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Stephen McKnight; Gilead Tadmor; E Everbach; William E. Cole; Michael Ruane

” lab to teach computation andprogramming skills through data acquisition and measurement controlled by the new MATLABData Acquisition and Instrument Control Toolboxes. Pilot sections of a two-quarter-hourfreshman problem-solving with software applications course have been presented in this formatat Northeastern with good student and instructor feedback. A similar module at BostonUniversity is planned for the fall semester of 2001. Real-time control and measurement canprovide a format to teach programming skills that is captivating for students of all levels ofcomputer skills, in addition to teaching other valuable engineering skills.7. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the hard work and creative ideas of Michael Macneal,our

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Jr., Donald Horner; Dr. Jack Matson

because I think that ultimately thatwill help me a lot in the leadership aspect. I want to bein charge of my learning and get into things that I aminterested in. I thought it would be a great opportunity toexperience the uncertainty that comes with not having apreset direction and eventually overcoming that to completesomething that I am proud of. I also want to learn moreabout group interaction and how different people react ingroup situations.Dan: I don't know how you guys feel, but I feeldisappointed in how the class is going. Frustrated andconfused feelings will only grow if we do not have some sortof plan about how we are going to accomplish things in theclass. It’s difficult. So I suggest taking the bull by thehorns [sic] and not pitter

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Hailey; Christine Hailey

-graphics, using aworkbook genre.15 Similarly, the efforts of Kirkpatrick, et al., appear to utilize a combination oftextbook supplement and workbook genres using Internet-based delivery of interactive text and Page 6.1054.3graphics for course materials associated with internal combustion engines.16 Although the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationworkbook format is valuable, it is typically used only after students have background material inhand. Since we planned to deliver an entire course, we felt

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rick Duley; A Boyanich; S P Maj

Page 6.1059.3 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationconstruction. The relevance of the standard computer architecture is therefore in question and yetaccording to the 1991 ACM/IEEE-CS report, curriculum planning should be driven by theoutcomes expected for students9. In 1996 an ECU market audit led to a set of guidelinesdeveloped for the type of skills expected of computer science graduates entering the field ofcomputer and network support10. Using the criteria developed a random selection of ten, finalyear Edith Cowan University (ECU) computer science undergraduates were interviewed from agraduating population of approximately one hundred. The computer science degree at ECU islevel one accredited

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mary Cardenas; Patrick Little

unfamiliar tostudents, care should be exercised in the selection of exercises, the workload of the students, andin providing appropriate feedback on student work. We believe that continued experiments instudio-based engineering education are warranted, and plan to continue them.Bibliography1. Wilson, Jack M. and William C. Jennings, "Studio Courses: How Information Technology Is Changing the Way We Teach, On Campus and Off", Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 72-80.2. Escher’s World: Explore a Digital Mathematics Studio, http://escher.www.media.mit.edu/people/escher/, accessed July 14, 2000.3. Coleman, Robert J., "STudio for Engineering Practice, "STEP", Lessons Learned About Engineering Practice", Proceedings of the 1995 25th

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

pretty excited about their learningcommunity experience as demonstrated by this remark:“It’s kind of a good plan, the whole thing, the whole learning community is when we’re allgrouped up in classes together and we all kind of have the same, the same general ideas aboutwhat we want from school…what classes we want to take, what classes we are gonna taketogether, you know” (“Tony”, September 27, 2000). Page 6.1099.11“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Around mid-term, the following remark is representative of how

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Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

. McHenry, K. W. Mathematics Education: An Industrial View. In Proceedings of the UCSMP InternationalConference on Mathematics Education. Developments in School Mathematics Education Around the World.(1991). Vol 3 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston VA. USA. 14-23. 1992.18. Pugalee, D. K. The Clearing House. Vol 73 No1 Gale Group. 19-21. 1999.19. Results T. W. and. Results, L. B.. The Winners and Losers Bench Test Results, in PC Power Play HotHardware Guide, vol. 2, 75- 75. 1999.20. Roisin, C. A. Donnelly, L & Gorman, M. P. Planning and Developing an Interactive ComputerisedTutorial for Learning in Higher Education. 4(3). 397-410. 1999.21. Veal, D. Maj, S. P. & Swan. Physics: Implications for Computer Technology Education

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Steven Schweitzer; John Klegka

resemblance to Pro/Desktop andmany other mid-level CAD packages. Moving models from Pro/Desktop to DesignStar was veryeasy but Pro/Desktop lacks direct integration with any FEA package. This lack of integrationmakes it difficult to conduct optimization studies.Assessment plan and resultsTo assess the implementation of Pro/Desktop a time analysis survey was conducted forcomparison to the previous semester when Pro/Engineer was taught. The students recorded thenumber of minutes it took them to complete each assignment and to prepare for the next lesson.An individual survey was also completed at the end of the EDG instruction to determine howcomfortable each student felt with 3-D solid modeling.The Pro/Engineering final project was to draw and assemble

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2001 Annual Conference

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsame attributes that will make it strong tomorrow. Through careful planning, review, andadjustment the degree program will meet the needs of our students, their employers and theepistemological philosophies of a technologically driven society.Bibliography1. St. Louis University Bulletin, Parks College of Aeronautical Technology, v44 no3, March 482. St. Louis University Bulletin, Parks College of Aeronautical Technology, v45 no3, March 493. URL: http://imagine.slu.edu/parks/aircraft_maintenance.html; The Department of Aerospace Technology, Degrees Offered4. URL: http

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sean P. Brophy; Robert Roselli

inbiomechanics and use students' responses to these questions to probe the misconceptions thatthey have of these concepts. An instructor can then determine how to best adapt instruction,based on the results of students’ responses and how to alter the original presentation so thatmisconceptions are minimized.Method of EvaluationThe previous discussion articulates our current plans for enhancing the instruction of anintroductory course in biomechanics using a challenge-based approach. The effectiveness of thisapproach will be established by comparing it with a traditional approach to instruction. Theevaluation process began during the Fall of 2000. A team of learning scientists observed BME101 to establish a baseline measure of engineering education

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael Lucas; Catherine Latterell; Andrew Vavreck

could be. To make ananalogy to another art form, the course produced a working sketch instead of a finished painting.In Spring 2001, a new course, Art 30, has been scheduled, that was specifically advertised toengineering technology students. It is a General Education three-credit class. The plan is tomake the car-body problem a final project in this course. The reasoning is two-fold. One, morestudents may become interested in taking the course, given that it fulfills curricular requirementsand carries more credits. Secondly, earlier design projects in this course will lead up to the carproject. In other words, the class is beginning to pre-conceive the approach a little.In the final analysis, the collaboration between engineering and art

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2001 Annual Conference

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

possible correlation between the use of VLSM and student performance, theauthor taught two sections of EM 2413. In one section, all students were issued individualaccess codes to the Statics modules with the instructor making a limited use of VLSM inclassroom lectures. The author taught the other section without any reference to VLSM andwithout allowing the students any access to it.In the next section of the paper, various features of CIMS for Statics in VLSM are discussed.This is then followed by the discussion of the procedure used for collecting data and theassessment of the role of these CIMS on student learning. These discussions are culminated withthe concluding remarks and planned course of action for the future developments

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2001 Annual Conference

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Carl Zorowski

5 4 3 2 1 environment than usual course offerings.10. Computer hardware requirements for playing CD ROM were 5 4 3 2 1 restrictive to enrollment.11. This course was more educationally effective than a course 5 4 3 2 1 delivered by standard methods.12. A practical course project did significantly promote the 5 4 3 2 1 understanding and application of the knowledge content.13. Weekly quizzes and exercises did assist my remaining on 5 4 3 2 1 planned semester schedule of activity.14. Review of the course material on the CD ROM at the weekly class 5 4 3 2 1 meetings was useful.15. The interactive exercises at the end of each chapter were helpful

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Nora Christianson; Henry Russell

when recruiting scientist andengineers.National S&E Workforce StatisticsAs part of its annual Affirmative Employment Program Plan (AEPP), ARL examines the S&Eworkforce to determine the representation of women and minorities. This effort includes acomparison of the ARL workforce statistics to the U.S. Census Bureau Civilian Labor Force(CLF) statistics. The AEPP identifies instances of manifest imbalance, conspicuous absence,and parity of women and minorities in the ARL workforce. A shortcoming of this analysis,however, is that the current ARL workforce is compared to 10 year-old CLF data (i.e., 1999ARL data was compared to 1990 CLF data).ARL discovered that a comparison to more recent national workforce statistics could beaccomplished

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2000 Annual Conference

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

cookies will be instrumented with thermocouples as they travel through the oven on theconveyor belt. The top surface temperature will be monitored with an infrared detector, thusintroducing students to the basics of pyrometry. A mirror will traverse the oven in tandem with thebelt to keep the cookie in view of the detector. Radiant heaters at the top of the oven will supplythe heat.4. Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics for a Windtunnel Flow SystemStudents measure velocity profiles and heat transfer coefficients on a heated flat plate in a windtunnel. This experiment comes at the time of the semester when the students are being exposed ingreater depth to the concept of a temperature and a velocity “field.” The case study we plan torelate to this

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2000 Annual Conference

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Murali Krishnamurthi

discussions.The same instructional design principles and learning models used in a face to face course are alsoapplicable in an online course. But the major difference is that in an online course instructor’s roleshould be one of facilitating students’ learning instead of teaching them similar to a face-to-facecourse. The key is in planning ahead what is to be covered in each online session and designingthe discussions using learning cycle principles, such as the Kolb Learning Cycle6 shown in Figure2. Online discussions can be designed to cover all the four quadrants of the learning cycle byaddressing motivational issues, theory and facts, application, and synthesis. This helps to impose astructure on the discussions and make them more substantive than

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2000 Annual Conference

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Kevin J. Renken; John Reisel

skills ofthe students.Future DirectionsWe expect to continue to utilize both graduate and undergraduate student projects in the work of theEnergy Conversion Efficiency Laboratory. Initially, we plan to implement the improvements to theenergy conversion savings experiments, by using several lubricants in one compressor. We also planto test additional lubricants. Directions for future laboratory development projects include in-lineviscosity measurements of the lubricants, vibration analysis via use of an accelerometer, effect oflubrication as well as environmental and operating conditions on discharge mass flow rates, andbranching the laboratory activities into new energy conversion efficiency problems. These problemswill likely involve new

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Timothy N. Chang; Daphne l. Chang

. Daphne Chang is an Assistant Director for Career Development at Bloomfield College. In addition toproviding career counseling and assessments, she also teaches career planning seminar course. Since1994, Ms. Chang has been using MBTI Personality Inventory in her classes to enhance personal awarenessand to facilitate career development among college students. She holds an M.A. in CurriculumDevelopment from the University of Kansas and an M.Ed. in Adult Counseling & Education fromUniversity of Toronto. Currently, Ms. Chang is a board member of Middle Atlantic Career CounselingAssociation. Page 5.322.14

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Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

sometimes makematters worse. The case study on end-of-life options for products describes a method todevelop models of product life and obsolescence in order to plan either efficient productdisposal or product recycling strategies. These modules have been used in discussions ofrecycling and waste management in undergraduate history and policy courses in thecollege of social sciences, and in an upper undergraduate/graduate-level course onenvironmental management in the engineering school at Carnegie Mellon University.Recycling/Waste Management Educational Materials and Modules Module – “Rechargeable Battery Management and Recycling: A Green Design Educational Module”. This module was discussed in section 2. In the context of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

limited number of students preferhaving an inductive order of topics. In addition, students felt that the order of topics startingwith mass transfer in the transport course was the most logical and easiest to understand.Future Teaching Plans This paper discusses several concepts related to the inductive style of teaching andlearning. The first concept is presenting material using an inductive lecture format. A professorstarts with an experiment or shows results of an experiment and ends with the derivation ofequations describing these results. The second concept presented in this paper is an inductiveorder of topics within an area of transport. For example heat transfer could be taught startingwith heat exchangers and overall heat

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jennie Si; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Forouzan Golshani; Donald W. Collins; Christian Ringhofer; Kostas Tsakalis

Distributed Processing CORBA Workstations Parallel IA64 IA64 IA64 Processing Bay 1 Bay 2 ... Bay n Figure 1: Integrated Simulation Modeling Environmentobserved that this problem could be formulated as a time-varying control problem, for whichcontrol theory offers a variety of tools. Our plan was to investigate the use of Model-Basedcompensatory design techniques to develop and test scheduling algorithms that provide "near-optimal" performance with respect to large-but-low-frequency perturbations, such as

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2000 Annual Conference

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

own or plan to buy, the inexpensive floating-pointTMS320C31 DSKs for pedagogical reasons, this MATLAB program fully supports that decision byallowing filter coefficient quantization effects to be demonstrated using either fixed-point orfloating point filtering algorithms on a single DSP device. This program eliminates the need topurchase expensive specialized software programs or additional DSP hardware. The programdescribed in this paper provides an interactive graphical user interface, which communicatesdirectly with the DSK, and demonstrates in real-time how both coefficient quantization and filterimplementation affect filter performance. All of this is accomplished without the need for tediousprogramming of the DSK. The latest version of

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Gene Moriarty

sake. Science operates at the level of theory, a theory of reality. A Page 5.666.6science of engineering, according to Taft Broome [12], must be a 6Praxiology, a theory of efficient action. But a theory of engineering is notthe same as engineering itself. Engineering is an action involving a process.That process is a human activity of producing a plan, which draws onresources available, whereby systems, devices, networks, and structures canbe produced to fulfill human needs and desires. Only the barest outlines ofthis complex reality could be drawn into a theory of efficient action.In fact, what makes a science or theory of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

currently offered at Kettering University. The MfgE-404Sheet Metal Forming course is offered by IMEB Department (with ME-202: Mechanics of Solidsand MfgE-370: Engineering Materials as pre-requisites), and ME-510 Computer Simulation ofMetal Forming Processes (with MfgE-370, ME-315: Computer Aided Engineering and ME-342:Advanced Solids as pre-requisites, and possibly ME-429: Finite Elements as co-requisite). Catalogdescription of these courses is outlined in Appendix 1.Itemized objectives of the detailed plan I. Enhancement of the existing Sheet Metal Forming course (i) upgrade the existing stamping laboratory by procuring a hydraulic press and the accompanying controls and tooling (ii) prepare a set of experiments in

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Teresa L. Hein

presents a description of a rather unique writing activity developed for usein the PNM course. This activity was designed to give students experience with all aspects ofpreparing a formal paper for publication and presentation.III. Description of the Writing ActivityEarly in the Fall 1999 semester students enrolled in PNM were informed that one of the keycomponents of the course would be the preparation of a formal written paper for publication andpresentation at a “conference” planned for the end of the semester. Students were allowed tochoose a topic for their papers that interested them. The only stipulation given them was that the Page

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Barbara Olds

to the program asa whole. Sometimes the students’ suggestions are general. Paul, for example, suggested that hisfirst seminar might have gone more smoothly if less difficult material had been chosen for thefirst several weeks’ readings. In other cases, very specific suggestions are made. In one class,Paul suggested that there should have been a few more graded writing assignments which“would have made me more carefully read some of the material.” In addition to hearing suchsuggestions first hand at their tutorial meetings, moderators are encouraged to read the portfolioentries of all of their students and make appropriate changes in the seminar for the next offering.VII. ChallengesAlthough the portfolio assessment plan has been largely

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Sandra Courter; Narayanan Murugesan; Jacob Eapen; Donna Lewis; Dan Sebald; Jodi Reeves

or more of the FC competencies. The program director and graduate student co-chairs use the competencies to guide workshop selection and design. This paper traces thedevelopment of both NEO and TIP; the incorporation of the FC core competencies, vision,mission, student outcomes, and objectives; the impact on curricula as reported on evaluations;lessons learned; and plans for future professional development opportunities. Four case studiesillustrate how graduate students, the next generation of engineers, develop the core competencies Page 6.147.1through professional development opportunities including TIP and NEO. Proceedings of the

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Brian Copes; Willard D. Bostwick; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

discourages both parties as some will feeloverwhelmed while others feel unchallenged. By providing well-planned articulation to studentspossessing a solid foundation of both the “rules” and the “tools”, college educators can create amore congruent learning environment in their classrooms.BackgroundFall semester 1997, the MET department decided to change and modernize the focus of anexisting Mechanical Design Drafting Technology (MDDT) associate degree program. To betterserve broader industry demands for well-rounded digital content creators, 3D CAD, DesktopPublishing, Raster and Vector Imaging and Multimedia Authoring replaced courses such as

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1998 Annual Conference

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Stephen R. Fleeman

. Table 5. A Sample EIA Standard.Using the National Skill Standards for Student and Program AssessmentOn August 15, 1996, the Electronics Industries Association (EIA) announced plans to develop a pool oftest questions to be used in the certification of work-ready electronics technicians. EIA included theConsumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA) and the Electronic Industries Foundation (EIF)in establishing the approach to develop an assessment tool.The groups selected the Chauncey Group International, a subsidiary of Educational Testing Service (ETS),to develop and validate the test questions. ETS is best known as a long-time administrator of the SATexams.The Chauncey Group was selected because of its experience in the development of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Stephen M. Williams; Byron P. Newberry

high SAT students is comparable tothat of the overall population. These results are based on a limited sample from one semester of EGR 1302 and thesubsequent semester of Statics. We plan to continue to track these two groups of students as wellas future groups. EGR 1302 Students making % Retained ≥C All Students Enrollment ≥C in Statics Students Traditionally taught 228 112 49%Intro to Engr. FundamentalsMinimum Self-Paced Mastery 51 32 63%Intro to Engr. Fundamentals Table 4a. Comparison of Overall Retention Rates Before and After MasteryStudents with ≥600