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P.E., Dr. M. David Burghardt

Session 2266 Hofstra’s Center for Technology Education A Model for Engineering Involvement in K-12 Education Dr. M. David Burghardt, P.E. Hofstra University.4bstract Hofstra’s Center for Technology Education was created 7 years ago to help improve the technologicalliteracy of school children on Long Island. It has been successful in promoting change in K-12 education at theschool level and the university level, and currently has four collaborative grants involved with K-12 education. The development

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Rudi Schoenmackers; Ricardo B. Jacquez

The New Mexico AMP: Preparing Minorities for Careers in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Ricardo B. Jacquez, Rudi Schoenmackers, Carol Lopez Fischer, Anthony Parra and Kathleen Kelsey New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation New Mexico State University Box 30001, Dept. 3AMP Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 Abstract The New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (New Mexico AMP) is a partnership of 26 of NewMexico’s post secondary institutions including the state’s 20

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Robert V. Peltier; Farouk Attia

I Session 1547 .— ..- -. A Profile of the 21st Century Engineering Technology Graduate: An Industry Perspective Robert V. Peltier, Farouk Attia Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc./University of HoustonIntroduction By any reasonable standard, Engineering Technology (ET) is a young profession as well as a relativelynew university program, It has only been thirty-one years since the ASEE

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Robert F. Abbanat; Jeffrey W. Honchell

1 -—. . Session 2547 : -—. . . . . . . Multimedia in Technology Education: Who is Going to Pay? . Robert F. Abbanat, Jeffrey W. Honchell Engineered Multimedia/Purdue UniversityABSTRACT Multimedia is soon to be the way of the world in higher education. With almost all personal computerstoday utilizing CD ROMs, sound cards and improved graphics, comes the opportunity to include multimediaapplications in many

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Ph.D., Albert B. (Bill) Grubbs Jr.; Antony Anthony

Session 3548 Implementing PLD Technology in An Introductory Digital Logic Course by Albert B. (Bill) Grubbs Jr., Ph.D. and Antony Anthony Department of Engineering Technology University of North Texas Denton, TexasIntroductionThis paper describes a project accomplished in a partnership between the Department of Engineering Technology(ETEC) at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, Texas and Altera Corporation in

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Sudeep Bhoja; Ku-Jei King; Krish Bandaru; David G. Meyer

Session 1532 Evaluation of Experimental Course Formats Utilizing Technology-Based Instructional Delivery David G. Meyer, Sudeep Bhoja, Ku-Jei King, and Krish Bandaru School of Electrical & Computer Engineering/Purdue University ABSTRACT This paper describes our experiences using a testbed instructional multimedia delivery system in experi-mental offerings of a "mainstream" computer engineering course. The experimental course formats weredesigned to investigate how use of technology-based

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Ramesh Narang

determine candidatemanufacturing processes for a given part by performing manufacturability evaluation at the design stage.Processes that are considered in the course are primarily metal processes, such as machining, forging, metalcasting, fabrication, welding, and assembly. Concepts of concurrent engineering, design for manufacture anddesign for assembly are introduced using practical examples. The course content also includes solid modeling concepts and 3-D part representation methods, automatedrecognition of manufacturing features, effect of tolerances on production cost, group technology, setup reductiontechniques, and discussion of STEP (Standard for The Exchange of Product model data) neutral standard. It is a3-credit course without

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John K. Brown

Session 2261 Melding Perspectives from Government, Commerce, and Engineering in an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Minor in Technology Management and Policy John K. Brown University of Virginia Under the primary leadership of its School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University ofVirginia is developing a new interdisciplinary minor, titled “Technology Management and Policy.” Open to allundergraduates, the TM&P minor seeks to combine the disciplinary perspectives of Engineering, Commerce,and Government

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Virendra K. Varma; Mohammad Najafi

Session 1221 A Pragmatic Approach to Development of an Undergraduate Construction Curriculum in Trenchless Technology Virendra K. Varma, Mohammad Najafi Missouri Western State CollegeABSTRACT: Although trenchless technology has become an economically viable alternative to open-cutconstruction, the schools of civil and construction engineering are generally lagging behind in providinginstruction on trenchless technology to our undergraduate students. There is a lack of knowledge about the roleof trenchless technology in

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Landon C. Onyebueke; Chinyere Onwubiko

structures ormachine elements. This technology has been successfully applied to various loading conditions encounteredduring space flights. However, this technology is yet to be accepted in the industries. This paper usesPDM to demonstrate the role of students in the transfer of technology. Included in the paper are overview of PDM, the different stages that are necessary in preparingstudents for effective technology transfer. Projects carried out by engineering students at Tennessee StateUniversity are used to illustrate the features of PDM and how students can be used as a means for thetransfer of the technology to industries.Introduction: The effectiveness of any new technology is reflected in its usefulness. Its popularity depends on

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John O. Dimmock; Stephen T. Kowel

implementation of this program. This program willproduce highly trained graduates who can also solve practical problems, and includes an on-site practicum ata manufacturing location. The broad curriculum of this program emphasizes the fundamentals of optics, optical systemsmanufacturing and testing, and the principles of design and manufacturing to cost for commercial products. The MS in Physics and MSE in Electrical Engineering Degrees with concentration in Optics andPhotonics Technology are offered by the respective UAH academic departments with support from and inconsultation with a Steering Committee composed of representatives from each of the participatingorganizations, and a student representative from UAH.Keywords: education, optics

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Narciso F. Macia

the controller using op-amps, and finally (j) completesystem performance verification. As a result, students develop a good connection between the theoryand application, and recognize the importance of team work and collaboration. They are amazed attheir ability to transform a two-position device, jokingly referred by them as bang-bang, into agentle-moving system that goes to any intermediate position.INTRODUCTION Regardless of the specified field the engineering technology graduate eventually pursues,an understanding of dynamic modeling and analog feedback control is essential. These disciplinesbring together many previously unconnected ideas. The laboratory component is extremelyimportant and helps students make a connection between

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Xu Ming

of math, computer, electrical engineering, mechanics etc. The courses on foreign trade w~~added to EST cu.mkulums in much later years, around late SOS, in most CCUST. They usually offersubjects like the principles of the international trade, business carespondence, marketing and so on. With English science and technology and foreign trade rolled into one, EST is better-suited forChina’s new economic situation and its graduate have advantage of traditional English majors astranslators in export-oriented domes~ic enterprises and joint-ventures. Beyond doubt, with more skillsthan Englis~ EST graduates can also be put to many more other uses in th~ present-day China than theirforeign languages institutes counterparts do. EST graduates can

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Daniel Davis

Session 2206 DESIGNING WITH HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY The Hop Brook School: a case study Daniel Davis, AIA Architectural Engineering Technology Ward College, University of HartfordAbstractThe Hop Brook School in Naugatuck, Connecticut, is a project that blends history with technology. The costeffectiveness that resulted from using the most advanced technologies available allowed the traditional styleadditions and renovations at the Hop Brook School to be possible

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Somchai Osuwan; Raymond D. Daniels; John F. Scamehorn

percent.’Thailand is clearly among the wave of newly industrializing nations. Success, however, has highlighted problemsof human resource development and utilization. Key skills in the science and technology fields are in shortsupply. The underlying reason is the apparent slow response of the educational system to market demand. Withreduction in the growth of government employment and the expansion of the industrial sector. there is a changein the skills demanded in the labor market. More engineers, computer scientists, and scientific personnel arerequired, while there is less demand for the social and political sciences and humanities. A prime example is thehuman resource requirements of the growing petrochemical industry

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S.v. Babu; S.M. Ross; I.I. Suni; D.H. Rasmussen

Session 1626 DEVELOPMENT OF A CD-ROM ON THIN FILM TECHNOLOGIES: USABILITY ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION FROM A STUDENT PERSPECTIVE I.I. Suni, S.M. Ross*, D.H. Rasmussen, and S.V. Babu Departments of Chemical Engineering and *Technical Communications, Center for Advanced Materials Processing, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699INTRODUCTION Our original proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) envisaged "the presentation, evaluation anddissemination of the themes" underlying thin film

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George Bugliarello

finance. Page 1.194.1 -. . fiii’ > 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.JRTy’.’The Polytechnic University Prom-am in Financial Engineering ‘~1994”Pdytechnic University received a large seed grant from the Sloan Foundation to establish a ‘Center for Technology and Financial Services. The Center was for Polytechnic a logical academic outcome ofthe %kivers-ity’s creation, around its Brooklyn campus, of Metrotech, a university-industry park focusedprimarily on the financial industry. 1 Today, with some 20,000 industry employees, Metrotech is the

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Ph.D., P.E., Peter A. Keen

Session 2242 Undergraduate Engineering Skill Preparedness Peter A. Keen, Ph.D., P.E. ASEE/ Stevens Institute of Technology Abstract This paper presents the findings of a survey done at Stevens Institute of Technology where theexpectations of the employers were compared to the preparedness of its graduating engineeringundergraduate students. Deficiencies in ethics, listening, written and oral communications and responsibilityand management were found. Employers expectations in technical

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F. Coowar; Rosida Coowar

Session 1260 Elaborating Electrical Engineering Curricula in Developing Countries F. Coowar/R. Coowar Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/University of Central FloridaAbstractOne of the aims of education in developing countries is that it should be comparable and compatible with thatoffered in industrialized societies, so that graduates produced in these countries may be as competent and asproductive as their counterparts elsewhere. In Engineering Education, students from developing countries aredisadvantaged

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Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

1.— .—.. Session 3255—. . . . ..- Dartmouth’s Master of Engineering Degree Program: Combining Engineering Design with Business Management Benoit Cushman-Roisin, Elsa Garmire Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth CollegeABSTRACT In recognition of the growing need for industrial leaders with expertise in both technology andmanagement, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College established in 1988 a management

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Arvind Ramanathan

study specialized areas in depth.In addition, professional experience that draws on this broad knowledge base is provided by challenging industrysponsored design problems in the engineering clinic. The clinic brings together teams of students to work oncarefully selected projects under the monitoring and evaluation of professors. Thus the program is built aroundengineering science, systems, and design. It is believed that this broad engineering program is most likely toproduce engineers capable of adapting to changing technology. An engineering major may choose to emphasize a particular engineering specialty by appropriate choiceof elective courses and engineering clinic projects. Specific programs tailored to individual needs are

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Denis Proulx

. Page 1.119.1 {~g$? 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,,,RIYQ’:Having defined concurrent engineering, we will briefly describe the SEEHIGHS program and its objectives.We will then look at how the program is structured and at its main participants. The type of project that highschool students can tackle will be shown through an actual example. Before concluding, we will comment onthe outcome of the program to date, and how we see it progressing in the years ahead. Why Concurrent Engineering?There are many ways of interesting high school students in technology and engineering. Initiatives can rangefrom informal discussions between

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa

circumstances and to the requisites of a predominantly information-based culture. Of course theprocesses of curricular reform must encompass aspects beyond the older narrow curricular issues such asnumber of credits, disciplines, areas of specialized training, etc. As was pointed out by the National ScienceFoundation[41 there is a consensus that all aspects of engineering education should be reexamined, including thelearning and t~aching processes, the learning environment, the effectiveness of engineering education, thepreparation of students for lifelong learning, and the use of technology in education. Based on these broaderconcerns, this paper will present some recent influences of the discussions and trends in engineering educationthat have been

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Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

?+.$ .as engineering curricula become more practice-oriented is a move of economy material from the Michael L. Mavrovouniotis is an Associatesenior level to the first or second-year level. Professor of Chemical Engineering at NorthwesternStudents acquire the needed mathematical University, in Evanston, Illinois. He received hisbackground for engineering economics sufficiently Diploma of Engineering from the Nationalearly, and economic computations are an excellent Technical University of Athens in 1984, and hisway to introduce computer tools in a unified Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute ofmanner for all engineering disciplines. The earlier Technology in 1989. Prior to joining Northwesternexposure

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Karen E. Schmahl

Session 2392 INTRODUCING ENGINEERING TO GIRL SCOUTS Karen E. Schmahl Miami UniversityABSTRACT One approach to attracting more young women to study engineering disciplines is to spark their interestin engineering early in their education (K-12). Several opportunities are available to introduce young women toengineering disciplines through alliance with local Girl Scouts of the USA councils. This paper describes theefforts of one such alliance and approach to introducing young women to engineering and technology

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Ralph O. Buchal

Session 2358 Engineering Education in the 21st Century Ralph O. Buchal The University of Western OntarioAbstract Changing educational needs and reduced funding for traditional educational institutions are forcing a re-examination of the educational process. At the same time, emerging information technologies are enabling atransition from traditional instructor-centred teaching to a new model based on student-centred collaborativelearning. The importance of the physical university is diminishing as information

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Wayne E. Wells

product design, materials selection and manufacturingprocesses to reduce manufacturing’s impact on the environment. Under the previous po}Iutant-by-pollutantpolicy, industries tended to continue their previous practices and simply add controls, rather than adopt newtechnologies. Environmental engineers were called upon to find control and remediation solutions within the Page 1.199.1 #@x& F 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘Q,.,cilyp,:context of the existing set of manufacturing technologies. Now, there will

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Robert Madar; David L. Huggins

and H. L. Carlson, “Multi-media in Higher Education, A Practical Guide to New tools forInteractive Teaching and Learning,” Learned Information, Inc., 1995. B. T. Hakes, “Compressed Video for Instruction: Operations and Applications,” Association forEducational Communications and Technolo=, 1995. J. Jeffocate, Multimedia in Practice, Technolo w and A~~lication, New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. DAVID L. HUGGINS, Associate Professor Engineering at Penn State Univesity, New KensingtonCampus has taught engineering and technology courses for twenty-eight years. He has been Coordinator of allMechancial Engineering Technology programs within the Penn State Commonwealth Education System for thepast ten years. He has been active in the

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John T. Berry; Gregory L. Ferguson

consequence, many engineering schools dismantled theirmanufacturing process laboratories. Attempting to rebuild the labs is prohibitively expensive, especially in lightof budget concerns and the explosion in new equipment technologies. Another complaint about traditionalmanufacturing courses having a “hands-on” lab was that it only trained students to be “shade tree mechanics”and not “real engineers”. Simply reimplementing the traditional course can not overcome these deficiencies.Several curriculums have implemented a lecture based survey course to make students aware of manufacturingtopics. Lecture courses, by their very nature, are incapable of conveying an appreciation for manufacturingissues that the hands-on labs can achieve in a limited

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Jerry W. Samples; C. Conley; Thomas Lenox

• The group is back together for two veteran classes. The first should utilize fairly common classroom technology; that is, nothing beyond a PC hooked into an overhead projection system. Then the group moves to the Advanced Technology Classroom Laboratory for a full blown multimedia class. This should still be recognizable as an undergraduate engineering class.Wednesday Morning • The students give their second full class, each followed by a critique. The topic of this class will be assigned the previous day.Wednesday Afternoon • Teaching Workshop 3 is meant to focus on the teaching-learning connection. Learning models and corresponding teaching/instructional methods, i.e. PSI, cooperative groups, and project