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Rosalyn Hobson; Kenneth Burbank

. Everything else is provided by RAPME, including a T-shirt uponsuccessful completion of the program. The total cost to administer the program isapproximately $10,000 annually.PHASE I is a three-week program for rising 7th – 9th grade students. Because this is the firstlevel and targets the middle school student, there are no academic requirements. This phaseintroduces students to practicing engineers and familiarizes them with the profession. This isaccomplished by inviting engineers to talk to students about their jobs and educationalbackground. Students also participate in a classroom setting completing assigned tasks andengineering related projects. Projects include a truss made of toothpicks, rocket kits and dragsterkits. Students also attend

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possible hires, access to new ideas, and educationalopportunities for their workforce. Companies also want access to the ability to test andexplore ideas as well as the ability to use these ideas and solutions in theirproducts/services. Companies want relevant curriculum which produces graduates withthe knowledge, skills, and attributes needed in their workplace, and they want facultywho understand and respond to the changing needs of the workplace. The traditional types of university-industry partnership activities include researchconsortia, industrial advisory boards (both to departments and colleges and to researchconsortia), industrial affiliates programs, internship and co-op programs, and studentdesign projects. Some problem areas of

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in experimental design. In thisway, the course develops the student's abilities to analyze complex mechanical and thermalsystems, to design experiments, and to practice life-long learning. The course development wassupported by the National Science Foundation's CCLI and ILI programs and the University ofSouth Carolina. Previous presentations described the test vehicle and instrumentation. Thispaper focuses on project evaluation and assessment results that are being used to improve thecourse's effectiveness.IntroductionThe mechanical engineering program at the University of South Carolina includes a capstonesenior laboratory course, Mechanical Systems Laboratory. Prior to 1997, the primary goal of thiscourse was to illustrate upper-level

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William Stratton; Ranaye Marsh; Jonathan Lawson; Jay Kunze

leaders about our concern regarding contention betweenengineers and technicians, many acknowledged that this is an issue of considerable concern.Consequently a number of local industrial leaders participated in the conference.Successful Outcomes of Efforts at the Post-Secondary LevelSome of the most impressive programs to encourage cooperation between engineering andtechnology programs involve the senior design process. Brigham Young University (CarlSorenson 6 ) reported on a program in which senior design projects are fully sponsored by industry,and involve interdisciplinary $design# teams consisting of students from engineering, engineeringtechnology, and business four year programs. The senior design teams spend a few days at aparticular

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Michael Ruane

significantly changed the teachingand learning of calculus where it is implemented and has been a constant topic of discussion inthe mathematics community. Calculus reform is often unknown among engineering faculty.Three Boston University mathematics faculty developed a ’reform’ differential equations course,textbook, and computer labs, incorporating an unusual degree of engineering applications,modeling and jargon. Their systems approach was later disseminated in workshops to the mathcommunity. In those workshops, a common theme from the math professors was ’we don’t talkwith the engineers--they don’t even know that we’re teaching differently!’Calculus reform, including the NSF differential equations project at Boston University,emphasizes using

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Norine Meyer; Deborah Fisher; Cynthia Villanueva; Amy Strobel

for girls. The classoffered entry-level and sophomore students a head start in team collaboration under the directionof advanced undergraduate female students in a project management environment.Course PurposeThe course had a multi-purpose agenda – addressing both retention of women engineers in theschool and offering the students basic engineering skills while raising awareness on the need torecruit girls into engineering. Tasked with designing a recruitment video, the students weredirected to: 1) address issues of female pre-college attrition in the math and science realm; 2)portray challenges and opportunities for women at the university level and in the work world;and 3) create a strategy (story) that would encourage young girls to view

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Rajib Mallick

dollars was spent in developing the nextgeneration mix design system for asphalt pavements – the Superpave (Superior PerformingAsphalt Pavement) system. Studies have shown that full implementation of Superpave can save asmuch as $637 million per year (1). However, to implement Superpave properly, and realize its fullbenefit through improved performance, the industry and state departments of transportation(DOT) must ensure that mix production, laydown and compaction in field projects are controlled Page 6.368.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

school women/minorities to campus for a summer session whichis meant to serve as an introduction to engineering and to encourage these underrepresentedgroups to enroll in an engineering or technological field. Recently, new directions have been Page 6.1031.1investigated which appear to be effective in getting to the roots of this complex problem. Some ofthe more promising projects for increasing the participation of women and minorities in engineer-Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationing is in working with high school

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the minimum attractive rate of return(MARR) and the external rate of return (ERR),15 the accounting rate of return (ARR),14the overall rate of return,3,4 the modified internal rate of return (MIRR),9 the effectiverate of return,2 and the adjusted modified internal rate of return (ADJMIRR).13 Some ofthe less frequently used rates of return have similar bases.8 The MARR is often used as abenchmark to which another rate of return is compared.15 One definition of the IRR is “the rate that yields a present worth of zero byassuming that all cash flows are reinvested at the IRR11.” Another definition is “theinterest rate earned on the unrecovered project balance of investment such that, when theproject terminates, the unrecovered project

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Alexandre Botari; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

autonomythat, gradually, the student should possess to become an inserted professional in the currentcontext. Maybe a step ahead of her/his time, having in mind that the road for non-presentknowledge is dangerously turning shorter and shorter.Evidently there is not the pretense of approaching in this proposal under graduation program thewhole gigantic volume of available information, even in the specific areas, of the researches andcalled advanced projects. It will allow a healthy acquaintance by the point of view of themodernization, with the “top technology". Principally to insert the academic in this existentextremely dynamic context, once this way the students will get acquainted with the means, thetools and the methodologies of which s/he can

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Session 2793 Biomedical Engineering Design in the New Millennium Paul H. King, PhD, PE Vanderbilt UniversityAbstract: The recent National Academy of Engineering/ National Research Council publication"Advanced Engineering Environments, Phase 2, Design in the New Millennium1" suggests thatdesign efforts are evolving toward a comprehensive "Advanced Engineering Environment"rather than supporting individual or small group efforts as is most common now. A major resultof the effort, and the most interesting, is a series of projections as to the status of

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Session 1526 DSP Laboratory for Real-Time Systems Design and Implementation David J. Waldo Oklahoma Christian UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an NSF CCLI-A&I* project at Oklahoma Christian University (OC) todevelop a laboratory and three-course sequence in digital signal processing (DSP) that emphasizesthe design and implementation of real-time embedded DSP systems. Real-time DSP embeddedsystems are becoming more pervasive throughout the engineering design industry. DSP is a majortool used in electrical engineering

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Ramachandran Radharamanan; Angela Ansuj

suchas use of design of experiments and Taguchi methods in conducting experiments to improve theproduct quality by controlling the process variables; and the use of design for manufacture,computer aided design, and value analysis in their multidisciplinary senior design projects inimproving the product design, meeting the time schedule (project completion time), andproviding customer satisfaction (client) with high quality and minimum cost. The resultsobtained through laboratory experiments and design projects are presented and discussed.I. IntroductionConcurrent Engineering (CE) is defined as the earliest possible integration of overall company’sknowledge, resources, and experience in design, development, marketing, manufacturing, andsales into

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Michael McGeen; James Friauf

his/her company, than the engineer with weaker communication skills? Simply put, business iscommunication. Strong communication skills are necessary to do one’s job. New project ideasare offered to a department manager. Information is shared among professional colleagues.Customers are persuaded to buy your product or service. Work teams negotiate jobresponsibilities and roles. Preliminary and final designs are presented to a client. While multiplemediums exist to present information, engineers must, at some time, still meet face to face with aclient, a colleague, a subordinate, or a superior and explain their ideas. The competent engineeror business professional must effectively communicate with both internal and externalcustomers

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Philip Pritchard; Bahman Litkouhi

to an enrollment of about 20students. Both courses encourage student-teacher and student-student interactions. Thedetailed curricula are provided in the following sections.II. CurriculumENGS115:- Introduction of EngineeringThis course is organized around a semester-long design project. The emphasis is onengineering problem solving methodologies and computational techniques. Basicengineering concepts and analyses related to the design project are discussed on a need-to-know basis. The course includes five hands-on laboratory sessions; site visits to localengineering firms and manufacturing plants; ethics and professional responsibilities; andeconomic concerns associated with the engineering design process. Teamwork is stronglyencouraged. The

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pronounced. It is imperative for graduating engineers to have operative knowledge of EMIand corresponding remedies. The EMC-related principles and applications are incorporated intwo electromagnetics, one communications and one EMC course and are supported by hands-onexperience in a newly developed state-of-the-art high-frequency laboratory. The lab exercisesand design projects are described at the web site http://http.engineering.sfsu.edu/nsf/. They helpstudents understand the difficult EM/EMC concepts and expose them to practical EMCapplications.I. IntroductionIn this era of rapid development of communication systems, the trend is toward use ofmicrowave and higher frequency ranges. At the same time circuits and systems are operating athigher

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Kenneth Manning; Luke Bellandi

Session 1520 Interactive Java Applet for Equation Derivations Kenneth S. Manning, Ph.D. and Luke B. Bellandi Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAbstractThe Equation Activity applet, developed by Project Links at Rensselaer, is an engaging andinteractive tool that allows instructors to guide students through the steps in deriving a particularequation. Project Links, an NSF-supported project at Rensselaer, is a cooperative effort byfaculty from several departments, schools, and institutions to develop materials linkingmathematical topics with their applications in engineering and

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Christopher Ibeh

writingskills, and report presentation for development of oral communication skills and dissemination ofresearch findings.1. IntroductionThe use of research as a viable instructional and educational tool is a current trend in academia.The concept of the 3Rs, research, report writing and representation (report presentation) is a veryviable medium for critical thinking and effective communication skills especially when utilizedas a total package, as is frequently the case. Invariably, accreditation agencies, funding agencies,educational organizations and even industry are requiring the dissemination of research findingsvis-à-vis project reports, publications and presentations, as standard operating procedure. It istypical for faculty who engage in

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Jose Roesset; James Yao

, thestudents should be exposed to (1) engineering practice through a variety of meansincluding summer internships, cooperative programs, and interactions with practicingprofessional engineers; and (2) different cultures and international projects. Facultymembers need also to be continuously exposed to practical problems in order to bring backthat experience into the classroom. New faculty members should have practical experienceor be provided with means to acquire it. To do so, it is necessary to change the facultyreward system by emphasizing the quality instead of the quantity of faculty work. In thispaper, we discuss these various aspects in some detail.I. IntroductionSince the fifties the emphasis in engineering education has been on mathematics

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Wayne Walter; Paul Stiebitz

Consortium for Product Development Leadership in the 21stCentury (PD21), customizes course materials and elective courses to meet the needs of theirrespective constituency. The program balances technical and business perspectives in an effortto provide technical leaders with the skills and knowledge to create best-in-class productportfolios.The program at RIT, known as the Masters in Product Development (MPD), is a joint effortbetween the College of Business and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. In addition to acourse in Leadership in Product Development, the core of the curriculum consists of threesystems design and management courses: Systems Engineering (SE), Systems Architecture (SA),and Systems and Project Management. Students are also

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Ron Chin; Kamran Qamar; Gary Krikorian; Joel Weinstein

. Ourexperience has provided substantial evidence that this type of collaboration yields importantbenefits for all participants, including students and the corporate world that they will eventuallypopulate.This paper details a single project—one of many—in which students had to complete a softwaresolution for an imaginary client. This particular project required the design of a software solution Page 6.876.1for a small airline. The software was needed to help the airline maintain passenger reservations.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering

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Jeffrey Higgins

evaluation process as on-campus faculty.The College has used some web-based instruction but considers that instructionalmethodology still experimental; thus more than 90% of the instruction is in the traditionalclassroom and laboratory format.The Senior Project, a capstone experience, is designed by the Senior Project Team: thestudent, a student mentor, a faculty member, and the Head of the Technology ExtensionDivision. The mentor is an engineer or senior technician with the company who helps thestudent identify a project that will not only demonstrate the skills gained from the degreeprogram but will solve an existing engineering or manufacturing problem at thecompany. The faculty member is the instructor-of-record who oversees the

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Zhongming Liang

HE 11 Page 6.741.1 defines the current location as position 11 and records it in the memory. • Command MA is to move the robot to a distance from a defined position. In the following: PD 5, 0, 0, 30, 0, 0 MA 1, 5 the first line defines Position 5, which is a dummy position, and the second line moves the robot to a point whose incremental distance to a predefined Position 1 is the coordinates of Position 5 in the first line.Students were able to use the commands in small exercise assignments. However, mostly incourse projects, they only used the command MO (move) to teach-and

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James Newell; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Dianne Dorland; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

can designintelligently by focusing on the most beneficial way to minimize risk.By applying risk assessment concepts to processes and products, the engineer can: • Quantify the environmental impacts of specific chemical on people and ecosystems. • Prioritize chemicals that need to be minimized or eliminated. • Optimize design to avoid or reduce environmental impacts. • Design greener products and processes.This presentation will highlight techniques to include green engineering in the chemicalengineering curriculum. This may be through stand-alone courses, concepts in core courses suchas thermodynamics or engineering economics, design projects, and as part of the assessmentrequirements for ABET Criteria 2000.Environmental CoursesMost

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James Dally; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

process. The productdevelopment project is conducted by student teams of five or six. The typical product chosen,like many engineering products is synthesized from components and engineering principles thatcover a spectrum of topics. Compartmentalization of knowledge within subject boundaries isavoided allowing the instructor to introduce material from several courses the students willundertake in subsequent years. During the product realization process the instructor has anopportunity to emphasize communication skills, teamwork, design process, computer aideddesign and drafting, software applications for document preparation, spreadsheet andpresentation development. While developing the course at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES)1 the

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Joseph Betit; William Swart; Sushil Chaturvedi; Gary Crossman

cluster, the GEIW cluster had to meet all the requirements that have beendescribed in a previous section and will not be repeated here. However, it must be emphasizedthat according to University rules a cluster must have a multi-disciplinary theme uniting variouscourses in the cluster. The second guiding factor relates directly to the thematic nature of thecluster. In order to develop the global engineering theme, the taskforce found it necessary todevelop a definition of global engineering. Although this definition may vary depending onindividual perspective, for present considerations global engineering has been defined as theconduct of engineering by project management teams in global and multicultural environments,characterized by differing

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Ali Zilouchian

tosubstantially improve the instructional capability of undergraduate instruction in intelligentsystems analysis and design. The project addresses simple, robust, and effective implementationof soft computing techniques for several industrial applications including Servo Systems, HeatTrainers, and Visual Component Inspection Stations. The development is carried out through theadaptation of innovative industrial design techniques, incorporation of real-time sensoryinterfacing and other applicable industrial advances, which have been already utilized in severalmanufacturing industries such as Motorola Inc. The implementation of an undergraduateintelligent system laboratory can serve as a model for other institution in the nation.I. IntroductionDuring the

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exploration through 3D digital visualizationcontributes to the development of students 3D perception. The CAD software used in thisclass supports parametric solid modeling and dimension driven design.An example of the structure of this unit in lecture/discussion sessions and assignmentsfollows: Discussion 3D working space and view organization. Introduction to solid and surface modeling: Primary solids and surfaces, surfaces and solids of projection and revolution Page 6.591.4 Boolean operations, surface/line intersection, surface/surface intersection

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Patricia C. Tempel; Hisham Alnajjar; Beth Richards; Andrea Brick Ader; Ronald Adrezin

support unique outcomes (for example, exploring professionalengineering activities or completing a basic engineering design project) without endangering theshared curriculum.From the above list of shared outcomes, the three faculty teams developed a worksheet,consisting of a four-column table: week of the semester, RLC 110 syllabus/agenda and requiredactivities, ES 141 syllabus/agenda, with a blank column in the middle. As we listed our usualcourse content, we discussed what the activities and objectives had in common. Then we beganfilling in the middle column: Content Overlap and Possible Shared Assignments.At this point we were still brainstorming, but we tried to think of overlap from every possibleangle. From this list, we began narrowing our

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Andrew Otieno; Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

has recently revised its curriculum and embarked on several laboratoryenhancement projects. In redesigning the curriculum, the department emphasized integration ofsubject matter and computer skills across courses. It is this strategy that we wish to exploit inorder to achieve a unique status among similar programs across the region and the nation. Toreflect industry needs, the department has redesigned courses in numerical control,programmable logic controllers, and computer integrated manufacturing. The department is alsoin the process of developing an automation course and related laboratory experience that willintegrate several areas within this complex field. In the automation course, the students will lookat integration of motion, vision