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Philip J. Morris; Martin L. Brady; Lyle N. Long; Ali Haghighat

cross-listing .wit~w Performance Computing. 400-level courses are senior level courses and the 500-leveldesignation denotes graduate courses.AERSP/HPCOM 497B, 597GThis course has been taught in a new technology classroom using the latest IBM RS/6000 UNIXworkstation and high quality projection equipment. The most recent offering of this course is in newUNIX based classroom established with support from IBM under the Selected University Research(SUR) program. The configuration of these classrooms is described below. A massively parallel CM-5(at NCSA) and a 62-node IBM SP2 (at Penn State) are integral parts of the course. Numerousprogramming

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Arup K. Mallik; Sanjiv Sarin

. Unfortunately, this course is not integrated withthe remainder of the curriculum. For instance, after taking this course, an EE or ME major rarely sees thetools employed in a sequel course within his major. This issue has been addressed by a multi-university project funded by the National ScienceFoundation [1]. Tasks accomplished by this coalition during the period 1991 - 1992 include thefollowing: (i) Integration of economic principles in a Thermosystems Design Analysis course, (ii)Development of a economic design simulator for estimating cost to manufacture for various thermalcomponents, (iii) Development of case studies focusing on economic principles in design, and (iv)Development of course materials for a course entitled Economics of

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Paul J. Antaki

. Further, “selling” the work to managers or customers often involves itspresentation. Here, I summarize an approach to help motivate an audience to attend, then listen to, apresentation. Developing this motivation is a key ingredient for a successful presentation, since the audience islikely to be less interested in its topic than the speaker. From a speaker’s perspective, for instance, his orher presentation is the most important one at a conference. To the audience, however, it’s just one ofmany. Also, audiences usually expect presentations to be boring descriptions of technical facts understoodonly by the “experts.” In the next several sections I show how to motivate audiences encountered in three commonscenarios: (i) project

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Ph.D., Lora S. Spangler; Ph.D., Kourosh Rahnamai; John P Farris Ph.D.; Ph.D., John Maleyeff

Session 1626 Implementation of an Integrated Manufacturing & Controls Laboratory Kourosh Rahnamai, Ph.D., John P. Farris, Ph.D., John Maleyeff, Ph.D./ Lora S. Spangler, Ph.D. Western New England College/ Monsanto CorporationAbstract This project will provide the means to initiate an integrated manufacturing and controls laboratory inthe School of Engineering at Western New England College. The laboratory will have a major impact onmanufacturing and control courses, and provide a means for developing an interdisciplinary senior laboratoryexercise. The objectives of the integrated laboratory are

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Jack Waintraub

to the partnership recognized leadership in engineering technology,engineering and technology education. Current and recent initiatives include strong Tech Prep Page 1.318.2curriculum projects with public and private secondary school. $ifi& ‘e.plyy } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings . NJCATE activities include: curriculum development, instructional materials development;student outreach and recruitment, retention and success of under represented populations;articulation - high school, associate

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Pui-Mun Lee; William G. Sullivan

Session 1639 Using Multimedia in an Engineering Economy Course Pui-Mun Lee, William G. Sullivan University of Southern Colorado/Virginia Tech ABSTRACT This paper describes the use of computer-based multimedia course material in an engineeringeconomy course taught at Virginia Tech. The interactive multimedia course material was developed over aperiod of two years and was used to support a National Science Foundation research project aimed atenhancing the undergraduate engineering curriculum through innovative

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Juan J. Salinas; Don Westwood

hasreceived favourable reviews by the students, several from many cities across Canada. Student feed-backindicates the need for a companion set of lecture notes. We are working on this and on a few other revisionsnecessary to update the technical material to comply with the 1995 version of the Canadian timber code.Introduction In 1994 the Canadian Wood Council (CWC) issued a “Request for Proposals” for the developmentof a television-based course on Wood Engineering Design. Three universities responded and Carleton wasassigned the project probably due to the fact that our Instructional TV department has many years of expe-rience in the production and delivery of TV courses of excellent quality. One of the authors, Don West-wood, has been doing

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Laura L. Lisiecki

degrees in manufacturing engineering. The new curriculum is not based on traditionalclassroom experiences, but on computer based instruction combined with experiential learning. Together with thesix coalition universities, the Center for Advanced Technologies (C.A.T. ) at Focus: HOPE in Detroit provides astate-of-the art manufacturing facility for student-candidates to gain engineering knowledge within the context ofan industrial environment. The C.A.T. provides both case studies and projects for the candidates to investigateduring the course of their education. The curriculum for these degrees was divided into several broad knowledgeareas, one of which was the engineering materials knowledge area. The engineering materials knowledge areawas

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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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Susan Anderson; Ray Chen; Meg Karakekes; Jim Moharam

Dual-use & End-to-end System Testing Industrial Technology Institute (Michigan) Optical Metrology and Durable Goods University of Connecticut Laser Materials Processing The University of Texas at Austin Semiconductor The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) (NAPEM is partially funded through a federal Technology Reinvestment Project grant.) Additionally, each regional program recruits a Curriculum Advisory Board. NAPEM unites thestrengths of a professional society, educators, engineering managers, engineers, and human resource personnelin designing, implementing, and evaluating experimental continuing education programs

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Brian A. Alenskis

challenging for a small staff that also processes admissions, registration,financial aid, purchase requisitions, budgets and adjunct contracts. Although Purdue University technology degrees have been available for over twenty-five years inRichmond, the programs have remained relatively unknown. Local high school graduates routinely overlooknearby higher education; often leaving the area to enroll in similar programs. Non-traditional and underpreparedstudents do not learn of the opportunities to succeed at Purdue’s technology site. To address this challenge, we devised a marketing project with three goals: ● Increase program awareness with high school students, parents, advisors, teachers, administrators and the community

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Gordon W. Couturier

V13NTANA’s 3GroupSystems and LOTUS Notes) to assist in the collaborative efforts of a systems analysis and designclass. In additio~ cooperative learning techniques were employed to encourage and enhance thecollaborative tools. In the following, the results of this endeavor are related along with problemsencountered on the way.CASWGROUPWARE APPLICATIONS: During the fall semester of 1995, the CASE tool and cooperativelearning techniques were used to successfidly analyze and model five team projects in a Systems Analysis &Design class of twenty students: 1. Student/advisor access @student records over school’s H This system would allow a student and/or advisor to sit down at a terminal connected to the university’s LAN

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Mohammad H. Ahmadian

systematically analyze,troubleshoot, or even design various circuits in an orderly and effective manner. Most electronics courses taught these days are organized around what is called lecture-and-lab structure.This structure typically uses lectures on subject matter and is supplemented by laboratory experience. Inaddition to familiarizing the students with the type of equipment that he or she will use in industry, theexperiments are also designed to verify or prove out the theoretical concepts discussed in the classroom. Veryoften this experimenting in the lab is the only hands-on experience the electronics students are likely to get.Students do not ordinarily build permanent, working prototype projects. If the laboratory experiments are

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

professional- quality design.4. It must include industrial linkages so that students will be exposed to the industrial world early in the curriculum.5. It must integrate principles of cooperative learning.6. It must include material of an interdisciplinary nature.7. It must be pedagogically sound. 1 This project is partially funded by FIPSE grant #Pl16A-50067 Page 1.24.1 ?$ihj 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,El#l,: ‘ 1

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Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Peggy Fussell; Manuel Aroz; EIT, Maria Reyes; Catherine R. Cosgrove; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

panels for a "Discussion of Engineering Majors" and a "Discussion of AppliedSciences Majors." Other sessions conducted during the week were: "Accessing the Internet and E-Mail,""Project Management for the Engineering and Applied Sciences Majors," "Time Management for theEngineering and Applied Sciences," "Cornell Notes for the Engineering and Applied Sciences Student," and"CEAS Student Leaders and Involvement." On Saturday two specialized workshops were held. An underrepresented minority student workshop,sponsored by the CEAS Office of Minority Engineering Programs, included returning students as well as thenewly admitted. The event used the assistance of members of the student minority engineering organizations.A workshop for newly

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

). As part of this initiative, CUA iscurrently funded by the National Science Foundation on a 4 year project called "The Connections Program".Through this program, the affiliated high schools have access to the computing facilities of the University. Thisincludes Internet access, use of CUA's scientific applications (e.g., math and science related applications such asMatlab and Mathematica), and on-line library catalog access. A crucial part of the project is multi-tieredtraining. An ethics statement and fair usage policy has been drafted to ensure that the provided resources willbe used in the appropriate fashion.I. Introduction Connecting our schools, colleges, and companies to the Information Superhighway may be the singlemost

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Pamela A. Hayward

presentation in an engineering course. Although the project that the student is presenting may be well-designed, pmr presentational skills can detract from his/her engineering expertise and hurt his/hercredibility in the course. The student is placed in a no-win situation. His/her project grade hinges onhis/her ability to make an effective oral presentation, however the student has been given no formalinstruction in the necessary skills. In an attempt to rectify this no-win situation for students in a senior-level electrical engineeringcourse at a Midwestern university, a team of instructors in the speech communication department wasapproached to develop a public speaking workshop. The challenge for this workshop team was to condensewhat would

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

facilitate articulation agreements with post secondary institutions. The ideal program should provide a seamless transition for students from high school to the university to industry. This paper describes interactive, hands-on activities involved in a model Tech Prep collaboration currently under way at the Purdue University Programs Site in Anderson. The program began in the Fall of 1994 with twenty-two freshman students visiting the campus hi-monthly to participate in technology related activities. This fall it will continue with these twenty-two students as sophomores and thirty-seven entering freshmen. The methodology of Purdue’s participation is presented and evaluated. Specific student technology projects that

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Mohamad Qatu; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

teaching method of instruction. Thispaper discusses the rationale for team teaching and presents three models based on current team-taughtcourses at Lake Superior State University. The discussion then contrasts the effectiveness of the team-teaching method in each model. The authors conclude that team teaching requires additional coordinationand communication between faculty that is time consuming, but that team taught courses are rewarding forboth the students and the faculty. Introduction The recent development of courses that integrate a number of disciplines and project-based courseshas created a need to use the special skills of multiple instructors. This need for multiple instructors

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R. Bryan Greenway; Qiyi G. Zhang

, thechallenge of OACS and basic concepts of an OACS as well as its development and perspectives are discussed.In Section three, the research work on OAS conducted at the KU CIM lab are summarized. Projects thatinvolve using of OACS in engineering education are introduced in Section four. Finally, Section five gives thediscussion and conclusion. Page 1.497.1 \... jyc,,

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Robert Pfeffer; Rajesh N. Dave; Jonathan Luke; Ian S. Fischer; Anthony D. Rosato

additionalcourse (“Image Analysis Applications in Particle Technology”) also given in Fall 1995, specifically created tofamiliarize graduate students with some of the special experimental facilities and analytical tools available in thePTC. An upper-level graduate course, entitled “Special Topics in Applied Mathematics: Particle Technology,”and offered in the summer 1995 through the Mathematics Department is also described. This course, althoughnot specifically a part of the CRCD project, contributed to the implementation of the program through thedevelopment of course materials in modeling fluid-particle flows at low Reynolds numbers.Introduction Particle technology is concerned with the characterization, production, modification, flow, handling

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Ph.D., Albert B. (Bill) Grubbs Jr.; Antony Anthony

Session 3548 Implementing PLD Technology in An Introductory Digital Logic Course by Albert B. (Bill) Grubbs Jr., Ph.D. and Antony Anthony Department of Engineering Technology University of North Texas Denton, TexasIntroductionThis paper describes a project accomplished in a partnership between the Department of Engineering Technology(ETEC) at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, Texas and Altera Corporation in

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W. Max Lucas

outlining the courserequirements and setting a series of oral and written progress reports established to monitor thedevelopment of the students throughout the semester. The project assigned was the analysis anddesign, both architectural and structural, of a high volume, large span structure of the student’s choice.Projects included sports arenas, transportation terminals and museundexhibition halls. Students weretold that the object of the course was to develop an understanding of the particular problems associatedwith large structures and to reinforce the concept that structural systems can, in themselves, establishthe architectural and esthetic design of a building. At the beginning of the semester, a series of lectures was presented

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S. P. Carullo; R. Fischl; C. O. Nwankpa

Session 1626 Integrating a Power Systems Laboratory into a Client/Server Based Computing Environment S. P. Carullo, C. O. Nwankpa, and R. Fischl Drexel University1. AbstractThe primary goal of the project is to develop a set of experiments which will allow students to examinepower systems in a realistic manner. Drexel University’s Interconnected Power Systems L.uboratory(ZPSL) provides an interchangeable real-life power system network and a computer interface to the systemin order to provide control and data capturing. The computer interface utilizes clientherver and

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Richard J. Jardine

tothe discrete set of sometimes disjoint or redundant courses offered at many universities. This paper describes an interdisciplinary effort involving an engineering department and themathematics department at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. What makes thisactivity special is the cooperation between departments in the development of the mathematics course, asituation which is in contrast to the more common practice of engineering departments developing their ownmathematics courses. The focus of the interdisciplinary effort described here is on the development of thecontent of the mathematics course and the use of a project to tie the two courses together. In addition toaddressing those two subjects, this paper

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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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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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David Gordon Wilson

program, necessarily one ofrestricted scope, has been limited by the technology available. The advent of CD-ROMs promises the firstopportunity of testing the effectiveness of multimedia instruction because most of the restrictions on use byinstructors and students are eliminated. The contents of the present MIT multimedia program are brieflydescribed. Questions on how the technology might be developed and used are posed and discussed.BACKGROUND The purpose of EDICS (Engineering-Design instructional Computer System) is to improve the prepara-tion of students to tackle design projects. Today’s incoming students are mostly not people who have grownupmending cars and working in machine shops, as was the case twenty-five years ago. My design

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

engineering has occupied a prestigious position. The distribution ofwater resources throughout the country and the increasing urbanization process that took place during the lastthree decades required the construction of reservoirs, hydroelectric projects, water distribution networks,irrigation systems and other hydraulic systems. Some of these, such as the Itaipu project -- the greatesthydropower project in the world -- became well-known worldwide. During the decade of the seventies this process of developing infrastructure reached its peak, mainly dueto international financial credit which was readily available at that time. Since then a progressively distinctscenario has been taking place. As a result, the more modest recruitment of young

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William E. Barnes; Michael Khader

simultaneously. Electrical engineering technology courses, engineering courses,computer science and technical writing course are all delivered over this system. In addition, studentsfrom three other universities are using the same system for a manufacturing project collaboration withNJIT students.THE CLASSROOMS Multimedia cotierencing is the back bone of this system and includes video, audio, and a datachannel for computer visuals. Equipment at both locations feature the similar capabilities and thus classescan originate from either location. This flexibility maintains the physical face to face interaction, if Page 1.114.1