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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Marlee A. Walton; T. Al Austin

department vision and mission statements. • Meet changing external CE industry needs. • Meet/Exceed ABET EC 2000 accreditation criteria. • Develop an integrated learning based curriculum.As a first step in this process, a task force was appointed and charged with designing a civilengineering curriculum that met all of the objectives.Planning for the Revised Curriculum:Since many others in academia have heard similar cries from industry and evaluated ABETrequirements, the task force reviewed literature and programs for learning lessons and potentialideas. Additional data were collected through questionnaires designed to determine future needsin the revised curriculum and to benchmark the current skills of ISU CE

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Keith B. Lodge

The programming of a microcontroller as an integral part of process control for undergraduate chemical engineersKeith B. Lodge*Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, the University of Minnesota Duluth,1303 Ordean Court, Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3025AbstractNew funding in our College of Science and Engineering has become available for the enhancement ofcourses with computer technology. I took this opportunity to try an experiment in the teaching of processcontrol to chemical engineers. Inexpensive and reliable microcontrollers are now commonplace. I amusing the Basic Stamp, Parallax Inc., with the intention of getting the students to build and tune their ownliquid-level loops. This experiment was

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael Leasure

situationequipment being implemented. and to bring that level of insight to our students.The impact of this equipment and curriculum on the The other consideration that has become a concern withstudent's depth of knowledge has been very positive. Not my colleagues and I is recurrent training. This equipmentonly are students now more familiar with data acquisition is used in one unit of instruction in each semester. This isengineering as a discipline, they are able to converse not enough time for the instructor to remain current. Ifintelligently with industry personnel regarding engine something malfunctions, or an upgrade to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

Integrating Modeling and Numerical Analysis into Systems-Level Design Joseph C. Musto and Vincent C. Prantil Mechanical Engineering Department Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThe development of systems-level design experiences is a challenge in the design of an undergraduateMechanical Engineering curriculum. One key challenge is the coupling of the more analyticalcoursework component of the curriculum with creative design experiences. Traditional capstonedesign experiences involve a great deal of creative design, prototyping, debugging, and testing, butare sometimes weak in the use of mathematical

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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John Mirth; Michael Momot

criteria is more likely to occur in a stepwise manner than as acountrywide revolution in engineering education. The purpose of this paper is to present a viable first step whereby an engineering curriculum can build bridges betweenexisting courses to give students a more comprehensive experience with the soft issues of engineering education. Thebridges are built through the incorporation of intra-disciplinary design projects. The intra-disciplinary design projects presented in this paper involve the collaboration of two independent, upperdivision, engineering courses on a single design project. These projects are pursued to realize several results. Firstly, theprojects are designed to develop a collaborative project environment where

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Swaminathan Balachandran

Design, Production and Operations Analysis,Simulation, Facilities Design, Materials Handling and Warehousing, Total Quality Management,Manufacturing Systems Design, Engineering Management, Cost and Value Analysis, andIndustrial Systems Design. The above courses include a laboratory session (except for threecourses) to provide hands-on practical experience to students. Three fully equipped andperiodically upgraded laboratories are used to provide practical experience to students in the IEcourses. State-of-the art computers and software are made available to students in theselaboratories. The IE program at UW-Platteville is unique in incorporating industrial design projectsinto many of the courses in the curriculum. These industry-sponsored

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

limited because of credit reductionsin the curriculum and cost cut backs. Engineering laboratories are expensive from themachines needed to conduct the experiments to the staff time needed to train andsupport the activity. Historically, students often came to engineering from farm or otherbackgrounds where they developed skills working with their hands. Today thesebackgrounds are less common and it is proposed that it takes considerable more time toprepare students to conduct laboratory experiments than it did in earlier years. Toaddress this problem in a civil engineering materials course, we developed nine on-linetutorials and two on-line demonstrations. These tutorials consisted of media clips thatprovided step-by-step instructions on how to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Laura Grossenbacher

ago I became involved in an interdisciplinary program whichwas at that time aimed at first-year curriculum here in the College of Engineering atUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison; I teach a first-year required course in basiccommunication, and this new program offered a way to more closely link thatcommunications course to other engineering, math, and science courses. Others fromUW have published papers and given presentations on different aspects of the UWeffort in this program, which we call “the Links Program.” “Links” is funded by theFoundation Coalition, which is an NSF program to encourage problem solving acrossthe curriculm and link learning communities for freshmen. For my small part in theprogram, I have linked my communications course

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Gil Laware

involved in the development of agiven technology, like software, so they are able to make clearer judgments about thesubstance and not the glitz. What approaches are most successful in providing studentswith an understanding of that substance?Educational EnvironmentThe FundamentalsThe curriculum for K-12 students focuses upon three key areas: reading, writing, andarithmetic. In developing each of these skills, each student may be exposed to teachingtechniques like stimulus-response, emotional development, and finally, problem-solvingin the course of their learning. Each of these approaches is used in K-12 classrooms.In the stimulus-response approach, the student is taught to develop good habits in solvingproblems directed towards one solution