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Ratan Kumar; Bill Watt

Session 1547 TEACHING ZERO QUALITY CONTROL CONCEPTS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Ratan Kumar & Bill Watt Department of Engineering Technology University of North Texas Denton, TX 76203. ABSTRACTZero Quality Control (ZQC) is a quality control approach for achieving zero defects. ZQC isbased on the principle that defects are prevented by controlling the performance of a process sothat it cannot produce defects, even when a mistake is made by the

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

Session 1261 Technological Capability: A Multidisciplinary Focus for Undergraduate Engineering Education Mark A. Shields, John P. O’Connell University of VirginiaIntroductionProfessional interest in the purposes and scope of liberal education for engineering studentstracks a long history during this century, going back perhaps as far as the years immediately afterthe First World War.1, 2 Humanities and social science faculty at the University of Virginia’sSchool of Engineering and Applied Science (UVA–SEAS) have been active participants in thatdebate for more than

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Charlie P. Edmonson; Joseph A. Untener

Session 2647 AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES CHARLIE P. EDMONSON, JOSEPH A. UNTENER The University of DaytonABSTRACTGraduates of Engineering Technology Programs continue to perform at high levels of employersatisfaction in very diverse positions. This paper describes a study performed by The Universityof Dayton Engineering Technology Department of graduates between the years of 1992 - 1996.This study addresses salary levels, satisfaction of graduates with the Engineering TechnologyProgram, academic preparation, and career mobility

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Anthony Brizendine

Session 3547 Computer-Controlled Data Acquisition Laboratory Experiences in Civil Engineering Technology Anthony L. Brizendine, Ph.D., P.E., P.S. Fairmont State College Abstract This paper outlines the use of data acquisition in the Civil Engineering Technologylaboratory. Very few CET soil mechanics laboratories currently introduce or utilize dataacquisition as part of the instructional process. Not only is data acquisition useful in facilitationof expedient experimentation in

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Gerard N. Foster

Instruments. New York: Springer-Verlag.5. Jeans, J. (1937, 1968). Science & Music. New York: Dover.6. Randal, D. M. (1978). Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.BiographyGerard N. Foster is an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Purdue University School ofTechnology at Kokomo, Indiana. He teaches the digital fundamentals and microcontroller sequence of classes.Currently he is teaching a new course on digital signal processing. Professor Foster' interests include developmentof student projects, microcomputer applications and multimedia. Page 3.619.5

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

SESSION 1647 ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING AT IUPUI: A Harmonious and Profitable Co-Existence H. Oner Yurtseven, Patricia L. Fox Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractCurrently, there are less than twenty engineering and engineering technologyschools in the US in which the administrations of engineering and engineeringtechnology programs are merged and a dean or director maintains academic andfiscal responsibility for both programs. The Purdue School of Engineering andTechnology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), hasfollowed this administrative model since 1972. The school

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David R. Haws

Session 1547 Creating a Shared Learning Environment for Engineering and Engineering Technology Students in Strength of Materials David R. Haws Boise State UniversityAbstract: While Engineering (EN) and Engineering Technology (ET) programs are usuallyquite separate, there are certain curricular areas that both programs share. Strength of Materialsis a good example. However, while this is a foundational course for most EN students, usuallytaken during the sophomore year, many ET students take the course toward the end of theirdegree programs in the junior, and

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Jule Dee Scarborough

Session 3147 Project Management: A Critical Area of Study for Engineering & Engineering Technology Students Jule Dee Scarborough Northern Illinois University IntroductionProject management has become a critical area of study. Many industrial organizations arerestructuring into project teams. Knowledge and skills in industrial project management andinterdisciplinary teaming are becoming more and more important to engineers and technologists. $Project management is an excellent management process for managing

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Shomir Sil; Sashi Sekhar; Chandra R. Sekhar

Session 1547 A Technology Curriculum for the Year 2000 and Beyond Minor in Management Program for Technology Sashi Sekhar, Shomir Sil/Chandra Sekhar Department of Management/Department of Electrical Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet AbstractWhether it be in Industry or in the Service sector, today’s Technology graduates are developing,implementing, and maintaining systems that are the foundations of the American economy. So,what is next for these individuals who understand the technical aspects, but not necessarily

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J. C. Sener; R. R. Mirsky; David R. Haws; Stephen B. Affleck; J. L. Mason; L. C. Aburusa

Session 1421 Using Web Technology to Promote Student Internship/Cooperative Education in College of Engineering at Boise State University J. C. Sener, R. R. Mirsky, D. R. Haws, S. B. Affleck, J. L. Mason, L. C. Aburusa Boise State University ABSTRACT The Internship/Cooperative (Co-op) Education Program in the College of Engineering,Construction Management Department of Boise State University (BSU) provides an opportunityfor students to apply firsthand what they have learned in the classroom. Students gain practicalexperience in their chosen career

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Jack Waintraub

Session No.: 3247 THE NEW JERSEY CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION Jack L. Waintraub, Director New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological EducationEstablished in 1995 with support from the National Science Foundation Advanced TechnologicalEducation program, the New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education (NJCATE) isdedicated to the improvement of Engineering Technology Education.. The overarching goal ofthe Center is to aid in the development of a highly skilled technical workforce, in order to meetthe current and future needs of industry in a

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Michael Khader

encouraging.Careers in this field include telecommunications engineering and management, public policy,consulting, research and development, vendor sales, marketing, and technical support. In responding to this opportunity, the Engineering Technology Department at New JerseyInstitute of Technology developed an undergraduate telecommunication concentration within theElectrical Engineering Technology program. To keep abreast with the market space and thedemands of the industry, we developed an assessment plan used as an input to the programimprovement process. Included in the assessment plan is a survey sent to the graduates of thetelecommunication concentration to track their progress and to gain an insight to the strength and

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Fred I. Denny

Session 2533 TECHNOLOGY NEEDS FOR THE RESTRUCTURED ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY Fred I. Denny Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Louisiana State UniversityDuring the next few years, the electric power industry in the United States will undergo profoundrestructuring. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 introduced competition in wholesale powermarkets, and subsequently the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Ordersrequiring the "unbundling" or separation of generation dispatch functions from transmissionservices and

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B. S. Sridhara

1 Session 3233 Curriculum Integration of Engineering Technology Courses with the Solar Car Project at Middle Tennessee State University B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Abstract The US Department of Energy (DOE) organizes a solar car race called Sunrayce,once in every two years. The race is nationally sponsored by corporations such as GMand EDS. It is open for all colleges and universities in North America. As facultyadvisor for the solar car team at

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Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Session 1559 Data-Acquisition Systems: An Integral Part of Undergraduate Engineering and Technology Programs David McDonald and Ajay Mahajan Lake Superior State UniversityThis paper describes example student projects and course activities in data-acquisition systems inundergraduate engineering and technology programs at Lake Superior State University. Thefocus of the paper is to show that students from electrical, computer and mechanical engineeringas well as manufacturing engineering technology programs study and use modern data-acquisition systems in several courses

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Olusegun Odesina; Nicholas Akinkuoye

Session 2275 Factors that Aid in the Promotion and Retention of Engineering Technology Faculty Nicholas Akinkuoye1, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering Cuyahoga Community College College of Engineering 2900 Community College Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 Tel. (216)987-4602 Olusegun Odesina, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Industrial

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Session 1148Internship Experiences in Biomedical Engineering Technology: An Overview of Students and Prospective Employers Perceptions Albert Lozano-Nieto, Ph.D. Penn State University. Commonwealth College, SETCE Wilkes-Barre Campus P.O. Box PSU. Lehman, PA 18627 Phone: (717) 675-9245. FAX: (717) 675-7713 email: AXL17@psu.eduABSTRACTStudents pursuing an Associates Degree in Biomedical Engineering Technology at Penn StateUniversity are required to complete a 400-hour internship

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Henry W. Kraebber

Session 2247 Using the World Wide Web to Support Teaching in Manufacturing Engineering Technology Henry W. Kraebber Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering TechnologyAbstract: The Internet is a modern wonder of the computer age. The number of people usingthe Internet is doubling every few months. The growth is remarkable, unlike anything seenbefore in the computer age. It has tremendous power to provide students with a wealth ofinformation and communications opportunities. The question for engineering educators seems tobe one of how to harness the power of the Internet

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Michael J. Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

Session 3530 Measuring Engineering Students’ Intellectual Development Using Neural Network and Expert System Technology Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, Michael J. Pavelich Colorado School of MinesSummaryStudents completing an undergraduate engineering degree are expected to develop intellectuallyin addition to acquiring specific engineering knowledge and skills. However, effectivelymeasuring intellectual development involves a time-consuming and expensive interviewconducted and evaluated by trained human experts. In order to develop a quick and inexpensivealternative method for making

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James Rehg; Sohail Anwar

Session 3147 New and Innovative Instructional Approaches for Teaching Engineering Technology Courses: A Case Study Sohail Anwar, James A. Rehg Penn State Altoona ABSTRACTThis paper describes new innovations in teaching digital electronics courses in the two-yearelectrical engineering technology program (2EET) at The Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaCollege. The instructional approach used in the three credit-hour digital electronics theory course(EET 117) was based on the engineering case studies derived from

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Stephanie Goldberg

Session 3560 A Plan to Retain Women Students in an Electrical Engineering Technology Program Stephanie Goldberg Department of Technology Buffalo State CollegeAbstractAn innovative plan has been developed to secure the retention of women students in a four-yearElectrical Engineering Technology program. Our aim is to recruit six to ten women and movethem as a group through the complete program. Bolstering confidence levels, developinghands-on skills, and forming coping strategies are all addressed in unique and

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W.R. Kaminski

2648 A SERIES OF HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENTS FOR THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENT W.R. Kaminski Professor and Coordinator Mechanical Engineering Technology Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 98926 Abstract A series of five heat transfer experiments that are used to teach the laboratory component fora Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) heat transfer course at Central Washington

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Session 1149 Student Perceptions on the Use of Interactive Video Conferencing in Biomedical Engineering Technology Education Albert Lozano-Nieto, Ph.D. Penn State University, Commonwealth College, SETCE Wilkes-Barre Campus P.O. Box PSU Lehman, PA 18627 Phone: (717) 675-9245 FAX: (717) 675-7713 email: AXL17@psu.eduABSTRACTTo increase the breadth of exposure of students pursuing an Associates Degree in BiomedicalEngineering

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

Session 2555 THE ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF GRADUATE ENGINEERS IN INDUSTRY FOR TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP D A KEATING and T G STANFORD University of South Carolina 1. INTRODUCTIONFollowing a review of graduate engineering education and needs assessment studies of graduateengineers in industry, it is now evident that a transformation in graduate education is needed toimprove U.S. technology innovation and competitiveness in the worldwide economy. At present,graduate education in engineering is primarily a byproduct of research, based on a science

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Michael A. Magill

Session 1547 APPLIED FATIGUE AND FRACTURE MECHANICS: A MECHANICS COURSE FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Michael A. Magill Purdue University ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a new course at Purdue University. Thecourse is entitled “Applied Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics” and is offered by the School ofTechnology. This course emphasizes applied principles such as predicting failure loads onflawed structures, brittle fracture, predicting time to

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Elliot Rothkopf

Session 1547 REFINING TWO YEAR TECHNOLOGY CURRICULA FOR GROWTH IN A SENIOR COLLEGE DR. ELLIOT ROTHKOPF COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND/CUNYThe College of Staten Island of the City University of New York is a comprehensive collegeoffering degrees from the Associates to the Ph.D. The Engineering Technologies Departmentoffers an A.S. degree in Architectural Studies and A.A.S. degrees in Civil EngineeringTechnology (CET), and Electrical Engineering Technology (EET). The Computer Sciencedepartment offers an A.A.S. degree in Computer Technology well as the B. S. and M

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Tahar El-Korchi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul P. Mathisen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Frederick L. Hart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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freshman civilengineering course with a project-based collaborative format was modified to incorporate adistance engineering component based on a hypothesized highway design project. Studentgroups were separated into home and field teams, with home teams playing the role of designengineers located in the office, and the field teams playing the role of field engineers completingrequired field measurements and calculations. Both home and field teams were located in thecivil engineering building, but were physically separated by two floors. The test group only usedremote technologies (e.g. telephone, fax, email, file transfer, shared folder, chat, and video-conferencing) for all communication between home and field teams. A control group wasallowed

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Sharon M. Schlossberg

Session 2653 TECHNOLOGY CONNECTION-A PROGRAM FOR PRECOLLEGE ORIENTATION AND RECRUITING Karl K. Stevens and Sharon M. Schlossberg Florida Atlantic University ABSTRACTRecruitment of top-quality engineering students and orientation of K-12 students toward studiesand careers in engineering are challenging tasks. One of the ways the Florida Atlantic University(FAU) College of Engineering is working to meet these challenges is through its TechnologyConnection (TC) summer program for middle and

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Richard Penson; Margaret Ross; Eur Ing

judgement, involve some direct responsibility for human and physicalresources and take account of financial, commercial, safety, statutory and national considerationsduring the design, development, manufacture, operation or maintenance of products, systems orservices. For Incorporated Engineers the principles of appropriate training are the same as forChartered Engineers but with the emphasis on engineering practice to help them understand howavailable techniques, both practical and analytical, can best be applied in practice. Appropriateresponsible experience should concentrate on the application of existing technology andmanagement systems. For Engineering Technicians the training should be similar to theIncorporated Engineer and the responsible

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Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

initiated such a program in Fall 1996, which is broad; practice- oriented andintegrates diverse areas of engineering and technology. It is a thirty three-credit program and iscurrently in the second year of its offering. This paper discusses the development andimplementation of the program. Outcomes of the implementation of the program are presentedand analyzed for further development.INTRODUCTIONThe SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome is an upper- division transfer college forstudents who have already completed their first two years of college. It also offers graduateprograms in accounting, business, computer science, nursing and telecommunications.Graduate programs in engineering and technology are generally taken by engineers to