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Electronics, Inc. coding C ina prototype test laboratory. Page 2.441.5

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WWW in the teaching and learning processes. REFERENCES1. WC3 - The World Wide Web Consortium, Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, INRIA and Keio University, http://www.w3.org/2. Internet Society Home Page, http://www.isoc.org/3. The Java Language, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mtn. View, California, 1995, http://www.javasoft.com/ about.html4. Center for Active Learning Communities, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, http://jove1.eng.ysu.edu and http://grad6.eng.ysu.edu Page 2.464.75. FEMur - Finite Element

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learned.BackgroundAll Junior Architectural Engineering students take a pair of courses, Architectural EngineeringDesign I & II(ArchEng 390, 391) which are their introduction to the design of engineeringbuilding systems. As course prerequisites they have taken at least two Architectural designstudios. They have also had as pre- or co-requisites: introductions to structural engineering,HVAC fundamentals and electrical/lighting systems. Virtually all students are also experiencedEMail users and are accustomed to using personal computers for word processing and analysis intheir courses.Drexel has full ethernet/appletalk wiring of all buildings including most laboratories as well andall dormitories. In addition we have several multi-media rooms which are

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. Tarrant, "Drucker: The Man Who Invented the Corporate Society", p. 257, Cahners Books, Inc., Boston, 1976.4. W. Bennis, "An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change", p. 75, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA, 1993.5. T. S. Robertson, "You Need Rapid Market Penetration", CHEMTECH, August 1994, pp. 53-60.WILLIAM S. SPURGEON has a B.S. (Chemistry) from the University of Illinois, a Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)from the University of Michigan. He has worked for Texaco, University of Cincinnati, American FluresitCompany, G.E (jet engines), Bendix Research Laboratories, National Science Foundation, and The University ofMichigan-Dearborn. He is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has 40 years of managerial experience

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Virleen M. Carlson; Susan C. Roberts; Kathryn A. Hollar

theattention limit of the TAs and any attempt to lengthen a workshop resulted in many complaints,decreases in participation, and general indifference to the material.ContentOver the years, the workshop content has changed and presently includes sessions on “TeachingPhilosophy and First Class Hints,” “Teaching in a Diverse Community: MulticulturalAwareness,” and elective workshops addressing specific TA duties such as “Leading aRecitation,” “Office Hours and Tutoring,” “Effective Grading,” ”Presentation Skills,” and“Teaching in the Laboratory.” This structure has remained essentially the same since 1991. Inall the workshops, a sense of community is stressed as the TAs are encouraged to share theirideas and philosophies on teaching with one another

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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

course culminates in team presentations which are evaluated and scored by facultyfrom participating departments. Extensive evaluation of the course by students and faculty haveled to improvements such as decreasing the number of assignments, coordinating assignmentsamong participating faculty, and linking the assignments more closely to the semester project. ENGR 1202 continues the emphasis on team skills and incorporates a discipline-specificlaboratory component. Students choose laboratory sections corresponding to their majors and areassigned to teams which carry over to the common classroom sessions. In the disciplinary labsstudents are given instruction in the application of an introductory topic (such as engineeringgraphics or a

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the second semester, and have five studentsenrolled in Agricultural Engineering 433: Bioprocess System Design and Analysis. Only one ofthe five students has taken the previous semester’s offering, while the other four are new to theproject. Furthermore, one of the students is a graduate student. Classes meet three times a week,in two 50 minute lecture sessions and one 150 minute design session.The design problem statement is the same as last semester, but in light of the extensive workdone by the first semester’s class, the focus of this semester is on refinement of the design,including laboratory testing of some aspects of the design. The course technical content has beenexpanded slightly from last year, but with greater emphasis on applying

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

two basicways to include safety and health material in the engineering curriculum. One is by thedevelopment of elective and/or required undergraduate courses focusing on the engineeringaspects of product, system, and occupational safety. The second is the development of coursematerial which can be used by engineering faculty in "traditional" required undergraduate 8engineering classes. Rossignol and Hanes noted that the material to be integrated into existing 9classes can be in the form of lecture material, case studies, or laboratory materials. Dembesuggested that safety and health principles can be presented

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Robert E. Magowan; Azmi Bin Ahmad; Deborah Hochstein

product cost, and shorter product design and development time.” (Montgomery,1991). In short, familiarity with methods of experimental design provides engineers with yetanother tool to use to solve problems in a cost effective and timely fashion.Concepts of the Taguchi Method Taguchi developed a method of optimizing the process of experimentation in an effort toimprove R&D productivity and enhance product quality while working for the ElectricalCommunication Laboratories in Japan, (similar to our Bell Laboratories). While there, heobserved first hand the large amounts of time and effort being spent on experimentation andtesting and came to believe that through creative brainstorming the expenditure of resources inthis endeavor could be

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

software and laboratory technology into courses. 5. Introduce synthesis/systems/design perspective at an early level and reinforce it through later work. The “Aero Curriculum 2000” committee was charged with designing a framework for anew undergraduate curriculum for the department that helped the department accomplishits mission by addressing the goals and objectives listed above. While the college-wideCurriculum 2000 initiative instigated the formation of the committee, the opportunity wasused to design a curriculum that addresses issues raised by alumni surveys, industry feedback,the departmental review, and faculty discussions. Besides the inputs mentioned above, thecurrent curricula at MIT, GA Tech, Maryland, Ohio State and Purdue

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Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

: homeworks, laboratory reports, midterm exam,individual student presentations of biological engineering applications, team design project, andother optional items of the students' own choosing. Two approaches were used for the designproject. Some students chose to work on a design project defined by the instructor; this year'stopic was the biological treatment of landfill leachate and directly followed a leachate collectionsystem design project many of the students had performed in conjunction with a local consultingfirm during the prior quarter's soil and water engineering course. The second design projectapproach was for the students to choose their own biological engineering topic. Each student wasrequired to complete one design project and make

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Anton Pintar

. Some aspects of HYSYS/HYSIM are relatively “user friendly”; other aspects are veryintimidating, especially to sophomores and juniors. HYSYS/HYSIM achieves copyrightprotection by requiring that an electronic security device called a “dongle” be attached to themouse port. These dongles occasionally disappear from the computer laboratories ormalfunction. Fortunately, MTU has a site license for HYSYS that requires only one dongle onthe server for the network. However, each non-networked computer requires its own dongle. Page 2.436.2OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPUTER PROJECTSThe use of Process Flowsheet Simulation Software was accomplished by assigning one

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facultyprompting and part of the analysis done at home and discussed in class. Due to the studentmake up of the class, students are given quite a bit of leeway to learn at their own pace. Theexample products are items from around the house or laboratories, because only one productis recruited per life-cycle characteristic and because there is a lack of expected success in theinitial analysis/redesign trial with new tools and methodologies. Household items insurestudent familiarity. The items include children’s toys, hardware, appliances, car parts,computer parts, and sports equipment. In addition, students are often asked to bring in theirown items for analysis. Students’ items include items from their homes, their hobbies, andtheir student projects from

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Yixin Shao; Laura Walhof; Joseph J. Biernacki

students begin to develop knowledge and experience abouthow to explore open-ended questions. They should begin to expect that they themselveswill establish not only the experimental parameters for making their samples but also theparameters by which the samples will be tested. In this way, real-world scientific inquiryand design is being practiced rather than following step-by-step instructions withoutforethought to why they are doing what they are doing.In the real world, scientists and engineers face open ended problems on a daily basis. Forthat matter, this concept extends beyond laboratory science and into daily life. To besure, following instructions plays an important role in learning. The rather loose lookingset of procedural guidelines

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

high-quality, realistic problems with accompanying resourcematerials. The PROBE Project is presently developing problems and materials in technology,engineering, mathematics, and science education. These resource materials include video ofvarious classes in transition from more conventional lecture/laboratory formats to that ofproblem-based instruction. Our intentions are to make these materials available to others fordirect use, modification as may be appropriate, or simply as models for materials developmentand application. Based on project experience to date, the availability of such materials isinstrumental in speeding the application of problem-based approaches. Of course, having high-quality problem-based educational materials that fit

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

student's skills through laboratory and design experience,use of computers, oral and written communication, qualifications and teaching load of academicstaff, facilities and their availability, administration procedures, information system andcounseling, admission procedures, internationalization of the curriculum, student performance,competence of graduates, and internal quality assurance procedures.There are, however, some features of the system of study, namely, diversity and flexibility,which - in our opinion - have an essential impact on the quality of education, but are rather rarelybrought into discussions on quality assessment. In this paper, we define diversity and flexibilityof the system of study and show a strong relationship between

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Leonard Sokoloff

Session 2259 Acoustical Radar Leonard Sokoloff DeVRY Technical InstituteVirtual Instrumentation is making a significant impact in today’s industry, education and research.DeVRY Technical Institute selected LabVIEW as an excellent representative of this technologyand is implementing LabVIEW into its curriculum at all DeVRY campuses in the United Statesand Canada.LabVIEW@ (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) a product of NationalInstruments@, is a software system that incorporates data acquisition, analysis and presentation,and

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Dean R. Johnson; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

Computer Engineering, WesternMichigan University. His expertise focuses on the computer systems and fiber opticscommunication systems. He is the author of a book on fiber optics and was a facultyfellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 1982, 1991, and 1992. Page 2.61.12 12

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Michael D. Amos; Bruce E. Segee

, April 1987), Artificial Neural Networks: Theoretical Concepts, V. Vemuri (Ed.), IEEE ComputerSociety Press, pp. 36-54, Washington, D.C.[McFedries, 1995] McFedries Paul (1995), Excel for Windows 95: Unleashed, SAMS Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.[Wasserman, 1989] Wasserman Philip D., 1989, Neural Computing: Theory and Practice, Van Nostrad Reinholdpublishing company, New York, NY.Biography Dr. BRUCE E. SEGEE received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. He hasbeen an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving

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

registered professional engineer in Virginia. He graduated from USMA in 1975, and received a Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 1993. He has taught courses in statics & dynamics, mechanics of materials, geotechnical engineering, hydrology & hydraulic design, and advanced structural analysis. DR. CHRISTOPHER H. CONLEY completed his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 1983 in Civil/Structural Engineering. Since then he has held positions as a member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Conley is currently the Director of the Civil Engineering Research Center at the US Military Academy. LENOX, O'NEILL

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Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

improvement inteaching effectiveness or student learning. The MET Department’s contribution to this effortinvolved a project that focused on a restructuring of the credit hour count in the existing plan ofstudy with an emphasis on overall reduction of hours required. Outcomes for this project havebeen summarized in another paper by Hutzel, et.al [5]. A second project involves planning andimplementation of a more comprehensive recruitment/enrollment development plan. Thetechnical staff is working on a third project aimed at standardizing and documenting laboratoryprocedures to allow smoother transitions when laboratory courses are taught by different facultyor with different technical support personnel.In general, the university community has

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Peter Martin; Bill Bitler; Rulph Chassaing

1993 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April, 1993.12. R. Chassaing, "The need for a Laboratory Component in DSP Education - A Personal Glimpse", Digital Signal Processing, Academic Press, January 1993.13. R. Chassaing and B. Bitler (contributors), "Signal Processing Chips and Applications", The Electrical Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, 1993.14. R. Chassaing, Digital Signal Processing with the TMS320C25, J. Wiley, 1990.BILL BITLER is employed by InfiMed, in New York, as a Senior Systems Engineer working with imagingproducts and digital image processors for medical diagnostic imaging. He received his BS in Computer Engineeringin 1992 from Roger Williams University

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G. Frederick d'Almaine; Brian Manhire; Samuel O. Atteh

(See Figure 1 for technikon abbreviations) The foundation technikon qualification is the three-year National Diploma which pres-ently consists of 4 semesters of theoretical studies (i.e., lectures and laboratories on campus) fol-lowed by 2 semesters of experiential training at a cooperating accredited industrial employer. AtM. L. Sultan Technikon for example, the minimum theoretical component for the National Di-ploma in electrical engineering (heavy current) consists of 20 subjects at 5 contact hours perweek per subject. The highest level examinations are externally moderated by suitably qualifiedpersonnel from other academic institutions or industry. Certain subjects such as communicationskills and computer skills are compulsory

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Sheela N. Yadav-Olney; Jill M. Clough

Industrial Engineering Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory. Dr.Yadav-Olney earned her Ph.D. in engineering management from University of Missouri-Rolla in1994. Page 2.200.8

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period of atleast two months spent working abroad in order to qualify for graduation. This can beachieved in one of the following ways :* A summer placement in industry or at one of our partner universities(Duration : 2months)* A final-year internship in industry or a research laboratory (Duration : 4-6months)* A complete final year (Duration : 9-13months)Each year is made up of 210 students and it is no easy task finding so many placements.The final-year internships often lead to publications in international reviews and enablefurther contacts to be developed at research level between our European partners andhome faculty.The final-year abroad has led to the development of "Dual Degree

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Samuel P. Clemence; Daniel J. McGinley

Reference Guide, ASFE• Standard Form: Subcontract Agreement for Drilling Services, ASFE• Standard Form: Agreement for Subcontract Laboratory Services, ASFE• Standard Form of Agreement for Preliminary Site Assessment Services, ASFE• Terms for Geotechnical Engineering Services, ASFEThe Issues in Professional Engineering Practice course materials have been requested by 128practicing engineers and 321 faculty in 252 engineering programs in the United States (as well as16 programs in ten foreign countries). In addition, 184 sets of the “course-in-a-box” referencelibrary have been provided to faculty in these engineer programs. The course has beenimplemented in part or whole by 178 engineering programs in this country. Of these, 48programs are

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substantial. The pilot course was taught with minimal use of computers. The students used graphingcalculators extensively. In the past, Mathematica was used in our calculus sequence, but thedepartmental laboratory was in disrepair in Fall, 1996. The addition of a new computerlaboratory in the department has added to the follow-on course and will probably be integratedinto Mathematics for Scientists and Engineers II as the three dimensional graphing capabilitieswill enhance students’ visualization. The curriculum reform effort at CSM includes assessment and evaluation throughout. Thisshould lead to continual improvement of courses, thus this course will be constantly updated and

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Stephan C. Werges; David L. Naylor

: Computer Applications, Wiley, New York, 1976.BiographiesSTEPHAN C. WERGES (scwerges@uic.edu) is a designer and the lead programmer for the Networked InstructionalInstrumentation Facility, as well as Network Administrator for the Microfabrication Applications Laboratory at theUniversity of Illinois, Chicago. His research interests include distributed systems, user interface design, and virtualreality. Werges received his BS in mathematics from the University of Illinois, Chicago and is currently pursuing hisMS in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois, Chicago.DAVID L. NAYLOR (naylor@uic.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer ScienceDepartment at the University of Illinois at

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Evangelyn C. Alocilja

50-minute computer laboratory session. A “lecture” period may consist of course materialpresentation by the instructor, student interactions among themselves facilitated by the instructor,and student teamwork. Cooperative learning1 is used to convey the contents of the course to thestudents. Students work individually to accomplish assigned homework, exams, and projectpapers; work as a team of two to solve classroom problems and computer exercises, and work asa team of three to complete and present poster projects to the class. Name Tags. Knowing each other well is an important factor in a successful classroomand in building teamwork. To facilitate the process, each student is requested to wear a nametag, provided by the instructor