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Ron Humble; Michael Caylor

. In particular, our program requires a substantial commitmentof faculty expertise, laboratory resources, and funding. Nonetheless, overcoming these inherentchallenges enables substantial student learning to occur. Our experience is that both grouplearning and independent thinking are enhanced, and that the curriculum provides first-handexperience in the development of aerospace technology.IntroductionAn ongoing challenge in engineering education is to provide students with meaningful design Page 5.533.1projects that help them synthesize what they have learned in the classroom and to better preparethem for their future careers. The United States

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made up of some 780 students and 100 full-timeprofessors, lecturers and technicians. During the academic year 1998-99, a total of132 members of the student population were non-French (around 17%) from 30 differentnations throughout the world. The college also maintains very close links with industry byinviting industrialists to participate in the design of the curriculum, to teach courses and to bemembers of the Board of Examiners. ENST Bretagne also runs a flourishing ContinuingEducation Department which organizes short, one-week courses for professional engineers atvarious locations throughout France (Brest, Nantes, Nice, Rennes, Paris, Toulouse ...).2) International components in EE/CS educationTelecommunications is a truly « global

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Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

choices, to increase studentretention and to provide basic computer skills. Recognizing the need to integrate designinto engineering programs as early as possible, and the value of project-based, multi-disciplinary team experiences, significant changes were implemented in the course in theFall 1999 semester. Many of the one-week discipline topics were removed in order tointroduce a team-based project that the students performed over one third of the course.We have gathered anecdotal information from student surveys at the conclusion of eachsemester and analyzed student retention data to assess the success of this course as amethod of teaching design and as a student retention aid.There are two aspects to student retention: keeping the students at

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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

specifications for the solar lantern that will be used by the local school children fordoing homework in the evening. These specifications prioritized reliability, ease of operation,rugged construction, portability and low cost. The resulting design was realized in a singleprototype. The design and construction of the prototype was completed as a student/facultyproject in the Junior Engineering Clinic course at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. It wasfunded and directed by ETM Solar Works, a NY based corporation.Introduction Rowan University’s College of Engineering is committed to providing their students withsignificant laboratory and design experiences throughout their full four years as engineeringstudents. In the Freshman year they are given

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Nicole L. Hoekstra

industry is employing prototype tooling to manufacture parts for evaluationand testing2,3. One method of constructing prototype tooling is simply casting aluminum-filledepoxy over an RP model. To ensure that the parts produced from prototype tooling closelyresemble the final production part, much research is being performed to compare RP tooling tomachined steel tooling. In recent research, the properties of parts produced in an RP epoxy toolwere within 10-30% of parts produced in a steel tool4.Prior to the arrival of rapid prototyping equipment in the department, the laboratory portion ofthe course focused on the construction of tooling, using manual and CNC machining.Sometimes students only partially completed the assignment due to complications

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knowledge of PCs and networks camefrom self-study or employment, not from courses at university. Again student responsesindicated that such knowledge would be useful. Even though the assignments are intended tosimulate work-place activities, there is little or no competency-based teaching or evaluation.Indications are that, within the UK University sector, practically based curricula withcompetency testing are not standard practice in computer science. More detailedinvestigations are currently being undertaken.2. Curriculum DesignThe response at ECU was to design, implement and evaluate a new curriculum in computerand network technology to meet this market need. Four new units were designed – ComputerInstallation & Maintenance (CIM), Network

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William H. Sprinsky

theoretical discussions arereinforced by assignments on both our analog Kelsh and analytical Zeiss P-3 plotters. Theassignments require teams of two students to perform relative and absolute orientation/scaling onthe Kelsh plotter to produce a manuscript with contours from which a fair drawn map is made.The same teams perform interior, relative and absolute orientation/scaling on the Zeiss P-3analytical plotter. Their product, a DTM, is then handled through ASCII and .DXF file protocolsin much the same way as ground surveying data to produce a fair drawn map with contours andscale in the appropriate State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83).This paper discusses instruction and performance of laboratories in this course.IntroductionAt the Pennsylvania

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Rudolph Marloth; Rafiqul I. Noorani; Mark A. Hinton

Session 2259 Data Acquisition System for an Undergraduate Fin Heat Exchanger Experiment Mark A. Hinton, Rudolf Marloth, Rafiq I. Noorani Loyola Marymount UniversityI. IntroductionIn an effort to meet ABET requirements for utilizing Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) in thermalscience, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University hasdeveloped and incorporated a new experiment into the required junior-level thermal sciencelaboratory course in mechanical engineering. The purpose of the experiment is to teach studentswhat modern data acquisition

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

helps the younger students have role models since often they see internationalteaching assistants in their laboratory classes.To supplement the information many students need opportunities to explore research as a careeroption. Possible opportunities include research experiences for undergraduates and studentprograms at conferences. Both authors have started sophomores with undergraduate research.By their senior years, the students were mature researchers providing major contributions torefereed publications. The NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programprovides opportunities to pay students a competitive salary to do some research. Anotherexciting activity is to have an undergraduate attend and possibly present at a regional or

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Joseph H. Nevin; John L. Bellando

, and students.JOSEPH H. NEVINJoseph H. Nevin is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He also servescurrently as an Assistant Dean and is the director of the College of Engineering Instructional Technology Center.His teaching activities center around analog circuit design and he frequently teaches laboratory courses. Hisgraduate level research is in the field of MEMS. Page 5.461.14

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Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

developed by the ME 2000 coordinator.Course Delivery Review and Feedback ProcessThe focus of this process is to assess the delivery of courses in the program, i.e. whether or notstudents are learning the knowledge and acquiring the abilities required in a given course. Thedocumentation used in this process is a set of Course Learning Objectives that have been developedfor each course by the faculty involved in teaching the course. Course Learning Objectives are adetailed list of the knowledge and abilities that students will learn in a specific course. Beginningwith the major technical topics covered in the course, faculty list specific knowledge or abilitiesthey believe students should have in these topics. The faculty also consider whether

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Sally J. Steadman; Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman

course, but are scheduled for common courses in Chemisty, EnglishComposition, and Orientation to Engineering.For many institutions, implementing a common course scheduling system for new students is arelatively low-cost, low-maintenance intervention for increasing student retention. Theadvantages include not only an increased level of cooperative learning that occurs spontaneouslyamong the students, but also the opportunity for faculty to gain a more complete picture ofstudent progress. When a student is struggling in one course, that student may also beexperiencing difficulty in another course. At UW, the faculty teaching each of the courses in aPower Group meet periodically and share concerns about individual student situations as well

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Jack Crotty; Chong Chen

low in cost, easy to build, and easy to install. Based on the commandsreceived, the microcontroller will control other equipment or contact a computer linked to themicrocontroller. The entire system has been built and tested in the laboratory. It performed allthe functions expected.Bibliography Page 5.523.71. David Stamper: “Local Area Networks”, second edition, Addison Wesley, 1998.2. Michael Kheir: “The M68HC11 Microcontroller, Application in Control, Instrumentation, and Communication”, Prentice-Hall, 1997.3. Michael L. Gurrie and Patrick J. O’Connor: “Voice/data telecommunications systems”, Prentice Hall, 1986.4. “HT9170 DTMF Receiver

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Hakan Gurocak

analysis and turn the design into a "workingmachine." Photographs below show some of the student designs over the past two years. Three of the rope climbing machines designed by students in the past two offerings of the course. Page 5.534.5Assessment of individual contribution in a team projectProduct design in industry is accomplished by teams. To simulate this environment inacademia, especially in design courses like ME 316, we must emphasize and teach team work.Consequently, the rope climbing machine project is assigned to teams of students.However, the difficulty with promoting team work is in assigning grades to the individual

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Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

adesign specification, 3) prepare a design schematic, schedule, and parts list, 4) order andassemble parts 5) perform functional and specification tests, 6) demonstrate functionality to thecustomer, 7) formally present the project, and 8) prepare a final report suitable for publication.The projects are built in a dedicated Senior Design Laboratory, which has 14 dedicated computerworkstations, parts lockers, and state-of-the-art testing tools. We are also fortunate to have adedicated parts shop, which stocks electrical components for most needs. Additionally, parts thatare not available can be purchased. A mechanism was needed to provide communication

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Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

5-week, held consecutively, Saturday morning program, designedby the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management faculty and some key JCPS highschool teachers for prospective Industrial Engineering students, with an emphasis onunderrepresented minority students. The program was designed to promote engineering andscience interests in African American students very early in their high school study of math andscience. In addition, the program, consisting of a combination of short course instructionalsegments, hands-on laboratory experiences and motivational and self-assessments, provides thestudents with a “taste” of the industrial engineering discipline.The Department of Industrial of Engineering at the University of Louisville offers a

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Robert Engelken

university - administeredresearch projects. It provides experiences, incidents, and insight that can positively impact therelevance and quality of a budding professor’s classroom teaching. It provides good resumeNmaterial and reputation enhancement, the latter for the university as well as the new professor.Of course and often the touchy point with university administrators, consulting providesadditional income for the professor, and usually not the university, above and beyond his/herstandard university salary; this can be extremely valuable as the new and usually young professoris building a family, buying a house and car, starting an investment program, or paying offeducation debts, and generally results in a happier, less stressed, and ideally

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Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

) This paper will describe a case study we developed at the University of Virginia for teaching thesocial and ethical dimensions of technology to engineering students. The case study concerns Monsanto’sefforts to be a cutting-edge life-sciences company in agriculture, developing genetically-modified seeds. Inorder to understand the case study, one has to understand the program out of which it emerged.A Graduate Option in Engineering, Ethics and Policy At the University of Virginia, we have created a graduate option in Engineering and Ethics thatlinks the Darden Business School, the Division of Technology, Culture and Communications and theDepartment of Systems Engineering. This engineering graduate option attempts to overcome the

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skills audit survey. The second phase involved state based workshops withrepresentatives from all industries. Representatives from the IICA education sub-committeewere responsible for the development of the generic competency standards in ProcessControl.Murdoch University began teaching the degree in Instrumentation & Control in 1996 with aninitial intake of 16 students. During 1996 construction began of new engineering buildingsand infrastructure at another site, which have since been completed. The award has gainedaccreditation from the Institute of Engineers Australia. Graduate Instrumentation andControl Engineers are accredited at Level 2 by the Australian Computer Society and areexpected to gain accreditation from the Institution of

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William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

semester while juniors and seniors are encouraged to register for 2 credits. The upperdivision students are expected to serve as the technical leaders on the teams and thereby take onmore responsibility.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team will take care of administrative mattersor work on their project(s). All students also attend a common one-hour lecture given each weekfor all EPICS students. A majority of the lectures are by guest experts, and have covered a widerange of topics related to engineering design and community service. The long term nature ofthe program has required some innovation to the lecture series as students may be

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William C. Beston; Sharon B. Fellows; Richard Culver

. Students do not havetime to reflect on what they are learning or to explore personal interests through elective courseswhile in college. The seeds of effective LLL must be sown at the beginning of the program if thecollege experience is going to support this type of development in engineering students. Thispaper describes activities being introduced in the DTeC course at Binghamton University (BU)and the engineering science program at Broome Community College (BCC) to start students onthe path toward becoming self-directed learners (SDL), the key to LLL.A successful program for teaching SDL must have two components. First, it must motivate thestudents to aspire to be self-directed learners. This is not easy. In the traditional program

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Winston Conway Link; Carlos G. Spaht II

demanding classes and laboratories. For example, inthe problem-solving component of the program, students study together in small groups and attackrigorous mathematical problems using techniques employed by Dr. Philip UriTreisman at theUniversity of California at Berkeley. In his program, the failure rate for high-ability minoritystudents in freshman calculus went from sixty percent to only four percent1.Over a period of two summers, LaPREP students study topics that are not substitutes for the usualcourses in the middle or high school curricula. For example, they study course work inEngineering, Logic, Algebraic Structures, Probability and Statistics, Computer Science, DiscreteMathematics, Technical Writing, Problem Solving, Medical Careers

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Bryan L. Gassaway; Masoud Rais-Rohani

analysis for predicting the failure load, each student had to fabricate a specimenconsistent with the shape and dimensions specified for each concept. Prior to fabricating thecolumns, the students were introduced to the break forming process, which they had to use tomake each column. They were also given the opportunity to get acquainted with the breakforming equipment in our laboratory by forming several sections of various sizes and shapes.This training gave the students the basic knowledge and some hands-on experience with thesheet metal forming process. Page 5.438.4For design concepts 1 and 2 the failure modes were predicted to be dominated

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Yaw A. Owusu; Tarsha Dargan; Kimberly M. Richardson; James Thagard

Page to Computer Program for ECDM Design. Page 5.574.20FIGURE 5 Sample Module Design for Material Extraction and Summation of Total Indices Page 5.574.21Bibliography1. Boden, T. A., Kanciruk, P., and Ferrel, M.P., "Trends 1990, A Compendium of Data on Global Change, Report ORNL/CDIAC-36, p. 89, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1990).2. Houghton, J.T., Jenkins, G.J., and Ephraums, J.J., "Climate Change: the PIPCC Scientific Assessment, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (1990).3. Graedel, T.E. and Allenby, Industrial Ecology, AT & T Laboratories

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Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

scheme, conducive to growth and evolution. The process is described below:a. The Design-Centered GatewayThe Design-Centered Introduction course to Aerospace Engineering was used as a means tointroduce users to engineering, and provide guidance regarding the various fields. Links fromthis course go to advanced resources in each field. The course “notes”, placed on the web, havebeen used in 2 iterations of the course as a central resource, and have been used by students inother courses as needed. Apart from the notes, a specific site is created during each teaching ofthe course for the students in the course, and this site is used for guidance to the students onfinding data, notes on specific assignments, links to other course material on the web

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

placed into one of three groups which then determines their schedule for the program.In an effort to prepare the students for the rigor of a university program and to instill theimportance of successful time management, the schedule is intensive. In the mornings, allstudents attend three 75-minute classes, while the afternoons consist of a 2 ½ hour activity fivedays a week for the four weeks. The morning classes combine the more traditional lectures onnew topics with collaborative problem solving and discussions. The afternoons, on the otherhand, consist of laboratory hands-on activities in support of the topics discussed as well as aweekly orientation to college and discussions of what it takes to excel as a technical student.Senior faculty

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

interest in providing guidance on what, and howmanufacturing topics should be taught.Through a series of workshops the following top fourteen major competency gaps wereidentified and ranked:1. Communication Skills (presentation skills, listening abilities, graphic software usage)2. Teamwork ( conflict resolution, interpersonal relations, team member, accountability)3. Personal Attributes (leadership, sensitivity to others, consciousness of the big picture, ability to both teach and learn from others, analytical skills, and consensus building.)4. Manufacturing Principles (lean manufacturing, concurrent engineering, constrains)5. Reliability (Process and products, FMEA principles, testing for expected life cycles.)6. Project Management (resource

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Merredith D Portsmore; Martha N. Cyr; Chris B. Rogers

, National InstrumentsWeek 1998.3. Martha N. Cyr, Chris B. Rogers, Enhancing Education with LEGO Bricks and Paperclips, FEDSM98-5137,Proceedings of FEDSM’98 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, June 21-25, 1998, Washington,DC.4. Martha Cyr, V. Miragila, T. Nocera, C. Rogers, A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching EngineeringThrough Experimentation, J. of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 167-171, 1997.5. John Paul Osborne, B. Erwin, M. Cyr, and C. Rogers, A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-onEngineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation, Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.63-66, 1998.MERREDITH PORTSMOREMerredith Portsmore is the Educational Technology Coordinator for

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Joseph D. Torres; Tom Cummings

address workforce needs and professionaldevelopment of EMS students, and 3) enhancing public teachers’ ability to teach mathematics,science and technology. The program has developed several collaborativeinitiatives/partnerships with two-year post-secondary institutes statewide and with public schoolsfor the purposes of increasing the participation rate of New Mexicans in post-secondaryeducation by increasing the number of statewide public schools that participate in thesecollaborative efforts.I. IntroductionThe MEMS recruitment and retention program consists of seven core components: I) A SummerBridge Program, for 50 topnotch high-school students admitted and planning to enroll at UNMin the Fall. This intensive four-week program

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

progress, they are differentfunctions from that of technological innovation. However, strategic research serves a different purpose than doesbasic academic research. Strategic research is often technology project-driven rather than curiosity-driven. Itspurpose is also to gain a better understanding of phenomena when new knowledge is needed to solve fundamentalscientific problems related to products, processes, systems, and operations. As Cauffman, chief scientist at theDepartment of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, stated: “… A lot of thefundamental work today is driven by a need … but it is still an effort to understand the fundamental way thingsinteract.” 52.5 Recognizing that Graduate Engineers in Industry