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Major (Dr.) Robert F. Mills; Major (Dr.) Gerald C. Gerace; Dr. Byron M. Welsh; Dr. Bruce W. Suter; Dr. Andrew J. Terzuoli; Captain (Dr.) Richard A. Raines

Air Force Institute of TechnologyAbstract -- The dawning of the information age with its diversity of communications and computer systemsposes a formidable challenge to the graduate student of “communications engineering”. To keep pace with thisexpanding field graduate communications engineering students at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) advance through an integrated curriculum that weaves a web of connections between traditional analog/digitalcommunication theory, discrete signal processing, communications/computer networks, spread spectrumtechniques, and coherent applications sequences of courses in military communications, radar, stealth, andantenna engineering. The approach is to teach broad system level concepts and

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Michael Bowman; Elaine M. Cooney

in Indiana are involved in boardlevel fabrication and assembly, and not integrated circuit fabrication. Obviously, some of the needs of ICmanufacturers would be different.) These results showed a unique mix of skills required in electronicsmanufacturing. Neither an existing electrical engineering technology curriculum, nor a manufacturingengineering technology curriculum concentrating in metal working could meet these needs.FOCUS GROUP After compiling the survey results, members of the Indiana Electronics Manufacturers Associationwere brought together as a focus group to discuss the outcomes of the survey. The purpose was tofurther investigate the reasons behind some of the results. First, the participants listed what skills

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Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

Session: 1139 The Role of Engineering Economics in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum Michael L. Mavrovouniotis Chemical Engineering Department , Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208AbstractEngineering economics is an integral part of the senior design course in all Chemical Engineeringcurricula. The main topics normally covered include cost estimation (focused on chemical processequipment), the time value of money, and profitability measures. This paper offers a commentary on theimportance and future role of engineering economics. Many topics of engineering economics display

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Joseph A. Untener

Session 2248 Product Development In The Curriculum: One Clean-Sheet Approach Joseph A. Untener University of Dayton--Dayton, OhioABSTRACT The National Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing Education has been established inDayton, Ohio with an award from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Educationprogram in October of 1994. The primary goal of the program is to develop a curriculum with advancedmanufacturing as its focus. The curriculum will begin in the junior year of high school and extend to a two-year

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Ramesh Narang

existence and was integrated within the curriculum, and some of the important topics covered in the classwith their application.Description and Objectives The catalog description of the new course is: the study of design for manufacturability of variousmanufacturing processes, surface technology, tolerance control, techniques for setup reduction, design forassembly principles, group technology, sequencing of machining operations, chatter theory and control, solidmodeling representations, part feature recognition techniques and computer-aided process planning. The objectives of the course as described in the course outline are: to develop skills in economical part

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Leah H. Jamieson; Henry G. Dietz; Edward J. Coyle

divide up a large problem, assign andschedule sub-tasks, and integrate the pieces into a working solution. Resourcefulness - Vertically integratedprojects encourage students to pursue non-traditional educational resources, such as each other, their ProjectPartner, and academic consultants who have experience related to the projects. Resource management -Each team will develop a proposal for the equipment and space requirements for the project, and will have totake into account the resources of the sponsor. Professional ethics - Professional conduct, both in relation tothe sponsor and within the team itself, is essential, so students must maintain an awareness of ethicalprinciples while meeting the demands of the project.4 Conclusion

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Osama Ettouney; Don L. Byrkett

, and O.M. Ettouney, “A Model to Develop and Incorporate a Computer- Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory Into an Engineering Curriculum, “ submitted for publication in the International J. of Applied Engineering Education Journal.Biographical InformationOSAMA M. ETTOUNEYOsama Ettouney is an associate professor and chair of the Manufacturing Engineering Department, MiamiUniversity. He earned his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1987; hisMS in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1981; and his BS in mechanical engineering from Cairo Instituteof Technology, Egypt, in 1974. His teaching and research interests include: Engineering Design, Computer-aided Experimentation, and CIMS; and he has special interest

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Winston F. Erevelles

forautomated assembly, and implement software solutions for hierarchical supervisory control of manufacturingoperations. Student teams (4-5 students each) are challenged by the complexity of the project, the need forextensive planning and teamwork based on project management principles, the interfacing required withvendors and in-house technical support, the need to interact and collaborate with 7 other student teamsworking on the same endeavor in the same laboratory, and the compressed time frame of the project.Introduction Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) has been espoused, attempted, and implemented by varioussectors of US industry in response to the challenges of an increasingly competitive global market. Anexamination of CASA/SME’s

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Z. T. Bieniawski

as expensive and only onemajor effort is on record. The Kanazawa Institute of Technology introduced in 1995 an engineering designprogram by hting five international design teachers (mainly fkom the USA) who on a full time basis, would trainthe Kana.zawa faculty as well as teach undergraduate and graduate students. While currently in the United Statescenters for imovation and engineering design integration across the curriculum are an accomplished fact, no suchinitiatives exist in Japan even at the University of Tokyo. Most of all, life in academia in Japan is highly organized into a system considered very satisfactory by theprofessors and administrators. The national universities m fully funded by the Ministry of Education which paysthe

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Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

permanent molds bystudents of metal casting is planned for long term. Plans for the use of this apparatus in pre-college programsis also planned for, with vision toward developing small focus groups comprised of faculty, graduate students,undergraduate students, and prospective students. Young people will be exposed to modern rapid prototypingtechnology and how it is implemented within an actual manufacturing system. It is expected that in the future,the addition of stereolithography to GMI’s Polymer Processing/Computer Integrated Manufacturinglaboratories will provide current exposure to manufacturing systems engineering for GMI students andinspiration in the area of Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE) to young people considering

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Leevones Dubose; Jean Newman; Cecil Ramage; Burke Johnson; Brenda Litchfield; Edmund Tsang

Session 3253 Integrating Service Learning into Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Edmund Tsang, Cecil Ramage, Burke Johnson, Brenda Litchfield, Jean Newman, Leevones Dubose University of South Alabama/Mobile County Public School SystemABSTRACT Service learning is a method under which students learn and develop through active participation inthoughtfully organized activities that are conducted in and meet the needs of a community. Service learningis integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of a freshman Introduction to MechanicalEngineering

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John Collura; David E. Kaufman

, design, operate, and evaluate ITS systems, while alsoteaching students at the graduate level to participate in system development and ITS research. TheTransportation Program has been in place for more than 25 years and includes four transportation facultymembers and some seven support faculty from other disciplines including electrical engineering, operationsresearch, human factors, computer science, regional planning, and management.SECTION 2: PROGRAM RESEARCH COMPONENTSection 2.1: Past and current research supporting the project Key personnel of the project have participated in past and current research and application projectswhich provide a knowledge base to be integrated into the University's transportation curriculum. The

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Marc Hoit; Matthew Ohland

through totalprogram integration while avoiding some major drawbacks of such schemes, such as significant changes inprogram administration.We propose a model different from the total integration model, which has dominated curriculum reformresearch. In our model, course and department frameworks remain intact. Instead, we are changing the wayfaculty teach and the way students' time is structured to increase learning efficiency. We have 100 studentsenrolled in the program and plan to work with them for two years. Special sections of Calc I and Chemistry Iwere taught in the Fall semester of 1995. Sections of Calculus II, Chemistry II and Physics I are in progressduring Spring 1996. These special sections are reducing the dependence on lecture and

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Forrest S. Keeler; Dr. Mihir K. Das

created an innovative graduate program in Systems Engineering (SE). Themain objective of this SE program is to offer to selected graduate engineers already employed in indust~ aMaster’s Degree curriculum which can significantly enhance their understanding of disciplines directly related totheir own assignments, increase their worth, and enhance their perilormance in the U. S. industry marketplaceusing up-to-date SE related disciplines and skills. Introduction A key issue of high industrial and national importance is the identification and translation ofsophisticated, state-of-the-art system techniques from independent research and isolated complex militaryprograms to university research, to

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William H. Tranter; Theodore S. Rappaport; Jeffrey H. Reed; Donna M. Krizman; Brian D. Woerner

history of the United States when $7.7 billion was paid by wireless service providers forthe rights to use 60 MHz of personal communications systems (PCS) radio spectrum in the 1800/1900 MHzband. The winners of the auction are hiring aggressively, and the industry now faces an even greater shortageof young, trained technical experts who can make contributions in this rapidly growing field. New graduateswho have been exposed to research and modern communications topics are urgently needed to develop anddeploy new products. As part of the NSF combined Research-Curriculum Development (CRCD) program, Virginia Techand University of Missouri-Rolla faculty will develop a three-course sequence which integrates wirelesscommunications concepts into

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Donald E. Richards

Engineering Curriculum consists of two parallel course streams -- applied mathematicsand engineering science -- and integrates material both across and within these streams. At present this cur-riculum is required of all electrical and computer engineering majors and is an option for mechanical engi-neering and civil engineering majors. The purpose of this paper is share our experiences during the devel-opment process and to introduce the curriculum. Before discussing our efforts, a few words about the Foun-dation Coalition are in order because of its role as a catalyst in our curriculum development efforts.FOUNDATION COALITION The Foundation Coalition was formed in the fall of 1993. It consists of seven institutions committedto reexamining

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Robert M. Edwards; Kwang Y. Lee

developed in the research portion of the projectincluding: 1) extensions to achieve real-time performance of large scale power plant simulations using UNIXnetwork programming, 2) distributed implementation of advanced controller programming in an architectureof workstation and microprocessor-based controllers, and 3) intelligent control using fizzy logic, neuralnetwork, genetic algorithm, and reconfigurable control techniques. After the presentation of a curriculumdevelopment update, a summary of research activities is presented to complete overview of the project results.BACKGROUND The background for this three year research and curriculum development project was obtained by thesuccessful completion of two major projects initiated in 1989

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William G. Sullivan; W. R. Callen; T. A. Weigel; S. M. Jeter; J. T. Luxhoj; Herman R Leep; Hamid R. Parsaei; Gerald J. Thuesen; C. S. Park; A. Koblasz

Polytechnic ABSTRACT This paper presents some of the results obtained from a four-year project conducted at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. For this project, four engineering science courseswere modified to include economic and design principles. The primary objective of this experiment was toinvestigate on how the integration of economic principles with design can effectively be used to teachengineering science courses in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Introduction In 1991. the National Science Foundation funded a multiyear project involving five universities. Theproject, entitled “The

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Daryl R. Kipke

bioengineering program at Arizona State University, laboratory courses inphysiological systems and medical instrumentation have been offered for many years. These courses emphasizemaking measurements from and analyzing properties of physiological systems using clinical instruments orspecial-purpose computer hardware and software. The laboratory projects are generally highly structured andclosed-ended to ensure ample coverage of the selected subjects. While these courses are an important part ofthe curriculum, they do not provide students with the experience of developing solutions to open-ended,systems-level bioengineering projects. In order to fill this gap, over the last three years we have developed andoffered a laboratory course that provides senior

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Francisco Vaz; Ana Maria Tomé; Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira

justof mere mathematical interest. We also felt that the traditional approach, in which the tools for theanalysis of discrete and continuous time signals were taught separately, often in different courses,was misleading the students and preventing them from acquiring an integrated view of signalanalysis. The possibility of offering laboratory courses depends, of course, on the availability of per-sonal computers. We rely on low-cost i486 based machines, running Matlab. We have found thatMatlab provides an easy to learn yet powerful interface, and a powerful set of commands to dealwith graphics, signals, and systems. Although we can not present a final evaluation of this experience yet, we may alreadyreport that the students reacted

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Ian A. Waitz; Edward C. Barrett

engineering practice.Such an experience can serve as a vehicle for unifying and applying knowledge gained from disciplinarycoursework. Further, much deeper understanding and appreciation of physical phenomena can be developedwhen ‘hands-on’ learning is combined in an integral manner with more traditional classroom instruction.Experimental projects also offer exposure to the ‘implicit curriculum’, that is, things students are expected tolearn which do not appear explicitly on any course syllabus (e.g. ethics, group dynamics, Murphy’s Law). Inaddition, a structured research experience can be an important opportunity for one-on-one student collaborationwith a faculty member over an extended period of time in which the faculty member can serve as a role

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Mohammad M. Asoodeh; Carl W. Steidley

SoutheasternLouisiana University (SLU) have initiated a joint project to build computing facilities and curricular programswhich will provide outstanding educational opportunities for computer science and industrial technology majors.Among the aims of this collaboration is to create a model computer integrated manufacturing facility, built onexisting and recently acquired equipment and facilities. Moreover, this project is a part of an IntegratedUndergraduate Technology-Rich Curriculum. In its publication Report on the National Science Foundation Disciplinary Workshops onUndergraduate Education [2] the National Science Foundation had this to say about undergraduate computerscience laboratory facilities: “The laboratory infrastructure is not in

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William J. Hutzel; John R. Koontz

expertise in mechanical construction management Page 1.160.1 {bxi~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘J3J3/and mechanical cost estimating. BC students who select this option complete nine additional credit hours ofcourses in project management, scheduling, and estimating which are speciilc to mechanical construction.The MCM option emphasizes project management rather than the analysis of mechanical equipment. Whileall students recognize that the water in a hydronic system adds heat energy to an indoor space in the winter,few could calculate the required capacity of a

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S. P. Carullo; R. Fischl; C. O. Nwankpa

Session 1626 Integrating a Power Systems Laboratory into a Client/Server Based Computing Environment S. P. Carullo, C. O. Nwankpa, and R. Fischl Drexel University1. AbstractThe primary goal of the project is to develop a set of experiments which will allow students to examinepower systems in a realistic manner. Drexel University’s Interconnected Power Systems L.uboratory(ZPSL) provides an interchangeable real-life power system network and a computer interface to the systemin order to provide control and data capturing. The computer interface utilizes clientherver and

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

classroom activities and projects. Commercially available packages inmathematics, such as Matlab by The MathWorks, Inc., and Mathematica by Wolfram, Corp., are the twotargeted applications. These software applications have gained widespread acceptance in the engineeringcommunity and thereby assure applicability in later engineering and science studies. A major component of theConnections Program is to provide expertise such that the high schools will effectively integrate these packagesinto their curriculum. The connection via the Engineering network will also gives access through the campus-wide universitynetwork to the world-wide Internet. This emerging area of network communications demands that the

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Steve Howell; Ken Collier; Debra Larson; Jerry Hatfield

and scheduling, cost estimation and economics,and coordination of efforts between: the Design II and Design III teams, the Design IIIstudents and the customer, and the Design III students and students from the ComputerVisualization and Imaging (CVI) program at Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, CA. AsEngineering Design III becomes fully integrated into our curriculum, the junior-levelstudents will be expected to apply sound engineering principles to their task, as opposedto the intuitive approach that is permitted in Engineering Design and Graphics andEngineering Design II.Course Overview To accomplish the stated goals, an engineering design simulation of a semester-long project is conducted. The methodology is the same as the techniques

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Vinay Govande; Kristine Laubach; Jr., Dr. Emory W. Zimmers; Jennifer Montemurro; Dr. Roger Nagel; Alice Swanger

enterprises in this agile paradigm and theskill and training our educational institutes are providing. The virtual learning models described in this paper,and the integration of engineering, information systems and communication technology in a classroom settingwill assist in bridging these gaps.Background of Agile Manufacturing and Virtual Enterprises Both manufacturing and service organizations are continually rethinking how they function as theystrive to compete successfidly in today’s global, rapidly changing business environment. In this environment anew business paradigm known as agility is emerging. The adaptation of agility principles is an integral part ofthe strategic relationships between the academia, government and industry. The

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Evan D. H. Green; Emily L Allen; Linda Vanasupa

courses for the upper division which promotes the development of such skills as well as teachingexperimental design. We are currently testing our hypothesis that traditional weaknesses in data analysis,communication of ideas, and self-motivated acquisition of knowledge can be overcome by providing studentswith a laboratory environment which encourages open-ended experimentation. To this end, we are developinga methodology for converting typical “cookbook” laboratory courses to multi-disciplinary, team-based open-ended design experiences.Our work is done in the context of the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum on electronic materialsand devices3. The curriculum consists of a three-course sequence, primarily for Electrical and

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Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

becomes difficult to satisfy the instructional goals and objectives. Most current teaching tends to be abstract, verbal, deductive, and sequential, and students tend to be passive. Felder and Silverman [5, 6] have concluded that all combinations of teaching and learning styles are needed in an engineering curriculum to reach all student types. The recommendations of Felder and Silverman are also echoed by Kolb in his four-stage learning cycle. Working with engineering students at MIT, Kolb developed a model of experiential learning that provides a framework for understanding learning styles [1 O, 13]. Kolb organized the elements of learning and learning styles into four

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Bill Manaris; Ingrid Russell

aspects and topics in Artificial Intelligence (AI).These resources include syllabi, sample programming assignments, sample written assignments, on-linetutorials on specific AI topics, papers related to AI pedagogy, AI tools and environments, and source codeincluded in popular AI textbooks. This paper also discusses how these resources may be used by AI educators todevelop course materials for the Introduction to AI course.1. INTRODUCTION Artificial Intelligence is moving rapidly toward the mainstream in the field of computer science3. Thegrowth of AI theory and application has contributed to its recognition as a key area of study. AI is nowbecoming an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum and its coverage there has begun to be