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Evangelyn C. Alocilja

science,engineering sciences, and principles of design. To fulfill an academic career goal, the studentcompletes a cognate which can either be in agricultural engineering, food engineering, naturalresources/environmental engineering, packaging, environmental studies, biotechnology, orbiomedical engineering. Course Objectives Offered at the sophomore level, the three-credit course entitled “Principles of BiosystemsEngineering” is the first required subject in the BE program. A knowledge of calculus is aprerequisite to enroll in the course. Knowledge in computer programming, physics, chemistryand biology are strongly recommended. Acquired skills in technical writing will be very helpful.The course is

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P.J. Fisher; N.J. Quick; S.J. Steiner

theory learnt in the separate subject courses in an integrated, holistic way.2) Total Design: The second objective is to provide experience of the complete activityof generating a new product to meet a perceived customer need, in what is known as'Total Design' [3]. This is an activity which is central to manufacturing businesses andone of the key activities in which manufacturing engineers can expect to be engagedduring their professional careers. The project aims to be a realistic simulation of real-life.3) Transferable Skills: Thirdly, the project provides an environment in which a numberof transferable or personal skills can be learnt. These include information gathering,report writing, presentation skills, time management, project planning

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Scott J. Amos; James L. Otter

intuitive, visual, inductive, reflective and sequential learning styles. Engineeringtechnology faculty tend to prefer sensing, visual, deductive and sequential methods, with nodistinct preference between active and reflective methods. Dr. Felder's studies and philosophiessupport the objectives of this project to assess student perceptions and learning styles comparedto provided delivery methods.With the construction industry demands on graduates of construction programs ever increasing,it is important that students in the program receive "real-world" experiences early and often intheir academic career. The importance of integrating practical experience, technical knowledgeand interactive communication guided the objectives for the first phase of

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Bahador Ghahramani

particular andengineering as a whole. Besides required courses, students are also encouraged to register forelectives in management and technical areas that most effectively satisfy their personal andprofessional careers. NTU students are assigned an academic advisor from the faculty. Advisors assiststudents in selection of the academic programs, planning their curriculum, registration, and otherpertinent information. Students are responsible for interfacing with their advisors and addressingtheir academic problems and issues.US ARMY ENGINEERING SCHOOL AND OTHER PROGRAMS The US Army Engineering School at Ft. Leonard Wood (USAES) is located to the southof Rolla, Missouri. USAES is a training school for the Army’s Engineering Officer

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Raymond Yannuzzi; Edward McDonnell; Bradshaw Kinsey; Robert Bowman

thepartnership. Philadelphia greatly increased its enrollment in Shipyard courses. Delaware andCamden, offering courses at the site for the first time, found new students for specializedprograms and attracted additional students from the Shipyard to campus-based programs as well.Drexel began to develop a career path and transfer opportunities for two-year graduates inapplied technologies. Building a consortium requires taking a risk and a willingness to examine and perhaps changeestablished attitudes and ways of operating. "Working together" often means "workingdifferently" and accepting the possibility that doing things in another way (like scheduling,admissions, credit transfer) can lead to favorable results. The Shipyard partners took a risk

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Sumit Ghosh; Raymond Kuo

primarily upper-middle-class high school students and parents whoview college as a pivotal career investment, the process of choosing colleges and preparing for admissionhas become extremely important. Parents are aware that going to a selective college increases one's socialstanding, contacts, and income potential. Today, the admissions process is often viewed as an erratic, highlycompetitive, chancey game over which neither parents nor students have much control. Kravets [2] paints avivid picture of the typical applicant's frustration and apprehension.Karen [3] describes the roles of academic achievement and ``ascription'' in the admission process atHarvard University, as examined in 1994. Karen notes that students whose parents have attended

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Paul Rossler

. As the academic section wears on, an instructor can feelas if she or he works in the fast food business. The above situation, however, works counter tothe goal of integration.Second, students look to be trained, not educated. In this regard the managerial ethos seems wellingrained in these students by their senior year. Like many managers, they apply short-sightedthinking under the philosophical banner of pragmatism. Both assigned work and materialpresented are judged against an application criterion that has a (seemingly) short time horizonattached to it: Can I apply this at work tommorrow? While the variety of co-op employers,employment experiences, and future career plans leads different students to different answers tothis question

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Matthew Hayes; David Pittner; Bryon Formwalt; Daniel J. Pack

robotics: design and gait control of a six legged robot, design andnavigational control for a mobile robot, and autonomous helicopter control. Thestudents agree that an undergraduate research project is a valuable ‘bridge’ betweentheir undergraduate academic careers and the next stages of their lives, working as AirForce engineers or continuing the academic path to graduate school. The paper presentsthe three different student perspectives on the subject of undergraduate researchregarding the value, the drawback, and the type of research which can be performedgiven the constraints of time and advanced knowledge. The paper will also include theopinions of the faculty mentor concerning the observations made by students. Inaddition, the paper will

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Hamid Khan

. & Strategy: Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Competitive Advantage, Change Management, Human Resource Management (Skills Sub-scales: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Human Resource Management) & Productivity: Design for manufacturability, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Career Management, Decision Analysis (Skills Sub-scale: Strategic Planning) & Leadership: Managerial Communication, Designing Organizations for Teams, The Creative Process, Presentational Speaking (Skills Sub-scales: Organizational Leadership, and Managerial Communication) & Global

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craig evers

achievements varies from the students’ Page 2.468.1self-expectations. Papers acknowledged that “student performance must be weighed," but passedon quickly to deal with other aspects of the teaching experience. Some papers mentioned the useof different techniques to award grades, and there was talk of the “curve," but it seems that verylittle resource is focused on the development of this curve.In the course of a lengthy industrial career, this engineer has participated in, taught, endured, andas a true student, slept through many training sessions regarding the use of metrics to determineproject status. Industry uses many measurements to define

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Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

endterm evaluations. Each component is described below.Team Work LaboratoriesThe course has a three hour lab section per week. One hour is for an activity section and theother two hours are a computer lab. The first four activity sections are devoted to developingteam work skills.In the activity sessions, students are told that they will often work in groups in their engineeringclasses and later during their careers. Thus, it is important to learn how to work well in groups.The instructor introduces four group work roles that are always assigned during ENGR 111group work sessions: Scribe: Records the minutes of the group work. Facilitator: Engages all members in the group process. Presenter: Presents a summary of the group’s

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

have business writing skills (f) have written communication skillsknowledge in basic science have a basis for an engineering career knows how to communicate throughknowledge o physics productivity and quality engineering graphical methodsknowledge of chemistry managementknowledge of math/calculus be able to work with peopleknowledge of statistics knows how to identify a problem have teamwork abilitiesknowledge of experimental verification be able to formulate problems be

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Shane Henderson; Leslie A. Olsen; John Birge

Session 3657 Improving Quality in Introductory Industrial Engineering through Case Studies and Communication John Birge, Shane Henderson, Leslie Olsen University of Michigan AbstractWe describe an introductory course in industrial engineering that uses case studies, teamwork,public policy issues, and a focus on the communication demands on engineers to provide —atthe beginning of a student's career—a synthetic view of the role of industrial engineers in society.The course covers typical industrial engineering

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Richard L. Marcellus

in the field. • An A. • I hope to build on what I learned in the previous course and to end up with the complete understanding of operations research and its various applications. And of course a good grade wouldn't hurt any. • I hope to broaden my knowledge of operations research techniques, increase my problem- solving skills, and give myself a strong base in operations research for future courses and my career. • The ability to interpret and solve any dynamic programming problem presented to me. • Useful information in solving operations research problems. • I hope to get a better understanding of what operations research is and where operations research can be applied in real life

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Vivek Badami; Mike Allen; Johnny Graham; Howard Phillips; David Schmidt; Curtis Ensley; Art Edwards; Silvia G. Middleton; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley

, expectations Phillips2 Introduction to the College of Engineering Experience Snyder (Dean)3 Introduction to Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Shelnutt4 MOSAIC computer system and the internet Allen5 Team Assignments and Project Topic Graham6 Careers and Professionalism Snyder/McIntyre7 Team Development and use of the HBDI Graham/Middleton8 Use of the library for engineering research Dew9 Project Goals and objectives Graham10 Project Planning

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Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

16factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics, and social impact." In the curricular content sectionit is also noted that, "An understanding of the ethical, social, economic, and safety considerations 17in engineering practice is essential for a successful engineering career." ABET has proposedEngineering Criteria 2000, to be published in 1998 for a three year phased implementationbeginning in the 1998-99 accreditation cycle. In Criterion 4 (Professional Component) of thisdocument ABET notes that: The curriculum must prepare students for engineering practice culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier

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Scot Douglass

the“not really there” students, do we feel or think we have taught? The question--“Has the teacher taught if the student hasn’t learned?”--demands its owninterrogation. What does it mean that a student has learned? This is an especially complexquestion when teaching humanities to engineers. One could argue that an English major haslearned if they know all the plot lines, characters, interpretive possibilities, historical allusionsand dates of composition of all the plays by Shakespeare. These facts could be seen as equallyfundamental to his career trajectory as learning the basic equations of algebra or calculus is to theengineer. Perhaps, but our desires as liberal educators of engineers transcend the transfer ofhumanistic content

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

work experience. When theyexperience knowledge gaps, we expect students to be resourceful in obtaining new knowledgefrom peers, professors, and practitioners. We act as resource persons, but we don't serve asproject leaders or solve problems for the students.Many manufacturing professionals work under tremendous time pressure and have little time forreflecting on the nature of their work and what they've learned. In Manufacturing Projects,students also experience time pressure and other demands. Nonetheless, we want our students todo more than just complete a project. We want them to learn about group dynamics andinterpersonal relations--things that will help them throughout their careers. And, uponcompleting the course, we want them to know

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

around campus). A survey of our Freshman students indicated that this isextremely effective in exciting them to pursue a career in engineering.A hand-held reverse osmosis experiment that demonstrates some of the fundamental concepts ofmembrane separation processes is useful for:• introductory courses showing the principle of separation and process applications• demonstrations to pre-college students on engineering and technology• supplementing lecture courses on Separation Processes or Mass Transfer• a less expensive mini-lab experimentBackgroundReverse osmosis is probably the most well known membrane process and is used in many indus-tries for purification and concentration of various process streams. Although originally devel-oped in the early

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Doris Yacoub; Robert Pfeffer; Rajesh N. Dave; Jonathan Luke; Ian S. Fischer; Anthony D. Rosato

encountering problems related to particle technology in their future careers are veryhigh. Therefore it is important for them to be exposed to this subject during their education. It ishoped that our CRCD project helps in overcoming the current deficiency in the engineeringcurriculum in this vital area.1.2. Significant Accomplishments1. Formation of an advisory board with particle technology experts from industry, academia and research laboratories. It comprises representatives from 12 industrial companies, 5 universities and a US National Laboratory. The board meetings are held every March, starting from March 1995.2. Development and running of the undergraduate lecture course (the first course), “Introduction to Particle

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Sr., Buck F. Brown; Jr., Buck F. Brown

foreducational innovation in a classroom setting with traditional students or for use with non-traditional and remote instruction. It is greatly enhanced by technology-based resources,including electronic collaboration, and is a dynamic means for responding to changes inprinciples and practice. PBL concentrates on recent additions to our expanding knowledge base, is well suited toa rigid class structure where required, and provides a stimulating learning environment akin tothat of the workplace. Most importantly, it promotes the team-oriented, problem-solving skillsthat are necessary for life-long learning in support of productive careers and satisfying lives. Itssuccessful use by Wabash Valley Educational Alliance post-secondary institutions

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

. Page 2.64.1 1economics and management course at the NJIT. Section five discusses the results ofthe study followed by a concluding discussion in section six.II. Changing Environment and the Need for New Skills Multifacet initiatives of engineering and manufacturing firms are crucial tosurvival in the global competitive market place. Moreover, technological advances,changing organization structures, and rising competition from newly industrializedcountries [Porter (1986)] have affected the career directions and expectations ofmany engineers. Increased concentration on cost efficiency and productdifferentiation may be the key to the new direction for firms to regain or maintaincompetitive

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Anton Pintar

careers. I try to explainthis to them and to make their experience as smooth as possible. The fourth through sixthobjectives are intended to give the students their initial exposure to various aspects of the designprocess and to make the computer projects more interesting. Naturally, the process and theeconomics have to be somewhat simplified, especially for the sophomores. The last objective isintended to show the validity of the concepts presented in class and to develop the students’confidence in the theory and in the results from the software such that one reinforces the other.THE MASS BALANCE COURSEThe computer project in the sophomore mass balance course involves a chemical reactor withrecycle. The chemical reaction is usually one that has