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

, issignificantly strengthened when coupled with cooperative learning techniques, ensuring morefrequent interaction between students. Anecdotal reports from students in Power Groups indicatethat they develop study groups on their own and jointly plan common schedules for the springsemester. Clustering, through the use of Power Groups, has indeed proven to be an effectivemechanism to increase student retention in engineering and is an extremely successful strategyfor improving individual student academic success.Bibliography1 Landis, Raymond, “Building Collaborative Learning Communities,” Proceedings ASEE Conference, 1990 pp. 1204- 1208.2 Steadman, Sally J, Bruce R. Dewey, and David L. Whitman, “Power Groups for Engineering Students”,Proceedings WEPAN

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Pedro E. Arce

my learning practices) the “ColloquialApproach” (Arce, 1994a) plays a very important role in the promotion of active Page 5.501.1learning environments. Within this style of teaching, the identification of“Principal Objects of Knowledge”, or POK’s is an important aspect of activatingthe knowledge already built in the students’ minds. These objects are part of astructure of a given lesson plan that allow the students to build up more blocks ofknowledge based on what they already know. The students can achieve this byadding elements to their present knowledge with the help of carefully coachedapproach. The POK’s are usually an intermediate part of an

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Stephanie Weitemeyer; Stephanie Draeger; Rebecca Morrison; Lehang Huynh; Ashok K. Goel; Sarah Bergstrom; Jami Meteer; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha Sloan

. Their opin-ions of the program continued to be high. Almost all participants felt that this undergraduateresearch experience had greatly enhanced their overall education. Most of these REU stu-dents had accepted or were looking for industrial research positions or were planning toattend graduate schools. Page 5.529.5 Session 3592V. AcknowledgmentsThis work is based on research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundationunder Grant no. EEC-9619646. The support provided by the Michigan TechnologicalUniversity is also acknowledged. The authors

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used as theproject in ME 316. This product met all of the constraints above and proved to be fun andchallenging, yet it was not overwhelming for the junior students. In the following sections,details of this project as well as an approach developed to assess the contribution of anindividual student to the project while working as a team member will be explained. But first,the course content will be briefly reviewed.Course ContentME 316 Systems Design is a three semester-credit course introducing the engineering designand decision making process. The main topics are: • Technical writing and oral presentation, • Introduction to design process, • Design process terminology, • Reverse engineering, • Design process and planning

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Mohammad H. Alimi; Howard B. Wilson

$42,000 after taxes. The couple expects their yearly income, saving, and spending to grow 1% over inflation throughout the next sixty years. They plan to put $3000 yearly in a Roth IRA devoted to an S&P 500 Index fund which earned an average return of 18.6% yearly over the last 10 years. If a conservative return of 10% is anticipated during 40 working years and 20 retirement years, what pension amount can be expected at time of retirement? Take s = 3, R = 10, A = 5, I = 4, t1 = 40, t 2 = 20. This leads to r = 6, a = 1, u = 5 so that p = 3(e (.05 )( 40 ) − 1) /(1 − e − (.05 )( 20 ) ) = $30.322 thousand per year. Since the investment growth will exceed inflation by 1%, the pension value at retirement will be (30.322)(e (.01

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James A. Reising

surveys given to both students and faculty involved in the new courses indicated thatboth groups viewed this new strategy positively.Combining lecture with short laboratory exercises reinforcing the lecture material is apparentlythe most effective aspect of the new courses. (The courses replaced by the new courses not onlyhad separate lecture and laboratory sessions, but the lecture and lab were usually taught bydifferent individuals and did not necessarily cover the same topic in the same week.) The newcourses will be used as the sophomore circuits sequence in the 1999-2000 academic year.Current departmental plans are to retain the new courses as the standard sophomore circuitssequence replacing the former sophomore circuits sequence, so they

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only be achieved by exposing and exciting its students to coretechnologies during their formative years.There are very few schools in South Africa that have access to these sorts of facilities yetthere is an inherent expectation that when school leavers enter the market place that they arecompetent in these areas. The South African Government identified Technology as one of theeight basic learning areas in its plan for their new curriculum framework, Curriculum 2005[1, 2]. However, in an environment of ever shrinking resources, schools are struggling tosuccessfully accomplish this when the cost of introducing this technology is often more thantheir annual budget.It is often the tertiary educational institutions that have made the significant

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Harry L. Hess

Engineering (RE) Introduction Plus Yes Single Point Machining 2 Metallic / Plastics Welding 3 Organization of the Enterprise Yes 4 Engineering Economics, RE Project Yes Approved and CNC Programming 5 Metallic and Plastics Casting 6 Manufacturing Engineering Yes 7 Gantt, CPM and PERT Planning Yes 8 Mid-term Exam 9 Plastics Processing 10 Materials and Labor Costs Plus Bill of Yes Materials 11 Hot and Cold Forming 12 Materials Handling and RE Presentation Yes Techniques 13 Materials Packaging and Multi Point

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Gouranga Banik

Third PriorityFall Protection 46 8 14Excavation 14 8 14Electrical 8 14 8Safety Planning 8 8 14Recognize Hazards 14 8 0OSHA-General 8 0 8Subcontractor Safety 0 14 8Accident Costs 0 8 14Handling 0 14 0Compensation Costs

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Harry W. Blackwell; Charles N Eastlake

CER’sSeveral other adaptations were also made. Probably the most important is that a multiplyingfactor was included to allow the user to adjust costs for the changes in the consumer price indexrelative to the base year represented by the equations. A bar chart illustrating CPI trends over thelast several decades are presented in class so that students can get a feel for the unpredictabilityof this trend out into the planned lifetime of their design. Another change was a deviation fromstandard wisdom in Air Force Systems Command handbooks in applying the “learning curve” orquantity discount factor to account for the effect of production quantity on the price of each unit.An 80% learning curve is widely used. This means that each time the total number

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Slobodanka Nestorovic; Sarra Elhassan; Hayder A. Rasheed

andinstructional research and development. On the other hand, learning multimedia skillsdoes not require rigorous technical coverage or traditional course work. It is based onwell-planned sequence of lectures on using existing software packages to process andintegrate different media. Engineering schools, interested in this field, have to normallyspare a faculty member, specialized in another engineering area, to teach such a course.In this work, the authors are proposing a multimedia-based application to auto-teachmultimedia courses as an effective means to save time and resources. It is suggested thatan instructor should still be assigned to the course to monitor progress and assure quality.Students registered in such a course are expected to have

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

parameters to see what can be done and not done withthe HP-VEE digested test results. Supervisors would then have a better understanding ofwhat the HP VEE material can provide the corporation. It should be noted that threeclients of the corporation have sent unsolicited letters of appreciation regarding howmuch data analysis has improved since the introduction of HP-VEE, and how rapidlythe results are available.The FutureThere is a growing market for training in data acquisition and process control techniquesand implementations. The authors plan, with the help of Northeastern Universitypersonnel, to pursue other corporations who have data-acquisition and process controltraining needs. A presentation to other corporations prepared for the

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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

work. The major obstacle to this planned course will be the introductionof transmission of digital signals. Page 5.228.1The recent development of an HDTV transmission standard that is being accepted by industry ispaving the way for implementation of a major change in today’s broadcast television. Televisiontransmission stations are expected to spend an estimated 7 million dollars each just to implementthe upgrade9. There will be a large market for technicians familiar with the systems used and thestandards regarding their implementation. Moreover a new secondary market will be created inthe current digital realm of the World Wide Web and other

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Ayyagari Janaki Rao

and Self Financed Engineering Colleges.Status of Engineering Education and Technical Institutions in India are shown inAnnexure - 1.3. The present curriculum structure in IndiaCurriculum is not planned either to the Industrial demands or needs of society. The followingsubjects are covered.Basic sciences : 10.8%Engineering sciences : 17.2%Technical Arts : 20.1%Applied and Design Engineering : 43.8%Miscellaneous subjects : 8.1%Total : 100.0%4. The structure of engineering curriculum in USAMost of the good Universities in USA design their curriculum keeping in mind Technologicalchanges, Industrial

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Carole E. Goodson; Susan Miertschin

Merkel. Participants of ETLIformally approved a group to establish plans for publication. The founding group became theeditorial board, and the first issue was published 29 months following the initial meeting. 4Our past editors established the direction of the JET, with the following statements.1. The purpose of JET is to contribute the national advancement of the field of ET. The intent is to develop a publication devoted entirely to ET. 32. The Journal provides a means to promulgate innovative instructional techniques and materials as well as applied technological developments. 43. The objectives of the JET are to: • nurture ET as a distinct body of knowledge, • foster inquiry in ET, and • disseminate the results of such

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John Chen; Mike Ellis

and teaching environment in the coalition’s colleges of engineering. In preparation forachieving this goal, the TBCD focus team plans to offer a series of workshops targeted atintroducing various technologies and building skills in faculty members to facilitate technologyincorporation. In order to provide the appropriate training, at the appropriate level of expertise,the team undertook an assessment to determine the needs and skill levels of the faculty in thecoalition schools. This effort includes a faculty survey. The results of the survey also serves asthe baseline for later assessment of the effectiveness of the TBCD efforts.2. Survey DesignWe have previously described the TBCD survey in detail [4]. What we focus on in this paper arethe

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Bernard Hoop; Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

laboratory arrangement plans and reports were submitted to theinstructor for comments, then returned to the students. As students refined their work throughmaking design changes, they increased their technical knowledge. The knowledge they gainedthrough their practical experience directly reflected curriculum requirements. Therefore, theirfinal design projects were graded to reflect these requirements. During this uniqueinterdisciplinary project, students benefited from feedback from both their instructor and thephysics laboratory director. The project was extended for those students participating in thehonors program, who developed laboratory manuals regarding the proper use of the equipmentthat they included in their design projects (c f Hoop et

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Oguz A. Soysal

% Page 5.307.2Figure 1 Areas of interest of students enrolled in "Introduction to Engineering Design."A class profile survey on career plans of engineering students shows the distribution illustrated inFigure 2. At the freshman level, the majority of the students wish to work in R&D andproduction areas. The diagram gives also an idea about the expectations of students from theeducation they have just started. In which area would you like to work when you graduate? Education 0% Production Research 32% and development

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Duane L. Abata

competitive spiritis rewarded yearly over a long period of time, then faculty become conditioned to argue to theiradvantage, and to their colleagues disadvantage. This is evident as faculty race against faculty forrecognition, laboratory space, lighter teaching loads, departmental resources, and limited salaryincreases through ‘objective’ merit algorithms.The ICAP curriculum development plan discussed in this paper is good exercise because the Page 5.343.5outcome will greatly benefit the students and faculty and is in line with the needs of industry andsociety. Engines are no longer an assembly of nuts and bolts but well tuned systems that

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

institutions in Tennessee, Kentucky,and Alabama was formed in order to plan a solution. A grant proposal, titled “TennesseeExemplary Faculty for Advanced Technology Education, TEFATE” was prepared, submitted,and funded by NSF for two years (1996-1998). The primary objectives of TEFATE were:developing a group of faculty who provide leadership in curriculum development in emergingtechnology fields and developing an understanding of the cross-disciplinary needs throughsuccessful team strategies. Activities to accomplish these objectives provided the participatingfaculty with experience in interdisciplinary team building, leadership, and active and cooperativelearning while exposing them to the latest technological practices in the industry. The

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Mathias J. Sutton; Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap

to provide practical relevance in theirrespective professions.An Instructional Design ApproachIs our assertion supported by concepts found in the literature? We believe it is. In modifying theexisting curriculum to include a distance-education delivery strategy, we utilized the analysisphase of Smith and Ragan’s 4 instructional design model (Fig 1) to determine the appropriatedelivery and management strategies for the new version of the M.S. in Technology. Deliverystrategy characteristics “deal with what instructional medium will be used and how learners willbe grouped” and management strategies “include the scheduling and allocation of resources toimplement the instruction that is organized and delivered as planned.” The

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Robert Gray; Robert Weissbach

strategic plan. Theinformation provided by a Satcom/GPS class will provide a student with the necessaryunderstanding to accomplish this goal.Senior ProjectsTwo projects, involving three EET students in an interdisciplinary setting with electricalengineering students, have been developed and industrially sponsored. They allow thestudents both design and hands-on experience. These projects are:A. Satellite communication system and GPS link margin effects, due to materials on top of the radome, and;B. A bit error rate (BER) test & evaluation of at least two different Satcom transceivers and antenna designs for fixed and mobile use.In the first project, the effect of materials such as coal, dirt, water and ice on the system willbe evaluated. An

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Mike L. Rioux; Bruce Segee

ofproducts. (a) (b) Figure 4: Sample Database Entries.OutcomeThe physical product of the Intelligent Production Cost Allocation System is a databasecontaining a wealth of information. This database, similar to the example shown inFigure 4b, associates every tool used in production with an operator, a station, and aspecific product. Using this database, queries can be run to enumerate the precise toolingcost for each product. With this information, a company can realize the true profit eachproduct brings forth. It is also possible, given the company’s projected production plan,to keep only the tools necessary for upcoming production runs in

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Laurence J. Logue

ExistingMechanismThe techniques described above can be used to add links to an existing mechanism to produce alinkage of any desired complexity. The designer should plan these additions in a way whichgives the maximum possible flexibility. For example, if additional ground points are needed itis very tempting to simply constrain them to have a fixed location. However, using dimensionsto constrain their location relative to a single fixed point gives the designer much moreflexibility to modify the design. The designer must exercise some care in applying constraints Page 5.591.5so that the system does not become over-constrained.5. Other types of jointsThe

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R. Mark Worden; Daina Briedis

Pert chart methods, and student teams were required to apply these methods in early project and Page 5.672.4 resource planning. Project management software was also made available to the students.♦ Communication skills. Course requirements included both oral presentations and written reports. Particular emphasis was placed on minimizing use of discipline-specific jargon and/or using terminology appropriate for ones’ audience. Teams were also required to write a project proposal early in the course. This required all team members to gain at least a minimal understanding of all multidisciplinary facets of their research projects. The

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

designs• Define clearly how your design will improve existing designs• Define clearly what part will be original and what part is based on existing material Outcome Task 4: First Project Proposal with key references 5 PLANNING THE PROJECT• Develop a timeline for the design• Identify milestones in the design and building of the circuit• List of tasks to be accomplished in a biweekly basis• Reassessment viability of project in 15 weeks. Reanalysis and changing goals if necessary Outcome Task 5: Time chart with proposed accomplishments 6 GLOBAL SYSTEM CONCEPT AND ANTICIPATION OF POSSIBLE PROBLEMS• Break into

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Craig Gunn

detailed account of your major activities to date (emphasis on the specific technical functions of your position.) b. Any additional responsibilities you anticipate before the completion of your co-op assignment. c. Your assignments and their relationship to your field of study. d. Your accomplishments that will make you a better engineer. III. Relationship to Career Goals and College Study a. Ways in which your career goals been reinforced or modified. b. Changes in your plans for future coursework. Page 5.711.3 c. Value of experience on potential career options. IV. Overall Evaluation

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Ralph Olliges; Swami Karunamoorthy

to revisit and emphasize certain concepts or theories that are poorly understood,by the students. Other auxiliary features of WebCT include Calendar tool, Progress Page 5.723.3Tracking, and Student Homepage.The "Calendar" tool allows students and instructors to see an entire month of schedule. Itserves as a daily planner and allows a student to plan ahead for course related events likehomework, test, quiz, and project. The "Progress Tracking" tool allows the instructors tosee how many bulletin board messages a student has viewed or posted. Also, instructorscan track when is the last time a student has logged into the course. In general, it servesas

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Eric A. Stueber; Chiang Lin; Susan M. Morgan

the project was identified as being suitable for a seniordesign project plus the software tools chosen were available through the campus.The web database is a powerful tool. It can be used in a variety ways. Based on the successfulexperience of this project, the Civil Engineering Department at SIUE has planned to add newfeatures and to set up similar web database sites for other lab-related courses.Bibliography1. Dwayne Gifford, et al., Access 97, Unleashed, Sams Publishing Company, 1997.2. Scot Johnson, Using Active Server Pages, Que Corporation, 1997.3. Leonid Braginski and Matthew Powell, Running Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Press, 1998.4. Eric Stueber, The LADI Technical Manual, The Civil Engineering Department

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Emin Yilmaz

on the project during last several years. Each time, different aspect of theproject was dealt. Project involved mechanical design for the frame, the drive system as well aselectronics design for instrumentation.Although we had some technical problems with the wheel-balancing machine, students likeddealing with and solving these technical difficulties.Next planned projects are: (a) incorporate automatic starting, stopping, and possibly positioning ofthe wheel, (b) replace the accelerometer system by force measurement system to improveaccuracy, (c) replace the computerized data acquisition system with an on-board micro controller,a digital signal processor, or a microcomputer. Last project will involve both Mechanical andElectrical/Electronics