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George Stephanopoulos; Alan S. Foss

Session 3613 LEADING UNDERGRADUATES ALONG STRUCTURED PATHS TO THE BUILDING OF GOOD PROCESS MODELS Alan S. Foss1, George Stephanopoulos2 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 2 Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 ABSTRACT Students are led to crafting a process model before writing any equations. This isaccomplished by leading them through a structured modeling methodology

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Timothy Robert Wyatt; Emir Jose Macari

Session 1668 Learner-Centered Educational Software for Constitutive Modeling of Soils Timothy Robert Wyatt, Emir Jose Macari Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractAn educational software package has been developed and tested for its potential to conveyaspects of constitutive modeling of soils to civil engineering undergraduate and graduatestudents. The software accounts for tenets of learner-centered design (LCD): (1) the software isintended to encourage individual exploration; and (2) students are expected to experiencepersonal growth through

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Zbigniew Prusak

are presented. Undertakings by some local companieswhose employees attend evening and day classes are described. Some discipline-relatedtechnical and non-technical skills are examined in relevance to traditional and non-traditionalstudents. Learning environment with a mixed population is also described from the point ofview of benefits to traditional, non-traditional students and faculty.1. IntroductionPeople with some work experience become students for the first time, or return to a universitydue to various circumstances dictated largely by their economic situation and personal goals.Growing demands of work environment for a more skilled employee and more updatedknowledge also play an important role in decisions to attend a university

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Peter Kwok; Eron Flory; Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

linear algebra, single degree of freedomspring, bar element, beam element and industrial applications of FEM. These modules can beaccessed by students and engineers twenty-four hours a day since they reside on a World-WideWeb server. This paper will review the format of the bar and beam element learning modulesand the experiences of the first author in integrating all five modules into the introductoryundergraduate finite element course at WPI. The issue of student feedback is also addressed.1. IntroductionThe Internet/World-Wide Web (WWW) is emerging as a new medium for transmittinginformation globally, created in multimedia form. Engineering educators have been using theWeb the past few academic years in courses, for posting course guidelines

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Marcus Huggans; Nystrom Hal

engineering management we struggle with the wide breadth of material that our students areexpected to learn, and new material is continuously identified as key to their education. Howeverwe are constrained by market forces to limit the length of our degree programs. We, aseducators, have several options: 1) reduce the depth of the material we cover, 2) eliminate someof our core material, 3) ignore some of the new material or 4) find methods to improve thelearning the effectiveness of our students’ learning. Other fields of engineering education as wellas technical training programs face similar pressures to improve learning effectiveness.However, there are opportunities to make some of these needed improvements

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

. Student perception on the use of interactive video conferencing in Biomedical EngineeringTechnology education. Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Conference, session #1149Newport C and Elms, D, 1997. Effective Engineers. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol 13, pp.325-332.Steiner C., 1998. Education for innovation and management: The engineering educator’s dilemma. IEEETransactions on Education, vol 41, pp. 1-7Xu Y, Wald A and Cappiello J, 1997. Effective communication in the biomedical engineering department. Journalof Clinical Engineering, Vol 22, pp.328-334Zimmerman D, Palmquist M and Muraki M, 1998. Students as WWW Surfers: A brief look at students and theWWW. Proceedings of the 1998 Int. Professional Comm. Conf., pp. 285-232ALBERT

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Neda Fabris

purchased several SME Manufacturing Management videotapes that I show inclass.3. Assigned Projects with Emphasis on the Team WorkIn this class two projects are assigned to students:1. CAD-CAM project2. Ergonomics design group projectThe CAD-CAM project involves the Dyna numerically controlled milling machine and MasterCam CNC software. This project gives mechanical engineering students a hands-on opportunityto use our well-equipped automated manufacturing laboratory and learn about numericallycontrolled machines and Computer Aided Manufacturing. On this project two students work as agroup, designing and manufacturing two matching parts of dies that have close fit tolerances. Iexplain in class very briefly the principles of CNC, then students learn

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Scott McNamara; Martha Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Chris Rogers

and have become interested inlearning math and physics through creating with the bricks. In this paper, we outline some of thecourses that use the bricks and how they have improved the interest and education of students ofall ages.I. IntroductionFor the past ten years, faculty members from the college of engineering at Tufts University havebeen teaching engineering to students ages 3 to 30. About five years ago, NASA funded Tufts todevelop engineering curricula centered on aeronautics for this age group, starting the LEGO DataAcquisition and Prototyping System (LDAPS)1. Our main goal is to present students with a fullengineering design project (construction of an airport, for example) and teach math and science -as well as reading and writing

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R. Andrew Schaffer

,researchers should consider the overall assignment, and not individual elements, whendeveloping research programs in this area.For engineering educators, it is important to understand and explain these organizational andcultural variables to students who are very likely to face the challenge of an expatriateassignment sometime in their careers. This paper provides details of the model to assist facultyin that endeavor. Page 4.530.1 Figure 1: The Life Cycle of an Expatriate Assignment Organization determines need

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Juan Andrade; Ana Cabrales; Veronica Martinez; Sheng-Jen Hsieh

knowledge learned from different courses, suchas electrical system design and computer-aided manufacturing. Finally, the final product fromsuch a project can be used as a demo for prospective students, parents, and visitors; as a projectcandidate for future groups of students; and as an instructional tool.1. IntroductionThe primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate that ladder diagrams and icon-basedprogramming can be integrated in automated storage/retrieval system (AS/RS) design. An AS/RS Page 4.103.1is a good representation of integrated automation technology in automated storage systemdesign1. However, it is costly to purchase or

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Bradley E. Bishop; George E. Piper; Richard T. O'Brien

system identification throughimplementation and tuning of a PD controller. This design project has been integrated into thejunior level curriculum in the Systems Engineering department at the United States NavalAcademy.1. IntroductionIt is well known that classroom discussion of the theory of control can be greatly enhancedthrough appropriate experimental investigations. Students unable to grasp the concepts offeedback and system response through lectures are often more receptive to hands-ondemonstrations and investigations. Further, many topics relating to the process of system designare difficult at best to teach in a lecture format. It is extremely challenging to motivate in theclassroom the difficulties of real implementation of control

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Teri Reed Rhoads; Susan Haag; Gwen Lee-Thomas

profile of the students in the FC group, a matched comparison group of freshmenstudents (called the non-FC group) was chosen at each campus. ASU selected its matchedcomparison group by sorting through the list of incoming freshmen students and selecting thosewho were: (1) enrolled as professional engineering students in one of the degree programs in theCollege; (2) taking at least the same course load as were the FC students (i.e., 13 hours or more);and (3) enrolled in at least three of the same courses in which the FC students were enrolled.Additional categories included high school GPA, SAT and ACT scores, and ethnicity. RHITselected its matched comparison group based on a predicted index formula that included GPA,SAT scores, high school rank

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William Swart

employed totemporarily reorganize a large College of Engineering and Technology to accomplish a specificset of tasks. This reorganization, based upon the principles of matrix management, resulted in acomplete re-engineering of the College’s programs and curricula. The results, achieved byfaculty working in cross-functional teams are now institutionalized in the catalog and beingexecuted. More importantly, the results were achieved in one academic year.1. IntroductionI accepted the opportunity to become Dean of Old Dominion University’s College ofEngineering and Technology in the Spring of 1997. During the interview process and as a resultof numerous discussions with faculty and university level administrators, it became obvious thatone of my

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Boris Butman

. Page 4.372.3 Duration of Engineering Program 100 80 % of Total Reviewed 60 Schools 40 20 0 3 4 5 Duration of Program, YearsFig. 1. Duration of Marine Engineering ProgramsAs might be judged from the limited information available, there are just a few countries, likeChina, Indonesia, Netherlands, and some others, where economics and management became anintegral segment of the maritime engineering curriculum. Particularly noteworthy is the Dutchtraining system for integrated officers. Their program includes a

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Karl Smith

. Students lack of familiarity with effective conflict modelsalso contributes to the avoidance of conflict, and when it does occur, to the increased likelihoodof destructive outcomes. One model that I’ve found very helpful is a dual concern model (goaland relationship) that had its origins with the Blake and Mouton managerial grid (Blake andMouton, 1964; Blake, Shepherd, &Mouton, 1964).Conflict StrategiesJohnson & Johnson (1991) created thegrid shown in Figure 1 describing fiveways for approaching conflict dependingon the relative importance of the goal andthe relationship. They also created asurvey to help individuals recognize theirpreferred approach to conflict (seeJohnson & Johnson, 1995 or Smith,1999).An elaboration on each of these

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Jerry W. Samples

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David S. Kelley

, diagnostic assessment,prescription, and postassessment.Properly structured objectives are vital for mastery learning. Objectives represent what theinstructor wants the learner to be able to accomplish when completing a course. Theseobjectives should be measurable to a predetermined standard. Bloom’s taxonomy is a good toolto use when constructing objectives [1]. Careful analysis of subject matter should revealobjectives that fall within the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Higher-orderobjectives should be used when possible but not at the cost of having an objective that is notmeasurable. Important while developing objectives is establishing a minimum pass level. Manysubjects will have nothing less than flawless work as the minimum

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Andrew Grossfield

. Little is said about the concept of forms or about the importantaspects of forms. There is more to know about forms than how to change forms. Form changesshould be treated as tactics in the strategies of analytical problem solving. This paper describesthe principles concerning forms, which are usually omitted from the appropriate texts, and theimportant place of forms in the strategies of mathematics.1. Principles of Mathematical Forms • It is natural for mathematical objects (integers, rational numbers, other real numbers, functions, vectors, linear transformations, complex numbers, tensors, etc.) to have more than one form. • There is no best form for all purposes. • Useful special canonical forms are found sometimes. • We should

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Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

precalculus and the remaining 40% start below precalculus. The decision was made to pilot a curriculum with students that are ready for precalculus. The curriculum was to expose students to engineering from the start of and in every term during their college careers. Concurrent classes were to support each other. Intended consequences of better preparation and a streamlined curriculum are higher success and retention rates, higher quality graduates as well as shorter times to graduation. Designing this integrated engineering curriculum is a major undertaking with many features. In this paper we will focus on two of our objectives, namely 1) The introduction of key theoretical concepts “in context”, and 2) The elimination of

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Herbert Holland; Dean Bruckner

typical civilian college.B. IED Course ObjectivesThis, then, is the environment in which we present IED. The course has several objectives,among which are to:• teach cadets a formal, systematic method for problem solving and design.• introduce cadets to the four engineering majors offered at the Academy, as part of a larger program to assist them in making an informed choice of major.• familiarize cadets, including those who will not themselves become engineers, with the vari- ous roles which engineering and engineers perform in the Coast Guard at large. Page 4.20.2The course concept diagram (Figure 1) shows the key elements of the

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Paul Giolma; Farzan Aminian; Djaffer Ibaroudene

Engineering Science program since its inception in the 1960s. From those early beginnings,courses in engineering design have been in the engineering science core—courses with group-oriented projects be-ginning with the first semester and culminating in the senior year with a full year project that builds upon the entirecurriculum.The nature of the design element in the engineering science curriculum has evolved considerably in the thirty yearssince its inception. In the early 1990s, the Department reviewed the design components of the curriculum and redi-rected the emphasis on design to the entire engineering core [1] [2]. Rather than treating design as a separate com-ponent of engineering, the approach adopted by the Department tries to incorporate

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Patrick Devens

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R. S. Cartier; Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

ABSTRACT The Microelectronics Teaching Factory is an Intel, Motorola and ASU East partnership toequip and staff a top-of-the-line teaching facility that mirrors a real microchip fabricationfactory. This facility will provide a unique learning environment for students from ASU East,ASU Main and Maricopa Community Colleges who represent the future microelectronicsworkforce. As well, Intel, Motorola and other local industrial and educational partners will usethe facility for education and training purposes.Introduction: The catalyst for a teaching factory at Arizona State University (ASU) East is theworldwide shortage of trained personnel in the semiconductor manufacturing industry in the1990s [1]. Semiconductor manufacturing

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John Marshall

andengineering at North Carolina State University, magneto-rheological fluidswill lead to a whole new generation of brakes, automatic transmissions,actuator devices, hydraulic valves, pump parts, and motors (Conrad, Page 4.383.21992). Procedure: Safety Considerations: 1. Protective eye wear is mandatory for all those in the lab area. 2. Read the operating instructions that accompany the magneto- rheological clutch assembly and power supply. 3. Obtain a "Material Data Safety Sheet" on the fluid from the supplier. Read the sheet completely and ask questions to any information you do not understand.Observing the tunable clutch assembly

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Michael Lee; Charles Sampson; Ingrid St. Omer

to the 1993 National Study of PostsecondaryFaculty, African Americans made up only about 2.8% of full-time engineering instructionalfaculty and staff; Hispanics fared slightly better at 3.1% and American Indian/Alaskan Nativeswere less than one percent.1 Thus, within the engineering academic community, a relativelysmall number of minority faculty members are available at undergraduate institutionsnationwide. This paper explores the institutional support of minority student interaction withethnic professional societies for students at a predominantly white institution to help compensatefor the scarcity of minority faculty and professional role models. Undergraduate and graduatestudents from the University of Missouri – Columbia received

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Patricia Click

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Eric Adams; Rafael Bras

components and are presented both in writing and orally to prospective Page 4.386.2clients, at the end of the fall semester. Oral presentations are tape-recorded, and students areasked to critique both their own presentation and that of a classmate.The projects are taken from large real-world engineering problems, and prepared incollaboration with outside practitioners. Environmental students have typically worked inteams of 3 or 4 students; their projects during 1998-99 encompass: (1) water resourcesdevelopment on the island of Cyprus, (2) appropriate waste water technology for the state ofSao Paulo, Brazil, (3) assessment of constructed wetlands

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Mahlon Heller

theactivities performed by the students during the lab periods which are to 1) construct the mobileplatform for the MOBOT to familiarize them with mechanical components such as motors,wheels, gears, and gear ratios, 2) mount the MOBOT Brain on the MOBOT Brawn platformthat includes light-sensing photo resistors, bumper switches, sound-sensing microphone andmotor-driver circuitry, and a MC68HC11 system with a LCD, 3) determine the maximum Page 4.387.1MOBOT carrying capacity, maximum ramp slope for the MOBOT, and torque/speed curve forthe MOBOT motors, 4) write IC code to test and obtain data that characterizes each sensor, 5)design and implement in IC, MOBOT

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Debi Switzer; Siegfried M. Holzer; Richard M. Felder; Douglas E. Hirt

Foundation-sponsored coalition of engineering schools. The participatinginstitutions are Clemson University, University of Florida, Florida A&M University–FloridaState University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T University, NorthCarolina State University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University. The coalition began its second five-year funding period in 1997with a mission of scaling up and institutionalizing the educational reforms developed and pilot-tested in the first five years.A major component of the Year 6–10 effort is the design and implementation of a coalition-widefaculty development (FD) program. The program objectives are (1) to promote faculty

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Donald V. Richardson

. Fig. 1. confirms Forgue's Method. The spread between the twogroups' data probably is due to winding temperatures. g.) REPORT: No formal report was yet produced but class and lab excitement ran high Page 4.390.4when I announced that we were collectively involved in something outside the literature of the1 a.k.a. stray load lossfield, and that I wanted help to expand this concept. I think I convinced the class that weshould, at the same time, continue with the rest of our class and lab syllabus but extra work wasto be welcomed.Follow up on Forgue’s Method came step by step. Tests at various rotating speeds showedconclusively that a