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1999 Annual Conference

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Bopaya Bidanda; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary RAFE

virtual manufacturing laboratorymay be used by various agencies to provide continuous training and education in value-adding,manufacturing-related domains. In the next sections, we review background issues that motivatethis research.BackgroundIn its report on information technology for manufacturing, the National Research Council’sCommittee to Study Information Technology and Manufacturing called for a wide rangingresearch agenda that included investigations into tools and techniques to help enterprises andindividuals understand and manage the rapid changes they are expected to face.1 Thecommittee identified the need for better means of educational delivery to facilitate the renewaland currency of employee knowledge in manufacturing enterprises

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

engineering.6 A university retention goal of 78%has been set for the entering freshman class of Fall 1999. The average overall retention rate ofunderrepresented minority students enrolled as FFF in the CEAS in Falls 93 and 94 wasapproximately 63% at the University level and only 50.5% in the CEAS. The last two years,after the addition of the Minority Bridge Program, there has been a significant improvement intheir retention at both at the university and the CEAS level. The Fall 97 engineering minoritystudents had a 80.7% retention rate at the university level and a 69.3% level at the college level.The Fall 98 engineering FFF were retained at 75.0% in the university and 66.9% in the CEAS.See Figure 1.Additional retention programs run by the OMEP

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1999 Annual Conference

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Maria Amparo Gotes; Dr. Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Page 4.381.1materials, and academic scholarships.The program focuses on community building and utilizes undergraduate student role models,while the curriculum focuses on engineering design, technical communication, and includes avery unique design project. The program content and curriculum are designed to prepare thestudents for success in the CEAS’s engineering program. This overall objective is accomplishedby implementing five curriculum goals, which are:1. Build community among the participants and current engineering students.2. Introduce participants to computing at ASU.3. Introduce participants to engineering and more specifically incorporate: • engineering documentation and design projects • team building and team competition

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

to support ASU MESA program activities.The Office of Minority Engineering Programs (OMEP) at ASU was established by the CEAS toaid in the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students. The OMEP isembedded in the infrastructure of the Office of Student Affairs in the CEAS.1 Specifically, thegoals of the OMEP are to build a community of minority students that are academically preparedto pursue baccalaureate and graduate degrees within the CEAS and to create a climate thatdevelops and promotes academic excellence, technical competence, and marketable skills.Furthermore, it is the goal, of the OMEP to build the foundation for life long learning that willsustain students after they leave academia and through the twenty first

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1999 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Jan Helge Bøhn

monitor, the computer/LCD projector are examples. However, in most cases, theseare used in such a way that they are simply color blackboards and color overhead projectors.There has been, on the other hand, continuous improvement in engineering text books; mostsignificantly in the quality of the graphics and in the use of color, but also in overall readability.Additionally, many texts come with software to assist the student and the instructor. TheCDROM that comes with the classic Halliday and Resnick physics text is an example.1 Thereason for this continuous improvement is simple – there is tremendous competition amongpublishers and they are constantly pushing their authors to produce new testbook editions withmultimedia content and/or computer

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1999 Annual Conference

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Kerri Raykowski; Charles Eastlake

performed anextensive series of wind tunnel tests on a 1/4-scale Piper Cherokee wing in hopes ofremoving some of the guesswork in the VG and VG configuration design processes. Page 4.175.1Test Conditions All tests were performed in the 36”x52” closed test section, closed-circuit, subsonicwind tunnel at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Although the landing speed of aCherokee is approximately 100 ft/sec, the VG optimization tests were performed atapproximately 85 ft/sec. (Based on this, the test Reynold’s number was 7.2x105,compared to the full-scale Reynold’s number of 2.8x106.) This was done to avoid over-stressing the Aerolab 6-component pyramidal