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Major (Dr.) Robert F. Mills; Major (Dr.) Gerald C. Gerace; Dr. Byron M. Welsh; Dr. Bruce W. Suter; Dr. Andrew J. Terzuoli; Captain (Dr.) Richard A. Raines

used in designing the topical map is to teach broad system level concepts and analyses first followed by in depth treatments of the pertinent subtopics. This ensures that the engineer always has the “forest” in mind while he or she tackles the “trees”. Furthermore, the applications “close the loop” by reemphasizing system level concepts and exploiting the deep analytic tools developed earlier. Since the program culminates in a thesis that addresses an immediate aerospace communication problem, research goals are a major consideration in the topical design. This ensures students will be adequately prepared to make a significant research contribution (see figure 3). Since there is a wide variety of research areas in communication engineering

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Ph.D., Paul E. Givens; H.A. Montefusco; Anita L. Callahan

.— - . . ..-...... Session 2642 Current Issues in Manufacturing Management: Intellectual Property Issues in a Global Environment Anita L. Callahan, Ph.D., P.E. , Paul E. Givens, Ph.D., H.A. Montefusco University of South Florida Abstract In this era of the shrinking global marketplace, engineers in the United States can no longer rely on traditional means to protect their intellectual property. While patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets have provided engineers with incentives to develop and pursue

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Jerry Hamann; Raymond Jacquot

Page 1.523.1equations associated with nuclear engineering in mind. It is also interesting to note that The Math Works has $hxd; 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,yTEllc:? . 1very recently announced availability of the Partial Differential Equation Toolbox [2]. It seems prescient then toforge on with this strength, A recently published paper [1] explores the use of MATLAB as a tool for the solution of hyperbolicpartial differential equations, and this spirit will be continued herein with the

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Timothy Sexton

- .-. Session 0630 The Delicate Balance: Introducing Complex Software While Teaching the Discipline’s Concepts Timothy J. Sexton, Ph.D. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Introduction Several disciplines have been revolutionized by the development of very powerful yet complex computer software. Statistics and Engineering Graphics are just two examples of subjects in which complex software can assist the understanding of difficult concepts and allow students to be more productive. But along with this revolution in

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Z. T. Bieniawski

their employees “on-the-job” and execute continuing education bysending their engineers to study at the W institutions abroad and attend “en masse” industrial and researchconventions; (10) Japanese corporations, with their long-term objectives, outspend their US counterparts inresearch and development by a factor of 5:1 and are constantly on the look-out for research findings elsewhe~which could be adapted to their work, (11) in terms of living conditions (expensive housing), working conditions(same cubicles for all), salary previsions (lower than in the US) and family life (not a priority in Japan), theJapanese am much less demanding than Americans in terms of their remuneration and quality of life. (There is noquestion in my mind that my

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Wendy Culotta; Michael Mandili

Session 2545 Surfing the Internet for Granting Sources Michael Mandili, Wendy Culotta Library, California State University, Long Beach The Internet holds much promise for the future for those seeking funding opportunitiesfor grants. At the present time, one can search free search engines which search multiple searchengines, i.e. Savvy Search, or single search engines such as InfoSeek for key words. Or one cango to the sites they are already familiar with, such as the home pages of the National Institutes ofHealth or the National Endowment for the Humanities at known

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Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

Session 2553 A FRESHMAN DESIGN EXPERIENCE: RETENTION AND MOTIVATION Geraldine B. Milano, Richard Parker, George Pincus New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102-1982 INTRODUCTION New Jersey Institute of Technology has seen an improved retention rate of freshman students in thepast two years. Reasons for these positive changes include curriculum changes and incorporation of newteaching methodologies. Freshman students are more motivated to learn about engineering and to

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Zuhdi Al-Jobeh; James E. Schueler; Gerald R. Seeley

quantities to be representable by a single number (i.e., E =29,000 KSI). This nearly ubiquitous mind set has generally prevented engineers from viewing andevaluating their projects as systems of interrelated random variables. Additionally, the “factor ofsafety” approach to managing the variability inherent in all physical quantities and propertiesprecludes quantitative estimates of the chances of “failure.” Page 1.309.1 ?@X&) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,yyy%.~ . The “Monte Carlo Simulation

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L. F. Borjón; L. M. Martínez; K. A. Córdova; J. L. Hernández; A. Lozano

Session 2659 Using Programmable Logic Controllers for an interdisciplinary oriented Instrumentation Laboratory L. F. Borjón, L. M. Martínez, K. A. Córdova, J. L. Hernández and A. Lozano Division of Science and Engineering. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico city Abstract --- This project describes the efforts towards developing an interdisciplinary laboratory toreinforce hands-on experience of engineering students. The laboratory is based on the Allen-Bradley's®(AB) SLC-500 family; combining them with resources that are typically found at an

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Paul Tidwell; Greg Walker

academia, most college teaching programs in engineering are not well established or non-existent.For a graduate student to acquire the skills and knowledge to be able to begin an effective teaching career,he must rely on his own initiative because of the general lack of guidance in the school system. To aidacademia-minded students, an initial guide for the motivated student to begin informal self-training in theart of college teaching is presented. Types of resources for teaching instruction as well as primary focalcontent for a basic self-taught program is explored. The outline of this process consists of course workand practicing of basic skills followed by a team teaching session. These suggestions are discussed in thecontext of a fledgling

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

AC 1996-212: How About a Good Lecture?Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community CollegeRenata Engel, Pennsylvania State UniversityRichard Gilbert, Page 1.238.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 1996 Session 1675 How About a Good Lecture? Marilyn Barger, Renata Engel, Richard Gilbert FAMU-FSU/Penn State University/University of South FloridaIntroduction Innovative educational methods are of interest to new engineering educators and appear to be animportant avenue for information transfer at

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

Session 2525 An Outreach Effort - The Connections Program Steven H. Chin, MaryJac Reed, and Ardoth Hassler Catholic University of America/Catholic University of America/Georgetown UniversityThe School of Engineering within The Catholic University of America (CUA) has an affiliation with the localhigh schools in the Washington DC area whose goal is to stimulate interest in engineering among high schoolstudents. There are currently 14 participating high schools, many of which include a student population withhigh minority and female enrollment (two of the schools are all-girls

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Subbarao Ivaturi; Joel Greenstein

questions: ● Can hypermedia support group learning of engineering design and improve teamwork? ● In the context of the developed tool, can various issues in the design of hypermedia-based applicationsfor instructional purposes be resolved through iterative development? Method A study was conducted with the above objectives in mind. Forty-five undergraduate industrialengineering students participated in this study. These students were enrolled in a sophomore-level engineeringdesign course that surveys methodologies for designing engineering systems and provides the studentsexperience in the application of these methodologies to the design of a specific engineering system. At

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B. Lee Tuttle

Session 2225 Teaching Design for Manufacturability: the Historical Events, the Current Events and the Future Events B. Lee Tuttle GMI Engineering& Management Institute Abstract: A course entitled Design for Manufacturing was begun in the Spring of 1988 as a required course in the Manufacturing SystemsEngineering program and an elective in the Mechanical Engineering program. This course represented to many a

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Melissa Mattmuller

Session 2247 The EXPLORE Program - Introducing High School Women to EET Melissa Mattmuller Electrical Engineering Technology Purdue UniversityAbstract - As more women enter the traditionally male dominated fields of science and engineering, it is acuriosity that they are still rare in Electrical Engineering Technology, EET. Part of the reason, it would appear,is that the program is not well publicized at the time young women are making the

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W. M. Waite; Rommel Simpson

from laboratories. Anumber of arguments have been put forth in favor of this separation, probably the most understandable beingthat of scheduling flexibility. Unfortunately, this separation leads to a psychological distance in the minds ofboth the faculty and the students. Even when a lecture and a laboratory are co-requisites, they are distinct.Since scheduling flexibility is an important consideration, different faculty members will usually beresponsible for them. They are graded separately, and there is little incentive or opportunity to try tointegrate the material closely. Thus much of the benefit of presenting the same material in different ways,exercising different learning styles, is lost.We believed that this trend needed to be

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Denise Dorricott; Richard Devon

; 6.17. See Cross, reference #15 and Ulrich and Eppinger Reference #16.18. Pahl and Beitz, op cit., 94, et passim.19. Office of Technology Assessment. Green Products by Design. Washington DC, 1992. See also Walley,Noah and Bradley Whitehead, "It's Not easy Being Green," Harvard Business Review, May-June 1994 and theensuing debate "The Challenge of Going Green," Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1994.20. Pahl and Beitz, op cit, Capter 7.21. Devon, Richard F. “Engineering Ethics: The Norms of Engagement,” manuscript under review. Contactauthor at address given below.22. Gruneberg, M., & Morris, P. Applied Problems in Memory. London: Academic Press, 1979. Gardner, H.,Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity. New York: Basic

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John S. Gillard; Gary P. Maul

development. Overall, the class has been a success. Page 1.431.3 ?$xii~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,qllly Session 3557References‘Quality Control Leadership, internal Honda of America Manufacturing text 1986.2 1ttner, Penny& Douds, Alex F. Train-The-Trainer, HRD Press 1988.3 Lewis 7Clarence Irving, Mind and the World Order, Scribners 1929.41ttner, Penny& Douds, Alex F. Train-The-Trainer, HRD Press 1988.5 Handy, Charles, The Age of Unreason, Harvard

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

learning or taking exams, however, the observer has verylittle chance to observe the expert in his or her learning process and performance since theactivity takes place in the mind. It is important that novice and intermediate learners be givenclues into the mystery of expertise unless we are willing to take the attitude, "Either they haveit, or they don't." The process of experts is demonstrated in cooperative learning groups where expertsdemonstrate their processes during a work session. When the teacher lectures or demonstrates aproblem solution or a derivation, he or she discloses some processes. However, without a structurewhereby students can make sense of the learning processes, they may have difficulty assimilatingthem. By breaking

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Thomas M. Lahey; Thomas D. L. Walker

oflegacy code must be maintained and updated, new code is still written every day. Why? According toone industry leader “FORTRAN was designed with the end user in mind,...[The user] is only interested inthe logic being correct. In C, the assumption is that the user wants to have control of every single aspect Page 1.182.2 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsof his computer. As a result, the C programmer runs into problems that the FORTRAN programmer willnever see.”1 Lest we forget, FORTRAN was designed for scientists and engineers, and it was very welldesigned. Additionally, the regular updates to

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Rakesh Nagi

of agile competition in practice will depend on “an agile education system” thatwill impart the right skills, knowledge, and motivation to participants. With these objectives in mind, andto address manufacturing education needs to promote and understand agile manufacturing concepts, aunique graduate level course is being offered at the Department of Industrial Engineering, SUNY-Buffalo. Theobjective is to provide young manufacturing engineers with core competencies in both manufacturing andinformation technology, and the creative integration of the two to accomplish an agile industry. In this paper we discuss the curriculum design and experiences of this course. In a more general sense, itis our desire to share the motivation behind

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Sudeep Bhoja; Ku-Jei King; Krish Bandaru; David G. Meyer

Session 1532 Evaluation of Experimental Course Formats Utilizing Technology-Based Instructional Delivery David G. Meyer, Sudeep Bhoja, Ku-Jei King, and Krish Bandaru School of Electrical & Computer Engineering/Purdue University ABSTRACT This paper describes our experiences using a testbed instructional multimedia delivery system in experi-mental offerings of a "mainstream" computer engineering course. The experimental course formats weredesigned to investigate how use of technology-based

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Kim LaScola Needy

I .— - Session 1639 ..-. — -.. . Lessons from Teaching a Cost Management Course via Interactive Television Kim LaScola Needy University of Pittsburgh Abstract Interactive television (ITV) is being used at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering toincrease the number of course offerings available to its graduate students located at branch

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Rick L. Homkes

Session 2275 Writing and Publishing Your Way to Tenure Rick Homkes Purdue University - KokomoAbstract New engineering and technology faculty have come into one of the best jobs in the world. They are ableto teach and learn in a field they love. They have worked hard to achieve this position, as it took many years toget an advanced degree. For some, there were additional years acquiring practical knowledge and experience inindustry. It often comes as a surprise when they realize that they have to work even harder to keep

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Scott A. Stefanov; Pamela J. Neal; George W. P. York; Daniel J. Pack

todesign a robot, with a human like navigational “intelligence,” which maneuvers within a maze to reach adesignated target position. To do so, the robot must contain both a high-level reasoning module and a low-level motion control module. In addition, both modules must work together cooperatively to execute thedesired task. Construction of the two modules requires software development as well as a complete systemdesign using mechanical parts, circuits, and a microprocessor. For a successful end product, each team,consisting of two students, must give careful consideration to the various design trade-offs. As a result of theproject, each student will gain engineering confidence and develop critical and analytical thinking skills.I. INTRODUCTION

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James D. Jones; Dianna Brickner

Session 2230 . — - .- IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN A LARGE-ENROLLMENT BASIC MECHANICS COURSE —. . ..- James D. Jones School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University and Dianna Brickner Independent Instructional Designer ABSTRACT The primary objective of this investigation was to

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Gary E. Wnek; C. T. Moynihan; Mark A. Palmer; John B. Hudson

faculty.Background of Chemistry of Materials Course At Rensselaer, all engineering students take a common set of core engineering coursesduring their freshman and sophomore years. Roughly five years ago, a two-semester coursesequence was created, namely Chemistry of Materials, that joined elements of previous courses 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.516.1in General Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering into a unified, two-semestercourse sequence. The two semester course emphasizes solid-state chemistry and materialsproperties 1. It has been taught with faculty from two schools, the Chemistry

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Julie M. Grandzielwski; Juli L. Sherwood; James N. Petersen

, before they are considered ready to mold the minds of America’s youth.In contrast, those individuals pursuing doctoral degrees and who intend to teach at the university level areneither required, nor seldom even offered, the opportunity to take courses pertaining to their future roles aseducators. How, then, are the professors of tomorrow expected to learn the skills required to becomesuccessful instructors? We propose that one approach to accomplish this process is via mentoring. Mentoring has long been seen as a means of cultivating and encouraging new talent, and indeed therole of mentor is already assumed to a large degree by the graduate student’s thesis advisor. However, theadvisor-student relationship often focuses almost

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Benjamin 'Quincy' Cabell VI; Javed Alam; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 1996-504: Using Java to Develop Interactive Learning Material for theWorld-Wide WebBenjamin "Quincy" Cabell VI,Javed Alam, Youngstown State UniversityJoseph Rencis, University of Arkansas Page 1.511.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 1996 Session 3268 Using Java to Develop Interactive Learning Material for the World-Wide Web 2 Benjamin “ Quincy” Cabell VI and Joseph J. Rencis

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Emil C. Neu

overhead projector, computer, anddisplay panel, an increasing number of faculty members will prepare their lectures with these resources in mind. Support services should be available outside of the classroom to assist in preparing lectures. Asminimum each professor should have a computer with the necessary software and facilities for reproducingcourse materials. If it is not possible to provide released time to prepare new course materials, then thesematerials must be developed as the course is being taught. In this case the students should be supplied withcopies of course notes free of charge as they become available. The next time the course is taught these notescould be sold in the same manner textbooks are sold