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1999 Annual Conference

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Ingrid H. Soudek

andseparate private life.# It does not take long to convince them that someone who lies habitually tohis family and friends will eventually do the same to his colleagues at work, or that a person whoonly thinks of herself will do so at work as well. These are more extreme examples to convincethem that personal and professional behavior are integrated and that to make a commitment to liveby moral values means both in our private and professional life. I believe that most engineering students aspire to be first rate professionals, and when theyaccept that adhering to moral principles is a part of the image of professional engineers, they aremore open to discussion of such principles and how these principles are reflected in their actions.We

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Y. S. Teplitsky; V. A. Borodulya; A. F. Hassoun; Mulchand S. Rathod; Vladimir Sheyman

]. that the values of h4 are significantly larger (up to 2.5 times) than those of the laminar flow ofThe dimensionless correlations built on this air around the cylinder [8] which is given asbasis have a common essential fault; they usethe heat transfer coefficient hfb which does not Nut = 0.24 Ret0.6 {3}completely reflect the physical phenomenon ofthe process. The increase of h4 is the result of the gas carrier turbulization by the solid particles and bubbles In such a complex situation, the leaving the bed as well as of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty

learning outcomes and hypothesize how ourfocus on each may result in an improved educational environment.To date, five engineering schools have gone through the pilot Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000reviews; twelve more have undergone EC-2000 reviews (fall 1998) and are waiting for finaldecisions. ABET had anticipated that 16 to 18 additional engineering schools would select thenew criteria next year [6], but apparently almost 40 institutions have elected this option. Clearly,it is time to reflect about the foundations of these learning outcomes before too many moreinstitutions proceed through EC-2000. No doubt, the new ABET criteria together with NSFsponsored engineering education projects (including the coalitions) have served as majorcatalysts

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1999 Annual Conference

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Allen Leybourne

can adopt this approach for guidance throughout their academiccareer. Successfully negotiating the academic ladder may be visualized as the attainment of awell-organized sequence of specific goals/aspirations. At times, one is inclined to spendsignificant time and energy on issues which in retrospect may be deemed to have beenunnecessary; however, it is shown that careful delineation of aspirations provides focus and evenhelps to identify seemingly side issues that may actually merit attention. It is taken for grantedthat before a model becomes internalized (becomes part of the automatic reflective processes) itmust first exist in a form that can be consciously adopted, hence the need for a frameworkleading to an effective externalized model

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

strengthen mental powers. --Donald Norman, Things that Make Us Smart 1Nearly everyone would agree that students come to the university to improve how they think andsolve problems. Yet beyond insisting that students think, faculty often fail to teach studentsmuch about developing effective tools for thinking. Hence, our goals—as a business managerand a university professor--have included developing tools for reflection and analysis andintroducing these tools to engineering students so they can use them throughout their educationand career.One of the best tools that humans can use to enhance thinking is a notebook. Since elementaryschool, students have probably kept some sort of notebook, using it to record what the teacherwrites

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1999 Annual Conference

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

with a score below 15% in the high category. These include: probability andstatistics, general chemistry, structural materials laboratory, and procurement of work. Thisindicates that additional attention and departmental/university resources may be necessary inthese areas. However, approximately 40% of the undergraduates responding to the survey arerequired to enroll in at least one additional semester to complete their degree requirements. Thisincludes taking construction management and senior systems design. It is not unreasonable,therefore, to assume that many undergraduate students have not been exposed to the concept ofprocurement of work at a high level of intensity. Therefore, the ratings most likely reflect theincomplete background of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Craig Johnson

the least and most important; why? 3) Aspects of Representation: Was your criterion selection good enough (inclusive) to let you change the purpose of assessment and re-evaluate through changes in weighting Page 4.307.3 factors? Explain. 4) Evaluation vs. Assessment: Would a change in the evaluation scaling range (e.g. poor is 0, best is 10) make a substantial difference in your results, or the usefulness of the assessment? Explain.These questions are meant to cause the student to reflect on the critical aspects of thisassessment process, and is an aid in further discussions of assessment as well as

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1999 Annual Conference

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William S. Janna; A. Renner

determined either by counting squares or by some numerical technique. This isquite suitable for the heat transfer laboratory.IV. Photographic MethodThe photographic method is based on the concepts discussed in the theory section.Regarding the problem solved graphically in the preceding section, we can use areflecting hemisphere which is placed over the area dA, and view directly above dA.The reflection of the plane in the surface of the hemisphere will appear like thatshown in Figure 4. So a photograph taken in this way can be used to obtain the areas,and the configuration factor can then be calculated.A frame was built and a hemisphere was purchased to construct an apparatus forthe photographic method. Figure 6 shows an isometric view of the frame

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1999 Annual Conference

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Paul Giolma; Farzan Aminian; Djaffer Ibaroudene

controls. Mostelectives are taken in the third and fourth years, with many electives taught once every other year. Elective coursesthat are pertinent to this project are modern control systems, a second electronics course, digital logic and micro-processors.The description of the project and the robot that follows is largely derived from the student group’s final report [4]—it reflects their progress through the design process and the final decisions they made in implementing their robot.Project description and constraintsThe objective of this project is to design and build a microprocessor controlled land vehicle which will autono-mously find its way from an initial starting position to a final destination coordinate while avoiding a set of ran

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E. J. Mastascusa; Brian Holt

. Kolb found that the ways learners perceive new material was either by feeling(sensing) or by thinking (symbolically, conceptually). Kolb found that the ways learnersprocessed new material was either by watching and observing or by becoming activelyinvolved (doing). The modes of perception have now been named Concrete Experience(CE, for feeling/sensing) and Abstract Conceptualization (AC, for thinking). Similarly,modes of processing have been labelled Reflective Observation (RO, for watching) andActive Experimentation (AE, for doing). Additionally, looking at the four differentcombinations of perception and processing, names have been given to the four kinds oflearners thus defined.Concrete Experience/Reflective Observation

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Said Shakerin; Daniel Jensen

testobjects made by stereolithography.Specific instructional objectives are to: (a) increase conceptual understanding of stressdistribution through photoelastic and finite element based visualization, (b) gainexperience with photoelasticity and its advantages/limitations, and (c) appreciate thesynergism between experimental and numerical methods of stress analysis.Through a National Scieence Foundation matching grant, one transmission polariscopeset, one reflection polariscope set, and accompanying accessories have been purchasedand installed for students’ use. The equipment has also been used for in-classdemonstrations and motivational presentations to K-12 students.All mechanical engineering students at the University of the Pacific have benefited

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1999 Annual Conference

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

PlanFigure 1 represents the overall view of the educational plan that we are working to develop andimplement. The plan includes a systematic process, shown on the left side of the diagram, withfeedback at multiple levels. The process is used to define desired outcomes and to developmethods for helping students to achieve those outcomes. The methods are implemented on theproduct side of the diagram and the effectiveness of the plan is judged by evaluating studentperformance against the desired outcomes. It should be noted that the initial pass through theprocess requires some additional steps that are not reflected in the figure. These are associatedwith prioritizing and evaluating the specified outcomes, as discussed later in the paper, and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Timothy Anderson; Robert Serow; James Demery; Carl Zorowski; Catherine E. Brawner

resources on areas where there is a strategic fit with the college mission and goalswithin the framework of the SUCCEED curriculum model. CFTs provide support, often throughworkshops, to the campuses within their designated focus areas.Check - The A&E team provides both quantitative and qualitative evaluation of theimplementation of SUCCEED with respect to whether SUCCEED is making progress towardmeeting its goals.Act - Coalition-wide implementation plans as well as individual campus and focus team plansare modified to reflect the findings in the Check stage and become the new baseline. The cyclebegins again.This paper aims to show how a subsystem of the Check stage, namely the qualitative evaluationprocess, is used as part of the total quality

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1999 Annual Conference

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Nick J. Kok

programmes are regularly reviewed andevaluated in consultation with the industries and communities which it serves. The paper brieflyoutlines this review process with reference to various performance indicators and questionnairescompleted by freshmen, graduates, alumni and employer organisations and the assessment byquality assurance panels specially appointed for every programme offered. The paper focuses on the strategies followed to ensure continuous improvement of theteaching in the institution to promote student learning. These measures inter alia are the- selection of suitable faculty,- induction and development of faculty on an on-going basis,- proper curriculum design to reflect the specific and critical educational outcomes as required by

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1999 Annual Conference

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Charles W. Green; John Krupczak

, building a simple radio, making a hologram, building an electric motor, ormaking a simple one-octave electronic keyboard. Since the first offering, interest in the courseamong non-engineering and non-science students at Hope College has been strong. A section of48 students has been filled each semester. This course can be used to fulfill part of the HopeCollege science distribution requirement.The students enrolled in the Fall 1998 semester came from a range of academic majorsincluding: art, business, history, music, philosophy, social work, and theatre. Women were inthe slight majority, averaging 59%. Minority enrollment reflected the college-wide average of6%. Nearly all of the students fell into the 18 to 22 year old age category. One half of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

should be expected that they would dobetter than the average student; the grades should be reflective of this. The fact that this is a one-credit course also creates some additional consternation. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the academic culture has generally been such that the students tend to think of onecredit courses as blow-off courses and they do not expect to have to devote substantial efforttowards them. This is further compounded by the faculty culture generally having a higherexpectation of student time commitment for design project courses than for more conventionallystructured courses. These factors combined to form a situation in which students’ expectationsdid not meet very squarely with the faculty’s reality

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Daniel Davis

attitudes toward teaching and research. Establishing experience in industry as animportant criterion in hiring new faculty may be fundamental to changing the existing cultureand to placing greater emphasis on teaching.8 Schools are being asked to enrich the educationof students, and this can be done by increasing the numbers of faculty with relevant industrialexperience. Integral to accomplishing our educational goals is having the participation ofpractitioners in the educational process. It cannot hurt to have faculty with practitionerexperience in the classroom on a daily basis. Engineering education must reflect the conditionsof practice.According to many, the cornerstone of building a strong education curriculum is balancingpractical experience

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ilya Levin

states coused by specificinput values. Also, the FSM can be represented in the form of a state table (i.e. atabular form of the state diagram). Columns of the table indicate consequently: acurrent state, an input value, a corresponding output, and a corresponding next state. The concept of FSM is very close to the concept of an ASM. We will say that FSMimplements a corresponding ASM. Any ASM can be transformed to the FSM form.To perform this transformation the following steps have to be taken. First of all, theASM has to be marked, by marks reflecting states of FSM. The second step is thesearching for paths between the marks within the ASM. Every such path has toinclude one operator vertex. Each path can be interpreted as a transition within

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mary S. Bonhomme; Edward R. Alef; Edward G. Borbely

, Stanford University andVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. These universities complement thecurriculum with courses whose faculty were selected on the basis of their research and teachingin areas of specific importance to the IVE and IME programs.This diverse group of outstanding institutions reflects the broad scope of the programs, but italso represents an increasing recognition among faculty that partnerships of this kind strengthentheir programs and lead to new opportunities.II. Career Pathways and the FutureThe learning programs outlined here are early attempts by General Motors and its universitypartners to accomplish three main objectives:• to develop a common process for education and professional development;• to realize

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1999 Annual Conference

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Jack Zecher

specified timeintervals. The program Snagit4 was used for this task, although several other similar programsexist on the market5,6.The first attempted process of having the Snagit program run simultaneously with theProEngineer, capturing images at a specified time interval, proved to overwhelm thecapabilities of the 233MHz machine that was being used. This was because the speed at whichProEngineer ran, when the Snagit program was capturing images in the background, was notcomparable to running the program by itself. The resulting .avi files did not reflect a realisticexample of running the ProEngineer program. In addition to the problem with speed, theimage quality of the resulting .avi files was not acceptable. In order to overcome these

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1999 Annual Conference

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Claudia House

workplace.• Solicit specific input from co-workers and other contacts about how particular majors, courses, or topics could be changed to better reflect the current situation in industry.• Record specific incidents that occur for use as case studies in the classroom along with the company’s solution or decision in that regard.• Ask the faculty intern's supervisor to serve on the institution’s advisory board or to suggest other employees that may be willing to serve in that capacity.Vickie Ballance, executive director of Hospital Hospitality House, believes that theTEFATE intern at her site worked out so well because the faculty intern had knowledgeand skills needed by Hospital Hospitality House and was able to gather information toproduce

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1999 Annual Conference

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Kathy Bearden; Donald D. Harter; Jerry W. Samples

they are not underthe gun. They have tenure and are reflecting on what made them stay for the long-term. Currenttenure stream assistant professors may have a different view of the future. To obtain the view ofthe tenure stream assistant professors another survey was developed with the same caveats aboutstatistical validity and scientific development of the instrument. The questions and the answersare listed below:1. Why did you decide to take your current job? • To Teach!! • Background fit the requirements. • Teaching rather than research institution. • Comfort with department size, members and university size. • Goals of engineering technology fit with what I liked to see on “other side” as a

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1999 Annual Conference

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S. Kant Vajpayee

,workholding, factory automation, and quality assurance. The article is aimed at manufacturinginstructors who often update course contents to reflect what is happening on the shop floors.The presented overview is divided into three major sections: metalcutting, metalforming, andancillaries. The former two also include advances in the respective machine tools.MetalcuttingPC Rules. To use a personal computer (PC) to communicate with the computer numericalcontrol (CNC) system of the machine is now standard practice in most new machine tools. ThePC-CNC interface is effective even with older CNC machines. The newer machines are moreintelligent and capable of self-diagnosis. They incorporate 64-bit processors to boostprogramming and information transfers to

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1999 Annual Conference

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Francis Wang; El-Hadi M. Aggoune

committee members. When analyzing student writing skills, for example, the team considers items (a), (b), (c), and (e); for general studies (humanities, social sciences, communications) item (d); and for math and science items (d), (g), and (h). An Excel based Competency Matrix (see Appendix B) is developed by the authors to summarize the evaluation results. Such a matrix is completed for each student and included in the portfolio. Ideally, the matrix should be full to guarantee that all the eleven competencies are covered by the degree program content. The entries of this matrix are programmed to yield measures reflecting the student’s performance. The following 1 to 5 scale is adopted

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1999 Annual Conference

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

evolving market, thesuccess of our graduates will depend on their ability to solve not only the current problems oftheir field, but to anticipate their future needs. Employers demand professionals with broadknowledge, not limited to technical issues. If a few years ago the basic mission of the graduatesfrom Engineering Technology programs was the repairing and maintenance of equipment, todaytheir role has evolved into being involved in technology management. These requirements fromindustry reflect in academia, as the survival of Engineering Technology programs is closelyrelated to producing graduates that can satisfy what is required from industry.This paper presents approaches to bring industry closer to the students. The main goal of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Darrell C. Schroder; Charles D. Turner

is a three credit hour junior level class that hasundergone continual change. The class reflects changes within the profession of environmentalengineering. The current catalog description of the course is as follows :$Introduction to the engineering aspects of environmental systems to include such topics aswater quality management, air pollution and control, solid and hazardous waste management,environmental impact assessment, and governmental regulation #.Elective courses such as IEE are good test beds for assessing the impact of course modificationson ABET’s A-K assessment criteria because they are electives and content is flexible withinbroad boundaries.II. Methodology and ResultsThe eleven criteria that make up ABET’s A-K list can be

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1999 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

teaching practices, philosophy, and goals B. Relationship to other program courses C. Relationship to industry practicesIII. Evidence of Student Learning A. Assessment 1. Assessment questions 2. Assessment practices a. method b. sample assessment tools 3. Assessment Results a. summary of results b. sample of results B. Sample Student Work 1. Written reports 2. Assignments 3. Tests and quizzesIV. Future Plans A. Self-reflective memo 1. Is the course meeting its goals ? 2. What changes should be made ? B. Changes to be

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1999 Annual Conference

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J. Michael Doster

plant response, however Chapter 15 analyses generally are based onworst case assumptions involving limiting events where non-safety grade equipment and mostcontrol systems are assumed not to function. While appropriate for assessing safety, these typeanalyses often do not reflect normal plant response and provide no insight into the function oraccident mitigating capabilities of non-safety grade auxiliary systems. Since it is likely that Page 4.136.1these systems would function under most accident conditions, students have little exposure to abroad range of accident scenarios or upset conditions they would likely experience asprofessional

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Max Rabiee

steps[1, 2, 3].Design specifications:The induction motor parameters for the design are listed below. Page 4.168.1 Source Line Voltage, V L = 480V Session 2533 Source Frequency, f = 60 HZ Motor Horse Power Rating, P M = 50HP @ 480 V, and rated speed of 1705 RPM Per-Phase Stator Coil Resistance, R 1 = 0.09078 Per-Phase Rotor Coil Resistance Reflected to the Stator, R’ 2 = 0.23791 Per-Phase Stator Coil Self Inductance, L 1 = 0.037043 H Per-Phase Rotor Coil Self Inductance Reflected to the Stator, L’ 2 = 0.037043 H

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1999 Annual Conference

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Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

Session 3225 The Design Spine: Revision of the Engineering Curriculum to Include a Design Experience each Semester Keith Sheppard and Bernard Gallois Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030The Stevens engineering curriculum was recently revised to extend the design experience toevery semester and in effect create a Design Spine. This metaphor additionally reflects the othermajor change to provide a much greater level of integration between engineering science