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Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

theteaching profession for the past 13 years, 3 years as a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Histeaching and research interests are in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Machine Vision, and CAD/CAM/CIM. Hehas published several papers, in these areas, in various national & international conferences and journals.Manian RamkumarManian Ramkumar is a faculty in the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Engineering Technology Department atthe Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. He teaches courses in CAD, CAM, CIM, FMS, robotics,surface mount electronics manufacturing, assembly automation, and controls for manufacturing automation. He wasinstrumental in developing the CIM and Surface Mount Electronics Manufacturing

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Leo Smith; Hisham Alnajjar; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Ladimer Nagurney; Devdas Shetty

by (i) Redesign of the Freshman Engineering coursesequence by incorporating Integrative Learning Blocks by involvement of faculty fromengineering, mathematics, physics, humanities and social sciences. (ii) Creation of a newEngineering Design course at Sophomore Year and the development of Integrative Learning witha course on Ethics in the Profession (iii) Redesign of a Junior Year Design course withIntegrated Learning with Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering. (iv) Partnership withindustry in the creation of real-life engineering projects for all Senior Capstone projects.The paper narrates the interdisciplinary focus taken by the project, involving faculty fromengineering, mathematics, humanities, etc. It has promoted new teaching

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Christopher Vondrachek; Joseph Hoffbeck

does, ahigh ratio usually indicates speech. The DSP compares the ratio to a threshold value, which wasdetermined from recorded speech and music, and, if the ratio is higher than the threshold,generates a signal that could be used to mute the speech. The technique was found to work wellwith the test signals used to find the threshold, but did not generalize very well to new music andspeech signals.I. IntroductionThe challenge in many courses is not in deciding how best to teach a topic, but in deciding howbest to motivate students so that they want to learn the material. The project described in thispaper is designed to show an interesting and useful application of DSP that requires little theory,and can be used to capture the interest of the

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Ranji Vaidyanathan; Todd Anderson; Ray Umashankar; Ramesh Sharma; Marlene Platero; Greg Artz; Chris Choi; Al Ortega

ofACR’s rapid prototyping business. Greg also collaborates with UA for teaching computer-aided design and rapidprototyping to undergraduate students by building prototype models of CAD files sent by the students to ACR.CHRISTOPHER Y. CHOIChristopher Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering of theUniversity of Arizona. Dr. Choi has established the Instructional Computer Laboratory and developed a courseentitled Introduction to Computer Aided Design and has introduced Rapid Prototyping in conjunction with the state-of-the-art CAD technology. Dr. Choi received a Ph.D. degree in M.E. from Colorado State University.ALFONSO ORTEGAAlfonso Ortega is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical

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Jerry A. Caskey

Department to students who want a background in environmental engineering. Thetopics covered include sedimentation, filtration(including micro and ultrafiltration), adsorption,ion exchange, and membrane separations. A laboratory project has been developed to makedrinking water out of raw sewage using sedimentation, granular filtration, carbon adsorption,deionization, ultrafiltration and chlorination. The project has had a natural appeal becausestudents easily relate to raw sewage and drinking water. The purification process wasconstructed using Plexiglass cylinders, Tygon tubing, peristaltic pumps and permanentlymounted on a 4 ft by 8 ft plywood panel. Water samples are taken after each unit operation andthe following tests performed: Suspended

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

extraction to disposal inthe life cycle of a product, the design process is where we make, or reflects where others make,the most important decisions; the decisions that determine most of the final product cost,3 and thedecisions that determine most of the ethical costs and benefits and to whom they accrue. It paysto do design well, but design is much bigger than our pursuit of profit, protection, or pleasure. Itis revolutionary behavior that has become routinized and institutionalized. Whether in theOlympics, in the laboratory, or on the operating table, we can no longer even decide wherehuman nature ends and technology begins. Every generation lives in a very new world withradically fewer natural species and many new technological species. Few, if

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Raymond Luebbers; R.A. Rodríguez-Solís; José Colom-Ustáriz

from UMASS at Amherst. His research interest aremicrowave circuits, microwave remote sensing, and numerical methods for electromagnetics. He is currently thecoordinator of the COOP program at the ECE Department and the IAP coordinator. He teaches courses in the areaof Applied Electromagnetics and basic circuit analysis.RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ SOLISHe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Penn State University and an MSEE from the University of Florida. His research interest are microwavebroadband antennas, microwave circuits, high frequency simulations, and numerical methods for electromagnetics.He is currently the director of the Radiation Laboratory, which is sponsored

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Matthew Ohland; Cynthia Finelli

All Study O&F 20 0 10 10 0 5 15 L&O II 17 0 11 6 11 6 0 L&O I 21 1 11 9 12 9 0III. Team activities and the cooperative learning environmentBoth courses in this study required team homework assignments. In addition, the first course(ECE 412) included three team laboratory assignments and a final team project, while the secondcourse (ECE 440) included a final team project. Students were expected to meet outside of nor-mal class hours to complete the assignments, and they were

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Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

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Joseph Wunderlich

; ModelingPhysical Systems". The first case study is a required semester project; the second case study is alecture example. The third case study is also from a course taught to juniors and seniors inComputer Engineering and Computer Science at Elizabethtown College ("Digital Design andInterfacing"), and is taught as a lecture example with students given the opportunity to buildNeural Network hardware during the laboratory part of the course.II. Case study #1: Mobile robots in a constrained space1) Define problem: The following problem was assigned to three groups of four students in thecourse: "Simulation & Modeling Physical Systems" at Elizabethtown College: 1"Program a real-time controlled mobile robot to seek a light source in a four-foot by four

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; William LeBold; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie

successful. Onemechanism used in the large (1400 students) first semester computer course is a mid-semesterevaluation. The students are asked to evaluate their graduate and undergraduate teachingassistants, the course coordination, and the effectiveness of the student teaming experience.Results are returned to the Director of Laboratory Instruction. In this way, teaching assistantsissues are dealt with in a timely manner and corrected mid-semester.Another mechanism that has proven effective in the large-classes is the use of class-representatives. One student is chosen from each recitation or lab division. The representativesmeet with the lecture instructor once a week to provide feedback from the lab section on the

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William Frey; Jose Cruz

channel it toward the beneficial side of the ethics equation.At our university (UPRM) we empower students through what we teach them. Many willbecome leaders in Puerto Rico; yet we have not taken any formal measures to ensure that thispower will be exercised beneficially.Another sense of empowerment can be gleaned from case #3. We will call this agent-empowerment, since the principal in the agent-principal relation creates this form ofempowerment. The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics8 provides a usefuland provocative definition of agent-empowerment: [Common to definitions of empowerment] is the idea of providing people the "power" necessary to fulfill their job responsibilities without having to secure approval

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Raymond Kliewer

professionalism. Itis impossible to have a good program without these characteristics in faculty members.Care needs to be taken to insure that these characteristics are not punished. The facultyas a group must take the blame for poor performance. After all, the faculty as a groupshould run each program. Of course, courses can be taught where there is little learningdue to poor instruction. But, problems can arise from a myriad of other complicated andinterrelated factors too. These include too little emphasis on the subject in terms of credithours, students being poorly prepared to take the course, a student population inherentlymore gifted or interested in some areas than others, weak students in general, poorteaching facilities, poor teaching schedules

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

taken in Chinese/Mexican/English Chinese, Mexican China, Mexico or UK industry (6 credits) (8 credits) Or• Chinese/European/ • Hands-on laboratory • International Mexican Technology experience (1 credit) internship placement Management (4 credits) • Chinese/Mexican/ in China/Mexico/UK• Manufacturing in China, European Civilization through IAESTE or UK and Mexico (4 credits) Course (3 credits) AIESEC

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Rebecca Blust

• Inequities in school funding (especially in urban areas with high numbers of economically disadvantaged families) • Less access to science and mathematics education. • Less access to qualified teachers in mathematics and science courses. • Instructional emphasis in minority classrooms focus upon preparing students for standardized tests rather than for further study in math and science curriculums. 4Recognizing these problems, schools must make changes in teaching styles and informationalprograms that target student interest at the middle and high school levels. For example,educators must ensure that minority students receive the same quality of education in math andscience courses. The design intent and

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Russell Barton; Mary Frecker; Joseph Goldberg; Gary Stump; Britt Holewinski; Timothy Simpson

of Michigan. She has also heldengineering positions at General Motors and Ford Motor Company.TIMOTHY W. SIMPSONTimothy W. Simpson is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering with a joint appointment in Industrial &Manufacturing Engineering. He is a member of ASME, AIAA, and ASEE and is actively involved with the ProductRealization Minor at Penn State. Dr. Simpson received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from CornellUniversity in 1994 and a M.S. degree in 1995 and a Ph.D. degree in 1998 in Mechanical Engineering from theGeorgia Institute of Technology.JOSEPH GOLDBERGJoseph Goldberg is an Associated Professor in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering. He teaches and conductsresearch in the field of Human Factors

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James Thom; Caroline Hoy; Raymond Thompson

mentality,acceptance of women in Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationthe workplace is substantially improved. Gender inequities in the teaching of math andsciences at the high schools have been recognized as a factor. That factor has been addressednationally in recent years. At the dawn of the new century, what appears to remain as a barrierto the entry of many women into technical career fields is an inherent lack of initial interest inthese fields from the women themselves. Empirical evidence and direct interviews with manyyoung women reveals a distinct disinterest in entering many engineering

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Mort Isaacson; Francis Di Bella

Session 2525 Engineering Design Lessons Taught and Learned: The Sandman Project An Example of the Teaching of the Design Process Methodology  Design = ∫ (Art + Eng.)•d(science) + exp(time) Francis A. Di Bella, P.E, Assistant Prof. (617-373-5240, fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Northeastern University, School of Engineering Technology with contributions from Prof. Mort Isaacson, PhD

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Robert Kee; Jean-Pierre Delplanque

paradigm proposed here combines the advantages of laboratory teaching (e.g., hands-on experience) with an effective teaching of scientific methods and problem solving [1]. Ofcourse, a primary benefit of this method is that students play an active role in tackling ab-stract concepts, which have not been traditionally conducive to such participation. Further-more, these exercises result in an improved competency of the students in using spreadsheetsfor engineering purposes, thus preparing them better for their future professional endeav-ors. [1] The novelty of the proposed technique resides in its objective to illustrate abstractconcepts. This is a departure from prior efforts to use spreadsheets, CFD, or software toolssuch as Mathcad in the engineering

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Ronna Turner; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

has produced manyvery successful and innovative graduates. In a survey of aerospace professionals in laboratory,academe, and industry, it was noted that the respondents were not in favor of eliminating currenttechnical discipline boundaries as the base background for a student, but they did feel that theyshould be involved in interdisciplinary educational activities such as team design and teamproblem solving sessions1.The University of Arkansas Physics department has recently redefined the academic requirementsfor their degrees to allow more curriculum flexibility, allowing students to better tailor acurriculum for their career goals. At the Master of Science level, a MS Physics degree requiring acore physics block and all physics electives

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Vipin Kumar; Margaret Wheeler; Gregory Branch

’ minds and the structure in the subject matter. Metaphors,examples, and demonstrations are the elements of the bridge,” (Mckeachie, 1994). LaterMcKeachie says “From the standpoint of theory, the activity of the student, the sensorimotornature of the experience, and the individualization of laboratory instruction should contributepositively to learning.”A note about the lectures required is appropriate; Many Machine Design texts leave one or bothof these labs’ subject areas out of their coverage. Last year, one of this paper’s authors surveyedthe coverage of torsion loads by six common Machine Design Texts. He rated only three of thesix as giving complete torsional coverage, one as giving inadequate partial coverage, and two astotally inadequate

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Thomas Edgar; John Wood; John Fowler; Hong Xiao; Fabian Lopez; Dave Hata; Bassam Matar

-training techniciansand engineers. The modules cover lithography, metalization, etch, chemical vapor deposition,statistical process control and design of experiments. Over 280 students have used the modules,in CD-format, in a variety of teaching settings, with expanded deployment in progress. The participating organizations include the Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque TechnicalVocational Institute, Maricopa County Community College District, Austin Community College,Arizona State Univ., Univ. of Texas-Austin, plus a curriculum consultant, an industrial advisoryboard, and industry partners.2. Introduction The relationship of technicians and engineers in the semiconductor manufacturing industryis somewhat unique in the manufacturing workforce

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Matthew Morley; Jody Redepenning; Bruce Dvorak

freshmansequence (with Chemistry 113) for physical science and chemical engineering majors. Thecourse is focused on chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, ionic solution equilibria, introductorythermodynamics, and the chemistry of selected elements. Chemistry 116, “QuantitativeChemistry Laboratory,” is a two-credit course that is taken in parallel with Chemistry 114. Thecourse serves as an introduction to quantitative analytical methods, especially acid-base andredox titimetry, gravimetry, use of pH meter, separations, and analytical spectrophotometry.Description of CIVE/BSEN 326 All Civil Engineers are required to take the 3-credit hour Civil Engineering (CIVE) 326(Introduction to Environmental Engineering) course. CIVE 326 is cross-listed as

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Stephen McClain; Soon-Seng Tang; Louay Chamra

Society LOUAY M CHAMRA Dr. Chamra received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, his MS at University of Portland, and his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. He has worked as a Research Associate at Penn State University. Currently, he is an assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the thermal sciences and conducts related research. Since joining the faculty, Dr. Chamra has developed two new courses. STEPHEN T. MCCLAIN Stephen T. McClain is a Lecturer and Undergraduate Laboratory Manager at Mississippi State University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Memphis in 1995, and he