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James C. Wood

Session 3586 Engineering Technology Curriculum Integration in an Associate Degree Program James C. Wood Tri-County Technical CollegeIntroductionThe 16 technical colleges of the Technical College System of South Carolina in partnership withindustry, public education, and the National Science Foundation (NSF-ATE DUE 9602440) havebegun a five-year odyssey to reform the educational programs for engineering technology. Thisreform is needed because of two forces driving curriculum change. First, industry leadersemphasize that technicians need more

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S. Gokhale; J. Aldrich

Session 1221 Integrating Community Service in the Construction Technology Curriculum S. Gokhale and J. Aldrich Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI Abstract The pedagogy of service learning has been documented since the mid-1970’s (Perry, 1970), but only in recent years have colleges and universities begun to integrate curricular-based service into higher education. During the fall of 1996, the Department of Construction Technology, IUPUI; NBD Bank, Indianapolis; and the

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

using our modeling environment to assist in theirefforts to conceptualize, design, evaluate, implement, and manage the integrated manufacturingsystems that will be required for a firm to be competitive in the 21st century. To accomplish thisrequires students with the requisite fundamental knowledge. The proposed curriculumdevelopment addresses this need.Undergraduate Curriculum for CIMEDThe on-going integrated production management research is structured and translated from amethodology domain to an implementation domain whereby a multi-modular integrated softwaresystem for linking courses at various levels is under development using the researchmethodologies. The curriculum development effort is to be two-fold:• Develop a strong thread for

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William J. Adams; Curtis A. Carver

clearly and explicitly dis-plays threads of education between different department which may or may not be desired.Course boundaries are weakened as interconnected courseware treats courses as informationalresources in an integrated educational system. This will weaken the flexibility and discretion ofcourse directors and strengthen the power of department heads and administrators. Individualprofessors will have less opportunity to develop their own courses without external input or teachthe same course that they have taught for the last twenty years. Interrelationships between differ-ent courses will become clear and perhaps more importantly, interrelationships that wherethought to exist between courses and in fact do not will also become clear

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

: Page 2.109.7⇒ An integrator of topics within an individual course in the curriculum. Two of the authors have experienced the integration effects within a reinforced concrete design course. As seen in Table 5, students used Mathcad on every written requirement in the course. In effect, Mathcad worksheets formed a natural link between the course topics. Homework problems for new lessons were most efficiently solved by supplementing Mathcad solutions from previous homework assignments. Developing a solution to the major design project of the course was fashioned by combining individual Mathcad worksheets from previous homework assignments. The overall effect was the creation of a Mathcad thread through the entire course. This Mathcad

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Susan M. Bolton; Scott D. Bergen; James L. Fridley

applicationswhere an ecological approach to engineering design can augment the efforts of otherprofessionals to solve complicated and pressing problems.An ecological engineering curriculum should provide solid education in ecology, engineeringfundamentals and design. Perhaps the greatest contribution to engineering that the curriculumcan make is a new methodology for design, informed by ecology. We have sketched out some ofthe basic ecological principles that will need to be integrated into design methods. How this willhappen and how some of the apparent conflicts with traditional practices will be resolved isunknown, and will likely be an evolutionary process.A curriculum must also tackle other large issues, not explored here, of uncertainty in design

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Robert J. Beichner; Hugh Fuller; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

Session 2230 UPDATE ON IMPEC: AN INTEGRATED FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING CURRICULUM AT N.C. STATE UNIVERSITY Richard M. Felder, Robert J. Beichner, Leonhard E. Bernold, Ernest E. Burniston, Philip R. Dail, Hugh Fuller North Carolina State UniversityAn integrated freshman engineering curriculum called IMPEC (Integrated Mathematics, Physics,Engineering, and Chemistry Curriculum) has undergone three years of pilot-testing at NorthCarolina State University under the sponsorship of the SUCCEED Coalition. In each semester ofIMPEC, the students take a calculus course, a science course

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Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

trying to expand its horizons and explorenew directions. One of these directions is the development of an applied research program, and ithas lead to the development of a new facility called the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL)that serves as a center for research and innovative curriculum development [1]. A second directionis the proposed development of a new laboratory called the Integrated Systems EngineeringLaboratory (ISEL) that emphasizes the vertical integration of knowledge by forming a pre-requisitestructure in laboratory work that spans across multiple courses. It will be shown that this newlaboratory will cause a paradigm shift in student learning by moving from an isolated learningenvironment to an integrated learning environment

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Integrating Design in Electrical Engineering Curriculum (1232)

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David J. Ahlgren, Trinity College

controller, a stimulus-responsetimer, finite state machines, and several tiny microprocessors. Completed in four weeks,including two or three formal lab sessions, fully operational four-bit microprocessors weredesigned by student teams each year from 1994-96. These processors each had a sixteen-member instruction set adequate for writing short, but instructive, programs. For example,programs that performed elementary operations on arrays were developed on the 1995 design(CPU221/95), which incorporated immediate, direct, and indexed auto-increment addressingmodes.These successes have shown that students become productive quickly when introduced to a well-integrated tool-set in the first course. Students are able to complete design projects that are

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David S. Cottrell; Stephen J. Ressler

Session 1268 Integrating Design Projects into an Introductory Course in Mechanics of Materials David S. Cottrell, Stephen J. Ressler United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes the use of design projects in an introductory mechanics of materialscourse at the United States Military Academy. These projects serve to reinforce topics taughtin the classroom and to introduce students to the engineering design process with their firsthands-on design experience. Three representative examples of actual projects are presented.Students’ end-of-course

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Brian A. Alenskis

curriculumstructures and instructors’ credentials.[1] Among them, are: • A free-standing ethics course (required or optional), by technical or philosophy faculty • An ethics component within a free-standing “professionalism” course [2] • An issue for review within a senior project/thesis [3] • Integration of ethics throughout the curriculum [4] • Commingling ethical issues and problems in technical courses [5]While these approaches evolve around local constraints and preferences, they also reflect thecompromises made among somewhat conflicting methods. For instance, few technical curricula can easily incorporate a required ethics course, eventhough such status can highlight the importance of ethics. And yet, segregating the subject

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Philip J. Regalbuto; Page Ransom; Mary Morton-Gibson; Lise V. P. Esch

Technology core curriculum to meet future needs. One of the ways to improvethe Engineering Technology curriculum is to integrate key skills. In the Summer of 1996, fivemembers of the SCATE team from Trident Technical College were granted release time to reviseEGR 103 course content to reflect the new emphasis on team building, co-operative learning andcommunication skills that are in demand from industry and education.1 The remaining two teammembers were granted release time to study and develop assessment methods.Course revisionIn the revised version of this course some of the topics were retained: Units and measurements;graphing; calculator skills and treatment of significant digits are topics that elude theunderprepared student. Four additional

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Craig Gunn

of whatthey will find in their courses. Page 2.133.3ConclusionsDesign can be an integral part of every course in the curriculum. Using it to show correlationsbetween what is taught and what will be encountered in the real world gives the student the toolsto continue to accept the educational system as a valuable activity. Allowing students to quicklyformulate plans and even more quickly build the designs in in-class activities gives them thechance to see design at work and keeps alive the connection with other courses.Out-of-class design activities allow students to create within environments of their ownselection. Working together in

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Cal Caswell; Mel I. Mendelson

Session 2563 Integrated Product Development in the Classroom Mel Mendelson, Cal Caswell Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractA course entitled, "New Product Design and Development" was introduced to meet the needs ofindustry and to address reform in engineering education. It was modeled after a similar onetaught at MIT; however, it had distinctly different features. The course used multi-discipinaryteams and product planning to create commercial products. Our course emphasized teambuilding, marketing, design, prototyping, and the business aspects of launching a new product onthe

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Duane L. Marcy; James C. Sturm

section of this paper.MOTIVATION The new introductory curriculum at Princeton focuses on solving problems across the entireEE field, and away from narrowly focused specialty courses centered around various tools andmethods. This is accomplished through four required sophomore level courses which are: AnIntroduction to EE Systems and Signals, Electric Circuits, Digital Logic, and Integrated Circuits:Practice and Principles. The four courses span the scope of electrical engineering and are notdesigned to be an introduction of various tracks for people keen on majoring in that track. Rather,they are designed as a broad overview, more to instill what the basic concepts and goals are in thearea for the non-specialist. In the area of integrated

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Troy E. Kostek

Session 3663 Using Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) as an Integration Tool Troy E. Kostek Purdue UniversityIntroductionToday, OLE (object linking and embedding) technology can be used to integrate an entiremanufacturing operation ranging from the factory floor to the organization’s information andmanagement systems. Industrial OLE-based component products (such as Rockwell Software’sRSTools™), combined with a Microsoft Windows development tool (Visual Basic, for instance),are providing many benefits to manufacturing engineers and systems integrators. In someapplications

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David E. Clough

successful (students’ point of view). In a second attempt,the instructional format was revolutionized to an active-learning environment, where lecturepresentation has been minimized and group workshop activities now take up a significant portionof class time. This transformation has brought about a successful offering of the course, and atale worth recounting.In the third offering of the course, the active-learning environment will be enhanced through useof a new classroom designed around cooperative learning in the new Integrated TeachingLaboratory of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Colorado.An alternate title to this paper/presentation might be:How to keep 60 ChE juniors awake and interested in statistics at 8 o’clock in the

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

individuals perform better in quantitative questions,while intuitive individuals seem to have an advantage in theory questions.This research has a great significance for an interdisciplinary curriculum such asthe ECO-MGT integrated course. It argues for innovative teaching and testingmethods not only to extend MBTI sensing types but also to encourage moreintuition and thinking as well as perception for the disciplines. Given the averagepersonality types (introversion, thinking, judgment, and sensing preference) ofengineering students, it is important to introduce issues and topics that encouragethem to examine, analyze, and communicate not only the overview, patterns, andconnection between materials but to approach situations in a creative and

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

Session 1526 On Laboratory Development for a Curriculum in Particle Technology Rajesh N. Dave, Jonathan Luke, Robert Pfeffer, Doris Yacoub, Ian S. Fischer, Anthony D. Rosato New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102AbstractThis paper discusses the development of laboratory facilities for use with an on going NSF-CRCD project that will establish a three-course concentration in particle technology at NJIT,offered across the engineering curriculum. The main objective of the NSF funded project is toaddress the urgent need for undergraduate and graduate education in this vital field

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Clifford R. Mirman

, based upon fluid mechanics, the students create models for testing in the windtunnel; which are also analyzed using the CFD. Since this is not taught in class, as with many othersoftware tools, the instructor can teach this subject to the design team. In the years which I have been aninstructor in this laboratory course, the use of numerical analysis has been an integral part of the course.The students learn to utilize a very important tool in a manner which they must design the model,loadings, and analyze the results which are produced.Projects UndertakenThe cornerstone of this course is the completion of a semester-long design project in any stem, or acombination of stems, in the mechanical engineering curriculum. Each year that the course is

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Richard L. Marcellus

open-ended problems intended to allow creative response, and they should be allowed to respond experimentally without the fear of lowering their grades.The rest of this paper enlarges on these strategies as applied to teaching applied probability toindustrial engineering students. THE COURSEI am integrating engineering design into an applied probability course that is required for theindustrial engineering major at Northern Illinois University. This course is called OperationsResearch II. Its prerequisites are an introduction to statistics and a course in deterministicoperations research models. The contents of the course are basic probability, simple reliabilitymodels, Markov chains, the Poisson

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Tom Mase

Session 2266 Integrating Design in Advanced Mechanics of Materials Through Industry Collaboration Tom Mase Associate Professor GMI Engineering & Management Institute ABSTRACTThis paper presents an discussion of integrating design through industry collaboration inAdvanced Mechanics of Materials, a junior-level course. It is hoped that this might act asanother paradigm for integrating design into traditionally analytical courses. In teachingAdvanced Mechanics of Materials this way, the students cover most of the

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

Session 3253 Professional Development and Collaborative Teaching in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study from the University of Virginia Mark A. Shields, John P. O'Connell School of Engineering and Applied Science University of VirginiaSince early 1995 a small committee of University of Virginia engineering faculty and staff hasworked to define professional development values and objectives and to determine how they canbe fostered in an undergraduate engineering curriculum. The committee developed a frameworkdocument outlining the key attributes

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Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

. It is the combinationof these two movements, that prompted TAC to closely examine its current accreditation criteriaand practices. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of current TAC of ABET practices andproposed ideas for the future are presented in an earlier paper by Pagano [3]. For the present,TAC has chosen to maintain its course, and has resisted wide-scale adoption of the outcome-based philosophy. Conversely, TAC has fully supported the integration of continuingimprovement expectations into the criteria. To examine and possibly implement some of thesechanges, TAC convened a mid-year working session in February 1995. Some of the actions thatwere considered at this meeting resulted in the TAC criteria revisions which are the subject

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Michael A. Paolino; Leonard A. Van Gulick

and various student passes, shopping, and the other necessaryactivities of daily life. The Vesalius College staff, the on-site Lafayette program director, andtheir host families stand ready to assist them when necessary in these efforts.Students quickly become integrated into the Vesalius College student body. Because it isstrongly international, with only a minority of native Belgian students, it is particularly open andwelcoming to other newcomers. Lafayette students quickly form friendships with Vesaliusstudents which give them ready entry into Brussels student social life.Lafayette engineering students invariably return from Brussels well pleased with their experiencethere on both an academic and a personal level. They often feel that it

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

two-semester seminar sequence, covering current topics in aerospace and case studies in engineering. A two-semester design sequence. Development of the outlines and supporting materials, including educational software modules, for new and modified courses is now underway. First-year students entering in Fall 1997, the graduating class of 2001, will go through the new curriculum. ‘An on-line version of this paper can be accessed on the Aerospace Department home page [l] Page 2.458.1 11 The College-Wide Curriculum 2000 Effort1.1 IntroductionIn summer of 1995, an

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Gary Benenson; Benjamin Liaw

Mechatronics, and ME 511 Advanced Mechatronics. Coursedescriptions of these courses are listed in the Appendix. Both ME 311 and ME 462 are requiredwhile ME 511 and ME 546 are technical electives in the ME curriculum at CCNY. The manufacturing sequence consisting of ME 462 (Manufacturing Processes andMaterials) and ME 546 (Robotics and Automation) was developed to replace an outdatedmanufacturing course, in which traditional lectures and aged educational films were the maindelivery methods for teaching. Hands-on experience was limited to tours of the machine shops.The mechatronics sequence consisting of ME 311 (Fundamentals of Mechatronics) and ME 511(Advanced Mechatronics) was developed to expand an old instrumentation laboratory course sothat

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Thomas G. Boronkay; Janak Dave

Session 2238 Introduction of Finite Element Methods in the Lower Division Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Thomas G. Boronkay, Janak Dave University of CincinnatiIntroductionMany engineering technology students work in positions requiring familiarity with engineeringanalysis as well as design. They are asked to use commercially available software packages as apart of their job function. Some of the simple analysis is off loaded to the designer. One of mainreason for this shift is integration of analysis as early in design process as possible. Anotherreason is

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

improvement through assessment and evaluation. TheFoundation Coalition partners draw on their diverse strengths and mutual support to constructimproved curricula and learning environments; to attract and retain a more demographicallydiverse student body; and to graduate a new generation of engineers who can more effectivelysolve increasingly complex, rapidly changing societal problems. The improvement ofrecruitment and graduation of traditionally underrepresented groups is an integral part of theFoundation Coalition strategic plan. This paper discusses Coalition projects to date and otherefforts focused on increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in engineeringeducation.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation's Engineering

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with job-related experience may already have extensive knowledge in various areas of their fields of study. This experience, in many cases, may be equivalent to what is being taught in some of the engineering courses or general education classes. Documentation of work experience through portfolio development may qualify students for an exemption from courses normally required to receive an engineering degree. At the end of the semester, the student and academic advisor will assess the contents of the portfolio and develop an individualized curriculum plan (ICP) based on the student’s demonstration of knowledge and experience in the field of engineering.Thomas Angelo5 points out that a number of