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Virendra K. Varma; Mohammad Najafi

minimizes the need for spoil removal, toxic disposal, and therefore, is more environmentally friendly. The successful planning, design and execution of underground construction for conduits, pipelines andutilities ultimately depends on people who know how and when to bring the particular pieces of knowledge orskills to bear on the projects. The objectives of this paper are to recognize additional educational needs and toidentify strategies for meeting these needs. At the outset, it is important to recognize two key points:5 1. Most of the trenchless technology methods have been in existence less than 15 years. 6,7,8,9 2. The trenchless technology methods which are currently considered unconventional have not

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William H. Tranter; Theodore S. Rappaport; Jeffrey H. Reed; Donna M. Krizman; Brian D. Woerner

an unprecedented demand for trainedelectrical engineers with the expertise to design and deploy new wireless communications services,encompassing the high growth areas of cellular telephone, personal communications, paging services, andwireless local area networks. The project described in this paper teams electrical engineering faculty fromVirginia Tech’s Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) and from the University of Missouri-Rolla to develop an innovative communications curriculum which draws from current research on radiosignal propagation modeling, computer-aided design and simulation of wireless communication systems, anddigital signal processing techniques to improve the performance and spectral efficiency of wireless

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Mark Gordon; Joel Greenstein; Jack Hebrank; Douglas E. Hirt; Daniel P. Schrage; Bill Mason; Tom Miller; Jim Nau

integratingengineering design and industrial practice throughout all stages of Curriculum 21.” The NSF-funded coalitionsEXCEL and SYNTHESIS also are involved with early design. Especially notable is the work at the Universityof Maryland with freshmen,1 which was recently recognized by Boeing as one of the top four educationalefforts in the country. EXCEL and SYNTHESIS research has focused primarily on incorporating design in thefreshman year. SUCCEED has focused on integrating design throughout curricula. In the first year of funding, theCenter for Engineering Practice sponsored approximately 10 early-design projects. At the end of the secondyear, these projects were grouped together into a team called the Early Design Megaproject. The purpose ofthe

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M. Dayne Aldridge

real world, the challenge of teamingmust be met in a highly cross-disciplinary environment. Problems that were discovered in introducing undergraduate engineering students to cross-disciplinaryteaming with students in business and industrial design programs are reported in this paper. The use of productdesign as a focus of team activity was believed initially to be a good vehicle for preparing students fromseveral different disciplines to perform on highly cross-disciplinary senior design project teams. The results of the initial offering of an introductory course are summarized and their implications forundergraduate engineering education are presented.Background The Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management was

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Barbara Blake Bath

Tutor of the McBride Honors Program, and Ron Miller, Coordinator of the EPICS Program, the key features of the program are: ● modifying existing freshmen course syllabi in humanities, physical and social sciences (chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics, and economics), and engineering practices (EPICS) to feature a series of integrated project modules which allow students and faculty to explore appropriate connections between these disciplines, l adding a two-semester Connections interdisciplinary seminar series in which students and faculty will further develop and explore the interconnectedness of appropriate topics from each of the freshman

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Ph.D., Robert D. Borchelt

neatly under the headings that they use. To further complicate the issue, it should be noted that lecturing on the subject of manufacturingsystems integration is not sufficient. To truly understand the difficulties and uncertainties that can arise in asystems integration effort, students really need to be involved in a project that exposes them to theunpredictable and unforeseeable nature of the task.A Solution In the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a course has been developed to address these needs. The course is entitled (not surprisingly)ManufacturingSystems Integration and is a senior-level undergraduate/first-year graduate level course. It is an elective courseand

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John A. Fillo

) industrial exposure. 1) Communication Skills. This is an issue that has been identified to be addressed in the undergraduateeducation of engineering students. The practicing engineer is called upon to make verbal presentations, usingoverheads or their equivalents using the laptop computer, and to communicate through the written word. Thisis independent of the level of education, be it bachelors, masters, or Ph.D. In the context of education we findour students making verbal presentation in classes. There has been an increased awareness and attention beingpaid to tectilcal writing, e.g., lab reports, project reports and so on. At what level, though, are we dealing with communication skills? We still hear complaints about theengineering

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Mohammad M. Asoodeh; Carl W. Steidley

SoutheasternLouisiana University (SLU) have initiated a joint project to build computing facilities and curricular programswhich will provide outstanding educational opportunities for computer science and industrial technology majors.Among the aims of this collaboration is to create a model computer integrated manufacturing facility, built onexisting and recently acquired equipment and facilities. Moreover, this project is a part of an IntegratedUndergraduate Technology-Rich Curriculum. In its publication Report on the National Science Foundation Disciplinary Workshops onUndergraduate Education [2] the National Science Foundation had this to say about undergraduate computerscience laboratory facilities: “The laboratory infrastructure is not in

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William Peterson

) to software and computers to philosophies such as JIT (Just In Time), TQM (Total QualityManagement), and CIE (Computer Integrated Enterprises). Each innovation places new demands on theexisting system into which they are introduced. The engineering manager is often asked to provide the needed leadership in these innovation-basedprojects because of this individual's technical expertise and training. Technical expertise in (1) the specificinnovation and (2) project management in general is not enough. The successful selection, planning, andimplementation of innovation within an organization requires that someone in the organization sell the change.The classic marketing process of identifying the target market(s) and selecting the

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Robert O. Harger

learning skills. The computer classroom I used has twenty PCs for forty students,an instructor’s podium with PC and control of computer screen and document projection. The space wasdesigned for this use with built-in desks, carpeting and environmental control of temperature and lighting. Thecomputer access allows students to “do” as well as “see and hear”, a combination nearly twice as effective as the 6latter alone . It engages students in a learning environment that is closer to the contemporary engineeringenvironment. And it allows the intensive use of computer software, not only contemporary engineering softwarebut also electronic learning materials such as interactive books. A communication suite on the file server includesemail

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Christopher G. Braun

Session 2532 An Electronics Prototyping Facility for Undergraduate Electronics Laboratories Christopher G. Braun Colorado School of MinesIntroduction - Why an Electronics Prototyping Facility Most electronic laboratory projects require building simple circuits that are tornapart as soon as the lab is over -- resulting in a limited opportunity for the students toconstruct anything useful. Students are often frustrated in electronics courses andlaboratories as they never quite get to the level where they can design and build

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Judith E. Miller; James E. Groccia; David DiBiasio

has been the successful implementation of a heavily project-based curriculum. The recent reclassification (by the Carnegie Foundation) of the Institute as a comprehensive university indicates that its doctoral programs have developed to a significant degree. However, until the initiation of the project described in this paper, the school did not provide any opportunities for fiture faculty to learn about teaching. This meant that Ph.D. graduates fi-om WPI hwo pursued academic careers, had no teaching preparation and probably had little knowledge of the strengths of our undergraduate program. Objectives It was our intent to address the general and local problems outlined above by developing

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Robert Foster; Denise Dorricott; Dhushy Sathianathan; Richard Devon

, difficulties in sharing coursematerial, and challenges involved in mapping course requirements to the local resources available at eachcampus. This paper outlines the project underway to build an efficient multi-media network with the 19campuses via Internet to communicate, distribute, and acquire curriculum related multimedia informationfor the first-year design course. This network would provide access to course material currently used at thecampuses as well as to resources that will enhance the future course content. The network will also providevideo-conferencing capabilities and on-line “chat” capabilities to collaborate with industrial partners.Introduction The 19 campuses of the Penn State Commonwealth Education System provide an

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Paul S. Chinowsky; Jorge A. Vanegas

constructionconcepts will require a break from the traditional course fragmentation found in university environments.Specifically, a coordinated and cooperative approach to construction education must emerge which combinesthe resources of both technical and management specialists in an innovative education model. This paperintroduces one approach to this educational model currently being implemented in the ConstructionEngineering and Management program at Georgia Tech. In this approach, an integrated curriculum has beendeveloped at the undergraduate and graduate levels that vertically integrates curricular content andhorizontally offers opportunities for interdisciplinary projects and industry interaction. This paper describesthe primary components of this

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Christopher G. Braun

Session 1532 Hardware Homework using a Student Data Acquisition System Christopher G. Braun Colorado School of MinesOverview A project developed by a student team under close guidance of a faculty memberis underway to build a very affordable yet highly functional data acquisition system. Ourplan is to introduce this system to our students in the Engineering Division's six week longSummer Field Session for students between their Sophomore and Junior year. Eachstudent would buy and build their own data acquisition system. In

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Ramesh Narang

any laboratory work at this time. The course is participative in nature. The course content is breed on the industrial experience of theinstructor and the students. It includes basic and practical manufacturing knowledge that the students ofmanufacturing technology should be exposed to in a baccalaureate program. The course also requires eachstudent to write a project report on a relevant topic and present it in the class. This paper describes some of thehighlights of the course and shows the way the course content is presented to the students. Manufacturing Process Planning This section describes briefly the course catalog description, the course objectives, how the course cameinto

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Ingrid H. Soudek

increasingly more complex and highlytechnological society. The course emphasizes communication skills and develops a more comprehensive view ofscience and technology by learning to understand the power of myth in western technological society and definingengineering students’ social roles and ethical responsibilities to society. An important component of this broader understanding of science and technology is the senior thesis. Allundergraduate students are required to write a senior thesis, usually on a topic in their field, under the supervisionof a technical advisor and an advisor from the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication. Theresearch for the thesis can be done individually with the advisor, or as part of a group project

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Nelson C. Baker; Paul S. Chinowsky

to transportation to structural mechanics and design to construction overthe course of an academic career. Students obtain in-depth knowledge and training in subjects such asconstruction scheduling and traffic management through a curriculum emphasizing specialization andnarrow fields of expertise. In the traditional classroom setting, examples are often used to convey specificelements of a project such as a difficult structural problem or a complex cost estimating situation.However, these blackboard-based examples often have a distinctively artificial feeling. Specifically,blackboard-based examples fail to provide students with a project context in which to understand theinformation being provided. Furthermore, the examples tend to be

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Joseph J. Strano

terminal characteristics of several digital integrated circuits weremeasured, namely gates, counters, timers and clocks. The kits were utilized to build application circuits.These circuits were: (1) a digital combination lock, (2) a sensitive light actuated relay (3) digital dice and(4) a solar array battery charger. Student teams assembled and tested the operation of each kit. Teams discussed possibleapplication of these circuits. Based on the measurements taken during the first four weeks of thismodule, a design project is assigned. Each team successfully complete the design of a circuit or system.During the final class session, teams present their work orally and submit a short report on the workingdesign.INTRODUCTION At New

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Francisco Vaz; Ana Maria Tomé; Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira

X X Physics X X Electronics X X X project & options Computers X X X X project & options Telecommunications X X project & options Theory of Signals and X X X project & Systems options

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Donald G. Kelley

learning techniques covered in this Developing a student-centered learningpaper are: developing a student-centered learning atmosphere in the classroomatmosphere in the classroom, ]motivating students in a The MET 460 Manufacturing Capstonestudent-centered learning atmosphere, selecting a Project Course provides a learning experiencesuitable project for a student-centered learning course for the students in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at ASU. The course is well suited for innovative student

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Walter C. Vodrazka

, project and resource management, fmcialplanning, marketing, and several other areas. The programs developed by ASFE to overcome these deficiencies were prepared and presented bythe Institute for Professional Practice (IPP). These programs proved very effective such that GeotechnicalEngineering became the least liability prone design profession by 1980 and experienced among the lowestprofessional liability costs based on a 1987 survey. ASFE referred to the program as loss prevention and the“Enhancement of Professionalism.” The program addressed virtually all practice issues including checkingtechnical work, improving client and project selection, scope of work development, personnel management,and dispute resolution. The program went

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Clare F. Cook

approximately ten thousand students. Theuniversity is comprehensive with over one hundred programs from associate to doctoral level. The Collegeof Technology provides a variety of engineering technology programs including Manufacturing, Plastics,Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology and others. The Electrical/Electronics Department supportsthree degree programs; an Associate in Industrial Electronic Technology, a Bachelor in Electrical/ElectronicEngineering Technology (TAC-ABET accredited) and a new Bachelor degree in Computer Networks andSystems. Since 1988, EDA tools have been used in several classes of the BSEET program.’” Since the toolswere in a highly integrated environment, implementation took the form of projects that started with

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P.E., Dr. M. David Burghardt

seminars for teachers, administrators and guidance counselors. To involve localindustry and professional societies in support of these activities and integrate university, school, industry andprofessional society cooperation. An advisory board was created to translate these goals into specific objectives, such as summerprograms for students and teachers that are consistent with improving technology education in the context ofintegrated mathematics, science and technology (MST). This is consistent with the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards, Project 2061 and the AAAS science standards and withforthcoming standards on technology education. The advisory board assists the CTE in securing finding andsupport of these

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1996 Annual Conference

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John H. Damell

references that can be used in preparation of proposals are included. Thevarious sections of a proposal, such as the budget, are reviewed with information on types of material to includein each. Additionally, general advice for fust time authors is included. Following these basic guidelines will aidin the writing of a s~cc=ssful grant proposal.What Is A Grant? A grant is an award of money for an idea or project. Grants are given for research, training, service,education, etc. Grants may cover all costs associated with a project (direct costs) or may include money to helpdefray administrative costs at the university (indirect costs). Granting agencies include the government, which isthe m-ost abundant source of funds; privat; foundations

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1996 Annual Conference

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John H. Damell

references that can be used in preparation of proposals are included. Thevarious sections of a proposal, such as the budget, are reviewed with information on types of material to includein each. Additionally, general advice for fust time authors is included. Following these basic guidelines will aidin the writing of a s~cc=ssful grant proposal.What Is A Grant? A grant is an award of money for an idea or project. Grants are given for research, training, service,education, etc. Grants may cover all costs associated with a project (direct costs) or may include money to helpdefray administrative costs at the university (indirect costs). Granting agencies include the government, which isthe m-ost abundant source of funds; privat; foundations

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Paul J. Turinsky; Kuruvilla Verghese

1 Session 3255 Master of Nuclear Engineering Traineeship Program e Paul J. Turinsky, Kuruvilla Verghese North Carolina State UniversityINTRODUCTION One of the recommendations that appears often from recent national discussions on reshaping graduateeducation in science and technologyl’2 is to provide joint industry-university projects as part of the students’preparation. Many

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Joe G. Eisley

participation in a team project. The Department of AerospaceEngineering offers a Master of Engineering degree under its jurisdiction and is a partner withother departments in the College in three other programs. The Master of Engineering templateand the four degree programs are briefly described.Master of Engineering Template The approval of a Master of Engineering Degree had to be sought at the State level throughthe State Council of University Presidents. This is a voluntary agreement aimed at avoidingunnecessary duplication of programs. The proposal had to define the nature and purpose of thedegree program and justify the existence of still another graduate degree. To this end a template,or a set of guidelines, was developed which distinguished

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1996 Annual Conference

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Bill Manaris; Ingrid Russell

---- Session 2220 An AI Repository as a Course Development Resource Ingrid Russell, Bill Manaris University of Hartford/University of Southwestern LouisianaABSTRACT This paper presents preliminary results on an on-going project with AAAI (American Association ofArtificial Intelligence) to develop a repository of pedagogic resources for the Introduction to ArtificialIntelligence course. This repository is intended to assist educators by providing a variety of resources that maybe utilized in the classroom to facilitate learning of various

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1996 Annual Conference

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Joseph A. Heim; Gary M. Erickson

success to be enjoyed by that product 1over its marketable life time. In this paper, we discuss the development and delivery of a graduate course that examines many of themanagement, teaming, technology and economic challenges that must be addressed by firms that wish to remaincompetitive. The course focuses on the methodologies, tools, and structures needed for successful new productdevelopment efforts with a combination of lecture, student team product development projects and businesscommunity participation.Integrated Product Development Manufacturers have begun to realize that the product development strategies and organizationalstructures that have worked so well since the 1940s, are no longer