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Edward Lumsdaine

-hour semester course (as a minimum) can have substantial results and initiate an invention, whereas a one credit-hour course cannot do much more than provide the foundational framework for subsequent application in a design project, thus losing the benefit of just-in-time learning. • The foundational skills (lateral thinking, teaming, communication) as well as the four- quadrant thinking and creative problem solving models are key and must not be neglected or skipped, if promising inventions or entrepreneuring ideas are sought. • Ideally in an engineering program, these foundational skills should have been learned by the junior year as part of an integrated approach that moves from

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FYI Team Members; Adrian Cloete

B.C.The context for our FYI must be noted. The integration of Critical Thinking has been tried –successfully and unsuccessfully – in higher education for many years. Among General Education(GenEd) faculty at DeVry, we have experienced three models to promote critical thinking acrossthe curriculum.1. Persuade faculty to incorporate Critical Thinking in every course. ½This can be achieved by: ½ Getting students to answer in complete sentences on labs, quizzes, exams Avoiding regurgitative multiple-choice questions that only assess memory not thinking ½ or problem-solving ½ Giving students problems to trouble-shoot individually and in groups Encouraging substantiated

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Daniel Raviv

Notes, Florida Atlantic University, 1998.35. Raviv, D., “Teaching Inventive Thinking”, Recent Advances in Robotics Conference,http:// www.me.ufl.edu/FLA99, University of Florida, April 29-30, 1999. 1836. Research Report, TRIZ: An Approach to Systematic Innovation, GOAL /QPC, 1997.37. Sickafus, E., Unified Structured Inventive Thinking, Ntelleck, 1997.38. Pressman, D., Patent It Yourself, 5th Edition, NOLO Press, 1996.39. Polya, G., How to Solve It: A new Aspect of Mathematical Method, 2nd Edition, Princeton University Press,1957.40. Camp Invention Curriculum, The National Inventor Hall of Fame, Inventure Place, Akron, Ohio, 1999.41. Meant to Invent, Teacher Edition, Academy of Applied Science, Concord , New Hampshire, 1997.42. Anderson, C

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D. Yogi Goswami

and energy-efficient house construction.North Carolina Solar http://www.ncsc.ncsu.edu/edu/eduprog.htm Offers teachers an energy curriculum package "Energy, High SchoolCenter Email: ncsun@ncsu.edu Technology and Society," wide range of concepts and are interdisciplinary easily used in science, ecology/environment or social studies curricula.University of http://www.ecs.umass.edu/mie Courses in solar energy and wind energy conversion. Students

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Lyle McCurdy; William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

.3. Programs and Courses that Participated in the Study3.1. Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology at Cal Poly Pomona. This programis housed in the Department of Engineering Technology. This program consists of a rigorousintegrated four-year curriculum, designed to prepare graduates for technical careers on the“engineering team.” The program currently enrolled about 375 students at the time of this study.At Cal Poly Pomona, two courses participated in this study during fall quarter 2000. These were: ETE 310 Applied Network Analysis/Lab (3/1). This was an upper-division math-intensive technical course for juniors that included Laplace transforms, transfer functions, the s-plane, stability, and time/frequency response of

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Miguel Perez; Ryan Wicker; Bill Diong

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsmall wind tunnel used in the experiments was purchased as part of an undergraduate researchexperience grant through the National Science Foundation-funded UTEP Model Institutions forExcellence program. Some of the hardware used in the wind tunnel speed control system waspurchased using NASA funds through grant NAG4-150. National Instruments also provided theLabVIEW software used for this project as part of an educational software grant. This project has also indirectly benefited from funding provided by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program under grant DUE-9950723

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Bruce R. Dewey; Raymond Jacquot

buckling problems is integral to the study of civil, mechanical andaerospace engineering. The academic introduction to the bending of beams with constant crosssection is usually given to students of these disciplines early in the engineering curriculum in acourse in mechanics of materials. That which is presented here is not meant to supplant thefundamental understanding of the bending phenomenon but rather to provide an introduction tonumerical approximations often needed for real-world applications. It is important for students tofirst gain understanding of the static bending problems from an analytical and physical point ofview. Typical courses where static bending problems are encountered are structural analysis,advanced mechanics of materials

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Mark Smith

industry are, and how it can be used to monitor and control remote processes. Acase study of remote-control computing software in operation is also presented, describing howone off-the-shelf package was setup to monitor and control a plant floor production system.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control at its

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Robert Marine; Carol Colbeck; Alberto Cabrera

classes .86 Alpha = .80 Grants & Range = 1-5c received $100,000 in external funding for curriculum .77 publications Mean = 4.15 development, teaching innovation or education research Std.Dev. = .62 received $100,000 in external funding for basic or applied .86 Alpha = .81 engineering research published an article in a leading engineering research journal .83 published an article in a leading engineering education journal .71 Adequate Adequacy of the following resources in your college of

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Tak Cheung; David Lieberman

& Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”situations are an important aspect of any laboratory course. For engineering technology studentsthere is the additional requirement they gain some “hands-on” experience.At Queensborough Community College (QCC), with the support of the National ScienceFoundation (Advanced Technological Education grant award #DUE – 9752061), we developedand implemented a plan to make technology education more accessible. We have adaptedcourses in our Laser and Fiber-Optics Technology Program (LFOT) for distance learning. The“problem” of the laboratory is solved by remote-controlled laboratory equipment.There are three specialized courses in our LFOT curriculum

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Donald Goddard

Session 1566 Linking College Engineering Courses With High School Preparation Donald L. Goddard PhD PE The University of Texas at TylerAbstractA Report titled “Expanding the Technology Workforce”1 prepared by the Texas HigherEducation Coordinating Board found that : “…Texas Students are not being sufficiently informed nor prepared for some of the most interesting, challenging, and lucrative careers in the new economy”1 “The recruitment of top quality high school students to the engineering profession is an area

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Janet Schmidt; Ardie Walser; Barbara Bogue

campuses with a more diverse student population. Using the promotion of the ITOW workshop as a model we will examine whatone can do when trying to introduce a new idea (i.e. workshop, program, etc.) to anacademic body such as an engineering faculty. In this paper we describe the process ofimplementation of ITOW by facilitators on three different college campuses, the impacton those campuses, and document implementation problems and solutions. Two of thecampuses are majority institutions and the third is a minority institution. We will comparethe experiences of each of the facilitators and discuss the problems each campus faced inrunning a workshop of this nature and how these issues were resolved. The initialresponse to a workshop of this

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Judson Singer

.---------------------------------------------------------------------- A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume of the ball. The mathematician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral. The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement. The engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in his red-rubber-ball table. ________________________________________________________________ During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million. The pen

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Nand Jha; Bahman Litkouhi

decisions made during design of materials, manufacturing process, sizes, etc affect more than 75% of the LCC. Materials and manufacturing process used will affect the cost associated with reuse, recycle, disposal as well as environment. In industry, a life cycle cost design indicates that the first cost alone is not enough to evaluate fully an article for system, but that all costs occurred over the life of the system must be considered. A thermal system needs heavy financial investment and must include capital cost, operating cost, service and repair cost including total retirement cost. It has been found that due to governmental regulation, environmental concern and safety considerations, it is

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Raghu Korrapati; Nikunja Swain; Mrutyunjaya Swain; James A. Anderson

Engineering Laboratory (CBVEL). This CBVEL will help us inproviding an interdisciplinary Integrated Teaching and Learning experiences that integrates team-oriented, hands-on learning experiences throughout the engineering technology and sciencescurriculum, and engages students in the design and analysis process beginning with their first year. Thiswill modify our existing laboratories, and help us better educate and train our graduates to serve theneeds of the technological and engineering community. Students can use this CBVEL along with othersoftware and test equipment in engineering technology hall and in other buildings. This CBVEL canalso be accessed from remote sites using Internet

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Robert Anderson; Paul Duesing; Marty Zoerner; Kevin Schmaltz

the past fiveacademic years, nearly 220 multidisciplinary engineering seniors have completed 36projects, controlling budgets totaling approximately $1.1 million.This paper describes our continuing effort to involve industry with engineering education.The projects are proposed, funded and ultimately delivered to industry. An industrycontact person is the leader in determining the goals, the acceptance criteria, and theproject requirements. Communication between faculty, industry contact person andstudents is vital to ensure success. The faculty advisor is a coach, consultant, andevaluator of the students. The students will not graduate until they meet the criteriaspecified by the customer, i.e. the industrial contact, as well as the

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Fred Lee; Connie Dillon; Arthur Breipohl

material for the two new key courses and asimulator that will be made available to other universities on the web. The paper consists of: abrief description of the changes that are taking place in the electrical energy industry; their effecton the demand for graduates; the curriculum that we are developing; and a description of the twocourses and the simulator that we are developing. We also briefly describe our experiments withdelivery methods in anticipation of placing material on the web.I. The Changing Electrical Energy IndustryThe introduction of competition is the most significant change that is affecting the sale andproduction of electric energy. On the sales side, energy companies will eventually compete in anation-wide market for