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Eric Connell; David L. Batie

the investigation for such programs in their curricula. This research presents thedevelopment strategies created to instigate an Internet Design/Build class for the two schools. Thepaper relates the positive and negative components confronted during the development andimplementation of the overall class. Using available computer information technology resources,such as NetMeeting and MIRC32, the Design/Build class approach of study emphasizes themanagement of design, construction, planning, finance, and marketing, as well the absolute need forcommunication between the team members. Rather than face the traditional confrontation of theparties, this class is intended to strengthen the professional bonds, complementing each partners’strengths

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William M. Maalouf; Fazil Najafi

will work if team members are self-disciplined and when they solve the problemin the class, they should be able to create interaction with students and be able to demonstrateall issues related to the assigned problem. The instructor must also participate in the processto improve the class understanding of the problem and he/she must dramatize key points inthe problem to stimulate student interest.Todd plan was to answer questions related to homework and lecture on the new material. Hethen formed teams of three or four students in the classroom and assigned a problem for thestudents to work on until the end of the class period 1. This method is interesting as long asboth instructor and the graduate assistant are working and observing team

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W. F. Walker; S. MacGuire; L. D. Benefield; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

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A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

Internet course organization is that only a minimal amount ofwhiteboard writing is required, even though the technical content is quite detailed. Thissignificantly eases the video load, such that students can focus on absorbing knowledge in a multi-media presentation framework. The longer-term plans are to extend this development to ourgraduate course compliment in computational mechanics. Accomplishing this will not only servethe local graduate student population, but also will readily support on-site professional trainingappropriately piped to remote industrial locations on an as-needed basis. The opportunity for trueinternational collaboration in preparation of cutting edge lecture courses will also become enabledvia this

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Russel C. Jones

is valuable.Outcomes assessment appears to be growing as a desirable measure, replacing detailedcurriculum specifications.In graduate education, practice oriented masters degree programs for engineers were seenas growing in popularity as the “first professional degree”. Traditional MS and Ph.D.paths were still seen as valuable for those planning to enter R&D, teaching, or advancedtechnical practice.Offering of continuing education programs was seen as a responsibility and opportunityfor engineering schools, along with offerings from industry, societies, and commercialsources. It was observed that engineering schools need to involve faculty members whounderstand current industry requirements, and who can teach at the current state of

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Peter Rosati

Indicator” Palo Alto CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 198510. McCaulley, M., "The MBTI and individual pathways in engineering design", Eng.Ed., Vol. 80, No. 5, 1990, pp. 537-542.PETER ROSATIPeter Rosati is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of WesternOntario. He has engineering degrees from Oxford and Western and an education degree from the University ofWest Virginia. His research in engineering education has zfocussed on personalizing the large enrolment courses,beginning with a Keller plan course in Dynamics. He is currently researching student learning styles and academicperformance in relation to MBTI personality type

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William B. Perry; Victor Barocas; David E. Clough

programmingand students who worked the modules will be better prepared for CHEN 4580. As the modulesprogram matures, we expect more complete incorporation into the classes.Finally, introducing students to computational methods in a curriculum-wide plan such as this isnot a task that is restricted to chemical engineering. The programming module concept would beapplicable to any engineering curriculum. In fact, implementing computational methods intocourses throughout the curriculum may be the best way to teach this topic to engineeringstudents. After all, computational methods are tools to be used with other subjects—would it notbe best to teach them in the same way they will be used? With enough background information,these modules could potentially

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Craig Johnson

- due 3/5) Read Ch. 13, 14 & 15 3/53/3 Concurrent Engineering3/5 Computer Integrated Manufacturing Week #6 Progress Reports3/8 Material Resource Planning (Activity: Shop Layout - due 3/12) Read Ch. 163/10 Manufacturing Plant/Cell Layouts3/12 Preparing reports and prototypes (individual and peer assessment) Presentation, reports, & prototype due on day of final!3/18 Final: Thursday March 18, at NOON! Page 4.307.8APPENDIX C - PEER

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

discussion isto provide the necessary vocabulary to interpret microprocessor specifications. Thus, when the Page 4.74.8student finds his/herself designing a system in industry, he/she will be able to intelligentlydiscuss the options with electrical and computer engineering colleagues.5.0 ConclusionsFeedback from students in the 1998 offering of this course was very positive. This is reflected inthe fact that the enrolment for 1999 is up by close to 50% from 1998. The popularity ofmechatronics among the undergraduates bodes well for the planned development of a groupingof elective courses for students wishing to specialize in mechatronics. The

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Maurice Walworth; Kevin Schmaltz; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

different facets of it. A well defined plan was used to select the different pieces ofequipment. Page 4.526.3All the stations had to satisfy the following criteria:a) They had to be integrated systems, i.e. they had to have mechanical, electrical, electronic, and computer programming components.b) They had to be such that they could easily be assimilated in courses from Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Engineering.c) They had to be such that they could give rise to laboratory exercises that could build upon each other in different courses.d) Finally, they had to be fun pieces of equipment that would entice the students, and want

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Michael D. Murphy; Daniel Jensen

plan to continue our current status ofoffering the 3-D “Integrated Course”. Obviously, if the customer need weights were changed,the final rank order could offer a different optimum solution.5.0 ConclusionOver the course of 10 years, the USAF Academy has sought an optimum solution forincorporating CAD into the curriculum. Because ABET criterion and industry requirements areat odds with an ever-tightening engineering curriculum, CAD integration into an existing courseis not only necessary, but as shown above, desirable. Incorporating certain customer needs into adecision matrix, or Pugh chart, clearly shows that the student engineer can be readily equippedfor future work by integrating design process knowledge with high-power CAD software

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Sohail Anwar; Frances Winsor

torecruiters and at the same time articulate the value of the program. Page 4.340.55. We impress upon our students that they are "goodwill ambassadors" for their college andthat their performance may well influence the company, one way or the other, to consider otherstudents in the program.6. Preparing students for career fairs is an enormous task. Students seeking internships musthave at least 30 copies of their resume on quality paper, research in advance what companiesthey wish to visit and determine proper dress for the fair. Since there are fewer internshipsavailable than permanent positions, the students often require help in planning the best

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Sohail Anwar; Frances Winsor

thattheir performance may well influence the company, one way or the other, to consider otherstudents in the program.6. Preparing students for career fairs is an enormous task. Students seeking internships musthave at least 30 copies of their resume on quality paper, research in advance what companiesthey wish to visit and determine proper dress for the fair. Since there are fewer internshipsavailable than permanent positions, the students often require help in planning the best strategy.Student FeedbackWe have heard many accounts of students back from internships from "I hated doing AutoCADall day" to "my first day I was asked to start designing a new production line, it was incredible

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R. Andrew Schaffer

expatriateengineering careers for several reasons. First and foremost, an expatriate assignment iscomprised of a continuous series of events. Each event influences an engineer's performance,satisfaction, and career plans in the future. How and why a firm sends someone on an expatriateassignment (the beginning of the model) has implications for what that engineer might expectwhen the time comes for repatriation (the end of the model). To look at one stage or another ofthe model in isolation overlooks many possible causal influences.A consideration of “expectancy theory” is salient at this point. A basic statement derived fromthe theory is: If a worker sees high productivity as a path leading to the attainment of one or more of his personal goals

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Boris Butman

management strategy and procedures for implementation of the project at a shipyard or a similar production facility including a project plan, a work breakdown, a network diagram and a computerized schedule, and optimal workforce distribution - design of modernization and/or improvement proposals intended for ship construction or repair including justification of the proposals, necessary design calculations to support the intended design, preparing supporting diagrams, drawings, charts, etc. Page 4.372.7 - design of production processes for selected items including development of production procedures with flow charts

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

toU.S. electronics manufacturers in the highly competitive world of the 90s. Page 4.23.1The field of electronic manufacturing is a multi-disciplinary area that encompasses severaltechnologies from electrical, materials, industrial, chemical, and computer engineering. Forexample, circuit analysis, electronics, automation, thermal sciences, physics, chemistry, materialproperties, CAD/CAM, software engineering, and production planning are necessary for studentsto learn the latest techniques in computer and DSP technologies. It is our belief that the growingelectronic manufacturing industry will demand increasingly large numbers of engineers who

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David A. Sabatini

required me to consider alternate funding optionswhile I was waiting to hear. Roughly one out of ten applicants is funded by a GermanFulbright award.I was very fortunate that our German host looked for housing for us ahead of time. Heidentified university housing for visiting professors. This proved to be ideal for us because itwas convenient to campus and shopping and because it was completely furnished. While theapartment was quite a bit smaller than our house in Norman (~ 1/3 of the size) and the rentwas quite a bit more than for similar housing in Norman (~ twice), the rent was less than itwould have been on the open market.Schooling for our children was a major issue. All along we planned to put our children (ages6 and 8) in German schools

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E. J. Mastascusa; Brian Holt

texture permits those colors to stand out so that the importance and function of a particular word or phrase can be coded into the color and style of the text.♦ The background is generated from a small bitmap used repetitively as a ToolBook resource. That permits one small bitmap to generate a larger background, and keeps the file size smaller when the book is stored.Summary At this point the control systems lessons have been used in the fall of 1998 for thecourse taught within electrical engineering. Other lesson packages are planned or beingproduced for courses in Introductory EE, Basic Circuits and Linear Systems. The Page

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S. Mouring; S. Brown; P. Mead; M. Natishan; I. Goswami; C. Lathan; Linda Schmidt

the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics and Engineering,” Ed. D. V. Rosser, Teacher College Press, Columbia University, New York, 1995, 25-42.[Seve97] Severiens, S. and G. T. Dam, “Gender and Gender Identity Differences in Learning Styles,” Educational Psychology, 17:(1,2):79-93 (1997).[SME97] SME, Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report. Industry Identifies Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates, SME, 1997.[Wank93] Wankat, P. C., and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993. Page 4.106.8 Table

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Said Shakerin; Daniel Jensen

. Specifics of their use are presented in reference 13.Specific courses, at the University of the Pacific, affected by this project are presentednext. Since these courses are offered in different semesters, there is no problem withequipment use overload. The experiments designed for this work are outlined in theAppendix. The instructor can choose one or two experiments as appropriate for a givencourse.III. Impact of the ProjectFour courses, Mechanics of Materials, Machine Design, Instrumentation andExperimental Methods (all required), and the Finite Element Method (elective) have beenimproved through integration of carefully planned experiments and student projects instress analysis. The equipment has also been used at occasions when faculty

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Erol Inelmen

not been implemeted as yet. To our knowledge only Drexel University can be shown as ashowcase, where integration is high in the agenda of the administrations’ strategic plans. Basedon the above mentioned recommendations, the author tries to present here the experience gainedwhile implemented in his courses an "integrative approach" to engineering education.II. Needs For Education Reform in EngineeringChanges in education are needed to cope with the pressure emerging from the new technological,economical and social developments. Educational methods applying the traditional disciplinaryboundaries are not adequate anymore to solve the industrial expectations of today 2. Althoughuniversities -in order to cope with these changes- have created

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Gopal Mohan; J. Michael Jacob

• H bridge • Buck regulator • Boost regulator • High speed op-amp compensation • Common emitter amplifier design verification • LC oscillatorsStudents use circuit simulation to design and layout printed circuit boards to fabricate in theElectronic System Fabrication (EET 296) course in the second semester of the sophomore year.This course introduces project planning and basic concepts in electronic design automation(EDA). The students develop a project from an engineering rough sketch to a printed circuit byutilization of EDA (PSpice). MicroSim “PCBoards” is used. The project training involvesanalog, digital, and mixed signal circuit ideas. Circuit performance is

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Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

student design team), and ozone disinfection of apples for cider production.Clients for these projects included university planning committees, local companies, zoningcommissions, and researchers in food science and horticulture. Most of the student designs arenow in the process of being built or implemented. The interactions between client and class aredescribed and updates on the status of the projects are presented.I. IntroductionStudent design projects that are real and relevant and that can be conducted with the input frompracticing professionals are desirable in engineering education.12 The first two steps in thequality function deployment (QFD) design methodology, as described in Ullman11, are to identifythe customer and determine the

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

, and NSF support The curriculum presented to middle schoolrecognition. teachers and counselors as well received. There were concerns on part of faculty about our ability to teachTEACHER PERCEPTIONS middle school teachers and counselors and our ability to explain the technical subject matter. In some At the end of first week, participants filled sessions, some faculty had to reach out for additionalout an evaluation form for each and every class things to do beyond what was planned. Since

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Howard A. Smolleck; Nadipuram Prasad; Barbara Powell; Bhargava Jayanti; Shakir Manshad; Sashadry Divakaria; Paul Arellanes

languageBased upon the experience of the authors as described above, the original plan was to develop aninteractive, graphical program in the C language. That language had been chosen for the earlier,successful software 2-7 because of its extensive interactive and graphics-display capabilities. The firstmodule of the present series was actually begun in C. However, examination of recent multi-mediausage, and recently-acquired equipment to perform this kind of development, led to the use of theVisual C++ TM (rather than C++) language. Visual C++ has advantages over C in its ability tocreate programs which function in a very windows-like environment, including display of qualitystill-life graphics, animated graphical sequences with audio capability, and

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Robin Lovgren; M. Racer

important role within any environment considered by a mechanicalengineer. For instance, an engineer designing an HVAC system must be able to assess expecteddemands on a system. In order to determine the expected lifetime of an air conditioning system,for instance, the mechanical engineer must consider the uncertainties inherent in the weather aswell as personal usage preferences.Another example of the need for an evaluation of expected demands would be within the area ofpower generation. On a daily basis, the demand for power fluctuates constantly, as it does on aday-to-day and seasonal basis. The impact of inadequately planning for expected demands –and being unable to accommodate fluctuations – is significant. Overestimating power demandsresults

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Hakan B. Gürocak

is not possible to offer a digital control systems course at the undergraduatelevel. As a result the students either have to take such a course at the graduate level or, as isusually the case, they graduate without the digital control systems knowledge.The Manufacturing Engineering degree program at Washington State University in Vancouverrequires 128 credits for graduation. When the curriculum was designed a single control systemscourse was planned. There is no graduate program at the Vancouver campus and also there is nodigital control elective in the curriculum.This paper presents a hybrid analog/digital undergraduate control systems course with laboratoryexperiments. The course enables the students to learn the most fundamental theory of

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Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, RIABSTRACTA graphically-oriented MATLAB program written by the authors facilitates teaching real-world digital signalprocessing concepts such as quantization of digital filter coefficients that occur in fixed-point processors, forexample the widely used TMS320C5x. While many universities have or plan to buy the inexpensive floating-pointTMS320C31 DSKs for pedagogical reasons, this MATLAB program simulates certain fixed-point effects on thesefloating-point devices and eliminates the need to purchase expensive specialized software programs or extrahardware. The program described in this paper provides an interactive graphical user interface that communicatesdirectly with the DSK, and demonstrates in real-time how both coefficient quantization and

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

the end of a course. Thistype of standardized tests for physics (e.g., the Force Concept Inventory or Mechanics Baseline)tests are available (Mazur,1997)10. To date, a similar test for statics has not been found. (Ifsuch a test does not exist, we plan to develop one.) However, for now our discussions arelimited to students’ perceptions and observations.An analysis of results with respect to overall student GPA provides further insight into use ofthese strategies. For example, while the daily attention quizzes and team projects were not ashighly rated as some activities, they were perceived as more helpful by students with lower GPA(see Table 2 and Figure 1). A team project on a roof truss design also seem to show similartrend. The “+” signs

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Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

Curriculum Delivery. More informationon these Focus Areas, as well as the coalition itself, can be found on the Web athttp://www.succeed.vt.edu/ .The goal of the Technology-Based Curriculum Delivery (TBCD) focus team, the workingcommittee for this Focus Area, is to support the effective use of technology in enhancing thelearning and teaching environment in the coalition’s colleges of engineering. In preparation forachieving this goal, the TBCD focus team plans to offer a series of workshops targeted atintroducing various technologies and building skills in faculty members to facilitate technologyincorporation. In order to provide the appropriate training, at the appropriate level of expertise,the team must undertake an assessment to determine the