Connectivity is rapidly becoming an ever more important word to the business community. The last decade has seen tremendous growth in the use and development of local area network (LAN) technology. Along with this growth, it has become easier to install LANs, making this technology available to anyone willing to explore it. The education community is also realizing the power of connectivity through LANs and is beginning to find new and useful ways to employ them. This paper chronicles how the United States Military Academy employs local area networks to improve learning efficiency.
{"title":"Using local area networks to improve learning efficiency","authors":"B.W. Hilmes","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580573","url":null,"abstract":"Connectivity is rapidly becoming an ever more important word to the business community. The last decade has seen tremendous growth in the use and development of local area network (LAN) technology. Along with this growth, it has become easier to install LANs, making this technology available to anyone willing to explore it. The education community is also realizing the power of connectivity through LANs and is beginning to find new and useful ways to employ them. This paper chronicles how the United States Military Academy employs local area networks to improve learning efficiency.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"3 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113985350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper describes the need, source, structure, and role of competencies in the Greenfield coalition for new manufacturing education. The need for competencies both as design specifications and as a common vision for all parties involved in the project is presented. The competency development process leverages industrial experience by describing the career path of a manufacturing engineer in industry. An evolutionary organizing strategy is used to define four core competencies that build upon each other. Competencies developed by Greenfield's curriculum committee are organized in a hierarchical fashion with each level being explained more fully by succeeding level sub-competencies. The resulting competencies and their organization have provided a platform for a meaningful arrangement of knowledge areas; furthermore, faculty are now using the competencies as the high-level goals of their curriculum development project proposals.
{"title":"Competency requirements in the Greenfield paradigm: the manufacturing engineer of the 21st century","authors":"F. Plonka, J. Hillman, M. Clarke, K. Taraman","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580640","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the need, source, structure, and role of competencies in the Greenfield coalition for new manufacturing education. The need for competencies both as design specifications and as a common vision for all parties involved in the project is presented. The competency development process leverages industrial experience by describing the career path of a manufacturing engineer in industry. An evolutionary organizing strategy is used to define four core competencies that build upon each other. Competencies developed by Greenfield's curriculum committee are organized in a hierarchical fashion with each level being explained more fully by succeeding level sub-competencies. The resulting competencies and their organization have provided a platform for a meaningful arrangement of knowledge areas; furthermore, faculty are now using the competencies as the high-level goals of their curriculum development project proposals.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128086541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A great number of engineering students work alone. But in industry, teamwork is required most of the time. Incorporating cooperative learning (CL) into an engineering program gives students an opportunity to practice problem solving and communication skills in a "simulated" professional environment. The paper briefly discusses the motivation behind using CL in engineering courses. Then, the essential elements to make CL successful in the classroom are examined and examples of how these elements have been incorporated into engineering courses taught by the author are given. Problems that have been encountered along with possible fixes are also mentioned.
{"title":"The nuts and bolts of cooperative learning in engineering","authors":"N. Mourtos","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580621","url":null,"abstract":"A great number of engineering students work alone. But in industry, teamwork is required most of the time. Incorporating cooperative learning (CL) into an engineering program gives students an opportunity to practice problem solving and communication skills in a \"simulated\" professional environment. The paper briefly discusses the motivation behind using CL in engineering courses. Then, the essential elements to make CL successful in the classroom are examined and examples of how these elements have been incorporated into engineering courses taught by the author are given. Problems that have been encountered along with possible fixes are also mentioned.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121450154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The role of the academic institution with respect to the undergraduate student has been changing over the recent years. As technology is advanced, the need for student introduction is amplified. During the last ten, or so, years, there has been a concerted push from academia, society, industry, and the accrediting bodies to introduce more practical applications into the engineering curriculum through academic-industrial projects. This paper deals with the success which Wilkes University (USA) has had in the past in their student involvement in these types of projects, and the types of contributions which the students have made to these projects.
{"title":"The involvement of the undergraduate student in academic-industrial projects","authors":"Y. Bibby, C. Mirman, T. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580557","url":null,"abstract":"The role of the academic institution with respect to the undergraduate student has been changing over the recent years. As technology is advanced, the need for student introduction is amplified. During the last ten, or so, years, there has been a concerted push from academia, society, industry, and the accrediting bodies to introduce more practical applications into the engineering curriculum through academic-industrial projects. This paper deals with the success which Wilkes University (USA) has had in the past in their student involvement in these types of projects, and the types of contributions which the students have made to these projects.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130046390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study shows a very high percentage of women nonengineering students believe engineering is not an interesting field of study. An insufficient background in mathematics is another main reason. The high school guidance counselor had a negative impact on a large number of students. To resolve this crucial problem, both higher education institutes and industry should spend much effort to introduce engineering to women. Many women could choose an engineering major if they had the opportunity to know about this field.
{"title":"World competition, technology, and women [engineering education]","authors":"M. Moussavi","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580490","url":null,"abstract":"This study shows a very high percentage of women nonengineering students believe engineering is not an interesting field of study. An insufficient background in mathematics is another main reason. The high school guidance counselor had a negative impact on a large number of students. To resolve this crucial problem, both higher education institutes and industry should spend much effort to introduce engineering to women. Many women could choose an engineering major if they had the opportunity to know about this field.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130269631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Washington Council for Engineering and Related Technical Education (WCERTE), USA, has as its focus communication, cooperation and coordination. These eliminate confusion and the need for control. It serves higher education throughout the state and it serves the students in various programs. This is extremely important in a state in which over 50% of the students in upper division engineering and related programs are transfer students. Upper division programs can be built upon the foundation of the lower division, expecting students who transfer to be prepared. Lower division programs can be provided to meet the needs of the students and to provide them with foundation courses to prepare them for upper division work. WCERTE has served engineering education in the State of Washington very well over the past 25 years. Here, the authors take a look at tasks and issues considered over its history which indicate that it will continue to foster communication, cooperation and coordination in dealing with the issues of the future.
{"title":"Community College and University cooperation in engineering and engineering technology in the State of Washington","authors":"R. Crain, R. Prouty","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580565","url":null,"abstract":"The Washington Council for Engineering and Related Technical Education (WCERTE), USA, has as its focus communication, cooperation and coordination. These eliminate confusion and the need for control. It serves higher education throughout the state and it serves the students in various programs. This is extremely important in a state in which over 50% of the students in upper division engineering and related programs are transfer students. Upper division programs can be built upon the foundation of the lower division, expecting students who transfer to be prepared. Lower division programs can be provided to meet the needs of the students and to provide them with foundation courses to prepare them for upper division work. WCERTE has served engineering education in the State of Washington very well over the past 25 years. Here, the authors take a look at tasks and issues considered over its history which indicate that it will continue to foster communication, cooperation and coordination in dealing with the issues of the future.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134360212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is evident that environmental concern and awareness is not a passing fancy. This is a technology issue that will grow in importance as we reach the next century. Here, the authors describe how electrical engineers have the opportunity to take a lead in finding innovative solutions to these new challenges, and argue that the integration of such environmental concerns into the electrical engineering curriculum is essential for future success.
{"title":"Integrating environment into electrical engineering-essential for future success","authors":"B. Hill","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580643","url":null,"abstract":"It is evident that environmental concern and awareness is not a passing fancy. This is a technology issue that will grow in importance as we reach the next century. Here, the authors describe how electrical engineers have the opportunity to take a lead in finding innovative solutions to these new challenges, and argue that the integration of such environmental concerns into the electrical engineering curriculum is essential for future success.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132873441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The authors argue that by offering a general introduction and overview to networks, computer architectures, scientific visualization, programming languages, a variety of operating systems and hypertext authoring tools, computer science students get a broad comprehensive view of modern high performance computing methodologies. They describe the Computational Science Education Project which was initiated in September 1991, by the US Department of Energy to develop a syllabus for teaching interdisciplinary computational science. The interdisciplinary nature of the project is intended to contribute to national technological competitiveness by producing a body of graduates with the necessary skills to operate effectively in high-performance computing environments.
{"title":"Teaching interdisciplinary computational science from an electronic book on the Internet","authors":"C. Oliver, M. Strayer, V.M. Umar","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580555","url":null,"abstract":"The authors argue that by offering a general introduction and overview to networks, computer architectures, scientific visualization, programming languages, a variety of operating systems and hypertext authoring tools, computer science students get a broad comprehensive view of modern high performance computing methodologies. They describe the Computational Science Education Project which was initiated in September 1991, by the US Department of Energy to develop a syllabus for teaching interdisciplinary computational science. The interdisciplinary nature of the project is intended to contribute to national technological competitiveness by producing a body of graduates with the necessary skills to operate effectively in high-performance computing environments.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128874484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1988, Drexel University began a five year experimental project designated E/sup 4/, to develop and implement new strategies to enhance its undergraduate engineering curriculum. This program, entitled "An Enhanced Educational Experience for Engineering Students", involved a major paradigm shift in which the environment and all activities focus on the students as emerging professional engineers with the faculty serving as their mentors from the very beginning of the educational process. The new strategy was designed to provide the student an immediate exposure to those things which the faculty believed to be essential to successful practice in the 21st century. The author describes the project and the results.
{"title":"E/sup 4/-genesis of a new curriculum","authors":"R. Quinn","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580628","url":null,"abstract":"In 1988, Drexel University began a five year experimental project designated E/sup 4/, to develop and implement new strategies to enhance its undergraduate engineering curriculum. This program, entitled \"An Enhanced Educational Experience for Engineering Students\", involved a major paradigm shift in which the environment and all activities focus on the students as emerging professional engineers with the faculty serving as their mentors from the very beginning of the educational process. The new strategy was designed to provide the student an immediate exposure to those things which the faculty believed to be essential to successful practice in the 21st century. The author describes the project and the results.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133773982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Students of the 1990s are probably more sophisticated about environmental issues than undergraduates of previous decades, since a number of states (including Alabama, Florida, Wisconsin and New Jersey) have adopted an environmental education curriculum in K-12. Another reason for the including of social impact of technology into the engineering curriculum is that engineering students also make decisions concerning technology and the environment as citizens. An informed public is vital to the functioning of a democratic society. What kind of understanding should engineering undergraduates have concerning "social" impact of technology? This paper proposes several ideas for such an education, and a curriculum module to teach social impact of technology via writing. For schools with Writing Across the Curriculum, writing is an effective medium to teach social impact of technology, because it is an excellent pedagogical tool and also because local examples can normally be found to illustrate the interaction of technology, society, and values in a variety of engineering courses.
{"title":"Teaching social impact of technology via writing","authors":"E. Tsang","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1994.580624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1994.580624","url":null,"abstract":"Students of the 1990s are probably more sophisticated about environmental issues than undergraduates of previous decades, since a number of states (including Alabama, Florida, Wisconsin and New Jersey) have adopted an environmental education curriculum in K-12. Another reason for the including of social impact of technology into the engineering curriculum is that engineering students also make decisions concerning technology and the environment as citizens. An informed public is vital to the functioning of a democratic society. What kind of understanding should engineering undergraduates have concerning \"social\" impact of technology? This paper proposes several ideas for such an education, and a curriculum module to teach social impact of technology via writing. For schools with Writing Across the Curriculum, writing is an effective medium to teach social impact of technology, because it is an excellent pedagogical tool and also because local examples can normally be found to illustrate the interaction of technology, society, and values in a variety of engineering courses.","PeriodicalId":288591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '94","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115384447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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