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2001 Annual Conference

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

 2001, American Society for Engineering Education SURVEY OF AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING GRADUATES Demographic Information 1. Male Female 2. Graduation Date: 1995-1999 1990-1994 1985-1989 1980-1984 1975-1979 1970-1974 1965-1969 1960-1964 1955-1959 1950-1954 1945-1949 1940-1944 1935-1939 1930-1934 Professional Experience 3. Do you hold an FAA A&P certificate? Yes No 4. What is the highest degree you now hold? Bachelors Masters Doctorate 5. In what field is your highest degree? (check all that apply) Aeronautics (AME) Engineering Technology

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sean P. Brophy; Robert Roselli

areencouraged to consult with other people and other resources throughout this process, andrelevant lecture material is provided, both in the classroom and on the web site. Hence, this stepinvolves all four aspects of the HPL framework. Once they have mastered the material bymeeting the challenge, they move to the final step, termed "Go Public". This is their opportunityto show that they understand the principles (summative assessment) by showing that they cansolve a different problem that uses the same concepts (for example, solving the inverse iron crossproblem).Another new tool we have introduced into this course which promotes formative assessment isthe use of a Personal Response System (PRS)4. This system consists of a receiver wired to

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2001 Annual Conference

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Christopher Pionke; Christopher Williams; Karen Chou

given the opportunity to gain competency in the topic of tensileconnections.Bibliography1. URL: http://ftp.usma.edu/cme/civilsoft.htm; United States Military Academy. BridgeDesigner for Windows 3.1, 95, 98.2. Load & Resistance Factor Design Volume 1. 2nd edition Chicago: American Institute ofSteel Construction, 1995.3. Kroeger, O., and Thuesen, J.M. Type Talk At Work. New York: Dell Publishing,1992.4. Williams, C.A. The Development of the Tension Connection Analyzer a Computer AidedTeaching Tool for Connection Analysis and Design, Master Thesis, the University of Tennessee,2000.CHRISTOPHER A. WILLIAMSChristopher Williams received both B.S. and M.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Tennessee with amajor in structural

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2001 Annual Conference

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Wayne Walter; Paul Stiebitz

Consortium for Product Development Leadership in the 21stCentury (PD21), customizes course materials and elective courses to meet the needs of theirrespective constituency. The program balances technical and business perspectives in an effortto provide technical leaders with the skills and knowledge to create best-in-class productportfolios.The program at RIT, known as the Masters in Product Development (MPD), is a joint effortbetween the College of Business and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. In addition to acourse in Leadership in Product Development, the core of the curriculum consists of threesystems design and management courses: Systems Engineering (SE), Systems Architecture (SA),and Systems and Project Management. Students are also

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2001 Annual Conference

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Raghu Echempati

) level, which means that both graduates andundergraduates can take this course. The undergraduates taking this course may also receivegraduate credits if they choose to do Masters at KU. The enrollment in this course steadilyincreased (from 3 to 11) in the past 4 to 5 terms, including the term in which this course wasoffered as a “Pilot Course”. The computational facilities although still limited for this course, havealso been upgraded and students now use the faster computers with larger disk quota per student.The number of computer laboratory experiments was increased from three or four to six differentexperiments – 3 experiments based on one-step solver (PAM-QuickStamp©) and the other threebased on incremental solver (DYNAFORM©). The overall

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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

regional industries and government must continuously develop their innovative capacity(intellectual property) to stay competitive and sustain economic growth. Graduate educationmust reflect this change, understand the new relationships between customer needs, directedscientific research, and engineering/technology leadership. For the U.S. to sustain globalcompetitiveness, traditional graduate studies must undergo educational reform. The three broadmandates for this collaborative effort are: • To create new models of needs-driven, professionally oriented graduate education through the master and doctoral levels that better support engineering and technology innovation. • To involve industry and government as key partners in

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2000 Annual Conference

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William E. Murphy; Jimmy L. Smart; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

were distant from the major research institutions. One of the firstcompressed video (CV) links to the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington was fromPaducah Community College. This link was established to satisfy an expressed need for graduateengineering and education courses. Graduate level courses have been offered in both masters anddoctoral degree programs. A cohort class of about 30 students recently completed their EdDdegree programs through the use of CV for all course work. There are currently more than a dozencommunity colleges and regional universities connected with the University of Kentucky CV Page 5.221.5system. The entire

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2000 Annual Conference

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Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

video (CV)links to the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington was from Paducah Community College. Thislink was established to satisfy an expressed need for graduate engineering and education courses.Graduate level courses have been offered in both masters and doctoral degree programs. A class ofabout 30 students recently completed their EdD degree programs through the use of CV for allcoursework. There are currently more than a dozen community colleges and regional universitiesconnected with the University of Kentucky CV system. The entire Kentucky Telelinking Network hasapproximately 140 fully equipped interactive video rooms.As an extension of the engineering programs on the UK campus in Lexington, it was obvious that theuse of CV would

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2000 Annual Conference

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Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

remaining years of the coalition. A compilation of incentives and rewards has been developed and distributed to faculty throughout the coalition.Assessment of the faculty development program has several components. Attendance at allcoalition-wide and local campus FD events is monitored, and a master list is being compiled ofparticipating faculty members. The goal is to achieve a coalition-wide participation of 60% ofall full-time faculty members. The quality of each event is also assessed by means of a writtenevaluation form.The principal vehicle for assessment of the faculty development program is a coalition-widesurvey on faculty teaching practices and attitudes about the campus climate for teaching.3 Thesurvey was administered in 1997 and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Leon L Van Dommelen; Yousef Haik; Namas Chandra

Session 3430 FAMU-FSU M.S.M.E. Online Program L. van Dommelen, N. Chandra, Y. Haik FAMU-FSU College of EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the adaptation of a master’s degree program so that the degree can beobtained by taking all the courses over the Internet. The degree program is Master of Science inMechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. A distinguishing feature ofthe adaptation is that it attempts to approximate the live classroom experience as closely aspossible. This paper reviews, near the end of the first semester in which the required M.S

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robin H. Lovgren; Michael J. Racer; Anna P. Phillips

undergraduate education, grounded in the arts and sciences, develops intellectual, cultural, and ethical qualities in its students. The innovative General Education Program challenges students to develop the analytical and critical skills necessary for life-long learning. The University of Memphis offers masters and doctoral degrees in selected graduate programs as well as degrees in the major professional areas. Through learning begun at The University of Memphis, graduates compete in the global intellectual community in which they live. o As a research university, The University of Memphis develops, integrates, disseminates, and applies knowledge. Faculty maintains on-going programs of basic and applied research or

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2000 Annual Conference

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

Auburn University, he has two Masters degrees one in MechanicalEngineering from N.C. State at Raleigh and the other in Applied Mathematics from Auburn. He earned a B.S.degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute – Escuela Superior de IngenieriaMecanica y Electrica - in Mexico City, Mexico.ZHENG-TAO DENGZ.T. Deng is Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University inHuntsville, AL. Dr. Deng has an extensive background and research experience in numerical simulation inparticular high speed aerodynamics/flows with heat transfer phenomena. He earned his Ph.D., AerospaceEngineering, University of Tennessee, 1991., and his Bachelor of Science, Aerospace and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jennie Si; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Forouzan Golshani; Donald W. Collins; Christian Ringhofer; Kostas Tsakalis

were a 33.9% reduction in cycle-time over a period of six months.The present focuses on real time scheduling using heuristic rules 3,4,5,6,7,8,19,21,22,23,24,26,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,37,38,39,40,41,42,43 . Aside from the traditional constraint optimization approaches, andheuristics, we are presently investigating with a Ph.D. Student and a Masters Student acomputational tool based on learning. Various schedulers are taken as input to the "intelligent"scheduler; a pattern analyzer is first used to screen these inputs in order to figure out thecorrelation’s among various input patterns. Another intelligent agent will then be used to judgewhether the performances of the known schedulers. A positive reinforcement is

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2000 Annual Conference

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Suzanne E. Keilson; Randall Jones; Lester Coyle; Elliot King; Duane Shelton

SHELTONDuane Shelton (Principal Investigator) has chaired 60 masters and four doctoral thesis committees, and served as PIon 35 grants. Most recent work is in meta-studies of R&D and in business education in the former Soviet Union.After a tour as an IPA at NSF, he came to Loyola in 1984. He has chaired Loyola's computer science andengineering departments and was an IEEE Congressional Fellow during 1995.RANDY JONESRandy Jones is Associate Professor and former Chair of Physics at Loyola College. He has led development of Webcourseware for physics labs and recently published a book on courseware for mechanics simulations. He is developingISI modules on acoustics using PC speakers, and an improved version of the Interactive Web Board.LESTER

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2000 Annual Conference

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Manuel D. Rossetti; Harriet Black Nembhard

in each group aThen ask them to work together on the solution. section to cover.Activity: This problem attempts to illustrate most of Task: Your task in this group is to learn all of the the points discussed concerning SQL select material on Organizational Structures in Chapter 3 of statements. This problem refers to the suppliers Kerzner (1995). Work cooperatively to ensure that all and parts database given in the handout. members of the group master all of the material. Find a member in another group who has the“For all red and blue parts such that the total same section as you. Work with that person to masterquantity

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2000 Annual Conference

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Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

report on their work, thereby improving writing skills. The students alsopresented their project orally at the end of the course.The study spanned the spring semester. The class was comprised of seven students. Sixwere obtaining a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. The seventhstudent was taking the course as an upper division Civil Engineering elective. Their agesranged between 27 and 50, with a mean of 32 years.Assigned ProjectsThree assigned laboratory projects were given:1. An irrigation water quality project relating water quality parameters to the type of irrigation canal tested.2. A contaminated soil project focussing on the relationship of biological activity to soil contamination and other soil properties3. A

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2000 Annual Conference

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

certified manufacturing engineer issued by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has several researchpublications in the areas of Dynamics, Mechanisms, Vibrations and Manufacturing. He is a member of ASME, ASEE,SAE, and SME.William J. Riffe Professor is currently a professor at Kettering University. He received his undergraduate degree fromthe University of Cincinnati and his Master of Science and Ph. D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology, all in thefield of Civil Engineering. He is a registered engineer in the State of Ohio. Prior to joining Kettering University heworked at U.S.Steel Corp. as a design specialist serving as a consultant to their customers nationwide in the field ofsheet metal component design, material selection, and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Timothy C. Scott; John P. O'Connell

Session 2333 Workshop Exercises for Connecting Fundamentals to Equipment in the First Thermodynamics Course J.P. O’Connell, T.C. Scott University of VirginiaAbstractUsing balance equations for mass, energy and entropy and property diagrams for analysis,design and intuition about thermodynamic processes is a basic skill which many students finddifficult to master. The abstractness of these fundamental relationships and graphs requiresstudents to have moved from concrete to abstract thinking, but this often has not occurred by thesecond year. Further, many

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ernest W. Tollner

isan insignificant member of the biotic community. It grants him no right to interfere withthe natural ecological processes for his benefit. Pro industrial approaches consider thehuman being as the master of nature. They allow the right to explore, exploit and alterthe nature for his betterment. In the middle of this wide spectrum, many other bio- oranthropocentric philosophies exist. They narrow the human role to varying degrees ofnatural stewardship (Orr, 1994; Leopold, 1966). Ecology can become the “ tail that wagsthe dog” when taken to extremes. On the other hand, a tragedy occurs when a speciesgoes extinct which could contain the unique chemistry for saving a human’s life.Responding to the issue of preserving biodiversity and conserving

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2001 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Smith

memorize have little basisfor the transfer of information from one class to another (near transfer) or from school to work(far transfer)10. To master this material, a major investment of time by the student is required –even by "talented" students11. Again, in an adaptive integrated curriculum, near and far transfercan be made routine and much less costly. Singley et al12 describe the time required to learn thematerial as being proportional to the amount of material to be learned. This assertion isinteresting in that it reflects the traditional view of sequential learning. The authors’ experiencewith an iterative scheme13, 14 is that a re-organization of the order of presentation, homework andevaluation schemes can produce a large increase in the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Roli Varma

testing an IT artifact, (3) modifiers, those who modify or add on toan IT artifact, and (4) supporters, those who deliver, install, operate, maintain, or repair an ITartifact11. These classes are based on what the workers actually do. The CRA finds thatconceptualizer category is commonly filled with recipients of master’s or doctoral degrees,developer and modifier with bachelor or master degrees, and supporter with bachelor or associatedegrees.The vast majority of IT jobs are in the conceptualizer and developer categories. Over the period1988 to 1996, jobs for computer systems analysts and scientists have grown much faster (158%)than for computer programmers (9.8%). An increase in computer programmers in 1997 wasmostly due to the temporary demand

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2001 Annual Conference

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

engineering students’ developing written and visual literacy. Ms. Harms has taught first-year compositionI and II for the ISU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Learning Community. She has also taught businesscommunication and visual communication in business and technical writing. Ms. Harms’ research interests includelearning communities, writing across the curriculum, and assessment in higher education. She has a Bachelor ofScience degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts degree in business and technicalcommunication from ISU.THOMAS J. BRUMMDr. Thomas J. Brumm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering(ABE) at Iowa State University (ISU). Before joining the ISU

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2001 Annual Conference

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Vincent Drnevich

thedevelopment efforts.Bibliography 1. URL: http://www.webct.com/ 2. Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent, OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, Chemical Engineering Education, 31(3), 178-179 (1997). http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Columns/Objectives.html 3. Richard M. Felder, http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Cooperative_Learning.html 4. URL: http://www.purdue.edu/odos/ccode.htm 5. URL: http://www.asce.org/aboutasce/codeofethics.html 6. URL: http://www.nspe.org/ethics/ 7. Veslind, P. A., and Ende, E., "Ethics in the Field," Civil Engineering Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 12, December, 1985, pp. 64-66. 8. Richard H. McCuen, Transparency Masters for APPLIED ETHICS IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Cole; Jerome Tapper

Annual Conference, Session 2242, 1996. WILLIAM E. COLEDr. Cole received his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and hisDoctor of Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University. He has over twenty years of industrial experiencedeveloping industrial process equipment at the United Technologies Research Center and Thermo Electron Corp. Dr.Cole is now using this industrial experience to help educate the next generation of engineers. JEROME TAPPERMr. Tapper received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and willreceive a Master of Science Degree in Information Systems

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Impact of Information Technology on Engineering Education (3215)

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1998 Annual Conference

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Tahar El-Korchi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul P. Mathisen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Frederick L. Hart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Civil Engineering (CE)

did seem to prefer not to use remote communicationtechnologies, and responses were mixed regarding the present capabilities of these technologies.However, they still felt that the technologies were valuable for data exchange and they expectthese technologies are become extremely important to master in engineering projects. In general,students indicated that they found the course to be a positive experience that increased theirenthusiasm for civil and environmental engineering.5. Conclusion The use of distance engineering in CE 1030 provides a foundation for future developmentsin this area, and also demonstrates some important points to consider when incorporatingdistance engineering into undergraduate courses. First, extensive

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1998 Annual Conference

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Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

link to the “Aerospace Fundamentals” curriculum thatwe have developed, which reviews the fundamentals with fewer equations and more diagrams.Originally developed for high-school juniors and seniors, the Aerospace Fundamentals allowsthose Freshmen that need help a very thorough and basic understanding that they can master attheir own pace and without any embarrassment. The fundamentals of flight, aircraft principles,rocket principles, spacecraft principles, and humans in space comprise the five areas that areaccessible in this fundamentals section. Each of the five topics starts with a pictorial history sec-tion, then the principles are discussed, followed by class discussion questions and possible activi-ties and research questions, and

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1998 Annual Conference

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James L. Hales

departments in the institute: • Thermal Power (mechanical engineering) • Electrical Power (electrical engineering) • Architectural (civil engineering) • Information Systems (computer engineering) • Applied Chemistry (chemical engineering) Each of these awards the bachelor of science degree. Another department which theycalled the postgraduate department (and I will call the graduate department) offered the master ofscience degree in each of the above disciplines. The M.S. program required three years, twoyears of course work and a final year to complete a project (thesis). There were about ninety graduate students, twenty-seven to thirty in each of the threeyears. The

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert L. Reid; Bruce D. Hoeppner

. HOEPPNER. Prof. Hoeppner is the Computer Systems Manager at Marquette Universityand was formerly the director of undergraduate laboratories for the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering. He graduated from Marquette University in 1982 and earned his masters in 1985. Prof. Hoeppnerworked for the U.S. Air Force in electronic warfare systems, specifically in radar warning simulation and testing. Page 2.201.14

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1997 Annual Conference

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; David D. Clark; David W. Rosen

Multimedia and Hypermedia, Graz, Austria, pp. 654-659.Vadde, S., Allen, J.K., et al., 1995, "Catalog Design: Selection Using Available Assets," Engineering Optimization, Vol. 25, No. pp. 45-64.Biographical InformationDAVID D. CLARK: David Clark is a Graduate Research Assistant in the George W. Woodruff School ofMechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, under the supervision of Janet K. Allen and Farrokh Mistree. Davidreceived his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1995 from Georgia Tech and began his graduatework later that year. For his Masters thesis, David will develop the next generation Design-Learning Simulator.FARROKH MISTREE: Farrokh Mistree's design experience spans mechanical, aeronautical, structural, and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Thomas R Phillips

of a government agency, their programs often resembleothers recognized by that agency. Thus, the validation process exerts a standardizing influence,which may or may not promote quality improvement. Incorporation through another institutionapplies to specific programs, but not to the entire institution. One argument for accreditation is thatvalidation requirements may be unevenly applied when the programs of private institutions are“incorporated” or recognized by different public institutions.In the larger engineering schools, a number of departments may be administered within one Faculty:e.g., a Faculty of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering with nine or ten programs, some rather large.Many programs may come under one master plan for