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Ying Lu; Vincent Singh; Steven Palmer; Sarah Bergstrom; Nicolai Ramler; Mikir Bodalia; Martins Innus; Jami Meteer; Contessa DuBois; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha E. Sloan; Ashok Goel

Session 2532 Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Design, Modeling and Simulation of GaAs-Based High-Speed Integrated Circuits Ashok Goel, Martha Sloan, Sarah Bergstrom, Mikir Bodalia, Aleli Mojica-Campbell, Contessa DuBois, Martins Innus, Ying Lu, Jami Meteer, Steven Palmer, Nicolai Ramler, Vincent Singh Department of Electrical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn this paper, the research projects carried out by the ten undergraduate students selected forthe NSF funded undergraduate summer research site established at the

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R. S. Cartier; Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

packaging technology. She has been active in research andpublished several journal articlesALBERT L. McHENRY, Ph.D.Dr. Albert L. McHenry is Professor and Dean of the College Technology and Applied Sciences at Arizona StateUniversity East, Mesa, Arizona. He holds a BS Industrial Technology form Southern University of Baton Rouge,Louisiana, a MS Technology and Ph.D. Technical Education from Arizona State. His area of technicalspecialization is digital electronics. He has industrial experience with the Boeing Co., 3M Co., Motorola Inc. andMinority Engineers of Louisiana. His current research interests include noise in digital systems designmethodology and effective paradigms in engineering technology education. He is Co-director of The WesternAlliance

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Bahman S. Motlagh; Alireza Rahrooh

participation, is vital in the preparation of a studentÀs career in electrical Page 4.524.3engineering technology. Bibliography [1] Motlagh,B., and Rahrooh, A., ÀLinear Integrated Circuits Laboratory Manual,À , University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. [2] Motlagh,B., and Rahrooh, A., ÀDigital Circuits Laboratory Manual,À , University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. [3] Tocci/Widmer,ÀDigital Systems Principles and Application,À Prentice Hall, 7th Edition, 1998. BAHMAN S. MTLAGH Bahman S. Motlagh is an assistant professor of engineering technology at the University of Central Florida andthe

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Tony N. Rogers; David R. Shonnard; Besty M. Aller; Kirk H. Schulz; Anton Pintar

Session 3513 DEVELOPING AN ASSESSMENT PLAN TO MEET ABET EC2000 Anton J. Pintar, Betsy M. Aller, Tony N. Rogers, Kirk H. Schulz, and David R. Shonnard Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University ABSTRACTIn 1995 the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University begandeveloping an assessment plan prior to accreditation by the North Central Association (NCA)in January 1997. This assessment plan was modified and adapted to

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Session 3213 TEACHING CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY: A SEPARATE COURSE VERSUS INTEGRATION INTO EXISTING COURSES Anton J. Pintar Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 ABSTRACTIn response to societal concerns about major disasters in the chemical process industries,chemical engineering departments have been attempting to incorporate chemical process safetyinto their curricula. Pressure is also coming from

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Sanjeeve Sharma; Robert Thompson; Akihiko Kumagai; Aju Mathew; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Session 2533 Vision Guidance Development for a Ground Robotic System Akihiko Kumagai, Shamala Chickamenahalli, Aju Mathew, Sanjeeve Sharma, and Robert Thompson Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a student project that involved the design and construction of a groundrobotic system guided by a vision system. The project has been carried out by students inEngineering Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. Theproject has served to meet the senior project requirement of several of the students in thedivision.The construction of

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Daniel Davis

Session 2606 Industrial Experience: The Role It Plays at the University of Hartford AET Program Daniel Davis, AIA University of HartfordAbstractThe University of Hartford’s Architectural Engineering Technology (AET) Program curriculumis based on the blending of academic-based theoretical studies with industry-based problemsolving activities. Integral to accomplishing our educational goals is having the participation ofindustry in the educational process. It is extremely beneficial to have practitioners in theclassroom on a daily basis. This

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John Wiggins

Session 2606 Summer Internships in the Construction Industry; NJIT and NJBCA, Partners in Education John A. Wiggins, J.D., P.E. Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Technology New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe focus of an undergraduate engineering technology education should be geared tomeet the requirements of industry and impart real-life skills. In an effort to exposestudents to real-life work experience, the Department of Engineering Technology of theNew Jersey Institute of Technology and the New

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Bopaya Bidanda; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary RAFE

, we consider further the motivation for a distributed virtual manufacturinglaboratory for continuous training within the context of a specific manufacturing knowledgedomain.Continuous Education and Training for ManufacturingRecent reports in the popular press continue to underscore the importance placed on continuoustraining by many industries. In June 1997, we conducted an informal telephone survey ofmanufacturing engineering technology educators to assess reaction to, and potential demand for,a proposed virtual manufacturing laboratory that would be accessed via the World-Wide Web.We found that in all but one instance, a general purpose environment for manufacturingautomation of sufficient fidelity would be useful to augment existing

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Bopaya Bidanda; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary RAFE

, we consider further the motivation for a distributed virtual manufacturinglaboratory for continuous training within the context of a specific manufacturing knowledgedomain.Continuous Education and Training for ManufacturingRecent reports in the popular press continue to underscore the importance placed on continuoustraining by many industries. In June 1997, we conducted an informal telephone survey ofmanufacturing engineering technology educators to assess reaction to, and potential demand for,a proposed virtual manufacturing laboratory that would be accessed via the World-Wide Web.We found that in all but one instance, a general purpose environment for manufacturingautomation of sufficient fidelity would be useful to augment existing

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Gary P. Langenfeld; David Wells

Page 4.148.1engineers, whose knowledge has an ill-defined, but well-accepted, half-life. Engineers mustcontinually learn in order to stay abreast of the technologies that impact their jobs. It is the sumof its engineering knowledge that represents the ‘knowledge value’ of the business enterprise,and this asset must be continually replenished and expanded in order that the business value isnot eroded. 3 In manufacturing industries, we are rapidly approaching an era where quality andprice will no longer be adequate to differentiate products in the marketplace. These arebecoming givens -- the price of admission to the business. If products lack quality or if theirprices are a bit high, they will simply fade from view -- victims of more agile and

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Marla E. Hacker; Thomas M. West

achieving organizational performance improvement throughperformance measurement systems, strategic management interventions, total quality management, andorganizational infrastructure design. Her experience includes leading and facilitating improvement activities inpublic, private, and international organizations including Procter and Gamble, the U.S. Postal Service, NationalGrocers Co. Ltd. of Canada, Volvo-GM, Siemens Automotive, The Oregon Economic Development Department,Hewlett-Packard, United Way, and Kollmorgen Motion Technologies Group.THOMAS M. WESTTom M. West is a Professor Emeritus for the College of Engineering at Oregon State University. He has served theuniversity in the roles of Dean, Department Head and Professor. Tom is recognized

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Heidi Diefes; William LeBold; William Oakes

, chemistry, and physics. Female,international, and under-represented minority students may make appointments with facultyand staff whose expertise and responsibilities include programs in related areas. Students arealso referred to counselors and coordinators in the professional schools with knowledge ofspecialized fields, scholarships, co-operative programs, and internship opportunities.Purdue Interest QuestionnaireAll beginning engineering students are administered the Purdue Interest Questionnaire (PIQ) inthe first week of freshman seminar. Once results have been processed, a faculty member guidesstudents in comparing their interests with past students and graduates who have majored invarious engineering, science, technology, and management

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Erdogan Sener

Session 1421 INCORPORATING INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARDS INTO THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS Erdogan M. Sener Indiana university-Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractIndustrial Advisory Boards (IAB) have traditionally served an important function in advisingacademic programs to ascertain that the curricula are current, relevant, and in line with thedemands of the workplace. ABET’s (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) newinitiative in terms of assessment-based evaluation of engineering and technology programs foraccreditation have provided another opportunity to

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Susan Randolph

Session 3586 Case Study Development under the TEFATE Project* Susan Randolph Jackson State Community CollegeThe Tennessee Exemplary Faculty for Advanced Technological Education(TEFATE) project was the result of a National Science Foundation ATE grantdesigned to educate an interdisciplinary group of faculty who would provideleadership in communications technology curriculum development1. A primaryproduct of this project was twenty-five case studies designed to deliver academiccontent and develop problem-solving skills in engineering technology courses.Each of the twenty-five cases joins academics with the workplace

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Ronald E. Barr

monograph will serve as a comprehensive EDG curriculum guide, andwill be distributed to all college faculty who are identified as teaching Engineering Design Graphics, as well as toall Engineering and Technology Deans.IntroductionThe field of Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) has been a cornerstone in engineering education forover a century. Courses in EDG are typically incorporated into the curriculum in either the freshman orearly sophomore year, and in many cases it is a core requirement for all engineering majors. In the past,the academic focus for Engineering Design Graphics has been developing methodology for producing andreading engineering drawings, which were the traditional communication links between design andmanufacturing. Within this

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elements of engineering.V. Ropohl: A Metatechnological PerspectiveThe German engineering educator Günter Ropohl provides a particularly vivid conception ofintegration as point of view 3 . Ropohl gives a name to the integrated perspective. He uses theterm “metatechnology” to describe this perspective and defines it as “the attempt to understandthe complexity of the totality of technological practice.” (p. 286) It includes the humanities,philosophy, and the social sciences. He contrasts it with “specialized disciplinary studies inthose fields” in three senses: (1) “it begins with concrete technological phenomena;” (2) “itbrings in and makes use of nontechnical knowledge, but only as related to technological

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Matthew Y. Lee; Jiang Li

and examsto students in order to enhance student’s understanding of their learning and to obtain importantfeedback information from students at the same time. During a lecture, students take class notesand ask questions. Such a pattern obviously has some problems. For instance, the one-hourlecture may be too short to solve student’s problems or to answer student’s questions. Theavailability or accessibility of an instructor after lecture hours is one of important key issues inteaching of engineering courses. Today, with help of high technology of telecommunication, theteaching of engineering courses can be improved greatly with many ways. Teachingengineering courses through the Internet is one of them (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).The Internet is a

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Brett Barraclough

Session 3325 Industrial Collaboration in an Undergraduate Computer Aided Design Course MAJ Brett A. Barraclough United States Military AcademyAbstract For the past two years, the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering atthe United States Military Academy has been improving a multi-disciplinary designcourse called EM370, Computer Aided Design (CAD). Based on student feedback andadvances in technology, goals were established to ensure the computer design tools werecompatible with the top-down design process and that the course content andEngineering Design

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faculty forcollaborative research is also apt to be a little one-sided. It is because of this that Old DominionUniversity’s College of Engineering and Technology developed, with its sister institutions inGermany and Japan, a short term design competition that moves from institution to institution.HistoryOld Dominion University is located in Norfolk, Virginia, home of the largest naval base on theeast coast and the headquarters for NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). As many otherU. S. cities have done, Norfolk has established “sister city” relationships with several cities Page 4.162.1abroad including Wilhelmshaven, Germany and Kitakyushu

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Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

Session 2547 "Development and Delivery of an Industry Course in Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing" Kenneth Reid, Elaine Cooney Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisAbstract:The Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis has developed and presented “Fundamentals of Electronics Manufacturing” for alocal electronics manufacturing firm. The course was developed to be presented either on-site oron campus, where it would be offered as a

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Sheryl A. Sorby

Session 1438 Spatial Abilities and their Relationship to Computer Aided Design Instruction Sheryl A. Sorby Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MichiganAbstractImproving spatial visualization skills is often cited as an educational goal of engineering designgraphics instruction. Many engineering design graphics faculty contend that working with 3-dimensional solid modeling software enhances the spatial abilities of their students

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Rhonda Moore; Ray Bachnak

technology fields. Asmore companies become aware of the benefits of an integrated software simulation environment,the demand for engineers and technologists with the proper training and design skills shouldincrease.EDA Tools and Their CapabilitiesEDA tools have been very useful in implementing an integrated software simulation environment.They have evolved over the years and now support the whole design process from the initialinterpretation of system requirements to the final stages of manufacturing. While specific featuresand capabilities of EDA systems vary greatly, their major elements may be grouped as follows: • Entry tools: they deal with schematic capture, block diagrams, Hardware Description Languages (HDLs), and system level

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

Session 1526 A Multidisciplinary Electronic Manufacturing Undergraduate Laboratory for the Design and Manufacture of DSP and Computer Based ASIC Systems Maher E. Rizkalla, Charles F. Yokomoto, Zina Ben Miled, Paul Salama, and Mohamed El-Sharkawy Department of Electrical Engineering Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis 723W Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Tel. No. (317)274-9719

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James Dally; William L. Fourney; Peter C. Chang; Hugh A. Bruck; Dave K. Anand

in today’s marketplace and with the educationnecessary to adapt and succeed in the future as technology continues to change." [15] Thisphilosophy is consistent with ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000, another source for definingsuccess. Consequently, one metric developed by the Mechanical Engineering department for theentire undergraduate curriculum is to provide a student evaluation form where the studentswould rate the relevance of each course to the (a) through (k) criteria on a scale from 1 to 5.Assessment of the curriculum by instructors is also obtained as a baseline for comparison.The proposed metric was used for a pilot section taught with the new curriculum during the 1998Fall semester, along with two sections using the old curriculum

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Olkan Cuvalci; Douglas D. Gransberg; Cevdet Nuhrat; Bobby Green

Session 3659 Visibility Measurement Technique Using Photographic Images Olkan Cuvalci, Douglas D. Gransberg, Bobby L. Green and Cevdet Nuhrat Dept. of mechanical Engineering/ Engineering Technology Dept./ Computer Science Dept., Texas Tech UniversityAbstractNighttime traffic accident rates are considerably higher than daytime accident rates. There areseveral reasons for the unbalanced accident rates during the night; one being that an averageperson is poorly equipped to see adequately at night. Visual performance and traffic safety arehighly correlated to the amount of visual input, which we can receive

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for enhancingtheir problem solving skills and encourages them to pursue graduate studies.IntroductionThe College of Engineering at Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift fromHenry and Betty Rowan in 1992. The College of Engineering’s key features includecollaborative teamwork in inter- and multi- disciplinary laboratory and coursework and theincorporation of state of the art technologies and innovative teaching methodologies. Activitiesof the freshman and sophomore engineering clinic classes at Rowan have already receivednational recognition (1-8). The freshman clinic focuses on primary principles, measurements,and competitive assessment. The sophomore clinic focuses on formalized engineering designtechniques. The junior and

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with operational verbs for each particular element.The example outcome is first broken down into more discrete components. In this case, there arefour components: design experiments, conduct experiments, analyze data, and interpret data.Figure 1 specifies plausible attributes for each element for the component “Design Experiment.”VI. ConclusionsWe have attempted to initiate a dialogue among the engineering education community on theimplications of adopting the eleven student learning outcomes as prescribed by the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology. While obviously biased in a supportive direction, thisshould not preclude the notion that the above issues contain difficult challenges. An initialchallenge includes achieving

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Session 2642 Success Stories – What Works at GWU! Robert C. Waters George Washington UniversitySuccess of the D.Sc. ProgramThe D.Sc. program of the Department of Engineering Management, School of Engineering andApplied Science of the George Washington University (GWU) attracts about 50 qualifiedapplicants per year. Whereas, the Department’s Faculty admits to the program between 10 and15 students per year. This is in contrast to the traditional departments of the School, which admitalmost all qualified D.Sc. applicants. The reason for the different outcomes among

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Scott Southall; Lee Drouin; H. Javan

Session 2548 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN PROGRAM H. Javan, Ph.D., L.Drouin, Ph.D., S.Southall, M.S. Department of Engineering Technology The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152AbstractA new computer aided design course is now being offered to the students in EngineeringTechnology Program. The Program is an integration of three different software, namelyElectronic Work Bench, Microcap, and PSPICE. Students have carried out a total offifteen projects covering DC, AC, time and frequency domain analysis, simulation anddesign