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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

needs of students and industry in our service area.VII. References1. H. Benoit, Digital Television, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 19972. Brian Adams, Understanding Digital TV: The Route to HDTV, IEEE Press, 1992.3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, http://www.ieee.org/4. Advanced Television Systems Committee, http://www.atsc.org/5. Moving Picture Experts Group, http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/6. Nicholas Negroponte, http://www.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/7. John A. Watlington and V. Michael Bove, Jr., Stream-Based Computing and Future Television, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://wad.www.media.mit.edu/people/wad/streams/streams.html8. Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, Central Michigan University

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anexpressed interest in ethics, a willingness to participate, and openness about sharing materialswith departmental peers. During the first year, participants hailed from our School ofEngineering and Industrial and Technologies (engineering, engineering technology, andbusiness). The second year drew from the School of Health and the Arts and Sciences(communications, social sciences, mathematics, physics, natural sciences, dental hygiene, andmedical imaging). And for the past two years, faculty were invited from all of these fields. Inaddition, administrators have attended, including the deans from both schools as well as theprovost. Conspicuous administrative involvement has lent support to the whole venture andgiven a tacit seal of approval.I have

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theireffectiveness, reflect on the experience and offer other institutions a picture of what goeson in such an environment.IntroductionThe University of Hartford is an independent, mid-size comprehensive, primarilyundergraduate institution of about 6500 students (full & part-time). It is complex for itssize with seven baccalaureate schools/colleges—arts and science, engineering, business,engineering technology, and education/nursing/health professions, an art school, and aschool of music/dance/drama—as well as 2 two-year colleges. The COE enrolls about400 undergraduate students on full-time or part-time basis and offers ABET accreditedprograms in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. It also offers a practice-oriented Masters program in various

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learningmethods. New technologies and software, however, permit the practical implementation ofmastery learning models. Motivated by the ubiquity of MATLAB in most engineeringdisciplines, this paper develops a general framework for using the MATLAB Webserver toaccomplish mastery learning in engineering courses. Essentially, the MATLAB Webserverserves as a replacement for human proctors. With minimal programming, instructors caneffectively harness MATLAB’s web interface and delivery tools to promote mastery learningand improve student education.To help illustrate mastery learning with the MATLAB Webserver, this paper details a pilot studyinvolving electrical engineering students enrolled in a junior-level signals and systems course atNorth Dakota State

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Patricia Backer

, multimedia course. The course chosen for this project wasTechnology & Civilization, a general education science-technology-society course. This courseis required for Industrial Technology majors in the College of Engineering as well as being apopular Advanced General Education course for other majors at San Jose State.A needs assessment for this course was done, eliciting input from faculty and experts in thefield. An overall framework for the multimedia document was developed that was used as theplanning document for subsequent development. This plan was evaluated for content using theexpertise of many faculty members in addition to evaluation from an instructional perspective.Before any multimedia development work was done, a faculty panel

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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

Native American participation in Math,Science and Engineering careers. Activities for the five year proposal period focus on attractingthe Native American high school students to the tribal colleges, retaining them through thecollege, facilitating their smooth transfer to the university, and motivating them for higherstudies. Because of the vast distances involved between each of the five tribal colleges and theuniversity, and the sparsely populated nature of the region, distance education technology willnecessarily play a key role. For example, some of the activities will be over a two-way videonetwork (Interactive Video Network) connecting all of these colleges and the university. Thedevelopment of the proposal involved representatives and

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Richard Turton; Roger A. Schmitz; Mark J. McCready; Mark A. Stadtherr; Joan F. Brennecke; Wallace B. Whiting; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

an increasingly important part of the average Chemical Engineer’s jobresponsibilities. Therefore, in the Departments of Chemical Engineering at the University ofNotre Dame, West Virginia University and the University of Nevada at Reno, we areimplementing through courseware, research, and design projects a program to 1. develop the students’ appreciation of the impact of pollutant release from chemical processes and of the environmental, ecological, and long-term economic benefits of pollutant minimization or elimination, 2. equip them with active knowledge of the technology that is being developed for minimizing the environmental impact of chemical manufacturing processes, 3. show students how this new technology can be

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Yann Guezennec; Stephen Yurkovich; Gregory Washington; Giorgio Rizzoni

partners in HEV drive research. This interaction takes place through the already established mechanisms of the interdisciplinary Center for Automotive Research, and through co-operative and consortium-based research.3. Graduate education: OSU’s role in supplying engineers to the auto industry has been a major one in recent years, with one out of every five MS and Ph.D. graduates being hired by automotive OEMs and suppliers. A final, and major objective of this proposal is to create a steady supply of highly educated graduates at the MS and Ph.D. level with expertise in all of the technologies that are critical to the successful commercial implementation of HEV drives.II. MS/ASE Graduate SpecializationOverviewThe

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Robert D. Knecht; Barbara M. Moskal; Michael J. Pavelich

Section 2330 The Design Report Rubric: Measuring and Tracking Growth through Success Robert Knecht, Barbara Moskal, and Michael Pavelich Colorado School of MinesI. IntroductionAs an engineering institution, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)has had a powerful influence upon the program development process at the Colorado School ofMines (CSM) 1. Accreditation is one piece of evidence that suggests the quality of CSM’sengineering programs. All of CSM’s undergraduate engineering programs are ABET accredited.Current ABET accreditation

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Nickolas S. Jovanovic

Session 2633 The Virtual Classroom and Laboratory for Thermodynamics Education Nickolas S. Jovanovic University of Arkansas at Little Rock1. IntroductionMechanical engineering technology (MET) students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock(UALR) are using World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT) and CyclePad software to enhancetheir understanding of the thermodynamic cycles employed in important technologies such asrefrigeration equipment, automobile engines, and power plants. WebCT is a commercial, web-based software package for designing and

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Jeffrey B. Hargrove

machine and product design, the need to have knowledge inthe application of the electronics, sensors, control strategies, computing capabilities andactuating technologies inherent to mechatronics is absolutely critical. The expectations anddemands of today’s consumer clearly dictate that. However, in developing an educationalcomponent of mechatronics at Kettering, it was kept in mind that the rigors of electrical andmechanical engineering education represent only the beginning of the integration ofmechatronics.Undoubtedly, the explosion of mechatronic devices can at least be partially attributed to theplentiful, inexpensive and functional microcontroller. Indeed, in an earlier experiment inmechatronics education at Kettering, a 1994 Buick LeSabre

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Mark R. Rajai; Hollis Bostick; Byrne Bostick; Mel Mendelson

next challenge involved working on joint designprojects with another university. Here student teams from Loyola Marymount University (LMU)collaborated with students’ teams from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) on joint projectsfor a “New Product Development” graduate course. The ipTeamSuite software was used fordata exchange, information sharing, messaging, and group scheduling and design documentation.This paper represents the formation of joint courses and teams between LMU’s Engineering andProduction Management and MBA graduate programs and East Tennessee State University’s(ETSU’s) Engineering Technology Department. The courses also involved industrial consultantsfrom TRW and Boeing, who were experts in concurrent engineering and

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Jason Puzniak; Flora McMartin; Alice Agogino

preferto learn from one another. As a result of this research, NEEDS is experimenting with a variety ofon-line services that can develop and support emerging communities among the faculty who areinterested in interacting with one another in order to better use instructional technology and newpedogogies in their classrooms.In this paper, we discuss research on the potential impact of Web-based learning communitiesfor faculty who are interested in engineering education. This research has been used in the designof the architecture necessary for NEEDS to provide and support this service.I. IntroductionOne result of the exponential growth of the Internet and World Wide Web is that faculty (likeother users) are no longer satisfied with dealing with

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Mary Schlembach

Session 1441 Providing Access to Locally Generated Databases over the Web Mary C. Schlembach University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbstractThe Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hasimplemented Web-based access to locally developed information resources using the Microsoft(MS) Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies. These local databases, in both MS Access andMS Structured Query Language (SQL) Server format, complement traditional engineeringinformation resources. The databases provide enhanced access to

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Robin H. Lovgren; Michael J. Racer; Anna P. Phillips

positive andencouraging. We hope to encourage other faculty within the College of Engineering to use ourapproaches, and indeed seek to define a more global learning philosophy college-wide. Such aprocess should be a natural outgrowth of the College’s ABET2000 initiatives.Bibliography1. Lohmann, Jack R. EC 2000: The Georgia Tech Experience. In Journal of Engineering Education, July, 1999, 305-310.2. Engineering Criteria 2000, 3rd Edition, Engineering Accreditation Commission. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD, Pub. No. 98-AB-7a, 1998.3. Beder, Sharon. Beyond technicalities: expanding engineering thinking. In Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Jan. 1999, 12-18.4. Silyn

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Hakan Gurocak

technologies in greater depth to provide the skills needed foradvanced manufacturing. The emphasis is on mechanical engineering applied tomanufacturing. Only the junior and senior courses of the four year degree program are offeredon the new campus.The curriculum contains several courses that constitute a sequence of design courses. The firstone of these is ME 316 "Systems Design." The main emphasis of ME 316 is on design as aprocess rather than design of a specific part such as a gear. It covers basic design tools such as Page 5.534.1Gantt charts, the house of quality, as well as engineering statistics, engineering economics,product safety, design

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John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

. Task Analysis FormCurriculum Writer Subject Matter Expert DateDutyTaskSteps Performance Tools Related Knowledge Safety Attitudes Decisions Cues Errors Standards Equip. Mat’ls Verbal/ Math Technology WrittenFigure 2: Task Analysis ChartThese two charts do not tell educators how to teach, or exactly what to teach; it provides andorganizes documentation of industry’s expectations of engineering graduates. It can be useful isdeciding which CAD software to teach or which brand of PLC to use in the lab, as well asdefining which soft skills should be acquired by potential

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

than ours.” These are issueswhich young engineers will need to deal with as technical companies face global competition.The Mechanical Engineering (ME) department at Iowa State University (ISU) and theMechanical Systems (MS) department at the University de Technology de Compiegne (UTC)recognized the fact that mechanical engineering design and manufacturing is increasinglybecoming a global enterprise. The success of our students in their future careers will thereforedepend on their ability to work effectively with engineers from both the local and internationalbusiness climates. Page 5.394.1

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other seminars are included in courses specific to particular majors. Anintroductory engineering technology course titled “Manufacturing, Materials, and Processes”has been modified to include a seminar and is effectively required for all students entering arange of majors.One of the goals for this particular seminar class is to acquaint the students with the courses intheir majors, and how the courses integrate with the goals of the major. A case study wasdeveloped based on a damaged lawn mower, and presented in the seminar. The problempresented in the case study was purposely incomplete, with a series of tasks listed which wouldbe necessary to resolve the damage to the lawnmower. The students were required to search thecourses of their major

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Kandace K. Martin; Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

in which they might be working. It required them to think critically and creatively. They also hadthe opportunity to practice building self-confidence. The tenacity of these students and the quality of theirwork also impressed the Iowa DOT officials who participated in the mock bid letting experience.(Interestingly enough, the experience was so grueling that the DOT officials feared that the activity woulddiscourage students from wanting to participate in actual bid lettings as construction engineers. Studentshowever saw the matter differently. For them, this experience led to a deeper commitment to theconstruction engineering field than they had previously held.)New applications of information technology. All teachers have bad days when

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Kenneth M. Bryden; Donald R. Flugrad

, coordinating disparate groups and tasks to complete the project.7. The student should be able to actively participate in the design process as a member of an engineering team in a variety of roles.8. The student should be able to apply an understanding of ethics, patents, and legal issues to the design process.9. The student should be able to understand the technological, environmental, and economic ramifications of engineering products and the impact of engineering decisions on the design process.10. The student should be able to assess the functional fitness of the final prototype to meet the design criteria.11. The student should be able to present technical material concisely and clearly using appropriate written, oral, and

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Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

7. Physical methods for surface characterization of ceramics 8. Sensor arrays, neural network and pattern recognition 9. Zeolites as sensor materials 10. Lithography process in miniaturized sensor fabricationA3. Computer Modeling Recognizing the growing importance of computational science & engineering (CSE) inmodern technological advancements, modeling and simulation forms a key module of thecurriculum. The research achievement on computer modeling and simulation at CISM isuniquely suited for adoption in undergraduate and graduate instruction because it involves thedesign and optimization of sensor materials and extensive

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

Session 3664 WEB-BASED TEACHING: FACT OR FICTION? Joshua U. Otaigbe 1,2, Brad Tischendorf1 , and Meagen Marquardt 1 1 Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering and 2 Dept. of Chemical Engineering Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa 50014Abstract Innovative, interactive worldwide web-accessible multimedia instructional tools were developed to provide undergraduate students in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department and in other departments in Iowa State University (ISU) with a relevant and practice-oriented education in polymers that is attractive to industry

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Narayanan Komerath

Session 1454 Acoustic Shaping, Inc.: Business Plan for Space-Based Manufacturing Narayanan Komerath Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractA Business Plan to help NASA's Mars Mission is used as a vehicle for developingentrepreneurial skills and experience among engineering students. A team of students at alllevels is guided through the process of conceptualizing and developing a proposal and a BusinessPlan, and articulating these to NASA and other audiences. A technology developed through aNASA-sponsored Student Flight experiment is used as the nucleus of a Space-based constructionindustry

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Jennie Si; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Forouzan Golshani; Donald W. Collins; Christian Ringhofer; Kostas Tsakalis

Session 3647 Interdisciplinary Research on Modeling and Scheduling of Semiconductor Manufacturing Operations Donald Collins, Ph.D., Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Forouzan Golshani, Ph.D., Computer Science, Frank Hoppensteadt, Ph.D., Math and Electrical Engineering, Christian Ringhofer, Ph.D., Math, Jennie SI, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Kostas Tsakalis, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Arizona State UniversityAbstractThis paper will describe

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Karthik Ranga; Kurt Gramoll

,geometry, animation, fog, material properties and texture mapping6, 7. One of the primary goalsin designing VRML was to ensure that it at least succeeded as an effective 3D file interchangeformat. VRML can be considered as a 3D analog to HTML. This implies that VRML serves as asimple multiplatform language for publishing 3D web pages. This is motivated by the fact thatsome information is best-experienced three dimensionally, such as games, engineering andscientific visualizations, educational experiences and architecture. Typically these types ofprojects require intensive interaction, animation and user participation and exploration beyondwhat is capable with HTML format. VRML provides the technology that integrates 3D, 2D, textand multimedia into

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Athula Kulatunga

havedecided to donate the equipment to the university. The manufacturers, as well as the areacompanies, later hired a few students, who worked on the setup and demonstration of products.Experiential learning and internships enhance students’ knowledge greatly 1. The departmentsare under pressure to come up with some sort of experiential learning activities for studentsbefore they graduate. AI partnerships open up many internship opportunities. Students at theDepartment of Industrial and Engineering Technology have conducted energy audits, facilityplanning, manufacturing simulations, PLC setup, and various other projects as interns and as apart of their senior research class. Instruments are available to evaluate the outcomes of theseexperiential

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Mohammad A. Zahraee; Lash Mapa; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

5.364.5them. An example supporting the incorporation of continuous improvement into an existingrequirement at PUC is a change made in the process of documenting faculty annual reports in theManufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision (METS) department. This changeadjusted the traditional practice of preparing a faculty annual report which was based on simplylisting the yearly activities undertaken in support of service, scholarship and teaching. Thechange required each faculty member to identify goals along with strategies for attaining them.The list of activities generated over the course of the year is then organized to support thestrategies for attaining the goals. This adjusted format encourages faculty members to not onlylist their

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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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Robert Lane Davis; Kenneth Martin Ragsdell; John Petrikovitsch; Edward J. Feltrop

that maybe place-bound at essentially any location in Missouri. In addition, recent contracts with The BoeingCompany require the delivery of a new degree in Systems Engineering to Boeing sites worldwideand noncredit courses in Saudi Arabia. This paper discusses the authors’ thinking on and latestefforts to create effective learning environments using modern technology.1. IntroductionThe Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri has been charged with theresponsibility of delivering a Masters level degree program to students anywhere in the state ofMissouri. The department has a very strong tradition of service to the state, nation and the worldthrough distance education efforts of various kinds over the past thirty years