCE-COMPETENCE (N=78)DIFFPREX DESCRIPTION MEAN SD Page 3.41.4 4DIFFPRE16 Subordinate Career Development 1.25 .68DIFFPRE12 Budgeting time 1.19 1.14DIFFPRE42 Oral presentations: Impact 1.05 1.14DIFFPRE19 Delegating, coaching.. 1.00 .81DIFFPRE15 Motivating personnel .97 .99DIFFPRE25 Establishing priorities .96 .89DIFFPRE4

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Irma Becerra-Fernandez; Gordon Hopkins; Ted Lee

are now organized in teams much like hospitals, where the leader of a teamis not only a manager, but also a specialist in the medical field. Today, technologically orientedcompanies prefer to hire an engineer and provide him or her with the necessary skills toeffectively manage. This trend greatly differs from the previous practice of hiring a managerwho then is expected to learn the technical skills related to that job function[1]. The MSEMprogram is directed towards an academic preparation of individuals who will remain working ina technological environment while advancing into management roles [2]. Engineers usually wantto pursue a career in management, due the to scarcity of competent technical managers.However, they often find that their

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Leslie Lahndt-Hearney

to give students the technical and design skills necessary to beimmediately productive as graduates, sufficient depth must also be provided through training incooperative problem solving, communication, and other skills to ensure long term success instudent careers (Miksad, 1996).Our framework, which constitutes our current approach to engineering and engineeringtechnology, has been based on several questions: What is the engineering profession? What is Page 3.577.3ET? What is engineering and ET education? What is the university role? What is engineeringwork, and what is ET work? It is obvious that our answers to these questions, however

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Elizabeth Petry

! Page 3.489.7ReferencesAIArchitect, February 1997.Architecture Resource Center LiteratureBerson, Judith S. “Win/Win/Win with a Service-Learning Program.” Journal of Career Planningand Employment, Summer 1993.Cloud, John. “Involuntary Volunteers.” Time Magazine, December 1, 1997.Educational Main Street Literature Page 3.489.8

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Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

. “Resultsfrom the past four years of experience suggest that we are succeeding in encouraging students toview science as the application of a body of knowledge to a collaborative process of organizedinvestigation, not just a mass of facts to be memorized. At the same time, curricular reform …puts new pressure on students to work together effectively in small groups and to masterunfamiliar types of learning tasks” (Miller et al., 1994, p. 33). Page 3.520.3 3Overview of Survey Results Survey results showed that some students did not perceive it valuable to their career toparticipate in student work

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Arthur M. Clausing

students in the class go to obtain extra help and complete the computer assignments. The outstanding seniors who staff our tutorial room are able to provide help on all technical subjects (math, chemistry, physics, etc.).The nine sections of our course are usually taught by nine different faculty members. Theintention is to rotate our entire faculty through this course. This enables us to assign the studentsin each section to the faculty member as advisees. Thus, the relationships developed during themany one-on-one interactions in our Discovery Seminar continue to grow during the balance ofthe student’s college education. All students immediately have several persons to turn to foradvise on career decisions, summer internships, scholastic or

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Robert Batson

comprehensive education in the philosophy of Total Quality, the preventive process- oriented methodologies of Quality Engineering, and the planning, control, and improvement techniques--both classical (statistical process control--SPC, acceptance sampling, statistical design of experiments--DOE, regression, reliability and maintainability) and modern (Taguchi Methods, Quality Function Deployment, failure modes and effects analysis--FMEA, Total Productive Maintenance, etc.).& Prepare individuals for early and mid-career transition into quality program leadership positions in their organizations.& Prepare B.S.-level engineers, regardless of undergraduate majors, for entry-level jobs as quality engineers.Prerequisites were

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W. Poppen; J. E. Seat; G. Klukken; D. Knight; J. Roger Parsons

, "This experiencehas been one of my most valuable at the University of Tennessee. No other single course I havetaken at the university has as much application in my career and my life as this one does".Another commented, “This class has been one of the most profitable classes, as an elective, Ihave taken while in college. I has given me valuable insight into team and group facilitating thatare very valuable in the world today.” One of the more unexpected findings was how helpful the skills were for facilitators inother areas of their life. "My listening and discussion skills have improved considerably as wellas my understanding of others." Also, "Although the focus was on facilitating a freshman team, Ilearned a lot about myself in the