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Merl Baker

engineering management Ph.D.s only, but more broadly a redirection of the macroprocess for dl technical/scientific curricuki/programs to provide options and diversity. Flexibility for all Ph.D programs,even beyond science and engineering, can enable the selective inclusion of a diversity of courses and practices, and ifstrategically planned substitutions will not erode traditional quality. A Practice-Oriented Alternative The Ph..D. in engineering management offered by a few universities is one approach to a practice-oriented Ph.D,and the number of graduates from these programs should be expanded to meet some of the future needs of employers.However, much broader objectives are deemed most

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Arvind Ramanathan

properties,techniques of biomaterials sterilization.Enrollment 28 junior and senior students were enrolled in the class. Considering the size of HMC (60-70engineering graduates each year) this is a fairly large number. While most of the students were engineeringmajors, there was representation from biology, chemistry, and physics majors as well. In a survey taken at thebeginning of the course, students’ plans after graduating included graduate school in BME, medical school,industry, entrepreneurial ventures, and consulting setups. Areas of interest included the entire gamut ofresearch and development in the field ranging from medical instruments, and physiological systems analysis, tobiomechanics, and biomaterials.Table 1

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James Rehg

@a-’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,~lll:’: . ● New production systems include a high degree of distributed control and information integration], The regional and national trend in manufacturing is to link the production machines in manufacturing cellsand to integrate cells into production systems. The integration fi-equently includes hardware and software tomake production and product quality tiormation available to the design and production planning departments ona near real-time basis. These changes are driven by a need to become more competitive in the global market; as aresult, the move toward integration in manufacturing

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Saeed B. Niku

. Although this has not yet been implemented, we plan to incorporate it next year. ?@x&~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘+I14,: . 7Dissection of a Video Camera: So far, a VHS video camera has been dissected for observation by students. At this point it appears thatit would not be feasible to have students dissect a camera on their own and re-assemble it back. This is becausecameras are very complicated and re-assembling them takes much effort, and that cameras are very expensive.Alternately, the dissected

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Ms. Carol Cummiskey; Dr. Harris Rawicz

verified and a meansof reducing the payload testing became self evident. In the process of performing her engineering task, the student learned that engineering courses were onlypart of her education. She recognized that liberal arts courses are also important. It was necessary to obtain thecooperation of people in other organizations within ITT. She was not just dealing with engineers, she wasdealing with technicians from quality assurance, integration and test, information management, andmanufacturing. Without their cooperation, she could not have accomplished her task. Obtaining approval of test plans required written procedures, as well as oral presentations both to theaffected personnel and to the intern’s immediate supervision

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Fred M. Young

calculator supplied by theinstructor (available from ASME over Internet at ftp://192.217.237.100/pub/fluid/compflow.zip). Plans arecurrently being developed to equip a lab with Mathcad so that students can receive "live" electronic copies ofcourse notes, particularly all of the flow functions. This would extend many of the advantages offered theinstructor in preparing class materials to students in doing homework and taking tests, i.e. numerical, unit andsymbolic calculation capability integrated into a self documenting work environment. At the end of the semester all of the course notes and quizzes were integrated into a Mathcad electronicbook for the students to use in the future as a review of the course material as it is needed in

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K.A. Korzeniowski

. VII. Bibliography1. Cavicchi, T. J., Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1993.2. Rizzoni, G., Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, Irwin Publishers, 1993.3. Wolf, S. and R.F.M. Smith, Student Reference Manual: for Electronic Instrumentation Laboratories, PrenticeHall, Inc. 1990.4. Wobschall, D., Circuit Design for Electronic Instrumentation: Analog and Digital Devices from Sensor toDisplay, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1987.5. Dally, J. W., W.F. Riley and K.G. McConnell, Instrumentation for Engineering Measurements, SecondEdition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1993.6. Love, S. F., Planning and Creating Successful Engineering Designs: Managing the Design Process

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Sheila C. Palmer; Pamela M. Norris

intern responsibilities would prevent this from occurring.• Several participants suggested that the program should be made available to a larger number of doctoral students. This has been partially addressed in that the School of Mechanical Engineering now requires all Ph.D. students to take a Teaching Practicum course for two quarters. This course requires the student to select a faculty mentor who helps them prepare two or three lectures. The mentor then attends the class lectures and offers constructive criticism. The student also assists their mentor with course planning and a small amount of grading. This course is designed to be a teaching apprenticeship.• The requirement that participants in the program interact with

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

: .construction engineers to have a more scientific background and to be qualified in a shorter time. With suchrapid technological advances currently characterizing the construction industry, adequate classroomsubstitutions for field experience are increasingly necessary. As an example, in an earlier course term project of courses, such as the Construction Methods andEquipment, students assume the role of a construction engineer responsible for a construction project, such asa deep foundation construction for a high-rise building; a cofferdam installation for a bridge foundation; anderection of a concrete or steel building/bridge. Students selecting the erection of a bridge construction projectare given the plan drawings and specifications of the

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Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

Page 1.298.3 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings2.2 Course Development The course (and the other new courses developed by MEEP) was developed by an innovative, fourpart process designed to take maximum advantage of the strengths and diversity of each school.1) Planning - coordinators from each school agree on overall course objectives and content and how that course fits into the balance of the curriculum2) Piloting - one school takes the lead role in developing the course specifics and offering it on a trial basis3) Publication - The piloting school makes all course materials available in electronic format for use by other schools in the partnership.4) Deployment - The remaining schools

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Professor Michael J. Rabins; Jr., Professor C. Edwin Harris; Jeremy E. Hanzlik

presentation. “Numerical Problems for Gilbane Gold” provides numerical problems as a companion to the GilbaneGold video. Z-Corp, a fictitious company, is discharging lead and other heavy metals as a by-product ofcomputer chip manufacturing. The company anticipates a major expansion which will increase total leadoutput. To remain in compliance with local ordinances, the company plans to dilute the more concentrateddischarge with water. As the story unfolds, David Jackson, a young environmental engineer, realizes that thediluted lead will be absorbed by the city’s sewage sludge and ultimately end up on farmers’ fields as fertilizer.This places quite a burden on David, and in the end, he becomes a whistleblower which will likely lead todisastrous

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Randy L. Haupt; Gregory J. Toussaint; Daniel J. Pack

. Page 1.417.10 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Figure 7: Plot of two variable function versus fitness. Fitness is encoded in color with lighter colors representing higher fitness. We plan to improve the graphical user interface and the underlying genetic algorithm program toenhance its value as a teaching tool and to improve its effectiveness for research. One of the firstimprovements will be to optimize the MATLAB code for efficiency and speed. We can always move to a morepowerful computational platform, but we would like the program to be as efficient and elegant as possible. A simple improvement would be to add a significant amount of error

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

syllabus, which is very ambitious, makes the taskof delivery of education very difficult and thus creates a challenge for which we are preparing ourselves and ourgraduate students, who will, in turn, help the students in the physical and computer laboratories. The difficultiesarise due to the fact that we plan to use equipment and software which are not routinely used in the currentengineering curriculum. These include not only state-of-the-art particle instrumentation for characterization,mixing and flow property measurement, but also image analysis and video animation equipment. We must alsoteach the students the use of associated software. The current curriculum does not have the infrastructure toaccommodate this, and our challenge is to

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Raymond B. Landis

their own initiative. The list might include: • Go on field trips to industry. • Talk to industry representatives at career day programs. • Brouse the resource library in the career planning and placement center. • Join the professional engineering society corresponding to their major. • Read biographies of successful engineers. • Get an engineering-related summer job. • Read an Introduction to Engineering text. • Pick a product (e.g., bicycle, car alarm, microwave oven) and research what role engineers play in its production. • Interview a practicing engineer. • Search the Internet for information on specific engineering disciplines. • Write to an engineering society (IEEE, ASME, etc

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Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

1.95.2 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings nuary February March April May ID Task Name 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 16 Project #2 2nd Semester 17 Project #2 development plan 18 Project #2 design review 19 Project #2 functional testing 20 Project #2 working prototype 21 Project #2 formal presentation 22 Project #2 final report 23 Project #2 documentation

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John Y. Hung; Carlee A. Bishop

situation. . . Thus a new case method of teaching wasborn, quietly, over time and in some measure without the faculty’s full appreciation of the magnitude andmagnificence of the change3.” Because of its roots in the Harvard Business School, case methodology has been primarily used in theareas of business and management. There has also been considerable use of this method in law schools becauseof its basis at the Harvard Law School. The next most frequent use of the case method is in the study andresearch of social sciences to include psychology, sociology, political science, social work, planning, andeconomics4. There are a number of books and articles proposing the use of cases in engineering, for exampleVesper’s book on Engineering Case

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Timothy Cameron; David W. Russell

created and three more are planned as a cooperativeeffort between Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics. The instructional laboratory used in thecourses has been made possible with grants from the National Science Foundation and industry. Eight laboratory exercises have been developed for the senior-level course “Acoustics, Noiseand Vibration” to introduce students to the theory and application of important concepts in soundand vibration. These exercises introduce students to the concepts and equipment involved with soundradiation, frequency analysis, sound pressure and intensity measurements, sound absorption, roomacoustics and reverberation time, acoustic filters and mufflers, and structural vibration. In another lpaper we

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Alan K. Karplus

sticks were used due to legal pad availability.Sample GluingThe task of placing glue on the beams is significant. Select and use the same glue for all series needing glue. Agood approach is to use Elmer’s Glue All and a small brush to quickly lay a bead of glue which is spread with thebrus~ and if three craft sticks are to be joined, place glue on two craft sticks and place them together, rub themabout and realign the sticks as one beam and place the composite beam into the clamp. Next apply the clamp forceas soon as possible. Be sure to check alignment after clamping to be assured that all members are parallel. Makeupthe series of beams you plan to evaluate, select the materials needed to build theq and build them being sure tokeep notes along

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Julie Sandberg; Christine L. Collier; Chell Roberts; Lawrence Genalo

level. This Web page can be found at: http: //wvw.public.iastate. edu/-pwse_itio/effects. htrnl .Conclusions The 1995 Summer Intern Project was a great success. The students involved workedindependently and created well researched, interesting, multimedia web documents, These have beenpermanently placed on an Iowa State web server. The success of this prototype program has lead us toconclude that the effort should be expanded. The extension to other fields and topics in science andengineering is being planned. Funds are being sought to bring 20 more high school students to thisprogram and to test the modules with the targeted audience.Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank the Program for Women in Science and

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M. Dayne Aldridge

would help develop the multi-disciplinary nature of each team's work.However, it gradually became apparent during the project that this strategy confused the students more that ithelped. The students wanted the faculty to provide specific guidance on how to complete the project, whereasthe faculty was encouraging the students to make decisions on their own. For example, the students were notgiven specific formats for their presentations or written reports. Rather, the faculty noted that they shouldrecognize that they are attempting to "sell their design" and they should plan their presentation and reportaccordingly. The students found this freedom frustrating. An attempt to offer the same course to a group of sophomores two quarters

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S.v. Babu; S.M. Ross; I.I. Suni; D.H. Rasmussen

LAN. One student suggested that these solutions could beincorporated into the software, now feasible since the most recent Toolbook Version 4.0 can accept files directlyfrom standard word processors. Another suggestion was to include a glossary at the end of the text. One studentsuggested that more real-life engineering examples would be more motivational. Future plans include more detailed assessment of the prototype. The results of the first assessment indicatedthat different students reacted to the courseware differently and the causes for these differences need to beascertained. We have decided to pre-test the next sample of students who will assess the prototype. Specifically,the students will be pre-tested in three areas that

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Rosida Coowar

Arrays, Reconfigurable Logic for Rapid Prototyping and Implementation of Digital Systems”, John Wiley and Sons, 19956. Altera Data Book, 1994 .7. Actel Data Book, 19948. Pak K. Chan and Samira Mourad, “Digital Design Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays”, Prentice Hall, 1994 ,APPENDIX ACOURSE: CET 4138C - DIGITAL PROGRAMMABLE DEVICESPREREQUISITE: CET 3198C DIGITAL SYSTEMSGRADING PLAN: Exams - 40?40 Lab Assignments - 30?40 Final Project - 30%COURSE DESCRIPTIONThis course exposes the students to the various programmable devices that are commercially available. It

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Kristin A. Young; Masoud Rais-Rohani

began in the Summer of 1995, and the students taking the course in the Fall1995 semester began to make use of the beta version of the tool. The work on the first phase has beencompleted. The remaining two phases are planned to be carried out in the future. Summary of the course anddetails of phase 1 are discussed next. Course Description The Aerospace Structural Analysis II is a course students in the Department of Aerospace Engineering atMississippi State University take in the first semester of their senior year with the first author as the instructor.It is the second in a sequence of three aerospace structural analysis and design courses students have to take inthe last two years of their

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Scott R. Short

difficult. Theft and laboratories go hand-in-hand. Moreover, it is very difficult tocontrol theft in an academic setting unless you severely limit access to the laboratory, maintain continuoussupervision, and use a very strict method of inventory control, such as requiring students to exchange theirdriver’s licenses for tools they may wish to borrow, for example. At Northwestern University, waste isminimized by requiring the students to purchase their laboratory supplies from a university-run laboratorystore. However, Northwestern University employs a full-time staff member to supervise their laboratory. AtNIU, we currently do not have the funds needed to hire a full-time laboratory supervisor. Therefore, at thistime, our plan is to limit the hours

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L. F. Borjón; F. Martín del Campo

establishes basic requirements for each course but thelecturer is free on the way he teaches and other topics that could be included. This way new interesting topicsare continuously inserted in the curricula. This process is supervised and evaluated by a program coordinator inorder to control the overall quality of the engineering degree. 2) Hands-on experience: This is one of the main concerns of the engineering programs and is enforcedby means of laboratories, workshops, demonstrations, and work field experiences among others. The academicdepartments have operational and development plans to guarantee that the student obtains an experience thatwill be significant and useful when he/she works. 3) Lecturers evaluation: Students fill out

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Joan A. Burtner; Benjamin S. Kelley; Allen F. Grum

.— ..-. . CONCLUSION The AIMS program and AIMS chemistry course did impact the persistence of students in the School ofEngineering and their success in the first chemistry course. Nevertheless, we hoped that the impact would begreater and longer lasting. Both the declining enthusiasm of the students and a judgment that the modestimprovement in student performance may not be worth the large expenditure of limited human resources led tothe cessation of the program after the Fall 94 Quarter. Mercer University will convert from the quarter system to the semester system in the Fall of 1997, andthe School of Engineering is using the change in academic calendar as an opportunity to implement a modernand integrated engineering curriculum. We plan to

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Z. T. Bieniawski

? The two most important developed countries, the USA and Japan, clearly have quite diffenmt educationalphilosophies and curriculum changes planned for 21st century engineers xtflect cultural differences and societalneeds in the two countries. One curriculum model will not serve all developed countries, even the Europeancommunity cannot agree on one, but for a changing worl~ good education is the best preparation for being ableto adapt. An education that emphasizes general problem solving skills and life-long learning ability will beimportant and as the economy shifts, people and societies who rue appropriately educated will do best. The United States has taken more definite steps toward a concept of world-class education of engineers in

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

powersystem consists of the interconnection of components (such as generators, motors, transformers) that thestudents have learned in previous courses; (ii) It can be easily reconfigured to a two bus, three bus, etc.power system; (iii) It is inexpensive since it uses components readily available in the lab.—It has been planned to implement several experiments on the IPSL system. These experiments include: (i)Fault Analysis; (ii) Load Flow Analysis; (iii) Power System Stability; (iv) Economic Dispatch; and finally(v) Motor Drive Studies. Page 1.261.2 @x&, ) 1996 ASEE

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

engineeringresearch results, through which complex wind-structure problems could be presented in a simplified form.These instructional aids will be integrated into different courses offered in the above mentioned departments,both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This integration will help to reinforce the present curriculum andwill create a stronger educational program in engineering, architecture, and atmospheric science at variousuniversities. The primary thrust will be to upgrade the undergraduate curriculum, first at Texas Tech Universityand then at other universities. However, some modules are designed for use in a few introductory graduatecourses as well. The following is a partial list of generic courses where the modules are planned to be

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Kim J. Manner

case. In the last 8 years a new generationof dimensionally-driven, feature-based modeling packages have entered the marketplace. The tools of design have changed and we aseducators must provide some level of instruction in their use. The challenge becomes to include such information in a formatappropriate to a four year engineering program. This paper will discuss techniques for accomplishing this goal and provide suggestionsfor other institutions which plan to integrate such software into their curriculum. A relatively new course offering within the Universityof Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Mechanical Engineering will be used as a model.Introduction Prior to the advancements made in computer technology (both hardware and