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Chi-Wook Lee

experimentalapparatus with the instructor’s approval of their project proposals.While students learn to make VIs and execute some lab exercises, the topics including erroranalysis, fundamental statistics, basic circuit analysis, analogies of dynamic systems, and signalprocessing/conditioning are discussed in lecture.Temperature Measurement with ThermocouplesThe lab is designed to enhance knowledge and proper use of thermocouples. The setup for thisexercise is shown in Figure 1 and the equipment includes thermocouple wire, voltmeter, ice-bath,beaker, hot plate, glass thermometer, and soldering iron. Figure 1. Thermocouple Experiment SetupStudents are asked to do the following steps for this lab exercise: 1. Fabricate a thermocouple

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

, localarea networks and network systems administration (UNIX and Window NT server), widearea network design, and topics in computer networking including experimental, applied,and/or practical projects. In this paper, we discuss an A.S. degree in computerengineering technology (computer networking concentration), program rationale,certificate program, and networking courses.I. IntroductionOver the last two decades, electrical and electronics engineering technology departmentsaround the United States have increasingly been faced with the problems of trying tokeep up with rapid advances in computer technology, which requires more technicalcourses and material in the already overburdened curricula. The Electrical EngineeringTechnology (EET) Department

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William R. Hendee; Steven R Krogull; Jay R. Goldberg

with project evaluation and management methods. Marketing, packaging, and sterilization issues will be discussed.• Special Topics Seminar Features outside speakers who will discuss relevant, important, timely topics involving the management of healthcare technology.• Independent Study/Internship Project or internship experience designed by the student to meet their career goals. Students will have faculty and industry or hospital advisors whom they will work with to design and complete their projects. Oral presentations to the HTM faculty will be required of each student to obtain initial approval of their projects and present final results.The Business/Management core curriculum includes the following courses

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Robert McCulley; Joseph Arumala; Emin Yilmaz

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TIGHTENING TORQUE AND THE CLAMP FORCE OF SMALL INDUSTRIAL SCREW FASTENERS Joseph O. Arumala, Robert McCulley, Emin Yilmaz University of Maryland Eastern Shore/ /Filtronic Comtek Inc./ University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstractScrew fasteners used in the assembly of microwave filters were subjected to tensile andtorque tests to determine their yield strengths and the torque that can safely be appliedduring the assembly process. 2-56, 4-40, 6-32, and 8-32 screws with or without nylok andsilver plate finish were tested in the project. Special holders were manufactured for thetensile tests. The torque tests utilized a rotary torque

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Hugh Jack

engineering students are taught control of continuous systems using linear controltheory. These courses often include topics such as step response and design of lead/lag control-lers. In terms of the pedagogy, linear controls are less desirable for the mechanical engineeringstudents because they are very difficult to implement in actual designs. The linear approachmakes more sense for electrical engineering students who are familiar with the mathematicaltools, and can implement the control system easily with common electronic components.This paper will describe a course, EGR 450 - Manufacturing Control Systems. The courseincludes lectures, laboratories and a project. This course uses rigorous design techniques and the-oretical methods to teach

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Sohail Anwar

: Selected 2EET students will show real-life applications of digital systems and linear electronics by conducting hands-on demonstrations related to their final semester projects. Examples of such projects include digital controllers, mathematical calculations systems based on digital electronics, and audio amplifier systems. It is expected that this showcase of real-world applications of electronics technology will serve to increase female students’ interest in pursuing college level studies in science and engineering.V. Facilities for Conducting the Program The program described in this paper is held in the Ralph and Helen Force Advanced Technology Center Building. This building provides students with the opportunity to take

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Harry W. Blackwell; Charles N Eastlake

the differences between designingmilitary and civilian aircraft. Then a second phase of adjustment was made to force theequations to predict the correct current price of a Cessna 172. The equations were programmedin Basic and named LiteCost. The DAPCA equations were programmed almost “as is” to use forexecutive jet type projects and were named ExecCost. Then companion programs called LiteOpsand ExecOps were written from scratch to estimate operations costs in dollars per flight hour.These were fairly fundamental book keeping type calculations based on inputs of flight hours peryear, cost of fuel, amount of money borrowed to purchase the aircraft, and specification ofdesign features which are more complex to maintain. This set of four programs

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Ayyagari Janaki Rao

in the Indian curriculum.Apart from the differences in structures, two important factors differentiating the U.S.curriculum from Indian curriculum are in the nature of the flexibility offered and theinnovativeness inherent in project type laboratories. The flexibility enables to cater to theneeds of different categories of students those who will base their professional careers asengineers on the Bachelor’s degree with no further formal study; those who will proceedfurther for post graduate studies in engineering or an allied field, and those for whom theunder-graduate programme provides a broad base for further professional study in fields likemanagement.The use of open-ended project type laboratories instead of set laboratory experiments

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

majoroutcome of this initial project was the development of twenty-five work-based case studies that Page 5.357.1are interdisciplinary and apply team building, and active learning approach. These cases arecurrently being field-tested, modified, and are available for further testing and review at:http://www.nsti.tec.tn.us/SEATEC.II. The Next StepWith the success of the TEFATE approach to curriculum development, a follow-up three-yearproposal titled “The South East Advanced Technological Education Consortium, SEATEC” wassubmitted and is currently funded by NSF. The SEATEC goals are:1. To provide national leadership for the development and

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Nickolas S. Jovanovic

demonstrations, group projects, problem solving sessions,and student-instructor discussions, by shifting many information transfer activities to the web.Another benefit is that the multiple channels of communication offered by the web canencourage engineering students to write and interact with each other and the instructor moreoften than is the norm in many traditional engineering courses. Thus, these two benefits togethergive engineering students the opportunity to improve their oral communication skills in theclassroom, and their written communication skills outside the classroom (on the web), two areasof relative weakness in the skill sets of traditional engineering graduates, but which are,nonetheless, highly desired by employers.I. Close vs

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

and to the microEP director. c) A student requirement to become proficient in a standard software suite (word processing, spreadsheet, electronic communications methods, project management, etc). d) Expedited student placement with faculty for research to assure maximum exposure to research during the master’s program. e) Assigned student responsibility to manage some aspect of group interests (class schedule coordination, seminar selection, software management, etc). f) Multi-day industrial style training seminars in structured innovation processes and processes to promote inventiveness

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Valerie E. Taylor; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jose A.B. Fortes; Jan-Jo Chen; Alok Choudhary

researchers from academia and industry. Access to the network-computing system, including account requests, document retrievaland actual execution of tools, is obtained entirely through standard, web-based interfaces.The emphasis is on exposing the students to the functionality and nature of tools, while elim-inating the need for time spent in securing access to machines, accounts, documentation, andlearning unfriendly interfaces. The result is a system that supports the integration of a largenumber of tools in undergraduate classes, while minimizing the overheads of installing andlearning a tool and nding resources to run it. Our work is part of an NSF-funded project on combined research and curriculum devel-opment. This paper describes the

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Timothy N. Chang; Daphne l. Chang

running this course for seven consecutive years, the followingobservations are, invariably, made: 1. A bimodal distribution exists between theory and experiment: Students achieving the best classroom scores do not always perform well in a free structure design- based experimental project. Similarly, students who rank in the lower quartile for classroom performance may excel in the experimental project. 2. Composition of team members significantly affects the quality of the experiment. Standard indicators such as GPA do not strongly correlate with the experimental outcome. 3. Strong classroom participation does not correlate with overall course success.Administering the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator during

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Ron Humble; Michael Caylor

Session 1302 Rocket Systems Engineering Education at the Undergraduate Level Michael J. Caylor, Ronald W. Humble United States Air Force Academy, COAbstractCadets and faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy are designing and building a sounding rocketpowered by advanced hybrid propulsion. The eventual goal of the program is to launch a vehiclecarrying a small payload to an altitude greater than 50 miles thereby achieving "space." Senior-level cadets are developing a prototype rocket to meet these objectives as part of theirengineering curriculum. The primary objective of this capstone design project

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Srboljub R. Masala; Kevin W. Biggar; Colin Geissler

Session 2793 The Geotechnical Virtual Laboratory Srboljub Masala, Kevin Biggar, Colin Geissler University of AlbertaAbstractThe Geotechnical Virtual Laboratory is a computer based instructional package intended tocomplement, and potentially replace, some physical testing in a real geotechnical laboratory. Thefocus of this software is toward active learning and development of critical thinking skills,including data interpretation, understanding of the processes and influential factors, and problemsolving. This paper is a progress report for a software development project, which

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

engineering examples. The remaining 2 sections are taught solely by Communicationfaculty. We suspect that engineering students allocate more time to their design projects,even though the writing assignments are more heavily weighted. We also suspect thatstudents do not see connections between engineering problem solving and writingproblem solving. Rather, they see writing as an ancillary tool that follows the “real” workof engineering. To test these assumptions, a survey was administered to all sections of thecourse. The survey asks a range of questions about the amount of time, effort, andrevision the students usually apply to writing assignments. At the end of the term, thesurvey will be given again and results will be analyzed for significant

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Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

week on Tuesdays for the firstsix weeks of class. Grading is satisfactory/unsatisfactory, and is based primarily on attendanceand the completion of one or two small projects. Section sizes vary from as small as 8 to as largeas 25, with an average class size of about 15 students. Their major determines the section ofEngineering 100 students register for; thus, Engineering 100 students are in class with peers fromtheir department for the first time--their colleagues and classmates over the next 4 years. Effortis also made to match ELAs from a particular department with sections corresponding to thatdepartment. With incoming classes of approximately 1,100 engineering students annually, thereare about 60 sections of engineering 100 taught by

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Shirley J. Dyke; Phillip Gould; Kevin Truman

demonstrations, has maintenance-free operation (for at least 10 years), is “stu-dent–proof” to prevent injury or damage, and is reasonably priced. Further, the goal is to obtain aninstrument that can be easily assembled and requires minimal start-up time before experimenta-tion can begin.Three vendors participated in developing prototype units and bidding on the project. The benchscale shaking table selected by the UCIST Task Force is produced by Quanser Consulting, Inc*.This instrument, shown in Figure 1 has a 18”x18” plate, which slides on high precision linearbearings and is driven by a Kollmorgan Silverline Model H-344-H-0600 motor fitted with a 1000LPR IP 40 encoder. The earthquake simulator uses unit gain displacement feedback, and controlis

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Rosa Betancourt de Perez; Rosa Buxeda; Moises Orengo; Lueny M. Morell; Jose R. Lopez

and universities. The LSAMP project supports undergraduate education systemic reform in alliances that include partners from two- and four-year higher education institutions,businesses and industries, national research laboratories, local, state, and federal agencies. Inaddition to this principal focus, LSAMP projects also give consideration to the critical transitionpoints in SMET education: high school to college; 2-year and 4-year college; undergraduatestudy; and graduate-to-faculty career. Page 5.185.11 NSF Grant # HRD

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John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

curriculum and industry’s need for a well-trainedworkforce.Overview of the DACUM ProcessDACUM is an acronym for Designing A CurriculUM and as such represents a process ormethodology that can be followed in performing an occupational analysis; in this project, anengineer in a manufacturing environment. It has proven to be an effective method of efficientlydetermining the competencies needed for tasks that must be performed by persons employed in agiven occupation. Specifically, “What must an engineer in a manufacturing environment know?What must a manufacturing engineer be able to do?” It is an innovative approach that facilitatesindustrial input into curriculum development and helps to define what students must know andbe able to do to be successful

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Nicholas A. Scambilis

Professional 40% Skilled Unskilled % Total 30% Prof Prof Skilled Prof Workforce Unskilled 20% 10% 0% 1960 1990 2000Growth Rate/Projections: A 1995 study forecasted that the environmental labor market will: • remain unchanged by economic fluctuations in the next century, • increase by 39.5% by 1998 in

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Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

universities wereteaching courses on pavement management or related areas5. It is estimated that the number hasnow climbed to the mid-thirties.Common elements in the courses being developed and offered are that they are aimed at graduatestudents, or upper level undergraduates, they have a strong interdisciplinary component, they usecase studies and projects to illustrate concepts, and they encourage the students to tackleunstructured problems. Grigg summarizes the basic philosophy that is consistent with ourexperience: I have found that students from the United States and from developing countries have the same need with regard to this material: to learn to analyze and apply basic principles of management to find solutions to difficult and

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W. Nicholas Delgass; Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

Chemical Engineering at Purdue integrated written and oral communication moretightly into the ChE curriculum. All freshmen are required to take or test out of Englishcomposition and speech courses. ChE professional development seminars forsophomores, juniors and seniors emphasize the importance of communication.Cooperative education students write reports after each work session. Many professorsinclude written and oral project reports in technical courses.The required senior laboratory courses and the capstone senior design course place amajor emphasis on communication. Oral presentations are videotaped and critiquedindividually by a communication specialist while he and the student watch the videotape.The professor or TA grades written reports

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Sally A. Szydlo; Paul R. McCright; Laurence Sibilly; Eric Marshall; Anita L. Callahan

providing a more concrete experience to learners. Concreteness will occurbecause students will “meet” theorists and experimental subjects (played by knowledgeableassistants) and hear thoughtful and humorous discussions about the theories andexperiments. Likewise, both active experimentation and reflective observation will beenhanced through the dramatic nature of the on-camera interactions between theorists andinstructors.IV. The ProjectThe course involved in this project is an MSEM course titled Work Design and Productivity.The course presents historical management theories of job design, worker motivation, andworker productivity. Significant course segments present the theories of Adam Smith, MaxWeber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian

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Patrick A. Tebbe; Christa Weisbrook

Session 1566 A Visual Software Concept for the Thermo-Fluids Discipline Patrick A. Tebbe Department of Engineering The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ 08628 tebbe@tcnj.edu Christa Weisbrook Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211IntroductionThis paper gives an overview and preliminary results of a project to design

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Oguz A. Soysal

also one of themost important requirements of ABET 2000 criteria. Consequently, interactivity and hands-onexperimentation are two important components that must be considered to ameliorate distanceeducation courses in technical areas.This paper presents the computer integrated experiments developed at Frostburg StateUniversity, to increase the efficiency of lab facilities used for "UMCP/FSU CollaborativeEngineering Programs." Computer based experimentation is currently being implemented on theFSU campus to provide a support to the existing lab facilities used for basic electricalengineering courses. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop an online lab facility to enableinstructors and students located on different campuses to conduct

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

Session 2532 Remote Sensing and GIS Option: Integrating Research and The Learning Factory Model Lueny Morell, Ramón Vázquez Espinosa, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho, Rosa Buxeda University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezAbstractThe University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) has established, through NASA Grantnumber NCC5-340, the Partnership for Spatial and Computational Research (PaSCoR). Themain goal of this 5-year project is to strengthen academic programs and integrate research at theundergraduate level in various science, math and engineering/technology (SMET) disciplines,following the

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Robert J Niewoehner; Joshua Filbey

aerodynamicists that the software tools would beaccessible to a bright young undergraduate, a junior-year Aerospace Engineer was recruited todedicate himself half-time senior year to the project, under the aegis of the Academy’s TridentScholar program. Four weeks of the student’s summer were scheduled to provide instruction inthe use of the software, under the direct supervision of computational scientists at the Naval AirWarfare Center- Aircraft Division facility at Patuxent River, Maryland.NAVAIR project sponsors selected NASA Langley’s TetrUSS software suite to perform thestudy. The complexity of the aircraft geometry suggested an unstructured-grid CFD approach,while the maturity of the TetrUSS suite and its interface were deemed appropriate for

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Seung H. Kim; James Scudder

. However, a multimedia tool needs to create a digital versionof the same kinds of documents as the instructor would ordinarily create on paper with extradimensions of multimedia and interactivity. In this way, the interactive multimedia lab manual isone of the exciting forms of communication available to educators.PREPARATIONPreparation and planning are not wasted efforts when creating a multimedia project, but instead,they can save valuable time later on. Prior to starting the design of a multimedia publication, thetheme and the goals of the project should be decided. It is useful to plan the pages of thepublication on a storyboard. The storyboard is a layout of the basic contents of the publication.Also, the format and the distribution method of

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William J. Daughton

follow-up to these inquiries, we have learned that these professionals often areworking in functions such as production control, marketing, accounting, and human resources.Market ResearchA market research project for our Program was conducted in 19965. As part of this study, thepossibility of offering a professional certification that did not require an undergraduate degree inengineering or involve graduate technical engineering courses was investigated. The results ofthe study indicated that certification is seen as on-going professional development, which is avery competitive market. Certification programs vary tremendously in scope, cost, andphilosophy. At the same time, these programs are in a constant state of flux often disappearing