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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

geometric construction exercises before movingon to 3D solid modeling activities approximately halfway through the semester. During the springof 2001, all laboratory activities will be completed using SolidWorks® 2000. Where in the pastmany of the CAD exercises have focused on creating documentation drawings, CAD exercises inthe revised course will emphasize modeling concepts. One of the goals of the course is havestudents understand the importance of having the 3D computer model as the focal point of thedesign and manufacturing processes.GeometryAs stated earlier, many faculty believe that using instruments to complete geometric constructionproblems is necessary for students to understand concepts such as tangency or locus of centers.This has been

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Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

chemicals and foam agents unites the fast flame control of the dry chemical with the cooling and sealing ability of foam to provide an efficient portable extinguishing system.11. Portable extinguishers–These are used in small fires since they can easily be transported and operated. Ideal placement would be in laboratories and pilot plant installations where fires of limited size can be anticipated.IV. ProblemsThe problem section from the Topic, Fires, Explosions, Toxic Emissions, andHazardous Spills is presented below. These essentially serve as the homeworkproblems for the topic in question.1. Calculate the upper and lower flammability limits of a gas mixture that consists of 50% methane, 10% ethane, and 40% pentane by volume.2

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Robin Burt; Krishna Athreya; K-Y. Daisy Fan

complexproject involving social and economic issues related to engineering in six two-hour sessions wasa significant challenge. Table 1 shows the ambitious project schedule. Table 1. Project schedule Day Activity or Task 1 Introduction to water quality management Walk along Cascadilla Creek—how to model a real waterway in one dimension 2 Mock town hall meeting—gather information on river system 3 Water quality analysis in the environmental engineering laboratory Water quality modeling—introduction to software DESERT 4 Water quality modeling—design and evaluate policies 5 Water quality modeling—design and evaluate policies

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Thomas Rich; James Baish

Engineering EducationStructural Forms - Structural Elements and Famous BuildingsVibrating Forms - Earthquakes, Auditorium, Musical InstrumentsFlowing Forms - Drag and Flow, Streamlining, Automobile StylingConnecting Forms - Graph Theory, Floor Plans, Network DesignFilling and Symmetric Forms - Packing, Patterns, Islamic ArtSelf-Similar Forms - Trees, Blood Vessels, Rivers, FractalsOrigins of Form – Growth, Diffusion, Adaptation, Evolution, ManufacturingPerception of Form – Natural and Artificial CognitionAesthetics of Form – Classic Proportions, Environmental AestheticsTable 1. Form and Function Class TopicsTour of Structural Testing Laboratory with Demonstration of Destructive Tensile TestDesign, Construction and Test of 18-inch Towers made of

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Abraham Michelen

several parameters are changed; even fullsimulation laboratory exercises can be created without a big effort. The author havedeveloped simulation labs for electronics and telecommunication courses that allow thestudents to study the behavior of systems without the need to use expensive orcomplicated equipments. In the next section we introduce an example of a finishedproblem, and in subsequent sections a tutorial is presented on how to build the GUIusing the Guide facility of MATLAB.II. Example: Amplitude ModulationThe following example illustrates the effect on the amplitude-modulated signal when thecoefficient of modulation is changed. Mathematically, the amplitude modulation (AM)process can be expressed as y(t) = [1

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Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

substituted for certain commoncourses. This phase of implementation was completed during the Spring 2001 semester.The third phase of implementation will focus on the advertising of the sustainableengineering initiative and recruiting students for the certification program. The committeeintends to secure a number of summer internships with UTEP’s industrial partners, stateand federal agencies, and national laboratories. All freshman courses revised under thesustainable/green engineering initiative will be offered in Fall 2001 and the two newcourses will be offered to upper-division students in Spring 2002. Page 6.359.11“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book; Douglas Ludlow

. • Perform gap analyses for individual students. Each student should have a report listing what outcomes she has mastered and which ones remain. The gap analysis assists in providing a personal development plan for each student.The final project goal is to redesign a traditional classroom for synchronous delivery of thelearning system. The most common classroom at UMR consists of a screen, chalkboard, anddesks or tables for the students. Audio/video carts are available on a reservation basis. Most cartscontain an overhead projector with one video projector in the department. Specific lectures thatrequire students to use some type of computer workstation are scheduled and held in a separatecomputer laboratory. The overhead projector is

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

offering an introduction tomanufacturing processes. The laboratory attempts to simulate a "real world" engineeringenvironment that presents its students with a product specification and requires them toprepare a preliminary proposal, form a project team and develop and construct a suitabledesign subject to performance and economic constraints. Beginning with the conceptdevelopment process and continuing on through competitive benchmarking, patentsearches and concluding with the product development, students are given a full designand manufacturing experience with an entrepreneurial bent. This experience, conductedin the relative security of an academic setting, is invaluable for budding professionalengineers.The class primarily consists of

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Victoria Aladejana; Gregory Payne; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

of 60% to 80% in 1996 6. To raise the number of engineering degrees awarded from 50 in 1993 to 80 in 1996 7. To graduate students from a program that incorporates a more applied, product-oriented curriculum. In pursuit of the third objective the SEM Summer Research / Trainee program was started twoyears ago to provide financial support to Morgan State University underrepresented minority students inscience, engineering and mathematics the opportunity to gain research experience by allowing them underthe supervision of a faculty member or professional scientist mentor at an industrial, governmental oruniversity laboratory site. The objectives of

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Rob Guardiola; Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

- 100%. INITIATIVE Setting Rating Engineering Coop/Intern workplace Full-time engineering employment workplace Classroom - Traditional setting Classroom - Laboratory setting Classroom - Capstone design setting Extracurricular Activities - Engineering profession related. Extracurricular Activities - Non-engineering profession related Figure 4. Assessment form for the ISU “Initiative” competency Page 6.383.7 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Joseph K. Hitt; Wayne Whiteman

degreerequirements, they were placed in the vibrations, system dynamics, and controls category.Otherwise, they were included as electives.A few programs listed instrumentation, experimentation, measurement, and laboratories asseparate course work. When these courses could be clearly tied to one of the defined technicalsubject areas, they were included in those respective categories. Otherwise, these courses wereagain included as electives.Many of the school’s web sites included a “typical course sequence” to satisfy the mechanicalengineering degree requirements. When this was the case, these layouts were used inrepresenting the general curriculum requirements for that institution.Figures 1 through 6 are graphs of the programs studied. These graphs include

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Judith Waalen; Malgorzata Zywno

the grade in a pre-requisite course and the Grade Point Average for the termimmediately before the course. Prior academic performance is a strong predictor of the expectedperformance in any course, and the expected course grade was assumed to be equal to the PAPmeasure. Thus, the difference between the actual course grade (CG), and the expected coursegrade, equal to PAP, may be used to evaluate the student’s performance in the course. We definedsuch difference as the Improvement in the Course (IC): IC = CG − PAPIf different offerings of the same course used the same evaluations, were taught by the sameinstructors, used the same laboratory setup, etc., the mean value of IC would stay at roughly

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Mohammad Naraghi; Bahman Litkouhi

, war game, etc.. Additionally, a number of ourstudents who decided to learn other languages, such as Fortran and C++, were able tolearn them quickly and easily, mostly via self-study. The programming skills that some Page 6.160.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationof these students gained from this course resulted in getting summer internships atprestigious laboratories, such as, NASA.Bibliography1. Beer, F.P. & Johnston, E.R, Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics and Dynamics, 6th Ed., McGraw

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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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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

has 25 years of engineeringexperience, including positions in academia, industry, the military, a government laboratory, and his own consultingbusiness. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmentat Tennessee Technological University. She received her B.S. from Mississippi State University and her M.S. andPh.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in industrial engineering. She has previously served on thefaculty at Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama and is a registered P.E. (Mississippi

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Philip Young

. Private communication with Professor Charles W. Smith, Department of Physics, University of Maine.3. URL: http://www.wright.edu/academics/physics/programs/bsegphys.htmPHILIP W. YOUNGPhilip W. Young is Professor of Engineering Physics and chair of the Department of Chemistry and EngineeringPhysics at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. He received his B.S. in Physics from Houghton College,Houghton, NY and his PhD in Physics from University of Colorado at Boulder. Besides his interest in engineeringphysics education, he has been involved in laboratory reform in the general physics lab for engineering students. Page 6.441.10

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Christine Noble; Karen Schmahl

, several computer laboratory sessions with excelspreadsheets were used to reinforce text content and perform sensitivity analyses. Several mini-cases were used in the course to reinforce the engineering applications of engineering economy.In order to actually demonstrate understanding and application of engineering economy theoryand concepts, a comprehensive case is assigned to the class towards the end of the semester.Effective application of engineering economic principles within an industrial setting requires notonly understanding and application of the subject matter, but effective communication andteamwork skills. To simulate this aspect, teams perform the final case analysis and presentfindings and recommendations in a poster session

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Joseph J. Delfino

. Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 2nd Ed.Belmont Cal.: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning (2000).JOSEPH J. DELFINOJoseph J. Delfino is Professor and Past Chairman of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the Universityof Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with aspecialty in Water Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at theUniversity of Florida, he was Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, where he was also Head of Environmental Sciences for the State Laboratory ofHygiene and Associate Director of the Water Resources Center. He teaches courses and conducts researchin water chemistry and water quality

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Bahador Ghahramani

Source Control Branch, Nonpoint Source Pollution The Nation's Largest Water Quality Problem, EPA841-F-960 0 4A. (URL: www.epa.ffov/owow/nps}[12] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Perspectives on Nonpoint Source Pollution, Proceedings of a National Conference: Kansas City, Missouri, 1985.Biography of the AuthorDr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was aDistinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His workexperience covers several years of academics, industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani haspresented and

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Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

-long Saturday training session: Teaching in a Laboratory, Effective Grading,Office Hours & Tutoring, Leading a Recitation, and The Wired Course (using technology in theclassroom). Training is completed with a small-group videotaping session in which TAs present a5-7 minute lecturette to an audience of three other TAs and a TA Fellow, and give constructivefeedback on each other’s videotaped presentation. Each workshop is 2-2.5 hours in length.Workshop size ranges from 15-35 TAs to one co-facilitation team (2 TA Fellows).3The multicultural awareness workshop—Teaching in a Diverse Classroom-- has been a keycomponent of the training of new engineering TAs since 1993. The workshop was added to theline-up at the request of TAs in the program

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Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

men from colleges and universities as diverse as Cornell, LouisianaTech, U.C. Berkeley, and Virginia Military Institute attended the ETW 2000 at USMA.III. Workshop ContentThe grueling schedule for the five-day workshop is shown in Figure 1. The workshop activitiescan be sub-classified into seminars, demonstration classes, laboratory exercises, and socialevents.Seminars: The course schedule for the 2000 ETW contained 13 Seminars which varied incontent and were designed to provide theoretical background, teaching hints, organizationalstructure, and communication techniques. A brief description of the seminars is offered in Table1. The format for the seminars is lecture, small group activities, and collaborative discussionwith an ExCEEd faculty

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

requirements." Next,the seniors are asked to evaluate on a 5-point Likert scale the effectiveness of laboratoryexperiences and computer based projects in each ABE core course. Seniors are also asked toevaluate the frequency and effectiveness of exposure to a variety of communication methods(e.g. e-mail, technical writing, business writing, oral communication). Finally the seniors areasked to evaluate their competency in using a number of computer tools (e.g. operating systems,spreadsheets, engineering computation tools, data acquisition tools). A free response section isavailable to the seniors to suggest improvements to the laboratory, computer, and communicationcomponents of the program. This part concludes with a free response section that allows

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Basavapatna Sridhara

strategy and different submission deadlines yielded some goodresults although course statistics showed that two students never used the course site. In this author’s opinion, web-based instruction is possible in areas such as humanities andliberal arts. Web-enhanced instruction can be adopted in Engineering Technology although itcannot replace interactive problem solving in the classroom and laboratory activities. FluidPower course site was developed while teaching a full load of ET courses and therefore, thisarticle gives only the salient features of web-enhanced instruction using CourseInfo.V. Conclusions Features such as Discussion Board, Virtual Chat, Student Pages and Group Pages werenot used effectively in the Fall of 2000

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Richard Upchurch; Judith Sims-Knight

to find the right path, are more effective thansituations in which they are simply told whether they are right or wrong.2 3 4 5Although there are strong and consistent findings that feedback improves immediateperformance under some circumstances, it is also clear that in some situations feedback isirrelevant and sometimes even harmful. In a meta-analysis of research in educational,organizational, and laboratory settings, Kluger and DeLisi3 found that in one-third of thecomparisons the feedback condition had worse performance than the group who was given nofeedback.Because so much of instructors’ time is spent giving students feedback by commenting

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David Probst

Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD, 2000.3. University Studies Handbook, Southeast Missouri State University. Also see http://ustudies.semo.edu .4. David K. Probst, “Advanced Laboratory as Liberal Education,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2001.DAVID K. PROBSTDr. David Probst is Chairman and Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Southeast Missouri StateUniversity. He received the B.S. degree in Physics from Thomas More College, the B.E.E. degree from Universityof Dayton, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University. He has ten years ofindustrial experience in photonics research and development at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St

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Haruo Sakamoto

and half of half real word experience such as product dissection or activities reported herein and half basic studies such as mathematics and physics. 5. In the 3rd and 4th years, a different type of education were conducted in a manner that students belong to an individual faculty research laboratory from the 3rd year. The education also stresses on action

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Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

laboratory at RIT. Theselaboratories are equipped with production scale equipment that is used for hands-on training and conducting appliedresearch projects for companies. Page 6.29.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education TU6SU DvvhrÃHhvÃ8BDTpvà GhqÃVrÃQth @rpv

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Stephen Zahorian; Sacharia Albin; William Swart

the extent possible, the academic content of the programshould be identical to that taken by students completing their entire degree at Old DominionUniversity. The only real issue was which courses would be taken at Rajagiri and which wouldbe taken at Old Dominion University. Ideally, the courses in the first two years (or three yearsfor the case of an MS program) of the regular curricular were to be taken at Rajagiri, and allcourses in the remaining two years were to be taken at Old Dominion University. The onlydifficulty with this basic strategy was that facilities at Rajagiri were not adequate for some ofthe engineering laboratories normally required by sophomores. Thus, it became necessary tomodify the ordering of some of the courses. In

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David Miller

) "Information about the Engineering Education Scholars Workshops is available on-line athttp://www.engr.wisc.edu/elc/eesp/". (13) "Information about the Stanford New Century Scholars Workshop can be found on-line athttp://www-ctl.stanford.edu/nsf/".DAVID C. MILLERDavid C. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He directsthe Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems Engineering at Michigan and is actively involved in studying theapplication of AI to the development of batch chemical processes. Dr. Miller received a B.S. degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an M.S. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from TheOhio State University

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Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

by using a hands-onapproach. This laboratory class employs a combination of reverse engineering of consumerproducts and design case studies. The aim is to introduce our students to engineering and designand to generate a first hand appreciation of the discipline. At the same time, students acquirebasic hand skills using wrenches, calipers, and other basic hand tools, they experience howproducts are assembled and designed.The main drawback of this approach is scalability. We offer this course to eight sections of 32students each, but this still only reaches 20 percent of entering engineering students. To addressthe issue of offering hands-on early design activities to all entering freshman, we have recentlydeveloped eight activities that