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1999 Annual Conference

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William Durfee

Session 3325 The New Product Design and Business Development Program: Engineers and Business Students Join With Industry to Create New Products William K. Durfee Department of Mechanical Engineering University of MinnesotaI. IntroductionNew products are the driver behind most successful businesses and the key to maintaining acompetitive position in today's market. The University of Minnesota has launched an initiativewhich creates a novel educational model for teaching the principles of product design anddevelopment. The goals of this

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1999 Annual Conference

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Biwu Yang

toprovide interaction between the instructor and students. The virtual lab has been in use since thespring semester of 1998. Positive feedback from students shows that the virtual lab is animportant integrated component for these courses and the lab activities greatly enhanced theirlearning experience.I. IntroductionIn recent years, network based online delivery approach has been applied to many disciplines.The online delivery approach was developed to respond to the demand of distance learning. Inthe model of distance learning, students are far away from a campus and it is very hard for themto take on-campus courses in traditional classroom and laboratory settings. Online coursedelivery allows the learning to take place anytime and any place, thus

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1999 Annual Conference

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W.V. Wilding; J.N. Harb; Ronald E. Terry; W.C. Hecker

education by focusing onthe product (student attributes) rather than the process (teaching). Although the formality ofoutcomes-based education may be unfamiliar to some, the fundamental ideas are not new, andare routinely incorporated into our day-to-day efforts to improve student learning. ABET 2000provides the formal context needed for broad application of these ideas and, of course, thedriving force needed to facilitate change.At issue, then, is how we will respond to this opportunity. On one hand ABET 2000 may beviewed as an unpleasant and perhaps unnecessary task that must be accomplished to achieveaccreditation. Alternatively, it may be viewed as a catalyst for making significant improvementsto engineering education. It is our opinion that

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1999 Annual Conference

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Deborah B. Kaufman; Hugh Fuller; Richard M. Felder

tasks (e.g. homework assignments, laboratory experiments, or design projects) underconditions that meet five criteria: positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, appropriate use of collaborative skills, and regular self-assessment of teamfunctioning. Many studies have shown that when correctly implemented, cooperative learningimproves information acquisition and retention, higher-level thinking skills, interpersonal andcommunication skills, and self-confidence (Johnson, Johnson, and Smith, 1998).Holding each student individually accountable for work done in a team setting is a cornerstoneof cooperative learning. One way to meet this goal is to adjust team project grades for all teammembers according to how

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1999 Annual Conference

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George M. Swisher; Corinne Darvennes

digitalsystem simulation course. Simulation, employing a sophisticated computation system, lendsreality to the solution process and matches the procedures used by practicing engineers in thatME speciality.I. IntroductionOn the quarter system, the ME faculty taught a classical vibrations course emphasizing one andtwo degrees of freedom systems and their mathematical solutions. A follow-on, one-credit hourdigital simulation laboratory (requiring the vibrations class as a pre-requisite) emphasized thenumerical solutions of differential equations using such higher-level programs as SL-1(developed by Xerox in the late 1960’s), CSMP (developed by IBM in the late 1960’s), ACSL1,and now MATLAB®2; this evolution followed the introduction of each new package

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1999 Annual Conference

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Donald V. Richardson

that "Yes, now it feels like an F-80!" but some of their feedback pressure calibrations varied over a nearly ten to one range! Part of this was due to simulating the various center of gravity conditions and the pilot's setting of the simulated trim tabs. e.) DECISION: Since diversity of pilot opinion was part of what the Air Force Aeromedical Laboratory wanted to explore and quantify, they were pleased. We altered the simulator to make dial-in changes easier and then put it in a long test and/or modification program. Page 4.525.93 This was before the era of “OP-amps” (operational amplifiers

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1999 Annual Conference

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Nancy White