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Barbara Olds

profile. This typeof portfolio might be more attractive as a selling device for a prospective employer because thestudent and teacher have had the opportunity to “filter” the contents and be selective about whatto include.We are in the planning stages of a longitudinal selective portfolio requirement for students in theMcBride Honors Program at CSM. Students in this seven-semester sequence will be required toselect representative works from their seminars each semester, reflect on how the selected workrepresents their efforts and accomplishments in the seminar, and meet with a faculty tutor for aone-on-one discussion of the portfolio. Before graduation each student will be required to meetwith a faculty committee to present his/her portfolio and

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

Impact on Engineering Curriculum Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, October 1993, pp. 203-211.9 Samson, Charles H. and James T.P. Yao, “TQM: Let’s Practice What We Teach,” Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1990), pp. 51-57.10 Peachy, Burt and Daniel Seymour, “Voice of the Customer: Using QFD as a Strategic Planning Tool,” In Continuous Quality Improvement: Making the Transition to Education, edited by Dean L. Hubbard, (Maryville: Prescott Publishing Co.) 1993, pp. 281-301.11 Murray, Susan, “Credibility in Engineering Education,” 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June 1995, pp. 1160-1162.12 Ermer, Donald S., “Serving the Customer - TQM in Mechanical Engineering,” 1993 ASEE Annual

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; David D. Clark; David W. Rosen

for integrating designing and learning in one process, through planning, conceiving and designing. Tools: Students use tools for modeling and solving design problems. There are currently a number of tools students may use in the process of formulating and solving Decision Support Problems, which are rigid mathematical formulations for making decisions. We also provide tools for students to use in forming groups, generating and associating ideas, simulating processes, requesting clarifications about rule questions, and reflecting on what has been learned and how it may be applied in other situations. Knowledge Bases: Students must have a body of knowledge as a resource in

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Andrew S. Lau

design with readily available materials and know-how.This year an additional unit on indigenous architecture and Native American peoples of theAmerican southwest is planned. Emphasis will be on the history of adobe architecture andpueblos, and the connection between the native peoples and the earth. One of the sources ofinformation will be Living the Sky21 which is about the archaeoastronomy of these people andhow their dwellings and communities were in concert with their cosmological beliefs. The Page 2.132.8translation of some of these principles into modern passive solar buildings will be explored.Students will design a house using passive

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

instructors? Two conclusions stand out. First, our collaboration worked becauseof a shared vision of PD and its importance as well as our willingness and enjoyment ofsustaining it by frequent interactions for planning and execution throughout the semester. Oursense is that both of these are not only desirable but essential. We were fortunate to haveparticipated in developing the shared PD vision as it emerged over months of intensivediscussion; we were more able to implement a systematic model in our sections than mightsomeone who came in “cold.”Second, in contrast to the PD framework that stimulated and guided our collaboration, we had noformal model for collaborative teaching - let alone for a cross-disciplinary collaboration likeours. Our

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C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

inquestionable areas in the city, they were required to travel in teams of least two people to anysite.After preliminary site visits, each team then had to organize their research plan to include suchdata collections techniques as structured interviews, surveys, observations, and content analysisof historical documents. During the course of the semester the teams were required to present awritten and oral progress report and then a final oral presentation and written report with theirfindings and recommendations.Results of the Service Learning Experience: When comparing the reports of students fromthis cohort to students in previous years, it became apparent that doing a project with acommunity service component provided a much more powerful learning

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Jerry W. Samples

rated from 2.6 (Student-Teacher Relations) to 3.9(Women’s Issues in Academia) in value and 3.4 to 4.4 in conduct, respectively. Data onadministration and logistics, and conduct of instruction were also captured in this survey for usein planning and conducting future courses.Two short open-ended questions were handed out, and collected, on the final day that sought anoverall self-assessment of participant’s improvement in teaching, if any. A sampling of theparticipants’ comments follows: “Yes, my teaching has improved. I think the greatest improvement is in my ability toorganize a lecture, know how long it’s going to take...At first I was skeptical about howtransportable this would be ... Once we started doing it, though, I could see

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Roland Jenison; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

interest in learning as theytake possession of their product. Many teams perform beyond expectations and turn in reportsthat exceed the requirements provided to the students. Future DirectionsBased on the results of the surveys, plans are being made to strengthen the areas of the projectthat are weak as well as develop the communication aspects of the project so that students betterrecognize how this project enhances their skills in this area.Approximately 600 students take this course at Iowa State each year. Therefore, effort to de-velop new product dissection projects is ongoing. Currently, several new products are being in-vestigated and new projects are being designed

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John K. Gershenson

Manufacturing Issues in Life-cycle Design,” Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Winter Annual Meeting.Ishii, K. (1996). “Design for Manufacturability,” Class notes for ME217 at Stanford University.Love, S.F. (1986), Planning and Creating Successful Engineered Designs, Advanced Professional Development, Inc., Los Angeles, California.Makino, A., P. Barkan, and R. Pfaff (1989), “Design for Serviceability,” Proceedings of the Symposium on Concurrent Product and Process Design, San Francisco, California.Miyakawa, S., et al. (1990), “The Hitachi New Assemblability Evaluation Method (AEM),” Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, p. 352.Navinchandra, D. (1994), “The Recovery Problem in Product

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Peter Ludovice; Noel Rappin; Matthew Realff; Mark Guzdial

be faded as the student gains expertise with both the software environment and the concepts. ThegPROMs solver provides the capability of achieving objective 3 (comparing models with real systems), although itis not clear if students have developed an appreciation for these differences. The third objective (understandingdegrees of freedom) was not explicitly addressed by our previous evaluations. Our next planned classroomevaluation will require students to answer questions about a pump design problem that will explicitly addresswhether the appreciate the origin of the differences between their model and the real system (approximated by amore realistic gPROMS simulation). Students will also be asked questions to determine if they better

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Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

, with a strong industry connection. Now after three years, each of thethree universities have in place formal minors and options in design and manufacturing as well asnew laboratories known as Learning Factories 1. A cornerstone of this project has been thegrowing interest and support of local industry to participate in the development of theseprograms, particularly in the area of senior design projects. Currently, nearly 100 companies aresupporting senior projects for students in these programs at the three universities. Such projectsrequire major commitment of resources for planning and execution from both the universitiesand the companies. This paper describes some of the processes, some of the successes and someof the failures in this

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Yixin Shao; Laura Walhof; Joseph J. Biernacki

can compete commercially. You are expected to do a rigorous review of the tile market. Consider other tile products as well including tiles for bathrooms, exterior facades and interior wall coverings as well as others you may think. Page 2.235.9This project immerses the students in a simulation of a real-world situation. They mustresearch the market, consider the limitations of the materials they have to work with,design a development plan, design the test methods, produce samples and full-scaleprototypes communicate the results to others and convince their peers that their product isviable.The student directed design project is similar

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

offer (free electivecourses).The curriculum requirements are formulated for each area of concentration; the requirementsassociated with basic subject classes are, however, common for all or most of the areas. Toobtain a degree, the student must satisfy the requirements for at least one area of concentration.The requirements are formulated in such a way that the student can take quite a large number offree elective courses. Thus, by carefully planning his/her individual program, the student canobtain the degree in one area and a certificate of minor specialization in another. This way, alarge number of interesting patterns of education in the broad field of electronics and informationtechnology can be created. Besides, by taking a large number