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Ron Day; Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

Systems and Decision Sciences. However, any graduatelevel course is acceptable as an elective. Electives can be taken in either the Electronic orManufacturing Concentrations, or in Mathematics or Business Administration. TECH 7992,Project II, and a proposed new course, TECH 7993, Internship in Engineering Technology, canalso be taken. Up to six hours of transfer credit from another graduate program can be used aselectives.V. Project or ThesisTHEC (Tennessee Higher Education Commission) requires either a project or a thesis as part ofa Masters program. Students, with the approval of the faculty, have the choice of taking eitherTECH 7991, Project, or TECH 7996, Thesis.THEC rules permit a student taking a thesis option to complete the degree with 30

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Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

development. Within the first year, this approach has succeeded indeveloping solid relationships with business and industry. Members of business and industryhave offered support by participating on the Industrial Advisory Committee, establishing paidinternship positions, hosting field trips, hosting large group projects, assisting with networkingwith other businesses, and advising on technical course content. These efforts have combined tocreate a stronger undergraduate and graduate curriculum while being more responsive to thehiring needs of regional business and industry.IntroductionThe School of Engineering Technology (SET) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM)developed a Workforce Training and Development (WTD) degree program at the

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moreadvanced level work, such as a highly polished project report. Finally, there is advanced oralcommunication required, indicating perhaps a presentation to the class and faculty. It can beseen that the advanced communication content requires greater effort on the part of the studentsthan the other areas. This is indicated by the width of the shaded area. Content Levels within Each Emphasis AreaThe faculty must jointly determine which tools, skills, or abilities should be included in each ofthe five emphasis areas, and at what level a particular skill should be placed. The breakdownused by the faculty at UT Martin is discussed for illustrative purposes. One goal in theengineering curriculum is to introduce the student to the

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Sal Arnaldo

previous project,this system turned out to be an economic failure for the owner, but the engineer learned manyvaluable lessons from this experience. Furnish a proper response to the RFP.This example should teach that truthfulness and disclosure is expected of an engineer. It willalso teach that if the engineer has reason to believe the owner’s contemplated project will notsucceed, it is desirable to point out the corrective measures that could be taken to preclude Page 4.487.4recurrence of the problem. It could be pointed out that since this is a proposal and the engineermust represent himself in a positive light in order to compete for the job

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

ASUcampus to attend and to participate in ECE 100, an introductory engineering assembly designclass, to tour the campus, and to participate in engineering and science labs. Students participatein workshops and panel discussions with ASU students, staff, and faculty on educational andcareer planning, admissions, and financial aid. Students attend leadership retreats, industry tours,Saturday Science Academies, participate in local, state, and national math and sciencecompetitions (such as MESA Day, Future Cities, and Science Olympiad). ASU engineeringstudents, referred to as MESA Liaisons, are assigned to each MESA school to work with theadvisors and students on projects, tutoring, and mentoring. Industry members offer partnershipswith MESA schools

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

to work with theadvisors and students on projects, tutoring, and mentoring. Industry members offer partnershipswith MESA schools, sponsor tours, after school internships, volunteer as mentors, and of coursesponsor summer programs. As a result of programs such as this, ASU has seen minorityengineering enrollment increase from 13% to 17.2% from 1993 to 1998.While the Arizona MESA program serves middle and high school students, the programdescribed in this paper facilitates high school students involved in an ESI to preview anengineering curriculum. High schools in Arizona are required to provide courses with a careerfocus. The CEAS, with the collaboration of ASU MESA, is helping to meet this objective byproviding access into the university

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John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

appropriatetechnology movement in shaping our purpose and the role of service-learning in shaping ourprogram. The paper concludes with the case study of an international service-learning project ofMessiah College Engineering.I. Responsible EngineeringPersons outside of the profession, and sometimes engineers themselves, do not understand thenature of engineering work very well. Ron Howard’s film about the troubled Apollo 13 moonshot depicts the response of engineers to crises. In one scene, the astronauts’ lives are injeopardy as carbon dioxide accumulates in a disabled spacecraft. Ground crew engineersworking under severe time constraints, and using only those supplies available to the astronauts,must make square filtration canisters work in round

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John Wiggins

(CET) program theopportunity to serve a 12-week internship with building contractors on projects thecontractors are currently constructing. The intent of the program is to provide studentswith a “real life” work experience by interfacing with members of the constructionindustry to supplement the academic experience received at NJIT. The students are paid Page 4.476.1for the work they perform but receive no academic credit for participation in thisprogram. The NJBCA, as the conduit for the program, is investing in its own future byproviding the construction industry with new, qualified professionals.Program DescriptionThe Department of Engineering

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electronics project course. This teaches the student thebasics of performing a test that is used throughout the electronics industry as well as introducingthe student to the concept of testing an assembly before power is applied.IntroductionIn-circuit test (ICT) is considered in industry to be a manufacturing verification tool. It testsindividual components and the components’ interconnections to a substrate, usually a printedcircuit board. ICT fits into an overall test scheme that includes both bare board and incomingparts testing, ICT, and final functional tests. Bare Board Test Final ICT

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Gulser Kosal; Hasan Nadir Derin

principles are used. Planning for the future, clearobjectives, participation, motivation, teamwork, leadership, problem solving,continuous improvement, empowered students, and learning assessment are givenspecial emphasis. Major stakeholders are identified as students, graduates, instructorsof the course, potential employers of the students, and the university management.Their expectations from the graduates are taken into account while designing thecourse. Difficulties due to the asynchronous nature of the course conduct are studied,and tried to be minimized by the design. In conducting the course, a student team isformed to improve the quality of the course as a project. The instructor works with theteam in collecting data each week to assess the

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Page 4.59.5take place in various learning modes. The author favors “hands-on” project development.This mode is widely represented both in Canadian and Mexican institutions of higherlearning. And therefore presents itself as a common ground through which engineeringstudents from either Canada, Mexico and the U.S. can learn in teams. But some issues mustbe resolved beforehand.First, a joint learning project must be a win-win for all. Students and faculty members fromparticipating institutions must receive corresponding academic credit. To this effect,project development must be integral part of the undergraduate engineering program.Faculty members in consultation with, or sponsored by industry should determine if thenature of the project has the

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Teri J. Murphy; Russell Goodman; Michael Hofer; Jonathon White; Elena Black; Bradford Kline

conceptualunderstanding and to prepare students for problem-solving with the computational poweravailable. In this paper, we discuss the in-class use of Mathematica animations and sequencesof overhead transparencies, and the out-of-class use of problem sets and the World Wide Web,with multivariable calculus. A goal of the ongoing project is to offer interested instructors avariety of materials that will enable them to incorporate technology at a level of integration thatthey deem appropriate.Need For TechnologyTechnology has played an increasingly important role in our society over the past severaldecades. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in engineering fields throughout industry,government, and academia. It is difficult to imagine any modern

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Ronald J. Gatehouse; John R. McWhirter; George J., Jr. Selembo

Session 2213 The Vertical Integration of Design in Chemical Engineering Ronald J. Gatehouse, George J. Selembo Jr., and John R. McWhirter The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this project is to better prepare chemical engineering students for their seniordesign course and for industry by exposing them to more design-oriented problems much earlierin their undergraduate careers. The feature that distinguishes engineering from the purelytheoretical sciences is that of synthesis. Any meaningful synthesis requires two basiccomponents, one that arises from the order of our scientific knowledge and

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Charles S. Elliott

on-line efforts. CIEEpublishes a regular newsletter distributed to all faculty, conducts workshops and regular seminarseries, obtains trial use software and added a full time instructional designer (Kerri Barlow) with Page 4.196.2multimedia experience in the fall of 1998. This spring 1999 workshops include: Setting Course Objectives and Outcomes CourseInfo Course AssessmentEach CIEE workshop lasts approximately two hours and is open to all interested faculty andstaff. CIEE also leads our participation in the Foundation Coalition project and provides manyother programs and services. It will be “morphed” (their term) next year

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George Tjilos; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

education in the United States is explained.I. IntroductionThe profound advances we have experienced in computer technology during the lastdecade have propelled the need to educate every undergraduate student with the latestenhancements in technology to the forefront of educational objectives. To address thisneed, the digital laboratory facilities of the Engineering Technology (ET) program atWSU has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the AlteraCorporation. The objective of this enhancement project is to enrich the quality ofundergraduate digital laboratory instruction by providing an environment to conductlearning about, and use of, Programmable Logic Devices (PLD), a key advance in digitalelectronics [1,2].Most modern

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Robert H. Mayer

Session 2225 An Integrated Approach to Teaching Engineering Design and Design Decision-making Robert H. Mayer U. S. Naval AcademyAbstractAn extensive case study to facilitate design instruction at the U.S. Naval Academy is described.“Restoration of a Coral Reef” is a semester-long engineering design experience involving fiverelated exercises. These exercises provide a useful context in which discuss and apply variousdesign tools and methods used in different phases of the engineering design process -- fromproblem assessment through project planning

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Matthew Y. Lee; Jiang Li

students to maintain a better record. It will also inform the students how much their grade exceeds or falls short of their goals. In order to provide some confidentiality the last 4 digits of each student’s social security number are employed as a personal identification number. On the other side, for an instructor, the section serves as a key source of feedback from student’s learning. Page 4.484.2 Accordingly, the teaching can be monitored and revised.One can design more components for this part if it is necessary. In Environmental Engineering I(CEGR328), for an example, three more sub-pages Field Trip, Project and Lab Work are

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describes howwe are using conferencing tools, discussion groups, case studies and design projects in anasynchronous collaboration. We have moved traditional lecture materials to media accessible onthe web and focus our valuable face-to-face class time on creative problem solving. Thecollaboration that we have developed essentially becomes an asynchronous network for acommunity of users focused on specific outcomes.Collaboration takes place within the traditional academic setting where students interact withother students and faculty as well as later in their careers where success is often dependent oneffective relationships with other professionals in business organizations. Our goal in this paperis to extend the concept of collaboration among

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Gearold R. Johnson; Dueb M. Lakhder

and telematics applicationsUNESCO ClubsUNESCO clubs 3 are groups of people of all ages and social and professional backgrounds whoshare UNESCO’s ideal and endeavor to make it known and associate themselves with its workby undertaking activities directly inspired by those of the organization.The UNESCO Associated Schools ProjectThis project was launched in November 1953 to promote education in schools for internationalunderstanding and cooperation. The main purpose is to encourage educational institutions atall levels to organize special programmes designed to increase knowledge of world problemsand develop international understanding of other peoples and cultures, and to strengthenunderstanding and observance of the principles of human

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engineering systems. There are more tasks included in the experimentsthan students can complete in the laboratory time allotted for most college courses. Selecting asubset of cohesive tasks that vary from semester to semester allows students to rely on their ownunderstanding of the material rather than that of students from previous semesters. The order ofthe experiments is chosen to be in synchronism with the order of topics covered by mosttextbooks on introductory digital-logic design.In the capstone design project, students are assigned to produce two designs that meet a givenfunctional specification and pick the better of the two designs using their own metric. It is partof their task to define what "better" means and to describe in their report

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Ismail Orabi

thefirst place the student is introduced to industrial quality design tools through the use of designenvironment that provides such features as simulations, animation and virtual laboratory.The assessment tools for this course include course profiles, classic tests, projects, oralpresentations, written reports and student surveys. Two surveys were conducted during thesemester, one at the beginning and one at the end of the semester. The first survey was designedto measure student perceptions about themselves and their skills in several topics such asmathematics, computer usage, and team and communication skills. The second survey wasdesigned for outcome assessment of achieving the course objectives and the level of increasingtheir skills. The

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Luiz Lourenco; Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

flow field of interest, therefore, thesetechniques have primarily been used for qualitative demonstrations. In the current paper, weillustrate by example, the integration and use of two quantitative visualization/image-processingtechniques into an undergraduate Thermal and Fluid sciences laboratory (TFSL) course. First,the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique is used to provide detailed whole-field velocitymeasurement. Sample projects include the flow-field characterization of a turbulent wakebehind a circular cylinder and the droplet injection process of a Hewlett-Packard inkjetprinthead. Second, the Laser Speckle Displacement (LSD) method is used to measure thedensity/temperature variation of selected flow fields, such as the shock

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Zbigniew Prusak

. Difficulties encountered by non-traditional studentsThe major difficulties are related to the availability of time for homeworks and projects. Also,students working full time miss entire classes or parts of it due to full time work obligations(emergencies, overtime, travel). The below described observations of shortcomings and Page 4.364.5advantages of non-traditional students in comparison to full-time students were made insophomore, junior and senior level courses having a mixed population of full-time and part-timestudents. The courses are either required or

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

• The MOS transistor with considerations for short channel devices, secondary effects such as mobility saturation with the electric field and degradation with the temperatures, hot electrons, electromigration, and aluminum spikes.• Simple logic circuits with CMOS technology with the use of Pspice simulation to study the circuit performance.• Introduction to IC fabrication, layout and design rules.• Use of L-Edit on PCs, and Mentor Graphics on HP/Sparc workstations• Project. A typical project is an 8-bit shift register in a 40 pin package.Part II: Printed Circuit Board AssembliesThe basic challenge in the remaining 10 weeks of the course is to teach students enough aboutmanufacturing technology, circuit board layout

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James Stice

has some observations which should be added to the mix. Last year, Karl Smith told us about the development of cooperative learning. One of thestrengths of that technique is team-building, which involves training students to function asteams with the requirement that group members feel a sense of positive interdependence andindividual accountability. They need to be trained in the process to develop the requisite socialskills, the ability to engage in group processing, and the knowledge of how to deal withcontroversy. It turns out that groups of students have been used in laboratory courses andsenior design projects for decades before cooperative learning arrived on the scene--not,perhaps, very effectively, but the idea was there

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S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; Chih-Ping Yeh; Bonnie Shelnut

of suchdevelopments. This project involved developers, specialized in electrical engineering,responsible for the technical content, an industry partner to provide feedback and inputs onmaterial relevant to manufacturing, instructional technologists to insure ease of visual learning,specialists to help in devising modes for assessing learning of CBI material, graphic designers tocreate professional drawings and figures, multimedia specialists to develop animations based onwritten descriptions of the developers, and authoring tool experts to develop the material onAuthorware and Flash screens.1. Introduction The growing need for improved education in technical fields has led to the developmentof innovative methods of instruction

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William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

, laboratories, and the design project were also evaluated by the students. Thefindings revealed a highly significant increase in mathematics scores, significantly greaterknowledge of the field of engineering, and greater family support to study engineering over theseven-week program. There was also a less dramatic, but positive increase in commitment tostudy engineering. The engineering activities were well received by the students.BackgroundOverall, undergraduate engineering enrollments have been declining, while at the same time thedemand for engineers has been increasing. Many are concerned that America will not have a Page 4.53.1sufficient supply of

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Michael J. Hinton; Charles N. Eastlake

Session 2206 The Construction and Flight Testing of a Scaled, Remotely-Piloted, Flight-Test Vehicle Michael J. Hinton, Charles N. Eastlake Cessna Aircraft Company/Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityAbstractThe high cost of prototype flight testing can be a limiting factor in the optimization of newdesigns as they proceed from the drawing board to the flight line. The use of low-cost scaledmodels to predict full-scale prototype performance is the focus of this project. It will be shownthat by strictly following geometric and dynamic scaling criteria, the scaled aircraft’s

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Randy Russell; Nicholas Basker; Lisa Scranton; J. L. P Jessop; A. B. Scranton

cooperativegroup project in which teams of students work together over the Internet; and vi) a hypertextglossary that can be accessed by clicking on the word to be defined or by moving to the glossaryweb page.IntroductionOverview of the evolution of the Internet. If you are looking for the date that the Internet Page 4.483.1started, you would probably choose December of 1969 when computers at UCLA, Stanford* Author to whom correspondence should be sentResearch Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah wereconnected under support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency. 1 In the following years,Universities were

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Jack Zecher

combination of three-dimensional images, animation sequences, and audionarration are used to enhance a student’s understanding are explained in detail. This includes anoverview of the overall design of the project, as well as a detailed look at how various softwarepackages were used to perform screen captures, audio narration, video editing, and then howthese various multimedia components were combined and delivered on CD-ROM.IntroductionThe ProEngineer Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) program was adopted three years ago by theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Technology as their “high-end” CAD program. It isused in the MET328–CAD/CAM for Mechanical Design and Drafting course, as well as bymany students during their senior projects. Enrollments in the