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James P. Penrod

Math Requirements for Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton James P. Penrod, P.E. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology University of DaytonAbstractDeficiencies in the mathematical preparation of engineering technology students have beennoted in some mid- and upper-level courses at the University of Dayton. As a result, an ad hoccommittee was formed to review the topics covered in the existing mathematics sequence andrecommend changes. This paper will review the findings of that committee. Specifically, it willaddress the areas where students were found deficient, the committee’s curriculumrecommendations, the creation of a capstone course

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Robert Edwards

Improving A Fluid and Thermal Sciences Course for Electrical Engineering Technology Students Robert Edwards Pennsylvania State University at ErieAbstract:At Penn State Erie, Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) seniors are required to take acourse in fluid and thermal sciences. The course consists of two hours of lecture and two hoursof lab per week. This course has traditionally been taught by a Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) faculty member who would teach it from a mechanical standpoint, withelectronic examples brought in where possible. The labs were designed around existingequipment in the mechanical fluid and thermal sciences lab and held little significance for

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Christopher R. Carroll

knowledgeavailable to them effectively, but they also must understand foundations of the social settings inwhich they wish to apply that technology.In the Fall, 2003, accreditation review of engineering programs at the University of MinnesotaDuluth (UMD), the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) visitorssuggested that a way be found to instill in students a more complete appreciation for this“Professional Component” of engineering. According to ABET criteria, students shouldunderstand how engineering relates to activities in • Economics, • Environment, • Sustainability, • Manufacturability, • Ethics, • Health and safety, • Society, and

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Stephen Williams; Jorg Mossbrucker; Steven Reyer; Owe Petersen

A Forward Looking Electrical Engineering Curriculum Stephen Williams, Jörg Mossbrucker, Steven Reyer, and Owe Petersen Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WIThe Electrical Engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering hasimplemented a major revision of its curriculum for the purpose of assuring acourse content consistent with both present technological changes and long-termtechnology directions. Curriculum modifications include a greater emphasis onmicroprocessor based systems, interfacing, signal processing, and a focus onmaterial science. Core electrical engineering topics are introduced throughoutthe

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Abulkhair M. Masoom; Fahmida R. Masoom

. Blackboard allows instructors to publish course material, conductcommunications and coordinate class events online with minimal knowledge of HTML orWeb design. Users in general, have claimed that through the use of this technology,more material can be covered with improved understanding; greater participation amongstudents is possible with a sense of ownership. Engineering Mechanics – Statics is atraditional engineering science course required of almost all engineering majors in theprogram. This paper presents the findings and discussion on how effective this approachhas been in a typical engineering science course.

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Arjun Makhijani

Addressing Societal Concerns through Education in Engineering and Science By Arjun Makhijani, PhD President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)Democracy cannot work if science and technology remain in a black box. People needsome basic knowledge of engineering and science in order to make informed judgmentsabout a wide variety of global issues, such as energy policy, nuclear proliferation,climate change, toxic materials, and genetically modified components in food. The gapin technical knowledge between what the public knows and what it needs to know tomake informed decisions that will ensure survival—to say nothing of justice, democracyand well

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James W. Boggs; R. Chris Williams; Kris G. Mattila; Todd Scholz

The Pavement Enterprise- An Educational Partnership with IndustryJames W. Boggs,1 R. Chris Williams,2 Kris G. Mattila3, and Todd Scholz4 1 James W. Boggs, Pavement Enterprise Assistant Director Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 jimboggs@mtu.edu (906) 487-2646 phone (906) 487-2943 fax 2 R. Chris Williams, Assistant Professor Pavement Enterprise Director Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 williams@mtu.edu (906) 487-1630 phone (906) 487-2943 fax 3 Kris G. Mattila, Associate Professor

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Anoop K. Dhingra; Al Ghorbanpoor; Joe Rauter

et al. (1997)describe the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership project that was sponsored byDepartment of Defense’s Technology Reinvestment Program. They show that all constituentsinvolved in the program: students, faculty and industrial partners, benefited from theacademic/industrial interaction. The impact of the interaction described was essentially on thecurriculum, but it suggests benefits to the industrial partners beyond the involvement ofundergraduate students.The Graduate Internship Program (GIP) discussed in the paper is different from the partnershipsdiscussed above in the sense that we do not transfer research results from academia to theindustry. Instead, we are uniquely developing the research technology at the

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

report says: “Summer Institute must be established to address the professionaldevelopment needs...”. To echo such a recommendation, we sought and received support fromthe Eisenhower Grant to carry out our plan.The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is a small teaching institution with approximately 5,800students and offers forty majors, and is located at the center of a rural area with no majorindustrial center within a radius of at least 100 miles. Among these majors there are fourengineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,and an education school accredited by the National Commission for the Accreditation ofTeacher Education. The geographical location of the University, together with its expertise

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Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

finalexams. Typical software engineering courses are three or four credits, and most have anassociated laboratory session.The undergraduate software engineering program at MSOE [6] began operation in 1999 and hadits first graduating class in spring 2002. The SE program was visited by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) in September 2002 and is one of the first accredited SEprograms in the United States.The software development laboratory course sequence begins in the winter quarter of the junioryear and extends through the fall quarter of the senior year. Upon entry into the softwaredevelopment laboratory (SDL), students have already completed courses in programming, datastructures, algorithms, design patterns, embedded

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Kyu-Jung Kim; Anoop K. Dhingra

) "Mathematical modeling for design of machine components", Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, pp. 1-5. 4Garcia RC, Heck BH (1999) "An interactive tool for classical control design education,"Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, June 1999, pp. 1460-1464.Golnaraghi MF, Boulahbal D, Leask RL (1999) "Solving solid mechanics problems withMATALB® 5", Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.Hanselman D, Littlefield B (2001) "Mastering MATLAB 6", Prentice-Hall, Upper SaddleRiver, NJ.Kadiyala M and Crynes BL (2000) "A Review of Literature on Effectiveness of Use ofInformation Technology in Education," J of Engineering Education 89:177-184.Kulik CL and Kulik J (1991) "Effectiveness of

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William E. Howard; Joseph C. Musto; William C. Farrow

) and the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of the AccreditationBoard of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) [1,2]. Designing curricula and courses thatutilize these modern tools without short-changing coverage of classical engineering theory canbe a delicate balance. Consider the use of finite element analysis (FEA) software. In the1970’s and early 1980’s, most courses in FEA courses were taught at the graduate level, withheavy emphasis on theory. Later in the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, FEA classes were added atthe undergraduate level, as use of the tool became more widespread in industry. Becausecommercial FEA programs were complex to learn and use, it was difficult to combine significanttheory with instruction in how to use a

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Kris G. Mattila; Dennis Johnson

Otter River Partnership and Project Kris G. Mattila 1, and Dennis Johnson 21 Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University,Houghton, Michigan 49931; PH (906) 487-2523; mattila@mtu.edu2 Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Studies, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA16652, JOHNSON@juniata.eduAbstract In 1999, an unusual partnership approach to river rehabilitation was instituted onMichigan’s Otter River. Three organizations: the Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps, theMichigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan Technological University cametogether to work jointly on improving the Otter River’s fish habitat and reducing sediment

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Charles McIntyre; Hung Nguyen

Senior Design Project Delivery via Student Generated Web Sites - "Lessons Learned" Charles McIntyre and Hung Nguyen North Dakota State UniversityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format (CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineering andconstruction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. In order toprovide students with the “real world” experience

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Arron Pabst; Stephen Williams

design ofthe control system is presented in detail with particular emphasis on the event-driven programstructure.IntroductionThis paper describes a capstone electrical engineering technology (EET) senior projectaccomplished as a joint effort between the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and theMilwaukee School of Engineering. The project was funded by grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health. The two-quarter project consists of an independent study to form abackground into the methods and hardware involved in EPR systems, with a second quarterdevoted to software development of the actual control system.The goal of the project is to provide control capability by way of a LabVIEW virtual instrumentutilizing GPIB connectivity. The

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Richard E. Smith

find it hard to relate what they see at the CPU level to what they see in large-scale computer behavior, and that involves input/output devices. 3. Address arithmetic – there needs to be a way for programs to compute the addresses of storage locations they use, instead of always storing and fetching from static locations. The TX-0 used self-modifying code, but that’s probably not a good thing to teach in an introductory course. References 1. Englander, Irv, The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Software Systems: An Information Technology Approach, 2003: John Wiley & Sons, New York. 2. Gilmore, J. T., Jr., and H. P. Peterson, “A Functional