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Jule Dee Scarborough

Session 3147 Project Management: A Critical Area of Study for Engineering & Engineering Technology Students Jule Dee Scarborough Northern Illinois University IntroductionProject management has become a critical area of study. Many industrial organizations arerestructuring into project teams. Knowledge and skills in industrial project management andinterdisciplinary teaming are becoming more and more important to engineers and technologists. $Project management is an excellent management process for managing

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J. Rene van Dorp; Michael R. Duffey

Page 3.466.1 Project Risk Analysis Using Simulation of Activity Networks: Is It Valid, Practical, and Teachable? Michael R. Duffey and J. Rene van Dorp The George Washington University Abstract Recently, simulation-based methods for cost/schedule risk analysis using activitynetworks have begun to be used by some front-running companies in manufacturing,construction, power and other industries which require internal approval and/or externalbidding for multi-million dollar projects. Interest in these methods is largely due to theiravailability as extensions to commercial project management software and cheaper

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Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic; Roger Ashworth

. Session 2259 Student Independent Research Project : Evaluation of Thermal Voltage Converters Low-Frequency Errors Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic and Roger Ashworth United States Naval Academy Weapons and Systems Department 105 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21402 email: avramov@nadn.navy.mil Abstract: This paper describes a student independent research project. The project task was to evaluate the low frequency errors of Thermal Voltage Converters (TVCs). A

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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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James A. Newell

Session 2413 If You Let Them Build It, They Will Come: Hands-On Projects For Freshmen to Enhance Student Learning James A. Newell Department of Chemical Engineering University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 58202-7101Introduction The heart of engineering education is to facilitate the development of bright, creative studentsinto highly skilled problem solvers. However, in many cases, students receive little contact withactual engineering problems or any “hands-on” experience until their

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James P. Solti; James M., Jr. Greer

Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills Through the Incorporation of an Open-Ended and Ill-Defined Project in a Technical Core Course James P. Solti and James M. Greer, Jr. Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force AcademyIntroductionEngineering Mechanics 200 (EM 200) - Fundamentals of Mechanics is an introductory“core” course which all students are required to complete prior to the start of their fifthsemester at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). This course offers an integratedintroduction to the Mechanics of Materials and to Statics. The course is not a preparatorycourse for engineers in which students are asked to learn

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J. Darrell Gibson

Session 1339 THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PROJECTS AS A MEANS FOR INTEGRATING SENIOR ENGINEERING DESIGN AND ENGINEERING ECONOMICS J. Darrell Gibson Professor of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyABSTRACTStrategies for the development and maintenance of university/industrial relationships can takeseveral forms. These include industrial boards of advisors, research contracts, internships, facultysabbaticals, guest lectures from industry, etc. One strategy that is underutilized is the use of

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Walter W. Fisher; Carol Crowley; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

Session 3253 Using a Project to Link Introduction to Engineering, Freshman Composition, and Pre-Calculus for Entering Engineering Students Walter W. Fisher, Connie Kubo Della-Piana, Carol Crowley University of Texas at El Paso INTRODUCTIONThe UniversityThe University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a comprehensive public urban institution. As amid-size, commuter campus located in the world’s largest binational metropolitan center, theUniversity of Texas at El Paso is recognized as one of the nation's most successful

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Michael A. Cornachione; Harriet S. Cornachione

has theresponsibility for the majority of design work performed on a project. Senior level engineerreview and comment on the progress and quality of the work, but most of the design is in thehands of the engineering team. New engineers-in-training may find they have what appears to befar more responsibility than they either want or feel they are capable of handling. Problems areno longer scripted with a single correct answer. In fact, there frequently is no clear right orwrong answer. Engineers must create a solution based on various parameters including soundengineering practices, time and budget constraints, and capabilities and best judgment of theengineering design team.To facilitate the successful transition from “engineering student” to

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Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

Session 1421 Approaches in Teaching “Construction Estimating” Julie H. Wei, Ph.D., P.E. and Richard K. Sase, P.E. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster “Estimating” skill is a basic requirement in the construction industry. Typicallycontractors specialize in one of the following two types of projects: 1) buildings and 2)industrial facilities and heavy civil work. Building construction can generally be classified intoresidential and commercial projects, and heavy

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Paul H. King

aseries of lectures and exercises on the general process of design (modeled after a NSF/ASEE Creative and Structured Design Methods Workshop, 1989) accompanied bydesign project requests. After about 6 weeks the remainder of the term was dedicated toproject development. The Biomedical Computing course was difficult to administer and teach, as thestudent body came in with quite disparate backgrounds. Several students, especiallythose with BME-EE backgrounds, were well versed in some of the lecture material anddid not like the class; others did not see the relevance of the course to their careers. Thedesign course was reasonably well received, though a universal comment was that therewas not enough time to properly complete many of the

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Paul Duesing; Morrie Walworth; Jim Devaprasad; Ray Adams; David McDonald

industrial environment isprovided to Lake Superior State University (LSSU) students in the junior year through some ofthe engineering lab courses. An overall goal in these courses is to entail the critical thinkingskills of the students to solve problems through open-ended lab assignments that are notcompletely defined. A project will be given to the student (the project engineer) from the faculty(the project manager) in the form of an industrial memo. The timelines and minimum expectedoutcomes of the project will be defined in the memo. Completion of the project satisfying onlythe minimum outcomes is considered average performance thereby encouraging students toexplore other considerations and outcomes for a superior evaluation. Both objective

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James H. Dooley; James L. Fridley

the design of technical components of selectdesign projects, and how the participants in the social network influenced the specification ofdesign parameters.Social Network AnalysisSocial network analysis 12-15 provides a useful, and established method to characterizerelationships between core team members and stakeholders. We would expect stakeholders whohave frequent direct communication with members of the core team and problem owner to exerthigher levels of influence on design decisions than stakeholders who have indirectcommunication channels.A point of departure from conventional social network analysis for our study is that we considerthe role of stakeholder surrogates as part of the social network. Surrogates are likely to includenon

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Majdi Najm

.• Management of Technology: The focus is on administrative aspects and decision-making in an organization including human relations, management principles, accounting, finance and marketing in a technological enterprise. The MS degree program in Engineering Management is offered on the Rolla campus and as outreach programs at the UMR Engineering Education Center in St. Louis, Fort Leonard Wood, Columbia, industry and government installations in St. Louis, as well as to the National Technological University (NTU). More than 2,200 students have earned Master of Science in Engineering Management degrees from UMR. Project Management Course at Fort Leonard Wood A cooperative Master of Science program for U.S. Army officers is

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Elaine L. Craft

fueled by two significant grants from the National Sciencefoundation (NSF): the SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project and the SC ATE Center ofExcellence. Out of the Box addresses outcomes for the SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project.Remarkable results are being achieved through the SC ATE Exemplary Project as science,mathematics, engineering technology and communications faculty work together across the statein interdisciplinary teams for the purpose of increasing the quantity, quality and diversity ofengineering technology graduates. By removing the limits of distance, academic discipline andindividual endeavor, systemic synergy has resulted. Likewise, through strengtheningcollaboration and partnerships, the concept of how technical college faculty

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Fred Beaufait

Session 3663 "Creative Project Model"- A Research Experience for Undergraduate Students Ajay P. Malshe Materials & Manufacturing Research Laboratory (0RL) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 Abstract Tell them-they will forget Show them-they will remember Involve them- they will understand

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Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Session 1559 Data-Acquisition Systems: An Integral Part of Undergraduate Engineering and Technology Programs David McDonald and Ajay Mahajan Lake Superior State UniversityThis paper describes example student projects and course activities in data-acquisition systems inundergraduate engineering and technology programs at Lake Superior State University. Thefocus of the paper is to show that students from electrical, computer and mechanical engineeringas well as manufacturing engineering technology programs study and use modern data-acquisition systems in several courses

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Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

to be hired, inmany fields the half-life of an engineer is five years. Faculty need to be continually exposed tothe best practices of industry. Just as their counterparts in industry, the faculty need to belifelong learners1. One of the best ways for a faculty member to maintain technical currency is tobecome involved in industrial projects as a consultant or in a school center that conducts appliedresearch. Besides keeping faculty members’ technical skills up-to-date, involvement in appliedresearch and consulting renders other benefits such as: (1) providing real-world case studies to beused in classrooms and laboratories, (2) strengthening relationships between the school andindustry which can boost corporate donations to the school and

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Integrating Design in the Freshman Year (3553)

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Sharon Fellows, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science SUNY -Binghamton; Richard Culver, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science SUNY -Binghamton

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Session 3553 Using Assistive Devices for the Disabled to Teach Design in a Freshman Engineering Course Dick Culver, Sharon Fellows Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science SUNY-BinghamtonAn effective freshman design project must meet several criteria: motivate students, provide aclear model of the design process, give adequate opportunity to practice the various skills beingtaught in the freshman year and fit within a limited time and financial budget. In the Design,Technology and Communications (DTeC) program at SUNY

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George H. Staab

Page 3.560.1partnership which provided everyone with a positive learning experience. The enthusiasm,excitement and support of the Grandview Heights community was equal to, if not superior to thatof last year, when the project was new and many people showed support because it was unique.This year the high school physics teacher was awarded a supplemental contract for her efforts onthe project, which marked the first time in the school district that a supplemental contract wasawarded for an academic effort. FIRST is regarded as the premiere outreach program within theCollege of Engineering at OSU and has gained a solid reputation as a good student project.Interactions of team representatives with the director of AEP were persuasive and resulted

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Kenneth Reid

use softwaresimulation as a tool. Students are now introduced to design, the use of software simulation,formal report writing, and peer evaluation through this project at the beginning of their collegecareer. --------------------------------------------------------The introduction to circuit analysis (“Electrical Circuits I” - EET 102) course at the PurdueUniversity Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Indiana University PurdueUniversity Indianapolis is structured with a lecture section and a laboratory section like manysimilar courses nationwide. The laboratory section of Circuits I was structured with 16 weeklylaboratory assignments, performed by student teams typically consisting of two to three

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

. Susan Montgomery and co-workers in the MultimediaEngineering Laboratory (MEL) at the University of Michigan.There are several unique aspects to the project which separate it from routinecourse work, while providing a solid grounding in material balances and problemsolving. The students are divided into groups of three "project engineers" andare assigned to a "group leader", who is typically a junior or senior chemicalengineering student (Note: The upper division students participate in a 1 cr.Leadership and Mentoring course which is described in paper 2213-03). The "chainof command" that is established is similar to that the students will encounterin industry, with the instructor as the "project director", the upper divisionstudent as the

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

chemicalengineering department we have actively worked to introduce oral and written communication andgroup (team) work across the entire curriculum -- starting with the freshman orientation course allthe way through to the capstone senior level laboratory. We are beginning to introduceinterdisciplinary courses, where students bring their “domain competency” to a large team project.However, we have done very little in the way of focusing on putting the students in “trueleadership positions” such as they might encounter in industry as group or project leadersresponsible for several engineers.The Leadership and Mentoring course was introduced in Winter '95 as a 1 credit course offeredeach quarter for sophomores, juniors, or seniors. This was also linked with

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Charles D. Turner

environmental ethic that will lead to sustainability for humans and theecological systems that support us. An essential part of the class is a design project in which thestudents design a “Center for Sustainable Education”. The facility must utilize sustainabletechnologies for power, heating, cooling, and water supply. The students must demonstratefinancial feasibility of their project through the development of a business plan that provides adetailed analysis of construction costs, operating expenses and revenues. The cost of renewableresources must be compared to conventional resources. The students are given an initial “startupgrant” of 1.5 million dollars and are expected to leverage this money through innovative strategiesto cover the cost of

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Arnold F. Johnson

Session 2522 Capstone Design via Distance Education A DESIGN Partnership Including Industry and Higher Education Arnold F. Johnson University of North DakotaAbstractA unique capstone design course was offered by the University of North Dakota (UND) to distanceeducation students at their industry work sites using company based projects and industry mentors for thefirst time in the fall of 1996; the course was offered again in the fall of 1997. The structure of thecapstone design course, the university-industry partnership, the selection and

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Paul S. Chinowsky

Session 3215 The Civil Engineering Resource Library: Developing A Multimedia Education Resource Paul S. Chinowsky Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe delivery of civil engineering projects requires civil engineers to address a broad spectrum ofissues generated by both project participants and regulatory agencies. Providing tools that assistteam members in addressing these issues through the use of information and knowledge fromprevious projects may reduce project errors by creating informed decision-makers. Recentadvances in communications

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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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Bernadette Longo

theclassroom, juggling needs and expectations from a number of parties: students, corporatepartners, department faculty, potential employers, university research centers, etc. Whenconsidering this type of corporate/academic partnership for student projects, all parties involvedneed to carefully consider both the benefits and the limitations of such projects, as well asdesigning realistic outcomes for the students and the corporate partners. As a guiding principle inthese considerations, it is helpful to keep David Lempert's advice in mind: "academic field sitesshould be places that can yield insight into particular social problems or research issues.”3 Inother words, industry sites for class projects should first and foremost yield experiences that

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Kathi Cahill; Joe C. Guarino

marketed by Knowledge Revolution. The DBEE modules are open-endedsituations incorporating two important target concepts. The modules are structured toensure that target concepts are discovered by the student during successful completion ofthe module. The modules typically require an hour to complete, and are assigned in placeof two traditional drill problems. DBEE uses design to introduce basic concepts;therefore, the inclusion of DBEE into engineering science courses does not requireadditional study time from the student. The DBEE project was implemented in a 1995pilot study partially funded by an equipment grant from Hewlett-Packard. Following thesuccess of the pilot project, a grant was obtained from the Idaho State Board of Educationto

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G.J. Freeman; A.M. Mankowski; Daniel J. Pack

.military professionalism[3]. In this paper, we illustrate the role of a fire-fighting robot project inan engineering curriculum and its contribution to these educational outcomes. Our primary focusin this paper is on outcomes number two and five with some discussion of how the experiencealso contributes to the other educational outcomes.The goal of the fire-fighting robot project is to create a wheeled robot with capabilities tonavigate through a specially designed maze, detect a candle flame (simulating a fire), extinguishthe flame, and return to a designated location within the maze. To obtain this goal, four different“low level” modules must be successfully developed: a motion control module, a sensor module,a fire-extinguishing module, and a