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2001 Annual Conference

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George Piskov; Alexei Nesterov

is, that those jobs are to be filled by qualified, educated people with a minimum of a Bachelor degree. Where all these folks are supposed to be coming from? That’s a really tough question.Let’s turn to the facts. In accordance to what the Bureau of Labor Statistics says in 1996 thecomputer programmers held about 568,000 jobs. Employment of programmers is expected togrow faster then the average through the year 2006, meaning that the actual growth may besomewhere between 21 to 35 percent. At the same time, the total labor force is projected toincrease only 11 percent during the same period. Looking at these

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

: Video Call for919.871.0966 getting started and pricingwww.nuimagelabs.com Tips and TricksNuimage Labs ArchiCAD Training Book $30919.871.0966 Guidewww.nuimagelabs.comAt a Glance, Inc. ArchiCAD Project Book and CD-ROM $65800.847.6992 Frameworkinfo@awarenesslearning.comGraphisoft Step x Step Book and CD-ROM $30800.344.3468www.graphisoft.comNuimage Labs AutoCAD Bi-monthly publication $59.00919.871.0966

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Mary C. Verstraete; Daniel B. Sheffer; Bruce C. Taylor

traditional electrical and mechanical engineering courses currently available at The Universityof Akron. The majority of these courses serve as required courses for either one or both tracks,or serve as electives during the senior year. A heavy emphasis is placed on design, from thefreshman level (Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Design) through the senior year,culminating in two capstone senior Design classes. BME Design I requires a team of students tocomplete a design project specific to their chosen track. BME Design II requires that theprojects entail a joint venture between students in the two tracks.Furthermore, it is anticipated that the majority of the students will choose to participate in thecooperative education program in the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Eugene E. Rutz

Learning in the College ofEngineering at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Rutz is a registered Professional Engineer with experience inmechanical design, testing and analysis, project management and teaching. He received his B.S. in NuclearEngineering in 1982 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 from the University of Cincinnati. Page 5.236.4

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2000 Annual Conference

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Albert L McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

of technical specialization is digital electronics. He has industrial experiencewith the Boeing Co., 3M Co., Motorola Inc. and Minority Engineers of Louisiana. His current researchinterests include noise in digital systems design methodology and effective paradigms in engineeringtechnology education. He is Co-director of The Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunity, aNational Science Foundation Alliance for Minority Participation project. Dr. McHenry has been activelyinvolved in four-year technology programs for over 35 years. He was the recipient of the 1996 ASEE,Fredrick J. Berger Award and is presently the Chair of the Engineering technology Council and a memberof the ASEE Board of Directors

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E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

-campus students, staff and faculty from theirhomes, libraries, or work places. These packages allow individuals to access, through theInternet, video conferencing help sessions, lab sessions or even live course lectures fromanywhere in the world. It is also possible, using these packages, to share or access anyapplication that resides on Windows/NT servers during these sessions or course lectures. Bassettdemonstrated the sharing of Pro/E, a third generation CAD system, over the Internet usingNetMeeting25. The demonstration was an attempt to reduce travel time between researchers atPurdue and Cummins Engine while working on a centerless grinding research project. Casuccihas also used NetMeeting to share results from a laser micrometer and from a

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2000 Annual Conference

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Amy Gowder; Narciso F. Macia

. Dr. Macia received aB.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1974, a M.S. degree in theMechanical Engineering from the same department in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from ArizonaState University in 1988.Amy GowderAmy Gowder is an engineer at Anderson-Consulting in Arizona. Ms. Gouder was earning her B.S. degree in Bio-Engineering from Arizona State University at the time of this project. She graduated in 1998. Page 5.334.7

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Ben Humphrey

growing ubiquity of the Internet, reports are becomingeasier to locate. Cornell University maintains a large collection which can easily be printed out.John H. Bartsch, a high school teacher from New York, in his book, School Material SafetyManual,12 1992 has collected MSDS for chemicals commonly used in schools. This excellentsafety source also includes suggestions and recommendation on the use of materials whichteachers, students and even cleaning personnel might use.Every engineering laboratory that maintains an inventory of chemicals or chemical productsshould include a minimum of one unit of study on the use of Material Safety Data Sheets.Student project ideas abound. Some include: *Locating MSDS for each product used in a specific

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jr., Oscar Barton; Edward Lenoe; Clinton Cornell

,conduct mechanical properties testing and fractographic examination. The project served as anexcellent introduction to the mechanics of metal matrix composites and in particular comparedthe strengths of welded versus brazed MMC joints and assessed the integrity of the structuralelements.REFERENCES[1] J. Henshaw, W. F. Grant, Fabrication of Low Cost SiC/Al Metal Matric Composite BridgingComponents, Interim Report Phase I, Avco( Textron) Corporation, AMMRC TR 84-31, July1984 Page 6.193.7

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2001 Annual Conference

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G. Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

students, who then wrote a paper on it detailing their analysis and approach to theproblem. Following this, the instructor’s solution was presented and a discussion evolved. Thisdiscussion resulted in advocating for and illustrating the advantages of a fundamental approach toengineering in a manufacturing-design setting.I. IntroductionThis is a case study used in the Senior Capstone design course in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at NCA&T State University. It originated from consulting work with a local industryby one of us (GJF) and was developed into a case study/project. In addition to its technicalaspects, the study presented opportunities for examining and comparing the differences inapproaches between students and working

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1998 Annual Conference

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James R. Etchison

overall amount orquality of instruction in the program. Course of ActionThe 1994 EET curriculum revision was comprehensive. It resulted in a 200 credit hour bachelorof science degree program with four senior project options, and a separate 95 credit hourassociate of engineering degree program. The revision impacted OIT's Laser Optics, ComputerHardware, and Electronics Engineering Technology programs, and the EET program at PortlandCommunity College, with whom we have a cooperative curriculum agreement that allows PCC'sEET graduates to enter our bachelor's program as juniors at either the Klamath Falls or PortlandMetro OIT campuses. Only the curriculum modifications pertinent to freshman retention

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1998 Annual Conference

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Alfred S. Andrawis

course is designated exclusively to hands-on experience. The course is designedto cover a wide area of fiber optic basic theories and applications. It includes laboratoryexperiments introducing students to the following: basic knowledge, skills and manual dexterityneeded for handling and testing fiber optic waveguides, characteristics of optical components,fiber optic communication systems, and fiber optic sensing systems. 1. INTRODUCTIONThis paper describes the development of a one semester credit undergraduate laboratory course(Optical Fiber Laboratory) to be taught concurrent with the Optical Fiber Communicationslecture course (Optical Fiber Communications). The project is supported by: 1. National

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1998 Annual Conference

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Russell G. Bly; Ph.D., Paul E. Givens; Anita L. Callahan

® for our Departmental use. With some cooperation from our IM group, this may work out. If it does work out, this mode of work design would increase productivity and efficiency and reduce costs. I added the OP Label (Tampa VA) link last night after class. I am going to attempt to use the Internet to coordinate a project between three VA's (1500 miles apart). I have to admit I got the idea from your class...I will be modifying this as the class continues. Just thought you might like to know that your students are applying what they learn.Although resources are limited and time to develop courses of this nature can be hard tofind, the rewards are compounded when comments from students go beyond the

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1998 Annual Conference

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J. W. Stevens; A.A. Jalalzadeh-Azar; W.G. Steele; B.K. Hodge

dehumidification, as well as therelationship to broader air conditioning issues is essential. Depending on instructor preference,student handouts of the overheads may be helpful. It is recommended that some arrangement fora ‘hands-on’ type of experience be provided for the students since none had previously seen adesiccant dehumidification system. Page 3.274.3 REFERENCESJ.W. Stevens, B.K. Hodge, and A. Jalalzadeh-Azar, 1997, "A Desiccant Instruction Module for HVAC Courses,"1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2333-Energy Courses, Projects and Curricula I, June 15-18,1997, Milwaukee, WI, also

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1998 Annual Conference

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Fred Weber; Daniel C. Yoder; Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

learning cycle begins with a classroom lecture tointroduce the concept, a hands-on laboratory “physical homework” experience to encouragestudent ownership of the concept, a recitation-style working session to provide practice with thetools available in using the concept, homework assignments to provide practice, and a teamdesign project requiring mastery and application of several of the concepts. This reportconcentrates on the importance of and techniques used in the hands-on laboratory setting.The hands-on laboratory physical homework is designed to help students personalize and “feel”the concept. To this end, it uses very simple experiments and includes analyses of experimentalresults. These experiments are devised using the following general

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1998 Annual Conference

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Charles U. Okonkwo

duringstorage or transport. This paper presents the concepts of chemical reactivity, influencing factors,and their role in creating environmental hazard. The three instructors: a Ph.D. chemist, a masterdegree chemical engineer with thirty five (35) years industrial experience, and a Ph.D. chemicalengineer with 5 years industrial experience used projects, case studies, video tapeddemonstrations as examples to illustrate the crucial role chemical reactivity plays.IntroductionI was part of a team of three instructors, who taught a course titled ‘Chemistry of HazardousMaterials’ which was offered under the hazardous waste management program. My studentswere employees in local industry and most had little or no background in chemistry. It isimportant to

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1998 Annual Conference

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Eric J. Addeo

concern is that of the interface between a computer and acommunication network, such as an ISDN or LAN based system.1 0.0 Computers—small, medium and large Page 3.87.10 10Today there is a vast spectrum of microcomputers, minicomputers, and large centralizedcomputers. This module will discuss some of the underlying architectural and performancedifferences of small, m6dium, and large computing complexes.The evolution of computer applications and functionality in a world with powerful chips will betraced and projected.11.0 Operating Systems We assume

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1998 Annual Conference

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Vijay K. Arora

wideprofits. Students analyze customer’s perception of value, design package of benefits addressingtrue value, and how whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. They show how to eliminateroot causes of problems to reach goals by common sense that can often be uncommon.The topics that are emphasized during this learning process are: Networking, Ethical Decision-making, Leadership, Project Management, and others. For ethical cases, we use a video seriesentitled Ethics in Professional Life used at Carnegie-Mellon University. The assignments askthem to analyze ethical cases based on a VCR framework that includes: Values and Virtues,Consequences and Contingencies, and Rights and Responsibilities. Weekly assignments includeessays on topics such as

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1998 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Crowe; Herman Budiman; Elin M. Wicks

professionals during the College of Engineering’s annualEngineers’ Week Lab Tour open-house at the University of Missouri - Columbia. The prototypesystem has been widely demonstrated and has been very well received.During the first year of this project, several opportunities arose to present our prototype system topotential users and customers. The interest level and feedback received from thesedemonstrations was most enthusiastic. Examples of this interest include: Cincinnati Milacron,Inc., University of Missouri System Outreach and Extension, McGraw-Hill, Inc., fouruniversities, and one trade-school. All of which requested more information about eitheracquiring a CD-ROM version of the final product or about accessing the final product via theinternet

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1998 Annual Conference

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James C. Wood

, 1993.5. Roedel, R, et.al. An Integrated Project-based, Introductory Course in Calculus, Physics, English and Engineering, FIE Conference 1995.6. Barrow, D, et al., An Integrated Freshman Engineering Curriculum, Why You Need It and How to Design It, ASEE Annual Conference 1996.7. Waintraub, J. L., Mecomtronics Engineering Technology – Educating Technicians for 21st Century, ASEE Annual Conference 1996.8. Sehi, G., NSF supported Engineering Technology Programs and Institutional Changes, ASEE Annual Conference 1997.9. Felder, Richard," Matter of Style " ASEE Prism December 1996.10. Gardner, H., The Mind's New Science: A History of Cognitive Revolution, Basic Books, New York 1987.11. .Brown, Buck F. Sr. and Brown B. (1997) Problem

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1998 Annual Conference

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Gary A. Ybarra

Page 3.379.5 In addition to the 14 new “stationary” laboratory stations, a mobile laboratory sta-tion called Mobilab has also been constructed. Mobilab contains an identical set of digitaltest and measurement instruments and personal computer system as the other stations.Mobilab is used to demonstrate measurement techniques including virtual instrumentationand computer simulations during the lecture in the classroom. Graphical output from thecomputer is projected onto a screen using an nVIEW projector. A diagram of Mobilab isshown in Figure 6. Mobilab (Complete Lab Station on Wheels)Figure 6: MOBILAB: Mobile laboratory environment use for in-class demonstrations ofphysical and virtual instrumentation and circuit

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1997 Annual Conference

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Stephen A. Raper; Susan L. Murray

Manufacturing Management) Production/Operations Management Operations Research Project Management Quality ControlThere are also common courses that are electives or preferences in many of the universities.These are shown in table 3.Table 3. CURRICULUM OVERLAP Computer Integrated Mfg. Cost Accounting Facility Layout/Location Linear Programming Logistics Safety Scheduling Statistical Quality Control Technical Writing Total Quality Management Work MeasurementConclusionsIn many ways Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management are very similar. IndustrialEngineers are faculty members in Engineering

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1997 Annual Conference

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Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

control set-up, and will build the eccentric loading test set-up. Work on this project already exists in the form of some limited exercises in dynamics,automatic controls and digital signal processing, and the authors are working on the integrationof these exercises to create the vertical learning environment. The School recently obtained aTau Delta motion control unit which is the only existing experimental set-up that truly integratesdynamics and automatic controls. The rest of the equipment is being requested through grantssubmitted to the National Science Foundation. ConclusionsThis paper presents an innovative multipurpose laboratory environment that aims at integratinglearning for students. The focus

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1997 Annual Conference

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J. W. Stevens; A.A. Jalalzadeh-Azar; B.K. Hodge

. Experiences and ConclusionsThe basis of the module was developed in the Spring 1996 offering of the MSU air conditioningcourse. A two-week segment on desiccant dehumidification was incorporated into the courseschedule. This segment included an introduction and discussion of applications, explanation ofperformance indices, and consideration of selection and specifications of desiccant devices. Acase study was used in the class, and a design project was assigned to the students. Softwarefrom a desiccant system manufacturer to predict performance of a desiccant device based on inlet Page 2.11.4conditions of the process and regeneration air was made

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1997 Annual Conference

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P.E., Dr. Henry L. Welch

possible to provide one or two lecture sequences in applying fuzzy logic to theareas of reasoning, control, databases and information retrieval, diagnosis, image recognition andsegmentation, expert systems, and adaptive systems and neural networksIn many cases this is the first introduction most students have to these topical areas so they see avariety of applications. The scope of the course can be broadened further by having the studentsteach themselves. (Which is useful in its own right.) By requiring a research project into anapplication of fuzzy sets the students find any number of interesting uses for the theory they've Page 2.422.2just been

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1997 Annual Conference

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Michael Mahler; Jon Szafranski; Dawn Werner; Karl Smith

problem-solving groups typically consist of two to four members. Group Page 2.328.1membership is randomly selected and typically changes with each assignment. Problem-solvinggroup work follows a format such as:1. Groups formulate and solve problems. Each group will place its formulation and solution on an overhead transparency or on paper.2. Randomly selected students will present their group's model and solution.3. Discussion of formulation and solution. All members of the class will be expected to discuss and question all models.4. Each group will prepare and submit a project report, and process its effectiveness as a

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1998 Annual Conference

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Chong Chen

Op-Amp amplifiers. With the high voltage gain of the software and hardware, results similar to thoseshown in Figure 5 were obtained.Measuring dynamic stress with LabVIEWAnother project, developed in our lab to make use of LabVIEW, was that of measuring dynamicstress. Figure 6 shows the sensing circuit for stress measurement. A strain gage, applied to acantilever beam, is in one branch of the Wheatstore bridge. The change in the strain gage’sresistance affects the circuit’s output voltage, which is monitored by a VI. Figure 7 shows theblock diagram of the stress measurement and analysis VI. When a weight was added to the end ofthe cantilever beam. it caused the beam to vibrate. The stress variation in the beam was recordedby the VI and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

-date and relevant to class work. The HotBot search engine is especially good at findingthose case studies by typing: "Case Study" +technology name. This assignment involvedcomprehension, analysis, and application.Technology Report – This assignment was given in an Information Technology Architecturecourse. Students were assigned a topic relevant to technologies studied in the course. Thestudents researched the topic and generated a written report explaining the topic, its relevance tothe course and its importance and impact on the industry. This assignment incorporated theknowledge, comprehension and evaluation areas as defined in Bloom.Network Analysis and Design Project - Students in a Data Communications course were givenan actual business

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1998 Annual Conference

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Zenaida O. Keil; Harriet Hartman; Kauser Jahan

is also a major problem in academic institutions both inBangladesh and the USA. While this country is currently focussing on mentor programs,workshops, seminars etc. to help female engineering students, very little is being done inBangladesh. Recently BUET has taken a small step by introducing a Gender StrategyComponent with the University of Alberta Linkage project. This program was originally startedin 1988 to train highly skilled engineers, both men and women, for the oil and gas industry inBangladesh. Historically BUET has been free of gender bias in all its policies. The increasingnumber of women in all academic programs and teaching faculty clearly indicates

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ilya Levin

Session 2532 Design of Control Systems as a Learning Activity Ilya Levin School of Education, Tel Aviv University Abstract Logical control design provides an excellent project-based learning activity inengineering education. It opens a way to teach the fundamentals of synthesis, analysisand decision-making using one and the same environment. In the Computer Engineering curricula, there is a chain of courses dealing with thelogical control design. These courses are “Switching Theory and Logic Design“,“Advanced Switching Theory”, “Digital Systems”, “Computer Architecture”, “VLSIDesign”, “Computer