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Nikhil K. Kundu

Session 1547 Wheel Bearing Tester Project: Machine Elements to Design Engineering Nikhil K. Kundu Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn order to be competitive in the job market engineering graduates are required to haveunderstanding in fundamentals as well as training in the state of the art technology along withrealistic design experience. This demand can be satisfied by introducing real world applicationsin design courses, where students can use theories as well as training in solving problems.In this project students were presented with

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profession.Introduction:This paper focuses on factors that impact attraction and retention of women in the engineeringprofession both in Bangladesh and the USA. Bangladesh is a small country located in south-eastAsia with a population of 90 million people. It currently has four state funded engineeringcolleges and one state funded engineering university. Some private institutions are also beingestablished. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is the oldestinstitution for the study of engineering and architecture in Bangladesh. The history of thisinstitution dates back to the days of Dhaka Survey School which was established in 1876 to trainsurveyors for the then government of Bengal of British India. As the years passed away the

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Ben Erwin

, being able to put yourself in the place of another facilitatescommunication and increases ones interpersonal skills. The main subjects currently taught todayin K-12 education: science, math, English, and social studies, are but a select few of theperspectives or different ways of thinking and knowing that exist. With technology becoming anincreasingly important part of our lives and a part of the education of our children, the absence ofthe content and processes of one subject has become increasingly evident over all others:engineering. An "engineering perspective" can be a fascinating lens through which to look at theworld around us that is ever increasing in complexity. Whether it is the rack and pinion in yourice-cream scoop or the processor

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Hussein Anis

, equipment installation, commissioning, andutilization, and curriculum development and the preparation of renovated coursewarematerial. PROJECT OUTLINE AND POLICIESActivities Supported by EEDPLoan support for engineering education development under the EEDP project includedprovisions for development of engineering curricula and engineering education technology,procurement and commissioning of laboratory equipment, supply of instructional materials,including textbooks and library resources, academic fellowships and industrial attachmentsfor staff upgrading (both teaching and technical support staff), consultants and visiting

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M. R. Foster; H. Öz

, New York, 1985.2 McMasters, J. H. & Ford, S. D. “An Industry View of Enhancing Design Education”, AIAA 90-3259. AIAA,AHS/ASEE Aircraft Design and Operation Meeting, Dayton, OH, September, 1990.3 Dym, C. L. Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994.4 McMasters, J. H. & Match, L. A. “Desired Attitudes of an Engineering Graduate - An Industry Perspective”, AIAA Paper 96-2241, AIAA Advanced Measurement and Ground Testing Technology Conference, New Orleans, June, 1996.5 “Michigan Curriculum 200: Proposed Changes to the Undergraduate Curriculum” , Report to the Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force, College of Engineering University of Michigan,1996.6 Engineering Criteria 2000, Engineering

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Sal Arnaldo; Fazil Najafi

Page 3.469.1relevant methodology1. The American Public Works Association (APWA), in cooperation with the NationalAssociation of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) and the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE), has developed detailed curriculum guidelines/formats foreffective public management, personnel, finance, and technology. Several institutions haveadopted these guidelines/formats for graduate study in public works. The APWA recommendsthat an appropriate public works engineering/administration graduate program should consist of33 semester credit hours. Course work should be flexible, including 12 to 18 hours of technicalcourses and 12 to 15 hours of management courses. A program may or may not require a six

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Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

Session Number 3530 Teaching and Assessing Engineering Design: A Review of the Research Susan Campbell Carol L. Colbeck The Pennsylvania State UniversityAccording to the National Academy of Sciences (1995), undergraduate engineering education inthe United States currently focuses on the study of engineering science at the expense of design.In a brief history of engineering design education, Eder (1991) explains that in the 1950s theengineering curricula shifted from a focus on teaching students about technology used in

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Terry Berreen

a strong relationship with ever changing disciplines.This paper in considering teaching and learning resources in engineering mechanicsconcentrates on the development of computer material incorporating qualitatively precisesimulation, animation and graphing. The developments are just not restricted to engineeringmechanics, they are relevant to all engineering subjects and in fact to teaching and learningresources in general. A particular interactive teaching and learning resource, CD-EngineeringMechanics by Berreen & Alfredson3 is described.2. Learning ResourcesThe range of learning resources available to students has increased in the past decade, verymuch related to advances in information technology. These resources now include

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M.P. Hottenstein; C.O. Ruud

News. pp 1-2, July/August 1997Biographical Information:CLAYTON O. RUUD, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Co-Director of TheQuality and Manufacturing Management Program. Ten years of manufacturing experience in the basic metals,aerospace and heavy machinery industries. Twenty-eight years in research and academia.MICHAEL P. HOTTENSTEIN, D.B.A., Professor of Operations Management in the Smeal College of BusinessAdministration, Associate Director of the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change,and Co-director of the Quality and Manufacturing Management Program. He has over thirty-five years experienceat Penn State including service as department head, MBA Program Director, and Graduate

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Melvin Neville; David Scott; Bryan Knodel; Debra Larson

University’s (NAU) College of Engineering and Technology (CET) hasdeveloped and implemented a sequence of novel design courses. This through-the-curriculum program, formerly known as the Path to Synthesis, was renamed the Design4Practice program when the freshman level course was fully developed The Design4Practice EGR 486 and added in the Spring of 1997. The Program through-the-four-year courses, as shown in EGR 386 Figure 1, were expressly created to

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Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

Session 1608 Session 1608 Sprints vs. Marathons: Two Potential Structures for Assigning Engineering Design Projects. Paul D. Schreuders, Arthur T. Johnson University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractWhile a major goal of an engineering education is the preparation of students for solving “realworld” problems, actually assigning these problems is rarely possible in a teaching environment.A number of different strategies exist for structuring student projects, so that they prepare thestudents for

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Gerald Gillmore; Deborah Harkus; Angela Gengler; Suzanne G. Brainard

andfaculty interactions with students. Rosser argues that traditional teaching uses a certainperspective which does not relate to women students. Since most scientists, mathematicians andengineers in the U.S. are white, middle- to upper-class and male, curricular and teachingtechniques reflect their perspective on the physical natural world and technology.”20 Studieshave found that this might be disadvantageous to female students who perform better underdifferent conditions.21 For example, Rosser suggests that instead of using bombs dropping toillustrate gravity, care packages dropping from airplanes would be examples understood by bothwomen and men. Particularly in science and engineering, male graduate students are frequently

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Bernard J. Weigman; Glenn S. Kohne

and programs which would bring them up to date on Page 3.15.2the new technology. In 1977, Loyola responded to these needs with a Master's level program inthis new technology. The program initially was a mixture of hardware and software and wasentitled a Master's of Engineering Science (MES) in Digital Systems.Target AudienceThe intended audience of the program has changed quite a bit since the program's inception in1977. The original audience was almost entirely hardware and software engineers. It wasdesigned primarily for engineers who had been out of school for more than 10 years and whoneeded to be brought up to date with the current state of

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Mariusz Jankowski

New electronic courseware modules for selected upper-level electrical engineering courses. Mariusz Jankowski University of Southern MaineAbstractA recent award from the National Science Foundation (DUE-III program) was used toestablish a computer-integrated classroom to support instruction in selectedundergraduate electrical engineering courses. The new classroom is being used to addressthree pedagogically fundamental problems:(1) insufficient mastery of engineering mathematics by many students,(2) student passivity within the traditional lecture format,(3) insufficient use of computation and visualization in the learning process,New electronic

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Katherine E. Scales; Michael S. Leonard; Donald E. Beasley

the SUCCEED coalition.I. IntroductionFor many years, curriculum revision and preparation for accreditation review have been twoclosely linked activities for the typical engineering faculty member. Two to four years beforethe end of an institution’s Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)accreditation cycle, program faculty would gather to determine what changes they wanted tomake and have in place before the next ABET evaluation visit team came to campus.Motivations for curriculum change ranged from fear, e.g., “we must change course sequence‘X’ in order to conform to the current ABET Criteria;” to envy, e.g., “all of PreeminentUniversity’s engineering students take ‘Y’ and our students don’t;” to dominance, e.g.,“Professor

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Robert Knecht; Randal Ford

team member interaction and better align the many Page 3.224.6disciplinary viewpoints on a given project team to deliver one product. References[1] American Heritage Dictionary, “Encourage,” p. 430, “Facilitate,” p.461, 1978.[2] E. S. Furguson, "How Engineers Lose Touch," Invention & Technology, Winter, 1993.[3] H. Petroski, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, New York: Barnes & Noble,1994.[4] C. E. Larson and F. M.J. LaFasto, Teamwork: What must go right/ What can go wrong, Sage Publications, 1989.[5] M. Frohman, "Nothing Kills Teams Like Ill-Prepared Leaders

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Francis D. McVey; James D. Lang

Improvement in Learning Associated with the Work Environment • Understanding that Life-Long Education is a Professional Responsibility (j) Knowledge of Contemporary Issues • Demonstrated Understanding that Engineering is Affected by Information Technology Issues • Understanding of the Information Superhighway • Demonstrated Understanding that Engineering is Affected by Environmental Issues (k) Ability to Use the Techniques, Skills, and Modern Engineering Tools Necessary for Engineering Practice • Computer Literacy in Analysis Tools used in Engineering Specialty • Computer Literacy in Design Tools used in Engineering Specialty

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Joseph C. Hartman

Engineering from the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology and B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He isa member of ASEE, IIE, INFORMS and NSPE and currently serves as director-elect of the EED of IIE. Page 3.244.6

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Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

important feedback to the system as shown in Figure 1. In the beginning of this century, engineering curriculum was focused on training andlearning of various skills. After the world war, the focus shifted to engineering science and theemphasis was on education and knowledge. Now, the focus is on a balanced combination ofeducation and training to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge in Mechanical Engineering.In order to prepare the next generation of engineers with such attributes, the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering & Technology has developed a new set of guidelines with outcome-basedassessment, exposure to current industry practices and integration of design across thecurriculum

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Peter Idowu

, current, power, speed, and torqueas the energy conversion devices are subjected to loading or other test conditions. Data islater correlated, processed, and plotted on graph paper to determine parameters of interest.This approach to problem-solving and power engineering laboratory experience has been inplace for decades and certainly has proven very useful. However, advances in digitalcomputer technology have engendered a new generation of hardware and software conceptsthat enable routine and mundane tasks such as "meter-reading" and data logging to beautomated, processed and presented in useful and desired formats. This frees the student tofocus on intellectual aspects of the project. Furthermore, it ensures a significantly higherdegree of

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Susan Ambrose

., 1996.5. “Engineering Criteria 2000,” The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD., 1998.6. Atkinson, R.C., & Shiffrin, R.M., Human memory: A proposed system and its control process. In K. Spence & J. Spence (Eds.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 2. New York: Academic Press. 1968.7. Bransford, J.D., Sherwood, R.D. and Sturdevant, T.S., “Teaching thinking and problem solving” in Baron, J.B. and Sternberg, R.J. Teaching Thinking Skills: Theory and Practice, W.H. Freemand and Company, New York, 1987.8. Reif, F., “Millikan Lecture 1994: Understanding and teaching important scientific thought processes,” American Journal of Physics 63 (1), 1995.SUSAN A. AMBROSE earned her Ph.D

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Robert L. Avanzato

-Hall, 1995[2] Avanzato, R.L., “Fire-Fighting Robots To The Rescue,” Proceedings of the 1997 Annual ASEE Conference, Milwaukee,WI, June 15-18, 1997.[3] Handy Board Web Site: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/[4] Avanzato, R.L., “Mobile Robot Design, Integration, and Outreach,” Proceedings of ASEE Middle Atlantic DivisionConference, West Point, N.Y., April 1997. BOB AVANZATO is an associate professor of engineering at the Penn State Abington College. His interests include fuzzylogic, expert systems, mobile robotics, and curricular enhancement. Prior to his position at Penn State, Bob was a senior engineer atthe Advanced Technology Laboratories at Martin Marietta where he was involved in digital signal

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W. Cully Hession; Marty D. Matlock; G. Scott Osborn; Daniel E. Storm; Ann L. Kenimer

. Undergraduate preparation in engineering should notreduce fundamentals in statics, strength of materials, dynamics, thermodynamics,electrical science, fluid mechanics, and design to provide competent preparation inecology and biology. An advanced degree is required to obtain these additional skills.An ecological engineering curriculum should be composed of an undergraduate degree(or equivalent) from an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)-accredited engineering program, and a Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy degreein ecological engineering. The undergraduate degree should provide a substantiveunderstanding of physical, biological, and chemical processes. Students from non-engineering undergraduate programs should be

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Kenneth L. Tuttle

Session 2478 Computer Models Using Spreadsheets to Study Heat Engine Thermodynamics Kenneth L. Tuttle U.S. Naval AcademyABSTRACTMarine Power Systems is the second term of a two term course in thermodynamics at the U.S.Naval Academy. This is an applied thermodynamics course and is taught by the MarineEngineering faculty. One of the primary objectives of this thermodynamics course is to teach thethermodynamics of heat engines. Marine Power Systems takes the study of Heat Engine Cyclesbeyond the first step, introduction of how to work the Heat

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John D. Whittaker; Ted G. Eschenbach

economy, and his research focuses on projectjustification, management of technology, and the management of engineers. Page 3.156.7

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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

Engineering methods (computing, mathematicalmodeling, optimization).EROL TUTUMLUER is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995 in Geotechnical Engineering withemphasis in Transportation Facilities. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of transportationgeomaterials, mechanistic pavement design, and applications of artificial neural networks in constitutive modeling.KATHLEEN M. COPPOCK is an Instructor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Shereceived a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1996 in Chemical Engineering. Her interests lie inthe areas of laboratory instruction and

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J. Darrell Gibson

. Page 3.582.1INTRODUCTIONIndustrial/Academic partnerships are essential for technological development, regardless of thediscipline. The purpose of this paper is to show how student design projects furnished by industrycultivate this partnership and benefit both groups. The basic concept is to use actual "real world"problems suggested by companies for student team design projects which are a required componentof senior mechanical engineering design courses. An essential consideration for a successfulsolution to any real world problem is, of course engineering economics. In addition to technologicalfeasibility, the solution is not complete until the economic feasibility also has been established. Inthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose

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Deborah M. Mechtel, United States Naval Academy

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Session 1675 Lessons Learned by a Novice Engineering Educator: Introducing a Cooperative Learning Technique to an Introductory Engineering Class Deborah M. Mechtel United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland ABSTRACTOne challenge novice engineering educators face is teaching students who have varying levels ofprior engineering experience or ability. A new variation of cooperative learning was introducedto meet this challenge. Cooperative learning techniques and lessons learned from this class maybe

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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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Melvin Cherno

Session 2461 STARTING AN INTEGRATED HUMANITIES/SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM FOR AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: CURRICULUM AND COURSE DESIGN Melvin Cherno Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia Anyone interested in establishing a cross-disciplinary program that integrates thehumanities and social sciences into an undergraduate engineering curriculum will have to makeat least four major decisions. This paper offers some advice based on the