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Nicholas A. Scambilis

. Government Accounting Office(1), about 15 percent of high school freshmen go on tograduate and obtain a four year college degree within six years of high school graduation.Additionally, 97 percent of parents responding to a national survey expected their children tofinish high school. Seventy percent expected that their children would complete a four-yearcollege and receive a degree compared to 25 percent that actually fulfill this expectation. (2)With the growing demand for technical training, the education system and industry are not insync, thus creating losses for students, employers and the community. Tech Prep thus aims toprovide a focused job-related technical education for the 50 percent unfocused students

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Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill

data in this report is anaggregate over all programs of the College. Since differences in responses between programscan exist and programs have additional inputs from other sources, this information needs to beused carefully by each program as part of their on-going outcomes assessment and continuousquality improvement. In some cases observations about the data will be included to enhanceunderstanding. Recommendations for future survey development and follow-up are beingdeveloped by OAC and the individual programs.2. Selection of Survey GroupsThe OAC decided to focus on three groups: 1) exiting seniors, 2) recent alumni, and 3)managers/supervisors of our alumni. Alumni two and six years after graduation were selectedwith the idea that they

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Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Anderson-Rowland

beyond their first year [1].For both men and women, issues concerning first-year retention include difficulty in thetransition from high school to college, financial problems, and general misinformation about theengineering curriculum. However, studies have indicated that women are more prone than mento dropout due to ancillary issues concerning family, lack of female role models, and personaldissatisfaction with grades. In addition, women are more likely to enter into engineeringuninformed of the challenges associated with their curricula as well as incurring these additionalobstacles not experienced by their male counterparts [2]. Because of these factors, many female

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M. David Burghardt

isdemonstrated can be quantitatively assessed. There is a rationale for each of these rubrics,evolved with much discussion and deliberation. The benchmarks received similar analysis.A scoring scale, consistent with that used by the National Council of Teachers of Englishfollows: 4--exceeding the level that you target in teaching 3--meeting the level you target in teaching 2--developing to the level you target in teaching 1--emergingSixteen rubrics and benchmarks for the design process, solution, communication andmathematics and science connections have been created. The rubrics that follow are used inassessing aspects of the design process and scientific inquiry (Burghardt, 1999b). Explained

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Winfred K Anakwa; Scott Jones; Scott Garrett; Ron Rio; Li Chen; John Bush; Jixiang Sheng; George Anglin; Dion Thomas; Dale Green

StructureA typical quarter-car model of an active suspension can be modeled as a systemconsisting of masses, springs, a passive damper, and an active damper as shown inFigure 1 below. Mb xb Bp Kp uc xw Mw Kt r Figure 1 Diagram of Suspension SystemThe parameters in Figure 1 are: Mb = mass of driver and seat. Mw = mass of wheel and tire. Kp = spring constant of coil of shock absorber. Bp = damping coefficient of hydraulic damper. Kt = spring constant of tire. uc = active control input

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

. Education™) were invited to meet withengineers from an international, high-technology company. This team identified a needfor training technicians and designers in data acquisition. Their Engineering Councilselected HP-VEE as the standard software to simulate and then acquire data.Specifications for the program were jointly developed by the team. The curriculumdevelopers using J.I.T. Education™ concepts developed behavioral objectives andorganized them to assure that material was delivered as needed. Prerequisite informationwas separated from the course material; a math diagnostic instrument and aquestionnaire on computer literacy was developed and given prior to the course.The final course was an integrated 60-hour course, 1/2 theory and 1/2

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Therese A. Mylan; Ravi K. Ghai; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary E. Rafe; Bopaya Bidanda

. Following our earlier presentation ofmotivations for a distributed virtual laboratory (DVL),1 we consider here the development ofthis distributed system and the context of its deployment in the training center of a Pittsburgh-based industrial engineering consulting firm. We begin by reviewing our definition of adistributed virtual laboratory in the context of continuous education and training formanufacturing. We next describe the mostly open-source system architecture of our DVL andsummarize the implementation of the system’s various components. We conclude thispresentation by considering a case-study deployment of the DVL in a work measurement trainingcourse offered by H.B. Maynard and Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the spring of2000. On

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi A. Diefes

need to beintroduced. The terminology defined in Table 1 and assessment process delineated in Figure 1are being used in two ABET accredited programs, Agricultural and Biological Engineering(ABE) and Food Process Engineering (FPE). The two looped educational assessment processmirrors the two loops of EC2000 [1]. In the outer 3-5 year loop, the process allows constituentsto provide input to and feedback on each ABE program. The faculty integrates this informationinto the ABE mission and vision statements, educational objectives, program outcomes (PO),performance criteria (PC), and, ultimately, the curriculum. The inner loop of the process focuseson course level evaluations and analysis of student and graduate performance followed by an

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Jeffrey B. Hargrove

to function as desired, are carriedout in this laboratory. Further, as advanced students develop their innovative mechatronicproducts, they will again use this laboratory’s facilities.Each of the room’s 15 laboratory stations is equipped with a 200 MHz Pentium PC interfaced toa Toshiba TLCS-900H Microprocessor Trainer and Evaluation Board. This arrangement isshown in Figure 1. These boards are driven by C-based software development tools on the PCs.This software permits the student to develop microcontroller programs with standard Clanguage, de-bug and compile their code, and easily download to the microcontroller on theTLCS-900H boards. Page

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Steve Picker; Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan; Christina Weigand; Amy Chen

biochemical engineering.It is obvious that the successful commercialization of the developments in biochemicalengineering depends on the technical advance in biochemistry and biology as well as theeducation of those who will implement such advances. We believe that the biotechnology andpharmaceutical industries benefit best from chemical engineers who have been trained andeducated on how to implement and expand chemical engineering knowledge to biologicalsystems. One way of achieving this is by adding new experiments in biochemical engineeringto the undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory curriculum 1 (unit operations laboratory).The overall objectives of this endeavor are: 1) to familiarize the students with the operation ofequipment used in

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Gerard N. Foster

concepts may beintroduced but the applications are not readily introduced as laboratory exercises.Fundamental digital courses (freshman year) Number conversion (Binary, decimal, hexadecimal, BCD) Logical operations (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR) Arithmetic operations (Add, Subtract) Signed and unsigned numbers. Number size generally 1 to 4 or 8 bits.Microprocessor/microcontroller courses (sophomore year) Fractional numbers for scaling of A/D conversions. Scaling, offsetting and conversion to BCD. BCD arithmetic for clocks. Page 5.217.1 Carry, half carry, overflow, negative, and zero flags. Bit

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Belle R. Upadhyaya

activitiesinclude lectures, laboratory experiments, field trips, and team-based projects that areselected from different engineering disciplines. Distance education modules, with directteacher-student interaction, are being developed. This new educational activity augmentsand broadens students’ capability in problem solving, with an opportunity for their careerenhancement.1. IntroductionThe College of Engineering at The University of Tennessee established the Maintenanceand Reliability Center (MRC) in 1996, with the vision of promoting education, research,information dissemination, and industry-academia networking in the field of maintenanceand reliability engineering. This industry-sponsored Center provides a unique steppingstone through its certification

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James Rehg; Jamie Rowe; Donald Lambing

machine control program at each PLC station on a virtual manufacturingmachine. Wonderware software, a human machine interface software package with a broadindustrial base, is used to simulate the manufacturing machine and provide students with avirtual model of the machine in order to measure the success of their control programs. After themachine program is developed and tested on the virtual manufacturing machine at the PLC Page 5.219.1student station, the program is passed over a network to a PLC on a common bench with theactual hardware system. This laboratory configuration has the following advantages: 1) a singlehardware system supports

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Sheila A. O'Connor; Don Malzahn

andskills while they are working on a team design project. The students log on to the web-siteon a weekly basis and receive team process knowledge and feedback. Each student isgiven individual assessments to determine their preferences related to decision style,learning style, and conflict resolution style. The web-based model provides structuredteam process skills training and presents it to individuals on teams 1) when needed basedon the stage of team development and 2) customized for individuals based on individualstyle, learning style and preferred conflict resolution style. A database stores informationon individual team members and captures reported team symptoms as the team developsover time. The conceptual model and preliminary observations

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William E. Murphy; Jimmy L. Smart; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

year 2000.In November 1995, Kentucky’s Council on Higher Education passed a resolution directing threeeducational institutions to cooperate in establishing ABET-accredited undergraduate programsin chemical and mechanical engineering in the Western Kentucky region. The University ofKentucky (UK) was designated to be the degree-granting institution, with courses supplementedby Murray State University (MSU) and Paducah Community College (PCC). See Figure 1 for Page 5.221.1location of these institutions.The Kentucky legislation adopted the resolution and provided $1.5M to start up and administerthe extended campus program. In addition, a new

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Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

) responsible for the lowerdivision instruction. MuSU is a western Kentucky university with an accredited engineeringtechnology program. The locations of these institutions are illustrated in Figure 1, which presents amap of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.The genesis of the resolution was based upon employers in the Purchase Area region, also illustratedin Figure 1, reporting difficulties in recruiting and retaining engineers. It was felt that one cause forthese difficulties was inadequate opportunities for employees to pursue undergraduate, graduate, and Page 5.222.1continuing engineering education in the region. Hence, the proposed programs are

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Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

COURSE A schematic schedule and outline of the new course for one-half of a semester isshown in Table 1. As can been seen in the schedule, the students who began with thethermal/fluids experiments (i.e., section A in the table) switch reasonably seamlessly withthe students who began with mechanical experiments (i.e., section B) during the eighthweek to complete the semester. In practice and elsewhere, some adjustment to holidaysand minor differences in the effective length of a semester may be necessary. Table 1. Condensed Lab and Lecture Schedule for First Eight Weeks of Semester Week a TOPIC OR LAB FOR SECTION A TOPIC OR LAB FOR SECTION B Lec 1 1 Introduction and Report Writing

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Richard L. Martin; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

. Page 5.224.2II. Equipment UtilizedA single instructor station has been set up and is currently being used in Michelson Lab E1, foruse in EE311 (Fall 1999) and EE312 (Spring 2000). The microcomputer based instructor stationmakes maximum use of the existing laboratory bench equipment and interconnecting cabling.The previous cabling, which had been run from the Central Signal Facility in Michelson E5 to thelab through cable ducts in the floor, was terminated in the lab. The cabling changes and theresulting configuration with the instructor station are shown in Figure 1. 3 outputs at each bench Bench 14

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Norm Pumphrey; William M. Jordan

expanded from one sectionof students to about 120 students. It has been expanded to all of our new freshmen in the fall of1999. More details about this process have been described by Nelson and Napper1.In the fall of 1998, the first group of students began taking sophomore level courses in the newintegrated curriculum. The first author taught a preliminary version of this materials course tothat group in fall 1998. At that time it was a three hour lecture/lab course. As will be discussedlater, this has now been broken out into a 2 semester hour lecture course and a 1 semester hourlab course.The freshman integrated curriculum is shown in Table 1 below: Table 1 Freshman

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Mark R. Rajai; Keith V. Johnson; Robert Matthews

to buy.1 Rajai and Karwowski(1998) reported in designing products that require constant interaction with their users,consideration must be given to their long-term effects.2 Helander and Nagamachi (1992) in theirstudies of human factors and manufacturing aspect of product designs, suggested a system thatintegrates ergonomic analysis with CAD system should be developed.3This ergonomic CAD system should provide designers with built-in knowledge to evaluate theirdesigns. Using computer graphics in design process is recommended by other researchers.4,5,6However, a main problem of incompatibility between CAD systems and ergonomic systems hashindered the development of such integrated systems. Ortengren (1992) reported that, in order to

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

the student’s experience. Theremaining case studies have yet to be written in detail, although the ideas have been introduced inTF2.For whatever concept is being studied within the classroom, multiple problems from differentfields of engineering and applications will be presented to illustrate the concept so that the students Page 5.227.5begin to think expansively. Specific material will be presented as its need to solve a problemarises. Topics being covered and the projects in which they are encountered are listed in Table 1.(The numbers after the individual topics in the first table correspond to one of the projects listed inthe second

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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

broadcast standardshas been obtained. Due to its new and dynamic nature, this technology is still evolving. Several,well maintained, Internet sites have been identified as resources to be used to keep abreast ofchanges and industry developments. The most practical classroom materials will be obtained fromthe HDTV and AC-3 standards themselves.II. Course OutlineThis is a one credit introductory course/lab that will meet once a week, two hours at a time, for 15weeks. There will be a mix of a brief lecture followed by a lab most weeks, with a couple of classperiods being fully lecture.1. HDTV Overview • NTSC television review and broadcast fundamentals • Digital signal broadcasting • Compare and contrast signal strength requirements2. Computer

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Kambiz Farahmand

quality system to the selected standard and thensuccessfully completing an audit by a third party registrar. The twenty elements of the ISO9000 standards fall into three major areas as shown in Figure 1. Figure 2 shows the details ofthe certification hierarchy.II. Documenting the quality systemThe ISO requirements dictate that all elements of the selected standard be documented. By far,the most time consuming and arguably the most costly step in ISO implementation isdocumenting the quality system. There are typically four tiers of quality system documentation:• Quality Manual (Level 1) - This includes the organization’s quality policy and formal statements on how each element of the ISO standard will be addressed by the quality

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

University of Akron focuses first on core engineering coursework, followed by advanced applications specific to the field of Biomedical Engineering. Toassure a fundamental understanding in engineering, the program is divided into two tracks: (1)Biomechanics and (2) Instrumentation, Signals and Imaging. The Biomechanics track (SeeTable 1) is designed for those students who would pursue a Mechanical Engineering backgroundwith specialization in the areas of cardiovascular, orthopaedic, rehabilitation engineering,biomaterials and system simulations. The Instrumentation, Signals and Imaging track (See Table2)is designed for those students who wish to pursue an Electrical Engineering background with

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

. Page 5.230.1I. BackgroundAlabama A&M University, (AAMU) was granted the authority to offer two new engineeringprograms in August 1, 1995. The authorization to offer mechanical and electricalengineering programs was obtained as part of a larger legal desegregation law suit resolutionin a civil case (CV 83-M-1676). This situation brought to AAMU both a challenge, and aunique opportunity to develop two engineering programs from “a clean sheet of paper”perspective. Dr. Arthur J. Bond, Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology,formed a team to develop both the electrical and mechanical curricula. This paper describessome of the elements that influenced the design of the ME curricula and in particular thefreshman course ME 101

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Debbie T. Brown; Masoud Rais-Rohani

tool,and a collection of test-your-knowledge exercises with response feedback. This paper describesthe objectives of developing VLSM, and gives an overview of some of its modules that havealready been developed and are currently being used and evaluated at the designated Web site(www.ae.msstate.edu/vlsm).I. IntroductionThe use of computers in engineering education is not new. According to the U.S. Department ofEducation, engineering faculty have been the quickest to adopt learning technologies. Since theFall of 1992, engineering faculty have surpassed all other disciplines by using computationaltools and software to implement computer-aided instruction.1 A significant shift in technologyimplementations that is apparent in engineering education

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Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap; Dennis R. Depew

development with maximum flexibility.The School of Technology proposes a flexible delivery system for graduate education that providesindividuals the opportunity to complete the Master of Science degree in technology in four semestersplus one summer session. The program requires students to come to the West Lafayette Campus forthree extended weekends each semester. These extended weekends begin on Friday afternoon andconclude on Sunday afternoon. Students take 1-7 credit hours of course work per semester. Purduefaculty teach the courses, although instructional methodology differs from that of the traditionalcourse structure because course content is delivered by technology in addition to traditionalclassroom lectures. While students are on campus for

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James E. Fuller

simulations of heat loss/heat gain;Curriculum Specific to Technology : This is the new area of focus even in instances wheretechnology has been incorporated for a significant time period. Due to the ever evolving, everchanging nature of technology, there are new technology-specific curriculum topics on aregular basis. The curriculum must address this. This curriculum covers such topics as: Basic computer use: keyboards, mouse, CD-ROM, fragmentation, error recognition and management, etc. Intermediate: Web/internet, e-mail, QuickTime video, DVD, CD-W, etc. Advanced: distance learning, interactive learning, web publishing, etc.Illustration 1, found on the next page, is a synopsis of the above arguments

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

State resources is provided exclusively for students of the State IHEs;! limited tax allowance for students paying tuition fees is available;! research activities are mainly supported from State resources in the State IHEs, and are practically non-existing in the private IHEs. Page 5.233.22 Key topics in education, Vol. 1: Financial support for students in higher education in Europe. Eurydice, Office for Official Publications of European Communities, Luxembourg 1999, pp. 15 and 37.It should be stressed that current practices of charging the evening and extramural students ofthe State IHEs

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Kevin LaFerriere; John M. Spinelli

gather output data from oscilloscopes. This testing environment can beautomated to allow students to perform a wider range of tests than would be possible withmanually controlled equipment. MATLAB is used to analyze the data and perform somesimple system identification. Example systems given to students as "black boxes" rangefrom simple filters to unusual non-linear and time-variant systems. A goal of thislaboratory is to develop in students an intuitive and analytical understanding of the rolethat system properties play in design and characterization.1. IntroductionIn a typical linear systems course, students are expected to appreciate system propertiessuch as linearity and time-invariance primarily by applying mathematical definitions