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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

”, their design can be downloaded to the C31 DSKkit by clicking the “Load/Run DSK” button on the GUI, which will give them the real-timerealization of the filter algorithm. It is achieved by activating a 32-bit dynamic link library (DLL)written with Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and the MATLAB MEX file process to run underwindow 9x or windows NT. The program is freely available on the web sitehttp://wseweb.ew.unsa.edu/ee/LINK/EE.Links.htm, and communicates with the DSK kit andeliminates the need for tedious programming of the DSK. This experiment was introduced at thesenior level courses. Page 5.410.4The following additional experiments are planned

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Peter Wild; Brian Surgenor; Aaron Dellah

components for eachapparatus (including the microprocessor and the ultrasonic sensor) is approximately $US150.Two pieces of apparatus have been constructed to date with plans to double the number.The microprocessor is a Basic Stamp 2 that runs programs written in PBASIC. This is aprogramming language developed by Parallax Inc and is a hybrid of BASIC. The Stamp hassixteen fully programmable I/O pins that can be directly interfaced with TTL-level devices suchas LEDs, manual switches, potentiometers and A/D converters. Programming is performed off-line on a PC connected to the Stamp by a serial cable.The Basic Stamp is a relatively inexpensive device with a wide range of applications reported.For example, the Stamp is used in an “Introduction to

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Ralph Dusseau; Carlos C. Sun; Kauser Jahan

. Page 5.479.4 4Topography of the corridor is performed by conventional survey methods with a Leica TotalStation utilizing baseline stationing and cross sections. The plan view will be mapped at a scale of1” = 30’ with one foot contour intervals. All physical features are to be located and shown on theplan. This will serve to facilitate the design phase of the project. The deliverables shall consist oftwo sets of drawings signed and sealed by a New Jersey licensed Land Surveyor and oneelectronic set of plans in Autocad version 14 format. Figure 2. Select Layers of the Carney's Point Recreation Center DrawingReal-World EnvironmentOne of the most valuable experiences in this project from

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alsoincludes a traditional project management model for defining and assigning tasks. The projectmanagement model has a hierarchical structure from a Milestone, to an Objective, to a Goal, to aTask. The task is linked to a matrix and issue. Support systems are included for askingquestions, making comments, assigning tasks, entering status reports, and making teamdecisions.The students found the combination of the process-based and project-based system easy to use.Future plans include integrating web-based instructions/help with the design system andincorporation of distance meetings.I. BackgroundPrevious Efforts - The process-based approach to the engineering design of products is based ona design matrix that models the design process and a

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Pedro E. Arce; Paula Arce-Trigatti

very close formula that an engineeringinstructor can use to transform the usually passive (and boring) solo lecture into a dynamic learningenvironment.In order to accomplish the set of objectives that she/he thinks are important for that practice, thedevelopmental coach must prepare ahead of time a “lesson plan” that she/he must be able to carryon. For example, a lesson plan that is not carefully linked to the objectives will probably waste timeand therefore, the significance of the activities (to maintain the level of motivation and involvementof the players) will weaken. Thus, the players will be more apt to lose interest in the subject matterand the coach becomes useless. Aside from encouraging active learning, the coach should usefeedback

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the teacher-centered approach are to lecture,plan assignments and tests, evaluate performance and assign grades. Whereas, in the student-centered approach these same functions exist however the faculty member is also encouraged toactively involve the student is his/her learning1. Student-centered approaches to learning areoften facilitated through active learning. Active learning occurs when students do more thanlisten during class. Active learning is accomplished through challenging students to ask andanswer questions, incorporating problem solving exercises and projects into the course, and Page 5.505.1students engaging in small discussion

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Mary Schlembach

information resources continues to grow,Grainger staff have developed a ‘Help Getting Started’ module, the first page of which is shownin Figure 3, to assist users in identifying the most appropriate resources to meet their informationneeds.III. Database structures and retrieval featuresWithin the Web-based local databases, we have employed a common database structure and dataelement format. These conventions have been applied, as much as possible, across all of the localresources. This standard database structure includes a set of common table and field (column)tags and rules for the format of the associated data contained in the fields. Both the planning andthe implementation are crucial to the success of any database project.11We have assigned 20

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(VIII) mechanical integrity(II) process safety information (IX) hot work permit(III) process hazard analysis (X) management of change(IV) operating procedures (XI) incident investigation(V) training (both initial and refresher) (XII) emergency planning(VI) contractors (XIII) compliance audits(VII) pre-start up safety review (XIV) trade secret protectionProcess safety management (PSM) is the application of management systems to identify,understand, and control process hazards in order to prevent process related injuries and incidents.PSM was

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+, Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, Access and several othercommercially available tools. Few guidelines were given. The only caveat was that there had tobe enough of a prototype to convince the client that there was a firm understanding of the goaland that the prototype demonstrated a reasonable amount of function.Classwork:Each project had to follow the classic guidelines and practices taught in the software engineeringcourse, the details of which will not be repeated here. In the classroom, the course kept pace withproject development activities and outlined good software engineering practices. These includedthe creation of a detailed requirements document (and those teams that failed to do this sufferedthe consequences), good requirements planning

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Hugh Jack

Standard IEC 1131 Part I: Specifications and Design”, IEEE Transactions on Controls Systems Technology, November 1999.5. Filer, R., Leinonen, G., “Programmable Controllers and Designing Sequential Logic“, Saunders College Publish- ing, 1992.6. Petruzella, F., Programmable Logic Controllers, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1998.7. Society of Manufacturing Engineers and SME Education Foundation, “Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report”, available at www.sme.org, 1997.8. Stenerson, J., “Fundamentals of Programmable Logic Controllers, Sensors and Communications”, Prentice Hall, 1998.9. Webb, J.W., Reis, R.A., “Programmable Logic Controllers, Principles and Applications”, Prentice Hall, 1995.HUGH JACKHugh Jack is an Assistant

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in partnership with the Concord Community Development Corporation.The CET 484 course forms the last of a four course “Design Sequence” required of students inthe Department of Construction Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology,IUPUI. The specific learning objectives of this course are to introduce students to: buildingloads utilizing prevailing codes; engineering properties and construction applications of wood &lumber; and fundamentals of structural analysis & design of wood structures. The main generallearning objective of the course is to serve as a “capstone design experience”. In the past thisobjective was fulfilled through having students work on a Design Project, usually one out of thetext book or from plans

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Steven T. Walsh; Frederick Betz; Donald D. Myers; Halvard E. Nystrom

by not only having students consider possibilities, probabilities, and expedients, but alsothe need to consider applicable guiding principles, concepts, and tools to reach viable solutions.III. Journal DesignThe Journal will be an online archive of refereed cases with instructor notes dealing with themanagement of technology. The present plan is to include a knowledge structure that follows oneused by Betz.5 This would include seven (7) broad areas: • Innovation Processes • Enterprise Systems • Technology Strategy • High-Tech Ventures • Research and Development • Technology Operations • Strategy IntegrationEach area would have sub-areas such as entrepreneurship (which in turn

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Patricia L. Fox; H. Oner Yurtseven; Stephen Hundley

faculty and administrators; and graphs of the salary data byregion and number of faculty.Today’s administrators must be savvy in their approach to higher administration for the purposeof acquiring additional funds for their faculty and programs. Reports such as the nationalEngineering Technology Faculty Salary Survey have proven to be a reliable source fordeveloping compensation plans, which seek to attract, retain, and motivate faculty.This paper will look at the history of engineering technology faculty salaries using data gatheredfrom past surveys. In addition, it will compare engineering faculty salaries with engineeringtechnology faculty salaries, and discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats inthe future of engineering

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Albert B. Grubbs; Michael R. Kozak

technological information2. One of the definitive characteristics ofengineering technologists is the ability to plan, implement, interpret, and report on technicalprojects involving the application of existing or developing technology for solving industrialproblems.II. The University EnvironmentAccording to Curtis and Latif3, degree programs are identified in a university’s mission statementaccording to the following criteria: program priorities, instruction enhancement, collaborativeventures, efficiency and effectiveness, and service and research functions. While a university’sprimary focus may be on teaching and learning, the university is committed to offering training,applied research and other services that support local business and industry

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Jeffrey L. Ray; John Farris

Padnos School of Engineering (PSE) at Grand ValleyState has additionally included an outcome that all graduates be able to create physicalrealizations of their designs. The criterion is required based on requests from co-op employersand the regional manufacturing community of West Michigan. Specifically, co-op employershave expressed a concern about engineering students understanding the manufacturingimplications of tolerances and dimensions. The methods and skills learned in the course willprepare students for subsequent courses to achieve more mature design and build projects.In 1997, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers issued the Manufacturing Education Plan(MEP)7 . The report identified several competency gaps in engineering education

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

these new requirements, which are being met by application of technologyand fostered by some educational institutions as well as their partners in corporate andindustrial sectors.The fundamental principle of access to education ‘at any time, any place, any where, andany how’ have resulted in an explosion of new alliances such as Western Governors,Southern Regional and Open University – USA. At the same time, a review of theSociety of Manufacturing Engineers, Manufacturing Education Plan clearly outlinesemerging skills such as Personal attributes (values), communication and teamwork asprerequisites for success.This presentation specifically focus on: • A historical perspective

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

engineering studies in Venice, Italy.Also, worthy to note, in the particular case of Cooper Union, due to the service orientedemployment climate of New York City, many companies such as banks, investment firms,consulting services, etc., are eager to employ our engineering graduates for their knowledge andmanagement skills acquired in this course and throughout the curriculum.8. Plans for the Future:Based on our positive experience with this course and the GLOBETECH simulation, we plan tocontinue teaching the Global Perspectives in Technology Management course every fall semesterfor the foreseeable future. We feel that the GLOBETECH simulation adds new depth and practicalexperience to the course. For the past few years, we have been working hard to

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feelings.” At that time most of us in engineering viewed products primarily as physicalobjects. With our more recent experiences with computer software, it is easier for us to seeprocesses, as well as objects, as products to be sold or licensed. Typically the target product aneducational design is a program which a student uses to carry out some learning task. We designthe process, not the student. The lexicological issue was complicated by other current notions of“programming” people as if they themselves were merely machines.Psychology as a Scientific Basis for EducationNo engineer would say that Kirchoff’s Law tells you how to create a new circuit, or thatNewton’s laws tell you how to plan a bridge. Physical science helps a designer to

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

recent years [2-3]. Faculty members are beginning to buy into the idea that retention ratesand graduation rates must be improved in order to bring public accountability to the table incurriculum planning. Developing courses that are motivating and exciting will certainly helpthis cause. This is in contrast to the prior faculty beliefs that (1) it is not their responsibility tomotivate and excite students, (2) students should be motivated by what the future will bringwhen they earn their degrees, and (3) should be excited by the course materials under theassumption that they chose their major based on interest.Anderson-Rowland [4] reported that a students’s reaction to first-year engineering courses is akey to retention, and Tinto [5] reported

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Donald N. Merino

Markets. & EmploymentBibliography:1. Awoniyi, S. A. A Template for Organizing Efforts to Satisfy ABET EC 2000 Requirements Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, October 1999, Pg. 449-4532. DeLancey, G. P.; Urken, A. B. C. V. Schaefer School of Engineering Assessment Plan Stevens Institute of Technology, September 19983. DeLancey, G. P.; Urken, A. B. Engineering Curriculum Assessment: A Model in Process Stevens Institute of Technology, March 19994. Koen, Peter A.; Kohli, Pankaj ABET 2000: What are the most important criteria to the supervisors of new engineering undergraduates? 1998 American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), Conference Proceedings5. Koen, Peter A. Using an Industry Survey to Obtain Faculty

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W. Bradford Cross; Susan M. Morgan; Mark P Rossow

Session 2251 Innovative Outcome Portfolios for ABET Assessment Susan M. Morgan, W. Bradford Cross, Mark P. Rossow Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleAbstractThe EC 2000 criteria require the assessment of program outcomes. While some engineeringdepartments are using student portfolios for this assessment, the faculty charged with developingthe undergraduate assessment plan in the Department of Civil Engineering at Southern IllinoisUniversity Edwardsville decided that student portfolios would be cumbersome to manage. Inorder to assess the outcomes directly, the faculty developed a new type of

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Alamgir Choudhury

nature of student body(iii) Develop cost effective laboratory.This new curriculum should introduce the skill required to deal with installation,operation, modification, expansion, trouble shooting and maintenance of existingsystems rather than design/analysis of new systems. Most significant challenge was todesign the curriculum to fit a very diverse group of students with different backgroundand objectives, some of which are conflicting at times. Based on past experience, aneffective way to address this problem would be to modularize the curriculum and remainflexible in course and lab content based on student need within the broad range ofprogram objectives. Besides development of this new curriculum, a parallel plan wasdeveloped to monitor its

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Marilyn Dyrud

materials,and skills to effectively integrate ethics education into technical classes, without sacrificingtechnical content. To date, more than 40 faculty, about one-third of OIT’s instructors, haveparticipated, with a final series planned for 2000. This paper explains our efforts, focusing onthe nuts and bolts of seminar development and implementation: securing funding, dealing withlogistics, choosing faculty, conducting the series, and evaluating results.Securing Funding Page 5.671.1Administrative support, both financial and psychological, is essential for the success of this typeof project. While on the surface, minimal funding is necessary

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Madhu Gourineni; Badrul H. Chowdhury

therefore planning to survey students after the web site has beenused in the class.2. ContentsThe following is the list of specific topics that have been (or will be eventually) addressed on theweb site. ♦ Converters: • Ac-dc rectifiers (both single-phase three-phase) • Dc-dc switch mode power supplies ½ Buck, boost, buck-boost, and Cuk types • Dc-ac inverters (both single-phase three-phase) • Resonant Converters ♦ Concepts: • Device Characteristics ½ ½ Thyristors ½ Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) ½ Gate Turn-off transistor (GTO) ½ Insulated Gate Bipolar

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

Page 5.726.1focuses on personal planning issues such as purchasing automobiles or homes, investmentstrategies and retirement planning. The authors promote use of these exercises to “heighten thestudent’s awareness of the relevance of the course material to their life.”The textbook chosen exerts a major influence on course emphasis through the assortment ofproblems it supplies. To assess the level at which finance problems are used in engineeringeconomy textbooks, three leading texts were reviewed.MethodologyTo determine the engineering emphasis of leading textbooks, the following steps were taken: Selection of textbooks for inclusion in the study Identification of chapters in the texts that are typically covered in a semester

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• Articulations between vocational programs and apprenticeship programs • The Indiana Plan for Equal Employment • AGC Supervisory Training Program • ABC Apprenticeship Programs • Company-based training programs • Hispanic centers/Community Centers • Indiana Department of Workforce DevelopmentThe Suggested SolutionWhen the construction industry is looked at in a systems approach it is evident that the need forpeople in the industry should be matched to the process that educates and trains people for theindustry. When the construction industry human resource need is matched against humanresource development through a “pyramidal system” one realizes that the two hierarchy diagramsof need and resource are

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Enno Koehn

3.1 3.9Presents carefully planned and helpful lectures 3.6 4.0Makes attending class worthwhile 3.4 4.0Answers students’ questions effectively 3.5 3.9 Page 5.147.3* Based on 4=A, 3=B, 2=C, 1=D, 0=FThe respondents were also requested to comment on the course. A representative sample of thecomments is listed in Table 2. As shown, comments 1 – 6 and 8 generally state that the classwas interesting and informative and could be of assistance to the respondents in the future.However, there may be a

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. This collaborative initiative wasvoluntarily undertaken by these educators to maximise their teaching effectiveness in order tominimise first year undergraduate transitional issues. Therefore, this paper seeks to promotethe strengths of this alternative approach to professional development in relation to theimplementation of a common first year civil engineering subject ENG1201.2.The short comings of linear professional development.As the need to address the effectiveness of learning and teaching has become a nationalconcern, The Monash Learning and Teaching Operational Plan [1] has been created toredirect academic staff to personally assess their current teaching practices in conjunctionwith the professional development short courses

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Robert H. Mayer

and maintenance of theRooster Island complex, including provisions for a minimum acreage of intertidal wetlands toenhance wildlife habitats. Each proposal included design drawings and specifications, estimatesof project costs including annual maintenance expenditures, and a cost-benefit assessment thataccounted for intangibles.@ Shoreline Enhancement and Stabilization. Arundel Estates is a family housing unit of theSevern River (MD) Naval Complex that borders a 1200'-long bank of the Severn River inAnnapolis. Erosion of the shoreline is a current concern. Accordingly, design teams were taskedto develop plans for the shoreline restoration, protection and environmental enhancement.Design efforts included an investigation of the erosion

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Stacy S. Wilson

Session 2326 Introducing Freshmen to Engineering at Western Kentucky University Stacy S. Wilson Western Kentucky UniversityI. IntroductionIn the past few years, Western Kentucky University (WKU) has developed a freshman seminarcourse entitled University College 101 (UC101) for the entire university. The purpose of thiscourse is to introduce freshman to college life and equip them with the appropriate skills tosucceed at the university level. Topics include study skills, time management, academicregulations, career planning, etc.Each