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a building platform allowssome mechanical design as well. Robotics also is inherently interesting to students. Manystudents often ask about the field, and a few of our students have gone on to do independentresearch projects in robotics.II. BackgroundThe use of LEGO robotics for educational purposes has become widespread. The first LEGOrobotics course was developed at MIT as a computer engineering design competition coursemodeled after a mechanical engineering design competition course1. Since then, courses usingLEGO robotics have been developed that range from high school courses exploring engineeringcareer options to graduate courses devoted to actual robotics design. A sampling of such coursesinclude: Toying with Technology at Iowa

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William E Maddox; Theodore D. Thiede; Stephen H. Cobb; Scott R Hickman; John Crofton

provided by physics. The intent is to provide program alumni with the flexibility to adapt to tomorrow’s demands for modern, interdisciplinary careers in a rapidly changing technological society. Murray State’s Area in Engineering Physics curriculum is an alternative to the typical major-minor combination. Students study fundamental concepts from mechanical and electrical engineering along with topics in advanced physics, advanced mathematics, and computer science. The typical four-year program for well-prepared students is included below. Page 5.195.1 Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering Physics

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

Session 2266 Synthesis of Engineering Best Practices and ABET AC2K into a New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, Amir Mobasher, Abdul Jalloh Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL 35762 Phone: (256) 851-5890. E-Mail: rojaso@asnaam.aamu.edu; aamzxd01@asnaam.aamu.edu; amobasher@aamu.edu; ajalloh@aamu.eduAbstractAggressive competition for global technological markets is driven by engineeringbreakthroughs in

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Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

Session 3575 New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium A/Prof. Rick Homkes, A/Prof. Carlos R. Morales, Mr. Kenneth E. Rowe, A/Prof. Mark L. Smith Purdue UniversityAbstractThree new faculty members team up to relate their experiences moving from industry toacademia. Major topics include teaching, laboratory development, service, publishing, and thebalancing of time among these areas. The teaching area includes incorporating industrialexperiences into classroom preparation and making the transition from industrial presentationsto academic teaching

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project addresses a technology or environmental problemrelated to the course’s emphasis. Each research project results in a report, a verbal presentationand another web page placed on the course’s web site. Previous research topics have spannednumerous and varied topic areas, including bioremediation, dredging technologies, coralreefs/reef restoration and oil spill cleanup technology. Students generally learn a great dealabout a topic that interests them, and frequently comment that they were able to betterappreciate many of the principles and issues covered within the course through their researchproject.3.2 Ocean Environmental Engineering IIThis course provides the student with a basic understanding of the environmental, economic

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way of engineering application.Inherent to many of these applications has been the harvesting of natural resources and thesubsequent discharge of by-products back to the environment. This cycling of natural resourcesresulted in the need for technology that would sustain the resources upon which society depends.The science of ecology has branched off from biology and is now an established field of its ownwith the ecosystem as its basic functional unit. While the physical, chemical and biologicalsciences have found their place in engineering design, ecology has yet to be embraced in such amanner.One basic principle of ecosystem function is their ability to self-design. With a myriad of bioticand abiotic compartments, nutrient and energy flows

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William Shepherd; Brian Manhire; Darwin Liang

Session 3460 Changes in Engineering Education in the United Kingdom Darwin Liang*, William Shepherd**, Brian Manhire** *University of Bradford, UK / **Ohio University, USAAbstractThis paper provides an overview of the current status of engineering education in the UnitedKingdom. A comparison of traditional undergraduate and post-graduate engineering pro-grammes offered by universities and technical polytechnics against proposed engineering &technology programs is highlighted in view of recent changes. In addition, current issues in-cluding student enrolment and graduates’ professional development are

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explicit directive to UK, MuSU, andPCC to cooperate in developing two new undergraduate engineering programs, one in chemical andone in mechanical engineering. This paper will concentrate on the mechanical engineering program. Inlate winter of 1996, the dean of the UK College of Engineering, the dean of the MuSU College ofIndustry and Technology (who is also the MuSU director of the Engineering Institute) and thepresident of Paducah Community College, jointly assembled a team of approximately 20 faculty andstaff to develop these two new baccalaureate programs. This group included a representative from theCHE and an ABET-knowledgeable EAC member, the latter to provide advice regarding programdevelopment and accreditation. Some of the pertinent

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engineering building was constructed on thecommunity college campus at a cost of $8.3M (locally generated dollars). The programs wereofficially started up in the summer of 1997 with 5 students (1 CME and 4 ME students).II. Program DescriptionThe Kentucky Council on Higher Education Resolution included an explicit directive to UK,MSU, and PCC to cooperate in developing two new undergraduate engineering programs, one inchemical and one in mechanical engineering. In 1996, the Dean of the UK College ofEngineering, the Dean of the MSU College of Industry and Technology, and the PCC Presidentjointly assembled a team of approximately 20 faculty and staff to develop these two newbaccalaureate programs. This group included a representative from the Kentucky

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Air Force Academy (USAFA) faces the samechallenges despite its uniqueness as a military institution. The mission of the Academy is to"inspire and develop outstanding young men and women to become Air Force officers." ManyUSAFA “grads” will enter scientific and engineering career fields after commissioning. Theywill be assigned to laboratories, system program offices, test agencies, and operational air andspace units. The nature of the technology-driven Air Force requires that these new officers beable to understand the key concepts and issues to allow them to resolve ill-defined technicalproblems. “Capstone” design courses in the engineering curriculum at the Academy allowsenior-level cadets to hone their skills at attacking such problems.A

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Robert K. Christianson; Jeffrey F. McCauley; Denny Davis; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili

othereducators.IntroductionThe adoption of Engineering Criteria 2000 for use in accreditation decisions by the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has heightened engineering educators’ interestin assessment of student learning outcomes. A cursory review of the eleven required capabilitiesof graduates listed in Criterion 3 of these criteria1 reveals that design is an important componentof engineering degree programs. Students must be able to perform design and many relatedaspects of open-ended team-based problem solving, and educators must assess and documentstudents’ achievement2. Once student achievement of design has been assessed, this informationis useful for feedback to both students and faculty to improve student learning of design. Overtime

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virtual engineering space. Leading experts have calledfor the immediate reform of engineering curricula in light of the technology and informationexplosion that has occurred during the last decade(14,15,16,17). Distance learning, if done correctly,can serve as the catalyst in the evolving process of engineering education reform.Terms and definitions are important aspects of this paper. “Distance learning”, for example, has Page 5.273.2inherited various interpretations among educators and researchers. Distance Learning orDistance Education first appeared in print in 1892, and was popularized by the definitionprovided by Garrison and Shale 1987

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(opportunity for interaction; emotional,intellectual support). Based on these studies then, positive cognitive and attitude development isexpected of students involved in service-learning. Page 5.543.2Why service-learning in engineering?In its Criteria 2000, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) outlines anew set of criteria for engineering programs8. In addition to the more traditional technical issues,the new criteria include the demonstration that graduates have:• an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,• an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility,• an ability to communicate effectively,• a

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increasecompetitiveness. Benchmarking is nowadays applied to both products, parts, services, aswell as to personnel. Establishing where a company is and where they need to be to staycompetitive can be considered a “technological gap.” By working with industry,professional engineering societies have documented perceived competency gaps in newlyhired graduates. It has been recommended to include the product realization process intothe engineering curriculum, as well as, to incorporate “best practices” as a means to developnew knowledge, skills and attributes that industry seeks in new engineering graduates.As engineering programs face increasing demands to alleviate the perceived technologicalgaps, the solutions have to be addressed in multi-year efforts. To

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answer is educators must strive to prepare engineers to work anytime, anyplace andanywhere. As a long time participant in the activities of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET), I believe ABET can provide guidance in reaching this goal. ABETdoes not and should not dictate the content of universities’ programs. But our policies andphilosophies furthering international cooperation and our new engineering accreditation criteria,Engineering Criteria 2000, can assist institutions as they plan strategies for the internationalarena.ABET currently has several policies aimed directly at the international community. When asked,we evaluate programs outside the United States, recognizing those that are comparable in contentand

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Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

, have been available for more than a century,biomedical optics has developed into a field of its own only in recent years, significantly spurredon by the development of lasers and optical fibers. Medicine was one of the first majorapplications of lasers, and today there is probably no field of medicine or biology which doesnot employ optics and lasers in some form. Biomedical optics is now an important and growingfield of biomedical engineering. In the past 4 years, the creation of 2 dedicated peer-reviewedjournals (Journal of Biomedical Optics, Applied Optics - Optical Technology and BiomedicalOptics) in the US alone, attest to this. The growing market represented by the biomedical opticsindustry is also evidenced by the creation of new

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

. Under this program, undergraduate studentsin engineering earn academic credit for long-term team projects that solve technology-basedproblems for local community service organizations. The program currently has 20 project teamswith approximately 250 students participating during the 1999 academic year.Each EPICS project team consists of ten to fifteen students and is paired with a local communityservice organization that functions as its customer. Each team has a faculty or industrial adviser.The teams are interdisciplinary including students from Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Civil,Aerospace, Industrial and Materials Engineering as well as from Computer Science, Chemistry,Sociology, Nursing, Visual Design, English and Education. The teams

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instructors to utilize state-of-the-art research facilities, tools and personnel to enrich the classroom learningexperience. The authors describe how their department’s undergraduatemechanical engineering curriculum is gradually being shaped to provide studentswith the necessary tools and information to understand, deploy and develop thematerials of the new millennium.Introduction“Advanced materials are the building blocks of technology”1. Engineers of the nextmillennium, need to be aware that advances in design are starting to be limited bythe performance of traditional materials. The development of advanced materialshas been the enabler of never-before imagined performance. Electronicsemiconductor-based circuits have been made much faster by

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ecological processes throughout history. We havealtered many aspects of nature. Some believe, or even insist, that nature will restoreitself, if we stop intervening with its processes (List, 1993). Without commonly heldphilosophy and belief systems, society must use various governmental problem solvingmechanisms for consensus development. Values are not necessarily right or wrong.Achieving a consensus requires identifying and balancing values of the group. The growing environmental and societal concern about engineered productscreates a compelling need to consider these factors in the design phase. Direct andindirect impacts of modern technology on environment and human society and qualityof natural resources likewise creates compelling need

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Yong Y. Kim; Rakesh K. Kapania; Kamal B. Rojiani

solve standard engineering problems and illustrate fundamentalengineering concepts and phenomena. Such programs range for simple routines written in aprogramming language to full multimedia packages.The advance of technology in the form of the relatively new Java programming language and theWorld Wide Web offers real opportunities for enhancing the quality of engineering education. TheWorld Wide Web is a popular vehicle for publicizing information in text or graphical form overthe Internet. It recent years it has also become a valuable resource and tool for educators. Itsstrength and popularity arise from the fact that it provides access to information that is time and

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Solving and AppliedMatrix Theory. Many of the problems for the course are selected from freshman and sophomore Page 5.454.6engineering texts. Figure 3, above, is an example of a typical circuits problem given to MEMSSummer Bridge students at the end of the Applied Matrix Section of the course.UNM faculty and professional engineers from industry teach the hands-on workshops. Everyyear since Summer 1994, Dr. Kenneth Kraft from Lucent Technologies, gives a one-weekworkshop in which students study, design and put together a radio. Dr. Gerstle, faculty in theDepartment of Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico, teaches

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Ryan S. Magargle; Rami W. Zarrouk; Maurice F Aburdene

Session 2793 Interactive Tutorial for an Introductory Electrical Engineering Course Maurice F. Aburdene, Rami W. Zarrouk, Ryan S. Magargle Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a tutorial and diagnostic tool called, "What You Already Know." The objective of this tutorial isto prepare students for their first electrical engineering course, and it is designed to diagnose what the studentsalready know and aid them in understanding some basic concepts through hands-on experience. The tutorial iscomputer-based

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Programs; Gary Community SchoolCorporation; Indiana Space Grant Consortium; Ipsat-Inland Steel, Inc.; LTV Steel; LucentTechnologies; National Science Foundation; Northern Indiana Public Service Company;Northwest Indiana Business Roundtable; Powers and Sons Construction Company, Inc.; PurdueUniversity Calumet; Rhodia, Inc.; Safety-Kleen Oil Recovery Co.; School City of East Chicago;Superior Engineering Corporation; Twin City Education Foundation; United States Steel GaryWorks; and WMX Technologies, Inc.Bibliography1. Indiana Dept. of Education Website, 1998. URL: http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us. Page 5.49.112. Graymark International, Inc., P.O. Box 2015

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Scott White; Kirsten Lowrey; George M. Bodner; Dawn Del Carlo; Ala Samarapungavan; William C. Oakes

-year’s effort was therefore devoted to a self study.SignificanceThe significance of this study revolves around five issues.• This study provides an example of the difference between the research paradigms known as phenomenology and phenomenography.• It provides an example of how research methodologies developed for use in science education can be adapted for institutional research that provides a basis for the self-study required by accrediting agencies such as NCA (The North Central Association Commission on Institutions of Higher Education) and ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology).• It provides an example of cross-discipline curriculum reform efforts that involve not only

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Katherine A. Liapi

Session #1617 Geometric Conceptualization In the Architectural Engineering Curriculum Katherine A. Liapi The University of Texas at AustinAbstractGeometric conceptualization has always been among the essential mental tools requiredfor the invention and modeling of spatial structures, as well as for the structural, spatialand dimensional coordination in buildings. The downplayed role of geometry in mostarchitectural engineering curricula may be responsible for engineering students’ lowperformance in geometric conceptualization and visualization. This paper presents

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

Session 2557 Interdisciplinary Teams? An Industrial Engineering/Physical Therapy Project Dennis E. Kroll1, Ph.D., Andrew J. Strubhar2 1 Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering & Technology 2 Physical Therapy Bradley University Peoria, IllinoisAbstractAt the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, we reported on a newly developed project combining 4thsemester Industrial Engineering students and 8th semester Physical Therapy(PT) students.[3]This project required them to

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without a real design and testing inthe lab. Excitement and anticipation could always be noticed on the day of testing. Loadingprojects to failure or crushing concrete specimens was always the highlight of any event. Itdrew the loudest cheer, and one could feel the emotional attachment between the teams andtheir projects. Almost all the students who did these projects in the past few years felt that thegrading criteria was fair. These projects are regularly reviewed and upgraded to incorporatenew rules related to the latest methods of design and testing.Bibliography1. “Engineering Criteria 2000, Third Edition,” Engineering Accreditation Commission of The Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology, December 1997ASHRAF M. GHALY

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; • Student-teacher interaction is reduced in an off-campus program, but can be maximized through effective use of the Internet and electronic mail; • Instructors must plan to allocate additional time and effort for planning and preparing courses, as well as for commuting to the classroom location. Page 5.582.6Bibliography1. Lewis, V.W. Jr. (1997). “Expectations of On-Campus and Remote Students in a Course in Civil Engineering Technology.” Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education, Milwaukee, WI, June 15-18.2. Lowman, J. (1995). Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. Jossey-Bass

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Multimedia Model for Undergraduate Education,” Technology in Society, 18(3), 387-401 (1996).4. Maby, E.W., Carlson, A.B., Connor, K.A., Jennings, W.C., and Schoch, P.M., “A Studio Format for Innovative Pedagogy in Circuits and Electronics,” IEEE:Frontiers in Education Conference , Pittsburgh (1997).5. Smith, R.N. and Tichy, J.A., “Mechanical Engineering Within University-Wide Curriculum Reform,” Proc. ASEE Zone I Conference, West Point NY (1996).6. Jensen, M.K, R.N. Smith, D.A. Kaminski, and A. Hirsa, “Towards an integrated thermal/fluids engineering curriculum,” Proc. ASME Heat Transfer Division—1998 Vol. 3, HTD-Vol. 361-3, R.A. Nelson, et al. (Editors), 9-16 (1998).7. Woods, D., “Let Problems Drive the Learning

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Lloyd Barrett; Edward Young; David E. Klett; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

actual mechanical structure and operation associated with the system fromthe lecture topic.Bibliography1. Haney, P. and Braun, J., Inside Racing Technology - Discussions of Racing Technical Topics, TV Motorsports,(1995)2. Smith, C., Tune to Win, Aero Publishers, Fallbrook, CA, (1978)3. Puhn, F., How to Make Your Car Handle, HPBooks, Los Angeles, CA, (1981)4. Milliken, W. & Milliken, D., Race Car Vehicle Dynamics, SAE International, Warrendale, PA, (1995)DAVID KLETTDavid E. Klett is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro,NC. He also serves as Undergraduate Coordinator for the Department and faculty advisor to the student SAEchapter and the A&T ICAR race team. His research activities