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Amy Gowder; Narciso F. Macia

, as shown in Figure 1.Since the analogue represent an unconscious subject, it is normally connected to a ventilator todemonstrate its functioning characteristics.As the air enters into the analogue, it splits into two pathways (representing the first bifurcationpresent the trachea), and then passes through two capillary bundles, simulating airwayresistance. Notice that this allows modeling of asymmetrical resistances. The other sides of thecapillary bundles are connected to the U-tubes, filled with water halfway. Since it is thetendency of the U-tube manometer is to maintain the two water columns at the same level, itprovides a recoil effect that simulates respiratory system compliance. Figure 1: Schematic of U

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Donald N. Merino

ofengineering graduates who work for companies that hire engineers, who started their careers asengineers and who have supervised engineers. The survey asked the respondents to rank the selectedeconomics topics using a 1 - strongly disagree to 5 - strongly agree Likert scale.Even though a broad set of subjects was chosen, all subjects had above average scores of more than3.0/5.0, indicating that none of the major subjects were clearly eliminated. This result indicates thatengineers need to know a broad set of subjects to achieve economic literacy.Risk Analysis Fundamentals and Simulation Models were rated high, 4.0 and 3.7 respectively,although they are usually taught in more advanced engineering economics courses. The surveyaverages for more

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Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

of excellence. Examples of such centers might include a focus onintegrated manufacturing and industrial technologies.Employment ProjectionThe Greater Kansas City area is examined for local job growth. Previous data indicate that90.5% of all graduates found jobs in local area. The other 9.5% of graduates left Missouri foremployment.1It has been shown that the number of jobs for manufacturing in Kansas City Metropolitan areawould rise from its 1994 level of 106,874 to 1 14,108 in the year 2005. This rate is for bothdurable goods manufacturing and non-durable goods manufacturing. The durable goodsmanufacturing would rise from 50,706 in 1994, to 52,935 in 2005 with an increase of 2,229 jobsand a 4.40% growth rate. The non-durable goods

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

located in this area are NASA Marshall Space FlightCenter, the Army Aviation and Missile Command Center (AMCOM), Redstone ArsenalTesting Center, Boeing Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin Aerospace and manyothers associated with high-tech. endeavors. These industries and government agencies requirelarge numbers of highly trained engineers, both in the areas of manufacturing and propulsion.AAMU was granted the authority to offer two new engineering programs in August 1, 1995.The mechanical and electrical engineering programs became a part of a larger legaldesegregation law suit resolution in a civil case, (CV 83-M-1676). This situation provided andopportunity to develop two engineering programs from “a clean sheet of paper” perspective.Dr

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James C. Hermanson; David J. Olinger

Page 5.338.1are increasingly stressing integrated design problems in response to the current engineeringpractices in industry.There is some concern that the U.S. educational system is ill prepared to meet the challengesarising from these changes in engineering practice. For example, the overwhelming majority offormal student-faculty contact hours in engineering education remains based on the in-classlecture. The weaknesses of the traditional lecture as the prime source of academic learning, havehowever become clear.1-3 Specifically, many feel that the exclusive use of lectures can create apassive learning environment that reinforces any pre-existing “teach me” attitudes in students.4Ongoing research in educational methods at WPI5 has also

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Paul H. Zang; Judson Singer; Dale Eddy

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Kenneth M. Bryden; Donald R. Flugrad

required sophomore design course. The course providesengineering design experience that encompasses the full range of the design process includingconstruction of a working prototype of the final design. There are three major goals of thecourse:1) To give faculty an opportunity to interact with mechanical engineering students earlier in the curriculum.2) To prepare and motivate students to later take technical courses in mechanical engineering.3) To provide a bridge between the introductory design course of the freshman year and the capstone design course of the senior year.Additionally, several other ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 goals were identified as courseobjectives. These included introducing students to professional practice

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Donna J. Michalek

exam will be given. As mentioned earlier, there are threehour exams in my thermodynamics course, so the question was, which of the hour exams should Page 5.341.1be converted into a team exam. There were a number of factors which influenced my decisionthat it should be the second hour exam.Before giving serious consideration to implementing a team exam, I noticed that the performanceon the second exam in my thermodynamics classes was deteriorating relative to the other twohour exams. This is shown in Figure 1. The material that is covered on this exam consists ofdetermining the thermodynamic properties using one of a variety of methods

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T. Michael Keinath; Sara B. Soderstrom; Christian D. Lorenz; Trevor Harding

Implementing an Engineering Teaching Development Program for Graduate Student Instructors Sara Soderstrom1, Christian Lorenz1, Michael Keinath1 and Trevor Harding2 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI/2Kettering University, Flint, MIAbstractThe Engineering Teaching Development Project (ETDP), a pilot program started by the studentchapter of ASEE at the University of Michigan, is a multi-component program designed toimprove the long-term teaching skills of graduate student instructors (GSIs) in the College ofEngineering. The first component of the ETDP is college-wide pedagogical workshop series.These workshops are conducted by nationally recognized engineering educators invited by theASEE

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Duane L. Abata

overcome is that of traditional departmentalboundaries. As stated earlier, team teaching across departmental and college boundaries can bevery cumbersome. Blending these departments together into an effective interdisciplinaryteaching and research Center, recognized internally by the University Administration andexternally to industry, was a primary objective.Although still under development, the course sequence structure is shown in Figure 1. Mostcourses are interdisciplinary in some fashion although the degree of cross fertilization varies. On acautionary note, advanced study courses are quite involved and contain sufficient fundamentaltheory with the necessary mathematics to ensure that a quality advance-degree graduate isproduced. Other

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Willie Ofosu

264,895White 10,426,191 10,385,380 10,354,314Table 1. Population Estimates of Pennsylvania for the years 1996 – 1998. 1996 - 1997 1997 - 1998 st 1 12th % 1 st 12th % Grade Grade Drop Grade Grade DropAmerican-Indian 148 96 35 153 116 24Asian 2,440 2,195 10 2,463 2,179 11African-American 24,479 11,229 54 24,623

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Elaine L. Craft; James C. Wood

Persons, Tera-Byte, Vol. 1 No. 15. Austin, Elizabeth, Starting From Scratch, University Business, Oct. 1999 (Vol. 2, No. 8), pp. 37-41.6. Redish E., "Implication of Cognitive Studies for Teaching Physics." Am. J. Phy. 62(9), Sept. 1994.7. Felder, Richard," Matter of Style " ASEE Prism December 1996.8. Gardner, H., The Mind’s New Science: A History of Cognitive Revolution, Basic Books, New York 1987.9. James C. Wood, Engineering Technology Curriculum Integration in an Associate’s Degree Program, ASEE Annual Conference, 1997.10. James C. Wood, An Interdisciplinary Problem-based Engineering technology Freshman Curriculum, ASEE Annual Conference, 1998

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Tapas K. Das; Marco E. Sanjuan

improvement of a template that will help to solve problemsassociated to the topic. The increasing requirements from the first template take the studentsthrough a learning experience that emphasize the relationship between the preceding knowledgeand current topic. At the same time, they reinforce previously acquired knowledge and abilities.The typical architecture of the EXCEL template that students obtain at the end of the course ispresented in Figure 1. Sample Means Regression Size Comparison Analysis Calculation

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

Multi-Media Session 2793 IMPROVING THE ENGINEERING AND WRITING INTERFACE: AN ASSESSMENT OF A TEAM-TAUGHT INTEGRATED COURSERoberta Harvey1, Frances S. Johnson1, Heidi L. Newell2, Kevin Dahm2, Anthony J. Marchese2, Ravi P. Ramachandran2, John L. Schmalzel2, Carlos Sun2, and Paris von Lockette2 1. College of Communication, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 2. College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New JerseyAbstract This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation into second-yearengineering students’ attitudes towards writing. Our study assesses what effect, if any, thepresence of engineering

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Sharyn L. Switzer; Chris S Ray

technicalreport writing. Yet, employers still indicate that newly hired graduates have an extremelydifficult time preparing internal memorandums, business or technical letters, and reports.One of the major complaints from faculty members teaching these skills is the overwhelming andtime-consuming process of grading assignments. As a result, many faculty reduce the number ofrequired writing assignments to a minimum. Requiring students to prepare only three or fourwritten assignments during the semester may make grading easier, but the students’ writing skillsare adversely affected by this shortsightedness of quality versus quantity 1. This paper presentsone method of requiring students to write a significant number of documents while maintainingminimum

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Craig W. Somerton

mighthave on a football team. With these examples, the idea that without team members fulfillingindividual responsibilities the team may well fail is effectively communicated.Quite often students are confused about all this emphasis on teams, particularly the exceptionalstudents. They are provided with the following explanation concerning the growth of teams: The world has become sufficiently complicated that one individual can not have the knowledge needed to achieve the specified objectivesSince the lab exercise will involve a design and build project, a set of rules concerningbrainstorming is provided, shown in Figure 1, and discussed.Following this introduction, the class is broken into its lab teams and a team

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Jeffrey A. Jalkio

anddifferential equations. Thelaboratory exercise is conducted latein the semester, and several keytopics have been covered in thecourse before this exercise isattempted. These include themodeling of dynamic systems intime and frequency domains andspecifically the modeling of dcmotors. Students in the course havereceived some exposure to the useof Matlab and Simulink as tools for Figure 1. Controls Laboratory Bench Configurationsystem modeling and control systemdesign but have had little practiceusing these software packages before this exercise. They have studied differentspecifications of system performance such as settling time, percent overshoot, and steadystate error. Each laboratory station is equipped with a

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

. Induction is the more natural learning style in which the learners explore observationsand then infer the governing principles from them[1]. Children learn by observation, not byderiving outcomes by beginning with first principles. Once familiar with an outcome orphenomenon, a child’s natural curiosity will lead him or her to ask for an explanation. TheScientific method also begins with induction when a scientist formulates generalizations thatexplain experimental observations. Those generalizations can then be extended and applied toother situations to deduce outcomes or describe phenomena. The concepts of inductive learningand deductive learning are illustrated in Figure 1. Observations, Data

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Donna C.S. Summers

discipline and the link between thediscipline and the students’ activities upon graduation. This process orientation allowed us totake a more organized, customer-focused approach. We utilized a ten-step process fashionedafter the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle made famous by W. Edwards Deming. Following anestablished methodology enabled us to ensure the integrity and continuity of our improvementefforts.Step 1: Identify CustomersIdentifying the customers of the IET program was the foundation of the entire improvementeffort. Our customers include: students, graduates, those who hire our graduates, our industrialadvisory committee, professors, and administration.Step 2: Define the IssueImproving the material offered within a program’s curriculum is, by

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Melanie Basantis; Zenaida Otero Keil

component will play an even more important Page 5.95.2role in the curriculum and student and faculty development. As a result, the InternshipProgram continues to expand. It now develops and distributes relevant publications toassist students and industry. This includes the Rowan Engineering Resume Book. Thispublication contains all of the resumes of Rowan students and is made available to allparticipating companies. The success of the program is evident from the positive program evaluations bystudents and industrial participants. Table 1 lists the student participation by year ofstudy and Table 2 lists the student participation by discipline. The

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Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

and unfiltered. Several advantages of the use of this “live” data were that the student could: 1) relate this data to the sights, sounds, and smells from the plant tour 2) be inquisitive and examine the complete problem, and 3) think about the type, quantity, and accuracy of the data collected.The selection of a process to study was influenced by the availability of standard productionequipment whenever meaningful data can be retrieved through existing computers andautomatically sent to a site on the Internet (See Figure 1). The advances in digital computers andin Internet technology have made the transmission of data easier than originally anticipated.IV. Student Visibility into the ProblemNaturally, even the eloquent words

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Matthew A. Dettman

Contracting in the amount of $100,000 provided the necessary support tocreate CETAC. The primary functions of the Center from the university’s standpoint are 1) Toprovide support for faculty to engage in professional consulting activities involving students, 2)To gain access to the firms state of the art construction materials laboratory for instructionalpurposes, and 3) To provide release time to faculty to engage in scholarly activities inaccordance with the mission of the department. The primary functions of the Center from thefirms standpoint are 1) To gain access to the wealth of education and experience of theengineering faculty, 2) To expose the students to the firms specific area of expertise within theconstruction industry, and 3) As a

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Ray M. Haynes; Earl C Keller; Donald (Don) E. White; A Reza Pouraghabagher

acrossindustrial/academic sectors.The belief that ‘business and academia have a shared responsibility” and the call forcollaborative actions by the six CEOs of Fortune 100 firms [1] and responding academic leaders[2] represents one of several similar calls. They recommended six collaborative actions: (1)open a dialogue between academia and industry, (2) create joint formal relationships, (3) conductcollaborate joint seminars, (4) make industry experts available to academia, (5) establish amutually beneficial research agenda, and (6) open up the university curriculum for change. Inanother example, a high technology industry executive [3] called for universities to produce“industry ready” graduates, and emphasized that in the future, educational programs

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Robert Lynn Mueller

plant transfer function Gp(s) had to be easily isolated for open looptests, and the ability to close the loop had to also be included.Derivation of the CircuitThe basis for the simulator lies in the fact that differential equations can be solved/simulatedusing an analog computer. Using this fact, a circuit for simulating type 0 and type 1 systems canbe derived.For a type 0 system, Gp(s) = k/(s^2 + a s + b)Since Gp(s) represents the output Y(s) divided by the input R(s), Y(s)/R(s) = k/(s^2 + a s +b)or Y(s) (s^2 + a s +b) = k R(s)Taking the inverse Laplace transform, y’’(t) + a y’(t) + b y(t) = k r(t)or y’’(t) = k r(t) – a y’(t) – b y(t)This differential equation is simulated using the analog circuitry shown in

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Nghia T. Le

part. An infrared light source is modulated ata frequency of 4 kHz and placed in front of a detector. The signal detected by the phototransistoris then processed through a series of analog circuits. The circuit indicates when the infrared beamis blocked. The block diagram of the analog part of the project is shown in Figure 1 below. PASSIVE TRANSISTOR OSCILLATOR DC BIASING HIGHPASS AMPLIFIER DRIVER FILTER INFRARED PHOTO

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Hakan Gurocak

result in an evenly distributededucational quality across all sites since both the lectures and the laboratories will originate fromone location -- WSU Vancouver. In the first offering, there will be students in Vancouver, in Page 5.356.2Pullman and at a Boeing site in Seattle.Automation hardware will be brought into the WSU Vancouver WHETS classroom where thelectures will originate. Students at the receiving remote WHETS and BEN classrooms will beable to control this hardware over the Internet using computers (Figure 1). The interactive audioand video systems of the WHETS/BEN will allow them to clearly see and hear the equipment inaction as

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

majoroutcome of this initial project was the development of twenty-five work-based case studies that Page 5.357.1are interdisciplinary and apply team building, and active learning approach. These cases arecurrently being field-tested, modified, and are available for further testing and review at:http://www.nsti.tec.tn.us/SEATEC.II. The Next StepWith the success of the TEFATE approach to curriculum development, a follow-up three-yearproposal titled “The South East Advanced Technological Education Consortium, SEATEC” wassubmitted and is currently funded by NSF. The SEATEC goals are:1. To provide national leadership for the development and

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

equip their facilities with state of the arttechnologies available on the market. Other reason is the lack of trained faculty and staff whocan deliver these new technologies to others in a reasonable amount of time in the form ofteaching and training.To remedy the problems mentioned above institutions have started to look at options such asfostering university-industry cooperation in technology training through structured networking,university-personnel exchange, and joint training projects 2. Also, the federal ManufacturingExtension Partnership with university-based technology transfer initiatives has been fostered toassist small and medium-sized enterprises in modernizing production 1.This article looks at two examples. First, fostering

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Melvin J. Montgomery; Saleh M. Sbenaty

studies has beensomewhat limited in engineering and technology education, particularly in two-year technicalcolleges. The SEATEC grant is funded by NSF is for the purpose of promoting case studies as ateaching tool in engineering and technology education. To accomplish this, the followingSEATEC goals have been established:1. To provide national leadership for the development and implementation of case-based instruction in technology and engineering education.2. To provide opportunities for continuous and appropriate professional development of participating faculty.3. To assess the effectiveness of the case study approach in teaching technology-related curriculum.4. To nationally disseminate information related to SEATEC activities

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Ilya Grinberg; Jack Waintraub

advance planning; and where repairs areneeded.Since modern engineering systems are treated in systems categories, it is desirable to apply thesystems approach to the curriculum development and teaching methodology 1, 2. An integratedmodular approach is a powerful tool in providing concurrent learning, comprehensiveunderstanding of instructions presented, and a demonstration of the effectiveness of an inter-disciplinary approach.Our approach to curriculum development is consistent with systems concepts3. These conceptsare:• Functional Analysis• Requirements Or Criteria• Synthesis• Testing• Communication Page 5.359.1The first two concepts are