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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis

university experience is education and nottraining. Differences between education and training presented in PRISM, theASEE monthly, in Jan. ’97, are shown in Table 1. If we believe that we, as University teachers, are in the education and not Page 2.403.1the training business, we should tailor our teaching towards the left side of thistable which means, in turn, that research should become a necessary element ofthe educational experience, not an afterthought. Table 1. Education and training Education TrainingTo think (plan, integrate, design, discover etc.; to To do

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James E. Simon

opportunity to seethree-dimensional deformation, develop a feel for forces in materials, and experience some of theways that the building process influences planning and design decision-making. It is believedthat these projects are adaptable to a range of architectural engineering courses and topics.IntroductionEngineering and architecture faculty employ a wide variety of assignments to simulate theexperience of designing and constructing buildings. Most often these are small models orsegments of the process, but some1 attempt the construction of entire structures. The centralobjectives of these projects are (1) To help students synthesize and attach physical meaning tothe qualitative and quantitative elements of their academic coursework and (2) To

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

havenightmares about working on the fluidized bed back at Colorado. There are several publishedarticles that explain variations of this method (1-3). I have used a similar approach with a uniquetwist during the past two years.The students formed small collaborative groups to fix four different experimental apparatusesduring the two 3-hour lab periods each week. I devoted the two hours of lecture each week toinstructing the students on how to effectively develop a research project. This was possiblesince, as in most unit operations labs, the students have already studied the theory behind theequipment.In order to “teach” research, I needed a little guidance and structure myself, since I learned myresearch skills “on the fly”, so to speak. I found some

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Stephen J. Ressler; Colonel Kip P. Nygren; C. Conley

any of three different materials (carbon steel, high-strengthsteel, and aluminum), two different cross-section types (solid bars and hollow tubes), and 40different member sizes. The design must be capable of carrying its own weight and the weight ofa standard AASHTO truck loading2. The design objective is to minimize cost.The software is written in the Microsoft Visual Basic programming language. It runs on IBM-compatible personal computers with 486 processor or better, running Windows 3.1 or better. Theprogram features a simple graphical user interface, which students are able to learn easily, even ifthey have little previous experience with computers.The program’s main window (called the Drawing Board) is shown in Figure 1. To design

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F. C. 'Ted' Weston

,including change management and global considerations. The structure of the course is primarilythree-fold: 1) lecture and discussion on various topics within the domain of CIM, 2) field trips toeleven sites locally to view manufacturing and related operations, and 3) projects of the studentschoosing related to CIM, often with one of the firms visited. Exams and an extensive reading listare also included in the course. An underlying theme of the course is integration of CIM-typefunctions within a manufacturing organization, including the most important element of businesscommunications within and between functional areas. The course is housed and taught in adepartment of computer information systems (college of business) and cross-listed with

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Jon E. Freckleton

progressed to third level management in industry.BACKGROUND During 26 years of industrial and military experience, numerous ethics issues wereencountered over the years. I have selected ten cases for this paper and have divided thembetween technical and personal issues.TECHNICAL, ETHICS CASE STUDIES Case 1 - False Claim of Production Source. A major company was unsuccessful inbidding on a complex gyroscopic control system for a military aircraft. Using strong politicalconnections with the White House, they forced a Pentagon level review of the evaluation. Theproposal claimed all portions of the system were produced in company facilities. On a visit toone of the qualified suppliers of Rate Switching Gyros, Air Force personnel had

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William Messner; Dawn M. Tilbury

planned for the tutorials and potential future applications of the concept of Web-based tutorials.1 IntroductionEngineering education (as well as the engineering profession in general) has become increas-ingly reliant on ever-more-powerful software tools to assist in solving ever-more-complexproblems. Computations which once took pages of algebra now require only a press of the‘return’ key. Instead of presenting computational techniques in the classroom, it is nowpossible for the professor to focus on both fundamental and advanced concepts and let thesoftware packages do the computation. Teaching students to effectively use these new software tools can be problematic, however.Software is best learned by “playing” with it, but the user

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M. Hossein Hariri

coalgasification.In order to assist the students in calculations, spreadsheets were set up parallel to theslides. For each unit shown on a slide, a number of sheets were produced involvingcalculations specific to material and energy balances around that unit. Spreadsheets werenamed after the corresponding slide name. For example, there were four spreadsheets formaterial and energy balances around Coal Gasifier and were named Coal Gasification (1)to (4). In Windows 95 environment, one can easily switch between spreadsheet and slidepresentation in order to interact between the unit flowsheets and the correspondingspreadsheet calculations.Project Assignment ProcessIn the beginning of the course students were given the slides in order to learn about theprocess

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Denny C. Davis; Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET, 1995) hasprovided a set of abilities or characteristics that graduates should exhibit when they completeaccreditable engineering degrees. This list defines a direction for engineering curricula, but it isnot a set of outcomes that can be assessed easily.The following two sections present elements of a categories-and-levels structure for definingengineering design outcomes.Categories of Design CompetenciesEight categories of engineering design competencies are defined in Table 1. The first fiveidentify five major repeatedly-used steps employed in engineering design. The next three identifythree over-arching competencies required to manage and support the design process. Thesecategories, when

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Ray N. Nitzsche

undergraduateexperience and rediscover the essentialness of teaching."1 We hear of poorly equippedgraduates, student retention problems,2 poor student advising,3 etc. These are effects. There hasbeen a great deal of fingerpointing, and a number of solutions to each of the specific problemshave been proposed. That is, a number of separate and specific causes have been proposed.Actually, graduate level education has some of the same deficiencies; however, due to thedifference in the nature of graduate and undergraduate education, especially at the doctoral level,the effects are not as severe and thus are not as evident.What has gone wrong? What is the cause? Is it one thing or several? Well, I think I know whatone very significant cause is. A significant cause is

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Elmer A. Grubbs

board, which contains a key pad anda hex display, a load/run switch, as well as a reset switch and a clock. Please see figure two for a Page 2.97.2schematic of a typical project. Again the students display some reluctance to work in groups atfirst, but this quickly disappears as they progress into the second week of the lab.RESULTSSome major advantages of project classes and collaborative learning are: 1) students willundoubtedly work in teams on projects after they graduate, thus they will be far ahead of otherswho are still competing and working by themselves. 2) It will be easier to find employment if thestudent’s resumes include project

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

by the National Science Foundation tointegrate the long-standing research advances, achieved by the University of Tennessee (UT),Knoxville, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), on ceramic-matrix composites(CMCs) into the interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate level curricula of Materials andMechanics at UT.PROJECT COMPONENTSResearch Significant high-quality and innovative research progress covering a broad class oftechnologically important areas of CMCs, including fabrication, characterization, modeling anddesign, has been accomplished at ORNL as well as at UT since early 80's[1-39]. The researchadvances of CMCs are ready for being integrated into curriculum development. The continuedresearch efforts are currently being

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Tracy S. Tillman

procedure,(c) body of knowledge and structure of the examination,(d) examination preparation strategies,(e) examination administration, and(f) CEI designation and certification maintenance. Nature and Development of the CEI Program and Examination The development of the CEI program and examination is the result of years of diligentwork by number of experts in the fields related to manufacturing enterprise integration.Following appropriate psychometric procedures, these content experts identified the body ofknowledge and requisite competencies that individuals should have to become recognized as aCEI. The following steps, as recommended by Tillman (1996), were followed to develop theCEI certification program and examination: 1

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Tom L. Powers; Roger Wright; O'Neill Burchett; Michael R. Manning; Bruce W. Farmer; Brad Gilbreath

to learn byexperience. Page 2.405.1 II. THE ORIGIN AND DESCRIPTION OF OUR MANUFACTURING PROJECTS COURSEMany employers, faced with decreasing product lifetimes, increasing competition, demandingcustomers, and stringent regulatory requirements, have responded by using interdisciplinaryteams to tackle the interrelated marketing, design, manufacturing, customer satisfaction, andmanagement issues that must be dealt with to be competitive in today's marketplace.1 Whensuccessful, interdisciplinary teams can shorten the product development cycle, improve quality,and reduce costs.2 Success hinges not

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Randall L. Kolar; David A. Sabatini

experience, we have identified five key measures to easethe transition and enhance the educational experience: 1) use "real-world" projects to motivatethe learning process and introduce them at the beginning of the semester; 2) follow establishedkeys to using groups successfully; 3) ensure sufficient "coverage" by having students learn basicmaterial outside the classroom, which also fosters life-long learning; 4) team teach courses; and5) use laboratory sessions for group-learning activities. While the concepts have been tested onupper-level courses (junior, senior, graduate), we feel they are appropriate for lower-divisioncourses as well.INTRODUCTIONLocal and national surveys consistently point to several weaknesses in engineering education

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Erdogan Sener

implications of this paradigm shift are for construction engineeringeducation. It presents what needs to be done to align what we are doing with the new paradigmto the benefit of students. It examines in what ways faculty roles in the educational process needsto change in order to ensure and enhance learning efficiency and effectiveness and what changesin educational technologies are more promising in facilitating changes from an InstructionParadigm to a Learning Paradigm. It also details what we are doing at the Department ofConstruction Technology at IUPUI along these lines.IntroductionAccording to a recent article in the Change magazine 1, "A paradigm shift is taking hold inAmerican higher education. The paradigm tat has governed our colleges is

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Jian Edward Zhang; Lucy King

aunique mix of competencies, knowledge and skills...", Carnevale states 1. Educational institutesmust "...take the lead in developing new education and training models ... that will keep theAmerican workforce up to world-class standards" 2. Since manufacturing creates 40% - 70% ofthe real wealth of the nation, the demand for a new breed of manufacturing engineers is high 3. The key factor in developing new laboratories and courses is to face the challenge ofserious needs for knowledge synthesis and retention of the integration of various disciplines. Anintegrated multi-disciplinary experience is definitely necessary for today’s engineers. SomeJapanese higher educational institutions 4,5 and European colleges and universities 6 offer

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Michael A. Magill

-Susan”) and miscellaneous weights of equivalentcontacting surfacesGiven: Several disks of different weight are placed on the rotary table at a distance ρ from thecenter. The table is rotated slowly increasing the velocity so that angular acceleration isnegligible. Rotary Tableµs = 0.2W1 = ¼ lb DiskW2 = ½ lb ρW3 = ¾ lbW4 = 1 lbFind: Which disk will slide off first?Solution: FBD of disk (top view) KD (top view) n n t

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Michael A. Magill

A NΣ M A = − WR sin θ = − I G α − mH a G R ← a G = αR ( WR sin θ = I G + mH R 2 α) WR sin θ α = ← W = mH g I G + mH R 2 (mH g )R sin θ 1 1 α = ← IG = mS R 2 − mHole r 2 I G + mH R 2 2 2 Page 2.102.6 (mH g )R sin θ α = 1 1   mS R 2 − mHole r 2  + mH R 2

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad B. Dadfar

illustrates the interoperability of these two protocol architectures and the client-server relationships all in a networked environment. The client and the server reside on twodifferent hosts. The application user is under the illusion that the communication is over theBSD suite of protocols. Basically, we employ a TCP/IP paradigm at the backend of the twohosts, and a BSD stack at the front end of the client, and the server. Thus, communication fromthe client goes over client-side BSD protocol stack to the server-side BSD protocol stack, via theintermediate TCP/IP protocol stack.1. IntroductionThe use and growth of the internet has revolutionized the way in which information is organized,stored, and presented to end users. The internet has created a

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

describedas essential for performance on exams that test with problem solving [1-3]. The exercises engagethe students in different cognitive processes, ways of thinking, and problem solving processesand demonstrate the complexity of expertise and the importance of the development of thinkingskills while Rather than the behavioral approach that would typically include topics such as timemanagement, taking notes, motivation, and effort, the workshops follow a cognitive approach.We focus on the cognitive skills used by successful learners, basing the workshops ontaxonomies of problem solving and cognition such as the Dean and Plants taxonomy of problemsolving [1], Bloom's taxonomy in the cognitive domain [2], respectively, as well as

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Kevin Wedeward; E. Eugene Mitchell; George E. Piper; John Watkins

of these software tools are demonstrated withseveral classroom exercises.INTRODUCTIONToday's students are exposed to multimedia in all aspects of their lives, from MTV to the WorldWide Web. They have become accustomed to receiving information in this manner. Multimediais also finding its way in to computer simulation. Students get excited about commerciallyavailable entertainment programs such as Microsoft's Flight Simulator and Maxis' SimCity whichcontain realistic, highly-detailed simulations. Educators are taking advantage of these animatedsimulations and incorporating them into to their classrooms. Computer simulation is also beingused to enhance students understanding of dynamic systems [1]. Incorporating animation withsimulation not

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Seung H. Kim

illustration when solved using the Mathcad software.1) EXAMPLE IN FICK'S FIRST LAW Steel surfaces can be hardened by carburization. A thin plate of the iron specimen isheated to 900 °C in furnace. During such a heat treatment, one side of the specimen in contactwith a carbon-rich gas (CO/CO2) mixture 21 that maintains 3 the carbon concentration at the surfaceat the initial concentration of 1.53 X 10 atoms/cm 20 . The other side of the specimen is incontact with the carbon concentration at 7.65 X 10 atoms/cm3. The thickness of the

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Martha E. Sloan

educationin power in many departments. The 1950's was the decade of the emergence of the transistor andsolid-state electronics, primarily in analog applications. [1-3]. Computers were secondary toelectronics as a subject for education. In fact, computers themselves were just enteringuniversities for administrative calculations. As the end of the 1950's , few electrical engineeringdepartments owned or even had access to digital computers.III. The Sixties The 1960's saw the widespread expansion of digital computers and other digital systems.This expansion created demands for two types of computer professionals--those who coulddesign and build computers and those who could program them. Electrical engineeringdepartments provided courses in logic

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Max Rabiee

commonly available LCDs, the Dynamic Scattering, and the FieldEffect. In the Dynamic scattering LCD Display type, the modules under the fields are scrambled.This produces light characters on a dark background. In the Field-Effect type, light is absorbedin the presence of an electric field. This produces dark character on a silver-gray background.Figure 1 illustratesthe basicconstruction of aLCD display. Page 2.107.1 Figure 1 A Liquid Crystal Display Session 1532 In this paper we will describe the use of the Hitachi 2570 Mono-Color Dot

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Chandra S. Brahma; Howard C. Biddlecome

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Thomas Lenox; Stephen J. Ressler; Robert J. O'Neill; C. Conley

Session 3215 Computers in the Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: A Time of Transition Thomas A. Lenox, Stephen J. Ressler, Robert J. O'Neill, Christopher H. Conley United States Military AcademyThis paper examines the authors' continuing experiences in incorporating the personal computer into thecivil engineering program at the US Military Academy. The paper describes how the civil engineeringprogram has changed its approach to using the common software purchased by students at the Academy.1. SituationAcademic Program for Civil Engineering MajorsThe purpose of the United States

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Yale N. Patt; Kevin J. Compton

engineering majors with good results. This paperdescribes the course, our rationale, and some data as it relates to non-majors.1. Introduction/Rationale.The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, has recently instituted a major change in its requirements for our undergraduatemajors. We feel strongly that the conventional model practiced throughout the country ofintroducing majors to computing via a high level language programming course is flawed. Ouranswer to whether it is better to start with Pascal, C, or C++ is "none of the above." Someprofessors in other engineering disciplines may say, "Right! Fortran."Wrong! No programming language. For our own majors, we felt it was important to

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Ronald W. Smith; Robert Bowman; Carole M. Mablekos

nationas a whole being a natural outcome. The following sections describe three major areas ofPRIDE's impact: (1) the successful conversion of naval base to business center, (2) theimprovement of technology-focused education at the institutions themselves, and (3) addressingregional and national issues in work force education.Helping Convert Naval Base to Business Center. The Shipyard College (SYC) was establishedat the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Base to deliver highly accessible and flexible on-siteeducation assistance for Base workers and to administer the consortium's educational andtraining programs. An executive director and a staff of four administered the SYC programs,with efforts being supplemented by seven college academic advisors

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Cyrus Meherji; Yuqin Ho; Bertram Pariser