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1999 Annual Conference

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

affect the grades compared to the number of other types of tests usedin the course. Initially, it took almost three hours to plan and create a web-based test. Withexperience, the required time was quickly reduced to the same one-hour period that had beenrequired for the traditional tests. The time saved grading the web-based tests and assessingstudent performance was substantial and resulted in a net decrease of faculty time for the casepresented in this paper. The web-authoring software, Microsoft FrontPage, used to create thesetests was moderately priced and compatible with the software routinely used by the authors. Thesoftware and the computing infrastructure that supported this effort are described.IntroductionWhat engineering professor

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1999 Annual Conference

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

face in the pursuit of a technical degree.The ASU MESA Program coordinates recruitment activities that invite students to the ASUcampus to attend and to participate in ECE 100, an introductory engineering assembly designclass, to tour the campus, and to participate in engineering and science labs. Students participatein workshops and panel discussions with ASU students, staff, and faculty on educational andcareer planning, admissions, and financial aid. Students attend leadership retreats, industry tours,Saturday Science Academies, participate in local, state, and national math and sciencecompetitions (such as MESA Day, Future Cities, and Science Olympiad). ASU engineeringstudents, referred to as MESA Liaisons, are assigned to each MESA school

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2000 Annual Conference

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Evelyn Hanna

? Mother_____________________ Father______________________B. Educational Background4. If you have taken the PSAT, what was your score? _______5. Please list the math courses you have taken in the past two years. Place an H next to those that were honors courses. _______________________________________________________________________________6. Please list the science courses that you have taken in the past two years. Place an H next to those that were honors courses. _______________________________________________________________________________7. If you plan to attend college, what do you think you will major in? ______________________________8. How

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2000 Annual Conference

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S. S. Venkata; Doug Jacobson

1971. He taught at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, West Virginia University,Morgantown for seven years, and at the University of Washington, Seattle for 17 years. He is presentlyProfessor and Chairman of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Iowa State University, Ames,Iowa. His research interests include power quality and reliability, power electronic applications to powersystems, automated distribution system planning and automation, intelligent applications to power systems,six-phase transmission, protection, and education. Dr. Venkata is a Fellow of the IEEE. In 1996 he received the Page

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2000 Annual Conference

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Kandace K. Martin; Justin Benna; Donald R. Flugrad; Anthony W. Hron; Barbara L. Licklider

the well being of the group, individually and collectively.3 A classroom is built through a learningprocess that links interactions between and among faculty and students.4 We believe that building a learningcommunity is extremely important in the creation of a successful distance learning classroom. How is thisaccomplished? More specifically, how did we set out to build community in this distance education classroom?V. Facilitating the ProcessWith the technology in place and building a learning community as our goal, purposefully planned interactivestrategies became our link. One of the main tasks of the instructor was to design a class structure and determinelearning strategies that allow students to actively engage in the learning process

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2000 Annual Conference

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Michael J Batchelder; Iyer L. Srinivasa; Daniel F. Dolan

density foam blocks are glued together thencut to shape with a hot wireFigure A10. Solar car after completing Sunrace 99, a racefrom Washington D.C. to Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Ofthe 54 teams planning to participate, only 29 qualified for therace. Our entry finished in 25th position. Page 5.140.12 12

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2000 Annual Conference

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B.S. Sridhara

for failing the braking test in Indianapolis was that we could not test the car thoroughlybefore the qualifier.In the spring of 1998, we decided to compete in Sunrayce 99 and submitted our proposal inJanuary of 1998. In this proposal,1 the author discussed different aspects of the project includingDesign and Engineering (driver safety, design and analysis, and material selection) in accordancewith Sunrayce 99 regulations.2 Topics such as Organization and Project Planning, Curriculum Page 5.141.2Integration, Fund Raising and Team Support, Vehicle Testing and Driver Training, and Logisticswere also discussed. In February, the Sunrayce

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2000 Annual Conference

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Traxon Rachell; Kaori Sakaguchi-Hall; Chris Swan

are made: 1) Several students did not fully appreciate service learning as valuable pedagogy and was approaching the project as community outreach. 2) The feeling of helping, of truly providing a service is highly desired by the students.The first conclusion suggests clearly that more could be done in orientation and throughout thecourse to orient students to the learning process as it involves service learning and fullyappreciate service learning as an effective pedagogy. For example, Tufts students are extremelyactive planning and executing on and off campus activities. However, these activities are notnormally tied to the classroom, they are mostly done as the student makes time for them. Thehope is to provide a

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jerome A. Atkins

validated by theAmerican Council on Education; and special and portfolio-based assessment; and credit byexamination. Currently, approximately three-fourths of Regents College students meet programrequirements by taking examinations. Among institutions of higher education, there is an erosion of educational monopolies and the need for these institutions to support the changes that technology offers if they plan to remain competitive in attracting students during the 21st century. If learning can be successfully validated by assessment techniques, then controlling the processes of instruction loses its primary quality assurance role. 3

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2000 Annual Conference

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Shahnam Navaee

Session 2520 Computer Utilization in Enhancing Engineering Education Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn June of 1998, with an initiative from the Board of Regents of the University System ofGeorgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology was placed in charge of developing plans to furtherenhance the educational opportunities in engineering across the state. Georgia Tech RegionalEngineering Program (GTREP) was specifically created to accomplish this objective. GTREP isbased in southeast Georgia and offers undergraduate programs in the areas of Civil andComputer

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1997 Annual Conference

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L.J. Bohmann; B.A. Mork; Noel Schulz

83-84 85-86 87-88 89-90 91-92 93-94 academic year Figure 1: Percentage of Universities With a Power Program Requiring a Course in Energy Conversion [4-13]The motivation for rethinking the energy conversion course came from planning a

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1997 Annual Conference

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Bahador Ghahramani

particular andengineering as a whole. Besides required courses, students are also encouraged to register forelectives in management and technical areas that most effectively satisfy their personal andprofessional careers. NTU students are assigned an academic advisor from the faculty. Advisors assiststudents in selection of the academic programs, planning their curriculum, registration, and otherpertinent information. Students are responsible for interfacing with their advisors and addressingtheir academic problems and issues.US ARMY ENGINEERING SCHOOL AND OTHER PROGRAMS The US Army Engineering School at Ft. Leonard Wood (USAES) is located to the southof Rolla, Missouri. USAES is a training school for the Army’s Engineering Officer

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1997 Annual Conference

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Michael Alley

. Basic Communication is continuing to be taught in the College of Engineering. During the1996-97 year, there were twenty-five sections, and another twenty-five sections are planned for the1997-98 year. Acknowledgments. In establishing this course, much is owed to Dean John Bollinger,College of Engineering, and Dr. Gisela Kutzbach, Department of Engineering ProfessionalDevelopment. In teaching and developing the course, much is owed to Dr. Sandra Courter,Bonnie Schmidt, and Paul Ross—all from the Department of Engineering ProfessionalDevelopment.Felder, Richard, M., G. N. Felder, M. Mauney, C. E. Hamrin, and E. J. Dietz, “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention (III): Gender Differences in Student

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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

delivering an ongoing program ofconsistently high quality is a much bigger issue. Every detail must be planned in advance. Issues Page 2.357.9like providing supplementary literature, transporting the equipment from school to school, andtraining the personnel who present the Techmobile were not apparent at first, but require a greatdeal of coordination. It comes down to time and money. Work on the Techmobile began in theSpring of 1996 and limited delivery will commence 1 1/2 years later in the Fall of 1997. Thebudget for the project is roughly $50,000, which does not include donated equipment or much ofthe time put in by volunteers. The cost for

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1997 Annual Conference

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Raymond Yannuzzi; Edward McDonnell; Bradshaw Kinsey; Robert Bowman

Team" brings together administrators and faculty frompartner schools to provide prompt and detailed education and training plans that supplement Cityeconomic proposals to companies considering a move to the Naval Business Center. Philadelphiaofficials believe Shipyard Collegegives them a unique training resource that is particularly attractive to the large international firmsthat have long considered worker training and education as a key component of their operations. The emerging new role for the Shipyard site as a regional center combining rail, air, sea androad transportation has led the consortium to develop curriculum responses in which eachmember has a share. The three community colleges jointly operate a new Truck DrivingAcademy at

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

to reach out for additional things to do beyond what was planned. Since theteaching was taking place in lab setting, it was not difficult to introduce additional material. About 2-3 additionalteachers/faculty and graduate/undergraduate students were available to help the subject area lead faculty. Generalconsensus was that if middle school students are exposed to more technical skills and knowledge, more they werewilling to learn. We did not observe boredom among them. It is equally important that our faculty continue to work with school teachers to address and exploretechniques for similar models to be used in school systems.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the following for their very valuable contributions and

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1997 Annual Conference

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craig evers

success. These measures tell where weare along a planned course. They point out the direction we are headed, and give us informationregarding areas in which corrective action should be taken to prevent falling below a nominalcurve into an area where failure is a strong possibility. They allow a department or company todetermine how they are doing and also to report to their customers whether expectations will bemet. As educators, we have many metrics we use to define our success or failure. We must beskilled in their use to remain competitive in our own industry. Our customers, however, careabout only one. The most important measure of success we use in reporting to our students is thegrade.Performance indicators can be tricky to apply properly

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert J. Radin; Joan Dannenhoffer

, but the results have beenextremely effective. Gardner points out that not all material can be taught with all of theintelligences[4]. We have focused our energies on developing presentations which use as manyof the intelligences as possible. However, you will notice that musical intelligence was not usedin either of the applications in this paper. It doesn’t make sense to try to use an intelligence justfor the sake of using every intelligence. Of course, the presenter’s strengths also impact howcomfortable it is to use a particular intelligence.Formal assessment of student outcome reached by teaching to many intelligences will require acontrolled study. This is planned in our future research

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1997 Annual Conference

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Barbara Olds

profile. This typeof portfolio might be more attractive as a selling device for a prospective employer because thestudent and teacher have had the opportunity to “filter” the contents and be selective about whatto include.We are in the planning stages of a longitudinal selective portfolio requirement for students in theMcBride Honors Program at CSM. Students in this seven-semester sequence will be required toselect representative works from their seminars each semester, reflect on how the selected workrepresents their efforts and accomplishments in the seminar, and meet with a faculty tutor for aone-on-one discussion of the portfolio. Before graduation each student will be required to meetwith a faculty committee to present his/her portfolio and

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1998 Annual Conference

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N. Mohankrishnan; Sandra Yost

, and provide one or two carefully chosen examples to ensure that the groups will be able to function relatively autonomously in group activities. Do not try to “squeeze” the entirety of your former lectures into a shorter time frame!4. Using an absolute grading scale is a necessity! Grading on a curve fosters competition, not cooperation.5. Carefully planned group exercises achieve the best results. For out-of-class activities, it is important to structure the assignment so that the team members are motivated to rely on each other to successfully complete all of the tasks. It is often possible to modify a challenging text problem to include some computer simulation and analysis to make a non-trivial but doable group assignment

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1998 Annual Conference

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Patrick E. Connolly

sales and marketing personnel.Presently, the industry is making another major step in this area, but away from uniqueness andindividual idiosyncrasies, toward a commonality, or generic, appearance. All of the major CADvendors have either recently released products with significantly upgraded user interfaces, or areplanning to do so in the near future. One of the largest and most successful high-end CADproviders is planning on making the modification of their user interface a “main thrust for thenext several releases” of their product.4 This trend will continue to be critical for CAD providersas customers demand easier to learn and easier to use products that meet quick implementationcriteria.FunctionalityFunctionality can be defined as what the

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

given instructions on safetybefore they enter the plant. Using a special layout plan, given in the appendix, they must identifythe equipment and take specific plant readings. On the tour map, shown at the end of the paper,are digitized photographs of all the equipment that they are required to identify. In addition tothis equipment recognition, students are required to obtain readings from the process shown inFigure 3. These readings range from manual gauges to digital computer screen readings. Simu-lations and hand calculations will be based on the readings from the process shown in Figure 3.The table shown below is actual plant readings taken by the students of this process.Reading Computer Nota- Reading in High Bay Area

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1998 Annual Conference

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Paul S. Chinowsky

document interpretation. The interpretation of regulatory documents is often adifficult task for students as they wade through legal jargon, professional acronyms, and obtuseregulations. To assist students in understanding the impact of regulations and other externalproject impacts, a broad range of materials is required to provide an appropriate case context.The students demonstrated a need for plans, project videotape, written regulations, and third- Page 3.550.2party summaries to successfully grasp the scope of a given case. This focus on broad issues andcontextual information emphasized the need expand beyond traditional written case formats

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1998 Annual Conference

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Cliff J. Schexnayder; Avi Wiezel

Everyone contributes No plan and schedule conflictsSubmitting Assignments over the InternetA few assignments were placed in the course WWW page. Students were required to Page 3.158.9submit those assignments through the Internet. On one occasion the students submitted 10both their answers and the calculations through Internet. The Professor replied to thesubmitted assignments and issued the grades through email to the students. In the firstassignment, the marked answers and the grades were issued as soon as the assignmentwas received from the

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1998 Annual Conference

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Anthony Brizendine

The ASCE Northern Branch, the three north-central West Virginia Society ofProfessional Engineers chapters (Clarksburg, Fairmont and Morgantown), and the AmericanAssociation of Cost Engineers - Morgantown Chapter have developed joint meetings for thepurpose of providing continuing education. The meetings are normally evening meetings withone or more speakers. These meetings are planned and hosted on a rotating basis among theparticipating organizations. Again, high quality continuing education is provided at a cost ofapproximately $20 to $25 per PDH. Page 3.159.6 6 WV EXPO

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

hospital staff for a new operating room design. The engineer managing the projectremarked, “We found out from the surgeons that they think they want it to be 65 degrees [ steadytemp in the operating room], - but they don’t really [tonal emphasis], since they actually need tocontrol certain fluctuations.” From his interactions with the medical team, the engineer haddiscovered that their stated desire was not going to meet the clients’ actual physical needs inreality. Only through listening carefully to them and adjusting his design team’s plan was thespace his team designed going to truly meet the needs of the client. Another engineer fromGeminid put this skill another way, stating, I think it is important for us to listen to understand what

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Joshua Quesenberry, Virginia Tech; Justeen Olinger, Virginia Western Community College; Kevin Diomedi II, Virginia Western Community College; Robert Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Richard Clark, Virginia Western Community College; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

Adobe Connect Pro was the best software solution for use in ourdistance learning circuits laboratory course. Unfortunately, the Virginia Techadministration has not made a commitment as of yet to purchase the softwarelicense. Although monthly and pay-for-use plans are available for individual users,it was not clear if there exists a means within the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department to fund the necessary licenses long-term and, therefore,there was a substantial risk that the investment of the faculty’s and staff’s time andeffort to incorporate Adobe Connect Pro into the distance learning circuitslaboratory course would only be of value for a few semesters. a) b) Figure 3: Examples

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Solarek, University of Toledo; Hong Wang, The University of Toledo; Allen Rioux, The University of Toledo; William Evans, The University of Toledo; weiqing sun, The University of Toledo

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Computers in Education

Page 15.760.10 Figure 3. Assessment Matrix5. Conclusion.Benefitting from the new curriculum change, students are able to achieve more than engineeringtechnology can offer alone. Although it takes more effort for the students to master boththeoretical and practical contents, the feedbacks are positive toward the change.In the spring of 2007, Exit interviews with students in the senior capstone course who planned tograduate from the CSET program in the spring or summer of 2007 showed that many of ourgraduates are working in computer science field and some applied and admitted to computerscience graduate school. Over the recent years, enrollment and student quality are increasing

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Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of requiring the students to plan, organize and execute complex tasks5.In the same line of thought, a set of different kinds of learning and assessment strategies havebeen developed. These strategies are based in the incorporation of authentic tasks; the connectionbetween theoretical learning in the classroom and the application of the acquired knowledge inthe work environment; in the assessments.These strategies include: project-based learning, the case method, problem-based learning,cognitive apprenticeship, situated learning, constructive learning environments, collaborativeproblem solving, goal-based scenarios, and model elicit activities between others 6,7 .From these strategies many forms of alternative assessment were developed and

Conference Session

Robotics Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

for modular design and implementation of decision algorithms and finite state machines. RBE 3001, Unified Robotics III. This is the third course in the four-course sequence. The focus of this course is actuator design, embedded computing and complex response processes. The course includes concepts of dynamic response as related to vibration and motion planning. The principles of operation and interface methods various actuators will be discussed, including Page 15.370.3 pneumatic, magnetic, piezoelectric, linear, stepper, etc. Complex feedback mechanisms will be implemented using software executing in an embedded system. The