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Philip Doepker

which seeks industry projects. This hasresulted in increasing the number of industry sponsored projects from a few per year to over 30per year. This also provided more opportunities for written and oral presentations.The types of computers and software for basic computer instruction and CAD were debated forseveral years in an industrial advisory committee. Through collaboration with practicing Page 4.515.7engineers, the type of computer instruction was changed (C++), new software was purchased andprocured (AutoCAD and SDRC I-DEAS) and the curriculum was revised to better reflect theskills that will be required by graduates.As the result of feedback

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Charles McIntryre

instructorpresented material related to effective student learning, teamwork, and teaching styles. Eventually,the audience was in a frame of mind to accept and actually look forward to doing some of theirown $teaching.# The basic objective of this experiment was to promote effective student learningby using innovative instructional methods.II. The Theory of Cooperative TeachingThere exist several suggested methods and $theories# that describe how to approach the subject ofinvolving students in the delivery mechanisms related to presenting course material1,2. During inclass discussions concerning the group project, it was decided that we (the students and theinstructor) should develop our own system for CME 425 - Risk Management and DecisionSupport. We were

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William B. Perry; Victor Barocas; David E. Clough

Clough, teaches programming skills using Fortran 90.The course also introduces students to Microsoft Excel, Matlab, and Mathcad. In the fallsemester of the senior year, undergraduate students are required to take Numerical Methods forProcess Simulation (CHEN 4580). In this course, taught by Victor Barocas, students areintroduced to useful methods for numerical problem solving, such as linear and nonlinearequation solvers, numerical integration, and ordinary differential equation solvers. AlthoughCHEN 4580 students are given the option to use any programming language for homeworkassignments and projects, most find the Matlab platform to be extremely useful

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

mechatronics at least a decade earlier than those in North America. A useful link tomechatronics at the international level is given at http://www.mechatronik..uni-linz.ac.at/international/index.en.html. This site is maintained by the University of Linz inAustria and is entitled “Mechatronics Around the World”.The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia has in place afive year combined B.Sc. and M.Eng. degree entitled “Electro-mechanical Design Engineering”.The students take all core undergraduate mechanical engineering courses, plus selected digitalelectronics and software engineering courses. The culmination of the program is two twelvemonth project courses that involve advanced machine design (MECH 551) and

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Maurice Walworth; Kevin Schmaltz; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

airplane, a model train anda wind tunnel make heavy use of data-acquisition systems, programs written and developed inLabVIEW and MATLAB, and modern communication protocols such as RS485. The entireinterface is through virtual instrumentation, and the lab is also being given the capability of remoteaccess to the students. There are other indirect advantages of this approach in terms of financialeconomy and faculty professional development. This project has been funded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) and has resulted in the development of the Integrated SystemsEngineering Laboratory (ISEL) that houses vertically integrated laboratory exercises for twelvecourses from three different curricula.1. IntroductionMost universities have limited

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Scott McNamara; Martha Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Chris Rogers

and have become interested inlearning math and physics through creating with the bricks. In this paper, we outline some of thecourses that use the bricks and how they have improved the interest and education of students ofall ages.I. IntroductionFor the past ten years, faculty members from the college of engineering at Tufts University havebeen teaching engineering to students ages 3 to 30. About five years ago, NASA funded Tufts todevelop engineering curricula centered on aeronautics for this age group, starting the LEGO DataAcquisition and Prototyping System (LDAPS)1. Our main goal is to present students with a fullengineering design project (construction of an airport, for example) and teach math and science -as well as reading and writing

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Adrian Ng; Kurt C. Gramoll

Session 3522 Online Review and Practice Tests for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Adrian Ng, Kurt Gramoll University of OklahomaAbstractWithin the past few years, the World Wide Web has proven to be a tool of great potentialboth as an instrument for education as well as for technology application. This is evidentwith the increase in distance learning sites available on the Internet. This paper focusesusing the Internet by students to prepare for the Fundamentals in Engineering ReviewProject. This project implements the computer-based, distance learning

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Edward Gehringer

sequentially, assigning different filenames toeach, or submit a single Zip file, which PG will unpack into its components. Entire directoryhierarchies may be submitted in this manner. The requirement that students submit whole filesinstead of hyperlinks ensures that the reviewers will not be able to guess their authors’identities by looking at the pathname in the URL. The ability to submit directory hierarchiesallows large projects to be submitted and reviewed as easily as small ones. Page 4.415.2 Figure 1: PG’s login pageThe instructor assigns reviewers based upon appropriate criteria. Often reviewers are to

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Erol Inelmen

three decades now- has been always puzzled by thefact that "an integrative approach” for the engineering education is still very low in the agenda ofmany distinguished institutions 1In search for a practical solution to the problem of integration in the engineering education, theauthor reviewed the papers published by the former Dean of Engineering in the EngineeringFaculty of Bogazici University (the former American Robert College) in Turkey. Thesepublications suggest -among many other recommendations- the means to integrate education Page 4.429.1using a "project centred learning" approach in education. Paradoxically these recommendationshave

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Justin Pniower; Michael Ruane; Bennett Goldberg; Selim Unlu

audience.Developing web-based experiments can be expensive. Funding came from the UniversityPhotonics Center, from a NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development grant, andfrom Melles Griot, an optical equipment manufacturer. Melles Griot provided much of thescientific and computer equipment for this project. In return we are developing, along with ourweb-based experiments, real time demonstrations of their equipment over the WWW. Theseonline demonstrations will be an extension of the professional part of our site and will requireminimal additional programming. Web-based experiments offer a unique opportunity foruniversity collaboration with private industry.Developing a web-based experiment is an excellent introduction to laboratory research

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May Movafagh Mowzoon; Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1392 "WISE INVESTMENTS”: A Yearlong Pilot Program Introducing Engineering to Teachers and Counselors May Movafagh Mowzoon, Mary Aleta White, Stephanie L. Blaisdell, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractA recent, successful project within the Women in Applied Sciences and Engineering (WISE)Program at Arizona State University, WISE Investments, was designed to teach middle and highschool math and science teachers to integrate engineering concepts and applications into theircurricula. Integrating engineering into math and science

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Alexander N. Cartwright

oral communication of design concepts and procedures we improve the student’s soft skills.More importantly, this learning environment is designed to use the design projects andlaboratory experiments to show the multidisciplinary aspects of lasers and photonics, i.e., someknowledge of computers, optics, controls, physics, chemistry and mathematics are essential intodays industry. Finally, we emphasize the use of information technologies (software, WWW) toenhance the learning process. Taken together, these advantages help to prepare theundergraduate students for either industry or advanced graduate work by teaching bothindependence and interdependence in a supportive collaborative environment.Discussion SessionsIn addition to changing the

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S. M. Miner; R. E. Link

because of problems with the input or the way in which themechanism was assembled.At the U. S. Naval Academy the Computer-Aided Design course is heavily oriented towardsteam design projects. Teams of two students select a mechanism design project from a list ofsuggested projects at the beginning of the semester. The lectures are organized to develop thenew material the students will need to learn, in a logical manner that parallels the phases of thedesign process. Ample time is provided once the new material has been presented to allow thestudents to apply it to their projects. In addition, a few short lab exercises, quizzes andhomework assignments are given to reinforce the concepts developed in the lectures.The first part of the course

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Nick J. Kok

employed, with 18 % of them self-employed.A very important aspect of the quality assurance model of the Cape Technikon is thecomparison of the institution to the other fourteen technikons in South Africa regarding the Page 4.144.2following performance or quality indicators:6 the profile of the freshmen;6 availability of student accommodation;6 examination pass rates;6 number of higher qualifications;6 qualifications awarded per 1000 students;6 qualifications awarded per faculty;6 qualifications of faculty;6 library spending per student;6 research projects completed;6 expenditure per faculty;6

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Gary P. Langenfeld; David Wells

activities of this sort coalesce into three general areas in common interest:instructional materials; personnel exchange; projects and research. • Class and laboratory exercises conducted at a plant location • Laboratory and classroom projects supplied by industry • Summer internships for faculty in industry • Employment of industry experts as adjunct faculty • Temporary exchange of university and industry personnel • Joint authorship of case studies with joint reviews of results • Partnering on experiments in advanced technology • Industry sponsorship of applied research projects on campus

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

author of the test.Most of the preparatory work for the tests is the same for traditional or web-based tests.Therefore the same word processor, computer-based drawing and mathematics packages are usedin both cases. If hand-drawn figures or existing illustrations are preferred, they can be scannedand inserted into a web-based test just as easily as a traditional document. Inserting the text,graphics, equations, radio buttons, etc., in “Tables” (conveniently done within the FrontPageEditor) facilitates the arrangement and presentation of the items on the test.In the initial phases of this project, security issues were raised by some of the authors'colleagues. For this project, test security was promoted in several ways. Links to tests were

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Badrul H. Chowdhury

Max power Dc motor tracker PV array Fig. 5. Direct dc motor operation with PV4. Discussion and Conclusions The lab described in this paper grew out of a research project initiated under the USDepartment of Energy’s EPSCoR [5] program. The project deals with characterizing theelectrical systems aspects of a PV system. At the same time, it was felt necessary to create labexperiments for the undergraduate Electromechanics class. Many power engineeringcurriculums around the US are currently undergoing significant changes in the face of powerindustry restructuring [6, 7]. Some are overhauling their core power course to

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Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

Diversified offers, and the department does not have the resourcesavailable to offer this course many times per semester.II Recommendations for starting a cooperative training program:The secret for departments wishing to start developing and presenting industry specific trainingis the same as starting any new project - sufficient planning. Once the need for specific traininghas been established and one industrial partner has been identified, the department shouldestablish a pricing policy, which includes necessary support for personnel involved, as well assupplies, duplicating, components, etc. The initial cost of the course may have an additionalcomponent for development time.Curriculum development should include a team of involved faculty with

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Sean J. Cannon; John H. Grubbs

requirements. The environmentaleducation process includes engineering design projects, group projects, major researchpapers, and individual presentations. Complementing the experience are field trips toenvironmental facilities (water treatment, wastewater treatment, landfill, etc.) and,in many cases, participation in the Individual Advanced Development (AIAD)program in which a cadet spends three to four weeks working for a research oranalysis agency in the federal government or military affiliated civilian entity. Forthose cadets who desire, they may be able to complete a major research project under theauspices of an individual study course (XX489).Content of Cadet ExperiencesThe key to the Environmental Security program is that it is

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Oscar D. Crisalle; Haniph A. Latchman; Denis Gillet; Christophe Salzmann

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, andmore recently also at the University of Florida. The intention is to motivate, illustrate, andenlighten the presentation of the subject matter addressed in the lecture. Students from electrical Page 4.402.6engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, and computer science attend this coursesimultaneously. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology the lecture is delivered to approximately160 students in a large auditorium. At the University of Florida the remote experimentationfacility is used in student projects and for in-class demonstrations. The client software isinstalled on a portable

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Matthew Dettman

consulting activities through field trips and projects Hiring students to help in consulting activities Providing students access to potential employers Professional development for the ProfessorPlease make any comment related to the topic of Professors as teachers and practitioners.These comments can be general in nature or expanding on any of the previously askedquestions. Page 4.428.23. The ResultsThe questionnaires were given to undergraduate students at both institutions. Students in onesophomore level course and students in one Junior/Senior level course from each school receivedthe questionnaire. The results of the first four

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Gordon Silverman

EE programs to besupplanted just as the ‘electronics’ based EE degree has supplanted the EE power engineeringdegree.II. Professional Demographics.Recent career and professional trends in the United States reflect technological changes thathave taken place over the past decade. 2,3 The U.S. Department of Labor projects the need forover 350,000 Computer Engineers and Scientists over the next decade. While EE has replacedMechanical Engineering as the predominant (engineering) field, computer (hardware/software)engineering is growing rapidly. (In government surveys, 11 percent of all engineers reportsoftware engineering as their primary field .2 This discipline was not even reported in 1972.). Arecent survey of mid- and large-size companies

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R. L Alan Jordan; Eric W. Tisdale

. Inaddition, problems centered around the energy equation are offered for extra credit.These optional problems are increasingly more difficult from the first to the last assigned.The students that choose to solve these problems become adept at solving Bernoulli’sequation. Report writing is a major part of MET 230 Fluid Power. The students write fourformal and five informal reports in the course of 15 weeks. By the end of the semester,the students have not only learned how to collect data for the experiments described, buthow to assimilate and present the data in an understandable manner. A design project is assigned about week 12 of the semester. These projects involvesizing, selecting and configuring hydraulic components to solve a design

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James Rehg

supporting PLCs from other Page 4.599.7vendors. Session 1647AcknowledgmentThe initial work on this project was started as a team project in the EMET 430 AutomationMachines course taught in Fall 1997. The students listed on the splash page, Figure 1, developedthe descriptions of the commands listed on the site. Allen Bradley did not support thedevelopment of site material.References1. Penn State Altoona Graduate Survey, 1998.2. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.3. Discrete I/O Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4

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Keith V. Johnson

a modular engineering technology curriculum and then implementing it.As an example, the author recently worked with a faculty member from the history department. Thefocus of the project was to link engineering faculty with faculty from core subject areas such ashistory, math and English. The experience was very rewarding. Shortly after employment, the writer enlisted his former graduate advisor in a joint ventureto write a paper, and possibly a chapter in a book. The former advisor welcomed the opportunity,and the efforts were successful. As his former advisee, the author posed no threat to the quality ofwork that the advisor is accustomed to producing. He was a tenured, associate professor, therefore,his primary goal was to have an

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Norman L. Fortenberry

examination of articles published inthe Journal of Engineering Education over the past six years. Finally, a model of a coherentresearch process for engineering education is offered from an example drawn physics education.I. IntroductionMajor support for educational research is provided by several private and public and privatesources. The Spencer Foundation provides support for educational research projects in the rangeof $300,000 - $400,000 per year for 3 to 4 years. In fiscal 1998, the Spencer Foundationsupported 30 projects1. The James S. McDonnell Foundation supports Cognitive Studies forEducational Practice; since 1987 the Foundation has expended $25 million in support ofeducational research and training2. The Department of Education’s (ED’s

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S. Kant Vajpayee

brightcollege students whose knowledge of manufacturing may be rudimentary? This article presentsan account of my efforts. One-fourth of the available time was used on the basics ofmanufacturing, especially of discrete manufacturing, and on current developments and trends.The remaining time was devoted to group-supervising the enrollees toward self-initiated projectsthat culminated in individual reports and class presentations. The projects covered a widevariety of topics, namely powder coatings, breast implants, baseball bats, the Harley Davidsoncompany, ISO 14000 at Ford, nanotechnology in medicine, and robot-aided surgery. Theinstruction of manufacturing as a honors college seminar proved to be a unique experience.IntroductionLike several

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Karl Smith

Page 4.373.1the following quote: I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. . .Then I propose we postpone further discussion until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.Conflict AvoidanceWhy is conflict so often avoided in groups, and why when it occurs does it so often lead todestructive outcomes? One reason seems to be students’ perceptions of and attitudes towardconflict. In my project management classes, I ask students to construct an “association map”around conflict. I ask them to draw an ellipse in the center of a blank sheet of paper, write thework “conflict” in the ellipse, and then as quickly as

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Bobby G. Crawford

Session 2625 Using Computer-Aided Design to Enhance Undergraduate Engineering Education Bobby G. Crawford United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes the local development and use of a Computer-Aided Design (CAD)software program as an enhancement to an undergraduate engineering design project. Theprogram was used in the helicopter aeronautics course at the United States Military Academy.The motivation behind the development of this program was the desire to provide students with auseful, visually driven design tool that would allow

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Corrado Poli; Beverly Woolf

4.165.4cutouts and projections are present, iv) the number of stages required to bend the part.Figures 5, 6 and 7 show still versions of the animations used to explain, by example, some ofthese points. In the tutors, the punches are shown moving up and down while the strip is shownmoving from right to left through the various stations. (a) (b) (c)Figure 4. Three L-shaped parts in which the direction of mold closures is shown in two alternativedirections. In (a) the direction of mold closure has no effect on tooling complexity. In both situations noexternal undercuts will result. In (b) when the direction of mold closure is perpendicular to the long legof the part, an external