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Linda Parker; Lawrence Burton

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Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

, as wellteaching planning and team-work. The students commonly use this course to decide whetherMechanical Engineering is the major they want to declare. It is a two-credit course, and mostfreshmen take this course in addition to their first-year calculus, physics, and chemistry courses.As a result, a main concern in this class is to make it a fun experience for the students, whilemaking sure that the students get a full flavor for what to expect in Mechanical Engineering.2.1 Question #1: Am I ready for what is involved in teaching?This first question addresses aspects of teaching that we are never exposed to as doctoralstudents. The following discussion addresses my experiences in issues such as preparing thecourse structure, preparing and

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Ronald R. Hosey; R. Gregg Bruce; Lester K. Eigenbrod; Hansjoerg Stern

line shaft that delivered 40 hp each to asimple gear train and a V-belt drive at 1750 rpm. Although the project was an academic exercise inshafting, it served to refresh concepts taught to students in Strength of Materials, Machine Design,and Metallurgy. Each of the three-member teams was required to complete their design withdocumentation that included assembly and detail CAD drawings, parts list, sample calculations,and narrative descriptions that provided reasons for each portion of their design. The students werethen able to apply their design to the subsequent manufacturing-process design project. The intentis to use the experience of this coordinated effort to plan for students to additionally manufacture,assemble, and test a "real

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Stephen R. McNeill; Jed S. Lyons

. By letting students determine forthemselves how processing conditions affect material behavior, Material World will enable themto use scientific inquiry as an integral part of the learning process. This paper describes theconcept, technological hurdles, and implementation plan for Material World within the contextof other state-of-the-art courseware being delivered on the Internet.2. INTRODUCTION2.1. Laboratory ExperiencesVirtually all U.S. degree programs in Mechanical Engineering include a course on EngineeringMaterials. These courses often include hands-on laboratory experiments (e.g., the University ofSouth Carolina’s EMCH 371). There is no substitute for the knowledge students can gain byphysically touching the materials and

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James Rehg

movement through the course content. However, web courses become non-linear, and student movement through the course must be carefully planned and controlled withsufficient and effective navigational aids. The ability of students to move along differentinstructional paths as they navigate the material makes it difficult to verify that every topic wascovered. In addition, the course designer must make sure that the learner does not get lost in ajungle of hypertext links among related materials.The work associated with step two, creating a course script in the HyperText Markup Language,is the most demanding because it is not uncommon for a course to have hundreds of HTMLpages. Links to fourteen course templates in HTML are provided in this paper to

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Walter Vincent; Nipha P. Kumar; Craig A. Bernecker

course development.'Noncontiguous' is the word that Shaba5 uses to describe this physical separation betweeninstructor and learner. However, as one becomes more involved in designing instruction in adistance environment, other pedagogical issues emerge. Should distance course workdevelopment, as Keegan6 suggests, attempt to 're-create' the face-to-face teaching and learning Page 3.220.1experience that takes place in the traditional classroom? Further, what kinds of learningexperiences can be included?Moore and Kearsley7 expand the definition of distance education to suggest that not only isdistance education "planned learning that normally

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Mahmood Nahvi

years the course and the lab have been offered in the spring quarters with animpacted average class size of 35 students. The course has been well received by the students.During the 1997-98 academic year the course is being offered twice. Because of the need forupgrading DSP workstations and adding image processing platforms, a new phase has beenstarted with support provided by an NSF/ILI grant and donations from industry. Our previousexperience in developing the DSP platforms was greatly useful in implementing the currentproject: how to plan, combine, and interface financial resources from the ILI grant and universitymatching funds with equipment donations from industry.The new lab is being used for the first time in the winter and spring

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Eric W. Tisdale

tapes and chemicals sent to homes. It is possible but expensive to send awell equipped electronic laboratory to an individual home. This would require a multi-meter,AC-DC signal sources, an oscilloscope, a prototype board, and RLC discrete components. It ispossible that given a very good video tape walk-through on all of the equipment and each of thelaboratory exercises, the student could learn something and that the equipment might survive.Should this plan be approached, considering the cost, the potential to teach electronics ismarginal. The opportunity to make mistakes in the presence of someone who can assist in therecovery from those mistakes is a necessary element of the hands-on-laboratory. A laboratorywithout the possibility of mistakes

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Douglas H. Baxter

compared to a Windows is much higher thus there is a possible costadvantage providing no loss of function is encountered using a Windows based system.The plan is to teach a trial section of EG&CAD on a Windows 95 system for the summerof 1998.6.0 References1. Bunk, Donald S., The Role of Solid-Modeling In Engineering Graphics, American Society for Engineering Education, Regional Meeting, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, October 2, 1993.2. Bunk, Donald S. and Baxter, Douglas H., An “On-line” Course in Solid Modeling, American Society for Engineering Education, Regional Meeting, Union College, Schenectady, New York, September 22- 23, 1995. This paper may be accessed electronically at: http://www.rpi.edu/~baxted

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Jeffrey S. Beasley; Charles T. Townley

education and industry, have appeared in theTechnology Interface. Forty of these articles were authored by representatives from highereducation and seven from industry. There have been 31,415 article hits for the TechnologyInterface as of January 12, 1998. Archival and Security IssuesIt is our intent to leave all issues of Technology Interface on-line. We also plan to place a searchengine on-line so that viewers can easily search past articles. In addition, the TechnologyInterface is on the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL)9 and the Internet searchengines Yahoo2 and Lycos10.Security includes password protection on the UNIX host. A CD ROM backup for the first year is

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Olusegun Odesina; Nicholas Akinkuoye

. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 21(2), 60-69.Blackburn, R. T., O’Connell, C., & Pellino, G. (1980). Evaluating faculty performance. In P. Jedamus, & M. W. Peterson (Eds.), Improving academic management: A handbook of planning and instructional research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Bowen, H. R., & Schuster, J. H. (1986). American professors: A national resource imperiled. New York: Oxford University Press.Bowman, C. C. (1988). The college professors in America. New York: Amo Press.Duff, J. M. (1988). Tenure and promotion: A response. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 25(2), 70.Dutton, J. C., & Addy, A. L. (1986). Clearing the hurdles along the tenure track. Engineering Education, 63(5), 660-663.Jones, M. S

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Craig Gunn

. Changes in your plans or future courseworkc. Impact of experience on potential career options.IV. Overall Evaluationa. The level to which your employment experience has met your expectations?b. Ways in which it has differed from your objectives?c. Ways that your assignment could be improved by your employer?d. Ways in which it could be improved by you?e. Level to which your assignment has provided a broad, developmental experience?f. Level to which your co-op assignment has given you a progressive, in-depth learningexperience?g. Information that your professors should know about your assignment, your educationalenrichment, your technical accomplishments and your overall development as an engineer?For the students then, the answers to the above

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Robert J. Hofinger

deploying such technologies, will be in the forefront. • Teamwork will become the watchword, and in an increasingly global marketplace, teamwork will be expected on an international level. Will our engineers be able to work effectively on multinational teams?As we go about our profession as engineering educators, plan our courses, and advise ourstudents, we must keep one question in the forefront: Are we preparing students to be 21stcentury engineers? The challenge is greater than ever before, and engineering educators must bebetter and broader than ever. What is being done to increase the instructor’s knowledge aboutthe increases in technology? We owe our students and the technical competitiveness of thisnation no less

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

authors were encouraged by how well web-based testing worked for the material in some portions of the course and plan to explore thattesting method more in the future. Student response to the web-based tests was generallypositive. However this may have been partially because of the novelty of the experience. Page 3.296.6Concluding CommentsAlthough there were a few disadvantages associated with the switch from C++ to Mathcad, inthe opinion of the authors those disadvantages were more than offset by the numerousadvantages provided by Mathcad. Student enthusiasm for the package has been much higherthan has been observed for any of the traditional

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Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft

, and Society (STS) demonstrate efforts to integrateseemingly disparate disciplines, but also show willingness to challenge traditional ways of as-sessing technical, economic, social, and ecological changes engineers bring about. When theUnited Nations Earth Summit of 1992 has heads of state and heads of government representingninety-eight percent of the world's population signing an agenda for the twenty-first century, im-pacts on curricular planning ought to be profound. Agenda 21 and “The Rio Declaration”(1992)—and the pronouncements of the Earth Summit plus Five in New York in June of 1997—are not the statements of radical fringe groups, nor are they merely vague statements of intent.Concepts in these documents demand rethinking our

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Barbara Olds

-point scale from 4 = strongly agree to 0 = strongly disagree): x The writing assignments helped me to think more analytically (2.5) x I have learned to write more effectively because of this course (2.5) x I am more confident as a writer now than I was before taking this course (2.4) x I have learned to see my own writing problems and work towards solving them (2.6) x This course has enabled me to write for a variety of audiences and purposes (2.5) x I have improved my own writing processes (2.6)We plan to use these responses as well as feedback from a summer 1998 evaluation by the CSMassessment committee to improve the writing component of NHV. We will also conductinterviews with faculty who

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Mualla ÖNER; Gürses ÖNER

preliminarydesign. Kister extended the McCabe-Thiele diagram to columns having multiple feeds, multipleside products, multiple points of heat removal or addition (e.g., intercondensers or interreboilers),and any combination of these features.[3] To plan the design roughly on a McCabe-Thiele diagramis a great help in obtaining a swift convergence of the simulation program. Hence, this type ofproblem is of value in making students consider the McCabe-Thiele construction as a flexible toolrather than a rigid routine. This simplified graphical procedure is suitable for making initial designestimates of columns. For the preliminary design, this method is very useful to provide anapproximate solution for analyzing column design and performance. The number of

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J.P. Trudeau; Alan R. Klayton; A.L. Clark; Daniel J. Pack

project, we conducted an in-house mobile robot maze navigation competition (see Figure 2). DISCUSSIONIn this section we present some overall course observations, made by those who designed and Page 3.330.4administered the course to the students, followed by student feedback. Figure 4. A photo of a maze and a robot traveling through it.A careful planning effort by multiple individuals before the first class meeting was the key factorin making the course successful. We had to design and construct simple but useful robot bodies;motors and sensors had to be selected, tested, purchased, and

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Francis D. McVey; James D. Lang

Engineering Solutions in a Global/Societal Context • Understanding that Engineering Solutions are Affected by and should be Responsible to Limited Resource Availability • Understanding that Engineering Solutions Impact the Environment (e.g. CFCs, Heavy Metals, Energy Consumption, etc.) • Understanding that Engineering Solutions alter the Structure of Society (e.g. Air Transportation)(i) Recognition of the Need For, and an Ability to Engage in Life-Long Learning • Understanding that Skill Training is an Employee’s Responsibility and a Part of Page 3.335.7 Life Long Learning • Plans and Commitments to Skill

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Ronald J. Bennett

responsibilities with strategic leadershippositions in manufacturing, science-based or technology dependent firms.There are six recurrent themes framed by the objective of integrating the technological andbusiness cultures:1. Integrating technology into the organization’s strategic plan;2. Promoting cross-disciplinary team building and total quality management;3. Managing technology-driven change;4. Promoting an environment conducive to change;5. Developing integrated systems; and6. Promoting global thinking.The program deals with the issues and methodologies involved in innovation, technologytransfer, bringing new technologies to market, the integration of technology into the strategicobjectives of the firm, managing technical

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Murali Krishnamurthi

careers, and 84% indicatedthat the assignments and discussions were sufficient to exercise the concepts on ethics covered inthe course. Students’ written comments indicated that the course activities raised their awarenessof ethical issues in modeling, the need for modelers to exercise professional responsibility, andhow tactfully one may have to resolve ethical dilemmas in real-life situations.The experiences gained from this effort can be summarized in the form of the followingrecommendations for those interested in integrating ethics into their modeling courses:1. It is necessary to plan ahead to integrate ethics into a modeling course without sacrificing course topics, design course activities that highlight ethical considerations, and

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Murali Krishnamurthi

careers, and 84% indicatedthat the assignments and discussions were sufficient to exercise the concepts on ethics covered inthe course. Students’ written comments indicated that the course activities raised their awarenessof ethical issues in modeling, the need for modelers to exercise professional responsibility, andhow tactfully one may have to resolve ethical dilemmas in real-life situations.The experiences gained from this effort can be summarized in the form of the followingrecommendations for those interested in integrating ethics into their modeling courses:1. It is necessary to plan ahead to integrate ethics into a modeling course without sacrificing course topics, design course activities that highlight ethical considerations, and

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Michael Tarnowski; Sara Wadia-Fascetti

motivational objectives. Additionally, faculty who teach the same students inlater years have noticed a marked improvement in student writing abilities. The laboratorycourse provides students with marketable skills in communication, teamwork, and with computerapplications. Furthermore, the new laboratory curricula helps them in the theory-based course.Future plans for the laboratory include the integration of data acquisition methods.SARA WADIA-FASCETTI is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University where she isactively involved in a research program on structural condition assessment. She completed a B.S. in CivilEngineering at Carnegie Mellon and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering at Stanford University

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Eldon D. Case

behaviors for houseguests. Carrying throughwith the same logic, the guest might walk around the host’s home, asking the price of variousitems. “Fifty dollars? Well that is a bit expensive... Fifteen dollars, not too expensive! I thinkI’ll steal it”. Such a person might show up at Bill Gate’s home with a semi-truck and a movingcrew, since for Bill, most household items would be inexpensive.The third “ethics” meeting of the MSM 885 class was held at the request of the class. In fact, wewere obliged to arrange for another time and classroom for the third ethics session, since onlytwo case study discussions had been planned, and my colleague, who taught the “regular” part ofthe seminar course needed all of the remaining class meetings to finish the

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Sohail Anwar

Pennsylvania State University, the SETCE Head has had theauthority to enter into this collaboration. Also, both the French Government and thePennsylvania State University recognize the importance of international collaborations.3. Continuous Evaluations - Assessments are conducted immediately after each activity andthe planning for the next activity is carried out while the results of the previous activity are stillfresh in everyone’s mind. OBSTACLES1. The Penn State students who obtain industrial placements in France get paid for workingin industry. The IUT Bethune students who get industrial placements in the USA usually do notget paid for their work. The industrial internship is an unpaid

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David R. Haws

; Sherman, J. G. (1974). PSI: The Keller Plan handbook. Menlo Park, CA: W.A. Benjamin, Inc.Sherman, J. G. (1992). Reflections on PSI: Good news and bad. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 59-64.Washburne, C. W., (1922). Educational measurement as a key to individual instruction and promotion. Journal ofEducational Research, 5, 195-206.Biographical InformationDAVID HAWS received undergraduate degrees in English (University of California at Berkeley) and CivilEngineering (University of Utah), and completed master’s and doctorate in Civil Engineering at Brigham YoungUniversity. He has completed post-doctorate course work in adult education, and instructional and performancetechnology, and is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Boise

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William E. Cole

use of reinforced learning, willresult where students progressively learn based on the foundations provided by the lower levelcourses and repetitively used in the upper level courses.Though Northeastern University has no explicit plans to restructure its curriculum along theselines, it is the authors vision to try to work toward this approach to education. This program willbuild on the basic graphics taught in the freshman year. The basic building block is the threedimensional solid computer model. Under this vision, facilities for rapid prototyping, propertiesanalysis, finite element analysis, and kinetic analysis of the computer model will all be available.These tools for analysis can then be used in the basic engineering technology courses

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Greg Hilker; Fred Jenkins; David Westine

Session 1633 WIND ENERGY ROTOR SPEED CONTROL David Westine, Greg Hilker, Fred Jenkins Montana Tech / Ball Aerospace / ASiMIA grant involving the Department of Energy, the Montana Science and Technology Alliance, theMontana University System, and industry support from the Montana Power Corporation hasfunded construction of a wind energy test bed at the Rice Ridge Renewable Energy Park. Twosmall wind machines were planned for the initial phase of the Rice Ridge site shown in Figure 1.Located near Norris, MT which is approximately half way between Butte (Montana Tech) andBozeman

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Kent Curtis, Northern Kentucky University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

Kentucky’s eight state universitieswith an enrollment of 12,000 students, was founded in 1968. It is located in the metropolitanarea of greater Cincinnati, serving the tristate regions of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. Themission of NKU is to: educate, be a resource to the community, and enrich life in the servicearea. As reaffirmed in the institution’s Strategic Plan, although the University’s primary missionis to provide a quality, undergraduate education for the citizens in our service region, thedevelopment of selected graduate programs in areas of demonstrated need is considered a highpriority. This is not only important to the future health and growth of the institution, but it is alsoresponsive to the changing needs of a growing, metropolitan

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Larry Hoffman; Kevin D. Taylor; Russell A. Aubrey

literatureArticles in the literature on faculty mentoring in engineering or engineering technology are rareor non-existent. There are, however, numerous articles which indicate that a well-planned andexecuted mentoring program for new, young faculty will make an important contribution to thesuccess of the individuals and thence to the success of the institution. Queralt’s article citedbelow provides strong support for the notion that mentorship is good.College and university faculty and administrators in the state of Florida were surveyed byquestionnaire, and Queralt (5) reported the results. The 287 questionnaire responses weredivided into two categories – respondents who claimed to have had mentoring and respondentswho claimed to not have had mentoring