Gateway Projects Table of Contents


Curriculum Innovation & Development (CID)	Curricular Areas Engineering up Front Biotechnology & Bioengineering Environmental Engineering Materials Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Multi-Year, Multi-University Design Global Technology Management


Human Potential Development	Women in Engineering Minorities in Engineering Student Development Faculty Development


Educational Technology & Methodology (ETM)	ETM Technology Projects ETM Methodology Projects


Assessment & Evaluation	Assessment & Evaluation

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Technical Areas

Engineering Up Front

The Coalition has been successful in moving engineering up-front concurrent with the basic sciences and with engineering design beginning in the freshman year and remaining throughout. This integrated curriculum is a fundamental centerpiece of instructional philosophy combined with multidisciplinary engineering sciences.

Students are involved in learning and experimenting with fundamental engineering principles integrated with the basic sciences and engineering sciences rather than in the traditional sequential mode. This provides an integrated complex in which the students are increasingly addressing engineering intellectual issues as the basis for their educational program, beginning with their freshman year. Together with the extensive freshman design program from computer model to the physical model, the engineering laboratory up-front, and the integration of curricular components, the Coalition's program provides an extensive structural, educational culture, and content model change. A primary state in this model is the recognition that an undergraduate program is a set of interlinked parts that must work synergistically. This focus has had significant support at our institutions. The degree of evolution of this change ranges from parts of the freshman curriculum, forward to the subsequent years, to the implementation of a fully changed curriculum at some. Common throughout is freshman design which serves as both a motivator and a vehicle by which students gain expertise in engineering principles, the design process, statistical analysis, use of CAI tools, model fabrication, as well as the important non-technical issues such as teamwork, time management, leadership, the personal issues in engineering practice, and writing and the humanities in relation to their engineering interests. For additional information about specific projects please contact the Governing Board member from the Coalition institution involved.

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Biotechnology and Bioengineering

This program area is to develop an integrated approach to teaching Biotechnology and Bioengineering material to upper division students. It involves two major thrusts. One is in the area of development and manufacture of biotechnology products and the second area is in Biomedical and Health Care Engineering:

Engineering Biotechnology
Description:
The Engineering Biotechnology program area is to develop an integrated approach to teaching both biological and engineering principles involved in development and manufacture of biotechnology products. Topics to be covered under this project include: Genetic Engineering, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, FDA Regulations on Manufacturing, Drug Delivery, and Biosensors.

Go to Engineering Biotechnology page.

Resources:

1. Genetic Engineering Principles
2. Genetic Engineering Lab
3. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - Bioreactors
4. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - Bioseparators
5. FDA Regulations on Manufacturing.
6. Drug Delivery Systems

Biomedical and Health Care Engineering
Description:
This program area is to develop an integrated approach to teaching Biomedical and Health Care Engineering (biomaterials, biomechanics and bio-instrumentation, ethics, and FDA regulations) and an overview of health care delivery systems.

Resources:

1. Bioengineering Instrumentations
2. Ethics in Health Care

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Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering
Description:
The Environmental Engineering CID of the Gateway coalition is developing a rich variety of "course modules" in selected impact areas that will support environmental education at a wide variety of universities independently of how their programs are organized. "Course modules" are packages of information that can be used to occupy approximately one to two weeks of course time (3 to 6 class periods plus assignments) and can be used to enrich existing environmental courses, can be combined to build new courses, and can be applied in innovative educational approaches such as freshman design team projects. The following "impact areas" were selected for academic year 1995-96:

Solid and Hazardous Waste
Water/Wastewater Treatment & Environmental Chemistry
Air Pollution
Environmental Hydraulics & Water Resources

The goal of the Environmental Engineering CID is to package educational resources in exciting new ways so they may be shared among Environmental curricula within and beyond the Gateway.

Resources:

1. Everglades case study page.
2. Case Studies for Municipal Wastewater Treatment
3. Case Studies for Wastewater from Electrochemical Industry
4. Case Studies for Wastewater from Pharmaceutical Industry
5. Bioremdiation Course Module based on Bio.1D
6. Municipal Landfill Case Study
7. Air Pollution Case Study
8. Water Resources Case Studies
9. Environmental Assessment of a Hazardous Materials facility
10. Theory and availability of Environmental Engineering Case Studies
11. Low Level Radiation Case Study
12. Water Quality Case Study
13. Prototype Modules for Environmental DB and Software analysis
14. Wastewater Treatment Plant modules using Super Pro
15. Air Pollution Modules using Airscape & Surfer
16. Solid Waste Material Module using Bio-1D and ReOpt TM

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Materials Engineering

This program area is involved with the development of course materials for teaching Material Engineering Science within a topical range from atomic structure to materials processing. The two major thrusts in this area are:

Multimedia Teaching Modules for Materials
Description:
Develop education modules that demonstrate materials science and engineering concepts at introductory and intermediate levels using Computer Aided Instruction techniques.

Gateway Coalition Materials Program Area

Resources:

1. Materials Engineering Course on Microscopy
2. Course modules on Materials, Mechanics, and Structures
3. A multimedia CD-ROM Interactive Glossary for Materials Science and Engineering for Macintosh and Windows. This CD-ROM is available to faculty (limit one per faculty member) through Gateway Central by e-mail. E-mail request.

Solid State Materials
Description:
To teach the principles of modern physics using state of the art experimental techniques and introduce students to the physics and engineering of solid state materials and electronic devices.

Resources:

1. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy experiment simulations
2. Quantum Structure of Materials

Other related sites:
Photoelasticity

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Manufacturing Engineering

This program area is to develop an integrated approach to teaching design and manufacturing of both materials and products. Manufacturing is also being used as a vehicle to teach fundamental topics in engineering.

Concurrent Design and Manufacturing
Description:
This aim of this area is to establish concurrent design courses/environment that can be exported throughout and beyond the coalition. As part of the project, a number of multimedia tutorials and modules for a concurrent design course have been developed. Also, an infrastructure based on teleconferencing has been established through which teams of students at the four universities can design, analyze, simulate, and manufacture complex products. This environment also facilitates sharing of hardware and software through remote access.
A description of this year's Concurrent Engineering Design Project is available at Gateway Design Project.

Resources:

1. Development of the Feeding Assistant Device for Quadraplegics (Cooper)
2. Development of the Feeding Assistant Device for Quadraplegics (OSU).
3. Development of the Feeding Assistant Device for Quadraplegics(U.Penn)
4. Rapid Prototyping using the SLA User's Guide

Gateway Tutorials on CD ROM are available by contacting the Gateway Web Master. The CD containst the following materials: Authorware Tutorial, CNC Milling Tutorial, CNC Lathe Tutorial, CU-SeeMee Tutorial, EDM Tutorial, Gibbs ncCAD Tutorial, Gibbs ncCAM Tutorial, Injection Molding Tutorial, Injection Molding Simulator Tutorial, MacBRAVO! Tutorial, Process Selection Tutorial, Sharview Tutorial, and Stereolithography Tutorial. It also contains copies of some of the reports generated as part of this project.

Fundamentals of Manufacturing Process
Description:
The goal of this program area is to develop a new approach to the teaching of engineering fundamentals through the case study of many manufacturing processes. Fundamentals of momentum, heat and mass transport phenomena and chemical reactions will be introduced within the context of product manufacturing. Multimedia instructional modules on applying the concepts to the manufacture of integrated chips and textile fibers are being developed.

Resources:

1. Manufacture of Synthetic Fibers
2. Semiconductor Manufacturing Module
3. Manufacture of Industrial Solvents

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Multi-Year, Multi-University Project

The Gateway Mission to make engineering a hands-on, experiential learning experience will be expanded to foster the interaction of students within their universities in interdisciplinary teams as well as the interaction of these teams with others across the Coalition.

The Multi-Year, Multi-University Project (MYMUP) will emphasize developing student and faculty potential, apply new educational technology, expand teams to include freshman and sophomore students with upper-class students, and involve industry and government partners in order to provide "real problems of real people" to students.

The need to insure that the engineering design process be formalized in engineering education is vital to the Gateway Mission and MYMUP is a significant extension beyond the traditional.

During the 1995-96 academic year, three gateway schools participated in the MYMUP project. The results of this project are two designs for a SMART STREET KIOSK to serve the needs of urban residents with the latest technical innovations. The designs include a New York City Kiosk and a Miami Kiosk.

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Globetech Project

Description:
This project is to develop a computer simulation for international negotiation to be used as a lab component of an undergraduate interdisciplinary engineering course for global technology management.

Go to GlobeTech page.

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The focus of Gateway HPD funding is to be as seed funds, catalysis of new ideas, and to leverage efforts for more permanent funding. It is furthermore our objective not to offset programs which have traditionally been sponsored within the institution and it is also our programmatic objective to develop programs which become imbedded within the academic culture of the College. By doing so the intent is to not establish long term stand alone efforts which single out a specific population but encourage supportive efforts which can also benefit the broader student population.

Women in Engineering Project Areas

WiE Communications / Information Exchange Infrastructure
Description:
The aim of this project is to create a dynamic, evolving medium to facilitate interactions between faculty and students; and access to up-to-date information and resources pertinent to women in engineering with emphasis on the needs of current and future women engineering students and faculty, but available to and accessible by all Gateway students and faculty. The dissemination and publication medium is Hypertext/ Multimedia/Networking on the World Wide Web under the Gateway Engineering Coalition Home Page umbrella.

Go to the Women in Engineering homepage.
Leadership Conference for Women in Engineering
Description:
This project has been originally proposed by colleagues at Cooper Union to provide role models for female students in secondary education and engineering (undergraduate and graduate) to encourage them to aspire to leadership positions in both technical fields and technological decision making. The anticipated outcomes of the project are widely publicized (extensive media coverage and the WWW) meetings of women in technology with participation of prominent women technological leaders and decision makers, and invitation to other engineering education coalitions to promote inter-coalition collaboration.
Outreach and Mentoring Projects Exchange and Clearing House
Description:
The objective of this project is to export and adapt within the Gateway Coalition existing successful retention, mentoring and outreach projects developed, tested and refined collectively by coalition schools and to seed new initiatives that derive from existing projects (such as research residency, engineering experiences, career events, corporate networking).
For additional information contact: Professor Banu Onaral, Drexel University.

Engineering Ethics

Description:
This project has been originally proposed by colleagues at Polytechnic University to provide freshmen with information regarding ethical issues in engineering practice. Practicing engineers are more likely to get into trouble as a result of failure to appropriately handle ethical problems than failure to solve traditional engineering problems.
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Minorities in Engineering Project Areas

The Coalition is committed to encouraging the enrollment and retention of minority students into the study of engineering, where typically they are an underrepresented population. Our efforts include assisting in the transition from high school to college, training, education and skill development to support faculty and staff, and proactive inclusion of the expertise resident on each campus of the MEP directors. Additionally, the impact on women and minorities will be considered an essential component in the design of all project activities. Take a look at the Coalition's Minority Directory or read about the NACME Seminar, below.
- NACME Seminar
  Description: The FIU NACME Diversity Seminar is a two-day session for faculty, administrators, and lower division engineering students. The seminar will include orientation, assessments, issues of race, culture and gender, communication and councelling skills.
  
  Go to NACME Seminar page.
For additional information contact: Dr. Dawn Person, Teachers College, Columbia Univ.
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Student Development Project Areas
Students are one of our greatest assets and we endeavor to support them as they become emerging professionals in the field of engineering. This support takes various forms including formation of a student council composed of representatives from each partner institution to offer critical feedback and to assist in the development and implementation of the program. We also are creating Interdisciplinary Writing Centers at several sites; much of this effort is described below.
- Interdisciplinary Writing Program for Undergraduate Engineers
  Description:
  The Interdisciplinary Writing Program for Undergraduate Engineers at USC involves integrating writing instruction into the engineering lab sequence, assessing writing, and developing model workshops. Each of these components of the Interdisciplinary Writing Program will produce deliverables that can be provided to other Gateway institutions.
  The program has three major components which will produce deliverables that can be provided to other Gateway institutions. The components and deliverables are:
  1. Integrating writing instruction into the curriculum
    - Sample syllabi
    - Handouts on technical report writing components
    - Sample style sheets
    - Analysis of sample assignments
    - Suggestions for in-class presentation on writing topics
    - Suggestions for collaborative consultation in a writing center
  2. Assessing writing
    - Bibliography on issues in assessment
    - Protocols for Primary-Trait Assessment of writing
    - Protocols for Rhetorical Analysis of writing
    - Sample essay assignments
    - Sample assessment forms and instruments
    - Explanation of group scoring methods
  3. Model workshops to train engineering teaching assistants
    - Materials on using writing-to-learn in lab courses
    - Guides for responding to student papers
    - Explanations of textual features that affect readability
    - Suggestions for helping international students write technical reports
    - Suggestions for managing the paper-grading process
    - Outline of sample training sessions for Teaching Assistants, including handouts
  For additional information contact:Professor Audeen Fentiman, Ohio State Univ. or Professor Jerry Hudgins, Univ. of South Carolina, or Professor Jean Gallagher, Polytechnic Univ.
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Faculty Development Project Areas
The core goals of the Faculty Development area are the creation of a culture for change at Gateway institutions in which faculty members work with colleagues within schools or across the coalition to continually improve their educational methods and their students' learning. We encourage the creation of a community of learners, involving faculty and students including inter-departmental and inter-school collaborations. Approaches that may help achieve the core goals include use of classroom assessment techniques, changes to reward structure for faculty, and testing new teaching techniques.
For additional information contact : Professor Valarie Arms, Drexel University.
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ETM Technology Project Areas
- Engineering for Architectural Projects
  Description:This project provides a set of interdisciplinary, networked case studies of major American architectural projects to serve as classroom and reference aids to improve the teaching of engineering design to undergraduates.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  Columbia University
  Go to Columbia's Engineering for Architectural Projects page.
- Undergraduate In-class Participation in Advanced Engineering Research
  Description:This project will demonstrate how engineering students can participate in advanced research in a classroom setting. The reseach topic is the development of an augmented reality testbed for improving spaceframe construction procedures.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  Columbia University
  Go to Columbia's Undergraduate Participation in Adv. Engr Research page.
- Multimodal Technologies for Interschool Collaboration
  Description:
  This project will establish an integrated set of digital database, wide area network, and ISDN-based desktop videoconferencing technologies to facilitate in-class collaboration among faculty and students at four Gateway schools.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  Ohio State, Columbia, Drexel, New Jersey Institute
  
  Go to Columbia's main Multimodal Technologies page.
  
  Go to Drexel's Architectural Engineering Design Courses page.
  
  Go to NJIT's Paperless Design of Fabric Structures page.
  
  Go to Ohio State's Remote Component Design and Prototyping page.
- DeskTop Video Conferencing System Distribution
  Description:
  The goal of this project is to establish DeskTop Video Conferencing systems at all Gateway schools capable of point-to-point and multi-point, and cross platform audio and video conferencing.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  All Gateway Institutions
  
  Go to the Drexel Center for Information Technology in Engineering Education (CITEE) video conferencing page.
- Remote Laboratory Data Acquistion and Control
  Description:
  The goal of this project is to share experimental lab resources between two schools to decrease capital investment and demonstrate the utility of internet access in supporting this concept.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  Case and Drexel
- On-Line Virtual Laboratory Control
  Description:
  The goal of this project is to develop a new "virtual laboratory" delivery paradigm, that utilizes the latest developments in Web Browers, application applets, and web server technology.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  Drexel
- Rapid Prototyping with SLA
  Description:
  NJIT is to provide the Stereo Lithography Apparatus equipment for collaborative efforts among Gateway participants to share this state-of-the-art technology. Collaborative projects may be initiated among the participants whereby components of products can be designed by student groups from different universities acting as vendor companies. Each of the participating universities will prepare and monitor one of several ongoing student projects. Models of the components will be produced on the SLA, collected by the controlling university for that particular project.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  New Jersey Institute, Cooper Union, Columbia, Univ. of South Carolina, Univ. of Penn.
  
  Go to New Jersey Institute's online SLA user's guide.
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ETM Methodology Project Areas
- Cooperative Team Learning
  Description:
  This overall goal of this project is to develop a Technology Enhanced Infrastructure for Success (TEIS) that will enable cooperative team learning to become a viable method of teaching/learning.
  Collaborating Institutions:
  Ohio State, Cooper Union, Polytechnic, Univ. of Penn, Univ. of South Carolina
  
  Go to South Carolina's Cooperative Team Learning home page.
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Evaluation Project Areas

The local evaluation efforts of the Gateway Coalition have been focused on the curriculum course material developed by the coalition schools and offered to gateway students during the previous academic year. The local evaluation efforts are being guided and coordinated with the Coalition's Central Evaluation Plan

For additional information contact: Dr. Nancy Lust, Ohio State Univ.

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