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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

Session 2002-109section of Introduction to Systems Engineering (a Freshman introductory course).13, 14This course was similar in form to that offered by U. S. Coast Guard’s program. 4 FiveUALR students and one Hendrix student participated in this course. Although the coursemet with limited success, it illustrated many of the pit-falls associated with connecting anintroductory course with FIRST.We assumed that the pre-college students on successful FIRST teams were performingsome useful role in the design process. Therefore, Freshmen engineering students shouldbe able to participate. In reality, most corporate teams assign a large engineering staff toperform the design and allow their pre-college students to “shadow” the engineers. Theyounger

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hamid Hadim; Sven Esche

- based versus lecture-based learning. Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 24 - 27, 2001, Albuquerque, NM, USA, Session 2213 (2001).6. R. J. Roedel, M. Kawski, R. B. Doak, M. Politano, S. Duerden, M. Green, J. Kelly, D. Linder and D. Evans, An integrated project-based, introductory course in calculus, physics, English and engineering. Proceedings of the 1995 25th Annual Conference on Frontiers in Education, November 1 - 4, 1995, Atlanta, GA, USA, 530-535 (1995).7. D. A. Lopez, Project based instruction in manufacturing: a new approach. Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 15 - 18, 1997, Milwaukee, WI, USA, Session 2348 (1997).8. J. E. Weller, V. Kumar

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

Tracking Sheet Page 7.326.13 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” X–File Electrical & Computer Engineering Department No.: XF_SAM_00_001 Date: 5/24/2000 ECE Goal/s : Develop agile technologists

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mina Hoorfar; Homayoun Najjaran; William Cleghorn

in Fig. 6, the schematic of thecam and follower may be shown in any desired cam orientation. The rotation and animation toolsare other features of the program that help the students to obtain a better imagination of theperformance of the system designed. S e Y Y rr rb X rb (a) (b) Fig. 4 Cam and Follower Systems (a) Pivoting flat

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3563 INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION OF THE GREENFIELD COALITION’S CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE Ece Yaprak, Attila Yaprak, Mulchand S Rathod Division of Engineering Technology/Business School/Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University, Detroit, MichiganSUMMARY In most capstone design courses, students go through the complete design processstarting with a description of the problem and ending with a prototype. Many schools haveone or two-semester-long classes where students work in groups or individually. Thecapstone design course in the Division

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Duff

Session 2793 Experiences with a Paced Web-Taught Course in Numerical Methods in Engineering William S. Duff Department of Mechanical Engineering Colorado State UniversityI. Introduction and BackgroundIn the fall semester 2000 we instituted a paced completely Internet taught sophomore level numericalmethods course for engineers. Prior to this, in the fall 1999 and spring 2000 semesters, the course wastaught in a completely traditional manner. The transition to an Internet course was made in a

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Paradis

starting from the signing of the contract to the final deliveryof the project. Students are grouped in teams representing the consultants, the generalcontractor(s) and the subcontractor(s). The teacher represents the owner(s). During the semesterthe teacher creates situation where the students have to use all their knowledge to solve theproblems. At the end of each activity, the teacher reviews the events with the students andcomments if necessary1. We have been organising this course for the last five years using astandard class room and a computer laboratory for the part of the work involving computersoftware. Recently we decided to design a special laboratory that would be used for this courseand for other project management courses involving

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicole DeJong Okaniti

subsequent weekly homeworkassignments, students are required to complete a minimum of one problem per week using EES.This process familiarizes the students with the program before the project(s) start, allowing themto focus more on the optimization process. In addition, the students can start to look at how toanalyze the effects of properties on their system. For example, the students could be required toplot thermal efficiency verses compression ratio for a simple Otto cycle homework problem.Then by the time the first project is introduced, looking at the effect of cycle properties on itsperformance will not be a new concept. When the first project starts, a second class period isspent in the computer lab where students are taught to use parametric

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” · An energy source forces a constant current of 2 A to flow through a light bulb for 10 s. If 2.3 kJ is given off in the form of light and heat energy, the voltage drop across the bulb will be e) 230V f) 115V g) 110V h) None of the above · A stove element draws 15A when connected to a 120 V line. In order to consume an energy of 30 kJ, the connection must last for: i) 33.3 s j) 66.6 s k) 16.67 s l) None of the aboveLevel 2. Problems that require the executing of a basic procedure

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

wesee that: (V pm + Vts ) X s = V pm X perfectmixing + Vts X totalsegregation (10)But, we already defined Xperfectmixing as 0, and Xtotalsegregation as 1. So, this reduces to thefollowing: (V pm + Vts ) X s = Vts (11)The micromixedness ratio (α) is defined as: V pm α= (12) VtsCombining Equation 11 with Equation 12, we get (1 − X s ) α

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jim Richardson

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

, Dec. 1999.4. Tryggvason, G., M. Thouless, D. Dutta, S. L. Ceccio and D. M. Tilbury, “The New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum at the University of Michigan,” Journal of Engineering Educ., Vol. 90, No. 3, 2001, pp. 437-444.5. Hocken, R. J., UNC-Charlotte, Personal Communication, Nov. 1999.6. Otto, K. N. and K. L. Wood, “Designing the Design Course Sequence,” Mechanical Engineering Design, Nov. 1999, pp. 39-42.7. Kalpakjian, S. and S. R. Schmid, Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2000.8. Ulrich, K. T. and S. D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1999.Author BiographiesMICHELE H. MILLER is an Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University where she

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Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Nippert

Page 7.998.1Laboratory is the subject the subject of another paper (3). Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSimulation of a Single Input Single Output (SISO) ProcessThis process consists of a constant volume tank in which a solvent and solute are mixed.A steady dead time is caused by delay in analysis of the mixed stream. The screen for theprocess is shown in figure 1.The valve response to a change in the signal can be approximated by a first order lag. dS = K (MV - S) (1) dtwhere K = the valve time

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

input terminals is equal to RsVab = Vs Rs + Rab Page 7.800.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFor an open circuit, R s ~ ¥ such that V ab = V s = 5 V. The corresponding raw value is 1023. For ashort circuit, Rab ~ 0 such that V ab = 0. The corresponding raw value is 0. Thus, the relationshipbetween the raw value and the voltage across the input terminals is: VabRAW = 1023 Vs Outputs

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Crowe; Sally Schwartz; Mary Marrs; Luis Occeña; Jose Zayas-Castro; Douglas Moesel; Cathleen Burns; Bin Wu

Session 3454 EMILE: A concerted tech-based entrepreneurship effort between Engineering and Business José L. Zayas-Castro, Cathleen S. Burns, Thomas J. Crowe, Mary E. Marrs, Douglas D. Moesel, Luis G. Occeña, Sally S. Schwartz, Bin Wu University of Missouri-ColumbiaAbstractBeginning in the fall of 1999 a team of faculty from engineering and from business at theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia joined efforts to address the following question: How can weadapt and build upon the work of other universities to close some of the competency gaps forthose students hired as

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

Education, vol. 32,no. 3, pp. 411-413, August 1989.[5] Lego Website: http://mindstorms.lego.com/[6] M. P. Driscoll, Psychology of Learning for Instruction, 1st ed. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1994.[7] J. S. Bruner, “The Act of Discovery”, Harvard Educational Review, vol. 31, pp. 21-32., 1961.[8] P. Corbeil, “Learning From the Children: Practical and Theoretical Reflections on Playing and Learning”,Simulation and Gaming, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 163-180, June 1999.[9] J. S. Brown, A. Collins and P. Duguid, “Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning”, EducationalResearcher, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 32-42, February 1989.[10] B. Beatty, Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to thePresent, New Haven, CT: Yale

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal

Session 2793 Paper 910 TEACHING PROBLEM SOLVING IN AN INTEGRATED MATHEMATICS-WRITING CURRICULUM Natalie D. Segal, Sallie S. Townsend S.I. Ward College of Technology at the University of HartfordABSTRACT: It is crucial that students realize that solving equations and writing papersare not exercises done to please teachers, that equations represent real-world events, thatthe process of writing a paper reflects the process of reporting information, that problem-solving is what adults do on the job. Consequently

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

, above and below this maximum allowed sampling period. Page 7.185.9 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Part 2 (use MATLAB, HP54645A Oscilloscope, HP33120A Function Generator and HP8591EMEMC Analyzer/ HP Infinium Oscilloscope/ HP 54657A FFT Module)Perform the following: • Synthesize a bandpass AM signal, s(t) = Ac[1 + Amcos(2πfmt)]cos(2πfct) where fm = 5 kHz and fc = 25 kHz. • Obtain and plot the spectral components of this signal using: o Matlab's

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

. However, they are academically still at risk because of deficiencies in their educational background. Thesupport course is designed to redress and enhance students' concept of the fundament als underpinning a study incalculus, to aid the development of personal, academic and communication skills and to give the students basicskills in information technology. The main pedagogical approach is aimed at developing the full academicpotential of the students. The study focused on determining students' learning preferences, their study orientationin mathematics and the development of writing skills relevant for engineering. The Herrmann Brain DominanceInstrument was used to determine the student s' thinking style preferences. This information was used

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

in Niedersachsen and invited those interestedto participate in the student exchange program and in VaNTH. This program was funded in theU. S. by the NSF as an extension of the VaNTH ERC, and in Germany through the CDG andGDF.The purposes of the partnership from the standpoint of VaNTH are to take advantage of anopportunity to extend the base of VaNTH knowledge domains beyond the expertise of currentVaNTH participants and partners and to expose an important segment of the European scientificcommunity to VaNTH by facilitating faculty and student interchanges between VaNTH and thebiotechnology community in Niedersachsen, Germany. The purposes from the Germanstandpoint are to extend the visibility of the Niedersachsen biotechnology community

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nathaniel Whitmal

faculty during “Project Presentation Day,” which is held every year in April. · Outside of basic distribution requirements, there are no requ ired courses at WPI. Instead, WPI students have the freedom to select electives that help to build expertise in their area(s) of interest and prepare them for the MQP.In the 1999-2000 academic year, WPI's undergraduate sequence in signals and systems co nsistedof two traditional courses: EE 2311 (Continuous-Time Signals), and EE 2312 (Discrete-TimeSignals). At that time, EE 2312 was the department's only DSP -oriented undergraduate course.A survey conducted in the 1999-2000 B-term session of EE 2312 indicated near-unanimityamong 45 students, who felt that a more direct link

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Integrating Math and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

0 - P/2Moment Diagram Mmax = PL/4 M(x) = Px/2 M(x) = PL/2 - Px/2 0 Figure 2: Simply supported beam with central loadThe flexural bending stress, s(x), is proportional to the bending moment, M(x), and inverselyproportional to the section modulus, Z(x) as shown in equation 1 from Shigley, Mischke 1. s(x) = M(x) / Z(x) Eq 1For a constant cross-section beam, the section

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariesa Crow; Karen Butler-Purry; Noel Schulz

Science departments), seventeen (53%) of thewomen have left the university. While faculty members of all academic ranks have left UM-Rolla, there is a far greater percentage of women faculty members who leave early in theircareers than men.A preliminary study of the poor retention of women faculty has yielded several trends. On thepositive side, the Engineering and Science (E/S) women faculty are successful comparable totheir men colleagues. This conclusion is based on qualitative and quantitative metrics such asleadership positions, national awards and recognition, external funding levels, and scholarlypublications. Of the fourteen E/S women faculty, four hold significant leadership positions: oneis a department chair, one is the Director of an

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

Session 2630 Engineering Student Design Processes: Looking at Evaluation Practices Across Problems Monica E. Cardella 1, Cynthia J. Atman 1,2, Robin S. Adams 1, and Jennifer Turns1,3 1 Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching/ 2Department of Industrial Engineering/ 3Department of Technical Communication University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonAbstractThe act of evaluating solutions is a common engineering design activity. Over the past eightyears we have used

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ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Currin

the curriculumincluding those areas beyond which the department has co ntrol or is it only those areas within thedepartment s area of responsibility? We found these to be extremely difficult questions to answer.While outcomes assessment is meant to improve the program in its entirety, realistically dealingwith other departments and programs to facilitate changes is difficult if not impossible. This Page 7.1125.2affected our ability to develop the list of learning outcomes to be evaluated. Recognition thateven if a weakness were found that it would be nearly impossible to bring about a change causedus to avoid including those learning

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

Page 7.711.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSimulated Industrial Environment:To provide a realistic semblance of the working environment, our entire program is taught in asimulated industrial environment. For example, faculty members are assigned roles ofdepartment managers in a fictitious electronics company called Abatech Tools, Inc. , andstudents are viewed and treated as trainee technicians of that company. On their first day on thejob , they are provided a booklet outlining the Company s expectations and guidelines regardingtheir work duties, attendance requirements and other Company

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Budwig; Beyerlein Steve; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Donald Elger

Session 1526 Design of a Wind Tunnel Facility for Hands-on Use by Beginning Engineering Students J. Matthew Cunnington, Levi J. Westra, Steven W. Beyerlein, Ralph S. Budwig, Donald F. Elger University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering Moscow, ID 83844-0902AbstractThe best way to learn engineering is by doing engineering. To foster appropriate types ofexperiential learning, we have created a unique project called a Design for Lifetime Learning(DL2) project. This paper addresses

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Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Munro

variability can be introduced by specifying any of the following: · the flow rate, · the location and height of the discharge flow(s), · by the number of operating hours per year, · the annual depreciation rate, · the cost of electrical power, · the inclusion of certain valves, flow meters, spray nozzles, or other fittings in the design · the inclusion of a permanently mounted piping loop in the laboratory. · Cost factors for different pipe sizes, or detailed costs of each piping component. For practical reasons, water is always the liquid to be transported, but it may be possible to adjust the viscosity of the liquid by the addition of small amounts of polymeric solutes. The student

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Olakunle Harrison

instruction. The lab provides a host of subassemblies that can be used for Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Course: Mechanical Design Course: Theory of Machines Ç ö Gear Design * ö § Linkages * Spring Design Ç Gear Trains Ä Brakes s Cams Course: Heat Transfer g n s ã Heat Exchanger Analysis gs ã Heat

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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anil Saigal; Vincent Manno

ofindustry-university partnerships. Up until the late 1960’s, these interactions focused on educationprograms such as apprenticeships leading to associates degrees. Growing emphasis ongovernment-sponsored research and full-time undergraduate study directly after high schoolreduced the organization and substance of industrial interactions during the 1970’s and the early1980’s. This paradigm began to change around 1985 and new partnerships have continued toexpand to this day. One major influence that stimulated this reengagement was the growth andintegration of manufacturing engineering within the mechanical engineering curriculum,instigated by renewed industrial interest in sponsoring employees for continuing education tokeep current with changing