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Krishnan K. Chittur

Computer Algebra System in many of our courses.Senior students were, till recently introduced to process simulation tools during the seniordesign courses. The combination of learning a fairly sophisticated program with thedemands of learning process design and implementing some of these ideas for theirdesign projects was, in most cases overwhelming. By the time students developedmastery over process simulation software tools, the semester usually drew to a close andthe design projects were due for final presentation. We felt that prior experience withsimulation tools would have been very beneficial.UAH’s Office of the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs initiated a TeachingMiniGrant program during the Spring of 1997. This call for

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Sohail Anwar

ofinternational collaborative student teams and design projects. THE IUT - PENN STATE ALTOONA CONNECTIONThe University d’Artois is a new university in northern France. It is composed of four campuseswhich until the early 1990’s were part of the University of Lille. Today the University d’Artoishouses programs in engineering, engineering, technology, and management at its Bethunelocation, liberal arts and related disciplines at its campus in Arras, natural and applied sciences inLens, and law programs in Douai . At the Bethune location the engineering programs areorganized into the Institut Universataire Technologie (IUT) for the technology programs and theInstitut Universataire Professionelle (IUP) for the engineering programs. As a

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Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

-solving techniques; (5) fabrication specifications can be determined from the designs; and (6) Page 3.529.1designs can be assessed and evaluated at various points in the design process (Dym, 1994).What students should learn from designThe methods faculty choose to teach engineering design relate to the skills and competenciesthey wish to develop in students. For instance, faculty often choose to use design projectsbecause these projects involve open-ended problems that more closely resemble the work ofprofessional engineers (Harris & Jacobs, 1995). Open-endedness is useful because students learnthat at times no one “right answer” to a problem

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R. Bruce Robinson

)Figure 3. Description of aeration tanks (clicking the photos & video icon leads to figure 4) Figure 4. List of photos and videos for aeration tanks Page 3.417.3 (clicking surface aerator hot text leads to figure 5) Figure 5. Surface aerator photoDevelopment of the software: It is interesting to evaluate the resources required to develop thismulti-media software. For this project, the author’s time for various tasks is estimated in table 1.Table 1. Time spent on various tasks TASK WORKER HOURS Administrative

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Linda Hardymon; Katherine Mathis; Ahad S. Nasab; Saeed Foroudastan

slow the rapid demise of our natural resources and reduce energy usage isEnergy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC). ESPC is an option for funding infrastructureimprovement projects to improve building performance and maintenance rather than wastingdollars on cosmetic changes or improvements that do not solve energy problems. Withouttaking steps to cut energy usage or to update inefficient existing systems, our adverse effect onthe environment will continue. Approaching energy management on a commercial level caneffect energy savings, economic savings, pollution reduction, and conservation in the form ofupgrading, updating, and upscaling existing facilities. Introduction Today our planet

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Mary J. Sarmiento; Dr. Takeshi Kubo; Dr. Shigeo Matsumoto

design problems which may have innumerable solutions orfor which a solution may not exist.The goal of EDE, which is derived from KIT’s motto ‘From Knowledge to Wisdom’, is toallow students to acquire actual engineering design experience through working on real-lifeprojects in class. In the problem solving activities (projects) that engineers face in society,there are many cases in which the problem is not clearly defined, the problem domain is am-biguous, or the problem does not possess a unique correct answer. Additionally, real-worldprojects are seldom undertaken by individuals. Most projects are tackled by teams, teamswhich may be composed of workers from different countries.In an effort to prepare engineering students for their future

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Daniel T. Schwartz

within chemical engineering and across campus to havestudents work on industry-inspired and multidisciplinary design projects. The transition fromlecture to laboratory course was driven by a desire to have the multidisciplinary students learn Page 3.28.1and retain more, and also to help them develop insight and intuition about electrochemicalprocesses. An experiential learning process that combines lectures and hands-on experimentshas proven to be effective at accomplishing these objectives. The course is calledElectrochemical Engineering.The degree level and disciplinary affiliation of students in Electrochemical Engineering has

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Peter C.M. Burton; Fred Payne; Dinesh Kant

course being equivalent to two contact hours per week for the duration of thesemester. Computer Systems Engineering Computer Science Statistics and Operations Research Mathematics Management Business Communications & Electronic Engineering Minor ThesisFor students progressing beyond the Graduate Diploma stage, the Master’s of Electronicsinvolves a further semester (full time) during which participants undertake a Minor Thesisproject. The project can be proposed by the student and should be in a current electronics area. Page 3.427.6Industry related projects are encouraged and are ideal for students

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Emil C. Neu

not particularly user-friendly. Consequently, a crucial element in thesuccess of the plan to require computer ownership was the support mechanism provided to thestudents. In addition, a strategy was needed to implement the computer thread. Furthermore, theintegration of computers and communications has provided an opportunity to take furtheradvantage of student-owned computers to keep pace with rapid technological changes. The Personal Computer PlanInitially, the facilities issue was addressed by a pilot project in 1982 that required all enteringfreshmen in the Systems Planning and Management Curriculum to purchase Atri 800 computers.The success of this project lead to the Personal Computer Plan the following

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Julia L. Morse

background of students, as wellas fitting the topic to a broad scope of high school curriculum areas. This approach combinedbasic math and familiar subjects to allow students to discover how tools they already know areused in engineering problem-solving. Self-directed student groups worked through the hands-onportion of the project with the assistance of handout procedures and instructor assistance.Questions generated during and after groupwork served as a basis for a discussion matching theinterests and knowledge level of students. This project was presented to the high schoolteachers’ workshop and then to a high school class of chemistry and math students. Experientialresults and feedback from high school teachers provide a basis for evaluating

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A.O. Richardson

analyzing systems and a variety of student independent projects are undertaken. Thecourse has proven to be a good preparation for the increasing industrial demand for entry levelengineers with hands-on dsp know-how.IntroductionThe California State University, Chico(CSUC) offers Electronics Circuits for Digital Dignalprocessing, an undegraduate/first year graduate course, with two hours of lectures and three hoursof laboratory per week. The course has as its objective, to facilitate student understanding of DSPconcepts by implementing real-time applications, and develop appreciation for comparative VLSIDSP architectures by working with the Motorola DSP56002. The course, which has been taughtabout five times using the DSP56001 with good student

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Robert Heidersbach; David Gibbs; Daniel Walsh; Alan Demmons

undergraduate. It treats the solicitingand selection of projects, the development of team approaches, the analysis of failures and the synthesis of failurehypothesis. The student’s presentation of results are discussed, both written and oral. Creation of realistic mock“court-room” and “board-room” environments is treated. The use of case-study approaches in conjunction withmodern educational technology is discussed. This presentation is meant to help others develop similar courses orhelp others create “failure analysis” modules to use in existing courses.I) Introduction “O Tempora! O Mores!”The question of the character of engineering education has been examined many times in the past fifty years. Themost compelling feature of these studies is

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Michael Safoutin; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim; Dale E. Calkins

•Product Dissection Lab •Manufacturing Integration Center •Factory Floor Work Cells (five) Page 3.564.3 ! Figure 3: UW “Integrated Learning Factory” LayoutDesign Studio The Design Studio, Figure 4, is for use by students for design collaboration. Included area floor-to-ceiling cork working wall for use in brainstorming exercises, an overhead computerand video projector, a "Smart Board" projection screen and two whiteboards. ILF CoordinatorMike Safoutin is shown in Figure 5 demonstrating the touch-sensitive Smart Board projectionsystem. Distance

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Fathi Finaish

Session 1202 A Product Realization Exercise for Aerospace Engineering Students Fathi Finaish Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, Missouri 65401AbstractThis paper describes a product realization exercise tailored for undergraduate aerospaceengineering students. The project is a new component of a design course incorporated recentlyinto the Aerospace Engineering curriculum at the University of Missouri-Rolla offered during

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

Session 2642 On the Initiation and Development of an Advanced Manufacturing Educational Program to Aid Displaced Workers Paul J. Warner, Rona Colosimo Warner, Kim LaScola Needy University of Pittsburgh, Department of Industrial Engineering AbstractThis paper presents a model based on classic project management and systems analysis that wascreated and utilized by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial EngineeringManufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) to develop an accelerated manufacturing trainingprogram for displaced workers. The following

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Thomas V. Mecca; Sara Cushing Smith; Lynn G. Mack

challenge for educators. The undergraduate curriculum for technicians needs toreflect the workplace environment by emphasizing interdisciplinary studies, collaborativeactivities, and problem-solving skills. The need for faculty to stay in touch with the fast, everchanging, workplace was also brought out by the report. A major goal of the SC ATE ExemplaryFaculty Project (DUE# 9553740) is to train a cadre of interdisciplinary faculty teams(mathematics, science, engineering technology, communications) to be the designers and authorsof a new, integrated first-year engineering technology core curriculum for South Carolina’sTechnical Colleges. The SC ATE Workplace Research Model was designed to allowinterdisciplinary faculty teams to conduct workplace

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Sudhir Mehta

effective in large classes. The strategies help in increasing classparticipation, problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaborativelearning,attention, and attendance. Over 80 to 90 percent of the students indicate that thesestrategies are useful in enhancing the teaching-learning process in large classes. I. INTRODUCTION Cooperative learning involves students working in groups on problems or projects suchthat it fosters positive interdependence, individual accountability, leadership, decision making,communication, and conflict management skills [1]. Research indicates that cooperativelearning also enhances short-term mastery, long-term retention, understanding of coursematerial, critical

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Jay S. DeNatale; Gregg L. Fiegel

been consistently identified as one of the nation’s topstate-funded engineering programs. Its “learn by doing” motto, while cliché to some, is takenvery seriously by the students, faculty, and staff. Undergraduates are required to take numerouslaboratory classes as well as a two-quarter, capstone senior research/design project. The hands-on experience gained in these activities stimulates self-discovery and creativity while preparing Page 3.307.1students for the rigors of professional practice.Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentThe Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEEN) Department is housed within the College ofEngineering. The

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Renecia Jones; Kerric Bennett; Ganelle Grace; Bala Ram

preparation for the new criteria under ABET 2000, procedures must be in place forcampus assessment of undergraduate students. Undergraduate portfolios were used as a means ofoutcomes assessment for the Department of Industrial Engineering at North Carolina A&T StateUniversity. Portfolios were designed to give a brief overview of undergraduate educationalexperiences and to demonstrate significant areas of learning and professional competence. Thefreshman class entering in the Fall of 1997 were the first class to be evaluated under the newABET 2000 criteria.1.1 Purpose and Objective The purpose of this project was to develop a format and implementation scheme forundergraduate portfolios in the Department of Industrial Engineering at North

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Neal F. Jackson; James L. Barrott

3147 APPLYING CASE STUDIES IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COURSES* James L. Barrott, Neal F. Jackson Chattanooga State Technical Community College/Jackson State Community CollegeABSTRACTIn 1996, five Tennessee technical community colleges received funding for a National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technology Education (NSF/ATE) project. The purpose of the projectwas to develop a group of faculty who will provide leadership in telecommunications curriculumdevelopment. Two of the goals of the project were to 1) develop a framework for atelecommunications curriculum and 2) develop thirty

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William J. Hutzel

, isbecoming an important career option. The Office of Manpower Studies within the School ofTechnology at Purdue University currently projects that Maintenance Engineering will be one ofthe fastest growing technical careers over the next decade.3 Career opportunities with energy-based consulting firms have also become much more common. Energy consultants frequentlyperform facility-wide energy audits on schools, hospitals, and other large institutions to pinpointopportunities for cost savings. Many renovation projects for new boilers, chillers, and otherequipment are financed based on projected energy savings. Both maintenance engineers andenergy consultants recognize the strong financial incentives for adopting new technologies thatmaximize a

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L. Alden Kendall; Dianne Dorland

developed through team effort. The team members weretechnical staff from Information Services and faculty from chemical engineering and industrialengineering. The team met regularly, planned the layout, considered available resources, andprojected future needs for the laboratory. Approximately 2100 square feet of space wasavailable for the project. The space was subdivided, utilizing 1800 square feet with 300 squarefeet in reserve for future development.Purchasing and installation of the hardware and software was managed by the InformationServices staff in consultation with the team members. Hardware installed in the lab includes 31Pentium computers with CD-ROM and ZIP drives, a scanner, two laser printers, and a data/videoprojector. Software

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Jack Zecher

, severalmultimedia software packages used in Technical Graphics related classes and projects arealso used on the computers in this lab. In order to effectively run this mix of software,Pentium, Pentium Pro and Pentium II machines were installed in this lab.The majority of the computers in this lab run under Microsoft’s NT operating system.However, in order to accommodate several software packages that do not yet run underNT, two of the machines run under Windows95. The Genisys software is installed onone of the computers that runs under the NT operating system that is physically adjacentto the rapid prototyping machine. The rapid prototyping machine is connected to thiscomputer through its network card and appears to the computer as if it were a printer

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Krishna S. Athreya; Ann K. Dieterich; Lawrence Genalo

undergraduate and graduate women's own professional development.2. Project Results Twenty-nine internet explorations covering human biology, natural sciences, andtechnology were created and can be viewed at http://ecss.eng.iastate.edu/explorer/. The fourundergraduate students provided the training and day-to-day assistance for the interns in the useof computer technology to design and develop the explorations package. The interns learnedquickly and made significant use of the internet and their programming abilities to produce theexplorations. A special dimension was added to the undergraduate school experience of theundergraduate mentors. End-of-project reports from the undergraduates showed their experiencein serving as mentors to be very

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Mariusz Jankowski

the computational tool for this project, since within one program it successfullyintegrates visualization, computation and presentation features. It excels in symbolic andgraphical computation and has a very powerful suite of numerical functions. Combinedwith an extremely powerful and rich programming language that supports a variety ofprogramming styles, it has all the necessary features for easy, natural prototyping ofcomputational tasks, from simple to complex. Indeed, a significant portion of 1Mathematica is written using the Mathematica programming language . Unlike tradi-tional high-level programming languages, it is well suited for in-class use. TheMathematica

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Cheng Lin

doesn't have the servo-control board for the end effector, thegripper can not grasp a fragile and brittle object. As the cost of adding a servo-control board tothe robot system, according to the robot company, is approximately $8,000, a design made by adata-acquisition board is initiated to reduce the cost. In addition to the design of the servo-control system, the project also includes mechanical design, manufacturing, and assembly of atwo-finger gripper. Two sensors mounted on each finger are to control the gripping force andspeed.[Gripper Design and Manufacturing]In this project, a gear-and-rack mechanism is used to generate a parallel force when grasping anobject. As given in Figure 1, one finger is fixed on one side and the other finger is

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

. Page 3.543.1With these convictions in mind, we collaborated in fall semester 1996 by pairing our sections ofEngineering Design and Technical Communication (for first-year students), developingoverlapping assignments and creating opportunities for shared educational experiences, includingteam research projects. The collaboration was organized generally in terms of the ProfessionalDevelopment framework. Projects included: researching and expressing in detail the range ofimpacts of commercial air transportation on the environment; designing a single piece ofequipment or facility and a procedure for an instructor-selected aspect of flight, ground andsupport operations that would minimize adverse effects while maintaining safety and

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Mark A. Shields

had my students in a few courses undertake at least one cooperative learningproject each quarter. This usually involved a team paper project, lasting for two or three weeks. Ialso taught a graduate course in Social Theory for historians of technology with anothersociologist. Since coming to UVA’s engineering school in 1994, however, I have gone c-crazy–cooperative learning projects in every course as well as two consecutive years ofcollaborative teaching with engineering colleagues outside my own discipline of sociology.This paper briefly describes one of my UVa collaborations–why we did it, what we did, and howit turned out. It draws extensively on other publications where the collaboration is discussed inmuch greater detail. 1, 2, 3, 4I

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Michele H. Miller

toaccelerate the pace of curricular change. This paper describes the activities that comprised thisinternship as well as the skills observed to be most important. With a few exceptions, my list ofskills matches the lists derived from employer surveys. Based on these observations, myrecommendations for curriculum change are: (1) provide more opportunities for students todevelop the soft skills (for example, by requiring more practical team projects); (2) explicitlyteach process skills, such as problem solving and project management; (3) emphasize the basicsin engineering science courses and how to apply them to a variety of problems; (4) offer moresystems courses to help students deal with the complicated products and organizations they willencounter

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Edmund Tsang

, and homework evaluated by thecourse instructor, and project oral presentation evaluated by another faculty other than thecourse instructor. Assessment by students is based on an anonymous retrospective surveyand written comments. Assessment results based on 70 students over a two-year periodshow strong correlation between assessment by faculty and self-assessment by students indemonstrating student learning. The results also seem to indicate that this is a workableassessment method to evaluate student learning engineering design for small engineeringdepartments such as the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of SouthAlabama.INTRODUCTION A Materials, Manufacturing & Design lab for sophomore students was developedand