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Terrence E. Dwan; E. Eugene Mitchell; George E. Piper; Carl E. Wick

. His areas of interestinclude simulation and controls.CARL E. WICK received the BS degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1970, the MS degreefrom the Naval Postgraduate School in 1976 and the Doctor of Science degree from the GeorgeWashington University in 1993. A retired career Naval Officer and aviator, he has been with theWeapons and Systems Engineering Department of the U.S. Naval Academy since 1990. Hiscurrent research interests include embedded computer systems and simulators, digital signalprocessing, and image processing systems. He is a member of SPIE, Sigma Xi, and is anassociate editor for ASEE Coed. Page 3.531.5

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Michael A. Cornachione; Harriet S. Cornachione

Session 3151 Teaching the Business of Engineering Harriet S. Cornachione, Michael A. Cornachione Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionTypical of most civil engineering programs, the Civil Engineering and Surveying Department atOregon Institute of Technology (OIT) requires civil engineering majors to take senior-design, orcapstone courses. These courses are intended to expose students to engineering problems similarto those they will encounter when they begin their careers. In keeping with traditionaleducational methodology, the classes generally become part lecture, part

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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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Career Discovery Press, Burbank, CA, 1995. Page 3.606.5

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modern pieces of equipment that facilitate students' learning andprepare them for the anticipated challenges during their professional career. A NSF-ILI grant1together with a matching fund by CSUF have provided the minimum required funding for theequipment that make up the infrastructure of the lab.The laboratory is established to have eight workstations that can support both software andhardware development. Each station is equipped with at least a desktop computer, a dataacquisition hardware/software, an oscilloscope, a multimeter, a function generator, a powersupply, and a microcontroller trainer. Other equipment and discrete components are alsoavailable for conduct of experiments and projects. The development plan has included

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Eric Leung; Cathy Godbois; Richard Ciocci

literacy. One reason this occurs isthat in associate-degree career and transfer programs that are not technological in nature, studentsare required to take at most two courses in mathematics and the sciences. Approximately one-half of all students in a degree program at HACC are part of this population. These studentsoften graduate without developing scientific and technological literacy.The National Science Foundation NSF awarded an Instrumentation and Laboratory ImprovementGrant to three faculty members from the Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Division atHACC. The grant, awarded under the NSF's Leadership in Laboratory Development program,was made for the investigators to develop a text and a laboratory manual for an

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Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

civil construction encompasses a wide range ofvery different projects involving very large operations. Contractors must be able to prepareestimates that are competitive enough to secure contracts yet allows reasonable profit uponsuccessful completion of the projects. In reality, the success of both contractors and owners ofmajor projects is dependent upon the construction estimating skills of key individuals within acompany or an agency. Poorly prepared estimates can lead to distressful results such asfinancial insolvency and abandoned projects. Many construction graduates start their career asan estimator before moving on to become project engineer, project manager or owner of aconstruction company. At California State Polytechnic

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

Page 3.115.2their breadth of interests, not necessarily their initial technical depth at graduation, that gave themthe background to succeed in management.9 They also perceive that in today’s global economy itis vital for engineers to have the broad background to be able to assess and understand theeconomic, environmental, and ethical effects of their work. This is especially applicable to theconstruction industry.It has also been mentioned in the literature that the skills required by a typical employee tend tovary during an engineer’s career.8 For example, basic technical skills are extremely importantdirectly after graduation. Later in life, knowledge of communication, organizational, managerial,and social skills may be more significant to

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William Gay

Cincinnati area baccalaureateinstitutions such as Northern Kentucky University. As flight instructors, these graduates canaccumulate additional flight hours, which in turn, increases their employability upon graduationfrom a baccalaureate program. Recruiting Plans Recruiting efforts for the Aviation Program began during the academic year (1991-1992), theyear before the startup date for the program. These efforts consisted of letters to area high schoolgraduates, radio and billboard advertisement, communication with high school guidancecounselors, and a presence at some area career fairs. Low enrollments were expected during the first years of the program. This was thoughtdue in part to the high

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Michael W. Jennings; Jamal A. Ghorieshi

course could be used to impressupon students the importance of the subject that they study and its applications.Furthermore, it prepares students with a strong knowledge that they could build on overtheir career. In this experiment students learned: • The role that vibration has in our daily life. • What transducers are, how they are made and used? • What data to collect using data acquisition package and how to evaluate and use the data? • How failure due to vibration occurs, and how to alleviate them? • How vibrations are taken into account in designing machinery or structures. • How to diagnose problems and find the best possible solution?Another result that is of particular interest, which

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Stanley J. Pisarski; James L. Hales

experience completed by a student did not turn out favorably. The studentwrote, “ I was not at all pleased with the type of work I was doing; however, it was a greatlearning experience. I didn’t gain much financially, but professionally I grew by leaps andbounds. A mentor of mine observed that the experience gave me the knowledge of what it is thatI do not want to do for a career. It was just a shame that I couldn’t have spent my time doingsomething that I enjoyed and was professionally interested in.” This particular student was hiredfor a position to process meteorological weather data. His position as a data processor requiredhim to modify existing FORTRAN programs to process raw data from the database into usefulinformation used in a weather

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David G. Tomer

of design: An automotive engineer may spend a year or two analyzing, designing, testing,redesigning and retesting a component or subsystem. In that same year or two, an automatedequipment design engineer will have designed, built, debugged and put into production acomplete machine system. With an admitted bias, based on an enjoyable career in automatedequipment design, I argue that neither is better than the other, merely different.The typical college course in “Machine Design” is focused on component design. Whether it befailure theories, or the design of springs, gears, shafts, clutches and other power transmissioncomponents, the focus is on the analysis/design of those components rather than the selection ofpre-engineered - also read “off

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Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

Practices Our AMP has generated a wealth of curriculum and research projects which we now proposeto innovatively disseminate. For example, through our existing and well-institutionalizedsummer bridge programs we have developed condensed courses in Calculus, Biology, Physics,Organic Chemistry, and technical English for incoming freshman and community collegestudents who hope to major in mathematics and science-related fields. These courses focus onkey material in gate-keeping courses which are required early in their college careers. Throughdocumentation in final project reports, course syllabi, texts, problem sets, and other forms thesematerials are catalogued and now will be made available to interested faculty through the Internetor by

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Zbigniew Prusak

3.297.1 12. TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES AND REALITY OF TEENAGERS The social and economical realities of the US society, open to outside exports and constantlysearching for lower cost production and new markets, necessitate education of a very flexibleprofessional, easily adoptable to new challenges. How do today’s teenagers fare in their readiness foruniversity education and challenges of the future workplace? Widely publicized predictions estimatethat today’s university graduates will change careers 3 to 6 times before they retire. They certainlywill face accelerating changes, which already can be seen by examining the history of industrialprogress in the last two centuries alone. The pace of

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marked down. The one particular exceptionmay be the Spring 1997 semester.Overall, it is the opinion of the author that although there is room for improvement that thestudents are reacting favorably to the implementation of these teaching techniques. This isfurther supported by numerous verbal comments by the students outside of class and after thecourse is completed. Page 3.343.113.2 Peer CommentsA total of six peer reviews have been performed: three during the first semester of the author'steaching career and three during the fifth semester. The T4E implementation began during thethird semester. For no particularly reason, each peer review

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Daniel Davis

Association, for mechanical engineers it is 7.5 years;for electrical engineers it is 5 years; for software engineers, a mere 2.5 years.1 Keeping in mindthe pace of change and growth since these estimates were developed almost 10 years ago, thesehalf-life figures are undoubtedly even shorter today. So as technological changes gainmomentum, architectural and engineering professionals must be prepared to treat their careers asdynamic entities that need continuous upkeep and upgrading.2 How then can faculty, who are notbeing educated by professional experience or trained by their company, hope to stay abreast ofcurrent developments? Just as professionals must stop thinking of education as what they did incollege many years ago, educators must stop

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Richard K. Keplar; Eugene F. Smith; Vernon W. Lewis

, Page 3.6.3and adding that instruction to the appropriate design courses. As a result of these changes, moretime can be spent in the basic structural analysis course on the primary and secondary methods ofstructural analysis that are emphasized in the curriculum, i.e., on the stiffness and momentdistribution methods. The remaining portion of the structural analysis course can now include alimited but adequate coverage of approximate methods that may be used to check the results(output) of computer software.These changes emphasize to the CET student that structural analysis is an integral part of thestructural design process for every building structure design project.Experiences Established for the Structural CurriculumThe career goals of the

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Stephen R. McNeill; Jed S. Lyons

be used to provide background information to the user forevery material, process facility and test lab in Material World. For example, the process facilitysimulations could include links to a “virtual plant trip” of an actual manufacturing facility. Thesewill link the lab work to reality, and will help show the students what they'll be doing upongraduation and throughout their professional career. This provides motivation for them tocontinue working, thereby positively affecting engineering student retention rates. Hypertextwith CGI forms may also be used to create the student self-testing sections in the “ExaminingRoom.”4.2. Specific LessonsMaterial World will use the strength of the internet to gather knowledge from experts world

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Carol Richardson

which they can meettheir education needs. Changing lifestyles, multiple career paths and the need for 1continuation education are fueling rapid growth in the distance learning population. Page 3.219.1 Distance Learning Population and Programs In 1992-93 RIT registered 2000 students in 130 distance learning courses 2 and in1995-96 registered 3500 students in 148 distance learning courses. In 1995-96 about onehalf (49%) of these students lived more than 30 miles from campus, across the UnitedStates and in other countries. The remaining (51

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Shy-Shenq P. Liou; Peter Leung; James Kang; Hans Soelaeman

philosophy we proposed, i.e., design, analysis, simulate, build, and test is a good approach. Students generally learn more and have a sense of accomplishment after they finish testing their very own product. This experience can stimulate their interest and expand their imagination. Both of these are essential in their engineering careers.(3) The distance learning (remote) laboratory is a good tryout. We have learned a lot how this can be accomplished. It also raises a few important issues. We will try to address these issues later. Nonetheless, this distance learning laboratory requires some hardware and software for it to happen. IEEE 488 in each instrument and a data acquisition system are

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Mahmood Nahvi

Poly has two sets of objectives. One is technical. The other ispedagogical. On the technical side, the aim is for the students to learn through synthesis anddesign. The course emphasizes the design and utilization of hardware and software which useDSP chips and boards. On the pedagogical side, the course explores interaction, sharing ofresults, cooperation-competition, and division of labor among participants. We consider the latterobjectives to be important factors not only in achieving the technical objectives but also inpreparing the graduating engineer for a productive professional career. The preliminaryconclusions are that our strategy, and the DSP laboratory designed on the basis of that strategy,present the students with an efficient

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Wayne E. Wells

. These students, exposedto the engineering workplace, find the case study approach very representative of the decisionframeworks used in engineering practice.WAYNE E. WELLS, Ph.D., is Chair, Engineering Technology Department at the Universityof Texas at Brownsville. Following a 30-year career as a practicing engineer and engineeringmanager, he joined the faculty of The University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texasin 1992 to help launch their new Engineering program. In 1996, he moved to his presentposition to create and launch the Engineering Technology program for UTB. Page 3.228.6

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3.236.6Education, ASEE, Oct 97, p.309. 2. Electronic Workbench, Interactive Image Technologies LTD., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1-800-203-8007. 3. Current Maker, Costal Computer Company, Rocky Mountain, NC, 1-919-442-7436, www.ccomputer.com 4. Rabiee, M.M., Simulation of Analog and Digital Circuits with the Electronic Workbench, ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings, ASEE, 1996, s.3548. 5. Ahmadian, M.H., Electronics Workbench The Electronics Lab in a Computer, ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings, ASEE, 1996, s.1532. 6. Grambo, A., Central Nine Career Center, Indianapolis, In. 7. Pelletier, B., Web Tools Direct Networking’s Future, Software Strategies, Pitman Publishing Co., Chicago, Il,Aug 96, p.31. 8. Waite, W.M., Simpson, R., The Lab and the Web: Transforming

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

expected to have an ability to use modern engineering techniques, skills, and tools, including computer-based tools for analysis and design (Engineering Criterion 3(k)). 9) All graduates are expected to have an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (Engineering Criterion 3(d)). 11) All graduates are expected to have an ability to convey technical material through oral presentation and interaction with an audience (Engineering Criterion 3(g)). Page 3.240.3 15) The School’s advising program meets the needs of the students for information regarding academic issues, career options, and graduate education. 17

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expected to have an ability to use modern engineering techniques, skills, and tools, including computer-based tools for analysis and design (Engineering Criterion 3(k)). 9) All graduates are expected to have an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (Engineering Criterion 3(d)). 11) All graduates are expected to have an ability to convey technical material through oral presentation and interaction with an audience (Engineering Criterion 3(g)). Page 3.241.3 15) The School’s advising program meets the needs of the students for information regarding academic issues, career options, and graduate education. 17

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Marilyn Dyrud

using short cases or by soliciting narratives from studentswho have already had career-related employment. The latter can be especially illuminating. It’s also useful to balance disasters with positive examples, so students understand thatengineers make beneficial contributions to society. In regards to whistleblowing, for example, a Page 3.264.3discussion about what happened to Roger Boisjoly after his Congressional testimony could becounter-balanced by the more uplifting cases of William LeMessurier and the ManhattanCitiCorp Tower,8 or, for a truly heroic slant, Fred Cuny, a civil engineer who devoted (andsacrificed) his life to disaster

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Robert A. Hall; Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

. Indeed,there are many among us who doubtless consider their days a waste of waking hours if they aren'table to receive a daily dose of e-mail, or surf the Net. We have become so concerned about theinformation that we might receive that even while we sleep we employ computers and otherinformation servants to stand on vigilant duty guarding precious data which are retrieved by faxand answering machines until we can once more join the active world.This daily acquisition, this barrage of information, has become a staple of our careers. It is thevery breath that supports our biosphere of intellect. The review of information has become acorner stone of the society in which we work and even in which we seek escape. We are alwaysseeking the latest

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Robert Heidersbach; David Gibbs; Daniel Walsh; Alan Demmons

of Engineering is to educate its graduate and undergraduate students for careers ofleadership and distinction in engineering and related fields, to educate graduates who are able to be productivemembers of the workforce immediately, to educate graduates who are able to seek advanced degrees, to educate allstudents at the university so that they develop an understanding of technical issues which will allow them toparticipate meaningfully in the technology driven society of the Twenty-first Century, to apply technology to servethe needs of society and to benefit the public through service to industry, government and professional organizations.The College will accomplish its mission by adhering to three broad goals, it will Empower the College

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Robert J. Hofinger

design our courses and properly prepare our students.What will the electrical engineering field be like in the future? What should our students preparethemselves for? What should we, as educators, be teaching the future engineers andtechnologists? An insight with leaders in the electrical engineering field presents a picture ofwhat the engineering profession will be like in the next five years. With this knowledge, we aselectrical engineering technology educators can improve our curriculum and better prepare ourstudents for a meaningful and prosperous career and future.IntroductionTake a step forward, into the 21st Century. Let us look at the beginning of a well-connected dayin the life of a systems engineer, starting with this teleconferencing

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Jay S. DeNatale; Gregg L. Fiegel

thegeotechnical engineering program at Cal Poly. Emphasized are experiences that the program hashad incorporating field and laboratory testing procedures into the undergraduate curriculum. Abrief discussion focuses on technical and financial support from industry that has helped toenhance the program.BACKGROUNDCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoCalifornia Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo is one of the twenty-three(23) campuses of the California State University, the nation’s largest four-year university system.Cal Poly’s primary mission is undergraduate education, and it specializes in preparing its 15,000students for careers in applied professional and technical fields.Cal Poly’s College of Engineering has

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Barbara Olds

need to settle on the optimum class size and structure. The large recitations, while efficient in terms of faculty use, may not be the best approach pedagogically. The 40 student lecture/20 student recitation format seems to have promise. We need to explore the possible use of engineering case studies and participation of engineers, both from the CSM faculty and from industry. This approach would perhaps promote more “buy in” to the course from both students and faculty from the engineering disciplines. Practicing engineers may be the best people to convince first year students that issues such as ethics and stewardship of the earth are indeed important in their careers as well as their personal lives. We need to explore