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John S. Klegka; Robert Rabb

several weeks of free or leave time that cadets are willing to trade for the opportunity toparticipate in an AIAD. AIAD participation is planned before the senior year when most of themilitary graduation requirements have been completed, and the cadet has taken more engineeringcourses (Figure 1). If possible, the AIAD project generates enough interest with the cadet that heor she continues to work on it and progresses it into a capstone project during the senior year.This early exposure and identification of a project allows the cadet to work on a two semestercapstone project if the AIAD partner provides a project of reasonable scope. Additionally, thecooperation with our AIAD partners and sponsors also allows more mentoring by true customers

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, processrequirements, and process profitability. The quality of the last two reports is strongly dependenton the quality of the scope report. In the first report, a team begins with a primitive problemstatement like “make styrene monomer from ethylbenzene” and must select a chemical processflowsheet to manufacture styrene monomer. Basically, they must define the scope of theassigned primitive problem by answering the following specific technical questions: 1. What is the market picture for styrene monomer? 2. What are the most competitive process technologies? 3. Which process is the “best” to select and why? 4. What is the description of the selected chemical process? 5. What are the constraints for the selected

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Gerald J. Thuesen

Eugene L. Grant arrived at Stanford University as a new faculty member in Civil Engineering.1935 Retired in 1935.1941 Published with T.J. Hoover, The Engineering Profession, Stanford, CA: Stanford Press, 1941.1950 Published The Engineering Method , Stanford, CA: Stanford Press, 1950.1962 Died in Santa Monica, California on June 15, 1962 at the age of 92. Survived by his son Lounsbury S. Fish and his daughter Francis Fish Young.1. Department of Civil Engineering Stanford University,One Hundred Years of Civil Engineering at Stanford, ARetrospective, 1991.2. Fish, J.C.L., Letter to R.R. Bradley, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,CA, July 20, 1957.3. Hoover, T.J. and J.C.L. Fish, The Engineering

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Winfred Phillips

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Patricia Davies; Leah H Jamieson; Laura A Guedelhoefer; Edward J. Coyle; James D. Jones

Session 1526 Engineering Education, Beyond the Books Laura Guedelhoefer, Jim Jones, Leah Jamieson, Ed Coyle, Patricia Davies Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper will focus on the process and benefits students receive through practical manufacturingexperience. Included in the paper are two examples of small projects that can be completed in 1-2hours, yet still provide a valuable introduction to the machining process. The Purdue hammer project,which is produced in a sophomore introduction to mechanical design course, is a brass hammer with awood handle. Using hexagonal brass stock, the

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Mark Manion; Moshe Kam

“Evaluation and Presentation of Engineering Ethics”. This 8-credit two-quarter classincludes four components: (1) a topical laboratory (three hours per week) - covering classicalexperiments in systems theory, strengths of materials, and physics (energy andthermodynamics); (2) a history of technology component, which accompanies the experiments Page 5.266.2with the relevant historical and societal background (one hour per week); and (3) and a two-hourweekly meeting on engineering ethics, which, among other elements, discusses issues ofpresentation and evaluation of data from an ethical perspective. About two hundred and fiftystudents enroll in the

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Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

currentlybeing developed and implemented by the SUCCEED Coalition1 as a framework for the ideascollected. The components of the model are shown schematically in Figure 1 and describedbelow, following which faculty development efforts of four coalitions are summarized.COMPONENTS OF A FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ENGINEERINGFaculty development coordinatorEither a respected engineering faculty member or an education specialist leads the program, isprovided with adequate resources to accomplish program objectives, and is held accountable forthe program’s success or failure. The coordinator is assisted by engineering faculty teachingleaders who lead workshops and coordinate teaching discussion/study groups.Linkages to campus-wide faculty development

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Holly A. Patterson-McNeill; Carl Steidley

compilersare being successfully used as a basis for a Programming Languages course.1. Why Study Programming Languages?The study of programming languages is beneficial to all levels of programmers whether they becomputer science students, engineering students, or computer engineering students. The nature ofthe work done by graduating students requires that they be familiar with at least oneprogramming language. Yet, this language will probably not be the one they actually use on thejob. By studying programming language concepts, students can gain an increased capacity toexpress ideas, an improved background for choosing appropriate languages, an increased abilityto learn new languages, a better understanding of the significance of implementation, and

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

assist the students as they decide on a format and aframework for their teams are distributed and reviewed. These aids include a manual onlearning in teams [Gibbs, 1997], handouts describing the Kolb learning styles, andquantitative assessment forms developed through the BESTEAMS program to evaluatethe overall team performance and the performance of individual members of the team.Workshop Handouts and AidsSeveral workshop aids and handouts have been used in the pilot workshop as outlined inTable 1. The handouts include background information on learning styles and howlearning styles influence the engineering education process, and a manual that outlinespositive models for team organization is also distributed. As well, several aids that havebeen

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

and applying them to freshman engineering.ConclusionsThis project aims to address four main themes to enhance the way science is taught at the K-12level in Wake County, North Carolina:• curriculum integration• encouragement of underrepresented groups in SMET• teaching SMET to diverse populations• adaptation of SMET content to diverse learning stylesThis is accomplished by sending graduate and advanced undergraduate engineering students intopublic schools to work in partnership with teachers and staff there. The partnerships have notbeen easy to define and implement, but success has been achieved. Communication is open andflowing with the pilot school, and exchanges have taken place in both directions of the pipeline.References[1] R.M

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Patricia L. Fox; H. Oner Yurtseven; Stephen Hundley

technology in regard to faculty retention and hiring.1 Page 5.271.1The PastThe roots of the national Engineering Technology Faculty Salary Survey begin in 1967 with theimplementation of a similar study of engineering faculty and administrators salaries in thesoutheastern section of ASEE. In 1977, Dr. R. Bruce Renda, who was then the Dean of thePurdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, started the national study forengineering technology faculty and administrators. Patricia L. Fox, one of the co-authors of thispaper, has been conducting the engineering technology salary survey since 1980.To see where we are going, it is often useful to look

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Albert B. Grubbs; Michael R. Kozak

to enroll in a thesis course for a minimum of six credit hours. The industriallysponsored research project must include data and analysis from actual or simulated systems. Agraduate committee oversees the thesis with one appointment to be from the sponsoring orrelated industry. All other requirements follow the same procedures and must meet the samerequirements as theses submitted to the Graduate College from other departments.Table 1 summarizes both completed and in progress thesis. All those involved in these projectsare supportive of the concept and satisfied with the results. The experience has been especiallybeneficial to students with little actual experience at a management level in industry. As a resultof the accomplishments thus far

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E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

hands-on applications.Valuable insights gained (and lessons learned) from a two-semester teaching and skillsdevelopment experiment in distance learning are reported in this paper. The experiment includedbasic instruction in the fundamentals of engineering graphics, coordinate and geometric tolerancecontrols (GD&T), and CAD. The primary objectives of the experiment was to develop aphilosophy which would help to (1) ascertain the effectiveness of using the Internet as aneffective means of course delivery, and (2) satisfy student interaction requirements in hands-onlaboratory practice, using third-generation CAD systems. The authors developed a digital courseextension that accomplishes both tasks. An engineering graphics course, taught on the

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students to make mistakes, go back and ask questions orreview the text and then retake the quiz for a better score. Student reaction to this use of WebCTwas positive.I. IntroductionDuring the fall semester of 1999, Web Course Tools, which will be referred to as WebCT 1 in thetext below, was used to supplement an electrical engineering survey course at the United StatesNaval Academy. Many schools are currently using WebCT including the University of Maryland2where it was chosen after comparison3 with other web based course packages. This electricalengineering course is the second in a two semester sequence which provides both electricalengineering fundamentals and applications to non-electrical, engineering students. WebCT is acommercial product

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Andrew N. Vavreck

. Anexample of a software screen, for link length and position input, is shown in Figure 1. Theprogram is relatively easy to learn and use, and relates clearly to analytical concepts describedin the text, so it avoids the so-called "black-box syndrome," where "students will notunderstand or perhaps even care what it [the software] is doing." [Wankat, p.156] Figure 1: Simulation Software Page 5.275.3In addition to the increased emphasis on the software, a sequence of classes in a modulararrangement was developed which would address a concept in a lecture format (50 minutes,two days a week), followed with a laboratory (2

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Rebecca K. Toghiani; Donald O. Hill; Craig Wierenga; Hossein Toghiani

can also be carried out using any comparable process controlplatform. The laboratory activities can be divided into two primary groups: 1) activities focusedon demonstration of primary concepts; and 2) activities focused on advanced control strategies.Demonstration of Primary Concepts in Process Control Connection of common sensors and control elements to the control system is one of themost important exercises conducted by the students. Many are familiar, from earlier laboratoryor cooperative employment experience, with the more common sensors such as thermocouplesand pressure transducers, yet may not be familiar with the connection of these devices to thesystem used to monitor them. One of the first activities focuses on the

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goals of the course.Advantages and Disadvantages of Discussion Whatever the type of teaching used in the course, there should be many advantages andmany other disadvantages. In the following session, an evaluation is performed for thediscussion type with respect to the main alternative option, which is the lecture type ofinstructing engineering courses.Advantages of discussion: 1. Improving students’ capacities to make decisions, think criticismally, analyze, and justify. 2. The students show better retention for the material of the subject. 3. Students become more interactive and more cautious with the course. 4. Enhancement of students’ communication skills and ability to express themselves. 5. Changing students’ attitude and attraction

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Murali Krishnamurthi

enhancinginteractions during asynchronous and synchronous discussions, collaborative and individualinteractions, and evaluating online discussions. The issues and techniques are illustrated withexamples from the information systems course taught fully online by the author.1. IntroductionSeveral universities in U.S. already offer engineering courses through the World Wide Web andsatellite broadcasts. These courses are beginning to replace or supplement traditional classroominstruction with convenient, self-paced distance education, and reach a larger student body acrossU.S. Courses offered through satellite broadcasts are not very much different from classroominstruction, and therefore, require instructors to make minor changes in their course design to

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William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

community comes as a natural byproduct of fullyunderstanding their customer, a critical piece of the design process.The Structure and Phases of EPICS ProjectsEach EPICS project involves a team of eight to fifteen undergraduates, one or more communityservice agencies, and a faculty or industry advisor. Each team is vertically-integrated, consistingof a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Each team is constituted for several years-- from initial project definition through final deployment -- with students participating forseveral semesters.Students register for the course for either 1 or 2 credits depending on their load in their othercourses. In the freshman and sophomore years, students are encouraged to register for 1 creditper

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William C. Oakes; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

their own substantial growth as individuals, engineers, and citizens.The Phases and Structure of EPICS ProjectsEach EPICS project involves a team of eight to fifteen undergraduates, one or more communityservice agencies, and a faculty or industry advisor. Each team is vertically integrated, consistingof a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Each team is constituted for several years-- from initial project definition through final deployment -- with students participating forseveral semesters. This structure enables long-term projects. Over time, each project has fivephases: Finding Project Partners, Assembling a Project Team, Project Proposal, System Designand Development, and System Deployment and Support.Phase 1 - Finding

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hours credit. The student teams who build the process simulatorsare responsible not only for building the process simulator, but for providing a technical manual(their final project report), for providing a user manual, for hard-wiring the inputs and outputs toa lab PLC, and for writing a ladder program to test their device. The senior project sequenceincludes the usual written and oral proposals and reports.II.. The Temperature Controlled ChamberThe temperature controlled chamber is simply a styrofoam insulated plywood box (with a lid),divided into three chambers as shown from the top in figure 1.Figure 1 Temperature Controlled ChamberThe center chamber is the chamber whose temperature is to be controlled. The two fans in theouter

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Kevin J. Renken; John Reisel

. Page 5.283.1In this paper, the authors (who were the students’ supervisors) describe the projects that the studentsworked on and present the preliminary experimental results obtained in the laboratory. In addition, theeducational experiences of these mechanical engineering undergraduates are outlined.Student ProjectsThe tasks of the undergraduate students working in this experimentation facility were divided into thesix distinct projects described below.Project 1: Instrumentation Setup and Implementation1The first undergraduate student project involved the development of the basic laboratory layout, andthe initial setup and implementation of the PC-data acquisition system (PC-DAS). The primary issuesinvolved in this project were the design of

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Rhett J. Allain; Jeff Saul; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

, evaluate the achievement ofthese outcomes, and use the evaluation feedback to make improvements in an iterative cycle. Inaddition, engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have achieved the 11learning objectives shown below in Table 1.This type of outcomes-based evaluation is not limited to major programs of study; it can also beused to evaluate and improve courses. Take for example, the calculus-based introductoryphysics sequence. The learning objective of this sequence is to help students build a goodfunctional understanding of physics and develop problem-solving skills so that they can use whatthey learn to solve problems in new contexts. This requires students to develop multiple skillsincluding the following:• to be able

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

Session 2647 Evaluation of an Industry Project in a Freshman Course Nancy L. Denton, Jan Lugowski, Jody Knoll Purdue University/Sun MicrostampingAbstractA unique opportunity for mechanical engineering technology students to create engineeringdrawings for an existing product for a manufacturer arose in spring of 1999. In keeping with theengineering technology philosophy that students learn more through practical application ofknowledge, the documentation project was undertaken.1, 2The paper describes the content of a freshman-level design documentation course and theindustry documentation

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Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Ali Houshmand; Eugene E. Rutz

student learning.III. Learning Style AssessmentA number of studies have indicated that personality, experience, and preference for howinformation is received contribute to differences in how individuals learn. These differences inlearning styles challenge an educational system that assumes everyone learns equally well in aclassroom lecture setting.To determine the preferential learning styles of students participating in this project, twoinstruments are being used, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 1 (MBTI) and the Learning StyleInventory 2 (LSI) developed by David Kolb. These two instruments were selected for severalreasons. First, the two instruments have been used widely and there is a readily available

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Carole E. Goodson; Susan Miertschin

Merkel. Participants of ETLIformally approved a group to establish plans for publication. The founding group became theeditorial board, and the first issue was published 29 months following the initial meeting. 4Our past editors established the direction of the JET, with the following statements.1. The purpose of JET is to contribute the national advancement of the field of ET. The intent is to develop a publication devoted entirely to ET. 32. The Journal provides a means to promulgate innovative instructional techniques and materials as well as applied technological developments. 43. The objectives of the JET are to: • nurture ET as a distinct body of knowledge, • foster inquiry in ET, and • disseminate the results of such

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Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

the university as wellas keeping them in that university’s engineering program. One way to increase studentretention is to provide students with "validating experiences." A validating experience isone that confirms to the student that he or she can succeed and is worthy of being at thecollege level and in a particular curriculum.1 Early integration of a design project in theengineering student’s college experience can provide such validation. A freshman leveldesign project also provides the opportunity for personal involvement and interest shownby the instructor, which also aids student retention.Enhancing student retention is not the only reason for early incorporation of anengineering design project. Prospective employers of engineering

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Christine L. Corum

representative to a university level North CentralAssessment Committee. In the past the school committee has served as a forum for sharingideas and suggestion between departments. The school committee also sponsored aninformation session on assessment methods which was open to all school faculty. Finally, thecommittee developed a model for all departments within the school to use as a standard fordeveloping their own assessment system.Strategic planning. In order to allow faculty members to focus on planning and improving theoperation of the Mechanical Engineering Technology department, a two-day retreat took place inFall 1995. During the retreat, faculty members developed a list of concerns and recommendedactions in seven key areas: 1. Student

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thesecond was an average student age of at least 30 years. This resulted in eleven programs assummarized in Table 1. Page 5.289.2Table 1: List of Executive Level TM/MoT Programs: Schools and Degree Titles1 Georgia Inst. of Technology MS/MoT 7 Stevens Inst. of Technology MTM2 Lehigh University MS/MoT 8 University of Denver MS/M&E3 Mass. Inst. of Tech. MS/MoT 9 University of Minnesota MS/MoT4 New Jersey Inst. of Tech. MS/Mgt. 10 University of Pennsylvania EMTM5 Pepperdine University MS/TM 11 Univ. of Washington

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properties of orthogonal vectors, a small solid model was developed as shown inFigure 1. Figure 1 -Vector Addition Example Page 5.290.3 1. All example files are available on request. To run the examples, the user must have Microsoft Office 2000 and SolidWorks 1999 at level 313 or above.In Figure 1, four views of the vector addition SolidWorks solid model are shown. In the isometricview (top right) the X, Y, and Z vectors are clearly seen with the tip of the resultant vector seen atthe intersection of the X, Y, and Z vectors. The three remaining views are the XZ (or top) view(top left), the XY