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W. Bernard Carlson; Karin Peterson

their descriptions, we lecture on the invention of clocks in late Medieval Europe andon how contemporary engineers can analyze the clock timer mechanism in terms of forces and torques.’7$ Wecover the second lecture topic not because we expect first-year students to be able to perform this sort of dynamicanalysis but rather to help them link the clock project to what they are learning in their engineering courses.Students find it quite stimulating at this point to reflect on how Medieval craftsmen were able to invent clockmechanisms and to compare a craft understanding of clocks with the mathematical analysis of modern engineers.Having struggled to build their own clock, the students become quite interested in how inventors and engineerssolved

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John Y. Hung; Carlee A. Bishop

for exploration, laboratories and projectschanged to provide reinforcement to the lecture content, "sanitizing" problems if necessary to give the desiredemphasis on the theory. Technology advances such as the hand-held calculator, desktop computer, andcomputer graphics workstation are now used to speed calculations, improve presentations, and even automatethe teaching processes. These tools have become useful in the goal of presenting science more quickly and in amore interesting fashion. The practice of using computers in engineering curricula has even become arequirement of accreditation. Today, the most common engineering teaching method is the in-class lecture,supplemented by laboratories and projects. Curricula are often designed as a

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Kristin A. Young; Masoud Rais-Rohani

following address: http://www.ae.msstate.edu/-masoud/Teaching/SA2/Course.html. This paper discusses the objectives of this effort, the tool content anddevelopment procedure, and the potential of this approach in improving the way engineering courses are taught.The first and most important phase of this three-phase project has been implemented with the remaining twophases to be implemented in the future. The results of a written survey of students who used this tool for anentire semester are extremely positive, with all students expressing satisfaction with the way this tool hasenhanced their learning of the concepts taught in the course. Introduction The traditional method of instruction in

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Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

written document summarizing his interviews with students. All groups are provided withthe assessment plan and questionnaires so that they are informed regarding the goals of the program.questionnaires All students are required to complete questionnaires annually. Alumni are requested to completequestionnaires regarding the quality and quantity of their WVU educational experience about two years aftergraduation. A questionnaire is also provided for employers. Samples of questions contained in thequestionnaires are presented in Table 1.iMajors The Majors are design projects which students must complete individually and defend in front of atleast two faculty. They provide a unique assessment opportunity as well as an opportunity for

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Rick L. Homkes

separate mission from the School of Engineering. Itdemonstrates that grant seeking and pure research are no longer paramount to tenure in our school, even ifwriting and publishing are still required.Getting Started on the Paper Getting started on any paper is very much a personal matter of choice. The paper topic should first of allbe interesting, especially to the author. The author can report on some activity as either a researcher, apractitioner, or a teacher. For research topics, graduate school can be used as the best preparation. Interestsdeveloped in graduate school can carry forward to one’s professional life. This is especially true if you haveworked as a graduate assistant on a professor’s project. Continued cooperation, perhaps

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Corneliu Berbente

themselves training. On theother hand, young new people had to be formed and promoted.C. The cooperation with the Washington State University.On July 1991, a memorandum of understanding between WashingtonState University and “Politehnica” University of Bucharest becamethe inception of a large program funded by the Americangovernment through the United States Agency for InternationalDevelopment (USAID). The program objective was “to assist thePolitehnica University of Bucharest (PUB) and its cooperatinginstitutions in Romania to implement, institutionalize, expandand develop new programs in the areas of business management andbusiness counseling training, market economics education andrelated support programs”.The project had four inter-related goals

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William G. Sullivan; W. R. Callen; T. A. Weigel; S. M. Jeter; J. T. Luxhoj; Herman R Leep; Hamid R. Parsaei; Gerald J. Thuesen; C. S. Park; A. Koblasz

Polytechnic ABSTRACT This paper presents some of the results obtained from a four-year project conducted at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. For this project, four engineering science courseswere modified to include economic and design principles. The primary objective of this experiment was toinvestigate on how the integration of economic principles with design can effectively be used to teachengineering science courses in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Introduction In 1991. the National Science Foundation funded a multiyear project involving five universities. Theproject, entitled “The

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Tomasz Traczyk; Krzysztof Antoszkiewicz; Eugeniusz Toczylowski

project. The total cost of organizing and implementing the cost-effective enrollment information system ERES 1was relatively low. Its cost was considerably less than one percent of the budget of the Faculty. On theother hand, the benefits obtained from the increase of efficiency and flexibility of studies substantiallyoutperformed these costs. Important efficiency improvements follow from better timetabling, reduction of costs and/or increasedintake of students. These savings allowed us to finance the second phase of the project, the developmentof ERES 2, in which the additional new management information system modules are designed at thefaculty level. In the future, ERES 2 will be integrated with other modules at the university level

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Yan Zhu; Youlu Zheng

. Page 1.17.5 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings An independent software package ipfw is developed as a user interface to the packet-filter firewallsoftware. It allows users to specify what they want to do with each and every packet (datagram) coming to therouter. ipfw maintains two chains—forwarding and blocking. The two chains are used to tell the firewallwhen to block and when to forward a packet. Add, delete and list are the three used for blocking or forwarding.After ipfw parses a command, it sets the corresponding socket options and variables. Figure 3 is a flow chart of how ipfw works.6. Conclusion This project was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation through

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Subbarao Ivaturi; Joel Greenstein

will enable students to learn “How” to design. But fust, in order tolearn “How” to design, students must acquire a variety of knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes. Thus, totrain students in all these aspects, it is apparent that the need for effective design education is great. Further,without a direct design experience through projects or case studies, students cannot be expected to learn thecomplications of designing. Equally, without the knowledge of the “What’” and “Why’” of the various detailsin design, students cannot learn to be effective and efficient in the design process. A survey by Braham[’] of various employers shows that they require students who possess particularskills. Two of the many are the ability to work

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Sheryl A. Sorby; Beverly J. Baartmans

women are more likely than executive men to movein new and original directions“1. Since executive positions more often go to employees coming from thetechnical ranks, increasing the number of women who study engineering should also, over the long run, increasethe number of women executives in industry. The engineering profession and its image will be enhanced bygreater participation of women. It may become a more caring and balanced profession that considers the impact .of engineering designs and projects on society, the environment, and the health of individuals The abilities ofwomen cannot be ignored if this country is to solve its problems

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James Rehg; Bruce A. Muller

foradvanced CAD, CAD/CAM, CAE, instrumentation and control, automated manufacturing, materialsprocessing, machine shop and a project laboratory. Page 1.277.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings The initiation of the BSEMET program and the development of the ATC began with the industries theuniversity serves. These central Pennsylvania industries have experienced the following changes in theirmanufacturing operations.• New production systems include a high degree of distributed control and information integration1.• Distributed control of discrete processes using programmable logic

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James C. Watters

industrial experience and anindependent research project which results in a thesis. Table 1 presents the current curriculum for in-phasestudents. The five years are divided into three categories -- pre-engineering (PE), basic studies (BqS) andgraduate professional (GP). During the pre-engineering year, which is to some extent common for allengineering disciplines, the student completes general chemistry, basic calculus (analysis), English, mechanics(Physics I), FORTRAN programming, basic graphics and some of the humanities requirements. Uponcompletion of a minimum of 30 hours, which must include freshman chemistry and calculus, with a GPA of2.5 or better, a student may apply to the department. Thus, an on-phase student applies in the early summerof

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Pamela J. Neal; George W. P. York

also useful for students using the 68HC11 as part of the senior design project. Theyfind the portable lab unit is a convenient development platform so they can test the software and interfacesbefore programming a 68HC11 in the stand-alone mode. We will discuss the variety of topics we illustratewith hands-on exercises using the portable lab unit as well as the rationale behind choosing thismicroprocessor.INTRODUCTION At the Air Force Academy, the heart of our Computer Engineering Track is a 3-semester coursesequence which uses the Motorola 68HC11 as the processor of choice to teach assembly languageprogramming, microprocessor system design, and microprocessor interfacing skills. The development board,the 68HC11 EVB, is used extensively

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Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

improve the effectiveness of the program.” Criterion 8 (Outcomes Assessment Process) calls for an outcomes assessment process todemonstrate the outcomes that are most important to the goals of the institution and the program being , Page 1.326.1------- ?$!iii%’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,*,pyRc+: . Inmmmrmk E*amples of-outcomes assessment are student portfolios, including design project

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Michael E. German; Matthew M. Mehalik

environmental architect, to verify that ClimatexR was thebest option. McDonough’s evaluation startled Lyons. “Two key principles hit home really hard,” Susan Lyonssaid, “the idea that waste equals food and the idea of a cradle-to-cradle design, not a cradle-to-grave design.” Inother words according to McDonough, any fabric would have to either be put back into an organic cycle andcomposted or put back into a technical cycle, in which all the materials in it would be re-used. In either case,the key to the project would be getting the fabric mills to open up their manufacturing processes to inspectionby McDonough and Michael Braungart of the German EPEA, who were capable of doing the evaluations. Inaddition, the mills would have to examine the processes

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Richard West; Paul J. Laumakis

mathematical modeling, probability theory and the use of interdisciplinary,technology-based group projects in undergraduate mathematics courses.RICHARD D. WEST is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy. He is agraduate of West Point and has a MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado, along with aPh.D. in Math Education from New York University. His research interests are in assessment and measuringstudent growth. He is the Managing Director of the NSF-funded Project INTERMATH, which usesinterdisciplinary small-group projects to promote both pedagogical change and student growth. Page

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James Rehg

} 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.%,~yyc,:two years emphasize the design, prograrnming, optimization, and troubleshooting of control system at themachine and system level. The control course sequence, offered in the fourth year, includes EMET 410Automatic Control Systems (Design of Feedback Control Systems by Stefimi, Savant, Shahkq and Hostetter),EMET 430 Automatic Machine Control Technology (text selection not complete), and EMET 440Electromechanical Project Design (text selection not complete).Designing a Controls LaboratoryThe development of the automation and controls laboratory in the ATC presented a major design and .implementation challenge The facility would have to

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Ms. Carol Cummiskey; Dr. Harris Rawicz

they have. Not every engineer’s project in industry hasaccess to capital budget funds to purchase the ideal instrumentation for testing. In fact, hardly any projects do. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.79.4Engineers in the real world pull oscillators out of closets, just as students do. The engineers tinker with theinstrumentation until it works properly. Companies just do not have the capital budgets to buy the perfectequipment for every test that has to be performed, and neither do colleges nor universities. This tidbit gave thestudents the patience to work with the

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T. N. Jones; P. K. Allen; P. A. McCoog; J. P. Crosby

Session 1626 The Virtual Vision Lab:A Simulated/Real Environment for Interactive Education in Robot Vision * P. K. Allen, T. N. Jones, J. P. Crosby, P. A. McCoog Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, NY, NY 10027 Abstract The Virtual Vision Lab (VVL) is a project aimed at producing instructional lab modules for new and emerging techniques in robotic vision. VVL uses an integrated multi-media presentation format that allows the student to learn about robot vision techniques from textual sources

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M. Hailey; G. Garrison; E. Parkinson

development, how to better project and manage cost, schedule andperformance of a project, how to do strategic planning for the organization, and how to improvefunctional team building and interpersonal skills, motivation and entrepreneurship. Somemarkets may desire the degree to promote more broadened technical skills in areas such asstatistical and economic analysis, systems modelling and design of experiments. In some casesthe functioml area degree may need overall specialty courses, such as, logistics, human factors,expert systems or reliability that are being served by the engineering management program. ALL Engineers - Scientists Industry - Government Orgn’s

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Richard Magin; Margery Osborne; Bruce Bertram; Bruce Wheeler

software. Asynchronous learning technology is helpful incommunicating among instructors students and for coordination of group project work. The educationalgoal of the new course is to motivate further study in science and engineering, while making efficient use offaculty time.Introduction Introduction to Bioengineering: Focus on Medical Imaging is a new bioengineering course at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). It introduces an interdisciplinary field of science andtechnology to engineering and science students, as well as non-science, non-engineering majors. Since thecourse is being developed to satisfy the UIUC General Education Requirement in the area of science andtechnology, one of the course goals is greater

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Scott R. Short

undergraduate engineers are exposed to currentresearch they begin to understand that their undergraduate learning experiences are merely building blocksupon which much more in-depth learning is based. Exposure to actual research projects in the undergraduatecurriculum also serves to enhance the students’ curiosity about how their undergraduate course subject mattercan be used to solve other than “textbook” problems. This article describes how the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University is bringing current research into the undergraduatelaboratory to enhance its curriculum.Introduction Three required courses (MEE 212- Strength of Materials, MEE 330- Materials Science, and MEE331 - Manufacturing Processes) form the core

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Neal S. Widmer

pretty much like any other electronic circuit board (working ornot). The only thing they could see was the end result of outputs responding to inputs. This would be similarto my shop teacher demonstrating that by opening the throttle on a lawn mower and pushing it that cut grasscomes out the chute and then concluding that we understand how an internal combustion engine works. Thefallacy of this conclusion has become obvious to me as I watch students near graduation trying to apply amicroprocessor to their senior design project. Many of them simply don’t know (and maybe never did) how amicroprocessor works, They say, “That was a long time ago” and “I’ve slept since then, ” But 8th grade waslonger ago for me than they have lived and I still know

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Zhi Shi; Clarence Calder

athletic shoes.(2) An oscilloscope is used to capture the acceleration-time data and a PC is used to process the data. When used as a classroom or laboratory demonstration, orlaboratory/project assignment, this experiment illustrates the following to the student: 1. Determination of the impact force-time record using Newton’s law. 2. Evacuation of the displacement-time record by double integration of the acceleration and enforcing proper initial conditions. 3. Technique and advantages of smoothing the experimental data. 4. Convenience of spreadsheet software to process and analyze the raw data, and to plot the results. 5. The energy absorbing and loading-rate effects of using a material such as foam.Test Apparatus and Procedure

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Wieslaw Grebski; Marlene Guers; Maryam Ghorieshi

, andmathematics to 10th and 1lth grade female and minority students. The goal of the program was to create aninteractive environment which allowed the high school students to participate in hands-on activities relatedto engineering, engineering technology and mathematics. The objective of these activities was to increaseself-esteem of the participants through the completion of various projects and promote an awareness ofcareer opportunities in these fields. The ACE Program was founded through a grant from The PennsylvaniaState University-College of Engineering Enhancement Fund and Equal Opportunity Planning Committee.The paper also discusses the effectiveness of the program from the perspective of the high school studentsand the Penn State faculty who

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Robert V. Peltier; Farouk Attia

EngineeringTechn-ts must-also inte~act with customers and make persuasive presentations.3) Work as a team member without c[ose supervision under pressure in a culturally diverse environment.Virtually all design work is done by a diverse team from all parts of the corporation. The successfi.dEngineering Technologist will be able to deal with this diverse group to achieve success for the organization.The individual contributor has given way to concurrent engineering teams that can design and bring products to 5market fhster than the competition. Interpersonal and leadership skills are in great demands Take theinitiative to develop those skills through work experience, technical societies or Capstone Project teams.4) Have

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Susan L. Murray

as desired. Informal cooperative learning activities can be accomplished in small groups consisting of two or three students or by the class as a whole, and require anywhere from a few minute to an entire class period. The purpose of these activities is to increase student involvement in the learning process. They shift from being passive scribes to being teachers, team members, critics, and active learners. CL techniques can be used for almost any course subject, whether quantitative or qualitative. The author has successfully applied informal CL techniques in a variety of courses, including operations research, computer simulation, project management, safety engineering

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David G. Meyer

(such as "text", "exams", etc.), but also the choice (and wording) of appropriate subsidiaryquestions to help focus students’ responses (e.g., "did the text help you learn the material" and "did the examsreflect your knowledge of the course material", etc.). The latter proved to be one of the more difficult aspectsof the entire project. After three successful independent trials, the author presented the preliminary results obtained using thecriteria-based evaluation strategy to the ECE Curriculum Committee in 1993. After "much discussion" (whatfaculty do best) and some minor modifications, the system was adopted for use in all ECE courses, effectiveFall 1994. The "lecture course/lecture instructor" evaluation form adopted appears in

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

the authoring package. In spite of some limitations,it proved to be a viable and functional choice for this project. Toolbook allows the integration of animations, movies,hypertext, hyperlinks, graphics, notepads, problem solvers, etc. with relative ease. Currently, along with the PIs,four undergraduate and two graduate students combine their expertise in programming Windows, Toolbook,AutoCad, 3-D studio, Real 3d, 3DF/X, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Fortran and Digital Video Producer to integratethe multimedia project tasks into a package. This paper describes further developments in the creation of the multimedia CD-ROM as well as thepreliminary results of assessment of its usability by a group of sophomore undergraduate engineering