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Mariesa L. Crow; Kirk H. Schulz; James L. Drewniak; Noel Schulz

the dual career search. A summary of these results follows.Written CommentsFirst, many universities publicize that they are attentive to the needs of “dual career” couples, or have“informal” dual career programs. Respondents felt that most of these programs had little or no significantfinancial or faculty support. Three universities were reported to have formalized dual career plans in place(Pennsylvania State University, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). Nebraska’sprogram is very formalized [7], and has a permanent staff which works to see that resources are given to aid aspouse if a faculty position is not immediately available. Second, the internal communication structure inmany universities was reported to

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John K. Estell

was the first “real” program that they have worked on - Page 1.37.5 {hx~~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘?+,~yy’: .“real” in the sense that they were working in a group environment on a program that actually “did something”.Students learned the importance of planning out of necessity, as they had to agree on how they as a group weregoing to implement the project before coding. The size of the project forced them to develop modularprogramming skills so that work could be performed by all team members

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George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

sure toclearly communicate to the students what is expected for each assignment. Interestingly enough, having toclearly delineate what should be graded and how for each assignment in the team-taught-class improved thestyle of communicating expectations in the other courses that each professor taught. Even though project due dates were worked out in advance, technical difficulties as well as students’requests for changes caused the best laid plans to go astray. Flexibility is key in any learning experience andmaintaining that flexibility in two classes with two teachers is relatively complex. An important lesson learnedfrom this teaching experience is to have project due dates worked out in advance and make no changes tothose due dates

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Dan Budny

for final action. The University Committee typicallyconsists of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the dean of the Graduate School, the academicschool deans, and tenured faculty members nominated by the University Senate.Your Game Plan The above requirements and procedures are intended to guide all academic units of the university.Implementation of the requirements is assured through review by successive committees. The committeemembers respond to each tenure or promotion nomination as individuals, interpreting achievements described inthe nominating documents in the light of standards appropriate for the nominee’s discipline and the stature andaspiration of the university. Let’s summarize; assume that the

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Dayakar Penumadu

device and essentially any stress path can besimulated through the data acquisition and control software. The primary objective of the laboratory exercisesis to show the relevance of the various laboratory strength tests with actual field conditions using the same testingdevice and in the process explain the concepts related to electronic data acquisition and control. The significantadvantage is that the same device can be used to illustrate the drained and undrained stress-strain characteristicsof both isotropic and ~ consolidated soil samples. The samples can be sheared under a predefined stress pathand the observed pore pressure behavior (for undrained testing) can be compared. In line with the ongoingresearch trends, the plan is to device

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Steven Wayde; Ph.D., Roger W. Webster

. AsKawalski in [6] notes "the three major components to a virtual environment are the visual, auditory, andhaptic/kinesthetic environments. Each adds to the synthetic sensory experience that may one daypresent an interface to the human sensory system that is very close or indistinguishable from the realphysical world." Thus, the auditory component of a virtual experience can increase the illusion andfeeling of reality. The students in this virtual backhoe project taped the sounds of a real backhoe,digitized them, and used the audio in the software. Thus the user, while operating the backhoe, hears thesounds of an actual backhoe in the headphones. Well timed audio effects can enhance the virtualexperience.It is planned to have Physics students working

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T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

PRIDE will maximize the likelihood of inclusion at various levels into different typesof curriculums. Finally, PRIDE presents a general curricular structure useful to many areas of researchand education.References 1. Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, “Optoelectronics Technology Road Map: Con- elusions and Recommendations,” (1994). 2. National Research Council, “Photonics: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Information Era,” Na- tional Academic Press, (1988). 3. Critical Technologies Plan, Report AD-A234 900, Department of Defense, submitted to Committee on Armed Services, US Congress, (1991). 4. Guide to Optics Courses and Programs in North American Colleges and Universities, published annually by

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Richard Ciocci

cleanliness of the surroundings, where their effects on theperformance and the reliability of the product are of primary concern. As important as the use environmentis to the performance of the product, the manufacture and the use of the product are important to the globalenvironment. All product and process materials come from and eventually return to the environment, suchthat the residual effects are critical to global well-being. The main drivers for environmental consideration activities can be divided into those that are internalto the organization and those that are external. Internal drivers are those that result from conscious businesspolicies, such as environmental stewardship, and from an employee- or community-oriented business plan

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William P. Darby; Nancy Shields; H. Richard Grodsky

theinstitute’s staff and were provided with an overview of the Access to Engineering Summer Institute’s scheduledescribing the activities planned for the eight-week summer session. A presentation describing the UM-St.Louis/Washington University Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program was also provided. The summer institute began on Monday, June 12, 1995, with all students attending an initial morningorientation meeting. As indicated previously, the students attended a mathematics class every morning. A totalof 25 students attended the precalculus class from 8:30 to 10:30 AM. The remaining 12 students attended thecalculus I course from 7:45 to 9:45 AM. Mathematics study sessions were held each day from 10:30 AM to12:30 PM. Two sections were

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Robert M. Edwards; Kwang Y. Lee

’.’ .INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED CONTROLS RESEARCH LABORATORY A major planned expenditure in the first year of the project was the expansion of the IDCRL to supportcourse instruction as well as provide enhanced research capability. The Unix network expansion was completedwith the addition of four Sun Spare Workstations. Mitchell and Gauthier’s Advanced Continuous SimulationLanguage (ACSL) and Mathworks Simulink/Matlab software were also installed in the Unix network. Acommercial-grade multifunction controller and PC computer were acquired to expand microprocessor-basedcontroller programming capability. The Simulink/Matlab software package was immediately used to support anestablished Nuclear Engineering (NucE) reactor control course, NUCE 505 in Spring

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William H. Tranter; Theodore S. Rappaport; Jeffrey H. Reed; Donna M. Krizman; Brian D. Woerner

experiments. Due to time limitations, not all experimentsmay be performed by each group. Information and experience about a particular experiment can be conveyedto other students through the design review meeting. Students who did not participate in the design will begiven the opportunity to critique the designs of those who did participate. Lab experiments planned include: ∗ Creation of a signal modulator using direct digital synthesis ∗ Design and implementation of a coherent demodulator ∗ Design and creation of a non-coherent demodulator ∗ Design and implementation of a symbol timing recovery system ∗ Design and implementation of a spread spectrum direct sequence synchronizer ∗ Implementation of an

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Richard Lundstrom; Jawaharlal Mariappan; K. Joel Berry

best work in each area. The idea of reinforcement isused to assist the teacher in facilitating the student to develop better and better work and to submit only theirbest. Our aim is to have this display of work include examples of quality work and were this level ofachievement has not been reached we encourage them to display and describe their progress toward this goaland a plan of attach to eventually achieve competency, even after they complete the course. We hope thiscontributes also to the student colleague’s interest in life long learning. They are encouraged to add areas asthey develop them. This usually occurs as they are working with their vehicle of choice.Readiness Report One common complaint that engineering educators have

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Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin

lesson by fresh study;(2) find in the lesson its analogies to more familiar facts and principles; (3) study the lesson until it takes shapein familiar language; (4) find the natural order of the several steps of the lesson; (5) find the relation of thelesson to the lives of the learners; (6) use freely all legitimate aids, but never rest until the real understanding isclearly before you; (7) bear in mind that complete mastery of a few things is better than an ineffectivesmattering of many; (8) have a definite time for the study of each lesson, in advance of the teaching; (9) have aplan of study, but do not hesitate, when necessary, to study beyond the plan. .. Ask what? How? Why? (10) Donot deny yourself the help of good books on the subject or

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

Lehigh University Lehigh University’s mission is to ‘Enhance learning, through the integration of teaching, research, and 5service to others. ‘ Over the past 18 years the CIM Lab has made a continuing effort to develop competentengineers through engineering technology programs and partnerships with regional industries and government.The CIM Lab is one example of the integration of academia, industry, and government. The CIM Lab is alaboratory affiliated with the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University and is operated through the IndustrialEngineering and Manufacturing Systems Department. The CIM Lab is practicing the virtual enterprise strategywith a planned structure

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Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; David P. Wilsey; Anthony J. Gadient

problems that are onlyidentified during the hardware/software and subsystem/system integration processes. System Requirements Def. 6-12 months Sys. Architecture Def. Optional Manufacturing HW Design SW Design Planning 25-49 months HW Manufacture & SW Code & Test