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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

or conditions.V. AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of this work from the National ScienceFoundation through Grant EEC-0230681, “Planning Grant for a Courseless Curriculum”. Theauthors are indebted to Dr. Kolar, R. L., Dr. Knox, R., Ms. Patricia, R. Q. (School of Civil Page 9.128.9Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma), and Dr. Rhoads, T. R. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

effort to meet these educational objectives, the students were required to develop atest plan, design molds, manufacture and fire the bricks, inventory and track the resultant testmaterials, interpret and apply the appropriate American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)test standards, locate the needed test equipment, conduct the tests, analyze the data, compare thedata with data generated from previous semesters and make conclusions from this data.Additionally, the students had to coordinate their activities among the three sections and managetheir time as they only had one semester in which to complete the project. In all sections of thelaboratory, students were required to maintain a laboratory notebook. However, in one of thesesections, the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Ramachandran; David Silverstein; Kevin Dahm

description has beenpublished previously.5,6Each student started the game with $10,000. The semester was divided into twenty turns. Thestated goal of the game was to finish turn 20 with as much cash as possible. Thus, allinvestments had a fixed, known planning horizon (and no salvage value unless otherwise stated).Students were given the option of placing money in a savings account- with no minimum ormaximum balance and no restrictions on frequency or size of withdrawals- at 5% interest perturn. In addition, students had the option of borrowing an unlimited amount of money at 15%interest, compounded every turn.Many investment opportunities were introduced into the game through auctions. Studentsreceived specifications for each of the assets that

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

been published previously.5,6Possible InvestmentsEach student started the game with $10,000. The game was divided into twenty turns. Thestated goal of the game was to finish turn 20 with as much cash as possible. Thus, allinvestments had a fixed, known planning horizon (and no salvage value unless otherwise stated).Students were given the option of placing money in a savings account- with no minimum or Page 9.1176.2maximum balance and no restrictions on frequency or size of withdrawals- at 5% interest perProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Gorka; Reza Kamali; Jacob Miller; Han Reichgelt; Eydie Lawson; Barry Lunt; Joseph Ekstrom

committeeplans to write a document similar to the CS volume of the CC2001 document; this document isover 100 pages in length, including the Appendix. The IT curriculum writing subcommittee hasalready met once, and has completed a draft of approximately 4 of the 13 chapters of thedocument. Plans are to hold further writing subcommittee meetings approximately every 2months, with the goal to have, by June 2004, a draft document ready for posting to the SIGITEwebsite for all to review and comment on. Page 9.370.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Kuznetsov

of American Society for EngineeringEducation, Montreal, Canada.6. Kuznetsov, H. (1996, April) " Innovative Multimedia Instruction and SophisticatedProblem Solving Exercise and Testing in Engineering Statics and Structural Planning,"Journal "Computer Applications in Engineering Education", Volume 4, number 1, JohnWiley & Sons, Inc.7. Kuznetsov, H. (1996, March) "Development and Integration of Interactive Computer-Judged Problem-Solving Software in Statics and Mechanics of Materials Courses,"Proceedings of 1996 Spring conference of the Illinois-Indiana ASEE section at BradleyUniversity, Peoria, IL.8. Kuznetsov, H. (1994, November) "Innovative Usage of Computer-based MultimediaInstruction and Problem-Solving Courseware in Engineering

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Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

Sample Figure 5: Xbar/S Chart of Question 2.3It appears that sample nine is below the LCL making the point out of control. The point wasinvestigated using other SPC tools to determine root cause of the point. Q2.3 refers tosequencing of the material. Investigation determined the sample nine was 24Feb occurred on aMonday. It also was determined that on that Monday, Annual Review Reports were due. Itappears that the extra workload may have prevented the instructor from preparing a wellsequenced lecture. In the future, better planning is required to prevent this from occurring onceagain. On other SPC control charts there were similar instances, but not all were below theLCL. Some points were

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Crone

, 10-24, 1/2 in.,100/pk., 90232A505; both from McMaster-Carr, www.mcmaster.com).Before the laboratory period, each student is instructed to design their NiTi wire shape on a papertemplate, created by scanning the jig plate. This planning stage prevents poor designs, allowsstudents to experiment creatively before spending the time building the jig, and avoids waste ofNiTi wire. Once the template is designed, bolts are threaded through the appropriate holes in thebase plate and secured with hex nuts. Students then use string to measure the length of wireneeded, and obtain the proper length of NiTi wire from the instructor. The wire is wrappedaround the bolts and secured with a second hex nut where needed. The jig is then placed in a550°C oven

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

disabled. They also expressed a desire to continuewith community service when they graduated. Page 9.1092.6“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”A continuation of this reflective dialogue is planned for future service learning designprojects and the authors encourage other educators to implement this activity in theirsimilar courses.BIBLIOGRAPHY[1] Tsang, Edward. “Why Service-Learning?”, When Community Enters the Equation: EnhancingScience, Mathematics and Engineering Education through Service-Learning Campus Compact, 1998

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

powerful research toolfor microcharacterization for understanding the material or species accurately enough todetermine the properties or components. Using the microstructure images determined, the web-based microstructural characterization and analysis tool will be used in courses like science ofmaterials, engineering materials, and mechanical metallurgy.Summary and ConclusionsIn conclusion, the materials web-design can be used to analyze a variety of newly developedengineering materials currently being developed for various industries such as the automotiveand aerospace. The web-design could be developed to incorporate new advances inmicrostructural analysis and materials design. All of this is to be implemented into the collegeclass plan

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

students to personalize them, a Roadmap browser to navigate courses and mod-ules, and a printing tool that converts a course into a ready-to-print pdf text complete with table ofcontents and index. An integrated XML/mathML document editor is planned for the near future,as are wizards to help convert from LATEX, Microsoft Word, and other formats into XML. On theweb, Connexions modules are viewable with a range of browsers, including Mozilla, Netscape Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Joyce

strain to the deformation data. Plot theresulting stress-strain data, the students should recognize the data in this form. If everythinggoes according to plan the three curves of Figure 2 should all collapse onto a single line asshown in Figure 3. From Hooke’s law for uniaxial stress-strain behavior the modulus ofelasticity can be obtained from the slope of the σ-ε data. Using linear regression have thestudents check the modulus of elasticity of each test wire independently. Page 9.1326.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

review of the plans proposed by the firm. Access to the AutoCAD files is madeavailable through a freeware product known as Visio. Visio facilitates file-viewing functionsrecommended for the videoconference without requiring the contracting company to have aspecific CAD program loaded on their computers. Here, the students have improved flexibilityfor their client without increasing costs significantly. Listed below is the fundamental procedureand highlights of the CADD Case Study: ‚" CADD instructor and lab prime discuss CADD problem with possible lab solution. ‚" DFTG 2319 (Intermediate CADD) is the course currently utilized. ‚" Students create CADD drawings and transport to the customer over protected network

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

prepare workers for 21st Century jobs. For the NGM Initiative and its objectives to be successful, it must attract students tocareer pathways in manufacturing. Connecticut has been chosen by NAM to be the first statewide “roll out” location in the nation for their new campaign to make manufacturing a preferredcareer choice of 18-28 year olds by the end of this decade. This multi-faceted campaign willrequire strong collaboration between the business community and higher education to achievethe goal of attracting new participants into manufacturing and will build on the strongrelationship that the COT has with CBIA and CBIA has with NAM. This paper will focus on the curriculum pathway and the plan for the implementation ofthe COT and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Minority Bridge, a two-week residential program, which began in 1996.3 During theSummer Bridge program, the students competed for scholarships for the next year. A conditionof the scholarship was that the students attend an Academic Success Workshop the following fallfor two hours of credit.4 The minority students who have gone through this program haveconsistently been retained after one year at a higher rate than minority students who do not attendthe program, as well as non-minority students who enter at the same time. This increasedretention is true both within the University and within the Fulton School.In planning a retention program to support NACME Scholars, we proposed that we wouldinclude the NACME Scholars with the Summer Bridge

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

was implemented with such success in theirclassrooms that the principal asked them to present the curriculum to the entire schoolfaculty. The following spring the ‘I Care’ program was successfully adopted school-wideand continues to be used today. During the 2000 seminar, these two students told thestory of what had happened and presented an overview of the ‘I Care’ curriculum withactual lesson plans and activities. The education majors not only left this seminar feelingrefreshed and energized but now they also felt empowered. They could make realdifferences in classrooms with students.The department has presently completed its third Ethics and Character Educationseminar. Some of the basic components of that first seminar remain. Students

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bowman

: Airplane Design Process  P − Pr Find: % Excess Power =  a  x100 (1)  Pr  Pa = Power Available (W) Pr = Power Required (W)Power available is often measured for the motor/prop combination you plan to usefor your airplane. Wind tunnel tests are used. Typical wind tunnel results looklike the graph shown below: Pa (W ) max Pa V pmax Velocity, V m ( sec )From the graph, you can determine the maximum possible Pa and the airplanevelocity that

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Berrett

competency based. The teacher reviews each Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education WRMS Tech Lab floor Plan plan.activity with the student in a briefone-on-one discussion. The teacherreviews the documented work in theportfolio and asks the studentquestions to check forunderstanding. If the studentdemonstrates the competency in thedocumented work, and answers thequestions intelligently they get itpassed off. Students often documenttheir work with video, pictures, oran actual product they havedesigned and built. Students oftechnology therefore

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lewinski; William Hudson

to this project.Bibliographic Information1 Helmholtz, H. Von (1850). Vorlaufiger Bericht uber die Fortpflanzungsgeschwindigkeit der Nervenreizung,Translated in W. Dennis (1948). Readings in Psychology. New York: Appelton-Crofts.2 Glock Inc., 6000 Highlands Parkway, Smyrna, GA 30082.3 Axiom Manufacturing, 2813 Industrial Lane, Garland, TX 75041.4 HyperTerminal Private Edition, Hilgraeve, Inc., 111 Contant Ave., Suite A, Monroe, MI 48161.5 Casper, J. “Algorithms to Support Experiments Conducted by the Center for the Study of Performance in ExtremeEncounters” Advanced Plan Paper, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2003.6 Lewinski, B. and Hudson, B. “Time to start shooting? Time to stop shooting? The Tempe Study.” The PoliceMarksman, Vol

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Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

session corresponding to theconventional 15-week semester course. The client contracts for engineering services equivalentto approximately 4-person months of effort from each design team. Activities for one daycorrespond to the theme for one week during the semester. As an example, Day 3 focuses onbrainstorming activities including sessions, workshops and visualizations activities that generatealternative solutions (options) to the design problem. Students spend 8 hours per day focusedexclusively on the project compared to 5 hours per week interrupted by as many as 15 hours ofclasses. Teams prepare each week for oral presentations with the client, which take place everyFriday. The first presentation defines the project plan with the client

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

based on student actions within six months to a year afterthe course.Three of the remaining eighteen students enrolled in and completed a subsequent course in theDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering with one student earning a grade of A andtwo students earning a grade of B. Five of the remaining eighteen students enrolled in andcompleted a subsequent ECE 100 – Introduction to Engineering course with two students earninga grade of A, one student earning a grade of B, and two students earning a grade of C. There is asurvey planned to explain the grades in the subsequent related courses. Also, the survey willcomplement the end of semester course evaluation to provide information on what can be doneto improve the existing computer basics

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

electronic and the rhythm is urgent.Technology budget Every year OEEP receives an operational budget directly from the Deans office. Thisbudget is allocated to salaries and expenses. Equipment purchase monies are not part of theallocation and can only be derived from surplus funds available at the end of a fiscal cycle. Thisrequires careful monitoring of in-use equipment for possible replacement and deciding whereimprovements using newer technology must be made to facilitate the mission.Because part time workers are hired from semester to semester based on courses offered, salariesvary. Expenses vary due to the enrollment. These two items must be accurately predicted sothat the money for technology purchasing can be planned and determined

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Wankat

Professor, Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 2002.12. Wankat, P.C. and Oreovicz, F.S., Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1993. Free at .13. Rogers, G. M. and Sando, J. K., Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 1996.14. Light, R. J., Making the Most of College. Students Speak Their Minds, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001.15. Katehi, L., Banks, K., Diefes-Dux, H., Follman, D., Gaunt, J., Hahgighi, K., Imbrie, P. K., Montgomery, R., Oakes, W., and Wankat, P., “Development of Graduate Programs in Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, (in press). Biography: PHILLIP C

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International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

apprehension is articulated in Table 5. In writtencommunication apprehension, all three groups of students exhibit the same trend; apprehensionincreases as academic self-confidence decreases. This is not surprising; one would perhapsexpect the weaker students to find writing more difficult. However, the same trend is not foundin oral communication. Here, the self-rated ‘better’ engineers recorded significant concern aboutspeaking. This perhaps reflects their wish to analyse and evaluate a situation before committingthemselves, and thus they may feel better writing (planned and structured) than speaking (ad-hocand reactive). This trend in oral communication swamps the written communication results, thusinfluencing the overall results

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

the needs of the developing world;and (iii) who can contribute to the relief of the endemic problems of poverty afflictingdeveloping communities worldwide.Starting in the Freshman Clinic, selected case studies are integrated into the fall semester thatincorporate the Engineer’s Code of Ethics, environmental concerns, and community concerns inthe Rowan Seminar developed through the Bildner grant and Freshmen clinic. These case studieswill eventually be linked to EWB projects as juniors and seniors report their experiences. TheSophomore Clinic I will be used as a preliminary design and planning phase for an EWB-typeproject. Students will identify and consult with stakeholders, as well as research materials andresources needed to accomplish the

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

culminating in a “Critical Design Review”, andpotentially a competition, which includes results from testing of the initial and optimized designs.This side-by-side comparison helps produce several educational insights: - Understanding of the predictive accuracy of CAE modeling versus actual test results - Understanding of the relative improvement that computer optimization can yield relative to an initial, manual solution - Illustration of the capabilities and limitations of the human mind and digital computer during design and manufacturingCourse FlowThe course plan starts by exposing the students to the design process, its phases, and theimportance of properly formulated requirements. An introduction

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

anaerodynamics course at Howard. The evaluation and research plan (created in collaboration witha third party program evaluation center at the University of Iowa) is described, which focuses onexact descriptions of the implementations of the new interface at partner sites, especially asexperienced by the students, including preliminary data on immediate student outcomes asdocumented from site testing for Fall 2003. Also discussed are conclusions and future work. Page 9.450.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

Technology information.IX. CalendarThe “Course Calendar” feature lets the instructor maintain a course calendar that students canaccess at any time. All upcoming activities are placed in the calendar to remind students aboutimportant dates and events for the entire semester (i.e. lab schedule, report due dates, exam dates,etc.). Placing this calendar information on the course WebCT site helped increase the students’preparedness for course events and to plan ahead efficiently.X. Communication ToolsThe “Communication Tools” link lets students and design teams communicate with faculty andother students in the course using either synchronous (live) chat and whiteboard facilities orasynchronous (time-delayed) e-mail and discussion groups. Figure 5 shows

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Cliver; Mike Eastman

) Address the academic and social issues involved in beginning college or transferringfrom one college to another; 3) Attend academic planning sessions; 4) Experience living oncampus and learn about student services; 4) Understand the family’s role in promoting studentachievement and success; 5) Learn about financing a college education; and 6) Participate incommunity and social activities. According to Robin Diana, who is responsible for the First YearEnrichment and Orientation, “prior freshman orientations were held during the summer withvirtually no faculty involvement.” This is contrasted with the New First Year Orientation whichis held the week before classes start and is attended by almost all faculty and staff.Program highlights of the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

plant went on line and the permanent ship lock began operation. • 2003-2009: 3rd phase (final) construction, planned to be completed in six years, marked by the completion of all 26 electricity-producing turbo- generators.TGDP Quantities of Construction WorkThe main work estimated quantities to be done in the construction for principal structuresand diversion works are as follows: 3 • Earth-and-rock excavation 102.83 million m 3 • Earth-and-rock embankment 31.98 million m