National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association

1996 Annual Meeting -- Program

Twelfth Annual Meeting
San Diego Hilton Resort
San Diego, California
March 22-26, 1996

Friday, March 22, 1996

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

IEEE / ABET / EAC Program Evaluator Training Workshop

Denny Avers, Loral Corporation

Nick Tredennick, Tredennick, Inc.

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Meeting Registration

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Workshop for New EE/ECE Chairs

John Proakis, Northeastern University

Larry C. Burton, Pennsylvania State University

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Southeastern Department Heads Meeting

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Central States Department Head Workshop

Saturday, March 23, 1996

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Registration

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

NEEDHA Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

President's Welcome

Sherra E. Kerns, Vanderbilt University, NEEDHA President

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Educational Uses of the World Wide Web

Paul Penfield, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair

CoNote: Shared Annotations for Cooperative Learning

Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cornell University

www.dsp.soph/more.insight/fewer.equations: Teaching Sophomores DSP via the Web

Mark A. Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 noon

Providing and Using the World Wide Web

Paul Penfield, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair

Campus Infrastructure for Internet Access

Gregory Hidley, University of California at San Diego Presentation

Helping Faculty Teach in a Virtual Classroom

Burks Oakley II, University of Illinois Presentation

12:00 noon

NEEDHA Luncheon

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Curriculum Issues I: Freshman Year Courses

Roger P. Webb, Georgia Institute of Technology, Chair

Improving Student Success through a Model Introduction to Engineering Course

Martin S. Roden, California State University, Los Angeles

Asynchronous Learning in a Freshman ECE Course

Timothy N. Trick, University of Illinois

Electrical Engineering in American Society: A SUCCEED Course at Georgia Tech

W. Russell Callen, Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology

Experience with First Year Design Activities in the ECSEL Coalition

Gretchen Kalonji, University of Washington Summary

Integrated First Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (IFYCSEM): A Five Year Review

Jeffrey E. Froyd, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Review material

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Curriculum Issues II: Bold Experiments

Timothy N. Trick, University of Illinois, Chair

The CMU Curriculum - Consequences of Flexibility

Robert M. White, Carnegie Mellon University Details

Restructuring the Engineering Curriculum -- The Drexel E4 Experience

Nihat Bilgutay, Drexel University Presentation

A Curriculum for the 21st Century?

Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, University of Illinois

Princeton's Vision of the ECE Curriculum for the 21st Century

Bede Liu, Princeton University

Coping with a Rapidly Changing World by Transitioning from Memorization to Understanding

Anthony V. Sebald, University of California at San Diego

6:30 PM

NEEDHA Reception, Dinner, and Dancing

Sunday, March 24, 1996

9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Web Workshop Handouts

Limited attendance

Advance registration required

Information

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Reception

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Banquet, Awards, and Speech

Sherra E. Kerns, Vanderbilt University, presiding

Awards

Larry C. Burton, Pennsylvania State University, awards presentation

Outstanding Service Award

Keith R. Carver, University of Massachusetts, recipient

Bruce A. Eisenstein, Drexel University, recipient

Special Service Award

Robert M. Janowiak, International Engineering Consortium, recipient

The Four Be's of a Good After Dinner Speech

David A. Conner, University of Alabama at Birmingham, speaker Presentation

Monday, March 25, 1996

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

ABET Update

Richard C. Seagrave, Iowa State University

Edward A. Parrish, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 noon

Shaping U.S. Engineering Research and Education Policy

Joseph Bordogna, National Science Foundation Presentation

12:00 noon

NEEDHA Luncheon

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Internationalization of an Electrical Engineering Education Handouts

David G. Messerschmitt, University of California at Berkeley

Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Introducton: Why is Internationalization Important in an EE Education?

David G. Messerschmitt, University of California at Berkeley

What Can We Learn From the European Experience?

Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

What is the Value of Student Exchange Programs?

Aparajita Mazumder, University of Illinois Presentation

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Internationalization of an Electrical Engineering Education (cont.)

Why an overseas campus?

Francois Malassenet, Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech Lorraine

Why Short-term Intensive Study Programs Abroad?

Nathan Milbee, Advanced Micro Devices

Panel Discussion with Questions from the Audience

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

WWW Demonstrations

Tuesday, March 26, 1996

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

NEEDHA Business Meeting Minutes

Sherra E. Kerns, Vanderbilt University

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 noon

Open Forum: What's on Your Mind?

Moderators:

Sherra E. Kerns, NEEDHA Outgoing President

Paul Penfield, Jr., NEEDHA Incoming President

12:00 noon

Luncheon

1:00 PM

Adjournment

Information

Registration

Early registration and hotel reservations are advisable. An on-line registration form is available.

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