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Wayne E. Wells

order to change the way engineers are educated, we must startwith the engineering faculty. Most faculty members were educated and trained during a peciod when en-vironmental concerns were not important. These faculty members, even though they may have good intentions,do not have the necessary background or resources to bring these concerns into the classroom. Our educationalproject centers around providing that resource to the faculty, Project Strategy We have assembled six teams of educators, industry experts and government representatives from theUnited States, Canada and Mexico to identifi and organize resource materials in the form of issues papers, casestudies, laboratory experiments

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Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman; Sally Steadman

Engineering and Director of Engineering Science. He has worked as a consultant and research collaboratorfor Union Carbide, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, General Electric, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory andPafec, Ltd. His research interests are in finite element analysis, ultrasonic wave phenomena, solid modelingand computer graphics. He is author of the text, Computer Graphics for Engineers and is a member of ASME,ASEE, Sigma Xi, and IEEE Computer Society.DAVID WHITMAN Dr. Whitman is a Professor of Petroleum Engineering and the Assistant Dean of the College ofEngineering at the University of Wyoming. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. inMineral Engineering, both from the University of Wyoming and has been instrumental

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Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

class discussion. Type 2 teachers focus primarily on the (Thi~king) transmission of knowledge in a hierarchical manner from Abstract Conceptualization teacher to the student and their teaching style is F i g u r e 1. Four Quadrants of Learning and Learning Styles [7, 10] professor-centered lectures. Type 3 teachers primarily focus on promoting productivity and competence and want their students to acquire the necessary skills and be independent and their teaching style is usually the traditional lecture format coupled with laboratories and out

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Karl D. Stephan

Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,H13#? “I was the first Chief of the Food Research Laboratory, which was part of the Bureau of Chemistryunder Dr. Harvey Wiley. At first I didn’t want the position at all. In 1898 I had founded the privatePhiladelphia Clinical Laboratory for the purpose of providing the city’s doctors with bacteriological analyses.A report we fiu-nished on the condition of the city’s milk supply led to an offer to superintend the laboratoryof the Philadelphia health department, which I accepted. So I had my hands full already when Dr. Wileyinvited me to join his staff in 1907. But he was an old family friend, and very persuasive. Only the yearbefore, he had succeeded in securing the

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Paul J. Turinsky; Kuruvilla Verghese

often come from physicalscience disciplines. The engineering project required for the MNE can be either experimental or analysis based,in either case involving solution of a practical problem of current industrial interest. This is in contrast to the MSthesis which is based on original research. Upon completion of the engineering project, a written technical reportis presented to the student’s graduate committee and it is defended in an oral examination. A total of 53 MNEdegrees have been awarded so far. Since its creation in 1983, the MNE Traineeship Program has been continuously supported by thenuclear power industry. More recently and to a lesser extent, the Department of Energy national laboratories

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Zhi Shi; Clarence Calder

athletic shoes.(2) An oscilloscope is used to capture the acceleration-time data and a PC is used to process the data. When used as a classroom or laboratory demonstration, orlaboratory/project assignment, this experiment illustrates the following to the student: 1. Determination of the impact force-time record using Newton’s law. 2. Evacuation of the displacement-time record by double integration of the acceleration and enforcing proper initial conditions. 3. Technique and advantages of smoothing the experimental data. 4. Convenience of spreadsheet software to process and analyze the raw data, and to plot the results. 5. The energy absorbing and loading-rate effects of using a material such as foam.Test Apparatus and Procedure

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

, desire to reach 4 1students that have alternate learning styles ’ 1, to provide experience based education and to augment .traditional laboratory facilities that are being stretched increasingly thin with growing enrollments Computersimulations also provide students with access to environments that would not otherwise be available to them. Virtual reality, VR, is an emerging technology that strives to greatly increase the realism of simulationsby immersing users deeply within interactive three dimensional computer generated environments. This addedrealism has great potential to increase the

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B. S. Sridhara

analysis, and material selection), Organization and Project Planning, CurriculumIntegration, Fund Raising and Team Support, Vehicle Testing and Driver Training, and Logistics. I explainedhow we were going to meet all of the specifications listed in the Sunrayce 95 Regulations.3 The proposalssubmitted by different universities were evaluated and scored by sponsors and other experts at the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, a unit of DOE). We were selected as one of the of 65 teams tocompete in Sunrayce 95. The list included MIT, Yale, Texas A&M, Stanford, University of Michigan, andAuburn, and universities from Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Many undergraduate students, the Industrial Studies Department Chair, the Dean of the

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William J. Hutzel; John R. Koontz

capacity of the unit. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration is offered in the spring semester of each academic year as a junioror senior level technical elective. There are typically about 15 students enrolled each time the course isoffered. Although two semesters of heat power were required as a prerequisite, this requirement has beendropped to allow BC students into the course. The current prerequisites area two course sequence of generalphysics and mathematics up to and including integral calculus. This represents a significant deviation frommore traditional HVAC courses that emphasize the thermodynamics of various cooling cycles. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration has two l-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory each week.The

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Samuel O. Osisanya

students(class size), and their computer literacyand skill, academic preparatio~ institutional needs and commitments, resources level (dedicated computer roomand laboratories for fi-eshmen), and instructor’s attributes (dedicatio~ level of commitment desire to motivate, etc.). At the same conference several moderators debated on the goals of teaching computer applications andcomputer programming at the freshman level. The consensus was that computer applications are taught for thefollowing reasons:. To familiarize the students with the capability and use of the computer to solve engineering problems.. To build student confidence in using computers.● To develop an understanding of the nature of computing and its limitations.● Good for

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Dianne Atkinson

informal short speeches, all intended for peer audiences.Engineering students, if they are to move toward competence in an increasingly media-intensive workplace,need experience with more professional tasks, e.g., technical collaboration on design projects. Considerableinstructional investments already support written communication skills; engineering schools have longemphasized formal laboratory reports. The agenda now is to find ways to build better oral communication skills.2 Design in the Curriculum The increased emphasis on design in engineering curricula does offer an important opportunity tosupport oral skills. One implication of incorporating more design work into the curriculum, especially designprojects carried out with small

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Karen E. Schmahl

students in Manufacturing Engineering (ABET accredited) and another 90 students in the interdisciplinaryEngineering Management program with a technical specialty in Manufacturing Engineering. All seniorengineering students are required to take a two semester (two credit hours each semester with four credit hoursof design) capstone course. In the first semester the students define and research an engineering ormanufacturing related problem, develop and evaluate solutions and present their chosen designs. The secondsemester focuses on implementation of solutions and assessment of project outcomes. These senior designprojects are often coordinated with industry or conducted within the university laboratories. The Manufacturing Engineering

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Zhongming Liang

Machines and Controls . CIMT (Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology) 345 Computer Numerical Control . CIMT 365 Robotics Applications . CIMT 384 Instrumentation and Automatic Control The laboratory for course Robotics Applications has five Apple-PC controlled MiniMover-5educational robots, one Esched Robotec Scorbot ER-111 educational robot, and three Mitsubishi MovemasterRV-M1 industrial robots. The MiniMover-5 robot is valuable for teaching fundamentals of robotics, which has been noted bymany educators. For example, Douglas Malcolm, Jr., James Fuller and Phillip McKerrow discussed theplanetary bevel gear system of the robot mechanical gripper. Phillip McKerrow also discussed the controllerand the kinematics of the

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Robert A. Chin; Amy R. Frank

hardware, software, andsupport to faculty members so they may explore and incorporate a wide range of multimedia computingtechnologies into classroom and laboratory instruction. The Initiative encompasses traditional multimediahardware/software, including full motion video, sound, graphics, and CD-ROM based resources usingcomputer assisted learning/instruction, instructional datasets and methodologies, and simulations (laboratory orclassroom). Its focus is on enhancing classroom based instruction and the learning process. As well, theInitiative focuses on and encourages team work among faculty and the promotion of stewardship of scarceUniversity resources

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Carol L. O'Loughlin

Developing the Course In designing the course, the team decided to build on the trend toward design-oriented freshmanengineering courses. In addition, the team decided to introduce students to real-world engineering bydesigning the course around the actual manufacturing of a high quality electronic product, where students willuse professional CAD software to design a product, lay out the printed circuit board, and assemble the circuiton professionally-manufactured boards. Students will work in state-of-the-art laboratories on professional CADsoftware, including PSpice, PADS Logic and PADS Perform. The final product can be taken home at the endof the semester. The selection of course contents is made straight-forward by the

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Don Engelberg

Session 1626 NSF-Supported Instrumentation: Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Distributed Feedback Lasers for Technicians in Training Don Engelberg Queensborough Community College/ The City University of New York Abstract Under an NSF ILI grant we are developing experiments and laboratory writeups related to erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA’s) and distributed feedback (DFB) lasers suitable for student technicians in anAAS degree program in Laser and Fiber Optics Technology. Emphasis is on characterizing the

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José L. Torres

allows them to perform their duties effectively. It alsorequires adequate physical resources: laboratories, computing services and libraries. One of the most significant problems in establishing equivalency between engineering programs in Mexico Us. Student population in technical fields, per million of total population 3960.8 2100 B. S./EI.E. degrees per million of total population 421.7 290.1 Graduate technical degrees per million pop. 14.12 121.94 B. S./II.E. level yield (degrees grantedktudent population

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John T. Berry; Gregory L. Ferguson

institutions to better leverage state resources whichallowed The University to implement these courses without purchasing new manufacturing lab equipment.Introduction The United States’ negative trade balance has steadily increased over the last several decades. TheNational Research Council report Improving Engineering Design [1] cites manufacturing goods as a primarycontributor of the trade deficit. They concluded the best way to correct this is for concurrent engineeringtechniques to be practiced by industry and taught by the engineering educational establishment. Manufacturingcourses taught in the traditional hands-on laboratory format have fallen from vogue as they were viewed, oftenunfairly, as lacking sufficient scientific content. As a

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Mohamad Qatu; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

.9 The course is organized into 14 modules, onefor each week of the semester. The first module serves as a mini freshman experience course that entailsproblem solving sessions, team building exercises and tours of the engineering laboratories. The secondmodule is dedicated to basic computer literacy. The remaining modules are divided among electrical,mechanical, and robotics and automated manufacturing areas. Six faculty teach the various modules, which require the use of six different laboratories throughoutthe course. The instructor for each module reports student grades for that module to the coursecoordinator, who assigns the final course grades. There is minimal coordination among the individualinstructors. It is important that

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Vinay Govande; Kristine Laubach; Jr., Dr. Emory W. Zimmers; Jennifer Montemurro; Dr. Roger Nagel; Alice Swanger

Lehigh University/Focus: HOPEAbstract This paper describes three learning partnership models among U.S. corporations, government agencies,and Lehigh University’s Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory (CIM Lab). These models aredescribed in terms of need, resources and benefits. Two models describe the partnerships among the CIM Lab,the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Northeast Tier Ben Franklin Technology Center (NET/BFTC), andprivate industry. The third model describes a partnership among government, manufacturing industries, sixuniversities, and the Focus: HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies. The three virtual learning modelsdemonstrate the success in combining resources from academia, government, and industry. They exemplify

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Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

alternatives to augment itseffectiveness have been proposed4, including laboratories and cooperative learning. Lectures encourage passivity in students, leading them to expect the instructor to provide all requiredknowledge. Lectures are geared toward the verbal learner, and do not take into account the varied learningstyles of our students. Many engineers are in realityvisual learners, much better served by active, visualand tactile teaching methods5. Many students who have the intelligence and creativity to be excellentengineers find little fulfillment or stimulation in the rigid confines of the lecture hall, and drop out of formalengineering programs as a result. They do not see the relevance of their required courses to the actualpractice

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Richard L. Marcellus; Jr., John Felver; Joy Pauschke

academic skills, career, and professional development. Several of these activities are scheduled eachmonth in order to offer students a choice of activities and times to fit into their schedules. The College providesbus service for industrial tours and trade shows.Table 2 - Academic Residential Program Academic-Related Activities Informal Activities Guest Speakers Skills Seminars Field Trips/Tours Team Projects Fall kick-off party Dean Study skills National laboratories Design competition Lunches/dinners Department Chairs Team building Fermi ● Academic Bowl Faculty Time management Argonne ● Lab tours

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Peter K. Liaw; N. Yu

Session 1626 Ceramic Matrix Composites: A Combined Mechanics-Materials Science Educational Program N. Yu, P. K. Liaw Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science/ Department of Materials Science and Engineering The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, U.S.A.Introduction The development of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) is of industrial and national importance. Forexample, continuous fiber-reinforced CMCs, which have been successfully fabricated at the Oak RidgeNational Laboratory (ORNL) and several

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa; Enno 'Ed' Koehn; J. G. P. Andrade; E. Luvizzoto Jr.

public concern inseveral areas such as hydropower generation (only 25°/0 of the total potential has been exploited), urban floodcontrol, sanitation works, fluvial navigation, etc. Therefore, we have other reasons to explain the decline oftraditional hydraulics in the Brazilian context. Firstly we think the impact of informatics was a major factor in shifiing move students and professorsfrom the laboratory to computers. The pace of this movement towards computers modelling was accelerated bytwo simultaneous factors: (a) the scarcity of financial fi.mds for research, mainly those requiring highermagnitudes (e.g., hydraulic physical modeling); (b) the decreasing cost of personal computers, nowadaysaccessible to a great majority of graduate

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Yolanda Guran

laboratories. Could Joris be our network technician, our UNIXadministrator, our equipment technician? Some of this questions were answered with yes some with maybe,some with “I will learn”. Nevertheless, this is how we started the internship program at Metro Campus inPortland. Students are taking classes in Portland, but also work as computer/electronics technicians in ourlaboratories. All of them spend between one week and three weeks traveling in United States. Last year, the author spent part of her sabbatical leave at Hogeschool Enschede. Along with aninteresting professional experience, she met our former and our future Dutch exchange students. Talking tothem and from our own observations, we concluded that the American experience was of

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Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

remaining twelve modules were equally divided amongelectrical, mechanical, and automated manufacturing topics. The students assembled and tested electronicscircuits; designed, made, and tested a small mechanical part; and programmed robots and operated anautomated manufacturing system. The course was taught by six faculty and used six different laboratories. The course provided the students with an engineer’s view of engineering problem solving. Itincluded the engineering approach to the design of products and processes, engineering heuristics, anddiscussions of engineering ethics. The course included structured, engaging laboratory sessions, and thisexperiential learning aspect of the course was particularly well received by the students

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Winston F. Erevelles

series of three describing the development, implementation,integration, and evaluation of a Flexible Assembly Cell (FAC) in the Computer Integrated Manufacturing(CIM) laboratory at GMI. The first year of the project saw the acquisition and installation of the majority ofthe capital equipment for the cell. Over the same period of time the author was able to attend several trainingsessions to gain proficiency in the operation and maintenance of the equipment. Several experiments weredeveloped and a planning evaluation was conducted internally. Over the second year of the project the cellwas further developed and integrated into the CIM environment at GMI.FAC Implementation and Integration The implementation of FAC was an effort that

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Ronald P. Krahe; Thomas E. Russell

Session 1426 Low Power Embedded Control Design Ronald P. Krahe, Thomas E. Russell Pennsylvania State University at Erie Behrend College ABSTRACT This paper describes laboratory design exercises to introduce the added constraints of low power consumption tomicrocontroller design. Many new hand-held, portable, and remote instruments must operate several years on small,commercially

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Pamela J. Neal; George W. P. York

alsoincludes a power supply, protoboard area, and enough storage to house the power cord, serial cable, wire kitand logic probe. Each student signs a unit out for the semester, and can take it to their dorm room. Thisallows students to program and run examples from the text as they are learning the concepts, rather thanwaiting for certain hours when labs are available. Students can also work on laboratory exercises and buildassociated circuits at their convenience. We are able to use this unit for courses ranging from basicmicroprocessor programming through our senior level microprocessor interfacing course. Our lab exercisesrange from simple tutorials, to stoplight controllers, to LCD and video controllers, to building a simplenetwork. This unit is

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Marvi Teixeira

though any spreadsheet could be used tothis end. The design and analysis procedure, developed by the student, when written in MathCad can performautomatic calculations, answer “what if” type of questions and facilitates any trial and error needed for finetuning. There are also some drawbacks as we shall see later. Many students have used Spice at theirintroductory circuit analysis course, however, few of them have used MathCad. Despite some complains athaving to learn yet another software package, all of them do learn MathCad. A walk through the computercenter, at the end of the quarter, invariably shows students taking advantage of their newly acquired skills, forcompleting projects and laboratories in other areas as well