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Stephen J. Ressler

civil engineers in professional practice. • Develop a long-range plan for professional development.To accomplish these objectives, the original CE400A program of instruction consisted of a seriesof seminars, case studies, and guest lectures by civil engineering practitioners, as well as aprofessional reading requirement. Students were required to keep journals documenting theirobservations, insights, criticisms, and questions about each of the lessons in the course. Thejournals served the dual purpose of assessing student learning and assigning a grade for thecourse.I have served as the course director and principal instructor of CE400A since it was first offeredin Academic Year 1995-96. At the conclusion of this first year

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Jack Swearengen; Hakan Gürocak

Session 2263 On Development of a New Manufacturing Engineering Program at Washington State University Jack Swearengen*, Hakan Gürocak Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686-9600Abstract: A new Bachelor of Science degree program in Manufacturing Engineering atWashington State University branch campus in Vancouver is described. We discuss industrialparticipation in curriculum and program development, and review cooperation with communitycolleges. A planned center for

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Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho

Session 3209 Some Assessment Tools for Evaluating Curricular Innovations Outcomes Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas-Castro, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho University of Puerto Rico-MayagüezAbstractOne of the most critical aspects of the new ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC-2000) is theexistence of an outcomes assessment plan for program evaluation and continuous improvement.Outcomes assessment requires the generation of assessment tools or instruments to gather datathat will document if a program’s stated goals and objectives

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Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho

Session 3232 Some Assessment Tools for Evaluating Curricular Innovations Outcomes Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas-Castro, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho University of Puerto Rico-MayagüezAbstractOne of the most critical aspects of the new ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC-2000) is theexistence of an outcomes assessment plan for program evaluation and continuous improvement.Outcomes assessment requires the generation of assessment tools or instruments to gather datathat will document if a program’s stated goals and objectives

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P. David Fisher

2513 Assessment Process at a Large Institution P. David Fisher Michigan State UniversityAbstract - This presentation focuses on the challenges encountered at a large, diversifiedinstitution as it organized itself, developed strategies, and implemented plans for continuousimprovement through outcomes assessment of its undergraduate engineering programs. Severalquestions are addressed, including the following. What have been the respective roles of thefaculty and administration? What has been Michigan State University's critical path intransforming itself to

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Robert Batson

comprehensive education in the philosophy of Total Quality, the preventive process- oriented methodologies of Quality Engineering, and the planning, control, and improvement techniques--both classical (statistical process control--SPC, acceptance sampling, statistical design of experiments--DOE, regression, reliability and maintainability) and modern (Taguchi Methods, Quality Function Deployment, failure modes and effects analysis--FMEA, Total Productive Maintenance, etc.).& Prepare individuals for early and mid-career transition into quality program leadership positions in their organizations.& Prepare B.S.-level engineers, regardless of undergraduate majors, for entry-level jobs as quality engineers.Prerequisites were

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Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

project. The instructors will also use theForum as the basis for periodic evaluation of the student team efforts. Since the projects will beonline and accessible from any point on the Internet, we intend to involve senior engineeringexecutives in the review and evaluation of student projects. We believe that the involvement ofindustry will create a substantially richer reflection of the challenges the students will confront aspracticing engineers.4 Organization and ManagementFaculty, students and industrial partners that it will serve will guide the planning anddevelopment of the Electronic Forum and Workshop for Design and Manufacturing Education.It is critical, therefore, that guidance from those constituencies is solicited in the early

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Michael Khader

encouraging.Careers in this field include telecommunications engineering and management, public policy,consulting, research and development, vendor sales, marketing, and technical support. In responding to this opportunity, the Engineering Technology Department at New JerseyInstitute of Technology developed an undergraduate telecommunication concentration within theElectrical Engineering Technology program. To keep abreast with the market space and thedemands of the industry, we developed an assessment plan used as an input to the programimprovement process. Included in the assessment plan is a survey sent to the graduates of thetelecommunication concentration to track their progress and to gain an insight to the strength and

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M.P. Hottenstein; C.O. Ruud

today not only refers to the making of hard goods, but also to enterprises that“produce” information, transportation, health care, etc. Manufacturing is not simply the cutting,shaping, grinding, and assembling of materials; it includes product design, materials andprocesses, plant design, capacity management, product distribution, product costing, performancemeasurement, plant scheduling, quality management, workforce organization, equipmentmaintenance, strategic planning, supply chain management, interplant coordination, and directproduction. This is sometimes referred to as “Big M”. All of the activities typically included in“Big M” manufacturing are part of the unique new integrated Engineering/Business graduateprogram at Penn State called

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Andrew S. Crawford

-based model developed by the MichiganLeadership Initiative task force. It defines “competency,” “leadership” and “citizenship” from theperspective of how these concepts are applied in our program. The paper describes our conceptualmodel and shows the progression of skills to be obtained over the four years of undergraduateeducation. Plans for implementing the model in the College of Engineering are described. Thesewere developed by a committee with members from each of the departments in the College. Thefreshman module, currently in place, provides an example of how the plan will be implemented.Finally, the challenges of assessing progress and implementing future stages of the plan are

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Gary B. Randolph

positionof each bar indicates when that task can be begun. The network of bars stretches out to indicatethe total time required to complete the project. The strength of Gantt charting lies in its ability tomake clear the interdependence of tasks that come together to create a completed project.3To help the students manage their teams, a simplified Gantt analysis program was developed inMicrosoft Access for the students’ use. This, of course, was not the only software option.Microsoft Project, Micro Planner X-Pert from Micro Planning International, Milestones Etc.from Kidasa Software, and others serve the commercial market well. The current project

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Daniel Davis

tools, orothers will be doing their jobs - by the year 2000.4 The long-heralded electronic-informationrevolution actually began in 1985 when inexpensive software and hardware became sophisticatedenough for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. You no longer need to know how todraft to make perfectly drawn drawings. Today’s software can assist you in making renderings,calculating duct sizes, drawing framing plans, calculating building assembly and energy use.Clearly talent and knowledge are necessary to make good designs and to create properdocuments. However, software developers are embedding more data and more evaluationcriteria and design methodology within their application programs,. Drawings are “smarter”,capable of changing data

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L. Alden Kendall; Dianne Dorland

design project.The Departments of Chemical and Industrial Engineering received an NSF Instructional andLaboratory Improvement grant that was implemented between July 1995 and December 1997.The hardware and software provide engineering course support for engineering science as wellas design applications for both engineering disciplines. The departmental faculty consideredcontinued maintenance and operation of the computer lab, and chose to work with InformationServices (campus level oversight) in the development of this lab. Information Services isresponsible for the operation and maintenance of the lab. In addition, Information Servicesprovided part of the match money for the grant proposal.Laboratory DevelopmentThe laboratory was planned and

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John G. Nee

some students recently employed in EDG/CAD/CAM positions include: 1) planning,selecting and applying computer/automated systems for manufacturing or processing;2) designing computer and automated systems machines, and equipment used in manufacturingor processing; 3) research and development leading to the creation of new or improved computerand/or automated equipment or processes; 4) developing common computer-related databases tobe shared by engineering design, factory automation, and manufacturing planning functions; and5) product design and development. PROBLEMS AND ISSUESThere appears to be a reduction of EDG/drafting/design visualization courses available nationallyin grades 7-12. Also, spatial related

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Bernadette Longo

ever-changing online beta version, I chose tofreeze the documents on a particular day and that was the version we worked on as a class. Webroke up into teams to copyedit the two versions of the document, edit them substantively, andcompare the online HTML and printable RTF versions to ensure that they were appropriate fortheir electronic and print media. In addition, we appointed a team to act as historians for ourproject. The teams worked for ten weeks to develop an editing plan for the documentation. At theend of that time, two class members presented our findings to the corporate advisory board forthe professional communication center. The site of this presentation was a large theater-stylefacility at a near-by manufacturing company, which

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Mark A. Shields

micro-structure of your courses. In short, choose your partner carefully and then plan, plan, plan.A Case Study in Collaborative TeachingDuring the fall semester 1996, John P. O’Connell (a chemical engineer) and I (a sociologist oftechnology) collaboratively taught two courses in an attempt to put a professional developmentmodel to work in first-semester undergraduate studies at UVa. One was a required core technicalcommunications course (TCC 101) typically taught in sections of 25-30 students by faculty ofthe multidisciplinary Division of Technology, Culture and Communications, using a commonsyllabus but with specific assignments tailored to each instructor’s disciplinary interests andstrengths. (Approximately 25% of entering students are

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Alan Felzer

affect of any one of them. I have, however, received messages from otherinstructors telling me they are recommending that their students use these demonstrations.FUTURE PLANS - My future plans are to continue writing more interactivedemonstrations. There are opportunities in virtually all areas from analog to digital. Thechallenge, of course, is to identify what important results the students are not understandingand then come up with examples that clearly focus on the points you are trying to make.REFERENCES1. Bloom, B (1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York and London: Longman.2. Kolb, D (1984). Experential Learning - Experience as The Source of Learning and Development

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Salim A. Elwazani

distinct combinations of these methods; second, describing theapplication of the models in the context of the author’s teaching experience; and, thirdassessing the applicability of the models in educational settings at large.Model development capitalized on the author’s lighting teaching experience at BowlingGreen State University. In classes for undergraduate architecture, interior design, andconstruction students, the author planned and repeatedly taught lighting subjects in which avariety of lighting design teaching methods were used over the years. This first-handexperience provided the main body of data needed for the study. Teaching Methods and ModelsThe teaching methods of interest for this study exhibit

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Douglas G. Schmucker

capacities in the range of90 to 270 N (20 to 60 lbs). The largest official capacity was 580 N (130 lbs) although the bridgeshown in Figure 5 (affectionately known as “Big Blue”) supported 1,236 N (278 lbs) before thesupply of testing weights was exhausted.†Although the students felt that construction phase of the project needed to be extended and givengreater weight in the overall scoring, student response was in general quite favorable.Interestingly, the SETs were not used extensively in pre-planning by the project teams. Thosethat did felt that they were of some use but that the different dimensions (non 45 degree anglesbetween members) of their proposed plans made using the SETs difficult. Typical overallcomments were: “Our group worked

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J.P. Agrawal; Omer Farook; Chandra R. Sekhar

6'#/$7+.&+0)#56*'(1%75+0#%1745'10 '.'%6410+%241,'%6'0)+0''4+0) ,2#ITCYCN1OGT(CTQQMCPF%45GMJCT 2WTFWG7PKXGTUKV[%CNWOGV *COOQPF+0 The paper presents the teaching methodology of a new course in Electronic Project Engineering in the Bachelor degree program of the Electrical Engineering Technology. This course is a precursor to the course in Senior Design Project. The course contains two components: (1) Introducing the principles and concepts of project planning and engineering and (2) the execution of a demonstrable project that is run very close to the principles learned. The first component is conducted through a

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Eric J. Addeo

16some of the key standards impacting information networking. Also, this module will cover thestandards making process and some specific standards developments from a commercialperspective.The standard’s bodies - CCITT, ISO, ISO/IEC, JTC1, ANSI, ECSA, and IEEE - as well as therelationship between standards and product competition will be covered. Section F-information Networking for Leading Edge Corporations24.0 End User Information Network PlanningIn this module we describe three information network-planning models for end users ofinformation technology. The first model is requirement-driven, the second is technology- orinfra-structure-driven, and the third is strategy-driven.24.1 Requirement-Driven PlanningHere we introduce a

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Carolyn L. Dull; A. George Havener

are given learning objectives,a tasking (to develop a plan for a manned research mission to Mars)1, and access to aninformation resource containing data and references on engineering, Mars, and problemsolving skills and tools. A series of mini-workshops and the information resource areused to initiate the problem solving skills-development. Initially, the informationresource was a collection of computer folders. Before long, however, the accumulation ofinformation in the folders made them hard to use, and during computer downtimes, theywere inaccessible.To improve the utility of the information resource, a web-page has been created. TheHomepage is shown in Fig. 1. Designed as a network of concept maps containinghyperlinks to information

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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

namedengineering programs provides the minimum requirements [1]. The Engineering Criteria 2000lists similar requirements in the form of desired competencies for an engineering graduate [2].Recent ABET visit and our desire to review, evaluate and plan for development of computerfacilities within the College of Engineering and Technology and the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering in specific, provided us an opportunity to access our current level ofcomputer use and computer facilities. This evaluation is listed in tabular form. This also providedus an opportunity to develop guidelines for meeting ABET computer use and facilitiesrequirements and plan for future developments in our program to meet Engineering Criteria 2000requirements. The

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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

namedengineering programs provides the minimum requirements [1]. The Engineering Criteria 2000lists similar requirements in the form of desired competencies for an engineering graduate [2].Recent ABET visit and our desire to review, evaluate and plan for development of computerfacilities within the College of Engineering and Technology and the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering in specific, provided us an opportunity to access our current level ofcomputer use and computer facilities. This evaluation is listed in tabular form. This also providedus an opportunity to develop guidelines for meeting ABET computer use and facilitiesrequirements and plan for future developments in our program to meet Engineering Criteria 2000requirements. The

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Jeffrey P. Freidberg

Session 1377 The New Discipline of Nuclear Engineering Jeffrey P. Freidberg Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionLike many nuclear engineering departments throughout the United States, the department at MIThas been carefully analyzing and planning its future strategy in order to maintain a strong andviable program. This planning, which by now has extended over approximately half a decade, isfar more encompassing than the normal evolution of engineering curriculum. Extensive longrange planning has been required because of the particular problems facing the

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

are implemented at this time. The project, in its current form, can beviewed at www.umr.edu/~oci. Concept Maps - material overview with forward and back links in the curriculum Conceptual Mini-Lectures - sequence of short audio/graphic lectures with back links Conceptual Self Tests - T/F and MC questions to test understanding Interactive Example Problems - students play “what if” by changing problemparameters Homework Problems - randomized, automatic submission, grading with instantfeedback Electronic Bulletin Board - instructor/students asynchronous communicationSome additional features are planned for the future. These include the following. Whiteboard & Chat Facility - synchronous

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Ratan Kumar; Bill Watt

machine or a human operator.This is done by combining four basic elements1 : i)source inspection ii) 100 percent inspectioniii) immediate feedback and iv) use of poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) devices. ZQC is widelygaining popularity in the industry. It is well established in Japan and its practice is catching on inUSA. At the department of mechanical and manufacturing engineering technology at theUniversity of North Texas, we strongly feel that this important tool needs to be addressed in ourQuality Control class. A plan has been made to cater to this desire, and strategies have beenmade to incorporate it in other classes as well. INTRODUCTIONShigeo Shingo2 is credited with starting the Zero Quality Control

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

” was unexpected, but inretrospect, very desirable. While “eavesdropping,” I began to notice subtle but unanimousmisconceptions students had somehow received from my previous lectures. As a result, duringthe following lecture, I was able to clear up these misconceptions before they blossomed intomajor problems. I have since altered my lecture notes to avoid the misconceptions entirely in thefuture. Another benefit is actually watching the learning take place. There is nothing better in aclassroom than to see that look of understanding and accomplishment flood across a student’sface when she or he finally “gets it.” I truly appreciate EESP for providing this innovativeinstructional tool as well as many others that I plan to use in the future

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Robert Heidersbach; David Gibbs; Daniel Walsh; Alan Demmons

the failure. To learn that engineering is often open ended, an ongoing process of improvement.Thus one of the main goals of this course is to give the student a basic method to approach a failure analysis. To usethe knowledge from previous engineering classes combined with their own experiences and common sense to answerthe questions of what, how, and why a failure happened. And then, drawing on this knowledge and their owncreativity to recommend ways to prevent future occurrences. Another objective of the course is to broaden thestudent’s thinking, to consider many approaches to a problem and the possibility of more than one unique solution.A third goal is for the students to learn to develop a plan and then to implement this plan

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Lara Relyea; Joan A. Burtner

. Inresponse to the question, "What are your career plans? ", approximately 40% of the campersmentioned engineering; 12% said they wanted to become doctors. The careers of biologist,veterinarian, architect, lawyer, zoologist and computer programmer each received one vote. Notsurprisingly, a large number of students (40%) responded “ don’t know” when asked about theircareer plans.How did the girls respond to the entire camp experience?Student comments indicate that the girls enjoyed the camp as much as the boys did. “At this camp I had a lot of fun. I learned a lot I needed to know for my future as an engineer.” (8th grade girl) “Camp was fun and interesting. I enjoyed the experiments and the people in the camp are real fun. I