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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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James R. Etchison

Session 1547 Curriculum Restructuring for Freshman Retention in the 1990s and Beyond James R. Etchison Electronics Engineering Technology Department Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601Abstract - In 1994-95, freshmen in the Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program atOregon Institute of Technology began enrolling in a curriculum which had been restructured toimprove student retention. During the first two years in which the new curriculum was in place,the number of

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

, the lab area has been transformed into a contemporary learning center for the latest indesign and manufacturing technology. Figure 1: Engineering Annex in 1909 Page 3.564.2 Figure 2: Engineering Annex Interior View (1909) This "activity based" approach erases the traditional boundaries between lecture andpractice, classroom and laboratory, academia and industrial practice. The Integrated LearningFactory (ILF) at the University of Washington, Figure 3, covers approximately 5,500 ft.2 TheILF includes the following components: •Design Studio •Design Lab

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John P. Leschke; Susan Carlson-Skalak

undertake this challenge in one of thecore courses of a new university minor in Technology Management and Policy. [2] This corecourse, Product and Technology Life Cycle, [3] is open to all third and fourth year undergraduatestudents, but the class has primarily consisted of a majority of engineers and a number ofcommerce students. This course encompasses the “technology life cycle” which we break downinto four modules: Research and Development (Basic and, Applied), Product Development,Commercialization, and Product Retirement and Revitalization. This course has several goals: x introduce non-engineers to technology and process and product development in a corporate setting, x introduce engineers to the decision making

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

Session 3547 TS/ 2 A CURRICULUM MODEL FOR PREPARING CET GRADUATES FOR POSITIONS IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN Dr. Eugene F. Smith, P.E., Richard K. Keplar, P.E., and Vernon W. Lewis, P.E. Civil Engineering Technology Program, Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a curriculum model for preparing Civil-Engineering Technology (CET)baccalaureate degree graduates for positions in structural design. The evolution of this modelwas dictated in large measure by the nature of design positions that are available to civilengineering technology graduates in Virginia

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Elaine L. Craft

Session 3247 Out of the Box Elaine L. Craft South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of ExcellenceHow does a state-wide system of two-year technical colleges produce enough engineeringtechnology graduates to meet the needs of high-tech employers? South Carolinians are thinking“out of the box” in addressing this challenge. The South Carolina Technical EducationSystem’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Initiative is taking an innovative, faculty-first approach to foster systemic reform in engineering technology education.The SC ATE Initiative is being

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

engineers through “handson” experiential learning of new technologies, new design methodologies and tools, newproducts and manufacturing techniques and regulatory and standards issues. The programprovides opportunities to hone personal competencies, personal attributes and business skills inpreparation for leadership roles.The graduate course work program consists of three stages, with an award being given after eachstage. At the end of the first stage, which corresponds to one semester of full time study, aGraduate Certificate is awarded. At the end of an additional semester of full time study aGraduate Diploma is awarded. If the student completes one more semester of full time study aMaster’s degree is awarded.Rationale for IntroductionPrior to

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Richard Jerz

and certain repetitive tasks (industrial robots), to operate machine tools (CNC -computer numerical control), and to integrate processes and systems (CIM - computer integratedmanufacturing). Engineers are challenged to understand these technologies and their strengthsand weaknesses, and apply them in a cost-effective manner. It is also very important that thesetechnologies be integrated to maximize their effectiveness. In 1991, this author joined St. Ambrose University and was assigned to teach the courseIE375 – Computer Aided Manufacturing Systems. The school’s industrial engineering programwas seeking ABET accreditation, and the department was carefully reviewing all courses todetermine how to meet ABET guidelines. Two aspects of ABET

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Ece Yaprak; Attila Yaprak; David Wells

which isdesigned and delivered through the collaboration of university and industry partners.Engineering technologist candidates are full time employees of the Center for AdvancedTechnology (CAT) Center where their real world experience plays an important role intheir educational program. In this paper, we discuss our experience in the development ofa portfolio of validation methods in the Design Project Knowledge area, a senior capstonedesign course in engineering technology at Wayne State University (WSU) by validatingthese candidates’ manufacturing experiences at the CAT Center.1. INTRODUCTION The last two decades have been marked by the globalization of markets,technology, and competition. This transformation has necessitated

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K. Swyler; A. Peskin

morethan one location to virtually manipulate an image.Technical ApplicationsIn order to be suitable for Engineering Technology education, technical applications mustmeet several criteria. They must be highly visual in nature, pedagogical, interactive, andbased on real science or engineering problems. There are a growing number ofapplications that fall into that category.Mechanical CADCAM is a prime example. A stereographic rendering of a drawing thatcan be zoomed, rotated, translated, sliced, and navigated, all before it is fabricated, makesa strong positive impression on its designers. This is particularly true if they are students.Medical imaging represents another example. CAT scans and MRI techniques are nowcommonplace, and distance diagnosis

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K. Swyler; A. Peskin

morethan one location to virtually manipulate an image.Technical ApplicationsIn order to be suitable for Engineering Technology education, technical applications mustmeet several criteria. They must be highly visual in nature, pedagogical, interactive, andbased on real science or engineering problems. There are a growing number ofapplications that fall into that category.Mechanical CADCAM is a prime example. A stereographic rendering of a drawing thatcan be zoomed, rotated, translated, sliced, and navigated, all before it is fabricated, makesa strong positive impression on its designers. This is particularly true if they are students.Medical imaging represents another example. CAT scans and MRI techniques are nowcommonplace, and distance diagnosis

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William J. Hutzel

% of this staggering total. In terms of the football field example, the annual energyused for heating, cooling, lighting, and appliances is equivalent to a coal pile over 100 mileshigh. Although the availability of coal and other fossil fuels is gradually decreasing, U.S. energyconsumption is steadily increasing.2 It is not surprising that new technologies for efficientlymanaging energy use, particularly energy used for indoor climate control, are becomingextremely important.The growing importance of energy conservation is reflected by several new career opportunitiesfor Technologists and Engineers. Maintenance engineering, which involves operating andmaintaining mechanical equipment for climate control of modern commercial buildings

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

revised process flowsheet withthe incorporation of new waste minimization technologies, and a cost analysisfor process revisions and potential savings from process modifications and wasteminimization. Two additional MEL developed modules are also available to Page 3.57.1students for this portion of the assignment: Wastewater Treatment Plant andVisual Encyclopedia of Chemical Engineering Equipmentt. With the addition of thepollution prevention component, students are exposed to an "open-ended" designproblem similar to that which they might traditionally encounter in a seniorlevel design class.The various tasks in the project vary from presentation of a process

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J. W. Stevens; A.A. Jalalzadeh-Azar; W.G. Steele; B.K. Hodge

in Proceedings 1997 ASEE Southeastern Section Meeting, April 13-15, 1997, MariettaGA, pp. 123-130.J.W. STEVENSDr. James Stevens is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University.He came to MSU after earning his Ph.D. at Brigham Young University in 1991. His research interests includeforced convection cooling, heat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids, air conditioner performance, and desiccantdehumidification. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in thermal sciences and experimental techniques.He is associated with the Global Center for Desiccant Technology at Mississippi State.B.K. HODGEDr. Hodge received his aerospace engineering BS and MS degrees from Mississippi State University (MSU) and

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Kevin Otto; Joseph Bezdek; Daniel Jensen

begun introducing more “design-like” problems intotheir undergraduate analysis courses taught to freshman and sophomore students such as thosedetailed in [7, 18, 23, 31]. One particular example is Miller’s work at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology [20, 21, 22]. Miller has developed approximately a dozen small, hour-long,hands-on, design-like exercises that aim to give sophomore engineering students a feel for someof the engineering concepts they have learned in theory. While the material tested well indevelopment, actual implementation in MIT analysis courses has been limited. Other approachesto using design early in the curriculum include the Tip-A-Can project described by Freckleton of

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Mark Mawlawi; Hamid Y. Eydgahi

1648 TS / 4 MEETING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS: An Alternative to the Classroom Environment Hamid Y. Eydgahi, Mark Mawlawi Lima Technical CollegeAbstract:The continuing demand for ongoing education and training, with advances in technology, isbeing met by application of technology, such as distance or interactive learning and are beingfostered by educational institutions as well as their partners in corporate and industrial sectors.This presentation will demonstrate an interactive instructional delivery system, through theIndustrial Engineering Technology

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Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

manufacturing education issues, the software, data structures, tools andoperational guidelines for operation of the system will be designed in a content-neutral manner.By changing appropriate configuration parameters, other disciplines and groups will be able todeploy an instance of the Electronic Forum and Workshop Framework to support their unique Page 3.79.21 Technology Reinvestment Program/ Manufacturing Engineering Trainingnetwork-mediated dialogue and seminars and create specialized databases and rich subject-specific resources for sharing and exchanging within their community of interest.3 Objectives of the Forum and WorkshopOrganizing and

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Zhang Wenxue; Yuan Dening; Chen Zhi

personnel training is carried out insome engineering departments of our university. The training objective is decided accordingto the three categories. The first category is a program for Master of Engineering includingBachelor of Engineering, i.e. Bachelor and Master combined program, in which the trainingprocess will be optimized and the training of “the both ends will be intensified, and themiddle will be optimized”. One end refers to strengthening basic education on modernengineering technology and comprehensive personnel quality, and the other end is to enhancethe practical engineering training with a macro-concept, including engineering scientificresearch, comprehensive ability training in designing and the training of comprehensiveability

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

Interviews 1c. Are case studies, active learning techniques, and Q or FG S, F computer technologies extensively used in the Samples classroom? 1d. Did the program provide previously unavailable Q or FG S, F opportunities for hands on engineering experience in the Learning Factory? 1e. Did the partner schools exchange information and Q or FG S, F, I8 Page 3.500.3 Lueny Morell de Ramírez, Jose L. Zayas, John S. Lamancusa, and Jens Jorgensen, A Summative Assessment Strategy for

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

Institution Address Phone: Fax: email: The MEEP CD-ROM contains the following items: Background Information • Information about MEEP • Video • MEEP Publications Course Materials • Product Dissection Course • Technology-based Entrepreneurship Course • Concurrent Engineering Modules • Process Quality Engineering Course • Rapid Prototyping Technology ModuleI. Regarding Background Information:• Did you understand the program, as described in the Information about MEEP section?• Was the video about the program useful in understanding the goals and

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Fiona S. Crofton; Cynthia A. Mitchell

. The instructor is working with another smaller group of students; they're part of a team delivering 'environmental engineering for children' courses in a local elementary school. You notice a recycling center — for paper, cans, glass and organics — in at the back of the room. The walls are covered with diagrams, charts and pictures portraying various sustainable and unsustainable technologies as well as life cycle analyses; you find working models on counters and various kinds of simulations on the computers. Some of the examples around the room come directly from projects with which the instructor has been involved.Does this story excite you? Are you intrigued? Delighted

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L. Alden Kendall; Dianne Dorland

, West Virginia after receiving her BS and MS from the SouthDakota School of Mines and Technology. She completed her PhD at West Virginia University before joining theUMD in 1986. She teaches Hazardous Waste Processing Engineering and Material and Energy Balances.L. ALDEN KENDALL is professor and head of industrial engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Hehas 28 years of academic experience as a teacher, researcher, and administrator. Fields of interest are designeducation, process models, simulation, and computer integrated manufacturing. He has a BMinE from theUniversity of Minnesota, MSIE from the University of Iowa, and a PhD in IE from the Ohio State University

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Richard Gilbert; James Solomon; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

requires that the science educator come to appreciate two importantaspects of the scientific method within a vacuum technology framework. First, there are predictableevents that occur when the pressure of an environment is manipulated. Second, there is great deal ofsatisfaction when a engineering and/or scientific concept is completely understood. The workshopattempts to accomplish this task by focusing the participants on the pressure-related physical phenomenato be understood, and then requesting the participants to explain the observations by a satisfactory theory,successfully describe that theory with a mathematical model, and ultimately characterize the model'sperformance by repeatable observations. This two-day workshop begins with a

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Peter A. Koen

preparedness of StevensInstitute of Technology top 20 employers. Preliminary results verified many of the attributesindicated in the ABET Engineering Criteria. Our expectation was to expand this survey toinclude additional employers. However the results were rejected by many faculty at the Institutefor multiple reasons. Some of the reasons given were: that the survey was not asking the rightquestions; that the questions were not worded correctly; and that it had not sampled the correctpeople. These criticisms, for the most part, were valid and could have been ameliorated bymodifying the survey. However, the major issue, which was not properly addressed in designing

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Sameer Kumar; John Walker; Jeffrey A. Jalkio; James Rehg

-traditional.In the past few years, there has been a noticeable surge in distance learning education offered byvarious educational institutions. Many universities and colleges have started different ways toreach out the non-traditional, many of whom are non-resident students. The University ofPhoenix has started a graduate degree in computer science on the Internet. MIT is offering agraduate program in Logistics through Internet. The National Technological University (NTU)had been offering both undergraduate and graduate science and engineering programs for the pastseveral years, broadcast to various remote sites across US, through the one way video and audiodelivered via NTU satellite communication network. Since Fall 1996, the University ofWisconsin

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Spyros A. Kinnas; Hillary Hart

. Kinnas, S.A., and Hart, H., “Developing and Using Textbooks on the Web,” Brown bag seminars, Collegeof Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 1997. Liu, M., e-mail correspondence with author (Hart), 3 Nov., 1997.HILLARY HART, Ph.D., a Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering (CE) at The University of Texas atAustin, created and runs the CE program in Technical Communication. She developed an electronic writing lab thatpioneered the use of writing-process software in an engineering curriculum. Her research interests includeenvironmental communication as well as instructional technology and computer-mediated communication.SPYROS A. KINNAS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at The

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Daniel Davis

Session 3675 STAYING ABREAST OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS ‘The A & E Profession in Transition’ Daniel Davis University of Hartford, Ward College of Technology ABSTRACT The architecture and engineering profession is facing a whirlwind of change and it is achallenge for faculty members to keep abreast of these developments. According to the NationalUniversity Continuing Education Association, even slower paced technical fields are reinventingthemselves at least once a decade. What is the best way for faculty to monitor and

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Fred Beaufait

- Anonymous Engineering is a bridge between fundamental research laboratories and manufacturingindustries. Undergraduate students need research experience to be introduced to theinterdisciplinary nature of product development and manufacturing. Research experiencecomplements the undergraduate education that is concerned with the basic concepts of scienceand engineering. The author, in the last three years, has involved five undergraduates through testing newideas to develop material processing and manufacturing technologies. These idea-based projectsare termed by the author as "creative projects". Each creative project is completed in twosemesters. Due to the exposure to novel ideas, state-of-the-art technologies and major

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Shelton L. Houston; Kamal S. Ali

3548 TS/2 RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC IN LABORATORY INSTRUCTION Shelton L. Houston and Kamal S. Ali School of Engineering Technology University of Southern Mississippi Box 5137, Hattiesburg MS 39406ABSTRACT:Traditionally, laboratory instruction in computer and electronics engineering technologyhas relied mainly on SSI and MSI integrated circuits. This placed a limitation on thenumber of components per lab experiment, and hence, a limitation on the complexity ofthe laboratory tasks presented to students. Exasperated by the

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Donald L. Buchwald

andbachelor degree mechanical engineering technology students. These courses cover both theory and(hands-on) laboratory experiences in basic robots, switches, sensors, vision systems, digital logic,and PLCs used in today's industry. Many of these topics will not be covered here in order to addressspecifically the integration of machine vision with robotics applications. A short video showing thecurrent automated manufacturing laboratory will be presented in conjunction with this paper.Robots have been used for many years in applications of welding, painting, material handling, andassembly with more recent use in delicate assembly and inspection. Integration with machine visionhas become a common partner more rapidly than expected. A machine vision