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Randall Guensler; Christopher Conklin; Paul S. Chinowsky

Session 1658 Development of a Web-Based Environmental Impact, Monitoring and Assessment Course Randall Guensler, Paul Chinowsky, Christopher Conklin School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe information revolution has had a dramatic effect on engineering education in the 1990’s.Educators and students alike have witnessed a dramatic shift from traditional teaching methodsand tools to a new, innovative, interactive approach. What began as the simple use of computersand information technology for student projects has developed into the large scale use ofcomputer

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M. N. Borges; F. H. Vasconcelos; M. Lewis

to teach in a particular course structure andresources for laboratories, are examples of factors which demand fewer staff-student contacthours and less practical (hands-on) learning experiences. On the other hand: (a) the continuousexpansion of the content to be covered (with a soaring number of new topics and techniquesbrought into the curriculum); (b) the flexibility of the curriculum and options to be madeavailable to students and (c) also a more student-centered approach being recommended in highereducation requiring more staff time and more physical resources to run courses. Coursedevelopers are consequently responsible for designing a structure which takes account of bothsets of pressures. They are also urged to change the pedagogical

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Shivakumar Raman; P. Simin Pulat; Hank Grant; Bob L. Foote; Adedeji B. Badiru

grant funded by the Division of Design,Manufacture and Industrial Innovation at the NSF to conduct research towards the developmentof an integrated production management environment. The research entails a multi-disciplinaryapproach for CIM in the modern factory. Instead of focusing on the fragments of the CIMstructure, this research concentrates on the integration itself. Page 2.122.2The main aim of this research is to develop a 'maximal' production management methodology.This methodology takes advantage of the major sources of flexibility and response available to amanager such as selecting lot sizes, process plans, processes to create features

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

-judging (SJ) students prefer more conventional and traditional11 Pre-requisite for ECO-MGT 1 is Humanities and Social Science (HSS 101) and Freshman EngineeringDesign (FED 101). The HSS course is on writing skills, communications, and oral presentations and theFED class is an introductory design course taught with a practical “hands on” approach rather than thetraditional theoretical approach.12 For a number of students in the ECO-MGT I class, this was their first semester of college at NJIT.Previously, they were either in high school or were enrolled in a junior college. In such cases, we usedtheir high school GPA during their senior year or GPA of the courses taken in the junior college. We alsohave calculated an approximate GPA from

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John K. Gershenson

and how frequency and cost of particular “service operations” wererelated to components is the goal of SMA. One of the outputs of a thorough SMA is a list of“bottlenecks” that are in need of redesign. The project is best described by the sections of thememo sent to the manufacturer shown below.Thank you for taking the time to respond to our design suggestions for the car door. After spendingseveral hours dissecting and analyzing the door, the class of 26 students all participated in a designreview in which we each presented suggestions for improving the overall serviceability of the door.Below are the most practical and feasible of those suggestions with all necessary information.The class performed a detailed analysis of the Cadillac door

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T. Chang; R. Barat; J. F. Federici; H. Grebel; A. M. Johnson

level course.OPSE 301 and 402, which include integrated laboratory components, are intended for upperlevelundergraduates. OPSE 601, which emphasizes small group projects in each faculty member'sresearch lab, is designed for advanced undergraduate and new graduate students. Detailed courseand laboratory descriptions may be found at URL:http//www.njit.edu/Directory/Centers/OPSE.I. MotivationA 1994 NSF workshop on "Optical Science and Engineering: New Directions and Opportunitiesin Research and Education" recommended an emphasis in optics research and education because Page 2.119.1"Optical Science and Engineering is an enabling technology--that is, a

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Thomas W. Graver; Leon F. McGinnis; David W. Rosen

technologies that should be incorporated in a modernmanufacturing education experience.THOMAS W. GRAVER is RPMI’s Director of Operations and Assistant Director of the CIMS Program, amultidisciplinary manufacturing education program for graduate students. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, Graverworked more than 10 years with Cincinnati Milacron. He continues to consult for industry in manufacturingsystems design and in product development. He holds degrees in ME, ISyE, and Management.LEON F. McGINNIS is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Director of CIMS, and Associate Page 2.166.4Director of the Manufacturing Research Center