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Ernest Tollner

BSAEand BSBE student enrollment over the past decade along with the percent of the total in theCollege. The initiation of the BSBE degree program in 1994 has grown steadily withoutadversely impacting the BSAE program. The BSBE degree was initiated in response to projected Page 4.398.2development of biotechnology-based processing and environmental needs. The percentage ofcollege enrollment in the BAE department has increased steadily throughout the decade. TheUGA BAE department has chosen to restrict enrollment due to resource constraints over the pastyear. Figure 7 shows the percent female participation in the BSAE and BSBE degrees

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Halvard E. Nystrom

Extended Plan and Treat Bridge life bridge life Time: (year 0) (~ year 5) (~ year 8)Figure 1. Rehabilitation Timing Chart.Actual SituationThis research is a collaborative effort between the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studiesat UMR and engineers at the Missouri Department of Transportation. The first step was to createthis conceptual model and make rough estimates of the costs. This is the current project status.The next step is to formally work with the Missouri Department of Transportation analysts anddecision-makers to: • Better understand their needs in relation to decision making in this area, • Present the preliminary model for

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Qiuli Sun; Michael A. Mooney; Kurt C. Gramoll

farms. The traffic module discussed in this paper involves thedesign of a transportation corridor linking Sooner City to metropolitan Oklahoma City.Students were required to design the number of lanes and on/off ramp configurations ofthe corridor considering a 50-year life. In addition to the lanes and on/off ramp design,students were required to forecast population growth throughout Sooner City. The web-based traffic learning environment was developed and adopted (1) to help studentsvisualize the design project and (2) to help students understand the underlying trafficdesign principles. There are three parts in the learning environment [10], namely,explanation, simulation, and field video (Video and sound in the module were not

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Sohail Anwar; Shamsa S. Anwar

and administering short-termcontinuing education and training programs.2. The Organization has no mechanism in place to conduct long-term evaluation of itscontinuing education and training programs.3. Continuing education and training programs developed and administered by theOrganization are based on the on-going current training needs assessments of the IBEWmembers in its 20-county service area. It does not have a mechanism to project future trainingneeds and plan appropriate continuing education & training programs to fulfill these needs.ConclusionsIn order to improve its training function and to increase the effectiveness of its trainingpartnership with Penn State Altoona and other educational institutions, the Organization plansto

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George W. Garrison; Garry D. Coleman

performancetests, storing student records, managing access to student and course records, and reporting onstudent and course activity"3. The online CMS being considered provided a web-basedframework within which an instructor simply enabled options and added content. In essence, theCMS provided a ready made course web page and much more.III.A. Creating Class Web Pages in HTMLOne of the authors organized and attended a basic HTML course. Each course participant sat ata networked PC while the instructors used a projection monitor to project their PC's monitorimage onto a screen for all to see. The course provided approximately eleven contact hours fromtwo instructors and a great deal of hands-on exercises. Topics covered included: creating basicHTML files

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Joan A. Burtner; Laura Moody

member from each of the originalgroups. These individuals then explained the answers to their problems to the new group.“Integration of active learning and written team reports” - Students were required to bringin two car ads and two house ads with different stated interest rates. They worked inpairs to complete an in-class project in which they were asked to answer severalquestions using the costs and interest rates shown in the ads. The teams turned in aformal report on their findings. This exercise seemed beneficial both in terms of helpingstudents understand the concepts and in solidifying their skills in working with interestrates and the time value of money.IV. Course EvaluationEGR 120 was different than the traditional engineering economy

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Timothy Anderson; Robert Serow; James Demery; Carl Zorowski; Catherine E. Brawner

be available. These methods allow us to probe into areasand tease out problems that may exist and may help to define a problem for future quantitativestudy. They also allow us to understand why projects succeed or fail in certain environments. Inthis paper we offer a model that uses qualitative assessment techniques to support the Checkstage of the PDCA model in a program with undergraduate engineering curriculum renewal as itsgoal. This 10-step process includes site visits, participant review, and an ongoing formalfeedback process about improvements that can be made based on the collected data. The modelis intended to provide a framework to others who may be in a position to evaluate a group ofprograms such as a coalition of institutions or

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

review the literature on the subject of small-scale cost-effective experiments. Many papers have been presented at ASEE and AIChE Annualconference and published in Chemical Engineering Education. Our developments from our NSFWorkshop and through our coursework will be described. Before we present the experimental descriptions we will briefly describe the NSF projectthat funded some of our laboratory development efforts. NSF project DUE-9752789 supportstwo hands-on, industry integrated workshops that will have a major impact on upper and lowerlevel engineering, technology and science instruction. One workshop was held July 1998 andanother one is scheduled for July 1999. Participants gain experience in novel processengineering through hands

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Robert A. Johnson; J. Shawn Addington

into a body of Page 4.308.3 knowledge and apply that knowledge to the solution of problems15. An ability to function as a member of a team in project design and laboratory experiment environments16. An ability to apply contemporary analytic, computational and experimental practices in the laboratory environmentIn particular, the students are asked to rate their opportunity to engage in these skills, bothquantitatively and qualitatively, (i.e. how many opportunities were available for skill-development, and were the opportunities helpful in developing these skills) as well as theirperception of their achievement in

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Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

Session 3268 Interactive Dynamics: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Undergraduate Dynamics Gary L. Gray and Francesco Costanzo Engineering Science and Mechanics Department The Pennsylvania State University Abstract Collaborative learning, computer simulations and practical experimentation are the essential elements of a new project for the enhancement of undergraduate engineering courses cur- rently being developed at Penn State University. This project introduces teamwork, hands-on

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Kurt C. Gramoll

is integrated with current course material on an intranet. Thisis particularly useful when all students have their own personal laptop computers and thelearning environment is connected with a wireless network. This paper will demonstrate anddiscuss the experiences at the University of Oklahoma trying to teach the basic Statics classusing laptop computers, CD-ROMs, and the intranet.This project did not develop new courseware, but instead used the Multimedia EngineeringStatics CD-ROM (published by Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) for the main course content.The CD was supplemented with newly developed intranet-based material such as homework,examples, quizzes, solutions, and lectures. The outcome of the course showed that students canuse

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Thomas Zickel; Russell A. Aubrey

currently in use. The first is a three-stage transistor amplifier circuit with movable jumpersto configure it into different circuits. The second is a two stage Op-Amp board that allowsstandard components to be easily configured into Op-Amp circuits for use in the laboratory.These instructional tools provide an opportunity to introduce graphical problem-solvingtechniques and team concepts into practical student laboratory experiencesThis paper describes the circuit boards, the methodology involved in their design and adescription of the layout and construction. Laboratory problem solving applications andsimulation projects based on these boards are described, and laboratory scenarios are presented.IntroductionElectronic troubleshooting is a skill

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Voula Georgopoulos; Constantinos Vassiliadia; Brian Manhire

language is a requirement for all. These courses are advanced technicalterminology classes related to their field. However, this is usually not a problem since moststudents reaching the University are fluent in one or two of the foreign languages. The mostcommon foreign languages are English, French, German, and Italian.Since Universities are public, their budget primarily comes from the state and it is limited.However, in most cases the laboratories are well-equipped with state of the art equipment dueto a large percentage of research grants from the European Union and private industry.Considerable opportunity is given to students to work on research projects both asundergraduates and as graduate students.3.1 Example ProgramSince it is difficult

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Bruce P. Johnson

author to keep up with the most recent industrial advances in the field.A second benefit was that the students were able to obtain the perspective of two instructorsrather than one. Homework assignments and solutions were posted on the Web and the studentswere readily able to contact Dr. Baker by email. Locally the author maintained normal officehours for the students. A grader was used for homework assignments while the author made upand graded the examinations and assigned the final course grade. Both the Moscow class and theUNR class worked on integrated circuit design projects capable of being submitted to MOSIS forfabrication.The third benefit was the considerable savings in time associated with not having to preparedaily lectures. Only

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Paul Seaburg; Patricia S. Brown

Master of Engineering from The University ofHouston. Both degrees are in Civil Engineering.PAUL A. SEABURG, Ph.D., P.E.Dr. Seaburg is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha.He served as the Department Head of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University for 11 years. One of hiscurrent projects is creating a new Architectural Engineering program at the Omaha Campus. Paul has a strongbackground in academics and research, working in both the educational and private sectors. He holds five U.S.patents on construction products and systems. He has served on the ASCE Structural Standards Executive Committeeand the ASCE Structures Division Executive Committee. He is a past chair of the

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Hamid Khan

/case/boeing/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/honeywell/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/western/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/harley-davidson/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/iomega2/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/sony/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/iochpe/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/gilbarco/http://www.sdrc.com/ideas/case/base/Fourth Lesson: Modeling Techniques LearnedStudents learned such 3D CAD modeling techniques: Boolean operations, Sweeping, Automatedfilleting and chamfering, Tweaking, Fleshing out wireframe, and projections, Parametric partmodeling, Assembly modeling, Surface and freeform modeling, Feature based modeling, VGXtechnology, Variational Sweep.Outcome Statements of Skills learned as CAD-Specialists 1. Students developed basic

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John C. Duke; Jack Lesko; Flynn L. Auchey; Siegfried M. Holzer

teaming onloading/actuating and measuring features within the experiments.This first hands-on course is part of a larger effort to develop a set of hands-on courses toreinforce the principles of engineering statics (undertaken in 1997-98) and mechanics ofdeformable bodies (to be completed in 1998-99). The final phase of the program (to beundertaken in 1999-2000) will vertically integrate these two one-hour courses with adesign project that will benefit the community (i.e. a footbridge or children’s playequipment). In addition, the three courses, designed for engineers, architects and buildingconstructions majors, provide a vehicle to integrate these disciplines allowing them how tolearn, work and design together as they would in the real

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Rafiq Noorani; Omar Es-Said; Boris Fritz; Anthony Barrata

)-1650 RP machine from Stratasys Co. was used to prototypethe rotor blade. FDM extrudes a thin stream of melted polymer through an extruder head whoseposition is controlled by a computer. Parts are built up by moving the extruder head through thevolume of the head.The rotor blade part was saved as a binary file. The QuickSlice software of the prototypemachine then sliced the rotor blade.stl file. The software put support materials for support andoverhang. A piece of foam substrate was placed on the build table. The machine was allowed toproceed with the model making process. It took the machine about eighteen hours to prototypethe part. The prototype is similar to Figure 2.(4) TestingThe final phase of the project involved testing and

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Sema Alptekin; Deena Daggett

this paper have been successfully used by the authors in introducing IndustrialEngineering and Mechatronics to junior high and high school students.Bibliography1. Salminen, Tanskanen & Verho, "Mechatronics: Designing Intelligent Machines", Proceedings of IMechE, 1990.2. Yamazaki, K. and S. Miyazawa, "A Development of Courseware for mechatronics Education", International Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp: 61-70, 1992.3. Alptekin, S. E., "Mechatronics Design Studio: Sample Student Projects", Proceedings of Mechatronics’96, San Francisco,June 13-15, 1996 (Alptekin 1996-1).4. Alptekin, S. E., and H. Jo Anne Freeman, “Mechatronics Education: Model and Implementation”, Proceedings ofMechatronics'96, San Francisco, June 13-15

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Shih-Liang Wang

, surfaces, and solids.The transformation matrix [T] can be represented as:  t 11 t 12 t 13 t 14   t 24   T1 T2  [T] =  t 21 t 22 t 23 =   t 31 t 32 t 33 t 34  T3 1 t t 44   41 t 42 t 43The 3x3 submatrix [T1] is used for scaling, reflection, or rotation; the 3x1 column vector [T2]generates translation; the 1x3 row vector [T3] produces perspective projection. Figure 11 showsa wedge reflected about xz-plane with the following transformation matrix: − 1 0 0 0

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Mahlon Heller

California State University, Sacramento(CSUS). Dr. Heller received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. He teachesa series of robotics and machine intelligence undergraduate and graduate courses at CSUS. Professor Heller isactively involved with research that employs undergraduate and graduate students. His current research project isentitled "Research and Development of an Autonomous Shadow Vehicle." Shadow vehicles are used to protectfreeway maintenance workers. He also has extensive industrial experience that includes the design of large-scalehybrid simulators and the design and development of one of the first high-speed laser printers for mainframes

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Muniram Budhu

CONSOLIDATION MODULEBackground A consolidation test is one of the most important soil tests for geotechnical engineering.Engineers use the results from this test to calculate total and time rates of settlement, and makedecisions concerning the type and size of foundation for a variety of civil engineering projects. Atypical laboratory apparatus is shown in Figure 1 Figure 1 A typical consolidation apparatusThe apparatus consists of a loading frame and a cell. The cell comprised a ring to confine the soilsample, a reservoir to prevent drying out of the sample, porous stones for drainage of the porewater, a ring cap to hold the ring in position, and a loading cap to transmit load from the loadingframe to the soil. The loading frame varies

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Gary Patterson

Page 4.426.2measured must support the objectives chosen. If the measures do not indicate clearly whethersuccess has been achieved relative to the stated objectives, then the assessment has not served itspurpose and cannot be used to continuously improve the educational process. A good discussionof a typical development of assessment-outcomes choice was given by McGourty, Sebastian andSwart(8). They finally chose the following main outcome categories for student capabilities:analytical skills, communications, creative problem solving, project management, research skills,self-learning, system thinking, teamwork and technical competence. For each of those a set ofmeasurements and minimum performance requirements was determined. The main

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Thomas C. Owens; Steven P. K. Sternberg; Rashid A. Hasan; John J. Erjavec; Heidi L. Newell; James A. Newell

just do this once and forget about it. Sampling is the keyconcept in data collection. In general, you should gather the least amount of data that willgive you the most information. In other words, some assessment methods may requireinput from all sources, other may only require strategically selected samples. Wheneverpossible, use or modify existing data collection opportunities to reduce the burden of datacollection. For example, your university might already be collecting information youneed. You will want to do a project cost analysis (i.e., in terms of materials and time) inconjunction with data collection and, in reality, this may impact how much data you canfeasibly collect

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Chi-Wook Lee

electrical engineering concepts. Industrialinternship for faculty is also in consideration so that the faculty can participate in the design andproduction processes for the real parts. Better lab projects for customized training programscould be developed through this faculty internship. Furthermore, the faculty member couldbecome more effective educator and researcher by increasing familiarity with industrial cultureand technology needs. This increased awareness can be imparted to the students as a part of their Page 4.569.3educational experience and they will be able to make the transition to their industrial careers in aseamless fashion

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Thomas Libert; A. G. Enright

. Providing an informational repository (that is, "electronic library") for students to use in researching course projects. 2. Giving a centralized starting point for course readings, assignments, and projects.This second point implies that every course should have a home page. This is not merely forthe purpose of distance learning as is often implied. All pertinent course information should beavailable on-line. This serves several purposes. It: 1. answers student questions about current reading and assignments. 2. provides access to assignments (no more "I lost the assignment" excuses). 3. allows students to catch-up after absences. 4. advertises courses to non-students or students

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Y. S. Teplitsky; V. A. Borodulya; A. F. Hassoun; Mulchand S. Rathod; Vladimir Sheyman

oftransfer process in the freeboard space. Using Engineering Physics, v 11, n 6, 1966.the model the final relation {18} obtained in thisstudy serves as the basis for correlation of the 10. Borodulya, V.A., Kovensky, V.I., Journalexperimental data, analysis of the published data of Engineering Physics, v 46, n2, 1984, pp 276-by other authors, and their comparison. The 280.results of our experiments are the subject of ournext phase of this project. 11. Sedov, L.I., “Similarity and Dimensional Methods in Mechanics,” Moscow, 1965.BIBLIOGRAPHY 12. Borodulya, V.A., Teplitsky, Y.S

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Brian Jenkins; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

updates arepossible and there is no need for a command line interface. Additionally, clicking the Load/run DSKbutton with the mouse downloads the calculated filter coefficients to an attached TMS320C31 DSKand executes this filter. With this program, the student now has a free, powerful, easy to learn anduse software tool that allows for graphical filter design, hardware implementation, and explorationof the “what happens if ...” that we all desire for our students! This program13 has been used forboth classroom demonstrations and filter design projects in both a Junior level signals and systemsclass as well as in a Senior level digital signal processing class

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John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

of teachers’ and curriculum designers’ failure to involve students inscholary projects “that would allow them to act as though they were colleagues.” 3 He notes that“much of the written work students do is test-taking, report or summary…” The class requiresthe students to utilize the services provided by the University’s Writing Center for the firstexperiment; students that demonstrate a real writing deficiency are sent there more oftenIn aneffort to produce professional quality reports, students are required to use the word processing,graphical presentation, and spreadsheet skills developed in a prerequisite course. Even thoughthey have obtained the necessary theoretical, computational, and presentational tools fromprevious courses, this is

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty

learning outcomes and hypothesize how ourfocus on each may result in an improved educational environment.To date, five engineering schools have gone through the pilot Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000reviews; twelve more have undergone EC-2000 reviews (fall 1998) and are waiting for finaldecisions. ABET had anticipated that 16 to 18 additional engineering schools would select thenew criteria next year [6], but apparently almost 40 institutions have elected this option. Clearly,it is time to reflect about the foundations of these learning outcomes before too many moreinstitutions proceed through EC-2000. No doubt, the new ABET criteria together with NSFsponsored engineering education projects (including the coalitions) have served as majorcatalysts