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Anton Pintar

Session 2213 INTEGRATING PROCESS SAFETY INTO THE UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY A.J. Pintar Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 ABSTRACTChemical process safety has been an integral part of the unit operations laboratory course atMichigan Technological University since 1982. The students are directly involved with thesafety program, which is called “PAWS” for “Prevent Accidents With Safety”. The maingoals of

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Warren D. Seider; J. D. Seader; Daniel R. Lewin

Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, ISRAELThe undergraduate education of a chemical engineer has, for more than half a century, included asenior course in design. In early years, as exemplified in the textbook, Chemical EngineeringPlant Design", by Vilbrandt1, emphasis was placed not on process design, i.e. design of theprocess structure and the equipment, but on plant design, including consideration of foundations,drainage, piping installation, buildings, power transmission, plant location, plant layout, andpreconstruction cost estimates. Some attention was given to selection and arrangement ofequipment. The textbook, "Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers", which firstappeared in 1958 and now, under the authorship of Peters and

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Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

trivial. In the spring term of 1997, seven individuals were involved in Introductionto Aerospace Engineering and Design. Typically, a Professor, Technical Instructor, and possibly astudent Teaching Assistant would be required to offer the course, but during the development ofthe Web-based curriculum two graduate students and three undergraduate students were hired asteaching assistants or hourly workers to assist with course implementation. The work opportunityis beneficial to students and enhances their knowledge of course material by being activelyinvolved in the presentation and delivery of the curriculum. Introduction to Aerospace and Design investigates the new opportunities offered by informa-tion technology for education and provides

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Ronald D. Earley; Thomas G. Boronkay

. One result of sucha pedagogical approach often leads to an attitude that the course is nothing more than frustratingexercises in formula manipulation and that much of the material studied is marginally useful atbest. This paper offers an alternative to this classic approach by describing an outline for setting-up a computer laboratory component within a typical introductory dynamics course in theMechanical Engineering Technology curriculum. Sample assignments, as well as examples oftutorials handed to the students, will also be presented.IntroductionCourses in Mechanics consist of Statics, Particle Kinematics and Kinetics of Particles and RigidBodies. Usually Statics is introduced at the freshmen level, whereas Kinematics and Kinetics

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Michael Prissovsky; Edwin R. Carney; David B. Oglesby; Dave Crites

-lectures and other supplementary material directly to the studentover the Internet on a “just in time” basis. By combining the two projects into Statics On-Line,the result has been a product that better addresses the needs of both teacher and learner. Portionsof the software are currently in use by on-campus students and instructors at the University ofMissouri-Rolla.Introduction: The faculty of the Basic Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) are actively engaged in the development and use of technology in the classroom.Two software tutorial projects, funded in part by the Instructional Software Development Centerat UMR, have emerged under the BEST™ series of products banner. The first and most matureBEST™ (Basic

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Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

. Feedbackfrom measures of program goals can be used to ensure that students achieve program objectives.However, this requires that faculty willingly accept this information and be flexible enough touse it to improve their instruction. This latter situation will most certainly require a paradigm Page 3.141.4shift in faculty attitudes towards teaching and assessment. References1. Engineering Criteria 2000, Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD.2. Banta, T. W. and Associates, Making a Difference. Outcomes of a Decade of

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Raymond G. Crepeau

Session 2432 STUDENT ASSESSMENT WITH INTERNETQUIZ Raymond G. Crepeau, M.B.A. Department of Computer Technology Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisThe curriculum of the Computer Technology Department of the Purdue School of Engineeringand Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is undergoing amajor reengineering effort to keep pace with the dynamic changes in technology. Thisreengineering effort features faculty collaboration in five sub-disciplines

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Kenneth J. Soda

Session 3532 Keys to Successful VLSI Realization Through MOSIS or How to Get Three Computers to Cooperate and Remain Sane1 Kenneth J. Soda Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, ColoradoAbstract Reduction to practice is the fundamental goal of engineering and a consistent focus of allengineering education. This process has become increasingly difficult to realize, especially foreducators who focus upon Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuit design. The

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Charles U. Okonkwo

) McCright, P. R., and Bergmiller, G. E. 1995. Teaching engineers to Consider Environmental Issues in Design. ASEE 2: 2646-2650.(3) Dorland, D., and Baria, D. N., Hazardous Waste Processing in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum. Chem. Eng. Ed., 29, 178 (1995).Charles U. OkonkwoDr. Charles U. Okonkwo graduated with bachelors and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from Iowa StateUniversity, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida. He has worked as senior processengineers for both the chemical and semiconductor industries. Since joining the College of Technology and AppliedSciences as a lecturer, he has taught graduate courses in hazardous waste management program, and undergraduateand graduate courses including

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Milo D. Koretsky

in industry. Consequently, a 1 creditelective course, Chemical Process Statistics, was introduced. The intent of this course is to forma bridge between the abstract mathematical formalism presented in statistics classes and theprocess technology of chemical engineering. This approach is especially useful for the morehands on learners, many of whom go on to be process engineers.Chemical Process Statistics provides a brief introduction to the use of applied statistics in thechemical process industry. Whenever possible, concepts are introduced through examples.Industrial data has been provided by Merix and Hewlett-Packard, on copper and tantalum etchprocesses, respectively. Thus, concepts discussed in class are immediately applied to

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Ganesh V. Kudav

Session 2266 Development of Undergraduate Laboratories in Thermal-Fluids Area Through Student Involvement Ganesh V. Kudav Youngstown State UniversityIntroduction The undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at Youngstown StateUniversity (YSU) currently requires the students to take three experiment-oriented 1-quarter-hour laboratory courses from the areas in applied thermodynamics, stress-strain analysis, heattransfer, fluid mechanics, vibrations, acoustics, and advanced machine design. These labcourses are offered at the senior level and the

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Erdogan Sener

Session 1221 Design of the Learning Environment : Professional-project- Based Learning in Construction Education Erdogan M. Sener Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractWith increased emphasis on the end result of student learning rather than on the process ofteaching/instruction, the design of the learning environment has become a major task for faculty. For engineering and technology curricula not only should this environment include involvementof students in simplified versions of their professional practice but also emphasize both

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James S. Burns

Session 2478 A Material Processing Cell Utilizing Black-water Hydrostatic Pressure: A Student Project James S. Burns Department of Mechanical Engineering San Diego State UniversityAbstract:Autoclaves and hydroclaves are devices that contain and control moderate to largehydrostatic gas or fluid pressure. These devices are used with hot fluids (gas for autoclaves,water for hydroclaves) to heat and squeeze polymers, metals and/or ceramics during diffusionor pressure gradient controlled solid and liquid-phase materials processing. Autoclave andhydroclave

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Charlie P. Edmonson

concepts in a course on ProductionMethods and Controls.INTRODUCTIONThe Industrial Engineering Technology Program at the University of Dayton offers a three-semester hour course in Production Methods and Controls. It is an introduction to the principlesand current practices of optimizing the production of goods and services. Concepts covered inthe course include forecasting, inventory management, bills of material, material requirementsplanning, scheduling, just-in-time, set-up-reduction, and theory of constraints. The course istaught using lectures and videotapes that explain and demonstrate examples of various concepts.Still many students have trouble grasping the concepts because they have never been in amanufacturing facility. In order to give

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Gary B. Randolph

Session 1275 Using Gantt Chart Software in Managing Student Team Projects Gary B. Randolph Purdue University School of Technology Anderson, Indiana INTRODUCTIONStudent team projects have become a popular way to teach. Good teams develop an environmentof effective adult learning andragogy,1 emphasizing student self-direction in their own learning,shared experiences, near-term application and performance feedback. But coaching teams andkeeping them on track is a difficult and delicate job for faculty.2 The

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Stephen R. Fleeman

industries. In theelectronics technology area, two major efforts were completed. One set of standards has been developedby the American Electronics Association (AEA), which was underwritten by the United States Departmentof Labor. A second set of standards has been created by the Electronics Industries Foundation (EIF),which is the philanthropic arm of the Electronics Industries Association (EIA). The EIA standards havebeen underwritten by the United States Department of Education.The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of national skill standards to promote the assessment of theeffectiveness of an Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program. To this end, the paper addressesfive separate areas. First, the significance of skill standards

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Mahmood Nahvi

financial resources for an optimum integration and maximum payoff. We believe that theresults of the current Cal Poly project can be transplanted to other undergraduate engineeringeducational institutions with similar objectives and circumstances.9. References[1] Nahvi, M., “EE 419/459 Lab Manual,” EE Department, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 1998.[2] Nahvi, M., “Transfer of State-of-the-art DSP Technology to Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Education: Attractions, Promises and Pitfalls,” presented at “Technology 2006: The Seventh National Technology Transfer Conference and Exposition,” October 29-31, 1996, Anaheim, CA.[3] Nahvi, M., Reed, C., Guerrera, E., “Learning and Teaching Digital Signal Processing by Doing Digitalk

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DSP whichenable user freedom from tackling assembly language instructions. There has been an increasinginterest in courses in digital signal processing in engineering technology curricula. Theexploration of projects based on DSP’s requires knowledge of both hardware and software fromthe student who intends to accomplish the goals of a project on time. The basic backgroundrequired is in digital logic, a/d and d/a conversion, and assembly and / or C languageprogramming skills. This paper addresses a power electronic application [7-8] built around the capabilities ofa TI DSP. Although the current project utilizes the fixed-point capabilities, the floating-pointcapabilities are being explored in an ongoing project to control the torque

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Dushan B. Bilbija; Daniel J. Biezad

stability and control design. There are two versions devel-oped: a Student Edition as well as a Full Edition. The Student Edition does not have any of themore advanced tools such as Root Locus and Response Locus Maps, but is fully capable of ex-porting any analysis data to other programs for its reuse.Arcgangel98 begins with the Standard Aircraft Data (SAD) file. The aircraft data can includenon-dimensional or dimensional stability derivatives and flight condition parameters. The file isbuilt around the aircraft input files from Appendix C of Airplane Flight Dynamics1. The inputhas been expanded to accommodate the Archangel98 equation engine. From here, the user hasseveral tools to use in analysis. Equation

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M. Christine Miller; Karthikeyan Subbiah; Dale A. Wilson

Session 2566 EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DESIGN TEAM-BUILDING: A 45-MINUTE INVESTMENT PAYS OFF Dale A. Wilson, M. Christine Miller, Karthikeyan Subbiah Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses an experiment to determine whether team-building activities couldinfluence the outcome of student group projects in a senior mechanical engineering machinedesign class. This educational experiment was an offshoot of a 3-year ongoing investigation offactors that influence the costs of new product development. The results from this preliminaryinvestigation show that the student

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

basic manufacturing processes, but he had noexperience in assembling them into a production process with only product specifications to guidehim. She understood tolerances but didn't have the experience needed to place tolerances on ablueprint in a manner that permitted cost-effective manufacturing. The faculty of the PurdueUniversity Mechanical Engineering Technology Department determined that they could do a betterjob of providing practical application of organization, synthesis, and analysis skills to engineeringtechnology graduates. A Mechanical Design course was therefore introduced into the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology curriculum at Purdue University and taught for the first time in the Fall of 1997. Itrepresents a cross-disciplinary

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Thomas F. Schubert Jr.; Kathleen A. Kramer

Course Setting and MotivationMany electrical engineering programs include a senior-level course in communications systems.At the University of San Diego, students majoring in electrical engineering are required to takeCommunications Principles and Circuits (EEE 170) a four semester-credit course that includesthree hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory each week. This course has severalprerequisites including upper-division mathematics courses, a course in signal and systemsanalysis, and two courses in electronics.Despite the rather extensive course background of the students, the theoretical nature of thecommunication systems topics and the complexity and cost of appropriate hardware systemsmotivated the development of five simulation

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Shirley B. Pomeranz

Session 1380 Some Observations for Teaching Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics Shirley Pomeranz The University of Tulsa1 IntroductionDuring the spring 1997 semester I was on sabbatical at the University of Texas-Austin (UT).There were three finite element method (FEM) courses offered that semester by the TexasInstitute of Computational and Applied Mathematics (TICAM) at UT. I attended all threecourses, which were cross-listed under TICAM and the Department of Aerospace Engineer-ing and Engineering Mechanics. The courses were an introductory course, Finite ElementMethods

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Rona Colosimo Warner; Paul J. Warner; Kim LaScola Needy

and suggestions for extendingthe model into other types of training. Page 3.431.12. Background2.1 The Manufacturing Assistance CenterThe Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) is an initiative of the University of Pittsburgh’sDepartment of Industrial Engineering. It is a 39,000 square foot technology transfer centerequipped with a highly skilled staff, training rooms, a computer laboratory, and a working, state-of-the-art factory. The center houses a 5-axis wire EDM (electrical discharge machine), a 4-axisdie sink EDM, a 2-axis CNC (computer numerical control) turning center, a 3-axis CNCmachining center, various CAM (computer aided

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Edward C. Roche; David B. Van Dongen

Session 2213 An Industrial Approach To The Unit Operations Laboratory Course Edward C. Roche, Jr. New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ David B. Van Dongen Cultor Food Science, Inc. Ardsley, NYRepackaging of the two unit-operations laboratory (UO) courses has resulted in a dual studentlearning experience. The hands-on experience of applying the knowledges acquired in thechemical engineering lecture-recitation courses has been retained

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Cheng Lin

Session 1559 A Servo-Control-Gripper Design Cheng Y. Lin Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia[Abstract]A servo-control gripper is designed to replace a pneumatic-control gripper for a PUMA robot.The two-finger gripper is driven by a DC servo motor and a gear-and-rack mechanism. An E2K-X4M capacitance proximity sensor is mounted to one side of the finger. When an object is sensedby the proximity sensor, a signal is sent to the controller, which will send a

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Stephen E. Aylor

incorporate as many of Blooms learning styles as our faculty can include intheir courses.Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) at Kettering have these basic assumptions:y ALN's are learning environmentsy ALN's can be entire courses or components of coursesy ALN's use technology as a delivery mechanismIt has been determined that for ALN’s to be effective they must include the following: [2]y structured learner-supportive activitiesy technology mediationy interactive or collaborative activitiesy mandatory or optional learner participationy substantial content resourcesy useful but not necessary information and or activitiesy ‘stuff on the Web’y computer networksy collaborative activitiesy mandatory learner participationy online syllabus, other course

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David G. Tomer

’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 9th Edition; McGraw-Hill ©1987 & prior6 Thorpe, James F., Mechanical System Components, Allyn and Bacon ©1989Biographic InformationDAVID G. TOMER – BSME, MEngEMch, The Pennsylvania State University. He joined Eastman Kodak Co. as aMachine Design Engineer in 1965, and worked in various in-house equipment design groups for most of a 26-yearcareer there, leaving in 1991. He then joined Rochester Institute of Technology as an Adjunct Faculty member, andhas held the position of Senior Lecturer there since 1993. His primary responsibility is teaching. Page 3.188.10

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J. Rene van Dorp; Michael R. Duffey

thesis that has followed the research cited in [4, 5], theparticipating graduate student is an experienced shipbuilding cost analyst. He has found, Page 3.466.6as have other research participants, that modeling a project activity network underuncertainty greatly improves oneÕs understanding of engineering project cost and schedulebehaviors. We are currently investigating extending this learning experience to a graduate-level course. However, the curriculum development issues are formidable. Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the National Institute ofStandards and Technology

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Majdi Najm

Engineering Education Center in St. Louis, FortLeonard Wood, Columbia, industry and government installations in St. Louis, as well as to theNational Technological University (NTU). More than 2,200 students have earned Master ofScience in Engineering Management degrees from UMR. Page 3.5.1 1A cooperative Master of Science program for U.S. Army officers is offered in conjunction withtheir Engineer Officer Advanced Course at Fort Leonard Wood. Officers enroll with UMR andtake UMR courses while completing their Engineer Officer Advanced Course (EOAC). Theythen remain at Fort Wood for an additional 16 weeks of