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Susan E. Babcock; Oscar Marcelo Suarez

are required to apply theoretical principles and analyze the corresponding experimentalresults. In the present article, a spreadsheet implementation results in a simplified alternative toanalyze experimental data when numerical techniques are required. Numerical integration anddifferentiation are performed by using Microsoft Excel™ 7.0 for Windows. Finally the resultinganalysis is contrasted against literature data and important conclusions are drawn.1. IntroductionCookbook-type of data analysis can help those students with less computer skills catch up withthe rest of the class and comply with the requirements of the course. However, when dealingwith mathematical problems that cookbook approach can hinder the understanding of thephysical or

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

Engineering and Technology (ABET) ascriteria that must be satisfied for a program to be accredited. The findings of the investigationcould be utilized, for comparative purposes, by other institutions and departments that may wishto study their curriculum.Engineering CurriculumRecently, engineering educators have indicated that, overall, effective teaching is rated as theirhighest priority.1 Nevertheless, the question of breadth vs. depth in engineering education is Page 3.115.1presently being debated by the engineering profession. Numerous executives believe that it was

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Charlie P. Edmonson; Joseph A. Untener

opportunities. The study includes feedbackfrom the employers of the graduates relative to their satisfaction with academic preparation andperformance of the graduates. A comparison is made of this information with similar work donein 1991 that covered a twenty-five year period of bachelor degree graduates. 1 This paper alsoprovides the procedures and approaches used in completing this assessment, and otherinstruments that are used for similar purposes.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDThe University of Dayton offers four programs in Engineering Technology, all of which areaccredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology. 2 In preparation for a Fall 1997 visit, the Department of

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P. David Fisher

comply with ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 [1], [2]? What has changedin terms of the institutional self-study process? What important feedback has come fromconstituents? What benefits have been realized? What are some of the ongoing projects to furtherimprove the academic programs? And, finally, how much did this effort cost? IntroductionIn the April of 1996, I attended an IEEE-ABET/EAC Program Evaluator's Workshop in SanDiego, California. For me, this was a refresher workshop since I had previously been certified bythe IEEE-ABET/EAC as a Program Evaluator for electrical and computer engineering programs.Attendees were given a draft of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (ABET 2000), and it wasdiscussed for

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Scott J. Amos

freshman year up. Inherent to the projectbased approach is the opportunity to work in teams, see the big picture and make technicalpresentations. The University of Colorado has opened a chalkboard-less Integrated TeachingLaboratory. This facility houses numerous project stations, computers and instrumentation thatserves as the nucleus for curriculum reform enabling more hands-on learning.Performance based approaches to education have been described by Spady and Marshall andplaced in three levels: traditional, transitional, and transformational with traits as outlined inTable 1. The traditional approach is best illustrated by the competency based education that hasbeen used in engineering technology programs for years. It is characterized by

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William Gay

new technical program is theformation of an advisory committee. Such a committee was formed, and its first task was todetermine program need. Employment opportunities as commercial pilots was a primeconsideration. Also, of concern was whether there was an institution of higher education in thearea offering such a program. Predicted employment opportunities seemed good for the 1990's and the beginning decade ofthe next century. Pilots who had been trained by the military for the Vietnam War and laterbecame commercial pilots would be nearing retirement age of sixty. Pilots who reachedmandatory retirement age will generate several thousand job openings each year.1 The militarywas making concerted efforts to retain their present pilots due to

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Donald J. Winiecki

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

capabilities.1. IntroductionThe combination of constantly evolving DSP algorithm development and continually advancing DSPuP hardwarehave formed the basis for an exponential growth in DSP applications. The increased market demand for theseapplications and their required hardware has resulted in the production of DSPuPs with very powerful componentscapable of performing a wide range of complicated operations. Due to the complicated architectures of these newprocessors, it would be time consuming for even the experienced DSP analysts to review and evaluate these newDSPuPs. Furthermore, the inexperienced DSP analysts would find it even more time consuming, and possibly verydifficult to appreciate the significance and opportunities for these new

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Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

the supervision of a mentor,who provides guidance and critique to the doctoral students1,9. These programs, while rare, arestarting to attract a lot of attention among academia-track students and concerned faculty.The idea of team-teaching is slightly different than faculty mentoring. Specifically, in team-teaching a course, the doctoral students get an opportunity to work along with the facultymember in addressing all aspects of the course, hence being treated as a peer, instead of having amentor-student relationship. The main advantage of team-teaching is that both the student andthe faculty get to lecture as equals, thereby achieving two goals: (1) providing the undergraduatestudents with two different views on the lecture topics; and, (2

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Ed Gohmann

goal. This derivation does not appear inMachine Design texts geared for the sophomore MET student.Derivation: The starting point for this derivation presents an opportunity to review and toexpand the students understanding of linear springs. Linear springs are usually first presented ina course on statics with the relationship 1) F=kx F=load x=change in length k=spring constantThe examples of the application of this equation center around coiled springs either in tension orcompression. Modeling a bolt and bolted plates as springs takes some additional explanation butthis is fundamental to obtaining the final relationship. Here a review of an expression fromStrength of Materials for the

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Bernadette Longo

on for a corporate project places the teacher in the middle ofthese competing needs and it is sometimes difficult to decide whose needs get met. Students’need to learn and the teacher’s need to teach should take precedence in planning and assigning acorporate project.1. Payne, R. 1998. “Common goals.” ASEE Prism 7.5:56.2. Hayhoe, G. 1998. “The academe-industry partnership: What’s in it for all of us?” Technical Communication Page 3.122.3 45.1:19-20.3. Lempert, D. 1997. Escape from the ivory tower. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.4. McCullough, L. 1998. “Progressive partnerships: Building stronger communities through

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Stephanie Goldberg

support and guidance to work with a higher level of textbook. The goalis to develop a structure allowing an advanced book to be used in a Technology program.1. IntroductionWith technology changing at lightning speed, textbook selection must be based on providing abroad range of material, currency, practical input, and the provision of a foundation for continuedtechnical growth. A textbook was found that satisfies these criteria for two courses in the four-year Bachelor of Technology program at Buffalo State College. The textbook, however, iswritten to an engineering student audience. A plan to acclimate a Bachelor of Technology classto an engineering-level text is presented in this paper. The key feature of this plan is a hypertextdatabase

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Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

to be hired, inmany fields the half-life of an engineer is five years. Faculty need to be continually exposed tothe best practices of industry. Just as their counterparts in industry, the faculty need to belifelong learners1. One of the best ways for a faculty member to maintain technical currency is tobecome involved in industrial projects as a consultant or in a school center that conducts appliedresearch. Besides keeping faculty members’ technical skills up-to-date, involvement in appliedresearch and consulting renders other benefits such as: (1) providing real-world case studies to beused in classrooms and laboratories, (2) strengthening relationships between the school andindustry which can boost corporate donations to the school and

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Julia L. Morse

their classrooms on their own.Provide suggested learning objectives at various levels. A set of possible learning objectives, as Page 3.125.2shown in Figure 1, were designed to help the project find a place within a wide scope of science,math, and technology classrooms. Using the same basic hands-on data collection activity, theproject could be simplified or expanded within the instructor-led class discussion portion of theactivity to meet the needs and mathematical and technical background of the particularclassroom. If desired, an instructor could also use these objectives as a guide to fine-tune theactual student activity to more closely

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David E. Clough

classroom component of my already-successful control course to anactive-learning format. During the Spring 1997 semester, I wrote 41 workshops on-the-fly foruse in the course. In the Spring 1998 semester, I am teaching process control for the 21st timeand using the active-learning approach for the 2nd year.Course Objectives and OutlineAll required courses in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado have publishedlearning objectives. These have been developed and approved by the faculty and are distributedto students at the beginning of each course. The course being described here is Instrumentationand Process Control (CHEN 4570, 4 credits, Spring Senior), and its objectives are:1. Chemical Process Instrumentation • knowledge of

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Ravi G. Mukkilmarudhur; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

ROYA (a code developed by H. K.Navaz). The students post processed their data using TECPLOT by Amtec Engineering Inc.,and CFD-VIEW by CFD Research Corp. For post processing, the students learned to viewpressure velocity, temperature, and species mass fraction profiles. The students also learned toproduce velocity vector plots and to use animation for flows evolving in time. To monitor thetransient behavior of some flows, the students learned to use tracers at points of interest in thecomputational domain.The first formal laboratory involved the computational solution of steady flows. The flow ofwater over a flat plate with an approach velocity of 1 m/s, the flow of air over a flat plate with an

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Charles S. Elliott; Albert Winn

ASU and abranch office for Southern Arizona at Hughes Missile Systems in Tucson. Currently, sixcurriculum development groups composed primarily of industry representatives with two orthree academic members are developing/providing advanced level education at the non-credit,certificate and graduate levels in the following areas: Manufacturing Processes IPPD Software Environmental Design QualityA Marketing Group seeks to expand our organization and participation; a Delivery SystemsGroup is active in expanding awareness of and delivery of programs via a variety of distanceeducation methods - closed circuit TV, videotape, World Wide Web and others. AnOrganization Chart is shown in Figure 1.The Technical

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Kevin Otto; Joseph Bezdek; Daniel Jensen

Abstract A variety of design-process and design-methods courses exist in engineering education. The primary objective of such courses is to teach engineering design fundamentals utilizing repeatable design techniques. By so doing, students obtain (1) tools they may employ during their education, (2) design experiences to understand the “big picture” of engineering, and (3) proven methods to attack open-ended problems. While these skills are worthwhile, especially as design courses are moved earlier in curricula, many students report that design methods are typically taught at a high-level and in a compartmentalized fashion. Often, the students’ courses do not include opportunities to obtain

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Jr., Harry J. Sauer

by using the computer. The HVAC simulation program developed for thisproject significantly reduces the time required to analyze various energy saving ideas against a basecase (no energy saving option).With this software, five types of HVAC systems (or terminal systems) can be simulated. TheseHVAC systems are: Variable (or constant) air volume system with (or without) reheat Dual duct/multizone (2 deck) system Four-pipe fan coil system Triple deck multizone system Closed water loop heat pump systemAs an example, Figure 1 provides as schematic of the dual deck multizone systems with severalenergy saving options.Fig. 1 - Schematic of multizone system with economizer and air-to-air energy recovery

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Patrick E. Connolly

vehicle, aircraft, sophisticatedelectronics system, most industrial and manufacturing equipment, and most consumer productsdepend upon these tools.”1 Although, realistically, we cannot expect academia to be able toprovide all the latest ‘bells and whistles’ of CAD industry developments to all our students as Page 3.131.1 1soon as they emerge, we can be expected to be forward-thinking enough to focus our curriculaon the direction we feel these developments will take within design departments, manufacturingcompanies, and entire industries, so that our students will be adequately prepared to

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Ronald Whitwam; James Ridge; Amy Dickinson; Jorge Rodriguez

most efficient integratedsoftware package today which is capable of generating solid models(7). Design Intent is a concept Page 3.132.1which requires the engineer to study a part before attempting to create the model on Pro/E. Theengineer must decide how to relate each feature of the model to the model itself, instead ofsimply assigning a dimension to that feature. If improperly designed, models may becomeinoperable when engineers attempt to modify them. Since a single solid model can be modifiedto create other related product designs, it is important to the engineer and the company thatmodels be created using proper Design Intent techniques(1

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Robert H. Mayer

Session 2478 Capstone Design of Coastal Wetlands Robert H. Mayer U. S. Naval AcademyINTRODUCTIONNatural wetlands are found in many forms throughout the world: as inland salt flats in aridregions; as bogs and tundra in cooler, humid regions; as riparian forests and backwater swampsalong rivers and streams. In coastal environs, tidal salt and freshwater marshes and mangroveswamps (mangals) are typical 1.Although not easily defined, wetlands are often identified as transitional lands between uplandsand aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or

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Arnold F. Johnson

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Theodore E. Fahlsing

comparison to the XR2206. Page 3.1.1 Data Sheet Evaluation The evaluation of devices from data sheets is a skill that requires some practice and theuse of a systematic procedure. The students were presented the block diagram approach shownin Figure 1. Pin Numbers around the outside of the block Power supply connections at the top Inputs on the left Outputs on the right Control connections at the bottom and sides Figure 1: The Block

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

provides a wider variety of the types of information that canbe presented (for example, multimedia and/or interactive delivery). In addition, it provides apermanent record of the lecture/discussion that can be retrieved/reviewed by the student as wellas instructors for further clarification and modification. As the present curriculum on ceramic-matrix composites is being developed under thesupport of National Science Foundation's Combined Research-Curriculum Development(CRCD) Program, multimedia and interactive courseware has been implemented simultaneouslyon World Wide Web (WWW); Figure 1. The courseware, located athttp://www.engr.utk.edu/~cmc, consists of (1) instructors’ handout in the form of text, colorthree

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Zbigniew Prusak

processconcentrate on teaching ‘specialists’ or ‘generalists’? What do we know about the knowledge andskills that will define a successful engineering professional? Product Realization Skills (PRS) -knowledge and skills that form the core of presently demanded engineering competencies aredescribed along with problems in effective teaching of PRS. The paper analyzes various skillsvalued by engineering and technology professionals and educators, as well as the changes in theimportance of these skills. Weaknesses in preparation of engineering graduates as seen by industrialleaders and engineers from different countries are also presented.1. INTRODUCTION Many highly industrialized regions of the world continuously transform activities leading togeneration

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Susan Ambrose

Student Old Paradigm Information Class Internet Student Student Professor Other School New Paradigm Figure 1. Learning Paradigms (adapted from Oblinger and Maruyama 1996) Page 3.137.1What does this shift entail and how

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

program, the students either do experiments on abench scale or on pilot plant size apparatus, all of which have been designed by the authors.IntroductionThe Pre-College Center of New Jersey Institute of Technology has a broad range of outreachprograms aimed at introducing K-12 students to science and engineering as a career choice.Among the various programs which have a chemical engineering and chemistry componentare: (1) Chemical Industry for Minorities in Engineering (ChIME) (7th and 8th Grades) (2) Upward Bound (10th to 12th grades) (3) Females in Engineering: Methods, Motivation and Experience (FEMME) (a) FEMME Continuum (6th & 7th grades) (b) Senior

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Seattle, WA, 28 June - 1 July 1998ABSTRACTThe primary goal of Rowan University's freshmen engineering course is to immerse students inmultidisciplinary projects that teach engineering principles using the theme of engineering meas-urements in both laboratory and real-world settings. Currently, many freshman programs focuseither on a design project or discipline specific experiments that may not be cohesively inte-grated. At Rowan, freshman engineers are introduced to industrial problems through a series of 4modules and a interrelated-interactive lectures on problem solving, safety and ethics. In this pa-per a the process engineering module using the vehicle of a cogeneration plant is presented.INTRODUCTIONThe Rowan engineering faculty are taking

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Rebecca K. Toghiani

course sequence ofthermodynamics. The first course generally focuses on the application of mass, energy andentropy balances to chemical and engineering processes. The second course generally entails anexamination of non-ideal behavior – both for pure components and for mixtures, as well as phaseand chemical equilibria. These courses are often steeped in theory (particularly the secondcourse) and provide limited exposure to the specific applications in unit operations and inindustry where these non-ideal effects are significant. If one were to poll undergraduates inchemical engineering, I believe that many would feel that their undergraduate training in thiscritical area of chemical engineering did not provide them with: 1) sufficient