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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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Steve Howell; Ken Collier; Debra Larson; Jerry Hatfield

implementing an innovative, four- year sequence of classes called the Liberal Studies and Complementary Courses Path to Synthesis. The Path to Synthesis: Engineering at N AU The Path to Synthesis is unique in many ways. The courses Figure 1 Path to Synthesis - Design at NAU are integrated horizontally by forming students into interdisciplinary design

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P. Raju Mantena

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Jack Bryant; Howard Seidel; David L. Barrow; Dante DeBlassie; Arlen Strader

are introduced in third semester calculus. Although derivatives and integrals arepresented in first semester calculus, the students use the ideas in physics well in advance of when they arecovered in the calculus. To remedy this situation, the faculty team met about three times a week during the summer preceedingeach school year.1 The purpose was to lay out our respective courses for the whole year. We also met at leastonce a week during the academic year to keep one another apprised of what and how we were doing. As aresult, we radically changed the order of presentation of material in our calculus course, even to the point ofmoving a large amount of traditional second year engineering mathematics into the freshman year, andpostponing

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Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

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Sandra L. Bishop; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre

: 1. help students identi~ skills and strategies which will lead them to success during their freshman year and throughout their undergraduate educatio~ 2. develop an on-going relationship with an upper-class engineering student that the freshman engineer will use as a role model, and 3. educate the students about the various engineering fields and departments, resulting in an informative decision about which field to study. The first two objectives are interrelated. Simply teaching students suwival skills is not sufficient. Studentsneed and want someone who can demonstrate by example how these skills can be implemented. For the thirdobjective, students either have a preconceived notion

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Samuel O. Osisanya

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Richard Magin; Margery Osborne; Bruce Bertram; Bruce Wheeler

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William H. Jermann

Session 1532 THE FRESHMAN PROGRAMMING COURSE: A NEW DIRECTION William H. Jermann The University of Memphis INTRODUCTION For decades typical Electrical Engineering curricula haveincluded a freshman-level course in computer programming. Inearlier days, this course included segments related to operatinga card punching machine as well as detailed coverage of theFORTRAN programming Language. Now the course frequently involvesuse of a more modern programming language such as c or c++operating under a system that supports integrated developmentalenvironments [1], [2]. Typical

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Khalid K. Naji; Fazil Najafi

the network-based simulation tech-nique, which was originally developed for manufacturing processes, is very tedious, complex, and time consum-ing, the graphical simulation technique is taking many forms and is gaining more support within the constructionindustry. It is a fact that the network-based simulation technique has failed to describe three main factors thatinfluence most construction operations, these factors being the construction site itsel~ the building geometry,and the dynamics involved in operating construction equipment. 1 On the other hand, the graphical simulationtechnique, which was originally derived from what is called the Visual Interactive Simulation (VIS), has taken anew dimension involving the Virtual Reality (VR

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Suzanne E. Prickett; Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

must represent portions of a molecule, are adjacent to eachComplex reaction systems occur in many chemical processes, other and disconnects them. An item descriptor refers to aincluding fermentation, combustion, polymerization, and portion of the compound or network (e.g., reaction, positive-petroleum refining. Modeling such systems is difficult because atom, or reactant). Item descriptors are formed using prefixes,there are large numbers of reactions and reaction intermediates items, and suffixes (Fig. 1). Valid item descriptors includeinvolved (Mavrovouniotis et al., 1993). Better models of “negative-atom”, “aromatic-rings”, and “triple-bond”. Thecomplex reaction systems can lead to improvements in the

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Dianne Atkinson

-conferences, on-line real-time “talk” and other “hot media.” While the formal engineering reportcontinues to be important, new media offer real advantages: In global market environments and in flattenedorganizational structures, efficient and coordinated decisions are essential to technical productivity. Skilled useof electronic media by engineers can be fostered by supporting oral communications in the engineeringcurriculum. Teaching the videotaped job interview is described as one such opportunity. A critical feature of thatassignment is the high motivation that students bring to the task because they understand the potential forimmediate benefits.1 Introduction In a recent assessment of existing instruction in communications, the School of

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa

educational framework described above, several curricular reforms haveoccurred since 1990 in some well-known Brazilian engineering programs. Despite the small number ofexperiences selected for discussion herein, those engineering colleges represent important models for engineeringeducation and have been copied by other programs throughout the country.International Trends in Engineering Education and its Impact on Brazilian Engineering Programs In our view, the main issues concerning the modern educational reforms that occurred in undergraduateengineering courses in DC were based on recognizing problems in the following critical areas:1) the adequacy of the traditional eight semester curriculum, an issue often discussed in the U. S.;2) the

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Rakesh Nagi

possibledirections in which academia could focus so that a skilled and empowered manufacturing profession base canbe created.1 Introduction Markets for industrial goods have been fragmenting and changing rapidly. The reasons that have broughtabout this unpredictable change, but one which has almost become a way of life, are the constantly changingcustomer demands, broader product ranges, shorter model lifetimes, production to order in arbitrary lot-sizes,and technological innovations. To be competitive and thrive in such a dynamic environment a manufacturingfirm must be capable of rapid adjustment in order to reduce the overall design-to-delivery time for customer-valued quality products. The necessity for swift recurrent changes has led to

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Thomas Johnson; Mike A. Littlejohn; Jr., Thomas H. Brown; Carl F. Zorowski

effective and productive contributors more rapidly and to improvethe quality, relevance and productivity of semi-conductor research conducted on university campuses. Theobjectives of the SRC Supplier CQI initiative are: (1) to teach CQI to science and engineering graduate students,(2) educate research faculty in CQI principles and practices, (3) have CQI applied in the conduct andperformance of semiconductor related research and (4) introduce CQI into the process of research and graduateeducation administration. These objectives parallel recommendations presented in the National Research Councilsponsored project report, “Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers” 2 . North Carolina State University (NCSU) has proposed to

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John H. Damell

, always give an introductory explanation in the text of the proposal andindicate the importance of the data. Locate the figure or table after it is introduced with a short explanation in thetext. Terminology should be consistent with only one type of information given in each table or graph. Eachfigure or table should be given a number with a title, i.e., Figure 1. Title, or Table 2. Title. Use consistentformat for placement of titles; titles maybe centered over tables and maybe left-justified or centered underfigures. Since many readers scan the titles before looking at the information in tables or figures, be sure the titleboth identifies and explains the figure or table. Literature Cited and References Include appropriate

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John H. Damell

, always give an introductory explanation in the text of the proposal andindicate the importance of the data. Locate the figure or table after it is introduced with a short explanation in thetext. Terminology should be consistent with only one type of information given in each table or graph. Eachfigure or table should be given a number with a title, i.e., Figure 1. Title, or Table 2. Title. Use consistentformat for placement of titles; titles maybe centered over tables and maybe left-justified or centered underfigures. Since many readers scan the titles before looking at the information in tables or figures, be sure the titleboth identifies and explains the figure or table. Literature Cited and References Include appropriate

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

disciplines. We envision the following areas of application:1. Purely analytical results obtained from solving, for example, Navier-Stokes equations will yield an expression that may be verified by a simple experiment (a “kitchen sink” experiment — one that could be done at home with a minimum of hardware).2. Dimensional reasoning will yield a group of dimensionless numbers, but it often will not be clear how these quantities should be combined in a way that makes sense physically. Again, simple experiments can guide combining dimensionless groups so that physically meaningful relationships between complex quantities are obtained.3. Numerical results can be especially convincing when intriguing visualizations of processes are

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Julie M. Stocker; Edmund P. Russell III

1 Session 1661 Hands-On Ethics: Experiences with Cases in the Classroom Edmund P. Russell III, Julie M. Stocker University of Virginia This paper describes classroom experiences using two ethics cases (A.C. Rich and DesignTex) developedby Michael German and his team.1 Edmund Russell describes why he uses case studies in general and how he hasused these two cases in particular.z Julie Stocker describes the

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Christopher G. Braun

chemical processing to materials fatiguetesting to PWM motor control. In many instances, however, the students and faculty areforced to make do with a limited number of laboratory stations and time. This constrictsprojects to be narrow, focused and often simplistic in order to finish in the allotted time. [1] An alternative approach has been discussed by Hagler to give the students thetools so that they can do "hardware homework." This allows the students to do some oftheir laboratory work outside of the laboratory class. There are several significantbenefits from this approach. These include: • Giving the students a higher level of understanding • Allowing the

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R. Boyd; P. Dutta; K. Pugsley; J.T. Demel; Audeen W. Fentiman

students who were calculus-ready when they enteredOhio State in the fall of 1994, took the design course in Spring Quarter 1995 (their third quarter). The othergroup, students who were not calculus-ready when they entered Ohio State, took an additional quarter of mathand physics courses before they began the design course in Autumn Quarter 1995 (their fourth quarter).In the design class, teams of four or five students are required to build and program a robot to negotiate a 4 ft x9 ft course with a hill in it, picking up blocks placed at prescribed locations and carrying them into the finisharea. Figure 1 is a diagram of the course. Points are awarded for each block brought to the finish area. Teamscan earn extra points by transferring blocks to

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Yan Zhu; Youlu Zheng

. Asoftware router and a gateway are installed to interconnect the three LANs.1. Topology, Protocols, and Hardware Configuration When designing a LAN, before connecting all computers and related resources together, it must first bedetermined how they are connected, what kind of network protocols and network operating system are used tocontrol the network, and which networking services to be offered. The model network runs both TCP/IP andNetWare on its subnetworks. NetWare is an easy choice for a typical client-server model. Novell's NetWare running IPX protocol isone of the most widely used local area network (LAN) software in the business world. It uses client-serverarchitecture based on PC and Unix clients requesting services from a

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P.E., Dr. M. David Burghardt

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Latif M. Jiji; Benjamin Liaw; Feridun Delale

modeling.Experience with home experiment assignments at the City College has demonstrated their utility as an effective learningtool. In general students enjoy doing the experiments and view them as a welcomed departure from traditionalassignments.I. Introduction and Previous Studies The idea of performing hands-on experiments using simple, inexpensive and readily available supplies has long beenadopted extensively in high school and college science courses [1-5]. The practice usually involves a careful coordinationof experiments with theoretical pficiples central in the course. Its main goal is to addms the important question: “Howto simplify, approximate and model a complicated, physical phenomenon into a theory and what is the error induced

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Russell J. Deaton; Michael J. Bartz

approval of the departmental honors committee.Honors in electrical engineering requires 15 hours of upper division honors courses, of which 12 hoursmust be upper division electrical engineering courses and must include Honors Research Studies (ELEC4998) and Honors Thesis (ELEC 4999). The Honors credits substitute for 15 of the 52 required upperdivision technical hours in our curriculum. Those students who complete the program and the regularB.S.E.E. requirements will be recognized at the commencement ceremony by having their degree conferred“With Honors in Electrical Engineering.” Moreover, the student’s diploma and record at The Universityof Memphis will reflect this accomplishment. The requirements are enumerated below: 1. Required Courses: 6

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

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Sarah Weaver; Mark Strauss; Jenna Caldwell

identified that contribute to thisunderrepresentation. These include: 1) Lack of role models for students with disabilities, 2) High schoolteachers’ inadequate knowledge of accommodations readily available at the college level; 3) Poor to little highschool to college transition planning for students with disabilities; and 4) univers~y faculty;s lack ofexperience in recruiting of and providing accommodations to students with disabilities. Introduction In the 1960’s and 1970’s federal legislation was enacted that drastically changed the educationalopportunities for children with disabilities. Prior to this, it was common for children with disabilities to begrouped together in segregated

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Paul J. Antaki

1 .—+. Session 0030 How To Create Interest In Technical Presentations Paul J. Antaki Antaki & Associates, Inc. 1. Importance of Creating Interest Technical presentations play an important role in our careers as engineers and scientists, and ineducating students for these careers. For example, delivering successful conference presentationsgains recognition for our work

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1996 Annual Conference

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Blanca Jimenez Cisneros

such as agriculture andmunicipal development. Table 1 shows the environmental areas that have a need of specialized personnel Page 1.240.1accordingly to the type of economical activities, which of course are distributed all along our country. Figure @x&: } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘J3#;:1 shows the pollution problems in Mexico as well as their location in the country. RESEARCH Environmental engineering reasearch activities in Mexico have been developed in a ratherdisorganized manner, in which each group

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Pau-Chang Lu

SESSION 3266A Hybrid Conceptual/Symbolic/NumericalCourse of Mechanical Engineering Analysis Pau-Chang Lu University of Nebraska-Lincoln Introduction As an important part oft he recently re-vitalized Mechanical Engineering Chu-riculurnat the IJniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, the traditional computational course (using 130 R,-TRAN exclusively) for mechanical engineering juniors is replaced by a new one of ME-CHANICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS. This new course is updated (and upgraded)from the old in two ways: (1) ~omputerizecl symbolic rnanipulat ion (using MAPLE or thelike) is incorporated, complementing