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Arthur T. Johnson

oftentimes do not know how to begin the project, and they spend mostof their time trying to figure out how to begin. Other students want to begin immediately by calculatingthe most minute of details, and often are caught close to the deadline with solutions that are not acceptablefrom some conceptual viewpoint. Both of these types of students begin to learn that going to the libraryand reading about the object of the design is a good way to clarify thoughts, formulate meaningfulquestions, and further define the problem. Some students require one design project to learn this; othersrequire two. By the third design project, almost all know how to approach a design project of this type. Design projects are chosen to exercise knowledge about

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Melissa Mattmuller

choice of going off campus (not far) to do some shopping at a nearby strip mall frequented primarily by college students or going to the Union to bowl, watch TV, and generally hang out. At this time all the campers were required to wear their camp T-shirts for ease in keeping track of them.11:00 Lights OutTuesday7:00 Breakfast8:15 Project The explorers were divided into three groups, each with a faculty advisor. They were told they were part of a marketing group and that the technology group had just invented a widget that would digitally record and play back voice messages. The girls were to come up with a product, packaging, and marketing ideas to sell this widget. Each small group was given an

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Ph.D., P.E., Edward G. Tezak; Ph.D., Aleksey Skuratov; Ph. D., Scott Spetka

. He is an Associate Professor of computer science at the SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. He is working on integrating multimedia tools with database systems and networks, with ATM networks and protocols and research projects at the USAF Rome Lab. Dr. Spetka has been active in the IEEE Dual-Use Technology and Applications conference. Aleksey K. Skuratov, Ph.D. from Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (M I EM). His thesis was in Computer-aided Design of Microprocessor Systems. He worked on this pilot project with SUNY. He is Chief of Direction of The Center for New Information Technologies in Higher Education and Program Coordinator of Association for International Education and member of ICDED-96

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Steve Moser; Michael Bluhm; Allan Goodman; Sarah Lynn Garrett

been devoted to improving individual courses.Our project team has completed a first iteration of curriculum reform which uses applications, woven throughoutthe engineering curriculum as a means to motivate learning and provide relevance to course work. This paperreviews our work to date, summarizes what we are learning about the systems required for sustained reform,and outlines our direction for the next step of work. We will also discuss the impact of this project on ourdepartment and some of the interesting dimensions of what is required to pull off reform across the curriculum.Our Initial Vision We have identified a problem with engineering education. Our pragmatic students want to know whybefore they are motivated to 1- but we wait

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Yung-Nien Yang; Julius P. Wong; Anup Kumar; William G. Sullivan; Herman R Leep; Hamid R. Parsaei; Gerald J. Thuesen

changes are to be expected. We are preparing for training more students with anemphasis on practical applications. This paper presents a virtual learning environment (VLE) project that iscurrently being developed at the University of Louisville. The VLE project has three major components: 1 )multimedia interactive course on the World Wide Web (WWW),2) “studyware” package, and 3) student database. Introduction The evolution of new computer, telecommunication, and multimedia technologies has provided thetools to explore new methods for teaching. However, the development of new technology often out pacesour ability to adopt the new technology. We need to access the educational potential of the new

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

I Session 2526 Interactive and Immersive Training in a Virtual Environment for Construction Students Fabian C. Hadipriono, Richard E. Larew, Tsung-chieh Tsay The Ohio State UniversityIntroduction Construction projects involve a wide range of operations and activities, most of which can lead toaccidents if proper care is not taken. The most serious construction accidents involve construction

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Daryl J. Doyle; Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

laboratories at GMI address a broad spectrum of manufacturingprocesses, and students of Manufacturing Systems Engineering, as well as Mechanical, Industrial, ElectricalEngineering (well over 500 per year) benefit from exposure to these laboratories. The authors have beenextensively involved with supervising independent study projects with undergraduates, resulting in more in-depth exposure to the laboratories for about ten students per year. The authors have also donated much oftheir time and the use of their facilities to precollege programs providing laboratory exposure to young peopleconsidering engineering for undergraduate study. The cooperative nature of GMI Engineering & Management Institute enables faculty to be aware ofchanges in the

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Daryl J. Doyle; Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

laboratories at GMI address a broad spectrum of manufacturingprocesses, and students of Manufacturing Systems Engineering, as well as Mechanical, Industrial, ElectricalEngineering (well over 500 per year) benefit from exposure to these laboratories. The authors have beenextensively involved with supervising independent study projects with undergraduates, resulting in more in-depth exposure to the laboratories for about ten students per year. The authors have also donated much oftheir time and the use of their facilities to precollege programs providing laboratory exposure to young peopleconsidering engineering for undergraduate study. The cooperative nature of GMI Engineering & Management Institute enables faculty to be aware ofchanges in the

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Andrew Wilhelm; Edmund Tsang

environment, andthe weekly activities are geared towards helping students to successfully carry out a design projectinvolving press-forming/press-shaping. Students engage in hands-on activities to investigate therelationship between structure, properties and processing of materials. They apply some general conceptsof manufacturing to design the dies for press-forming/press-shaping, and use AutoCAD and a modelcomputer-aided milling machine to cut a prototype die. They use statistics for product description,tolerance, and properties. Students also make final design project presentation. Details of the course andresults of student evaluation are described in the paper.INTRODUCTION The faculty of the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at the

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George Meyer; James K. Randall; Charles T. Morrow

set of notes) was made available to all students.Laboratories included programming of a micro controller for data acquisition and control, building aninstrumentation amplifier, strain-gages, differential transformers, thermocouples, flow measurement andoptical sensing devices. Some labs evolved out of an inexpensive kit of electronic components for distantstudents. Others labs were videotaped, with data collection provided on video. Written reports were preparedby the students. Students purchased Windows-based virtual electronics software for designing and testingelectronic circuits. A open-ended design project of a team of 2-3 students was required. Each teamprepared oral and written reports of their projects. Student interaction was carried

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George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

, business process re-engineering, continuous quality improvement concepts, and activity-based-cost accounting. Students were divided into teams consisting of both business students and engineeringstudents to accomplish two major projects. One project consisted of flow charting the processes in theUniversity Bursar’s office. The students had to flow chart the existing process and recommendimprovements. As a term assignment, each student team was required to contact a local firm, interviewrepresentatives from all levels of management and evaluate the firm against each of the Malcolm BaldrigeNational Quality Award Criteria. Each student team was required to orally present their findings from theBursar’s office project and to present their conclusions

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Kurt J. Colella; Vincent Wilczynski

’ engineering education arepresented in the USCGA portfolio. The portfolio artifacts themselves include project assignments, reports,photographs, videos, story boards, prototypes and design specimens. Though motivated as a tool to document Page 1.508.1 -- ..- -. - fiiih’-’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,,,~yy’: Ithe design experience for ABET evaluators, the local portfolio has also been an effective method to describe

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Dr. John W. Nazemetz; Dr. John B. Solie; Dr. David R. Thompson

Experience in Solving Open-Ended Problems Introduce the Student to the Ethical Considerations in Design Assisting the Student in making Career Decisions The committee developed a possible course syllabus based upon a two credit hour course that wouldhold a one hour lecture and a two hour lab each week. Key concepts for the course included the design andconstruction and physical display (testing) of the solution to a semester long design project. Of the fifteenweeks of instruction, nine lectures and eight labs focused upon CAD and the remaining classes (five lectures,seven labs and a midterm) were used in pursuit of the design project. The faculty assigned to teach the classwere to meet the spirit of

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Lawrence Genalo

and projects are created by the teaching faculty and critiqued at weekly meetings where all aspects of the course are discussed. A recent change which has brought another dimension to our uniformity discussions is the creation of an alternative course utilizing C rather than FORTRAN as the programming language. This course is identical in all aspects except syntax. The same projects are used; the same exams, with some modifications to programming questions are used; and the same schedule is kept. In fact, the weekly faculty meetings are held jointly. Page 1.458.1 $iiia-’ ‘Jll&

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Wayne E. Wells

Session 3151 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR ALL ENGINEERS Dr. Wayne E. Wells University of Texas-Pan American Project Description The educational initiative described in this paper is based on three premises. The first is that the impactof manufacturing and manufacturing decisions on the environment can be profound; profoundly positive ornegative. The fate of efforts toward systematic elimination of pollution in the environment rests to a greatextent upon decisions made in manufacturing

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Harry Knickle

. The objectives of there-introduction of engineering courses were: 1. to introduce freshman to engineering concepts, problem solving, design concepts, and the engineering culture. 2. to increase the motivation of engineering students by hands on projects. 3. to increase the retention of freshman engineering students. 4. to introduce the foundations for manufacturing across the engineering curricula. COURSE DEVELOPMENT A three credit pilot course was introduced in the Fall of 1994. All chemical engineering students were signed up for the course. The course involved one weekly presentation and two hands-on laboratories. The laboratory

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Steven Widmer

front in your lecture can give clarification for the following lecture material ?&ii’-’ ) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,.,RYRL.? . 1particularly to the visual learner. When working problems on the chalk board always work the problem coldand do not copy directly from your notes. You may tend to leave “details” out that in later study couldconfuse the learner.Project work I believe project work needs to be “hands on” in engineering technology courses. This is particularlyuseful

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Partha P. Sarkar; Kishor C. Mehta; James R. McDonald; Ernst W. Kiesling

Session 1626 Integrating Wind Engineering Research to Curriculum Through Multimedia Partha P. Sarkar, Kishor C. Mehta, James R. McDonald, Ernst W. Kiesling Texas Tech University ABSTRACTA courseware development project, which aims to transfer the research results to curriculum through themultimedia technology in the multi-disciplinary area of wind cngineenng, is discussed in this article. Thiscourseware, containing four modules, is designed to supplement certain senior

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Nick Zelver; John Sears; Bill Costerton

students and they conduct virtually all of ourresearch in the three designated thrust areas of our NSF-funded research program and in the manyindependently-funded research projects that cluster around the CBE. In a few cases the most effective ofthese teams have become so integrated that students from either science or engineering have chosen a pair ofcoadvisors for their theses and these advisory teams are typically composed of faculty from Microbiology andfrom Chemical or Civil Engineering. Page 1.22.2 {tixi$~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘O.+,yyy’j

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Sylvia D. Pifion; Elsa Q. Villa; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

coursestudents will take in the subsequent fall semester. In the design component, students are exposed to the computerscience and engineering programs offered at UTEP through related projects that provide a challenging andinformative glimpse into each aspect of engineering. SEEE students are first introduced to the cooperative learning paradigm during the first morning session.In that session, they work through exercises which distinguish the differences between individual, competitive, andcooperative learningc. An integral part of this initial activity is the “name game” where students are moved intogroups and asked to learn the names of the group members. This “name game” is the first step in developingcommunity among the group members

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Joseph A. Untener

: Secretary’s Commission on Acquiring Necessary Skills (SCANS) Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Curricula 2002 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics State and local Tech Prep Consortia from the states of Ohio and Washington In addition to these external sources, project team members reviewed existing courses at Sinclair andthe University of Dayton to identify key manufacturing-related content across all academic programs.Overall, this benchmarking process yielded an initial list of over 800 discrete competencies that might beappropriate for the curriculum. Detailed Design. For purposes of discussion and review, the list of 800 competencies was summarizedinto a list of 175 skill sets. These skill sets were

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Shelli Kay Starrett

engineering courses is discussed. A variety of course projects utilizing the internet are described.This paper gives some observations from the instructor and reactions from students participating in thecourses. The students learned to use the Internet resources quickly, and student response has been quitepositive.I. INTRODUCTION The use of computer and information technology in the classroom and course assignments increasesstudent enthusiasm and makes communications and data exchanges more efficient. The World Wide Web(WWW or web) and the Internet allow students to communicate with each other and with the instructor ontheir own time schedule. A student can post a question at midnight that the instructor answers the nextmorning (or vice versa

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III, Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner

engineering design to students early in their academic careers. Theprimary purpose of this evaluation is to determine how well the Entrepreneurs Program is meeting its objectivesand other SUCCEED deliverables. The approach to engineering education undertaken by the Entrepreneurs Program is relatively unusual inthat it includes students at all academic levels participating on design teams. A few others have had success witha similar approach. Lil describes team oriented design projects at the University of Wisconsin-PlatteviUe whichnot only includes students at all academic levels, but is also interdisciplinary in nature by including students fromboth the Electrical Engineering and Chemistry departments. His course integrates product desig

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Jo Ann Parikh

Department at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) is currently in theprocess of implementing a curricular and laboratory development project that integrates key conceptsand practical experiences in parallel computing throughout the undergraduate curriculum. The goal ofthis project is to build a strong foundation in parallel computing which would optionally culminate inadvanced, senior-level specialized courses in parallel computing and/or senior research projects. This paper describes the laboratory facility we developed to support instruction in parallel anddistributed computing and the parallel computing modules which were incorporated into three of ourcore undergraduate courses: data structures, operating systems, and programming

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Saeed B. Niku

new employees beknowledgeable in this area. The result has been course offerings in the senior years in many disciplines. Additionally, many institutions have been supported by the National Science Foundation, both directlyand through NSF Coalitions, to create programs in Mechatronics and to prepare teachers in mechatronics .Additionally, NSF has supported the idea of inclusion of mechatronic concepts in other courses, including firstyear engineering courses (Synthesis Coalition). The basic thrust of this project is to introduce students to mechatronics ideas and concepts in their firstyear engineering course although they do not yet have the basic necessary knowledge. As a result, it is essentialthat in every project all

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Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

with a rational basis for comparing and evaluating the out-of-class demands and academic rigor of those courses. (4) Survey results for successive iterations of the same course provide the course director and program director with clear indicators of historical trends; the results also provide a means of assessing the impact of earlier changes to the course. LIMITATIONS The most common criticism of the time survey is that students’ self-reported time estimates are likely to be inaccurate and, in any event, can never be confirmed. Student time estimates are often assumed to be exaggerated, especially for major requirements like design projects. The authors acknowledge this criticism but

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Robert M. Edwards; Kwang Y. Lee

Session 1626 COMBINED RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR POWER PLANT INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED CONTROL Kwang Y. Lee, Robert M. Edwards The Pennsylvania State UniversityABSTRACT An NSF combined research and curriculum development project was conducted from 1992 to 1996.New graduate courses on 1) Power Plant Dynamics and Control and 2) Power Plant Intelligent DistributedControl were developed and presented. The capstone course Power Plant Intelligent Distributed Controlcovered advanced subjects and laboratory experiments

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Dr. Edward M. Lenoe; Dr. Eddie Fowler

semester devoted to design and the second tofabrication. During this project we had to conceive, design, procure, fabricate, test and evaluate andfinally compete! Most competitors devoted two years to the project. The Onondaga was built from midMarch to mid April, then subjected to 380 miles of road tests in the rolling hills of the HudsonHighlands. Road testing revealed numerous design flaws, several of which could not be corrected intime for competition. Therefore we procured the necessary spare parts and tools and adopted agenerally conservative race strategy. The paper reviews the educational experience and reports on theperformance of the Onondaga. We present: a brief description of the team and its operation and anassessment of the design

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Gad Engler

andstudents in the face of rising subscription costs and fixed budgets. At the heart of the project is a user survey inwhich faculty have been requested to list titles that they individually need for research and teaching, and toindicate their choice between in-house subscription and electronic document delivery. In this paper we analyzepreliminary results of the survey for the eight departments that constitute the LSU College of Engineering.Based on data provided, recommendations are made for identifying and deselecting the least valuable titles.KEY WORDScost-benefit analysis, collection management, engineering education, academic libraries, engineering research,document delivery, journal subscription.INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM AND ITS POSSIBLE

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Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

Page 1.58.1 .-z .. ~figti~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,yyy%,:laboratory setups should be versatile and flexible to allow students toexplore their ideas and thoughts. Second, the method of learning shouldrel~ primarily on personal discovery and synthesis. Third~ laboratoryactivity should emphasize students’ active participation throughout theentire process. Finally, the laboratory experience should include a designcomponent to enhance creative application of knowledge. The active learning environment is implemented through two phases,namely, inquiry-based learning and project-based learning. These two phasesare designed to provide students opportunities for