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David Kelley

. (1993). The effects of cooperative learning and the use of an instructional self-learning guide onabstract concepts in genetics. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut.5. Johnson, D. W. (1991). Human relations and your career (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.6. Johnson, D.W. (1993). Reaching out: Interpersonal effectiveness and self-actualization (6th ed.). Needham Page 6.302.9Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education7. Johnson, D.W., &

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Roman Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

societies, and –consequently – towards engineering education:− New technologies become out of date after ca. 3 years while the cycle of reaching full professional efficiency by a graduate is 6–8 years (4–6 years of study and 2 years of initial professional experience). Consequently, it seems to be useless to base the education of the future engineers on the ideas that will become obsolete at the beginning of their professional careers. The rapid advancement of technologies is accompanied by an exponential growth of the volume of engineering knowledge that cannot be unlimitedly added to the engineering curricula. This should be the reason for more synthetic and methodical teaching of the fundamentals.− The main competence of an

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Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

,the students will also begin to develop skills appropriate to their professional careers. Instructorscan use rubrics to track the effectiveness of the instruction and to document the progress of thelearners.Rubrics in the laboratory courseThree faculty designed rubrics that were used in two multiple-section sophomore level laboratorycourses. One laboratory course complimented the basic strength of material course and the othercourse was an introduction to aerospace instrumentation. The two main goals for using therubrics were to provide students with explicit guidance in the preparation of their reports, oralpresentations, and laboratory notebooks and to permit more consistent grading across sectionsand instructors. Rubrics allow instructors

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Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

engineering students bring into their undergraduate careers is thatengineering is practiced as a democracy. To dispel that notion and to introduce students to someof the realities of industries driven by bottom lines, deadlines, and product safety issues, a“project team” model was used. The task was broken into functional areas. Each area had a“project manager” and a team. The managers further subdivided the functions into tasks for oneor more students. Faculty members served as the project managers, a realistic analogy to industrywhere project managers tend to be senior members of the organization who have survivednumerous similar activities in the past.The overall structure of the project divided the participants into three groups. The major

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

pathetically thin results in learning and understanding–except in the very small percentage of students who are specially gifted in the field.” p. viiOf course, those few who manage to thrive within the current system are thusacademically successful and often go on to careers in academia where they continue thetradition. A lack of exposure to other instructional possibilities, coupled with the generalinertia of large universities, results in a stagnation of educational approaches. Manyschools are grappling with this problem by modifying lectures17, 26, 32, 35, 39, 40 orlaboratory5, 14, 27, 29, 34, 36 experiences. But because of well-established systems forpresenting and grading standard lecture-oriented courses, change is not easy.Nonetheless

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Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

to our schoolsand determine if these areas fit into our own personal value system. If they do, we have to startor to continue developing in those areas. We must also start or continue a promotion and tenuredocument that displays our developments and enables us to continue teaching in the newmillennium. It is important, however, to remember that just as a proper balance of the areasabove is needed for a successful professional teaching career, a balance is also needed betweenour professional and personal lives.Bibliography1. Bloom, B., et al, The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of the Educational Goals.Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. McKay Press, New York, USA (1956).2. Langan, D., Doran, M., Feinstein, D., &

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Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

companies, who must provide a more personalized approach torecruitment.The use of the web for contacts with and between « Alumni » is certainly far less developed inEurope than in North America. Until recently, many European universities tended to neglectthis very important aspect of relations between the Institution of Higher Education, its currentstudents and its graduates.ENST Bretagne is approaching the problem in two ways :We organize an annual « Alumni Day » attended by around fifty of the college’s graduateswho are all practicing engineers in industry or in the academic world. Short presentations aregiven by the alumni, who then discuss their careers on an individual, more personalized basiswith any interested student registered at the

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Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

technology, and managed the College’s workstation laboratory network.In addition to his desire to eschew the hegemonic personal computer operating system, his research interests includethe application of information system technology in manufacturing enterprises, automating the product design-to-manufacturing process, CAD/CAM integration, and the use of telecommunication technology for training andeducation.DOUGLAS W. FRASERDouglas Fraser has worked as a developer for AT&T and Lucent Technologies for sixteen years. He learned todevelop embedded systems using C in the UNIX environment there and has continued to practice that craft with briefforays into UNIX application development. Most of his career has concentrated on remote distributed

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Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

students to learn how much they already know – and more importantly, how to apply that knowledge to their own writing. The aim of this first seminar is to provide the students with an opportunity to begin exploring the value of good writing versus the consequences of bad writing, and to provide a springboard for the rest of the course.Nov 1 Audience and Aims Who am I writing for? What is the purpose of this document? How can I be sure that what I write is appropriate for my intended audience? What are the consequences of writing something that is inappropriate for my audience? These are all very real questions faced by most engineers at some point in their career, if not on

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Munir Mandviwalla; Chang Liu; Azim Danesh

primaryreasons for taking the class were to traveling time unnecessary and to alleviate time constraintsdue to their family or career. The remaining results of the questionnaire illustrate the advantagesand disadvantages of using technology in distance education using the interaction model.Learner-Instructor Interaction/Learner-Learner Interaction The learner-instructor interaction in Moore’s model provides the motivation, feedback, anddialog between the teacher and student. The learner-learner interaction is the exchange ofinformation, ideas and dialog among the students. Because both of these interactions are basedprimarily on the communication function, the two interactions will be discussed together.In the questionnaire, the majority of students

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

me, but by learning their method Iam able to show another students more then one way of solving a problem. As I look back I seethat I have learned many key roles which I use in my personal and student life and will use in myprofessional career.”Conclusion: A program such as Quest can have lofty goals and assess its success throughstatistical analysis of the subsequent performance of its participants; however, the studentsthemselves must endorse the program if it is truly to have worth. To assess this aspect, a formerfacilitator interviewed numerous former participants for their perspectives of the Quest program. They feel that Quest shows them how to study, how to manage time, and how to make aprofessional presentation. They also learned how

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Karen Al-Ashkar

going to let technology determine our interaction or was this to bejust one component in the mixture? Certain assumptions were made about both of theseconsiderations, and these are thoroughly addressed in another presentation at thisconference.The third was centered around the experiences we anticipated for our students wheninteracting with our tradition-driven institution. For purposes of this discussion, I assumethat the term tradition indicates that we are discussing staff and practices that have dealtalmost exclusively with on-campus students. This impact of traditional practice on theeducational careers of non-traditional students has held my attention and dominated mywork since June of 1996; this work is what I’d like to share with youOur

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for Page 5.571.4engineering practice.AC2K also requires documentation that program outcomes and educational objectives havebeen met. ABET suggests use of: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments, career development activities, employer surveys, and placement data ofgraduates.ASMEAlso in December of 1995, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), issued areport entitled: Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) into the

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Z. Yuan; T. Tang; Pratibha Gopalam; N. Liu; Chu R. Wie; Alexander N. Cartwright

State University of New York at Buffalo since August 1995. In1998, he received a NSF CAREER Award that supports his research on GaN based optoelectronic devices and hiseducational activities. He is Associate Director of the Center for Active Learning of Microelectronics andPhotonics.PRATIBHA GOPALAM : Pratibha Gopalam is a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering Department at theState University of New York at Buffalo. She is a member of the group developing educational Java applets at theCenter for Active Learning of Microelectronics and Photonics. She received her undergraduate degree in Electronicsand Communication Engineering from Bangalore University, India, in 1997. She worked as a software engineer forHewlett Packard India

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Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

• Developing Course Learning Objectives that ensure delivery of topics • Ensuring a curriculum that is consistent with the Program Educational Objectives • Utilizing Assessment Tools to evaluate the program • Involving Constituent Groups in the program evaluation • Recommending changes to the program • Implementing changes to the program • Assessing changes to the program • Iterating on the programThe goals of this CQI process are to graduate individuals with the strongest skills andbackgrounds for the mechanical engineering profession and to have our graduates succeed at thehighest levels in their careers. As shown in Figure 1, the ME 2000 program is composed of fourreview and feedback processes

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

submission media. Please staple all problems in a given assignment together in numerical order.Academic Honesty: In order to learn this material, each individual must do homework problems. Since there is no absolute right answer when designing, many questions arise in performing even the simplest of problems. If you have not done your own homework, you will not have overcome these obstacles and will not know how to approach a different problem on an exam. In addition, and more importantly, you will not know how to approach these problems when you are faced with them during your career

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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Julia Williams

of their undergraduate career students engage in developing a full range of ethical skills. These include not only making judgments about whether some action is ethical, or which of a set of multiple choices is the best (or least bad), but skills such as the ability to: · Find statements of ethical standards by reputable bodies and evaluate the legitimacy Page 7.674.2 of those standards Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · Conduct an ongoing

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Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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Steven Hietpas

longer adequatelyprepares undergraduate students for a career in power engineering. The effective integration ofpower electronics, electric drives, and system related issues into the EMEC curriculum demandssignificant redesign of both the course and laboratory exercises. One such redesign is currently beingsupported under the Adaptation and Implementation track of the NSF’s CCLI program at SouthDakota State University3. Emerging from this work is an efficient pedagogical approach forintegration of power electronics, drives and the permanent magnet DC motor.Using a "just-in-time" strategy, successfully developed at University of Minnesota4 and furthermodified at SDSU3, four laboratory exercises and corresponding lecture material associated with

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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Andrew Vavreck

Page 7.952.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationof electronics, mechanics and computers/microprocessors which have been covered during theirundergraduate career. In addition, it is an opportunity to hone project management elements suchas teamwork and communications skills, with students usually in teams of two and the courserequiring weekly status reports and a final report, as well as three presentations and anacceptance test.1 8 One of the additional project management elements of the course is therequirement that the students learn how to use Microsoft Project® 2000 (a three

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Classroom Innovations

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Rachel Shinn

] Colorado State University, URL http://www.colorado.edu/ASEN/ASEN_SOPH/ASEN2004/EL3.1.html and URL http://www.colorado.edu/ASEN/ASEN_SOPH/ASEN2004/EL4.1.htmlDR. RACHEL SHINNDr. Rachel Shinn is an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University inPrescott, AZ. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,California. Before beginning her teaching career, she spent five years in the space industry, at Hughes Aircraft Co.(currently Boeing), working as a spacecraft systems engineer, with a specialty in spacecraft attitude dynamics.DR. RONALD MADLERDr. Ronald Madler is an associate professor and chair of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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Ann Saterbak

discussed.Bioengineering Curriculum at Rice UniversityThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in the rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering has the goal of producing a new type ofbiomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecularbiology.1-2 This type of biomedical engineer translates bench-scale scientific advances inbiological sciences into cost-effective new products and processes. New and innovative curriculain lecture and laboratory courses are being developed to educate bioengineers who not onlycreate new tissues and cell-based therapies but also deliver them at a cost

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

violating the public trust. Designsshould be dependable and live up to the expectations of those who use them. Roger Boisjoly andother engineers who pointed out the O-ring deficiencies before the launch of the space shuttleChallenger exemplify the norm of trust.6 Expanded Decision MatrixA common design tool introduced to engineering students early in their academic careers is theuse of a decision matrix (sometimes called a “design matrix”). The matrix allows the designer toquantify and rank the merits of multiple alternative solutions to a specified problem. The columnsof the matrix represent the various potential solutions. The rows of the matrix are the criteria bywhich the alternatives will be judged. The criteria can include “low cost

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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Steve York

between“MacGyver” and a miniature “Junk Yard Wars”. This approach to introducingengineering design results in an experience that the students find both engaging andeducational.MacGyver Learning ObjectivesThe concept of the MacGyver box can be extended to incorporate any number of specificlearning objectives by changing the nature of the assignments and/or the contents of thebox. However, several primary learning goals remain constant: · Develop teamwork skills among the engineering student body that may be carried forward in their academic and professional careers. · Help students to appreciate the value of input from peoples of different backgrounds and cultures. · Introduce the design process including, brainstorming

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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Suzanne Scott; Robert Knecht

desired specifications.” Bieniawski5 recognized that manyskills required for engineering design, frequently not taught in formal classroom settings, aredeveloped only through practice. He describes a process of developing behavioral standardsnecessary to produce a quality product. Our sequence, on the cutting edge of engineering designmethodologies, provides students with a broad-based introduction concerning engineeringdesign, technical communications and teamwork early in their academic career. This report summarizes several years of research and engineering activities conducted byundergraduate students to fulfill their requirement for engineering design throughout theircurriculum. During the past 4 years 42 undergraduate students at various

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples

who has more to offer than just excellent instruction onthe course content. Candid and sincere responses by the professor begin the critical process ofdeveloping mutual trust, and respect so essential for success in the teaching component of theprofessor's academic career. Page 7.852.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThe successful integration of a new untenured faculty member into the university communityrequires mentoring beyond the traditional interpretation of that

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Assessment in EM Education

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Bonnie McCormick; Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

program. high technology professional laboratory programs. environment. Pursue Pursue graduate Chemistry professional studies in a --Environmental career in natural

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W. Bernard Carlson; Rosanne Welker

outside method in order to acknowledgerisk in the first place.To illustrate the hubris of method, we first return to Edison and consider one of the majorprojects of his career. For over a decade in the 1890s, Edison tried to take over the iron industryin the Eastern United States by building a mammoth plant for processing low-grade iron ore.Edison believed that, if he systematically analyzed the problem and developed large-scalemachinery, he could produce iron ore that would be cheaper than what was currently shipped toPennsylvania blast furnaces from Cuba and other parts of the US. Focused on his methodology,Edison downplayed how new iron mines in Michigan and Minnesota altered the industry and hefailed to understand how grinding iron ore into a

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Bill Elmore

, and what is the basis for drawing the line at a given point.All decisions within the engineering ethics domain fundamentally appeal to an authoritative source. Onecommon authority is the engineering code of conduct. The various professional societies have alladapted codes of conduct. So have the state boards of registration. The state boards have the powerof government behind their rules and their rules need to be treated with respect. However, we believewe need to ask the question of whether these codes of conduct are sufficient in themselves to be usedas a basis for engineering ethics decision making.In this paper we analyze the legitimacy of these codes of conduct. Are they really a sufficient basisupon which to build an engineering career

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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Jon Dixon

along in their careers, they may beresponsible for divisions or entire companies that are producers of goods. To understandthe production of excellent products, one must understand the essence of excellence fromthe perspectives of both producers (from the design and manufacturing vantages) as wellas consumers. The course fits well within a manufacturing program because it highlightsthe importance of design. If the design is poor, average or good at best, manufacturingcannot make it better than it is. If excellent, manufacturing can certainly make a designless than it should be.Excellence in Product Design – A Unique ApproachI graduated in 1994 from St. Thomas having earned the Master of ManufacturingSystems Engineering (MMSE) degree. I was

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Discuss case where employer’s interests conflict with the interests of the public Give step-by-step Discuss the need for a professional code of Control description of ethics Post-Module solution Discuss the importance of engineering ethics in the career Control