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1981 North Midwest Section

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W. Kinsner; I. Shpancer

various institutions andcompanies. 182 OUTLINE1. WHY INDUSTRIAL TRAINING2. WHAT IS THE l~~C? - FOUNDING INSTITUTIONS - OBJECTIVES &/JCTIVITIES - STRUCTURE3. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AT IMC - IDP - TAP - MAP - GAP 4. THE IDP STRUCTURE 5. VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL IDP COURSE OFFERING 5. PARTICIPATING COMPANIES 7. TAP CouRSE OFFERING g. MAP COURSE OFFERING g. GAP10. PROGRAM UPDATING11. UNIVESITY TEACHING vs. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING 183 1- WHY INDUSTRIAL TRAINING?PROBLEM • TREND 1960's - THE DECADE OF ELECTRONICS 1970's - THE DECADE OF (MICRO

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1981 North Midwest Section

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I. Shpancer; M. Jullian; W. Kinsner

- COURSE STRATEGY· 8- COURSE STRUCTURE• c. DASE SYLLABUS· D- COURSE UPDATING• 60 l· WHY INDUSTRIAL TRAINING?PKOBLEM • TREND 1960's - THE DECADE OF ELECTRONICS 197Q's - THE DECADE OF (MICRO)COMPUTERS 1980's - THE DECADE OF VLSi? KOBOTS? • Too FEW DESIGNERS 1979 - 17 K COMPUTER ENGINEERS (CEs) PRODUCED 1990 - 1 M CEs REQUIRED o IF ALL UNIVERSITIES PRODUCED CEs ONLY) THE NUMBER WOULD BE< 1MSOLUTION o UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE PROGRAMS (UNIVERSITIES &COLLEGES) • CONTINUING EoucATION (UNIVERSITIES) o INDUSTRIAL TRAINING (INSTITUTES

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Arnold M. Flikke

followed by a series of plans which saw rapid ad-vancements in industry, agriculture and education. Engineering enroll-ments increased to over 75,000 each year. Engineering schools were ex-panded at home, and in addition, students were sent to study in Russianuniversities. At the same time, the government developed its philosophyof education. Mao s support during the liberation depended on the peasants and 1workers and while Mao recognized the need for an educated populace, hewanted to place restrictions on the development of an intellectual class.The result was that the state or rulers took the right and responsibilityto improve society by using education to improve the moral conduct of thepeople. While this may mean many different

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Lester W. Spencer

conductors.By 1960, a new "light pipe" was being transformed from trivialcuriosity to an important optical device. Bundles of verythin glass fibers were being produced which were both flexibleand transparent. Thus we had a flexible light pipe thatcould look around corners and see things that were hiddenfrom view. In proposing that glass fibers had a directapplication as a fiberscope for examining interior parts ofthe body, Narinder S. Kapany (1960), also described anotheruse. Kapany stated that: It is possible to draw still thinner fibers, but they no longer act as simple light pipes. Their diameters are now comparable to the wavelength of the light, and they act as waveguides, transmit- ting energy in complex patterns that are no

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

William A. Bares; David A. Rogers

and instructor expecta.tions. 2. Representation and interpretation of time functions. 3. Logarithmic relationships. 4. Plots for Characterization of physical phenomena. 5. Resistance: Static and Dynamic. 6. Kirchoff's voltage law, Kirchoff's current law, Ohm 1 s law. 7. Elementary resistive network analysis. 8. Power and energy. 9. Review. 10. Hour Examination. 11. The binary number system. Conversion between bases, 2 s complements. 1 12. Logic networks with gates. Logical functions. 13. Analysis of combinational logic networks via truth tables. 14. From logic diagrams to printed circuit layout. 15

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

E. G. Anderson; P. K. Rajan; K. Sankara Rao; Val G. Tareski

understandably different, no one coursewill be satisfactory and hence a number of course proposalshave been suggested and implemented at many institutions (1,2] • In contrast to other groups of engineers, who may be in-terested only in the application of microprocessors, elec-trical engineers are expected to know all aspects of micro-processors, namely, hardware, software and applications.They should understand the theory as well as the practice ofmicroprocessor engineering. At least one course should beincluded in existing electrical engineering curricula tocover the above topics. This poses a difficult problem forelectrical engineering departments. They must develop asuitable place in electrical engineering curricula where thecourse(s

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Scott J. Conrad

. DEFINING QUALITYThe idea for this project began with a conversation between one of theauthors, Scott Conrad, and an Associate Dean of the College ofEngineering, Dean Robert Ratner. The focus of the conversation wasthat the author felt a recent 4.4% cut in the College'·s budget andcontinued rises in enrollment were eroding the quality of his education.The Dean asked the author to define a quality education. A list ofvarious criteria such as class size, advising, faculty competence, andup-to-dateness of lab equipment quickly came to mind. However, thelist was incomplete and quite myopic. The Dean pointed out two problemswith the list: 1. It was only one person's perspective, i.e., another student would probably generate a different

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David Anthony Rogers; Attilio Jose Giarola; Darlene Hicks Rogers

developedcountries. Of course, like any institution, there are problems in producingPh.D. s efficiently. Motivation of faculty and students alike seems to 1be the key to solving these problems. The student must realize that hisoutput has to be high. The faculty member must make sure that thestudent's experience in research will be such that he can continue tomake creative contributions throughout his entire life. Even though the graduate programs are young and have many deficien-cies, there is rapid improvement, for many reasons: (a) the biblio-graphic resources are being improved; (b) local industry is becomingmore dependent on higher level technology, forcing an interest in re-search;2 (c) individual research groups are highly motivated and

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

O. Hawaleshka

. Equalizing educational priorities. 3. Strengthening the management of the DEC. 4. Strengthening middle level technical and agricultural training. 5. Restructuring higher education to align more closely to the country s 1 goals and development needs. 6. Increasing the government s involvement in higher education. 1It is to the credit of the government that several of these points havealready been addressed. Ex: to upgrade academic standards generally, thegovernment has instituted a National College Entrance Examination to achievestricter promotion standards after the secondary level. It has also encou-raged more diligent application of the present rather imprecise and v.oluntary

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Alan L. Prasuhn

mover - the horse - with the object to be moved, be ita wagon, plow, or horse gin. It did the job - a certain amount of powercould be developed and a task accomplished. Whereas it should have beentaken to task, it was never questioned that it developed what certainlycould be called a "small horse power". 75F-ig. 1. Ancient harness pressing on animal I s windpipe. Yet, what a simple change was required to develop a "larger horsepower"! As much as 300 to 400 percent more power in fact. The change,which evolved during the 10th century is shown in Fig. 2. The thrustwas removed from the horse's neck and distributed over the horse's shoulders.A change from a cantilevered force to a direct application in the

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Lillian L. Goettler

and 12th grade science and math (2) and the majority of these areboys. While boys are socialized to continue in high school math, evenif they may dislike it, because they know it will be required for a jobthey know they will need, girls are socialized to consider math unfemi-nine, unnecessary and too difficult. Unfortunately they are often sup-ported in this attitude, not only by their peers, but also by theirparents, teachers and counselors.The organizers wish to encourage these girls to think about their fu-ture, not necessarily in terms of a specific occupation, but in termsof today s statistics (3): 1More than half the women in this country are in the workforce.Women work an average of 25 years.80% of working women are employed in

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

P. C. Pfister

a more accurateterm is muddling toward a solution. 11 Design is the essence of en- 11gineering. It is that one thing which clearly distinguishes engineer-ing from science. The objective of design is to make useful things 11 11 ,deemed useful by an agent organizing the activity and footing the bill,i.e. the promoter. Whether the creation will improve the human con-dition is a matter of the promoter s taste, political debate and nu- 1merical estimates of performance and

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Frank J. Worzala; Jerome F. Saeman

the background of most professors is in the area of metal-1urgy. Over the past three years, the Engineering College of theUniversity of Wisconsin has been working with the Forest ProductsLaboratory (FPL) to provide pertinent and current text material for usein teaching students about wood. In the summer of 1979, the FirstHeritages Workshop was held in Madison, on 11 Wood-It 1 s Structure andProperties 11 , organized by FPL with funding from the Clark C. HeritageBequest. This workshop brought together world renowned experts topresent a series of coordinated lectures on wood. These lectures werewritten up as educational modules and presented to 35 materials scienceand engineering educators for review and criticism. The modules

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Hans J. Goettler

deal with very advancedtonics limiting the audience to other professors, scientific assistants 248and upper division students. By necessity, the full professor has littleor no time to interact with students on a one-to-one basis. This inter-action is delegated to the scientific assistants (S.A.) who hold the re-citation sessions and consult, generally by appointment, with the indivi-dual student on specific questions. Laboratories are normally conductedby the graduate assistants under the supervision of an S.A. The graduateassistants also grade the laboratory reports. Written examinations areorganized, administered and evaluated by the S.A. with the helo of gra-duate assistants. S.A.'s are also the advisors

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Henry L. Kucera; Elton G. Solseng; George L. Pratt

of the rubber bands is 6 mm wide, 1 mm thick, and 170 mm overall length, if cut. 2. The cost of the tractor and its modifications are to be paid for by the contestant(s). All tractors will be returned to the contestants. The winning tractors will be kept for display until the next year's contest, upon contestant's approval. 3. Any type of tractor model is acceptable with the following conditions: a. Weight - total weight of the model ready for testing shall be less than 2.270 kilograms. The weight of the tractor may not be changed after weigh-in. b. Size - maximum size limitation: 360 mm long, 200 mm wide, 230

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

I. C. Goulter

difficulty in their use. Before the question of how this alienation has developedis addressed directly, it is first necessary to review thecurrent procedures by which civil engineering undergraduatesare introduced to computers. All civil engineering undergraduatecurriculums have one or possibly two core courses which aredirected towards the learning of at least one computerlanguage. The writing and running of some simple programs isassociated with the course(s). The formal computer educationnormally finishes at this point and any further developmentin computer skills depends on the personal interest 40of individual students in the taking of other advanced computercourse electives or the continued exposure to

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David A. Carlson; Clyde E. Work

utilize it in the classroom. GENERAL APPROACH AND PHILOSOPHY Michigan Tech's computer graphics effort approachesgraphics usage and capability at three levels. 1) Micro computer based graphics systems for broad usage in the classroom both for demonstration and hands on experience.These system/lab networks are being developed primarily atthe departmental level with requisite software and peripheraldevices tailored to individual departmental needs. Apples,TRS-80's, Tetak's, and Cromemcos would be examples. 168 2) Mini and super mini based graphics systems at the departmental/college level (with emphasis on the latter) for driving sophisticated state of the art graphics

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

O. Hawaleshka

of education. 5. The resuction in the number of schools and programs will facilitate the government s future stricter control and deeper involvement in 1 higher education.Another, ususally undiscussed objective that the government would like toachieve is by the application of these standards gently direct those schoolsunable to meet them, away from engineering towards technician and crafts-men educ·ation for which the need is much greater than for engineers. This"forced alternative" may appeal to the school owners once they see thewriting on the wall. This will however create other problems as technician 165education systems are even more capital intensive than those for enginee