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Sidney J. Brandon; Michael R. Sexton; Justin W. Douglas

made of steel and the compressor blades were aluminum. The maximum pressure ratio forthe compressor was 4, and the maximum pressure ratio for the turbine was 3. The compressorwas capable of a larger mass flow than the turbine. Therefore, it was necessary to install a bleedvalve after the compressor discharge as shown in Fig 1.Combustion ChamberThe combustion chamber shown in Fig. 2 was designed with both an inside and an outside shell.The inside shell held the flame holder. The inside shell was drilled with 3/8” holes, 3”downstream of the injection nozzle to provide more flame stabilization and to ensure completecombustion within the combustion zone. Three sets of six, 1/2” dilution holes were drilledsymmetrically around the circumference at

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

participants. It provides the TCC and NDSU representatives an opportunity to 1)generate ideas, 2) make recommendations and to discuss the pros and cons of each others ideasand suggestions, 3) participate in the electronic discussion which focuses on ideas rather thanpersonalities, and 4) immediate response to ideas and suggestions rather than having to wait for aturn to respond in a verbal discussion. The development of the meeting agenda is critical tosuccessful application of this tool.The TCC and NDSU faculty and GDC director design an agenda to address the challenges facingTCC and NDSU faculty to increase the numbers of Native American students participation inMath, Science and Engineering careers.Factors that need to be addressed in the design of

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Francis W. Derby; Willie Ofosu

industry. This has a direct impacton information technology, and hence on all professions that employ information technology. Arequirement for the GIS option in the IST program will therefore be to update the coursematerial as time goes on to take advantage of the new developments as they become available.Related BibliographyDeMers, M. D., (1997), Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, John Wiley, New York.Gibson, D. W., (1999), Conversion is out, Measurement is in - Are We Beginning the Surveying and Mapping Era of GIS?, Surveying and Land Information Systems, Volume 59, Number 1, pp 69-72.Morain, Stan, Ed. (1999), GIS Solutions in Natural Resource Management: Balancing the Technical - Political Equation., OnWord Press

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Katherine A. Liapi

of architecturaland structural systems. These concepts have been grouped in three distinct units. Thetopics covered in each unit are briefly introduced:UNIT I: Geometry of Planar NetworksThis unit includes geometric concepts, principles and constructions that address theorganization of 2D systems of elements in planar networks as related to building designand construction. Two distinct subunits are addressed: self-similar systems, such asgrids, lattices tiles and nets, and growing systems such as spirals and fractals. Morespecifically, Unit I introduces students to the following concepts:SELF-SIMILARITY AND SURFACE TILLING 1. Tilling with polygon • Tillings with regular polygons

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Srboljub R. Masala; Kevin W. Biggar; Colin Geissler

testing is in the final stage of development. This paper mainly discusses the initialdesign stages of the project (task analysis, initial concept, the teamwork management, etc.) anddescribes the outcomes from the permeability module and the results of its evaluation.II. Review of existing experience and available similar productsThe search for existing geotechnical courseware and previous experience with computer-aidedteaching in this discipline found two examples: - “Geocal”, a joint project of several universities from United Kingdom, and - a consolidation testing module from the University of Arizona in Tucson.“Geocal” 1 is an unfinished, though almost complete software package, obviously intended tocover many areas of soil

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Hisham Alnajjar

disciplines.The University’s Strategic Plan (1996) identifies the improvement of the First-YearExperience as one of the institution’s four highest priority items. As part of the effort bythe University of Hartford to improve the freshman experience across campus, facultyfrom the COE as well as those from four other collegiate units participated in a two-yearinitiative sponsored by a NSF Institutional Reform grant. The goal was to improve Page 5.316.1students’ learning in the first-year courses across the university through the use oftechnology, collaborative learning, and peer coaching[1]. The COE faculty worked onrevising the first-year courses to include team

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

graduate studies such as financialsupport for graduate school, selection of a research project, or taking appropriate support classesfor their chosen thesis topic. To better understand the preconceptions students have prior toentering graduate school, we surveyed seniors and graduate students in engineering at MichiganTech.II. SurveyThe authors felt we had some anecdotal information about why students do not go to graduateschool. To try to substantiate these ideas we composed a survey to measure the reasons whycurrently enrolled graduate students decided to pursue graduate degrees. The survey is given asTable 1. The survey was distributed via listservers to all the graduate students in engineering.The survey was filled out by 27 engineering

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William Biles; Carroll Hyder; Mark R. Rajai

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Valana Baxter; Mark R Henderson; Jim Baxter; Alan de Pennington

relationships with their current or prospective supply chain companies. For these reasons,Arizona State University and the University of Leeds have begun a joint academic year courseentitled the Global Engineering Design Team (GEDT). The goal was to create a single team ofstudents on a company-sponsored design project that required continual global teamwork,thinking and communication and would prepare the students for Design in a GlobalEnvironment.The first implementation of this course was during the 1998-99 academic year and involved atotal of 9 undergraduate engineering students, 4 from ASU (2 industrial engineering, 1mechanical and 1 aerospace) and 5 from Leeds (4 mechanical and 1 mathematics engineering).The first year was sponsored by Boeing

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

, • Page 5.319.1 Recent developments and collaborations, 1 • Benefits and limitations of distance education, and • Future plans.It is the authors’ intent to justify the benefits and limitations of several delivery systems,while soliciting participants’ input as part of this discussion.A Historical Perspective:The evidence of communication dates back to the beginning of time. Some 3000 yearsago, the rulers of China used scholars to educate those in governmental positions inconducting the business of government1. Distance education, which allows access toeducation regardless of location, is an alternative delivery and learning method to thetraditional classroom. There still exist

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

be given to well designed engineeringmanagement training in the undergraduate division. The practical side of solving engineeringmanagement issues, building students’ essential management skills can be emphasized throughcollaborative inter-collegiate projects that deal with up-to-date global technical, management, andfinancial issues. The Globetech International Simulation, offered free via the Internet for the pastfive years by Cooper Union, is such a project. It has widened the managerial perspective of manyengineering students here in the USA and abroad. A larger participation in this or similar projectswill ensure, at a minimal cost, that our future engineers are well prepared for the managerialchallenges that lie ahead of them.1

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Bogdan M. Wilamowski; Aleksander Malinowski

Database file corresponidng to course Graphical User CGI scrpit Data for the Interface of NETWORK accessing the selected Computer database course and student HTML and JavaScript HTTP Server InterpreterFig. 1. Data flow in the GradeWatch.Fig. 1 shows the program component division and

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Duane D. Dunlap; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

’ expectations, nature of the course, and the course’scontent. It is expected that the institutions developing a master’s degree program in Technologyof any nature will benefit from developing a course in computer applications.Master’s program objectives and students in the programStudents’ learning goals and objectives for graduate courses should meet the program goals andobjectives. As an example, the objectives of the programs at Northern Kentucky University andPurdue University are studied.The four program objectives for the Master of Science in Technology at Northern KentuckyUniversity1 are:1) To enhance the ability of graduates to move into technical management

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P. K. Mallick

SystemsEngineering curriculum. Courses offered in the concentration area of automotive materialsinclude the following:1) Lightweight Automotive Alloys (AE 584) (Table 1)2) Automotive Composites (ME 587) (Table 2)3) Ceramics for Automotive Applications (AE 585) (Table 3)4) Design and Manufacturing with Lightweight Automotive Materials (AE 586) (Table 4)Topics covered in the above courses are listed in Tables 1-4. Other courses that may be includedin this concentration area are Mechanical Behavior of Polymers, Mechanical Behavior ofMaterials, Materials Consideration in Manufacturing, Injection Molding, Metal Forming, Castingand Composite Materials.A student specializing in the area of Automotive Materials will typically select AE 581 as

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Timothy N. Chang; Daphne l. Chang

running this course for seven consecutive years, the followingobservations are, invariably, made: 1. A bimodal distribution exists between theory and experiment: Students achieving the best classroom scores do not always perform well in a free structure design- based experimental project. Similarly, students who rank in the lower quartile for classroom performance may excel in the experimental project. 2. Composition of team members significantly affects the quality of the experiment. Standard indicators such as GPA do not strongly correlate with the experimental outcome. 3. Strong classroom participation does not correlate with overall course success.Administering the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator during

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William J. Daughton

managementassignments. The degree is offered both locally on campus, in the Denver metropolitan area vialive television, and around the world asynchronously using videotapes. The nature and content ofthe degree program and the use of modern communication technology to engage remote studentsin this program have been describe previously by this author.1-3In recent years we have begun to receive some inquiries from non-engineering professionals thathave become familiar with the Program. Some of these individuals work in the same companieswhere our the Program is being taken by engineers, while others have seen the Programdescribed on our website.4 The nature of the inquiries is similar to that of the engineers whoinvestigate our program. These professionals are

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Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

are available on the world wide web at:http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/education.html. The course materials are suitable for use inupper level undergraduate and graduate level engineering programs. A number of themodules/case studies are also suitable for use in business curricula or in technologyoriented courses in public policy and history. The materials were developed fromindustry-oriented research in green design and pollution prevention conducted atCarnegie Mellon University over the past 5 years. Topics highlighted in the educationalmaterials include: 1) green design, 2) life cycle assesment, 3) full cost accounting, 4)design for disassembly and recycling aids, 5) recycling and waste management, and 6)material flows and mass balance

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Lisa Wipplinger

various structures, including the Mamba roller coaster at Worldsof Fun in Kansas City, the Environmental Education Center in Massachusetts, the Reno GatewayBridge, the Kansas State University Stadium expansion, the Cockrell Butterfly Center in Houston, theArtsgarden in Indianapolis, and many more.Examples from student group projects describing the load path through structures chosen by eachgroup are shown in Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3. Students did not always get the path exactlyright, but the project forced them to start thinking about how loads travel through a structure and abouthow to communicate it to someone else. Page

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Timothy Benson; Paul Berke; Nathaniel Bair; Matthew Scholtens; Kristen Lantz; David Woessner; Daniel Lappenga; Dale Corlew; John Krupczak

developed. These project characteristics are summarized in table 1.Table 1. Desired Characteristics of Laboratory Projects.Desired Project Characteristics Constituency Student Instructor InstitutionTake home finished product xIntrinsically rewarding xClear connection to common technological device x xTangible evidence of accomplishment x xInexpensive x xEasy to construct x xUse readily available materials x xRobust

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

, Washington DC, 1996[Amu88] Amundson, N.R., E.R. Mason and J. Wei (National Research Council, Committee on Chemical Engineering Frontiers), Frontiers in Chemical Engineering: Research Needs and Opportunities, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988.[Fel 95] Felder, R.M., "We Never Said it Would be Easy," Chem. Eng. Educ. 29(1) 32 (1995).[Fel88] Felder, R.M., L.D. Silverman, "Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education," Engineering Education 78(7) 764 (1988).[Fel91] Felder, R.M., “It Goes Without Saying,” Chem. Eng. Educ. 25(3) 132 (1991).[Fel92] Felder, R.M., “How About a Quick One?” Chem. Eng. Educ. 26(1) 18 (1992)[Fel93] Felder, R. M., “Reaching the Second Tier –- Learning and Teaching Styles in college science

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Howard A. Canistraro

intuitive and a typical student can be up and running in less than an hour.A sample laboratory handout and associated analysis using MathCAD 7.0 for evaluation of thefatigue strength of the pinion shaft is given in Appendix B.A recently introduced aspect of the course has been the use of the finite element programANSYS. Several basic structural problem are considered including the modelling of a standardgear tooth subjected to power transmission loads. The students compare the stress valuespredicted using standard beam theory with the values delivered by the finite element program.Technical Communication Emphasis:For each major section (approximately 1 per week), a laboratory is required which requires aformal write up that is based upon the

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Wallace S. Venable

deaths of two pioneers in engineering education, CharlesWales and Helen Plants. Both served as ERM Chair, were in the first class of ASEE Fellows,and together they served West Virginia University for a total of about seventy years. As stars inthe ERM firmament, both reached their zenith during the early 1970’s. Their work stands outfrom most of the other leaders of that period for two reasons: they presented statistical evidencethat their methods actually worked, 1, 2, 3, 4 and each of their innovative courses served studentsfor over a decade in a stabile environment.Both were strongly committed to the concepts that education is something which can bedesigned using engineering methods, that educational design itself is a discipline which can

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Richard Felder

support can cut yearsoff the professorial learning curve. Mentoring is itself a skilled and complex craft, however, andwhen poorly done it may do more harm than good. This paper offers a model for effectivefaculty mentoring and support programs developed by the authors for the SoutheasternUniversity and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED).What is the typical situation for new faculty? Sorcinelli1 reports on a variety of single-year andlongitudinal studies in which untenured faculty in their first 3-4 years report higher stress levelsthan tenured faculty. She identifies five triggers for stress in new faculty: (1) not enough time,(2) inadequate feedback and recognition, (3) unrealistic self-expectations, (4) lack of collegiality

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Hugh Jack

Page 5.328.1 - distance connection• Typical technology presentation problems are; - unfamiliar with the technology - layout is not suited to computer projector - presenter stops presenting, and starts using the computer - the presentation is overwhelming• Some data on visual presentations; - Visuals help the audience retain more information. I prefer to use figures and text that are parallel. This helps people with preferences for pictures or words still get the same content. (Note: This text would be terrible for a presentation.) - Some statistics from reference [1]; • 75% of our stimuli comes from the senses. • 55

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James E. Fuller

in time. Theories considering the advancement of the science of architecture aremore often introduced to students through lecture, lab work and site visits but the historicalbasis of these theories is lacking. The context of technical course material and labs is not set intime. It is too often static.As an extension of history and theory, criticism provides a constructive role on two fronts:1) as a means to constructively evaluate the past and present and 2) a dialectical method forstudent evaluation and assessment. Typically, criticism, in technical courses, has been limitedto the professor’s evaluation of the student’s work. I seek to broaden the criticism to includepeer review and outside professionals. With the inclusion of history and a

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Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

thestudents to investigate:1. the range of products the industrial sponsor manufactures,2. the everyday applications of the industrial sponsor’s products,3. the countries in which the industrial sponsor operates, and4. at least four quality concerns associated with the sponsor’s products.After the students have completed the Pre-Tour Report, one of the authors spends aperiod giving the students some technical background into the industrial sponsor’sprimary products. This background helps the students be inquisitive during the upcomingplant tour.All the students are now prepared to visit the actual production facility at the industrialsponsor. This will allow the student to observe a complete manufacturing system andbegin their understanding of the

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Natalie A. Mello

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John A. Kleppe; Eric L. Wang

capstone undergraduate course (MECH 452/EE491) is taken by allmechanical and electrical engineering undergraduates.Both EE 491 and MECH 452 are offered once per year during the spring semester andtraditionally have enrollments of approximately 30-40 students each. While innovation andentrepreneurship has been part of EE 491 since the early 1980’s 1, 2, they were introduced inMECH 452 only as recently as 1996. The two courses shared lectures in 1997 and have beencompletely integrated since 1998 3.In addition to the engineering students, MBA students enrolled in an independent study course(BADM 793) also participate in EE 491/MECH 452. The MBA students assume the role ofbusiness mentors and provide aid in the development of marketing studies. Each

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

recent years [2-3]. Faculty members are beginning to buy into the idea that retention ratesand graduation rates must be improved in order to bring public accountability to the table incurriculum planning. Developing courses that are motivating and exciting will certainly helpthis cause. This is in contrast to the prior faculty beliefs that (1) it is not their responsibility tomotivate and excite students, (2) students should be motivated by what the future will bringwhen they earn their degrees, and (3) should be excited by the course materials under theassumption that they chose their major based on interest.Anderson-Rowland [4] reported that a students’s reaction to first-year engineering courses is akey to retention, and Tinto [5] reported

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Robert L. Shearer

correct, of any event in time/space. Philosophically, thisechoes Nietzsche’s remark that there is no “true world.” Heisenberg is significantbecause his Indeterminacy Principle forecloses on the optimism of the Enlightenment inwhich all factors of the universe, including both momentum and location of anyparticle, were knowable; Heisenberg showed that one must sacrifice knowing one forknowing the other. Bohr’s Complementarity Principle allows that an electron “must beregarded as both a wave and as a particle, according to context,” as William Barrettstates it — a fact that seems to suggest that the venerable Law of the Excluded Middlein logic (either A or not-A, but never both) is defunct.1 And Gödel’s famousIncompleteness Theorem, while leaving