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Tony N. Rogers; David R. Shonnard; Besty M. Aller; Kirk H. Schulz; Anton Pintar

developed to measure the success in attaining the above goals:(1) department designed skills test to be given in a senior-level course, (2) plant design reportsand AIChE senior design project, (3) exit survey and interview of graduating seniors,(4) survey of alumni two and five years out, (5) portfolio of written material in capstone andcommunication courses, (6) portfolio of oral presentations in capstone and communicationcourses, (7) participation in the “PAWS” Safety Program, and (8) performance on theFundamentals of Engineering Exam.Parts of the assessment plan have already been implemented. The first cycle of implementationof the entire assessment plan will be completed in the summer of 1999

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Monson H. Hayes; Lonnie D. Harvel

, capturedcourses may be enriched with various forms of multimedia information, and may behyperlinked to a textbook, other lectures, and other sites on the world wide web.In this paper, we are concerned with capturing the classroom experience, and putting itonline. We begin, in Section II, with an overview of what we have done at Georgia Techover the last eighteen months in internet course delivery. Then, in Section III, we turnour sights to the future and describe the projects that are on the horizon, and speculateabout what internet distance learning may be like in the 21st century.II. Distance Learning at Georgia TechIn 1991, a campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology was opened in Metz, France,offering masters degrees in electrical engineering. In

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Sung Kim; Kevin Logeais

, low-pressure nozzle wasreplaced with a high pressure one. Not only did wheel wear decrease, but grinding energydecreased and surface finish improved. With the conventional fluid delivery system only,workpiece burn developed and the test was terminated. In all cases where high-pressure fluidwas utilized, no workpiece burn was noticed. A correlation can also be drawn between wheelwear, power requirements and surface finish of the workpiece and the number of high-pressurenozzles being utilized 5. The step grinding process is essentially a creep-feed grinding process,and should respond analogously to the GE test. The project therefore will be loosely patternedafter this test.2. MethodologyThe requirement of the coolant delivery system is to

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Robert M. Ybarra

laboratory projects that demonstrate the principles of momentum andheat transfer: Pressure Drop Through Valves and Fittings; Two-Phase Flow Through a PackedBed; Reboiler and Condenser Heat Duties; Turbulent Heat Transfer in Empty and Statically-MixedTubes; and Batch Heating of a Mixed Tank. ChE 236 involves experiments that demonstrate eithera chemical separation or conversion–the “bread and butter” of a chemical engineers. Theseexperiments consist of: Heterogeneously-Catalyzed Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol;Desorption of Aqueous Ammonia Using a Packed Bed; Batch Drying of a Moist Solid; BatchDistillation of Methanol and Water; and Adsorptive Dehydration of Ethyl Acetate.Course ObjectivesSince we approach ChE 234 and 236 as a two-semester

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Phylis Katz; Howard A. Canistraro; Ann Lankford; Joan Dannenhoffer; Janice Girouard

appreciation ofSMET, improving the first year experience, and increasing student retention. Increased facultyparticipation was also a primary goal. Among these courses was ET111, Introduction to EngineeringTechnology, which is required of all freshmen students attending the Ward College of Technology.To address these issues the course was completely revised to include a team teaching format,expansion of subject topics to include student academic and social requirements, basic research skillsin the form of a research project, demonstrations of scientific principles through “hands on” exercises,use of basic computer analysis techniques, and introduction to industry professionals through monthlyseminars. The importance of teamwork was also a focal point

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Julie A. Phillips; Dewey A. Swanson

Department is partnering with a corporate quality group at a local firm.4) The Computer Technology Department (CPT) is partnering with a Fortune 500 firm to provide Oracle database training in the form of Purdue credit courses, made available to businesses in the local community.5) The Columbus site has an Industrial Advisory Board consisting of members from local business, industry and the university.6) The Columbus Education and Career Counseling Project, made up of community leaders from government, education and industry, was created to plan the community’s workforce needs of the future, and how the local education institutions can satisfy those needs.This paper will delve further into each of the above mentioned

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

Session 2313 Structured Troubleshooting in Process Design Anthony Vigil, Ronald L. Miller, E. Dendy Sloan, Jr. Colorado School of MinesSummarySenior-level process design courses have historically focused on large-scale chemical plant flowsheet development for grass-roots projects. While this is a worthwhile and necessary part of anychemical engineering curriculum, most new process engineers will not initially be placed in adesign situation, but rather may be assigned small-scale troubleshooting projects as a means ofintroducing them to existing processes. To help students acquire experience

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Flora McMartin

intended.IntroductionTraditional engineering education emphasized individualism, in contrast current practiceincreasingly involves team projects, cooperative learning and an emphasis on the synergypossible through group processes. Most faculty who interact regularly with their studentshave a general sense of a student’s teamwork skills. However, in order for faculty to developeffective interventions, it is necessary for them to measure the underlying skills that contributeto successful teamwork. Building on a number of existing instruments (e.g., the FoundationCoalition’s Team Evaluation Sheet) the Synthesis Coalition’s assessment team developed aself/peer assessment instrument that incorporated the best practices in engineering and otherdisciplines. This instrument was

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Peter Avitabile

forgotten and others he may have never taken. Inaddition to traditional topics, the student must become familiar with vastly new and diversesubject matter.In order to expose undergraduate students to experimental modal analysis to support capstonedesign projects and other related projects, a simplified approach is necessary. Complexmathematical concepts can be easily illustrated using detailed pictures where color becomes anextremely important contribution. These concepts can be further explained through the use ofmultimedia format presentations. Multimedia provides a mechanism for students to reviewmaterial as often as needed to fully understand complex concepts. This paper addresses some ofthese issues through the use of some typical teaching

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Raji Sundarajaran; Christina Sisterna; Charles A. Lipari; Robert W. Nowlin

be used in other projects regardless of the specifiedlocations used in this project.How do you tell to Synplify that you are writing a hierarchical design? You need to code all theentity/architecture pairs that you need in the same project. Write the top-level entity/architectureat the last.When you are using a schematic tool, you tie a component, which is available from a library, toother component using wires. In VHDL you can create hierarchical designs by instantiating onearchitecture inside another. By instantiating you are tying different components together to giveanother bigger.The natural form of hierarchy in VHDL is the component. Any entity/architecture can be used ascomponents in a higher level architecture. Thus, complex circuits

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Roy R., Jr. Craig; Edward McConnell

final design project report are included in the Appendix.5. The New/Revised Labs The new, or substantially revised, laboratory exercises are listed below, along with themajor new features that were incorporated: Lab Status New Feature(s) 3) Second-Order System Behavior; Rev. V’scope Virtual Oscilloscope 6) Digital Signal Processing New DSP topics; Spectrum Analyzer 7) Measurement of Force and Acceleration; New Piezo. F&A; FRF’s; Ratio Ratio Calibration Calib.; Spectrum Analyzer 8) Beam Vibration New FRF’s

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James A. Jacobs

a rational focus for improved materials engineeringeducation and research. Keeping the series of workshops going annually has been a challengedue to ever decreasing of funds to support these important activities. NASA, DOE, NSU,NIST, and Boeing Airplane Company have provided crucial support to maintain the workshops'continuation. The automotive industry has recently joined our partnership. The project relieson scores of peopling helping to make it successful, including authors of experiments,volunteers who organize and manage each workshop, college and university faculty whoparticipate and spread the word, and staff and members of technical societies as ASEE, ASMI,MRS, and ICME

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Ronald H. Rockland

project lab that incorporates these steps are also discussed.IntroductionTechnical people do not think effectively in assembly or higher level programming languages,but rather in their native language. However, it is too easy for students taking an introductorymicroprocessor course to start programming first by thinking in a computer language, withoutany planning. This can lead to poor programming skills, as well as frustration with programmingin general.In a third year introductory course to microprocessors in the electrical engineering technologyprogram at NJIT, assembly language was introduced as a tool to understand the x86 structure. Inthe past students were given assignments to enhance their programming skills, and developedincreasingly

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Kuruvilla Verghese; Douglas Peplow

the bene ts of collaborativelearning without sacri cing subject content. This program was instituted as a project forone of the authors DEP under NCSU's Preparing the Professoriate" program PPP. PPPprovides a one-year mentored teaching experience to a few select senior PhD students whoaspire to have an academic career5. Page 4.126.22. Out-of-class Small Group Learning ActivityStudents are required to register for an extra 2.25 hour period per week for an out-of-classgroup learning session. This ensures that they all will have the same time each week dedi-cated for this activity.Graduate student volunteers are recruited as tutors based on their

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David P. Heddle; Robert F. Hodson; David C. Doughty

atChristopher Newport University. Web-4M, which is now commercially available, was designed byCNU faculty to address the needs of science and engineering students in network-based learning.This software uniquely merges SLNs and ALNs by linking synchronous tools such as chats, whiteboards and slide shows with a common data repository that is also used by asynchronous tools suchas email, news groups and a file manager. These communication tools are used in a variety of waysincluding: simple file transfer, virtual office hours, student project logs, posting review material,collaboration with other institutions, and student to student collaboration. This paper discusses theunique features of Web-4M and faculty experience in the application of this tool set

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Melvin Cherno; Kathryn A. Neeley

basiccategories: (1) direct application in the mechanics of design and construction (acoustics,physics, astronomy, drawing, geometry, materials, and arithmetic); (2) making the architect’swork intelligible and meaningful to his client and to other members of his culture(communication, cultural history); (3) making his project workable in relation to context anduse, including connection to various social systems and customs (geography, religious customs,medicine, law); and (4) making the architect ethical or “high-minded” (philosophy).Throughout the Ten Books, he is guided by a concrete vision of the use to which a design orsystem will be put. He defines the context of engineering broadly, and considers factors rangingfrom religious and social customs to

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Russell D. Meier

watching professors. I joined Project LEA/RN™.Project LEA/RN™ is a faculty development program at Iowa State University. Its purpose is to“enhance professors’ knowledge and skills related to teaching and learning to increase studentlearning2.” This is learning about learning. Faculty members participate from a variety ofcolleges within the university. Faculty members within the College of Education coordinate theactivities. The focus is on active learning within university courses. A faculty member beginsby attending an introductory workshop series, and can continue studying by joining a base groupof faculty members. The base group meets to discuss and explore topics prepared by the ProjectLEA/RN™ staff or the group members. Much of the material

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Michael Morrow

, using the DSK expansion headers for direct board-to-board connection. Theprototype served as a test vehicle for the development of the final laboratory station.Additionally, this prototype board was used to construct a low cost, variable frequency, precisionthree-phase power supply for use in our general electrical engineering courses. Implementationrequired only a small number of additional components and clearly demonstrated the utility of thisprototyping system, particularly in design projects. By using this prototyping system as afoundation, the students are able to undertake much more ambitious interfacing and signalprocessing design projects, without having to design the entire system from the ground up.The laboratory station retains all

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Don Lewis Millard

thosecompeting in an increasingly technical and global market.In 1994, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received approval from NSF for a three-year project todevelop Interactive Learning Modules (ILMs) for education and training in manufacturingengineering. The project was part of the Technology Reinvestment Project Manufacturing Educationand Training Program (TRP/MET) which was funded by the NSF, the Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency, and Rensselaer’s corporate sponsors. The project generated materials that pick upwhere most textbooks leave off – to additionally allow the user to explore and understand the dynamicnature of how electronics are designed, manufactured and utilized. These materials provideapplication-based motivation for learning

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Debi Switzer; Siegfried M. Holzer; Richard M. Felder; Douglas E. Hirt

groups of faculty members engaged in revisingcourses or curricula, developing multidisciplinary projects, developing or adapting instructionaltechnology, preparing distance course offerings, carrying out systematic program assessment andevaluation, or conducting classroom research. Funding might be provided for faculty members Page 4.21.4to attend national and regional conferences and workshops such as the ASEE AnnualConference, Frontiers in Education, or the National Effective Teaching Institute. Specialprograms might be instituted to identify campus teaching leaders in engineering, perhaps pastwinners of outstanding teaching awards or faculty

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Donald V. Richardson

standardized or even recognized by most faculty. Yet, we will showthat these steps are always there in new original work! Most undergraduate lab work, even usingreal physical experiments, does not show the student this seven step process. Some publishedindustrial procedures use similar but not identical steps.In reality we train undergraduate or graduate students to do original work. The same goes for alaboratory or experimental technician whether at the two year associate level or as a four yeartechnologist. These people are not wanted for repetitive work; they are hired and put to work onsome facet of a project that has original development as an integral part of its content. In orderto illustrate this process to an ECCD audience, I have selected a

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Kay C Dee

yourself where it counts. Consideradding a section about advising students (both one-on-one and as a group) to your teachingportfolio. List successful guidance of a student organization as one of your yearlyaccomplishments, and talk with your department chair about the mentoring skills you aredeveloping. If the group undertakes impressive projects, include some relevant details in your Page 4.58.4 Session 1375curriculum vitae (Does the group participate regularly in outreach efforts? Have they managed aparticularly large budget or prestigious project

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G. Tong Zhou; Hong-Jing Lo

moreinteresting. For example, Minitab 1 and MATLAB 2 projects were considered. However,with the emergence of multimedia technologies such as the World Wide Web WWW andexciting new programming environments such as Java, it is now possible to teach this coursein a more visual and interactive manner. We have incorporated state-of-the-art information technologies such as the Internet, theWWW, and Java into the instruction of EE3340. Java is a recently emerged programminglanguage and the programming language of choice today in network applications it is be-coming the DOS of the Internet." It allows new and exciting opportunities for WWW sitesto achieve higher levels of user interaction and exibility. By using Java, WWW developerscan create applications

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Judy Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra K. Varma

important component to the Freshman Seminar courseis the utilization of the Noel-Levitz College Student Inventory, which provides significantinformation for advisors regarding the potential dropout proneness of the student.Nearly 450 students enrolled in the Freshman Seminar course during the 1996-97 year. Therewas an eight percent increase in enrollments during 1997-98 and a projected 13 percent increaseduring 1998-99.VIII. Other Elements of Access PlusAn additional 21 faculty and 16 staff were hired through Access Plus in order to supportinitiatives, such as, Freshman Interest Groups, Academic Support Services, and the Center forExcellence in Teaching. Also, introductory courses in the College’s Division of ProfessionalStudies were specifically

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Jerome P. Lavelle; Robert Martinazzi

Annual Conference — Charlotte, North Carolina Session # 1339student’s desires subsequently led to the development of the “Life Long Learning Experiences”series. The problems and projects selected for the series incorporated learning how to use theengineering economics factors along with some preliminary methods for comparing options oralternatives.The problems focused on real life situations covering major purchases, educational options,retirement planning, asset allocation and establishing sinking funds to accomplish specific goals.III. Concept ImplementationDuring the first class of the term students are asked to state their expectations for the

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Robert Vance; Gloria Elliott; Craig W. Somerton

heat radiation 3.75H. Understanding the physical aspects of heat exchangers 4.04I. Understanding the physical aspects of power plants 3.89J. Understanding the physical aspects of refrigeration systems 3.43K. Ability to process experimental data to provide meaningful results 4.21L. Ability to design an experiment to be used in solving a problem 3.86M. Ability to participate in a design, build, and test project 4.36N. Ability to communicate experimental results with a technical memo 4.25O. Ability to communicate project results with a technical report 4.21P. Ability to participate in with team building experiences 4.46

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T. Roppel; A. Scottedward Hodel

electrical engineering, build uponprevious laboratories, and are supplemented from outside sources including guest lectures.Students encounter a significant number of concepts for the first time in the laboratory courses.The first course consists of experiments that are largely prescriptive, but as the laboratorysequence progresses through the sophomore and junior years, students are increasinglychallenged to think creatively in design projects and to write technical reports in a variety offormats. Page 4.98.1II. Assessment Based On Student FeedbackStudents in the Electrical Engineering Department are asked to fill out evaluation forms at theend of

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Donald Zinger

the laboratory are somewhat more expensive. Relatively cheap currentsensors can be substituted, however, with the loss of some convenience.Additional costs would come from the circuit components used. These would include the powerMOSFET, the controller circuit, the inductor core and a few miscellaneous components. Thetotal cost of these components is less than $20 per group and should not be a major burden onthe laboratory budget.Student FeedbackStudents have responded well to the laboratory experience. As illustrated in fig. 2, a studentsurvey has shown that the students believed that the laboratory projects helped in theirunderstanding of the course material. None of the students said they did not learn anything fromthe laboratory while 90

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Sandra D. Yeigh

until the final three or four semesters do undergraduate studentsexperience the "fun" in engineering through team and individual projects where they create andengineer solutions to engineering problems. Would it not serve these students well if we canintroduce such creative processes earlier? The answer is an emphatic "yes." However, in thefirst half of students’ academic careers, they do not have the theory and engineering maturity totackle many problems. This is truly a catch-22 problem.Energy policy issues are all around us. From clean coal technology to electric utilityrestructuring, energy policy problems make the headlines everyday. Most students can readand understand the issues at hand. This is the channel the authors explored. Several

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Sallie (Lee) Townsend; Howard A. Canistraro

full-time faculty listed above,those with past industrial experience can use their acquired skills in a variety of ways. A primaryduty is to constantly refine and revise the program to meet the latest needs in industry. They alsouse their expertise by acquiring research grants since they know what types of research pursuitsare possible and the how to acquire means to perform that research. They also know how tomanage programs using existing campus courses and resources and they have the experience torun programs and produce results. In the academic environment, these faculty have control overtheir own research projects, which is not a typical scenario in industry. This managerialfreedom, coupled with a strong sense of academic freedom, will