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Samuel P. Clemence; Daniel J. McGinley

professionalengineering practice. The material is also being used as an in-house training module byengineering firms to create an awareness of these critical issues among their young engineeringstaff. It was developed for IPP by Dr. Ronald E. Bucknam, who retired in 1990 from full-timeconsulting practice after almost 30 years as a practicing engineer and president of a consultingfirm. He is now on the faculty of the University of Washington. The topics covered are based onhis vast experience as well as the comments and contributions of more than 30 engineers andallied professionals around the country.The course material is organized to parallel the progress of a project through a design firm oragency. The spectrum of topics includes discussions on types of

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Gregory M. Dick

Session 2520 MultiCampus Parcel: A Cooperative Approach To Computer Laboratory Management Gregory M. Dick University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractMaintaining student computing laboratories presents special problems to the laboratory - networkmanager. Tasks associated with managing student accounts and PC disk files consume largeamounts of staff time. At the initiation of this project, commercial automated solutions to theseproblems were not available. Small campuses do not have the resources to develop automatedtools to solve these problems. This paper

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

used successfully in two different high school outreach activities. Studentfeedback from these activities has validated the concept of a CAD-based outreach project andprovided useful suggestions for improvement as well.Called theWEST POINT BRIDGE DESIGNER, the software guides the user through the design of atruss-type highway bridge, based on a specified design scenario. The program was developedwith three principal objectives in mind: • To stimulate interest in engineering and design. • To provide the user with an opportunity to perform a legitimate structural design, based on a realistic set of design specifications and constraints. • To focus attention on West Point’s role as America’s first engineering

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

research on campus. Our goal is to provide students an opportunity for exposureto and experience with a range of manufacturing technologies. Just as traditional machine shopson campus introduce students to the realities of design and manufacture, time spent in the RPMlab can greatly enhance students' educational experiences -- and increase their ultimate value asengineers and scientists.The availability of RPM technology has benefits beyond the direct impact on manufacturingeducation. Currently, the RPM lab is the only place at Georgia Tech where students can go forfast physical prototypes of complex parts and mechanisms. We are convinced that this willbecome a critical resource for capstone design courses and interdisciplinary team projects

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Mohamed A. Bourham; Donald J. Dudziak

involved in applications relevant to their studies. The 1996 programprovided research projects for seven students in various nuclear engineering areas,two funded by the Department of Nuclear Engineering and five funded by thefaculty through their research contracts. Areas covered are reactor physics,thermal hydraulics, radiological engineering, nuclear materials, plasmaengineering, radiation applications, and plasma thrusters. Four students chose tocontinue their research during the academic year, applied to the graduate program,and have been accepted. This paper summarizes the undergraduate researchprogram, how the program serves as an enhanced undergraduate educational tool,and how it helps in preparing selected students for advanced post

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Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

ABSTRACTThe teaching process involves dissemination of significant amounts of information. This isaccomplished through reading assignments in textbooks and handbooks, and the traditionalmethod of lecturing assisted through the blackboard. The World Wide-Web (WWW) componentof the Internet can be used to assist in all these functions. It enhances their quality by giving thefaculty more flexibility in using hypermedia technology to develop information rich coursecontent.The teaching process also includes, ascertaining the proficiency achieved by the students in thesubject material through tests, quizzes and assigned projects. It is possible to create mechanismsusing the Internet to develop interactive course content to provide immediate feedback to

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Dr. Mihir K. Das

has put a General Education course called “TotalQuality and Continuous Improvement” on the web. Many timely reminders such as importantdates, assignments, projects, class schedules and daily agenda are available for students to seeon the web. As a result, they are better prepared when they come to the classroom. Otherimportant features such as the grading policy, texts and bibliography, course outline, classsupplies, and student profiles are also displayed. Many web links to other websites and homepages on subjects of interests provide a very useful tool for research and, helping students gain abroader understanding of the subject matter. As a part of a set of exercises the students areencouraged to design their own web pages covering topics

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Charles H. Dowding; Joseph J. Biernacki

and cooperativeresearch experience needed to be successful in either industrial research and engineeringor academic positions. The experience focuses on civil engineering materials, although,the program recruits from all engineering and science disciplines as well as mathematics.Students may be placed with faculty mentors from their discipline or from anotherdepending on the project, the student’s background and the faculty's expertise andinterests. A typical three student/three faculty team may consist of two civil engineers, achemical engineer, an environmental engineer, a structural engineer and a geotechnicalengineer, creating a truly interdisciplinary working group. This program incorporatesalternative team structures that represent the

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Don McMurchie

metallographic specimen examination. Other classes that may benefit from this type ofexamination would be senior projects and group projects. In these classes, perhaps not every projectwould require metallographic examination, however many of these projects would be greatlyenhanced by doing so.Nearly every lab would benefit from technical photography support. From Oregon Institute ofTechnology's manufacturing engineering technology program, the following list has been identifiedas benefitting from technical photographic support: Manufacturing Analysis and Planning Geometric Dimensioning and tolerancing/Metrology Page 2.22.3 Tool

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

potential students, and better orientationprocedures. The college started building active relationships with secondary school teachers byworking with high school educators’ associations, and by offering free workshops and seminarsfor high school educators on high-tech teaching issues. Industry Connection - External SupportThe Technology Transfer and Utilization Center (TTUC) officially opened in 1993. The TTUCserves as a gateway for industry access to the resources of the college. Small to mid-sizedcompanies obtain expert advice on issues related to production technologies, productdevelopment or improvement, and enhanced business performance. Senior students, under thesupervision of faculty, work on projects to aid such

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

Public Affairs for Engineers is another successfullyinstitutionalized program at CSM which took quite a different route to its current state. Thisprogram is a 27 semester-hour sequence of seminars and off-campus activities with the primarygoal of providing a select number of engineering students the opportunity to cross the boundariesof their technical expertise and to gain the sensitivity to prove, project, and test the moral andsocial implications of their future professional judgments and activities, not only for theparticular organizations with which they will be involved, but also for the nation and, indeed, theworld. To achieve this goal, the program brings themes from the humanities and social sciencesinto the engineering curriculum that

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V. Coppola; K. Powell; D. Hyland; B. Cosgrove; A. Waas; A. Messiter; Joe G. Eisley

years to address specific career goals. The implementation of implicit curricular “threads” (i.e. coverage of topics via coordinated portions of courses throughout the four-year program, as opposed to coverage in a separate course). - written, oral and visual technical communications; - engineering problem solving through computing; - engineering ethics; - teamwork and team leadership; - randomness and uncertainty; - environmental impacts and issues. Increased use of teamwork in courses: five of the ten required courses inside the Aerospace department are to be based on team projects and team grades. A

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

Laboratory(ORNL) and industrial companies, such as DuPont, 3M/Delta G, B. F. Goodrich, Amercom,Refractory Composites and B. P. Chemicals Ltd. The CFCCs are being recognized as necessaryfor high-temperature structural applications. The pertinent applications include heat exchangers,combustors, hot gas filters and boiler components in power generation systems, and first wallsand high heat flux surfaces in fusion reactors. The technology for fabrication, characterization,modeling, design, and applications of ceramic composites is of crucial importance for improvingU.S. industrial competitiveness in the worldwide market. A three-year project on "Ceramic Matrix Composites - A Combined Research-CurriculumDevelopment (CRCD) Program" has been supported

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

coalition devoted to Page 2.110.1manufacturing education and training, PRIDE consists of Drexel University, Camden CountyCollege, Delaware County Community College and Community College of Philadelphia, theU.S. Navy, and local Government. To establish the project, the consortium received a $2-million, 3-year grant from ARPA's Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP), with participatingorganizations providing a match of another $2 million--for a total $4-million effort. Over itsfirst three years, this partnership has sought to lower the barriers to improved work forceeducation, without sacrificing standards. The project's mission focused on educating

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D. Raj Raman

class time. Thissecond revision was very rewarding, achieving a >95% attendance rate over the semester, andstrongly positive student evaluations. By making engineering design central to the class, studentmaturity and student interest were increased, and their educational needs better served, than inthe traditional lecture format. At the time of this writing, the third revision of the course isunderway. I am now distributing printed class notes to transmit technical information, and relyingon problem sets, quizzes, a semester long design project, and student initiated discussions toreinforce the material. Again, the non-lecturing, design focus of the course appears to beachieving high student attendance and interest. These experiences have

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Robert J. Herrick; Dennis R. Depew

TechnologyBuilding on a tradition of excellence in graduate education at Purdue University, the School ofTechnology offers graduate instruction leading to the Master of Science degree. The non-thesisdirected project master’s degree program provides an opportunity for individualized professionaldevelopment studies in technology, engineering technology, and technology education. The goalof the program is to provide an educational experience which will appropriately prepare anindividual for leadership positions in industry and education.The Doctor of Philosophy and the thesis Master of Science degree programs are administeredjointly with the School of Education and provide educational opportunities in adult education,instructional development, curriculum

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Dale Ross; Bill Taylor

, we have made it the responsibility of the librarian to maintain student and teacheraccounts and also security. Issues of net etiquette, copyright law and parental consent are dealtwith at this level.If computer connectivity is the backbone of this project, tutoring and mentoring are its flesh andblood. The New Mexico MESA (Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement) programsponsors tutoring at participating schools. MESA is designed to attract the top 10 percent ofminority students into Mathematics, Engineering and Science fields. NMHU students serve asMESA tutors in the local middle schools and high schools and MESA pays the Universitystudents a stipend to help compensate their efforts. Special training on the uses of Internet

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Mohammad M. Asoodeh; Carl W. Steidley

“big top” tents from site to site to put on their show. Thismobile system integrates computer hardware/software, instrumentation, interfacing, computer-controlled systems, real-time systems, and integrated manufacturing.TEAMWORKCircuses depend upon teamwork, and forming teams of people from different technical andspecialty fields is an excellent way to respond to any customer’s needs. A team may be formedto design a product, produce a product, or accomplish a defined project. One purpose forforming a team is to improve the communication between people and minimize the chance oferrors. However, the team can only be successful if members of the team have adequatecommunication skills

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Matthew R. James; Mario G. Beruvides

questions from students, practitioners, industrial advisoryboard members as well as others on this issue. This paper explores the perceptions of studentsand professors (in Engineering Management and MBA programs) as well as other stake holdersas to the distinguishing characteristics between the two disciplines. An informal survey was runto decipher some of the current views. Content rich data was collected and analyzed using bothtraditional survey questions along with content analysis of participant responses. The results arepresented and analyzed with a discussion on the implications of the results obtained. In addition,some anecdotal data is provided on the running of the project which has some value to educators.The objective of this exercise is

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John Valasek

intention is not to replace existing course topics, but rather tosuggest re-casting them in the frameworks of flight safety and professional responsibility.Techniques for incorporating these concepts in the classroom environment are presented. SAFETY AND SURVIVABILITY"Meeting the specs at or below cost" is a traditional yardstick and motivation for aircraftpreliminary design. However, safety and survivability considerations can no longer take a backseat to performance and cost considerations: "Based on projected fleet growth, by the year 2010 one jet transport hull loss will occur per week unless strong, preventative measures are taken by the industry to reduce accidents." 5This scenario is based upon

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Robert M. Henry

Session 3215 SEVE - A Structural Engineering Visual Encyclopedia by Robert M. Henry ASEE/University of New HampshireIntroduction - The ProblemCivil engineers use construction (or engineering) drawings to convey to other engineers and laypeople their designs for bridges, highways, buildings, etc. These drawings are often labeled"contract drawings", because they define a contract between the architect, the engineer, and thecontractor as to how the finished project is to look, what materials are to be used, and how it is tobe built

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Richard H. Barnett; Mary A. Eiff; D. Perry Achor; Troy E. Kostek; William J. Hutzel; Bruce Harding

Session 2525 Sharpening Pencils and Young Minds William J. Hutzel, D. Perry Achor, Richard H. Barnett, Mary A. Eiff, Bruce A. Harding, and Troy E. Kostek, Purdue UniversityAbstract The School of Technology at Purdue University has undertaken an ambitious project toincrease the number of students who eventually pursue careers in science and technology. The"Techmobile" is an interactive traveling exhibit for Indiana eighth graders that introduces a widearray of scientific information in the context of manufacturing and sharpening a pencil. Theevents are

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Leslie Bondaryk

frustration. I will show some examples ofhypertext projects that include true interactive exercises, and which use hypertext to guide thestudent in personal pathways through lecture-based material. Some of these examples usehypertext to invert the course, placing the overarching themes at the beginning, and allowing thestudent to wend their way down to the theoretical nitty-gritty. It is in this mode that hypertext Page 2.227.2and other interactive tools force us to reexamine the way we teach.There are also examples of software tools that require interactive participation by design, such as

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Shane Henderson; Leslie A. Olsen; John Birge

introducing basic accounting concepts, so that studentswould have some appreciation of what accounting terminology and records actually mean. Then,the concept of the time value of money was introduced, and this led naturally to discounting andthe calculation of present value. Exercises for this section of the course were derived from realdata obtained from the world-wide-web to demonstrate to the students that the skills they werelearning were in use, and useful. Methods for valuing simple projects involving the purchase oflong-term assets were then explored, including a discussion of why simple-minded rules inwidespread use such as the payback period method could lead to incorrect decisions. Finally, weintroduced methods for selecting among projects

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Sheela N. Yadav-Olney; Jill M. Clough

Animation software has been granted to each the university andhigh school. Students use this high-tech application in designing and programming a 3-Danimation video for a separate concurrent competition. Students involved in the project gainexposure to multi-disciplinary work teams, technical writing, public relations with the media, andcoordinating the logistics of a moderate-scale project. UW-Platteville has enjoyed its successfulpartnership in promoting engineering to high school students.IntroductionAs stated in their promotional publications: FIRST is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a demand for science and math learning. This effort is guided by a coalition of national leaders from business, government, education and

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Ian R. Simpson

Page 2.260.3tutoring and a lot of hassle. Last year, a colleague of mine supervised the project of aTexas A and M student. My colleague's knowledge of English was limited, the Americanstudent's knowledge of French was non-existent! But, they went hunting together, got toknow each other and a good project was finally produced. On top of that, the Americanstudent told me that he had never seen such a feast after the hunt. He went back to theUSA at least 20 pounds heavier than when he arrived and latest reports indicate thatmy French colleague will soon be accepting an invitation to go and shoot anything thatmoves in the Houston area of Texas.iii. Student Placements AbroadAs part of our international program, all of my students have to validate a

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Péter Szendrõ; László Kátai

increasing speed of life can also be experienced in education. Thepossibility for personal teacher-student interaction is decreasing, so there is a need for methodsof information transfer which are suitable for supplying students with the necessary informationin a limited time. These methods should allow students to filter the information for importantelements, and use these as a source for creative application.In the educational process is built on three principles:1. Flexible structure of education2. Maintain connection with students3. Up-to-date method for transfer of knowledgeElements of the 1st principle:- Design-projects - concentrate on contents and output- Test paper - allows for feedback (non compulsory)- Constant consultation and

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Bahador Ghahramani

-time study at their place of work and during their free time. Mostgraduate candidates are expected to complete the EMGT degree requirements in three years byregistering for at least four courses per year and completing the capstone project as an additionalcourse in the final year. Those candidates who have more hectic work schedules are able tosatisfy a MS degree within five years. UMR’s program in EMGT was recognized and awarded as number one among all NTUuniversity programs by students and site coordinators. In NTU, the MS degree in EMGTrequires 33 semester credit hours covering two broad course categories. These two categoriesconsist of Core Courses (including a Capstone Project course) and Elective Courses. Elective

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Todd Mosher

compares planning a course with planning a research project. For TheAerospace Institute this analogy has been modified to an analogy between course design andsystems engineering, which is a concept very familiar to its instructors. This paper walksthrough this methodology and offers suggestions for implementation that should be useful in avariety of educational environments. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate theconcepts. INTRODUCTIONThe Aerospace Institute was established in July 1994 to integrate key corporate educationalresources toward The Aerospace Corporation vision to be the world’s leader in space technology,planning and system engineering. Since then as a part of their charter, The

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M. E. Parten; M. C. Baker

resources • Assignments - Questions, Problems, and Projects • News page - with recent updates • Question and answer page - with recent updatesAlso, computer simulation programs will be used for many components of the course. Page 2.156.2 Lesson Modules*LESSON *TOPIC *EQUIVALENT LECTURE *1 *INTRODUCTION *4 hours Properties of Silicon Overview of VLSI Processing *2 *OXIDATION *4 hours Properties of Silicon Dioxide Kinetics of Oxidation The