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Diane Saphire; J. Paul Giolma

engineering degree at Trinity.The CIRP SurveyThe Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) was established in 1966 at the AmericanCouncil on Education to study the American higher education system. One of the projects of theCIRP is an annual nationwide freshman survey, conducted by the Higher Education ResearchInstitute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The survey gathers information from newcollege students about their academic and family backgrounds, interests, college and careergoals, and attitudes. Institutions participating in the freshman survey receive summary data on Page 5.681.1their own new students as well as comparative

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Stephen M. Batill

moreable to use them as part of the engineering decision making process associated with design. Careshould be taken to achieve a balance between instruction in the development of new analysistools and the use of those tools in engineering decision making.By encouraging students to approach open-ended design projects using the framework of anengineering trade study presented herein, instructors will have the ability to discuss theformulation of the problem as well as its solution. If students can effectively distinguish betweendesign and behavioral variables, identify constraints and establish merit, they will be more ableto achieve feasible solutions to this type of design problems.To achieve this end, engineering trade studies have been included

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Hakan Gurocak

to the slowness of video transmission over theInternet. The delivery of live video over the Internet is not a mature, reliable technology yet. Asa result, the ability to interact with the hardware becomes very limited due to the lack of visualfeedback while the ability to interact with the instructor and other students during a session is atbest unsatisfactory. This is a major progress-limiting step in distance delivery of laboratorycourses and it diminishes the learning experience. Therefore, in this project the audio/videoconnection will be accomplished over the existing WHETS/BEN system. This system is notunique to WSU. It is available at many K-20 sites and community colleges in the state ofWashington. It is also available at many other

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Ronald C. Matusiak; D. Steven Barker

Session 3649 A Technology Approach to Magnetic Levitation Steven Barker, Ron Matusiak Buffalo State CollegeAbstractA magnetic levitation (maglev) project is described with two major goals in mind: (1) to describethe maglev design process using an engineering-technology approach, and (2) to compare theengineering-technology and engineering-design approaches. These descriptions are intended toyield working maglev systems which can be built by engineering technology students whilesimultaneously encouraging interest in the more abstract approaches to classical feedback

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Marty Bowe; John Feland; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 17-28, Jan., 1997.11. Evans, D. L., McNeill, B. W., Beakley, G. C., “Design in Engineering Education: Past Views of Future Directions,” Engineering Education, pp. 517-522, July/Aug., 1990.12. Harris, T. A., Jacobs, H. R., “On Effective Methods to Teach Mechanical Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 343-349, Oct., 1995.13. Incropera, F. P., Fox, R. W., “Revising a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum: The Implementation Process,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 233-238, Jul., 1996.14. Jensen, D. D., “Using MSC-PATRAN for Pre and Post Processing for Specialized FEM Codes which are not in the

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great use on this venture.” (MechanicalEngineering/Economics)“The classes that helped me out the most were Engineering Statistics and my previousmathematics classes. I used a lot of different formulas to aid in calculations for variousprojects. I learned how the things in the classroom apply in the real world and although Ididn’t use everything, I was able to better understand the concepts taught in theclassroom.” (Mechanical Engineering/Economics)“[The] project . . . enabled me to see the interdisciplinary requirements of such a project:from Chemical engineering to electrical engineering to computer engineering to computerscience. (I credit this appreciation to the extensive application of the teamwork orientedenvironment in the IFYCSEM

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Julie E. Sharp

formatting withspacing, numbering, and capitalization. The first line specifies the contents, section headingsidentify section contents, item headings provide a quick overview, capitalization emphasizes, andnumbering and spacing between items increase readability. This format works even for longmessages. Although spacing between items requires more scrolling, students requested it foreasier reading. Subject: Project Length CHANGE and Project/Last Day Reminders Hello, Everyone, Here are reminders for the final project and for the last class, including a PROJECT LENGTH CHANGE: FOR THE PROJECT 1. LENGTH CHANGE: Focus on STRENGTH, NOT LENGTH of the paper. Don’t include fluff just to get a certain length. Focus on your message. To encourage

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Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

Implantation in Semiconductors2. MAT-760, Materials Science and 4. MAT-792, Advanced Materials and Processing of Semiconductors Smart StructuresResearch Experience for Undergraduate Students (REUs)One of the strongest educational experiences an undergraduate can be offered isinvolvement in front-line research and this is most fruitful method in directingthem into successful graduate study. In our summer undergraduate researchprogram, qualified undergraduate students are being paired with graduate studentsto receive training in one of the thrust areas. This REU program is creating anatmosphere that can lead them to graduate studies in advanced materials andsmart structures. The research projects are selected to provide a larger

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Colter S. Reed; Donald A. Smith

specified, thissituation is appropriate for a Case 4 design with a minimum rate requirement to minimize thealternating component of stress. The input parameters yield several designs and the students canthen opt for either maximum factor of safety or a minimum cost designs. Thus, the students haveto make decisions appropriate to a realistic design situation, but they are not unduly tasked withcalculations. A requirement of the assignment was to verify the computer-generated design byan analysis of the final spring.IV. FAQ Page 5.447.5With the background and details of the ESDC above, it is appropriate to address the rationale forthis project. Several

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Douglas M. Mattox; David D. Mattox

scheme incentivizes the learning of engineering economics foruse as an embedded tool in the preparation of financial statements. Projects are usuallyworked in teams of four and become differentiated as the teams compete for the best marketideas, volume targets, marketing strategies and manpower decisions. After their plans areintegrated into multi-layer financial spreadsheets, the teams perform IRR-sensitivity analysesof the underlying assumptions to determine the best ways of operating the business or to alterunsound assumptions. For the most IRR-sensitive parameters, students must define theengineering implications of the dependency . The aim is to create a mindset that seesengineering practice in the context of its economic justification

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from an ‘answer-giver’ alone to a problem-architect” (Kulackiand Vlachos, 1995), and “the laws of politics are replacing the laws of nature as the principalfactor establishing the feasibility of many engineering projects” (Augustine, 1996). “In the average engineering project, the first 10 percent of the decisions made effectively commit between 80 and 90 percent of all the resources that subsequently flow into that project. Unfortunately, most engineers are ill- equipped to participate in these important initial decisions because they are not purely technical decisions. Although they have important technical dimensions, they also involve economics, ethics, politics, appreciation of international

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necessary) using an internal56kbps modem. This computer should run the same operating software as the host controllerto ensure complete compatibility. Microsoft’s Netmeeting completes the suite. In order toensure maximum visualisation of the processes being presented, a data projector in adesirable extra to project the image displayed on the computer monitor onto a screenviewable by an extended group of students. c. Opening the Communication ChannelsThe Interfacing computer is used to make a telephone call to the Host computer. As the Hostcomputer has been configured as a dial-up server, it can answer this incoming call andauthenticate the link between the two machines. The only protocol that is implemented isTCP/IP, the standard Internet

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Dick D. Desautel

Loop BS Each Course: Course Program Learning Objectives Journal CAM & PAM Survey? Focus Group Outcome Junior Surveys Notebooks Graduating Senior Survey Seniors Capstone Course Senior Project Exit Test? Alumni

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Gerard N. Foster

were read in prior years, but the most helpful ones, the ones cited in thebibliography, were more current and more advanced. At the initiation of this project, May 1999,Java was in version 1.2, which became known as Java 2. In this version, the library ofcomponents was expanded into what is called Swing components. Classes in this group havenew names. The class Button becomes JButton and so forth, although old classes and names aremaintained. Wishing to keep current, the author selected to learn Java 2. Another decision wasto learn the raw language and not use a Java editor. The author does not regret these decisions.However, the learning curve is steep especially if one does not know the basics of object-oriented programming.In some ways

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Donald N. Merino

”; Computerworld; Framingham; May 19, 1997.4. Hicks, Capt. Philip C. “What Are We Teaching Our Engineering Managers”; Capstone Project for MEM; 1998; pp. 331-340.5. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Educating Engineering Managers for the Future”; 1983 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings; pp. 794-798.6. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Engineering Management Education And Research”; 1984 IEEE; pp.341-342.7. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “The Emergence of Engineering Management Discipline”; 1986 ASEE Conference Proceedings; pp. 240-247.8. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Education for Leadership in Management of Engineering and Technology”; 1992 IEEE; pp. 78-83.9. Maglitta, Joseph. “Top 25 Techno MBA”; Computerworld; Framingham; Dec 4, 1995.10. Nystrom

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Ted D. Loso; Raj Desai; Michael E. Courbat

are, respectively, student evaluation, juried journal articles, bookspublished, peer evaluations and recipient of grants 6. The nearest category to the adoption ofinformation technology is a item called technology based projects. It placed dead last in a list of21 items evaluated.Clearly the question being asked shouldn’t be when this new technology will be adopted butwhy do you expect the faculty to adopt it at all? Any realistic analysis of the efforts required toutilize the world wide web in a university level course reveals it to be very time intensive.Activities including web page design, web document design, document conversion into HTMLformat, and file transfer times are all very time consuming 3,4,5. Without even anacknowledgment of

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pertainingto the componentvirtual double v() must be overridden by each derived component class to calculate the voltagefor the componentvirtual double i() must be overridden by each derived component class to calculate the currentfor the component.The above code illustrates the use of base class pointers to manipulate derived class objects.Note that a new type of component may be defined and the code for solving the circuit,represented by the two while loops associated with the reverse and forward trace, does not needto be changed. This is illustrated in the next section. Figure 4: Class Inheritance Diagram for Project Component Voltage

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S. Hiranniah; N. W. Scott; B. J. Stone; M. A. Mannan

level 2 page defining phase angle. There is no need to access thispage from the top level (the recommended path) unless the definition is required. If afterexamining the page the definition is not clear there is a link to an animation program that shouldclarify matters. A static screen-shot from this program is shown in Figure 10. Again thebenefits of animation can only be appreciated by running the program.With so much to be gained from illustrating vibration by means of animations it is surprisingthat apparently there are very few examples on the WWW. This may be the result of a lack ofJava skills. Scott and Stone [7 - in these proceedings] have developed various Java shells forthe work described in this project and a detailed description of

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Osama Ettouney; James Stenger; Karen E. Schmahl; James Moller; Christine Noble

work from courses in the sequence and shows how the integrateddesign thread is implemented.3. Pre-Post Learning of Engineering Design - Design reports generated in the freshman course,Introduction to Engineering Design, are used as a pre-learning vehicle for determining first-yearstudents' understanding of the professional ways of knowing, reasoning, and problem solving.The design reports of first-year students are collected, evaluated and compared to the students’work in their capstone projects during the senior year. Results provide information about valueadded during the students’ time at Miami.Customer FeedbackThese methods solicit our customers’ feedback. Our primary customers are considered to beindustry, employers of students, and

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

part of a larger research project, in which we are evaluating theinformation obtained when multiple methods are used on a cohort of industrial engineeringstudents who are being tracked from the beginning of their sophomore year until graduation.Overall, we are investigating four different methods for measuring outcomes: questionnaires, Page 5.674.1multi-source feedback, concept maps, and intellectual development. The purpose of the studydiscussed here is two-fold: 1) to triangulate and verify two or more different methods formeasuring outcomes in order to determine the extent that these methods yield consistent,corroborative results, and 2) to

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

powerpoint presentations on self-directed projects is incorporated into the computer web-based instructional multimedia tools thatstudents can access from any remote computer and on a 24 hour basis. By using student basegroups, video tapes, demonstration kits, interactive computer-based instructional modules,lecture notes, homework problems, case studies, and learning in different contexts and off-campus environments, we hope to dramatically improve teaching effectiveness at ISU. We feelquite strongly that this pedagogical development will have a substantial impact on teaching in thematerial sciences and chemical engineering at ISU, making the learning process easier for thestudents.Significance of Web-based Teaching At Iowa State University

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Christine D. Noble; Beth M. Myers; Karen E. Schmahl

interest compounded monthly for three years? Financial A financial problem set in an engineering A project will cost $5000, the benefits applications in situation, but without an engineering decision- at the end of the first year are estimated engineering making process. The problem would have the to be $100, increasing at a 10% settings same financial solution if the situation were uniform rate in subsequent years. switched from an engineering application to a Compute the benefit-cost ratio using as different context. eight-year analysis period

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Serpil Guvench; Mike Denton; Mark Rollins; Mustafa Guvench

forcing terminal voltage and an ammeter that measures thecurrent drawn by a device connected as a load at the SMU’s terminals, or (2) as a current source forcing theterminal current and a voltmeter combined with it that measures the voltage developed across the deviceconnected at its terminals. If the SMU’s source is stepped by a controller computer a single SMU will besufficient to get a full I-V curve of a two terminal device, such as a PN junction diode. Multiple SMU’s can beemployed to get I-V characteristics of multi-terminal devices such as BJT’s and FET’s, and even logic gates andoperational amplifiers. The purpose of this project was, while synchronizing multiple SMU’s to measure multi-terminal devices, also to be able to vary the

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Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

Services Unit. Furthermore a realisation that simply passing oncontent knowledge to satisfy surface learning had become an inadequate teaching practice.This commonly held teacher centred approach of imparting information as a one way processindicated an ignorance of students’ individual learning styles. In this way lectures andtutorials did not address the learning needs of most students as the humanistic approach usedin most Australian secondary and primary schools. However once the belief that studentspossess individual learning styles and that learning occurs through the connection ofinformation rather than simply storing facts for regurgitation for projects and exams had beenestablished, a volition to seek assistance and consequently the

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Carlos Monsanto; Elaine M. Cooney

all, of the versionsdiscussed will be superseded.) This comparison uses the student or demonstration versionswhich are available for each of these packages.Although many criteria may be used to evaluate software, the focus of this project is finding theright software package for undergraduate use. Criteria include: availability of documentation;overall ease of use; ease of schematic entry, including ability to customize display; amount andrelevancy of devices available; ability to edit and create devices; total size of circuitry allowed;simulation capabilities; and ability to simulate a variety of circuits accurately.To perform this comparison, the same circuit schematics were entered into each of the packagesand simulated. A variety of

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Bob Lahidji

. Mathematics 1 2 3 4 52. Applied & Engineering Sciences 1 2 3 4 53. Product/Process Design & Development 1 2 3 4 54. Production Systems and Equipment Design 1 2 3 4 55. Automated Systems & Control 1 2 3 4 56. Quality 1 2 3 4 57. Project Management/Concurrent Engineering 1 2 3 4 5 Page 5.155.5

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John W. Pierre; Badrul H. Chowdhury; Jerry Hamann; Raymond Jacquot

Session 2520 Computer Exercises to Incorporate Energy Concepts into the Electrical Engineering Curriculum R. G. Jacquot, J. W. Pierre, and J. C. Hamann/B. H. Chowdhury University of Wyoming/ University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe authors report on a sponsored project to incorporate power concepts into non-power courses.Reported here are efforts to build computer exercises to accomplish a portion of this task.1. IntroductionIn 1997 the National Science Foundation funded university programs to enhance electric powereducation in the United States in light of a perceived shortage of competent

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suggest that thiscurriculum be used by the teacher in conjunction with a disciplinary text, or a reader ofenvironmental writings depending on the teacher’s course objectives. What our text does is toprovide teachers with materials that can be used in class to achieve a participatory, project-basedfocus that we feel enhance the instruction of environmental literacy.Target Audience: The potential audience for this text is large and varied. As stated in theintroduction, the curriculum in this text is designed to help the citizen gain a workingunderstanding of environmentally responsible decision making on several levels. The citizenmay be a student of engineering who needs to understand the impact that engineering decisionscan have on the

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Geoffrey A. Wood

improve one's chances of success.This paper will present ways in which faculty can set realistic project goals with an emphasis onkeeping expectations reasonable and quality high. A review of various software and hardwareproducts will be included along with practical advice on their use and compatibility with othersystems. The role of multimedia at State Technical Institute in Memphis, TN and its use in thesupport of Engineering Technology curriculum will be examined in detail.II. Multimedia basicsThe term “multimedia” has not only entered the English language but is thoroughly entrenchedin everyday conversation. Vast resources and manpower have been devoted to the discussion ofmultimedia—and this paper is no exception. Try an Internet search for

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Pamela L. Eddy; David A. Pape

Institute of Technology10 also uses assignment of grades byprofessors as one of their outcomes assessment tools. If a student is assessed in thecontext of a course, the instructor has a large number of graded assignments includingtests, homework, and projects upon which to base the summative assessment. Thus eachinstrument does not have to stand the same rigorous tests of validity and reliability aswould instruments in a single measure environment11.These assessments are based on a linkage between the program level and the course levelthat is usually established through the coupling of the course objectives to variousprogram outcomes. Tacitly implied is the assumption that a student has achieved thecourse objectives simply by completing a course