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Timothy McLaren

manufacturing industry. The course of study is based onthe existing mechanical engineering program in the School of Mechanical and MaterialsEngineering, but focuses on manufacturing processes and technologies in greater depth. Theprogram curriculum allows the students to tailor their education to an area(s) of interest to themthrough the selection of electives. Using the elective courses students can select to have anemphasis area in microelectronics. A new microelectronics learning laboratory provides hands-on exposure for students in this area. The microelectronics emphasis area and the manufacturingfocused microelectronics lab are unique in a manufacturing engineering program.The region, encompassing southwest Washington and northwest Oregon is

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Julia Williams

learning environment and promote the socialization of learners into a specific discourse community. All courses are taught by cross-disciplinary teams of faculty and industry representatives. In addition, instructors require students to work on both large and small cross-disciplinary teams and integrate and synthesize the technical knowledge learned in traditional courses. Most importantly, students are encouraged to develop managerial and professional skills with an emphasis on verbal communication and technical writing.Whether the faculty focus on established courses or on the development of a new coursesequence, they must plot out specific sets of skills at specific points in the curriculum inorder for

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Satinderpaul Devgan

developing newprograms. This paper describes two such unique graduate programs that were developed througha systematic analysis of national critical technologies, future manpower demand projections,academic and research background of our faculty, and the interests of our students. The M.S.program in Computer and Information Systems Engineering (CISE), an interdisciplinary fieldthat integrates different aspects of computer engineering, computer science, electricalengineering, systems engineering and information systems, was implemented in fall 1997. It hassince experienced a phenomenal growth in student enrollment. A Ph.D. in CISE program, whichbuilds on the master’s program as its core, has since been developed and approved forimplementation.1

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Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

of the ways discussed in Section II. The notes for the two slides are given in Table 3. Fig. 3: Two slides from module on reverse engineeringV. EthicsEngineering ethics is typically covered at various points throughout an engineering curriculum;however, because it is often a central issue in design, ethics should be emphasized in a capstonedesign project. The intent in this module is not to give a complete coverage of all the topicsassociated with engineering ethics but to give a review of some of the issues involved. The moduleuses information from a variety of sources, but the principal source of material is the NationalSociety of Professional Engineers' (NSPE) web page2,3

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Thomas Grover; Terry Parker; Robert King; Joan Gosink

65 8 115 EGGN 450 (MEL III) 2 22 3 41 Total 13 233 18 3302 Sequential Integration of Knowledge Across Multiple Disciplines2.1 ImplementationMEL teaches problem solving skills. Therefore, instructors must balance between a “hands-offapproach and a traditional explain–all-the-steps approach. An instructor and a teaching assistant(TA) are present in every MEL section to provide mentoring and coaching support to students Page 6.96.3who are struggling to discover the operation of instruments and develop

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

analysis. In Design II, students: construct and test a prototype usingmodular components as appropriate, conduct system integration and testing, assemble finalproduct and field-test the device, write a final project report and an operator manual, and presentan oral report.III. Team WorkGraduates entering the real- world find that just about every project is tackled by a team ofengineers, scientists, marketing experts, technicians and other personnel. Yet, team-basedprojects tend to be difficult for a student without the basic team-building skills in his or herbackground.3 Student learning styles differ within teams and are best described by fieldindependent and field dependent learners. Field independent learners tend to be excellentproblem

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

A.A.S.communications, humanities, basic science and mathematics courses in its curriculum.Related to new structure of 2-year technical degrees in Florida, is the likelihood of ABETaccreditation of the A.S. Technology Degrees. Exploring such accreditation is an objective ofthe Tech 4 grant. The new definition of the A.S. program in Florida now offers the opportunityfor A.S Technology programs such accreditation. The curriculum content of the new technologyprograms can match a related ABET criteria. However, other ABET requirements for facultyand institutional resources will also have to be met if accreditation is deemed desirable.Teacher and Faculty DevelopmentThe success of any workplace development curriculum is acutely dependent on the faculty

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Ronna Turner; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

these aggressive goals through aninnovative combination of a traditional physics curriculum, an industry-like work environmentshared by physics students in this program, and a commercialization course sequence centered ona Physics Department’s research strengths (at the University of Arkansas, it will be based onresearch in high performance microelectronic-photonic materials, devices, and systems). Theintegration of these three educational components will result in a next-generation Physics graduatewith the skills currently lacking from traditional Physics departmental programs.a) Integrating traditional physics education with a business framework.Technology proficiency will not be sufficient to assure that future scientists and engineers

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Gurbax Singh; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

of 1999 ASEE Annual Conference, June 20-23, Charlotte, NC1999, CD-ROM5. McKenna, A., and Agogino, A., "Integrating Design Analysis and Problem Solving in an Introduction toEngineering Curriculum for High School Students," Proceedings of 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, June28-July 1, 1998, Seattle, WA, CD-ROM.7. Nagchaudhuri, A., Eydgahi, A., and Shakur, A., " SLOPE: An Effort Towards Infusing Service-Learningin Physics and Engineering Curricula", Proceedings of 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO,June 18-21, 2000, CD-ROM.8. Beakman’s Electric Motor [Available Online]: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~palmer/motor.html9. Handy Board [Available Online]: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/10.Summer Engineering Bridge Program

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Jahan Kauser; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

addressed teaching studentsabout the emerging field of membrane processes through team projects. The development plan involvesthe innovative use of membrane technology, integrating it both vertically and horizontally throughout theengineering curriculum and exposing students to it through the use of team-oriented experimental projectsin multidisciplinary engineering clinics. We have initially introduced membrane separation principles invarious courses through lectures and small-scale mini-labs and demos. This lays the foundation for morecomprehensive study in the engineering clinics. The integration of membrane process experiments formultidisciplinary team projects occurs in the Junior and Senior level Engineering Clinic courses. Some ofthe

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Thomas Kist; Barbara Goldberg; William Lin

problem-solvingactivities, and the restructuring of classes into learning communities 24. Just recently, theCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching called for the need for moreundergraduate interdisciplinary courses and courses centered around research andproblem-solving as part of an effort to improve undergraduate learning 1. Students needto be working together in collaborative settings engaging in shared discourse about theirexperiences. Also, they need to be involved in flexible curriculum relating to a wide Page 6.1012.2range of disciplines causing them to think critically and apply what they are learning.“Proceedings of the 2001

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Saeid Y. Eidgahy

critical in engineeringeducation is the ability to communicate effectively with people who have preparationsother than engineering. In other words, in order for a new innovative technical project tobe funded, a marketing manager or someone with an accounting or managementbackground must be convinced of its benefits. An engineer must be able to constantlycommunicate in verbal and written forms with non-engineers. This will facilitate thegathering, integrating and conveying of information in many formats.Engineers often work as part of a team composed of many members with variedbackgrounds. As a result, developing skills in managing other people and accomplishingrequired tasks is a universal requirement for any engineer. This may involve planning

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Ram Mohan; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Krishnamurthy Jayaraman; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Ed Evans; Charles Petty; Andre Bernard

phenomena of single-phase fluids and transportphenomena of multiphase fluids. Moreover, a significant gap is developing on the use ofconventional transport phenomena principles and computational fluid dynamic tools. CFD hasopened up the possibilities of analyzing in the classroom complex flows in complex geometriesunimagined ten to twenty years ago. Students need further training to effectively use modern CFDcodes and to understand how CFD results can be used as an innovative process design tool as wellas a diagnostic tool. Thus, the broad goals of this initiative stem directly from ongoing researchand educational programs at MSU, Akron, and Tulsa. The proposed multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional curriculum development project will integrate

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Tony Brune; Elaine Chapman-Moore; Dave Wiese; Hulas King

curricula. That phase, entitled theIntroductory Offer Phase, provided two Sun workstations, 2 Unigraphics software licenses,and 80 hours of training to selected key institutions in the U.S. Faculty used this phase toevaluate the software for use in their curricula, and determine their interest in otherphases of PACE. The PACE Industrial Partners provided more than $8 Million ineducational contributions of hardware, software, and training as a result of this phase.PACE’s Integrated Curriculum Phase provides hardware, software, and training insufficient critical mass to selected institutions, allowing the faculty to significantlyintegrate parametrics into their engineering and manufacturing curricula. In most cases,the institutions selected to

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Nicholas Massa; Gordon Snyder; Fenna Hanes; James Masi; Gary Mullett

career awareness. The total matching and in-kind funds projected in theoriginal proposal through the end of year 3 (March 2000) was $2,141,095. The actual matchingand in-kind funds for the period September 1997 through February 2000 was $3,945,722. Hi Freq. Impedance Tester, B-H Tester Donated by Sandia Labs Donated by Sandia Labs Figure 1. Example of Donated Equipment To date, the principal activities of the Center have been to:1) Meet with the National Advisory Board (National Visiting Committee), an assembly of experts in curriculum, administration, and industry;2) Continue the high school technician program and the A.S. Telecommunications degree

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P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

faculty members resided in different buildings, hindering interactions and cooperation.2. The CpE program was patched together using existing CpS- and EE-coded courses and had no distinctive qualities.3. Through the internal self study, the following areas were identified as having deficiencies warranting academic-program revisions: a. Use of high-level languages in the curriculum; b. Formal integration of hardware-software issues; c. Use of contemporary engineering design tools; and d. Major engineering design experience.4. The two electrical-engineering laboratories that serviced the CpE program were outdated.5. Only weak interactions existed between the employers of CpE graduates and the CpE faculty.6. Only weak

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Steve Schreiner; John Burns

examples directly into the pre-college curriculum, students aremotivated at an early age to begin to integrate biology, mathematics and engineering; a processthat has traditionally only occurred in higher education (mostly at the graduate level).Although this workshop targeted middle and secondary educators, the concepts were presentedin a manner that allows modification for any grade level or course. The educational modules andconcepts were not rigidly designed prior to the workshop, rather the participants and presentersworked together to tailor the modules for a particular pre-college curriculum.II. ContentThe field of Biomedical Engineering is very broad. Representing the entire field in a meaningfulway in a two-week institute is difficult. It

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Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

fourparticipants from three different universities who discuss pedagogical issues and instructionalmodifications made in their own engineering classes following what was learned at “SoonerCity”.I. IntroductionAs Jon Fricker from Purdue is finding out, you don’t have to revise the entire curriculum tobegin integrating design within a Civil Engineering program. He presents examples in whichpairs of professors can exploit natural relationships between certain courses to make theundergraduate student’s experience more unified.Norm Dennis has revised an existing semester long scenario-based design problem in hisfoundation engineering class at The University of Arkansas to include portions of the “SoonerCity” geotechnical subsurface database. His students use

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Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

, recognizing their responsibility to protect the health and welfare of the public, and to be accountable for the social and environmental impact of their engineering practice.4. To establish an educational environment in which students participate in cross- disciplinary, team-oriented, open-ended activities that prepare them to work in integrated engineering teams.5. To offer a curriculum that encourages students to become broadly educated engineers and life-long learners, with a solid background in the basic sciences and mathematics, an understanding and appreciation of the arts, humanities, and social sciences, an ability to communicate effectively for various audiences and purposes, and a desire to seek out further educational

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Leslie Pease; Edward Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Maurice F. Aburdene; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

NSF funded initiative to promote systemic change in engineering educationby having faculty collaborate in teams to re-envision their roles in the students’ learning process.The ultimate goals of the project are:• to educate engineering faculty in instructional design techniques that are then implemented throughout the curriculum• to transform the classroom into an active learning environment using cooperative learning and other learning approaches, and• to efficiently and effectively incorporate the use of information technology in the learning process. Initial efforts at Bucknell University have focussed on getting both faculty and students towork together as teams. For the first time, faculty members from across the

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Sundar Krishnamurty; Robert Gao; John Ritter; Donald Fisher; Janis Terpenny

Session 2325 Senior Design Projects to Aid the Disabled Janis Terpenny, Robert Gao, John Ritter, Donald Fisher, and Sundar Krishnamurty Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-2210AbstractA new two-semester capstone senior design course sequence in the area of assistive technologyhas been developed and integrated within the established curriculum of the Department ofMechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) at the University of

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

Session 2525 Transformations: Ethics and Design Richard Devon, Andrew Lau, Philip McReynolds, and Andras Gordon Engineering Design & Graphics, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper will focus on an ethics curriculum that has been developed for design projects. Therationale behind it is discussed and some preliminary feedback from students is reviewed. Thecurriculum for the design projects is distinctive in several fundamental ways. These departuresfrom more traditional views of “engineering ethics” were not come by easily and they have takenmany years to develop. 1) We view all design

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Peter Schuyler; Howard A. Canistraro

computer applications that were previously covered, areagain utilized, they feel much more confident about succeeding in the course. The integration ofthe many applications over the entire curriculum has led to a higher level of problem solvingability, which is evidenced by the complexity and sophistication of the laboratory reports.Student evaluations of courses in which LabView has been used have also been excellent.Another measure of the success of the integrated use of LabView will be in the senior designproject that is being offered in the spring of 2001. Here, students will be required to use thesoftware system to control an automated assembly process.In terms of mathematical problem solving and trending studies, MathCAD has had the

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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

accredited programs in architecture and architectural engineering to prepare and inspire students for the vital professional leadership roles and responsibilities required to shape the physical environment and to have a positive impact on the social, economic and cultural qualities of life in Oklahoma and the entire international context. The School of Architecture endeavors to instill in each individual a sensitivity to human needs, a genuine concern for quality, integrity and high ideals, a positive attitude for life-long learning, and an appreciation for their own self-esteem. The School’s primary goal is to provide excellence in professional education for students preparing to enter private

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Richard Schultz; Darryl Sale; Chang-Hee Won; William Semke; Arnold Johnson

number of students working on this project with a wide variety ofclasses and extracurricular work schedules, group members were not always around to answerquestions about a particular subsystem. With access to the proper documentation, the students wereable to find answers to most questions without one-on-one meetings. Consequently, the need to keepdocumentation current for the present design is of utmost importance, so that others can work withthe latest generation of design changes.Large-scale system integration also rarely takes place in either undergraduate or graduate education.The Scorpio project allowed the students to gain valuable experience that is generally not found ineither the on-campus curriculum or through cooperative (co-op

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William Watkins; John Sullivan

theorganizational systems. These applications requirements require a much higher degree of cross-functional application knowledge and ability to understand many different industrial needsmodels, than what can be offered in the typical Engineering curriculum. Theoretical designmodels and the use of design tools are not within the scope of the Technologist.Academic requirements in AOT include: technical courses at the direct application level;communications and management coursework designed to teach the interdisciplinary skillsnecessary to integrate the cross functional needs of the wide variety of user/customer needs.Successful completion of the AOT curriculum meets the requirements of the Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) under Federal Air Regulation

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Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

and in manufacturing processeswithin a design context. This is possible because of the skills of the undergraduates who spendtheir first two years within the Foundation Coalition curriculum.1ProcessThe College of Engineering at A&M has undergone an extensive restructuring of the freshmenand sophomore years during the past 6 years.1, 2, 3 These changes have improved the skill base ofthe juniors. The most recent NSF program at Texas A&M University, Foundation Coalition,provided a substantial change in the way faculty teach. Instead of lecturing at students for a classperiod, the faculty use collaborative learning. The classrooms are places where the students are

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Kwok Pang

students with an opportunity to design and validate such a system.This model has not yet been fully integrated into our curriculum. As you know, MTBE, TAMEand other ethers will be banned in United States in two years as additives to gasoline. We expectChevron to shut down the TAME plant in the near future. At that time the TAME model will bereplaced by the Alkylation model as our main teaching tool.In conclusion, the physical models offer the students an opportunity to touch and feel a plant andto apply engineering concepts to the design of equipment. From the model, students will get asense of the working environment they will be in when they graduate. The models are excellentteaching tools for the instructors, as they “walk” the students through

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Thomas Andre; Connie Hargrave; Scott Chumbley; Kristen Constant

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcontinuous improvement of the teaching strategies and methodologies used are integrated intothe activities of a year’s cycle. Both departments share responsibility for conducting summerworkshops for in-service teacher training. The partnership between the two departments iseffective because of the close match between the goals of the C&I department and the projectgoals. The education program at ISU has an emphasis on involving pre-service teachers witheducational technology as a tool for learning and as a tool for promoting the development ofinquiry skills. Pre-service teachers take a course on educational

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Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

companies, with student activities, team projects and senior projects as the primary vehicle.The existing manufacturing facilities, including the metal removal, casting, rapid prototyping andelectronics manufacturing laboratories of Cal Poly, provide the "real" factory hardwareenvironment. A Production Planning and Control Center is being developed to provide thedecision making and communication functions required in the modern factory. These two systemswill function as an integrated whole by utilizing state of the art communication networks. TheTeaching Factory will not eliminate traditional lessons, but rather will supplement them byproviding an integrative framework to link courses throughout the curriculum. Furthermore, andwhenever necessary