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Patricia Nava

technical experiences can be in a research group,the benefits of which are that students develop domain expertise, gain an understanding andappreciation of the research process and its practice, and acquire team, communication, problem-solving, and higher-level thinking skills. Students with this experience are better prepared toaddress the remainder of their undergraduate curriculum successfully, as well as being equippedto attend graduate school. This paper describes a model developed to engage students inundergraduate research and to deliver the benefits and responsibilities of a small research lab totheir hands. This model, based on the affinity group model, formalizes functional tasks withinthe lab as well as serving as a foundation for

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Kay Wilding; Claudia Grossman; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

the students continue with the company that provided them withtheir BA sponsorship. The industrial and business supporters of this unique educational programhave been pleased with the graduates of the Berufsakademie. Unlike most educationalinstitutions, a board of directors, consisting of both members of the Berufsakademie as well asindustry and business leaders, designs the curriculum for the BA.Founded in 1969, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis is an urban campus servinga population of over 27,000 traditional and non-traditional students. Students can study eitherfull-time or part-time, choosing from approximately 180 different degree programs. The IUPUIcampus houses a total of eighteen schools, sixteen Indiana University

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William Frey; Jose Cruz

assessment: how do we effectivelyassess different classroom exercises using ethical-empowerment as the standard?A. An Exercise in Ethical-Empowerment: Integrating Ethics in an Introduction toComputers CourseFaculty training through an "Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program in Ethics forBusiness, Science, and Engineering in the Puerto Rican Context (NSF grants SBR-9952958 and9810253) has helped us develop exercises for integrating ethics across the curriculum. Tworetreats and related activities provided the background for faculty to feel comfortable with theidea of integrating ethics into their courses. Some of the ideas developed were to considerethics content when adopting new textbooks, discuss topics in ethics earlier in the semester

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Jr., Eugene Niemi

mechanics and ocean engineering courses offered at the Lowell campus will beintegrated into the new program are described. The curriculum is currently in the developmentalphase and will be in place for the first class of students enrolling in the Fall of 2001. Theprogram fills a need for an offering of this type by a university in the public sector.II. GoalsThe IGS will offer education at the MS and PhD level to prepare students to work in areas ofmarine sciences and technology in industry, government, and academic settings. During the firstfive years of its operation, the IGS will strive to become a nationally and internationallyrecognized educational center of excellence contributing to scientific understanding,management, and the economic growth

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Scott Dennis; Jeff Ball; Martin Bowe; Daniel Jensen

MultiMedia Session 2793 A Student-Developed Teaching Demo of an Automatic Transmission Scott Dennis, Martin Bowe, Jeff Ball, and Dan Jensen Department of Engineering Mechanics US Air Force Academy, COAbstract The core curriculum at the United States Air Force Academy emphasizes the engineeringdisciplines. The capstone of the core curriculum is a unique engineering design course, Engr410—Engineering Systems Design, all cadets take regardless of academic major. In this course,sections of approximately 16-18 senior cadets are randomly grouped resulting in a diverse mix

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Tammi Robson; Tayeb Giuma

andsimulation exercises in its undergraduate curriculum. Theseexercises are designed to enrich and expand upon the theoreticalconcepts of each course. This paper describes the development ofa an interactive web-based microprocessor and applicationstutorial. The basic goal of this interactive web-based systemis to help students build an integrated understanding of thebasic concepts, functions and operations of microprocessors andtheir applications that are commonly covered in anundergraduate core electrical and/or computer engineeringcurriculum. Intuitive understanding is often associated withvisualization skills, and many students tend to spontaneouslyvisualize concepts and relationships while they are learning 7.Therefore, the emphasis in on the

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Ronald Roth

group of CSUC ME majors exists. The persistence of 50% of fall first-timefreshmen in ME prior to the first offering of the experimental course in fall 1990 suggests thatthe course may have a positive effect on reducing attrition.Bibliography1. Wanous, J. P., Organizational Entry: Recruitment, Selection, and Socialization of Newcomers. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (1980).2. Roth, B, Faste, R., Nelson, D., Wilde, D. & Adams, J., Integration of Creativity into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum: An NSF/ASEE Faculty Professional Development Workshop. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University (1989).3. Petroski H., To Engineer Is Human (video recording). Chicago, IL: Films Inc (1987).4. 21st Century Jet (video recording). Seattle

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John Watkins; Carl Wick; George Piper; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

mechanical,electrical, and computer systems. The curriculum focuses mainly on linear systems theory,feedback control, and mechatronics. An integral component of the Systems Engineeringcurriculum is its capstone design course. This course provides students with a comprehensivedesign experience bridging the gap between textbook problems and real life applications.Students work in teams to complete a semester-long design project. Each team must propose aproject, prepare schedules and reports of their activities, and design, build, and test a prototype.One of the many challenges facing students in this course is the selection of a project that ismeaningful and representative of their engineering discipline.For nearly a decade automotive manufacturers

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Tony Rogers; David Miller; Bruce Barna

simulation throughout the curriculum so that when startingsenior design, they have a good understanding of the benefits, limitations, and generalfunctionality of the process simulator. In practice, most students arrive in their senior designclasses without knowing how to use a simulator to help solve open-ended problems. In general,their experience has been with small, well-defined problems. To help alleviate this problem, ashort-term design project has been developed to teach the basics of process simulation within thecontext of analyzing an existing plant and suggesting process improvements. Specific goals ofthis project include (1) learn how to simulate a wide variety of unit operations, (2) learn benefitsand limitations of different

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Mark Smith

Session 0458 An Off-the-Shelf Approach to Remote Process Control Mark Smith Purdue University North CentralAbstractThis workshop presents remote process control over the Internet using remote-control computingsoftware. Remote-control computing software allows you to connect to remote computers fromyour computer and control those systems. You can monitor and control attached systemprocesses, provide problem solving assistance, upload and download files, and even changesystem parameters. In this session, participants will gain an understanding of what remote-control

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Philip Lau; Merredith Portsmore; Scott McNamara; Chris Rogers

levels entitled Pilot, allows children as youngas 4 to program while the higher level entitled Inventor has been used in 4th grade throughcollege. At the highest level, ROBOLAB allows users to control all the capabilities of the RCX.In addition, by integrating certain LabVIEW functionalities, users can also program or controlother RCXs via the Internet. ROBOLAB a relatively inexpensive piece of software to use at acost of $50 for an individual copy and $176 for a site license.3 Page 6.682.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition Copyright 2001, American Society of Engineering

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

freshman engineering design programs. For example, in 1993, Regan andMinderman [1] discussed the integration of design across the curriculum as part of the ECSELCoalition. Buccariarelli [2] discussed “EXCEL & the Integration of Design”. Calkins, Plumb,Chou, Hawkins, and Coney [3] showed how a team of teachers introduced freshman to designand communication skills. Howell [4] wrote about a new course that had vertical integration ofdesign concepts through the entire engineering curriculum to improve student retention.Chrzanowski [5] gave a student perspective on the Freshman Engineering Design Course atNJIT. Moore [6] et al showed the lack of consensus about the definition of the design processand the difference between design and simple problem

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Tycho Fredericks; Jorge Rodriguez

understanding of ergonomic andsafety applications. To prepare industrial and manufacturing engineering students for today’swork environment, courses should be geared toward developing a knowledge base to expandcareer opportunities and allow students the ability to move forward simultaneously withindustrial advancements. The goal of this project was to research and develop an Ergonomic andSafety curriculum together with the definition of a standard curriculum design process that willallow for ease in future implementation of programs independent of the area of study. The basisof the defined procedure is a survey of involved parties. The outcome of the project included acourse-specific Ergonomic and Safety curriculum. The proposed four-course/one-project

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Nikolaos Katopodes; Donald D. Carpenter

couple of techniques. This approach is more practicalsince students still get an appreciation for numerical solution techniques and applications withoutlaboring on the details of numerous methods they likely will never apply. Also, numerousstudies have indicated that a majority of undergraduate engineering students have a preferentiallyinductive learning style. The redesigned course should cater to a larger portion of the studentbody.As part of the restructuring, the instructors hope to better integrate the course material into therest of the civil engineering curriculum. This is accomplished by introducing a variety of civilengineering problems that should be covered in more detail in other courses. For example, thestudents now solve problems

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Steven de Haas; S.K. Ramesh; Preetham Kumar; Michael Fujita; Elizabeth Raley; Andrew Lindsay

out the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcuriosities within the participants and the motivation to continue studying subjects in physics andmathematics that will eventually lead them into the engineering curriculum at the university orcollege level.Logic Circuits SessionAn excellent laboratory exercise for an introduction to engineering course is one based on logiccircuits. The only preparation by way of background needed is introductory algebra. Booleanalgebra is used but for an introductory session what is needed can be taught easily in a shorttime. Most of the time is spent on wiring

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Jeffrey Mountain

experimental work augmented with presentationof simplified, analytical models and encouraging them to produce high quality products. Thisapproach appears to stimulate creative design skills and foster an enthusiasm for the designprocess. Further, students perceive this approach as being relevant to their academic endeavors.VII. Acknowledgements:The Rapid Prototyping equipment used in the development of our FOE sequence was supportedin part by the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation, CCLI-A&I track, award #DUE-9952364, "Integrating the Product Realization Process into a NewMechanical Engineering Curriculum."Bibliography1. Eide, Arvid R.,Jenison, Roland D., Mashaw, Lane H., and Northup, Larry L., Introduction to

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Molly Johnson; Cathie Scott; Cynthia Atman

approaches frame instruction as a presentation—a performancecentered on the course content—with little if any consideration of student perceptions about thecontent. It is becoming widely accepted that such traditional approaches promote limitedlearning, yet teaching practice in college classrooms is still dominated by this teacher-centeredstyle. A number of educators have addressed this problem in various forms in an attempt to teachfuture and current instructors about student-centered methodologies.1,2,3,4,5,6Learning (whether it is learning about engineering or learning about teaching) is a process inwhich students must relate a “new” view to their “old” view—that is, to relevant concepts theyalready know.7,8,9 As an example, one old view of the

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Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

together. Students assignright to users as the network administrator and then log on as various users to test theirsystem. Shull and Vescovi have noted that: “Unlike most physical sciences where laboratoryinstruction is accepted as integral to the student’s education, data communications andnetworking are often taught without the practically of the laboratory section” 8.Each workstation consists of a client and a server although students can connect to twoservers in the labs and also to the outside world via the Internet connection, when this isenabled by NIM staff. Each two-hour theory lecture is accompanied by an associated two-hour hands-on workshop where some of the ideas presented in the lecture can be put intopractice.Many NIM students had

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Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

courses.The project involved in developing a long term scalable system and a strong backbone whichconnects different kinds of resources and has an integrated system wherein any instructor can setup his own class, manage his own set of students and administer testing and evaluation methods.But unlike similar systems like WebCT or Blackboard, this system includes content so that theinstructor does not have to develop problems and it is freely available to all institutions. Thesystem has been used at University of Oklahoma (OU) where selected Dynamics and Static’sengineering courses are taught using laptop computers (required at OU with wireless networkconnection), CD-ROMs, and the Internet. This project involves giving all instructors theopportunity to

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Hakan Gurocak

Session 1526 eLabBook: An Electronic Laboratory Book on the Internet for Distance Delivery of Laboratory Experience Hakan Gurocak Manufacturing Engineering Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686Abstract: Many educators agree that integrating interactive modes of delivery into distanceeducation will significantly enhance the educational experience for students. This is especiallytrue in undergraduate engineering education

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Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

addresses many of the pedagogical, technical, attitudinal, andenvironmental challenges encountered by the educators in the process of developing, designing,and implementing an engineering course for online delivery at the University of Wyoming.IntroductionWith the advent of Web and Internet technology, engineering education is entering a new andchallenging age. One of our biggest challenges is integrating online technology and assessingthe outcome of our engineering curriculum. As most of us know, the Internet/World Wide Web(WWW) is a powerful tool, which provides unprecedented opportunities to expand and enhanceteaching/learning resources and environments. The information created is accessible on demandanytime, anywhere. Recent advances in

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Eli Fromm; Jack McGourty

approach of engineering and math, physics, chemistry or biology with engineering as the core topic. 7. Freshman/sophomore course credits in which the course encompasses an integrated approach of engineering and the humanities or social sciences. 8. Freshman/sophomore engineering students participating in formal instruction involving oral and written communications. 9. Freshman/sophomore engineering students participating in formal instruction involving professional issues of ethics and social responsibility. 10. Courses represented by items F1-F9 are a part of the regular (institutional issued) course/program catalog. 11. Gateway dollars spent on curriculum innovation and institutionalization initiatives for

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

1566data or programs located in different laboratories. Laboratory development is integrated to thepresent curriculum and this may point in the direction of multifunctional laboratories.Among the laboratories included in this report are: fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer,instrumentation of physical systems, propulsion laboratory, manufacturing lab and theautomatic controls lab.III. Inspiring Elements for Laboratory Development and AcquisitionThere are primarily four factors that inspired idea for development of an efficient laboratorysystem for the mechanical engineering program. First, the newness of the program offered anopportunity to start from a clean sheet of paper. Authors share the view that this isconsidered an advantage

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

Session 2360 A Global Concentration in Engineering Aparajita Mazumder, James Bean University of MichiganAbstractGlobalization of industry and academics has created the need for engineers with a stronginternational education. To ensure an in-depth global education, Michigan Engineering willbuild on best practices of existing programs to implement a Global Concentration that takesinto consideration the requirements of an engineering curriculum. This paper explores thedesign, development, implementation, and evaluation phases of the Global Concentration.Focus will be on five salient features: a) flexibility of the framework to enable all

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W. Doyle St.John

Session 3280 A Laboratory Course in Sensors W. Doyle St.John University of Wisconsin - PlattevilleAbstractA novel feature of our engineering physics program is a 2-credit laboratory course coveringsensors and sensor systems. The engineering physics program accentuates areas which aremultidisciplinary with an engineering curriculum emphasizing physics, electrical, andmechanical engineering. Following the advice of our industrial advisors, we have developed acourse which covers basic sensor technologies, sensor calibration and applications, as well

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Casey Preston; R. Mark Worden; Daina Briedis

reactionengineering to bioprocesses. While more detailed knowledge of the multidisciplinaryfeatures of this course could be gained by taking separate courses in reaction engineering,biochemistry, and microbiology, the biochemical engineering synthesizes the knowledgerequirements of the three areas in a way that allows the student to best combine theseparate disciplines. Even if an engineering student already has a good knowledge of cellgrowth, enzyme catalysis, and reaction modeling, it is not immediately apparent how thethree can be integrated without additional knowledge and application. Microbiologyclasses lead students to picture a cell as a massive, complex, and nearly indecipherableinterlocked system of reactions. In the biochemical engineering course

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Marie Plumb; Jerry Fong; Arnold Peskin

different departments, disciplines and organizations into a capstone curriculum experience, providing future students with an opportunity to draw on all their developing skills and knowledge, including general education as well as major-specific competencies.• To expose participating students to a range of experience, both technical and non-technical, not available at their home institutions.Faculty and students selected from the participating colleges in consultation with theidentified administrative support personnel will participate in summer internships atBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) developing relationships with existing BNL staffand BNL applied research projects. These faculty and students will

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William Hutzel

thermodynamics courses. Emerging technologies, such as fuel cells,could eventually become required reading. Even if a discussion of renewable energy does notsupplant conventional course topics, it can influence how thermodynamic courses are delivered.Energy conservation has become an ethic, a professional standard that should be an integral partof every energy decision.2 The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of how energy conservation andrenewable energy topics can be integrated into a traditional undergraduate thermodynamicscourse. The context of this discussion is a solar energy experiment that has been developed bythe Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at the West Lafayette campus of PurdueUniversity. The experiment

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Medhat Morcos; David Soldan

may be matched with a particular deliverymedium based on their learning styles and on their lives. For distance learning to succeed, ithas to have institutional reward systems that reflect distance-learning activity. This paperprovides a comprehensive review of the use of distance learning in engineering curricula andcontinuing education.I. IntroductionTechnology has enabled a radical shift in the way education for people of all ages can beaddressed. In an age of life-long learning and increasing globalization, distance learningalternatives appear destined to become even more important to educational institutions of alltypes. Distance learning technologies provide the means whereby learners can interact withpeers, resources, and experts

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S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

modern materialswhose processing and resulting properties are themselves an adjustable part of the design process. Both the designprocess and the engineering curricula used in educating designers can profit from an integration of the materialsscience and traditional mechanics of materials approaches, as opposed to an artificial separation of these twointerlinked disciplines.The Materials Science and Engineering department at MIT is large enough to offer its own Mechanics of Materialssubject, and this subject naturally seeks to blend the materials and mechanics aspects of the discipline. A series ofNSF-sponsored, web-available modules is being prepared to support this approach, along with Java applets andother electronic teaching aids. The paper