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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

virtual reality modules, and to the Department of Chemical Engineering of theUniversity of Michigan for providing the initial funding of this project. B IBLIOGRAPHY1. Bell, John T., and H. Scott Fogler, “The Investigation and Application of Virtual Reality as an Educational Tool”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 1995, pp 1718-1728.2. Bell, John T., and H. Scott Fogler, “Vicher: A Prototype Virtual Reality Based Educational Module for Chemical Reaction Engineering”, accepted for publication in the June, 1996 issue of Computer Applications in Engineering Education.3. Cooper, D.J., “PICLES: The Process Identification and Control

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Lance Schachterle

different levels. Pursuing such suggested strategies should also enable I-VSS to work with their colleagues in otherdisciplines to articulate appropriate missions for our disciplines. Hopefully such exercises will be salutaryfor our programs, as well as a good example of the accreditation process at its best--continuousimprovement through continuous self-assessment.LANCE SCHACHTERLE joined WPI as an assistant professor of English in 1970, and served from 1984 to1993 as chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, overseeing WPI’S unique Interactive Qualifying Project programwith its extensive experimentation in global education. Schachterle was appointed an Assistant Provost in1993, and co-chairs the committee preparing WPI for ABET review under the new

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Fahmida R. Masoom; Abulkhair M. Masoom; Mir Atiqullah

in the work oplace, a need to use new educational approaches in teaching engineering courses has become essential. Inrecent years, due to the explosive market of high quality, user friendly, versatile and application-specificsoftware, many programs are in the process of redesigning their requirements within ABET guidelines withregard to programming language and additional applications of specialized problem solving software inindividual courses. In this paper, the authors present a study of current requirements and upcoming changes.The issues which prompted the project include inadequate application of traditional computer programming incourses, lack of student interest towards these programming courses, and a

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Wendy Culotta; Michael Mandili

opportunities" fee-based service offering extensive numbers of links to related and important funding sites like GrantsNet, Library of Congress, NEH, Department of Agriculture and Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, with thousands of opportunities for projects across all disciplines. Teltech (http://us.teltech.com/) An "independent provider of technical research, analysis, consulting services to American Industry." A subscription-based service with a big potential. This site offers synopses of university and company created technologies.SEARCH FAVORITE SITES A favorite URL of librarians is the University of Michigan's library school(http

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Raymond B. Landis

required to produce a marketable product. Simple hands-on projects can be illustrative. Have them design and build a solar hot dog cookerusing tin foil as the reflector and have a contest to see which one cooks the “best” hot dog. We assignstudents in our Introduction to Engineering class the task of designing and fabricating something to displaytheir name and bring it to class. After they have completed the task, we ask them who they designed it for.Did they design it so they could read their name? The instructor from the front of the room? All of theother students in the class? This exercise brings home the idea of “design specifications.” It may be a challenge to identify individuals to help students learn about engineering

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Scott Grenquist

- success was highly subjective, and did not to attempt 10 address the vast majority of students that had average scores on either, or both, of the two tests. Additionally, the Attainment ‘rest hdd been in use in the Department of Physics fix twelve years, with only slight moditlcalions, whereas the physics courses themselves had undc]-gone significant upgrading over the past dezade. In order to determine the validity of the two tests towwd projecting student performance in the engineering physics sequences, it was agreed to accumulate data on the students taking all t~f the introduckxy engineering physics subjects, and to statistically analyze that data. The project was begun at the beginning of the academic year

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Ishwar Rattan

(RPC) call mechanism9 (see appendix fordetails). This protocol is compatible with the form of RPC used in the distributed OS Amoeba10.This makes students relate their projects directly to the case study in the classroom. MINIX4 is an open OS designed by Dr. A. S. Tanenbaum. It is a multiuser/multitasking OSsimilar to UNIX. It is system call compatible with version V7 of UNIX. It has over 170 utilitiesand more than 200 library functions. It was primarily designed to teach OS and related courses.It is available with full source (in C) and easy-to-read installation and reference manual. Italso has a Kernighan and Ritchie C compatible C compiler i.e. it is a complete programmingenvironment. MINIX 1.5 is distributed by Prentice-Hall. It

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Kim J. Manner

software) over the past 20 years, most engineeringdesign documentation began and ended with the pencil. Education in design documentation was referred to as engineering graphics ormechanical drawing. Students were instructed in the fundamentals of projections, dimensioning and the accepted standards. While sometime was allocated to the use of drawing instruments, this typically represented only a small portion of total instructional time. After all,the principal tools of mechanical drawing were the pencil and the straightedge and students had been using those in some fashion sincetheir education had begun. With appearance of PC-based 2D CAD packages, many instructors felt it necessary to integrate thistechnology into their engineering graphics

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Richard J. Kozick; Maurice F. Aburdene

in the Electrical Engineering Departmentat Bucknell University since 1993. He was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratoriesfrom 1986 to 1989 and again from 1992 to 1993. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University ofPennsylvania, M.S. from Stanford University, and B.S. from Bucknell University. His research interestsare in the areas of signal processing and communications. MAURICE F. ABURDENE is the T. Jefferson Miers Professor of Electrical Engineering andProfessor of Computer Science at Bucknell University. He has also taught at Swarthmore College, StateUniversity of New York at Oswego, and the University of Connecticut. Professor Aburdene was a projectengineer and project manager at the Bristol Company, a

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Ph.D., Joel L. Cuello

first fully public university.13 In the 1850's, the agricultural press and variouslocal and national agricultural societies joined forces to demand the establishment of what werecalled "democracy's colleges."14 Evan Pugh of Pennsylvania15 and Jonathan Turner of Illinois16played major roles in galvanizing public sentiments in favor of such project. In 1862, PresidentAbraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which was introduced by Justin Morrill as a bill inCongress in 1857, providing for federal aid to agricultural and mechanical colleges. 17 The passageof the second Morrill Act of 1890 significantly increased the amount of federal aid to theseland-grant institutions.18 The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 helped provide the resources for

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Michael H. Gregg; Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld; Dr. Bevlee Watford

success and failure rates for non-clustered sections (academic years‘94 and ‘95), for clustered sections (academic year ‘95), and for workshop participants. Except for thelast table, male/female (M/F) ratios given are in number of students. The summary table listspercentages. The results shown are for students enrolled in the fall EF1005 sections taught by the twoChautaqua-trained Engineering Fundamentals faculty. No data is available at this time for the springsemester EF1006 classes. Those students listed as ‘Non-Motiv’td’ represent students who either didnot take the final exam, did not complete the term project, or missed more than half of their classes.The ‘class averages’ do not include these students, however, the number of failing grades

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Mary Kantowski; Marc Hoit; Matthew Ohland

those developed for anIntroduction to Engineering class recently adopted as a permanent course in the engineering curriculum at theUniversity of Florida. This class is one of the projects developed under the Southeastern University and CollegeCoalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED). This class replaced a one hour per week lecture. Eachlaboratory is intended to expose participants to hands-on experiments representing concepts related to thediscipline’s specialty.In addition to their hands-on focus, the laboratory activities were to be designed to use simple equipment so thatthey could be exported to programs such as the summer institute discussed here. The four laboratory activitiesincluded in the SECME summer institute were those which

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Erdogan Sener

“what if’ type of questioning, enabling sensitivity analysis and decision making. Other assignments necessitate working with spreadsheet and other commercial software. This type of collaborative undertakings inherently facilitate students working together on problems of nature that they will be exposed to in their outside work in the industry after graduation. b. I also use formal groups for some laboratory work and writing of laboratory reports in courses such as Soils Testing Laboratory, and Construction Materials and Methods. c. I also employ formal groups of 2-3 students for semester project assignments that may involve model building, portfolio preparation, and analysis/design type of assignments that

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Richard D. Swope; J. Paul Giolma

supply of rods is available from another project and they allhave been found to be structurally adequate. The rod materials are Aluminum and Steel and the cross-sectionsare either round or square (1.27 cm diameter, or 1.27 cm across the flats). Your job is to specify all of the Page 1.138.3 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsrelevant parameters for the rods (fins) so that the above heat transfer requirements are satisfied. Additionalinformation is given below. ALUMINUM STEEL 3Density (Kg/m

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James V. Masi

human bio-system. Newer materials have shown promise of solving the restoration problem. At Western New England College, two senior projects and some extensive research have led to the development of a two-part experiment involving natural and synthetic materials such as actual previously extracted teeth, amalgam filled teeth, stainless steel orthodonture material, gold alloy crowns, composite restoration material, titanium implants, and graphite endodontics posts. Tests involving corrosion couples, sectioning and rnicroscopic investigation of alloys and composites, and bond strength of polymer adhesives. The problem of restoration of carious regions, the materials used, and the associated appliances employed in

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Robert P. Morgan; Nirmala Kannankutty; Donald E. Strickland

?’: . 1sources of support; changes in research over the researchers’ careers; involvement of industry andgovernment in research; and involvement of students in and benefits from research activities. The tidingsreported below focus on the industry-university research connection.FindingsThe Extent of Industry Involvement Of the 1,632 faculty in our sample who were currently engaged in engineering research, over 80%report having one or more ongoing externally funded research projects, with an average researchexpenditure of $236,000 from July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1993. Dickens has reported that, based on NSFdata, in 1991 industry contributed about seven percent of the total funding for R&Din all fields in U. S.universities. 13 In our own study

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Richard Gilbert; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

. As a Page 1.238.2 {tix~; 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,DIYH; 1result, these productions may project large quantities of free energy and ultirnatel y inject some of that energyinto the audience. The third and last variable of the information transfer function, contc?nt comnwd, reflects the level ofexpertise and familiarity of the subject matter. An ultimate example for this variable is a we] l-documented non

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Blanca Jimenez Cisneros

country. It is important to say that very fewof them undertake all fields related to environmental engineering, so 74 work in the water field, 26 arededicated to air problems and 31 are working with solid residues. Based on our main problems, the fieldson environmental engineering that should be taken into account for research projects are: a) Solid wastes,of which the most important aspects are municipal and hazardous wastes; b) Air, field on which the mainresearch work is related to the development of pollution control devices and none on mathematical modeling;c) Water, line of research most studied but on which there still are many pollution problems to be solved (l)as proven by recent studies , according to which

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Manon Bourgeois; Gilbert Drouin

specific and different orientations, including very specialized courses and occasionally peri-technological courses. This module is conceived in order to allow a certain flexibility to the student whom will beable to make pertinent choices according to his career goals. The third module, generally called integration module,allows the student to realize supervised practical work either in a training form or in engineering project in industry,in the specialized field that this master has trained him for. This program structure, other than being modular, also distinguishes itself from the traditional programs becauseit allows the student to receive an official recognition at each step of his studies. Thus, when the student hascompleted his basic

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Jack Zecher

through higher level courses, such as Design of Machine Elements, and SeniorDesign Projects, the program can serve as a valuable resource to perform calculations on shafts, frame rails, etc. REFERENCES1) BeamBoss - Computer Program, Software Consulting Specialists, Ft. Wayne, IN 19852) Microsoft Mouse Programmer’s Reference, by Microsoft Press, 19893) Zecher, J. E., Computer Graphics for CAD/CAM Systems, Marcel Dekker, 19944) Cook, R. D., Finite Element Modeling for Stress Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 1995Jack Zecher is a registered professional engineer in the state of Indiana and Professor of MechanicalEngineering Technology at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis. He

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W. M. Waite; Rommel Simpson

envisioned when westarted the project. In fact, it was so time consuming that actual deployment of the structure maps and theirasso~iated link spaces has been moved to the spring semester. The situation becomes even more criticalwhen maintenance issues are taken into consideration. To handle this we have developed some importantstrategies for automating most of the maintenance tasks, permitting the focus to be on content development.3.4. Maintenance Maintenance is a serious problem, especially since this course is destined to evolve and web-reportedresearch is changing rapidly. All components, including the syllabus, narrative, textbook analysis, andhomework assignments, are undergoing continual change as experience with the course and new

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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

mentoring relationship has many positive aspects that out-weigh the risk of the potentialproblems. Long Term Benefits A good mentoring relationship should evolve into a long term partnership. This has happened to theauthors. The authors have developed a good personal and professional friendship that will benefit them bothfor the foreseeable future. They are planning a number of joint projects both for team teaching, coursedevelopment, and research activities. One such activity is the revising of the laboratory manual the partnersinitially developed. They will continue to use each other as a confidential source of help and information.They continue to use each other as a second opinion on issues

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

financial constraints, the situation ofengineering schools is particularly difficult for two essential reasons: higher costs of running engineering courses, compared to artsand science courses, and bad shape of the Polish industry.The whole time interval 1989-1995 may be subdivided into three periods: legal initialization (1989-1991), adaptiverestructurization (1991-1993) and creeping frustration (1 993-95). During the first period, new academic laws were passed by theParliament, a new institution responsible for financing research projects (State Committee for Scientific Research) was established,and new rules for financing the teaching activity of the universities were introduced by the Ministry of National Education. As aconsequence, the process

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Jean K. Sando; Gloria Rogers

students who completed the traditional freshman engineeringcurriculum. This study seeks to identi~ the differences that exist between the techniques of sophomores whowere IFYCSEM students and sophomores who were in the traditional first-year curriculum when they areconfi-onted with a complex problem in a group setting. This study will also address the link between observedbehaviors during problem-solving sessions and students’ performance on standardized tests designed to assessproblem solving predispositions and abilities.II. Project Description Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) has had a pilot freshman program for the last six years.The Integrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (IFYCSEM) is

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Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

, Woods, 1994) the thumb (Douglas, 1988) which summarize pastestimation of capital and operating costs, time value experience, but the engineer must still contend withof money, and profitability analysis, so that the frequent exceptions and with choices not coveredeconomics of various design options can be by such rules. Thus, the quantitative understandingcompared as the project is carried out. The topics of economic implications in the design andof depreciation and taxes receive only brief operation of a process is indispensable.coverage. Cost estimation is geared towardschemical process equipment, with most ancillary Engineering economics is among the course topicscosts lumped into

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Greg Bowyer; D. Gibson Peaslee; Fazil Najafi

created an organized, efficient program of technology transfer,which serves as a bridge between research and the practical application of new technology” (3, p. 11). As aresult of this system, the United States has one of the most efficient road systems in the world. Through theimplementation of new and innovative ideas, the FHWA has set the standards in highway construction. TheFHWA puts out an annual report called the Nationally Coordinated Program of Highway Research, Develop-ment, and Technolo~. This report has all the on-going research and new advancements in road constructionand management. For example, the article on Corrosion Protection Project is “providing research and develop-ment for cost effective procedures and systems to protect

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Sandra Gronhovd; Sudhir Mehta

supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number DUE-9452143. References 1. Gunn, J. C., 1994, “What We Have Here is a Need to Communicate,” ASEE Prism, October 1994, pp. 26-29. 2. “Engineering Education for a Changing World,” ASEE Projects Report, Prism, December 1994, pp. 20-27. 3. Gunn, J. C., “Approaching Communication Skill Awareness,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 2467-2469, Anaheim, CA, June 1995. 4. Gronhovd, S. and Danielson, S., “Encouraging Learning Transfer: From the Communication Classroom to Engineering Courses,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 745-747, Edmonton, Canada, June 1994. 5. Borkowski, C., Goplen, S., Gronhovd, S., “Use of

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Frank Wicks

). Page 1.503.4 {ti~ii~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+pTQL.T . 4,*, . . .v Table III Acknowkdgemerw 2 ad Law process and Cycle Table to Summarize TIM author thanks the Niagara Mohawk Power _ Prodution Rate ~d kcwrsiiity(=~ra Oxporation for the mergyrclated projects grant that Work) Rate klped make this work possible. dcl s Extra W- =Tmf’dcl ~ Referen(xx

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real time processor. A low cost 24 bit fixed point real time processor is used for the laboratories,The laboratories focus on audio effects which includes such projects as a guitar tuner, FIR and IIRfilters, and tone generators. Motorola recently introduced the DSP56002 EVM; an evaluation module for the DSP56002 chip.The EVM was designed to provide a low cost test platform for customers interested in evaluating the 24bit 56002 digital signal processor. The EVM’S low cost and high performance make it an ideaiteaching platform for educational institutions interested in developing a real time digital signalprocessing course with a laboratory. The EVM hardware includes A/D and D/A converters capable of converting up to 48K samplesper

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R. H. Parsons; S.J. Steiner; K C Dee; G. Judd

) communication skills, and (3). positive attitude projection TA Training Program DevelopmentOur approach was to address the needs of the undergraduates and new graduate TAs needs in a multi-partprogram consisting of orientation sessions before the academic year, peer training by other TAs, a specialemphasis on English speaking capability, and an academic year seminar program. Peer TA SelectionThe orientation programs are run by current graduate TAs. These students are nominated by faculty atRensselaer as being among the best graduate students. They are interviewed by the Graduate School Staff anda past Master TA, and selected from the nominations in what has become a very