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Sheng-Hsien (Gary) Teng

The common requirements for manufacturing engineers are the ability to react to theproblems quickly, their knowledge on the state-of-the-art technology, their ability to gatherinformation for problem solving, their ability to manage a project, and their communication skillsin coordinating activities and selling the improvement ideas. Lankard discussed three importantthings for students to obtain a job [1]. Basic skills provide students with job-keeping andinterpersonal skills. Technical skills allow students handle technology used on the job.Apprenticeship builds the bridge between school learned knowledge and the real-world work.Grossman and Blitzer suggested strategies for career survival which include an action plan,motivation, the

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Karim J. Nasr

software and to present some of the lessons learned. Page 2.252.1 ELECTRONIC BOOK HIGHLIGHTS Key features of Mathcad’s Electronic Book (MathSoft, Inc.) on EngineeringThermodynamics are highlighted by:1. Using Mathcad tools interactively with “Live Math”2. Providing equation-solving tools supported by tool bars, buttons, and palettes3. Performing arithmetic with built-in functions and mathematical operators4. Defining variables and functions, and evaluating functions and expressions over ranges5. Plotting and visualizing data in two and three dimensions6. Providing worked-out problems as complete

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Pradeep K. Agrawal

teaching assistants (GTA’s) with whom they will participate in the pre-laboratorymeetings. Table I. Laboratory Courses Timetable Week Lecture Lab Lab Report Oral Written No. No. No. Due Exam. Exam. 1 2 1 3 2 4 3 1 5 4 2 6 5 3 1 7 4 2 1 8 3 2 9 4 3 Yes 10

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David L. Walters

portions of the documents were also used in Power Point slides for formalpresentation as lecture notes. Previous experience in the instruction of engineering courses using Mathcad (Ref 1) had beenpositive and enriching. However, there were three intrinsic difficulties or limitations of this approach inthe EMFTS course. First, the students did not have Mathcad available to them, and so, the directrelevance, whether perceived and real, of the Mathcad documents to the their conduct of the experimentswas vague. The students worked in Excel, so that any demonstration of procedure or approach presentedin Mathcad required interpretation for implementation in Excel. Second, care had to be taken not toallow the elegance and simplicity of the data

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Sohi Rastegar; Gerard L. Coté

research advances made withinthe Biomedical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University in collaboration withinternal and external medical centers. The Senior/First year Graduate level courses werebroken down into two principles courses, a hands-on laboratory course, and a designcourse. The interdisciplinary team includes faculty from two Colleges within TexasA&M University (TAMU), three external Medical Centers, and Industry personnel asdepicted in Figure 1 below. The primary investigators responsible for the bulk of thecourse development and implementation are Drs. Rastegar and Coté from within theTexas A&M Bioengineering Program. An advisory board has been developed with arepresentative from each of the collaborating institutions

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Fahmida N. Chowdhury

of one senior from the EE dept. who en-rolled with special permission. With such a varied student body, the task of choosingcourse material was nontrivial, to say the least. The students had different levels ofbackgrounds in mathematics, programming, and physics. Since the goal was to ac-comodate the students from different departments, I decided to plan the course withless structure than usual courses. The following schedule was adopted: l The first 5 weeks were spent on theoretical foundations and their computer implementations: Page 2.255.1 1. A textbook was used (Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation by Simon Haykin

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Henry G. Ansell

thesemester, the participating engineering students gave a short presentation to their classmates. Five joint projects were completed in the spring 1996 semester. These were: (1) a“pinch-tree” requiring the patient to perform a task, with feedback to the patient suppliedelectronically (digitally) to give praise on completion of the task; (2) a device attached to thepatient’s foot, to passively exercise it with remote control; (3) a device for exercising, usingmuscles of the arms; (4) a special switch, made by a pair of students, to be used to switch on adancing-pig toy for a child; and (5) a device to be attached to a bathtub, to sense when the waterhas reached a certain level and sound an alarm. At the end of the semester, participating

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

50th Anniversary issue of Chemical Engineering Progress (January, 1997) provided manyarticles related to chemical engineering "then and now". In one of those articles David Kochlooked at the role education will play in shaping the future of chemical engineering (1). Hementioned the beginnings of three "trends" which he thought would be very important. The firstwas professional education, which he described as ".. exposing students to actual industrialpractice provides the best educational laboratory for learning design, problem-solving, andteamwork, among other things." The second was interdisciplinary, which he suggested was anatural result of the broadening of the field of chemical engineering to include new growthindustries. The third was

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Charles H. Dowding; Joseph J. Biernacki

and more, even at universities, teams of collaborators areforming to tackle complex problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions. It is theoverall objective of this program to consider an alternative approach to traditional REU’sthat typically offer students the opportunity to work independently on a research project.Instead, students are integrated in teams working in thematic areas and collaborate toachieve their goals. The Northwestern University Civil Engineering REU program hasthree basic objectives: (1) to attract top students with U.S. citizenship includingrepresentative numbers of women and minorities to a career in research on materials ofinterest to civil engineers, (2) to train students in interdisciplinary team research, and

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Yeu-Sheng Shiue; Bernard B. Beard

. Page 2.258.1II. Integrated Laboratory for Manufacturing EducationME 435 is organized to exploit the facilities of the Integrated Laboratory for ManufacturingEducation (ILME).Christian Brothers University applied for and was awarded a National Science Foundation grantto develop the ILME [1]. The objective of the ILME project is to develop an integratedlaboratory to facilitate undergraduate instruction in the complete design-through-manufacturingprocess. As part of the NSF grant activity, two new undergraduate courses that use the assets ofthe ILME are to be developed. ME 435 is the first of these courses.The ILME comprises three subsystems. The design system comprises workstations and softwarethat support CAD at the advanced undergraduate level

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

including 681 (2.1%)Native American, 928 (2.9%) African American, and 3,259 (10.2%) Hispanic students. Withinthe CEAS, the Fall 1996 enrollment of undergraduate engineering students was up 2.9% (3,422)with the graduate level up 2.1% (1,766) constituting an overall 2.6% (5,188) growth inenrollment. During this same period, the minority undergraduate engineering enrollment grewby 14.8% (to 500 students, representing 13.9% of the undergraduate engineering students) and by20.0% (to 96 minority graduate students, representing 5.4%) at the graduate level 1.In the 1996 Hispanic magazine, ASU was named one of the top 25 colleges in the United Statesfor Hispanic students. The magazine looked at colleges with a large percentage of Hispanicstudents and

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Ian R. Simpson

may seem rather strange, but we now have 35 differentnationalities present on our three campuses and 16% of our student population is non-French.All of our students have to reach Level 4 in two foreign languages on a scale in whichlevel 1 represents "Beginner's" and level 5 "Bilingualism." If they don't reach the requiredlevel, they don't graduate, no matter how brilliant they may be in Computer Science,Signal-Processing or Multimedia Networks. The students' level in modern languages istested in our own in-house examinations as well as in totally independent external testssuch as TOEFL and Cambridge Proficiency for English, the Goethe Institute for German,the European Chamber of Commerce Examinations in Spanish. Obtaining a

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Michael A. Paolino; Leonard A. Van Gulick

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Gregory M. Dick

unnecessary.All of the material distributed via the home page is rather ordinary. The increased functionalityis modest. E.g., (1) maintenance of a single table of office hours for all courses (2) exampleprograms and quiz/exam solutions available in ready-to-compile form and (3) the automaticcreation of an exam/quiz collection as a study aid for students. It is natural to raise the questions"what are the costs of these benefits?" and "do the benefits justify the costs?"The Publishing ProcedureThe enabling technology for the World Wide Web is the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP).Use of HTTP features requires that documents be drafted in Hyper Text Markup Language(HTML). HTML documents may contain links to other documents, single mouse click access

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John K. Estell

foreach algorithm. The basic illustration, which is what students are most familiar with, is shown inFigure 1: a line of individuals waiting to use the photocopier. Figure 1. Representation of First Come First Served scheduling algorithm.This represents the FCFS (first come, first served) scheduling algorithm, where whoever arrivesat the photocopier first gets to use it to make as many copies as desired. A distinction is madebetween the person using the photocopier, which corresponds to the active CPU process, and thepeople waiting in line to use the photocopier, which corresponds to the ready queue containingprocesses that are ready to use the CPU once access is obtained. The class discussion attempts toget the students involved by

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

involved in thedevelopment and teaching of various minority outreach programs. Some programs that theauthors have developed curriculum for are:1. Upward Bound Program in Math and Science2. Females in Engineering: Methods, Motivation, and Experience (FEMME) Page 2.263.13. Chemical Industry for Minorities in Engineering (CHIME)4. Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)5. Undergraduate Research Experience (URE)6. Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP)Programs (1), (2), and (3) are elementary and high school level programs while (4), (5) and (6)are college level efforts.These programs provide faculty recognition and exposure to students, program

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Christopher G. Braun

Session 1526 The CSM Electronics Prototyping Facility Christopher G. Braun Colorado School of MinesWhy an Electronics Prototyping Facility is NeededMost electronic laboratory projects require building simple circuits that are torn apart as soon asthe lab is over -- resulting in a limited opportunity for the students to construct anything useful.Students are often frustrated in electronics courses and laboratories as they never quite get to thelevel where they can design and build anything practical.[1] The CSM Electronics PrototypingFacility (EPF) provides students with

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

Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University(OSU). One component of this environment seeks to develop a framework for productionmanagement that effectively integrates process planning and other shop floor control functions ina dynamic and stochastic environment. This research is being translated from a methodologydomain to an implementation domain to serve two functions: (1) linking the undergraduatecourses that comprise the OU-IE curriculum, and (2) providing pluggable modules for otherundergraduate programs with a structure unlike the OU-IE curriculum. The software modulesbeing implemented will allow a student to study the role of individual activities and the effect ofindividual decisions with respect to a global system's performance. Course

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Fazil Najafi

presented which reflects the views of the civil engineering faculty at theUniversity of Florida and the view of industry in a curriculum innovation and renewal workshopconducted by Mike Leonard, from Clemson under the Southeastern Universities Cooperation, onengineering education funded by the NSF. The main theme of this workshop is to let faculty andindustry express their opinion about a process for continuing the curriculum renewal. Thefaculty are divided into two groups and are asked to rank issues related to the curriculum renewalprocess. The groups identified many items and finally narrowed them down to these final fiveitems: 1) increased recognition; 2) modern labs; 3) reward good teaching; 4) faculty stress and 5)professional degree. The

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T. Taylor; T. Egolf; R. Klenke; M. Salinas; J. Stinson; H. Carter; Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; Anthony J. Gadient

details are available on our WWW server: .1. IntroductionThe Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored RapidPrototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is targeted towards thedesign, prototyping (from concept to product), and procurement, of large embedded digitalsystems. Examples of systems of interest range from efficiently packaged single-boardembedded systems (as found in high-performance workstations using MCMs) to large multi-chassis radar signal processor systems which typically have performance requirements rangingbetween 20-1000 BFLOPs (billions of floating operations per second) of computational intensity

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Josue Njock-Libii; Sunday O. Faseyitan

Page 2.125.1which can exit the tank through a circular orifice of cross sectional area A, that isaxisymmetrically located at the bottom of the tank. If the initial height of the free surface of thefluid is Ho and the instantaneous height is h, one can write Bernoulli’s equation between twopoints that are assumed to belong to the same streamline. Let point 1 be on the free surface andpoint 2 at the center of the effluent jet. The resulting Bernoulli’s equation is unsteady and isgiven by av v2 pI1 ~~+$+k+~h, 2 =$+-+gh, (1) at P PWhile the equation of continuity corresponding to it is AA= AA (2

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James E. Maisel

systemsavailable, large amounts of data can be stored and viewed later for analysis. Raw data sets haveto be processed to characterize the important data features buried in the raw data. This is wheredata analysis plays a key role. Data processing is becoming a very important facet for engineering technologists. Atsome point in their professional career, they will be faced with using data analysis or using theresults of data analysis to study the behavior of a manufacturing process [1]. In either case, theirexpertise in data analysis may give them the competitive edge in industry. The Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology at Arizona StateUniversity introduced a new course this past year called Data Analysis. It assumes that

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Kenneth Belanus; John Hartin

transducer. There are pitfalls in datataking and interpretation that can be identified, and the methodology can be tailored to provideoptimum results. In the course sequence, the basic techniques of Fourier analysis are introduced,and a methodology for data acquisition suited to optimizing the usefulness of the resultingfrequency spectrum is presented. Classroom examples from the authors’ laboratory andprofessional experiences illustrate the methods, problems, and outcomes.Background Data acquisition of experimental measurements results in a set of sampled data atregularly spaced times as illustrated in Figure 1. The continuous analog signal x(t) from atransducer is fed through an analog to digital converter to give discrete values of xi(t

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

principles are introduced into lower level courses through demonstrations and how thebasic principles of process engineering can be taught to a multidisciplinary student group. Thesepresentations and experiments are drawn from past experience and those of this present year withour new multidisciplinary Freshman Engineering Clinic course at Rowan University.INTRODUCTIONThe Rowan engineering faculty are taking a leadership role by using innovative methods ofteaching and learning, as recommended by ASEE[1], to better prepare students for entry into arapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace. Key program features include: (i) inter-and multi-disciplinary education created through collaborative laboratory and coursework; (ii)stressing teamwork

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Justin R. Chimka; Karen M. Bursic; Cynthia Atman

the percentage of timespent in each of the design stages. These behaviors distinguish different types of processes that adesigner might use. To study how engineering students approach and solve design problems, wecollected data from seniors while they designed a playground for a fictional neighborhood. Inthis paper we will discuss the design behavior of these students by investigating the relationshipbetween the percentage of time spent in various design stages, the number of transitions per unittime and how well the students were able to meet the constraints in the problem.Introduction Design is a key element of any undergraduate engineering curriculum. Much has beenwritten about the importance of teaching design effectively 1-5 and

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J. W. Stevens; A.A. Jalalzadeh-Azar; B.K. Hodge

HVAC desiccant systems; among them are: 1. ASHRAE 62-l 989 which prescribes significantly increased ventilation requirements for buildings, 2. the prevalence of “sick building” syndrome, 3. demand for more efficient dehumidification of air, 4. CFC/HCFC/HFC issues, 5. flexibility in separating latent and sensible loads.Most commonly-used textbooks in university-level air conditioning courses contain very littleinformation on desiccants or desiccant systems (e.g. McQuiston and Parker, 1994, Clifford,1984). Hence, there exists a need to provide to engineering educators a user-friendly,introductory-level module that can be easily inserted into an HVAC course

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Daniel Davis

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Jon E. Freckleton

for new product Brake Assembly; dissection Figs. 1 and 2 (4)With the split in the second year course the students will work on two projects. In theGD&T class they will develop a set of drawings for an assembly. The drawings can bedrawn by hand or CG. The learning goals will be: l- Team selection, teamwork 2- GD&T reflecting functional requirements 3- Development to an assembly where parts produced to print will work 100% of the time. We do not teach selective assembly until the fourth yearThe CG course will also have a project where the part files will be used to produceprototype parts on the CNC equipment.A ProiectAn example of a project this year was a standhold reading material while using a

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Andrew S. Lau

good examples are described with key points being that bigger is not alwaysbetter, and technological development must consider the people’s needs; it must have a humanface.Several articles are read about appropriate technology, but the most important one is FourPhilosophies of Technology15. Drengson argues that technological development goes throughfour progressive stages: technological anarchy, technophilia, technophobia, and finally,appropriate technology. While characteristics of all four are evident in the U.S., we seem poisedto move into the fourth phase where technologies are designed with the following requirements: 1. They should preserve diversity. 2. They should promote benign interactions between humans, their machines

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Craig Gunn