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John N. Berry; Dr. David G. Leupp; Capt Steven D. Pinski; Steven Barrett

their project mentors beginning in November tofurther discuss project requirements and order any specialized components. Students are encouraged tocomplete a small portion of their project as their final design assignment in their Fall senior laboratory course. The Senior Design class begins the first week of January. Students are assigned a variety of projectrelated tasks due during the course of the semester. These include: a formal student-written requirementsdefinition, a schedule containing key project milestones, an initial paper design including circuit simulation ifappropriate, a final design with working prototype, a technical report, and a final oral presentation. The key to successful student completion of the project by

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James V. Masi

performed are second semester junior year and either semester senior year. The students are first given lectures on fracture mechanics, metals, alloys, and composites. They should have already had a laboratory experiment on metallography and sample preparation. A video on the deterioration of restorative materials in the oral environment is used as a backdrop for the experiments. Objectives The objectives of these experiments are to show that the area of biomaterials, especially dental materials (natural and synthetic), contain all of the elements of good and bad design, with the caveat that a person’s health is directly involved. The students learn the

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Jr., Alfred J. Bedard; David G. Meyer

. We take a new approach in the context of the new Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory(ITLL) now under construction at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Our new approach, which we callhands-on-homework (HOH), will be an integral component of the enhanced undergraduate curriculumchanges planned and will make use of ITLL resources. In the past, valuable resources have been created for providing exercises, puzzles, and mysteries draw-ing on day-to-day experiences to challenge and encourage further exploration. However, typically there is lit-tle or no tie in to theoretically obtained results. Page 1.232.1

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

material.The participating students will document knowledge in two ways: ● A written report will describe how the knowledge was acquired. “ Node tests will evaluate student ability to absorb and apply new knowledge.A JIT Mechanical Engineering Technology Example The demonstration mathematics concept is to learn and to apply the algebraic equation: x = yz. Thestudents will learn to substitute numbers for letters. Next, students will learn to solve the equation for one of theletters, such as y, in terms of x and z. While learning the theory, students proceed to a physics, materials, or mechanics laboratory to perform abeam-deflection experiment. Students will learn that a product using this principle is the weight-measuring

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W.E. Bair; P. Ng; D.M. Halsmer

benefits derived for both the students and the university. The long term goal of the project is to develop an experimental apparatus to accurately model the dynam-ics and control of nonrigid, spinning bodies under thrust. An initial concept for such an apparatus has been pro-posed by Meyerl. The first phase consists of the development of three interdependent and essential elements: ageneral spacecraft model with variable inertias, a hemi-spherical air bearing to support the model, and the sensorsystems necessary to track the orientation of the model during test. This last element is required for future phasesto allow accurate modeling of the thrust force. Completion of the first phase allows laboratory simulation of therotational dynamics

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Gloria Rogers

the assumption will no longer be that if an institution does certain things (i.e.,checks off certain boxes) the outcomes will be assumed and the criteria met. Engineering programs willneed to consider the following for each student outcome: ➤ what indicators will be used to define whether or not the outcomes are being achieved F what is being done to achieve the outcomes (e.g., classroom/laboratory practice or requirements) ➤ what assessment methods are being usedThis will require each engineering program to have in place an assessment program that providesassessment for the evaluation of student outcomes

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Mel I. Mendelson

Russians [% For the class project, themarkets were assumed to be home units for the kitchen and recreational vehicles. The pressure fresh technologyhas been demonstrated in a research laboratory and verified on a farm [61. The process utilized a container with areverse seal, which was under a positive air pressure and at room temperature B]. Page 1.415.1 /’”2% ~

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Laura L. Lisiecki

instruction. Thesemethods include computer based instruction, case studies and projects, portfolios and experiential learning. Theunique element of the Greenfield Coalition is its partnership with the Center for Advanced Technologies (C.A.T. )at Focus: HOPE in Detroit, Michigan, which is a national project including a futuristic 220,000 square footmanufacturing/learning facility opened in 1993. The C.A.T. provides both students, called candidates at Page 1.6.1Focus: HOPE, and a working laboratory of engineering case studies. The candidates work full time in theC.A.T. They leave the shop floor at specified class times, as well as on

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Laura L. Sullivan; Courtney R. Oliver

Session 1626 Integration of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Using a Microprocessor Controlled Injection Molding Machine: Applications of Statistical Process Control Laura L. Sullivan and Courtney R. Oliver GMI Engineering& Management InstituteAbstractAn independent study project was developed to apply the principles of statistical process control (SPC) topolymer processing using a new microprocessor controlled injection molding machine, purchased through a1994 Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) award from the National Science

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

justof mere mathematical interest. We also felt that the traditional approach, in which the tools for theanalysis of discrete and continuous time signals were taught separately, often in different courses,was misleading the students and preventing them from acquiring an integrated view of signalanalysis. The possibility of offering laboratory courses depends, of course, on the availability of per-sonal computers. We rely on low-cost i486 based machines, running Matlab. We have found thatMatlab provides an easy to learn yet powerful interface, and a powerful set of commands to dealwith graphics, signals, and systems. Although we can not present a final evaluation of this experience yet, we may alreadyreport that the students reacted

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Osama Ettouney; Don L. Byrkett

CIMS course is a 3 credit, senior level course with one hour of design. The course wasdeveloped collaboratively in the truest sense of the word. Professors Byrkett and Ettouney worked closelyover several years to broaden the course from one that primarily emphasized computer aided manufacturing toone that showed how computers can be integrated into every aspect of manufacturing including productdesign, process design, and product manufacturing. During the Spring semester of 1993, ProfessorEttouney taught the class independent y for the last time while Professor Byrkett attended all of the classesand laboratories. Their plans were to work collaborative y to develop an interdisciplinary course that wouldbe of interest to both manufacturing

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Richard Parker; Walter Buchanan

. However, they may burden the student with a need to apply thealgebra of circuit analysis to more complex circuits than the traditional curriculum. The need is to applymathematical models (for example, simultaneous equations) to various example circuits in DC and AC circuitanalysis. The authors describe a teaching strategy and a curriculum model which uses a circuit simulator towork with circuits as if they had laboratory test instruments available, giving the flavor of a real laboratory, andmathematics software which permits students to interact with mathematical solutions to obtain graphical,numerical and symbolic results. Such a curriculum brings the mathematics of circuit analysis into the sameframework of interactive discovery as the rest of

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H. Paul Haiduk; Donald J. Bagert; Ben A. Calloni

all the major programming constructs and data structures within a syntax-directedenvironment. The user can then generate syntactically correct code for any one of several text-based languagessuch as C++ and Pascal. More recently, work on adding object-oriented extensions to BACCII for use in thedata structures/object-oriented programming (CS2) course was undertaken, resulting in BACCII++. Recent research involving BACCII had included the development of a complete set of course materials forthe use of BACCII++ in teaching both CS1 and CS2 using C++. Laboratory courseware, tutorials and othermaterials were developed. An experiment, addressing the question "Can icon-based programming languages beused to teach first-year programming concepts

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Nick Zelver; John Sears; Bill Costerton

science and engineering, and (3) assist in thedirect transfer of research discoveries from university laboratories to industry. The graduate program of the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) currently includes 45 graduatestudents in Engineering (26), Letters and Science (16), Agriculture (1), and Business (2), representing 10different academic graduate programs. These academic programs all have different pedagogic traditions andtheir graduate degrees have different criteria but each student is registered in his/her home department andsubscribes, with his/her thesis advisor, to the traditions of each discipline. Because the CBE involves facultymembers in a wide spectrum of different degrees of involvement, from total integration to

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Russell A. Aubrey; Dennis O. Owen; Jack Beasley

active learning in the classroom. They indicate that when students are actively involved in learning, they learn more than when they are passive recipients of instructions. “2 Three to four activities per session, each of thirty to forty minutes duration, seem to provide the best mix of challenge and diversity. Activities that required more time to master presented attention span problems for the high school students. They tended to lose interest. The number of high school students participating in the program required breaking the class into several smaller groups. Laboratory facilities available at the Anderson and Muncie Purdue sites can accommodate ten to twenty students per activity and maintain an acceptably low student to

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Troy E. Kostek

connectedvia a LAN) can communicate with one another using DDE. With the large variety of Windows-based dataacquisition and control software available, DDE plays a vital role in the integration of today’s automatedmanufacturing systems. As educators of students that will be entering the complex world of automatedmanufacturing, it is important to introduce the concepts of DDE and to teach how DDE can be used as anintegration tool. This paper describes the fundamentals of DDE and provides two case studies of how DDEis used as an integration tool in laboratory-based manufacturing courses at Purdue University. .-. Clients and Servers In any one particular DDE conversation, there is one server (also called

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Gregory L. Moss

, and cost. Course Options & Content Chip fabrication services (for educational institutions as well as industry) are available through MOSIS toimplement standard cell or fill custom ASIC designs but the turn-around time of approximately 8 weeks can be amajor logistical problem. Some semiconductor fab houses and fab equipment manufacturers have also expressedinterest in supporting university student laboratories but providing clean room facilities can still be a problem,Student laboratory projects relating to ASIC applications can most easily be accomplished using HCPLDS. Thetwo principal companies are Xilinx, Inc. (mainly FPGAs) and Alters Corporation (CPLDS). Both companieshave University

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CPT Thomas G. Hood; Colonel Kip P. Nygren

students to explore and exploit mathematical models of the natural world, while developing theirengineering intuition and understanding of important physical relationships. Junior level engineering students in an introductory aerodynamics course at the U.S. Military Academywere exposed to diverse computer simulations and multimedia presentations in West Point’s AdvancedTechnology Classroom Laboratory. Through the use of interactive software in an active learning environment,students were able to easily consider various combinations of aerodynamic parameters, develop an intuitivefeel for realistic values and study the impact of varying different engineering parameters. Appropriateemphasis was placed on the use of fundamental conservation

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Paul D. Johnson

Session 3532 A Design Project Approach to Microcontrollers Paul D. Johnson Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Introductory microprocessor and microcontroller classes often seem to be taught with a minimum ofrealistic applications and experience. Either the courses have no laboratory experience at all, or the laboratoryexercises are far removed from practical consumer or industrial applications. A two course sequence has beendeveloped in the Padnos School

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James Moller; D. Lee

measurement, analysis for design, prototype fabrication, inspection, testing,and evaluation. Laboratory sessions included creation of a product description, NC pattern machining, casting ofdies, injection molding, inspection, and testing. Students worked both individually and in teams. They beganwith brainstorming and had batches of products ready for testing two weeks before semester’s end. Futureofferings will include more active leadership through tasks, more review of important concepts from sciencecourses, and clearer communication of expectations.INTRODUCTION With the marketplace becoming increasingly competitive as notions of mass production and a serialdesign process have given way to lean, agile production and concurrent engineering

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P.E., Dr. M. David Burghardt

into anactivity. Not only is there strength in numbers, but credibility as well. The maglev contest is run in conjunctionwith three technology teacher organizations and Brookhaven National Laboratory (a member of the CTESadvisory board); some teacher workshops have been run with the support of local industry and the CTE, and theCTE runs one in conjunction with another engineering school. In this instance, SUNY Stony Brook and theNYS Education Department with grant support from the National Science Foundation developed a high schoolcourse in technology education called Principles of Engineering (POE), similar in many ways to a fi-eshmanengineering course. During the school year, Hofstra’s CTE held follow-on workshops for POE teachers in

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Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; John E. Gastineau; Ernest E. Burniston

. Page 1.243.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings The principal features of IMPEC are as follows:• The courses are team-taught by mathematics, chemistry, physics, and engineering professors. Fundamental scientific and mathematical material is presented in the context of real-world engineering problems.• With the exception of a chemistry laboratory, the courses are taught in a single classroom equipped with PC’s that have real-time data acquisition capability. The classroom holds 36 students, which limits the enrollment in the curriculum.• The calculus instruction follows the Harvard Calculus format, emphasizing a true understanding of concepts as opposed to learning drills and

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Jack Waintraub

Component Industry limited to “advisory” role Strong and meaningful industry involvement (true partnership in education) Learning as individual effort Learning as collaboration Faculty as provider of information judge of Faculty as coach accomplishment All learning from “expert” faculty Student responsibility for own learning Curriculum focus on technical knowledge Total Curriculum focus on desirable technician characteristics Primary dependence on lecture - laboratory Use of the most advanced instructional format

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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

very helpful. ProfessorWilliams has used his mentor as a resource for teaching techniques, determining reasonableness ofassignments and exams, for creating new laboratory experiments, and, on occasion, as an advisor to helpresolve difficult circumstances. In Professor William’s first year teaching, the mentor did two things tolighten the load and assist Professor Williams, thereby increasing his chances of success. The first term thementor and Professor Williams each taught one section of a common course. This allowed the two faculty towork together to develop the syllabus, schedule, lecture notes and assignments. They even had commonexams to gauge the performance of the students and the instructors. The second term, the mentor hadProfessor

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

preservation, restitution or expansion of academic rights or dues in a formal way seems to be more natural than getting those rights or dues in practice by an appropriate change of structures, managerial moves, etc.The above-described attitudes constitute a natural basis for a strategy called here “strategy of status quo preservation” whose mainelements are the following:+ submitting petitions to the authorities - internal (Rector and Senate) or external (Ministry of National Education, Scientific Research Council, Parliament) - for additional financial support;+ increasing yearly enrollment over the limits of available resources at the cost of the quality of education (reduced laboratory courses, lectures in overcrowded auditoria);+ renting

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Merl Baker

and the macro process must besufficiently flexible to accommodate these promptly and effectively. This particulw ASEE audience is especially interested in graduate education for scientists and engineers, but allPh.D. programs must be assessed in the context of changing world conditions and job markets, and be altered accordingly.The traditional programs have and will continue to be effective in producing Ph.D.s for academe, national laboratories, andbasic research in industry, but the future demands for these traditional graduates will decrease further before a plateau isreached. However, mdirecdon to achieve adequately the objectives of Armsmong, Griffiths, Bloustein, and others is notsimply providing a limited focus on

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Juan J. Salinas; Don Westwood

field. Like in manyengineering courses there are laboratory experiments and design assignments. Some innovative compo-nents of this effort are the collaborative approach to teaching (engineer + architect), the use of televisedlaboratory experiments (as opposed to live demonstration labs) and the use of information technologies forfaculty-student interaction (fax, voice mail and electronic mail). The course is broadcast twice a week(three hours each time) for 12 weeks. Students in the region may watch the lectures at the broadcast time orthey may record them for future viewing. Students living outside the broadcast area subscribe to a systemthat delivers the videotapes by regular mail every week. The course has been offered for three terms and

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

sampling speed, floating point versus fixed pointbenefits, antenna diversity combining versus single channel processing, and relative merits of algorithmstructures.Floating point versus fixed point implementations When developing a DSP laboratory to investigate implementations of systems, such as wirelesscommunication systems, one must make a choice between fixed-point and floating-point implementations.Development systems are readily available for floating-point DSP chips such as those manufactured by TexasInstruments, Motorola, and Analog Devices. Most DSP functions used in communication systems are easilyimplemented using floating-point hardware, because wordlength effects (quantization error) and overflow arenot considerations in

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Tsung-chieh Tsay; Richard E. Larew; Fabian C. Hadipriono

end of the quarter. While such an exercise is useful forstudents, they have to spend a great deal of time on the project and yet, may not fully understand the entireprocess of completing the construction project. An efficient response to this need is to perform studies through the use of a simulation laboratory.Researchers are acutely aware of current laboratory educational issues, the extent of the problem, and whatothers have done. These issues have been addressed through the development of several undergraduatelaboratories.lO’1 ]’]2 Consequently, this study, called Construction Operations using Virtual Reality (COVR),attempts to solve the educational problem. Virtual reality (VR) models that extend well beyond theinstructional

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P.E., Dr. M. David Burghardt

, but credibility as well. The maglev contest is run in conjunction with three technologyteacher organizations and Brookhaven National Laboratory (a member of the CTE’S advisory board); someteacher workshops have been run with the support of local industry and the CTE, and one the CTE runs inconjunction with another engineering school. In this instance, SUNY Stonybrook and the NYS EducationDepartment with grant support from the National Science Foundation developed a high school course intechnology education called Principles of Engineering (POE), similar in many ways to a freshman engineeringcourse. During the school year, Hofstra’s CTE held follow-on workshops for POE teachers. Hofstra’s School of Education has received a NYS grant to