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Jahan Kauser; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

addressed teaching studentsabout the emerging field of membrane processes through team projects. The development plan involvesthe innovative use of membrane technology, integrating it both vertically and horizontally throughout theengineering curriculum and exposing students to it through the use of team-oriented experimental projectsin multidisciplinary engineering clinics. We have initially introduced membrane separation principles invarious courses through lectures and small-scale mini-labs and demos. This lays the foundation for morecomprehensive study in the engineering clinics. The integration of membrane process experiments formultidisciplinary team projects occurs in the Junior and Senior level Engineering Clinic courses. Some ofthe

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Jin Tso; Daniel Biezad

,aerodynamics, propulsion, structures and control areas for the master’s degree within one year. Page 6.134.7The students can use the remaining year for their theses and electives. In reality, however, not Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationevery student takes two courses as planned. In fact, because of their jobs, most workingengineers take one course per quarter. This immediately put pressure on the enrollment target ofeach class. During the fall, winter and spring quarters on-campus senior and

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Vincent Drnevich

several documented engineering projects illustrating the involvement of the civil engineer in planning, design, construction, and operation. Time and Location: Tuesday/Thursday -- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; -- Civil 1144 Instructors: (Names, office addresses, personal web page links, e-mail links, and office hours of course instructors and teaching assistants) Primary Course Goals: By the end of this course, the student will be able to: Begin thinking and acting as a professional person; Prepare profiles of simple and complex cash flows for an engineering task or project; Assess various alternatives from economic point of view; Compute the present

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Steven Levitt

in the workplace, it usually isn’tbecause people don’t have the right information. Things go awry when communication breaksdown – often because someone fails to see something from a different perspective”5.II. Brief Case ExamplesAn engineer was a partner in a small construction company working on the construction ofNASA headquarters in Houston, Texas. This was an enormous project with many contractorsand on a fast timeline. A backhoe operator working for the company was killed when he duginto a cable box that was not shown on any plans: the existence of the box was notcommunicated to the people doing the work. The cable box was not shown on any plans becauseit was connected to Top Secret facilities and therefore the cable box was also

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Nanette Keiser; Gloria Tressler; Arlen Gullickson

. If we didn’t get an E-mail bounce, wecontinued our survey efforts, assuming the messages reached their marks. A few weeks later wereleased the activated survey to a revised list of PIs. As the weeks went by, our ability to see adaily tally of which sites were actively involved with the survey helped us determine which PI totarget for follow-up reminders. Electronic reminders elicited some replies that revealedbusinesslike concerns such as a PI being out of the office for an extended time period, away forthe summer term, very busy for the last several weeks, or having plans to forward the survey tohis/her replacement PI. Occasionally, we would receive a reply of a more personal nature. Wethen began to focus on those PIs who had not yet logged

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Jack Lesko; Eric Pappas

-being simply to improve the bottom line. To this end, we are listeningto our students more carefully, challenging them on issues they will soon confront, andintegrating more philosophical issues into class discussions, activities, and writing assignments.More importantly, we hope to help them figure out what they want their lives to be like, ratherthan simply what they want their careers to be. We have learned over the past few years that we have been educating a number ofstudents who are not planning to pursue an engineering career, perhaps due to a growing lack ofinterest in engineering fields or due to a discontent with the discipline. This fact, we believe, hasimportant implications: 1) that we may not be doing a good job of

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

tocommunicate that scheme with the students. Without this communication, instructors run therisk as being perceived as “unfair” by the students, a characterization that can easily destroy themorale of a classroom.With regard to content, the most effective means to communicate expectations is through the useof well-planned lesson objectives.8 The author typically provides one to five objectives perlesson, although occasionally objectives may encompass more than one lesson. A variety ofmeans exist to communicate objectives, even in classrooms with limited board space. Theseinclude posting them on the course webpage and distributing handouts in class. The authorplaces them on large (2’ x 2.5’) Post-It® Notes before class, and then puts the Post-It® Note

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Harold Hultman

using a planned progression of increasingly complex equipment, and develop the ability to generate their reports in-process during their lab work. This is made possible by the design of each MC laboratory station, which is based on a Pentium processor running windows-based simulations, windows-based test equipment and windows-based word. There is no need for use of a 488 bus, et.al. that requires learning complex equipment control sequences, which the limited course time will not permit.I. IntroductionMontgomery College, located in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC, is the largestCommunity College in the State of Maryland, with three Campuses and approximately 22,000full-time-equivalent students. MC (as it is known) offers a

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationConfiguration management (CM) is a software-driven approach to the task of coordinating anenormous quantity of detailed information. Properly implemented, CM provides, in a nearlypaperless environment, the ability to plan, identify, control and account for the status of aproduct’s configuration and its logistic support at any point in time, the ability to insureappropriate review and approval processes are followed in processing proposed changes, and theability to forecast the costs of change 2.CM is used routinely in the defense and aerospace industries, and there are

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John Pearce

Electricity Generation, a second semester freshmantutorial course in the Plan II honors program at the University of Texas at Austin. This coursefocuses on the impact of technological development and is one of several "substantial writingcomponent" courses in the curriculum. Students in the Plan II program are purposefully chosenfrom a wide range of degree programs in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, LiberalArts, Public Policy, Languages and Performance Arts. The classes are intentionally composed ofmixed majors to provide a broad perspective in the discussions. I found the style of teachingrequired a refreshing change from my usual classroom experience. The standard engineeringlecture format is, of necessity, used very sparingly

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David M. Beams

Switch A to LPF Quadrature Amplitude Oscillator Ac / dc coupled variable- Input 2 control gain amplifier Gain control Cosine sync signal Switch A control signalFig. 11. Typical possible application using components of the instrumentation-system CLI.Future DevelopmentsTwo further CLIs are planned for the second year of this two-year project. One is an instrumentto support a laboratory on rotating machines (measurement of

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Rob Guardiola; Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

eleven ABET (a-k) Outcomes by engineering students andgraduates. DDI professionals analyzed these “Critical Incident” stories and extracted fourteendimensions or “ISU Competencies” that we believe are necessary and sufficient to demonstratethe ABET (a-k) Outcomes: Engineering Knowledge General Knowledge Continuous Learning Quality Orientation Initiative Innovation Cultural Adaptability Analysis & Judgment Planning Communication Teamwork Integrity Professional Impact Customer FocusA definition of each of these ISU Competencies, specific to Iowa State University’s and theCollege of Engineering’s

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James Dally; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

preparation, spreadsheet applications, presentation development, computer-aideddesign, drawing and analysis. Discussions were also held about the history of engineering andtechnological development through time, social and economic impact of engineering innovation,information gathering and technical writing, safety and reliability in engineering design, and,ethics, as it pertains to engineering practice in the real world. Students were encouraged to apply all of what they learned in classroom lectures in their designproject, engineering drawing, design reports and oral presentations. Students worked in teams offour or five to brainstorm over design alternatives, performed project planning using Gantt Chart

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P. Watta; N. Narasimhamurthi; Adnan Shaout

design principles such as open-endedness of problems, informed decision-making, meeting specifications, verifying and validating the work, use of CAD tools.Computer Architecture (ECE 375) ECE 375 is a junior-level class that provides the fundamentals of computer architecture. The experiments planned for the new laboratory are summarized below: Experiment 1: Decoders and Multiplexer Objective: Students get a hands-on feel for basic combinatorial circuits and get a chance to refresh their understanding of digital logic. Tasks: Build a 2 × 4 decoder (with enable input) using basic logic gates. Combine individual 2 × 4 decoders to form a 3× 8

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Mary Cardenas

for middle school students. TheWebQuests involved the integration of an environmental issue, problem, or technology andsocietal effects. WebQuests were designed for a middle school audience in order to expand theamount of engineering outreach that is done at the K-12 level. The HMC students choseWebQuests topics including nuclear and alternative energy; the Los Angeles aqueduct; farmingpractices and conservation; a cyanide spill in Romania; deforestation; air pollution; and energyconservation and planning. The WebQuests were tested by middle school students in Fontana,California to determine their usefulness in introducing engineering to middle-school students,and feedback was received.I. IntroductionHarvey Mudd College students are required

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Mukasa Ssemakula

media with planned change elements to help retain student interest • Planned silences to allow students to think • Animations and simulations where appropriate • Actual physical models of reasonable size if possible • Examples of practical applicationsFor the particular Statics course under discussion, PowerPoint slides were used extensively.These allow the instructor to plan out the main points of the presentation so that less time is spentin writing and more on explanation. In particular, PowerPoint’s animation capabilities proved tobe of great value as they allowed the instructor to present procedural steps in problem solving ina succinct yet fully engaging manner. Consider for example Figure 1, which shows a

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Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

favorable.IntroductionABET defines design as follows, “Engineering design is the process of devising a system,component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative),in which the basic sciences and mathematics and engineering sciences are applied to convertresources optimally to meet a stated objective. 1”There has been an emphasis to include design throughout the chemical engineering curriculum.Open-ended projects with design content are commonly included in core courses. An aspect ofdesign not as common, however, is the use and extension of experimental data from laboratoryexperiments. There is a range of student learning goals in the typical unit operationslaboratory. These include the planning and execution of experiments

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James Newell; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

project outcomes as opposed to onlyworking during the 3 hour laboratory period that meets only twice a week. It alsoprepares students for the real world.Case Studies of Industrially-Sponsored Clinic ProjectsPolymer Fiber-Wrapped ConcreteIn this project, a multidisciplinary team of chemical engineering and civil engineeringstudents analyzed the influence of epoxy selection and fireproofing on polymeric fiber-wrapped concrete members exposed to various heating cycles. This project wassponsored by Fyfe Company, a manufacturer of fiber wraps and construction materials.The student activities included: identifying potential safety hazards, developing a detailedliterature review, formulating a budget, planning and scheduling a year-long project,casting

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Umid Nejib

, and other costs associated with faculty additions and laboratory upgrade andsupport.The MOC also assigns tasks and authority of relevant institutional offices associated with the project.For example, the program P/I while responsible for the management of the project, is specificallyrequired to develop an implementation plan for Goal-1 and Goal-2 with recommendations oncurriculum, financial projections, and assessment tools. These recommendations should be within thearticulated boundaries of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET EC-2000). The MOC document directs J.S.S., as a part of its on-going commitment, to allocate adequatefunding and support for the implementation of Goal-2 as it unfolds in India including

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James Landay; Francis Li; Anthony Joseph

6.916.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationbased system for collecting and presenting those metrics to both students and instructors forawareness. We have performed a pilot evaluation that we detail in the next section, followed by adiscussion of the results. Finally, we discuss future plans for the system and conclude.II. Progress and Performance MetricsWe began our design by choosing a set of progress and performance metrics. They are: 1. Individual time spent 2. Team time spent in meetings 3. Individual action items completed 4. Team milestones achieved 5. Peer evaluation

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Bahador Ghahramani

the test case implementation and results. The results were then comparedwith the standards specified in the system plan to rate progress of every phase of the model. TheSA&D plan also indicated the implementation process, acceptance criteria, and pass rates togauge model’s phases and system readiness. Table 1 depicts the SA&D process incorporatingthe above outlined methodologies activities. Page 6.116.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright O 2001, American Society of Engineering Education” TABLE 1, SA&D PROCESS AND TESTING

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Ryan Wicker; Connie Della-Piana; Bill Diong

6.926.3implement process.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education To run the described software and hardware in this laboratory are 10 Pentium II PCs thatwere donated by the Hewlett-Packard Foundation. A network server and printer, also donated bythat Foundation, round out the list of equipment available in this lab. The following figure shows the hardware configuration for each station in this laboratory. Figure 1 – Dynamic Systems and Controls laboratory station configurationIII. Impact on UTEP’s Electrical and Mechanical Engineering programs Our plan to motivate students in their study of engineering

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Shirley Holloway

curriculum redesign and implementation and to combine this activity with dayto day teaching and their own professional development.The keynote of NAIT’s mission, academic plan and business plan is to promote student successin this new global economy. Whilst surveys show that NAIT is maintaining an excellent recordof student retention, graduate placement and employer satisfaction, it is clear that true graduatesuccess will depend on preparation for continued learning and development. There must be achange from curriculum that emphasizes the here and now of existing jobs to one which providesa platform for further learning. Traditionally the content of individual programs at NAIT hasbeen set specifically for regional and national industry needs, with

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Natalie Mello

sendingstudents to all parts of the globe. Current national opinion is that universities owe their studentsmore attention to risk management and care when students travel as part of their academicexperience. 9 With the recent unfortunate tragedies that have occurred in Costa Rica, India,Guatemala and Japan involving students on some form of “study abroad”, more attention isbeing paid to how these experiences are managed by the institutions. 10-14II. WPI’s Global Perspective ProgramIn 1970, WPI adopted a new curriculum, called the WPI Plan. The WPI Plan replaced atraditional, course-based technical curriculum with a project-based program emphasizingteamwork, communication, and the integration of technical and societal concerns. Among thedegree

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Timothy McLaren

will benefit most from the products(manufacturing engineers educated in semiconductor and microelectronics manufacturing). TheSociety of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation and the M. J. Murdock CharitableTrust have validated our concept and plans for the microelectronics manufacturing engineeringemphasis area through peer reviewed proposals and they have awarded WSUV significant grantsfor the acquisition of the manufacturing and diagnostic equipment for the MicroelectronicsLearning Laboratory. Page 6.50.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corinne Darvennes; Sally Pardue

was addressed in great detail withlittle student enthusiasm, beginning in the second week of the course. Multi-DOF discussionwas limited to 2-DOF in the last weeks of the course and focused primarily on the solution to theeigenvalue problem for natural frequencies and mode shapes. Additionally the course objectivesincluded instruction and usage of MATLAB.Our new implementation of the course material was as modules. We separated the 15-weeksemester into five modules. Initially we allowed three weeks per module, but adjusted the lengthduring planning sessions to accommodate topics. A description of the modules follows.2.1 Module 1: Modeling and Dynamics – 3 weeksWe introduced the course policy and presented the modular layout of the course

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Larry Williamson; William Drake

was not repeated the second year. The consequencebeing that it was difficult to coordinate student work on the project. This year, the third in ourseries, the lack of coordination resulted in cancellation of the project. This is probably influencedby the fact that our student body is largely composed of non-traditionals, who for the most parthold full time jobs.The second SMSU buggy project had the significant advantage of more advanced planning,experience and a graduate assistant. The Graduate assistant, Mr. Charles Roop had been SMEstudent chapter chairman the year before. Dr. Drake was drafted to teach the TEC 417 designcourse and integrated part of the project into that course. One of the problems that was noted inthe previous race was

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Willis Marti; Wei Zhao; Steve Liu

Switches Routers Others Servers Infrastructure Infrastructure Devices Figure 2 Structure of Web Access GatewayIn operation, the user (a) accesses the WAG with a browser, (b) is authenticated then (c)allowed to select an exercise from a list constructed depending upon an individual’sprogress and instructor’s plan. Other administrative services

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Julia Williams

order to“communicate effectively.” For others, good communication is defined by thedepartment writing manual and can be assessed by counting up the number ofgrammatical errors in a document. Unfortunately, these two definitions lead students intomisapprehensions regarding what constitutes effective engineering communication, howthey should develop those skills, and how their skills will be assessed. My issue here isthe current state of communication skills development and evaluation that have beeninspired by ABET EC 2000. While the national effort to improve students’ skills (both incommunication and the other objectives areas) are laudable, many engineering programsencounter difficulties with assessment plan development, particularly after

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Arthur Gerstenfeld

an interactive qualifying project(IQP). Prior to each one of these projects, there is a full semester preparation course thatfocuses on research methods, the culture of the country where the project is worked on,and the literature review in connection with each project. For example, a year ago whenwe were planning to do projects in Zimbabwe, we gave a preparation course that focusedon the culture of Zimbabwe. Unfortunately, because of political difficulties, we had tocancel the projects in Zimbabwe and those students did their projects in Costa Ricainstead.Typical projects planned for this coming year in Africa include:• Technology transfer opportunities between South Africa and New England businesses• Identification of key industries in