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Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

between lecture and laboratory, academia andindustrial practice. Facilities for active learning are provided by the Learning Factory8 at each school. Thecurriculum consists of existing courses in Graphics, and Manufacturing Processes, as well as new courses inProduct Dissection, Concurrent Engineering and Technology-Based Entrepreneurship. The senior capstonedesign course has been upgraded to use industry projects almost exclusively. The Product Dissection course isthe subject of this paper. PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER Interdisciplinary Senior Year Design/Manufacturing Project Entrepreneurship

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for evaluation. There are 870 engineering and technology programs offered by 216 schools inMexico2. These numbers are useful for establishing the dimension of the problems. It must be said that untilnow there is little experience on doing external evaluations in Mexico, some of the them have beenimplemented at private institutions such as the Monterrey Technologic (ITESM) and UniversidadIberoamericana. Some others at the public sector, have been using experimental standards developed by theMinistry of Public Education. However the overall number of feasible evaluators is low. ENGINEERING PROGRAMS EVALUATION AT UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA Universidad Iberoamericana Educational System is a private catholic system formed by five

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Joel S. Hirschhorn

,: . Iapproach may seem logical to those directly or indirectly associated with parties primarily concerned aboutreducing cleanup costs. But fi-om the perspective of people who believe that they have been exposed to risksfrom hazardous wastes and see themselves as victims, it breeds anger and confrontation. Prevention, eliminationor minimization of a specific involuntary chemical risk is a legitimate objective. The enormous challenge toenvironmental engineers is to keep some balance between economically driven uses of risk assessments and anemphasis on how use of the best environmental technologies can also help reduce costs while mhimizkg healthrisks.References1. S.E. Hrudey and D. Kreewski, “Is There a Safe Level of Exposure to a Carcinogen

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Russell R. Barton; Robert P. Smith; José L. Zayas; Craig A. Nowack

York,1995.17. Urban, Glen L., and John R. Hauser, Design and Marketing of New Products, Prentice Hall,Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1993.Biographical InformationROBERT P. SMITH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering completed his Ph.D.at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management in 1992. He joined the University of Washington IndustrialEngineering Department after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the U.K. Hisresearch and teaching are in the area of engineering design management. He is a registered professional engineer.RUSSELL R. BARTON is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering at Penn State. His research and teaching are in process and

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, etc.). Department chairs or faculty can be brought in as guest lecturers for this purpose.However, too much of this can be boring. In my experience, students are “starved” for specific information on the engineering disciplines.Provide them with reading material such as brochures from the engineering professional societies (e.g.,ASCE, ASME, IEEE) or material from Introduction to Engineering textbooks (e.g., Reference 7). Of mostbenefit are descriptions of the various subfields within each discipline. As an example, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is organized into 35Technical Societies (aerospace and electronics systems, antennas and propagation, broadcast technology,circuits and systems

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Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins; D. C. Davis

definition of the educational outcomesexpected at the end of a baccalaureate engineering degree. In the case of the design componentof curricula, these outcomes define what the student has learned and is capable of doing withrespect to design. The set of outcomes which apply to all of the engineering disciplines becomecriteria for the curricula. Achievement of these outcomes requires assessment at critical pointsin the educational process if growth in student design ability is to be developed throughout thecurriculum. This perspective is reflected in proposed changes in accreditation requirements set bythe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET, 1995). These criteria placeresponsibility on the institution to define program

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Paul J. Turinsky; Kuruvilla Verghese

1 Session 3255 Master of Nuclear Engineering Traineeship Program e Paul J. Turinsky, Kuruvilla Verghese North Carolina State UniversityINTRODUCTION One of the recommendations that appears often from recent national discussions on reshaping graduateeducation in science and technologyl’2 is to provide joint industry-university projects as part of the students’preparation. Many

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Russell J. Deaton; Michael J. Bartz

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at TheUniversity of Memphis. He received a B.S.E.E. and M.S. from The University of Memphis in 1983 and1988, respectively, and a Ph.D. in 1992 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. RUSSELL DEATON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at TheUniversity of Memphis. He received a B.S.E.E. from The University of Memphis in 1984, and M.S. in1988 and Ph.D. in 1992 from Duke University. Page 1.380.5 ------ ~tixa~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,yy1311’:

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Yuan Dening; Yan Guizhi; Chen Zhi

I .— -. ...... Session 3560 ..- Facing the 21st Century —Strengthening the Engineering Education— Chen Zhi, Yan Guizhi, Yuan Dening Tsinghua University, Beijing Looking into the 21st century, the whole human society and scientific technology will be developingrapidly. The entire educational system must adapt to the development of the national economy. The moderneducation should be combined with

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Robert A. Chin; Amy R. Frank

Session 3630 The Multimedia Instruction Initiative: Implications for Engineering Education Robert A. Chin, Amy R. Frank East Carolina UniversityRecently, East Carolina University reiterated its commitment to the delivery of high quality and effectiveinstruction through their Multimedia Instruction Initiative. The purpose of the Initiative was to assist faculty inintegrating electronically based instructional computing technologies into their respective curricula. A requestfor proposals yielded 39

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. The graduate engineering students assisted Em Tech in creating this technology plan. The paper will describe this class project for a 3 semester-hour EAPM coume entitled, Manufacturing andProduction Engineering. It was the first time the teaching factory approach was used in the EAPM program. Thispaper will discuss the project description, requirements and expectations, project organization, performanceresults, and the lessons learned.II. Project Description The project involved the design and planning of a pressure jiesh home unit that would compete withTuppenvare~ containers and refrigerators for preserving perishable foods. Interest had been expressed by theU.S. Navy, U.S. food processing industry, the Japanese, Chinese and

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.-- -. -. . -“ .$itii%} 1996 ASEE Annual Confercnce Proceedings ‘q.aImL: I.— - .....-.. . Session: 3560 Emphasis is given on modernization of technology and not on the modernization of organization and transfer of knowledge. In engineering education, the demands from the industry is diverse. The small industries want immediately employable engineers which means least or no training The large scale industries stress for an engineer with strong base in science, analysis, design and

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Susan Anderson; Ray Chen; Meg Karakekes; Jim Moharam

Dual-use & End-to-end System Testing Industrial Technology Institute (Michigan) Optical Metrology and Durable Goods University of Connecticut Laser Materials Processing The University of Texas at Austin Semiconductor The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) (NAPEM is partially funded through a federal Technology Reinvestment Project grant.) Additionally, each regional program recruits a Curriculum Advisory Board. NAPEM unites thestrengths of a professional society, educators, engineering managers, engineers, and human resource personnelin designing, implementing, and evaluating experimental continuing education programs

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Larry C. Burton; Jeffrey G. Soper; Jack V. Matson

1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 Prescribed Courses (9 credits) EE 408 (1x2) Leadership Seminars for Engineers x x EE 409 (3) Leadership Principles for Engineers x STS 460 (3) Science, Technology, Society & Public Policy x EE 495 (1) Internship Project x EE 407 (3) Technology Based Entrepreneurship x Page 1.457.2

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David F. Ollis; Ann Brown

Session 1 2 6 1 Team Teaching: A Freshman Engineering Rhetoric and Laboratory Ann B r o w n ( C o l l e g e o f E n g i n e e r i n g W r i t i n g A s s i s t a n c e P r o g r a m ) and David F. Ollis (Chemical Engineering) North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Abstract Team teaching usually involves the back-and-forth trading of lecturing between two instructors. The present example illustrates a looser side- by-side collaboration consisting of a first year rhetoric, based upon readings, poetry, and videos in technology, literature and history, and a “hands-on” laboratory centered around consumer

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Committee and the conclusions must not be ignored by academicleaders and employers. Griffiths argues, Ph.D. training must change to prepare students for jobs they are likely to find. The U. S. system of graduate education in science and engineering is one of the nation’s great strengths. It has served as an international model --- -. But changes in the way science and engineering are conducted and funded are exerting stress on the traditional system of graduate education. John A. Armstrong recently retired as IBMs Vice President for Science and Technology and his article reflects astrong corporate viewpoint. However, this industrial perspective is in good agreement with the COSEPUP report. Changeis justified

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John Kinney

Session 1230A Course in Statistical Analysis for Engineers in an Integrated Engineering Curriculum John Kinney Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is one of a number of institutions comprising theFoundation Coalition which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The Coalitionseeks to create model programs in engineering for national use which are tested at theCoalition institutions. With a freshman integrated program in place, a team at Rose-Hulman created asophomore program in engineering during the summer of 1995. The philosophy of

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John Collura; David E. Kaufman

. Page 1.264.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings In a three-year project initiated in February 1996 under the NSF Combined Research and CurriculumDevelopment (CRCD) program, we are building on the prior and ongoing research of team members in theseadvanced technology areas, which are generally placed under the rubric of Intelligent TransportationSystems (ITS) research. We are integrating knowledge, concepts, and results from our past and ongoing ITSresearch into existing and new courses in the University's College of Engineering, primarily in theTransportation Program of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in order to preparestudents at the undergraduate degree level to help plan

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participation involves significant commitment by industry, which may involvetraveling and one or two days away from work. Considering the number of campuses involved we mustestablish a very large resource of kind industrial partners. This is certainly not feasible at a time when theindustries are operating on lean budgets.Use of Multimedia Network In consideration of these challenges, an integrated system of networked technologies and digitalresources is under development to support the redesigned first-year engineering curriculum. Many leadersin higher education agree that the structure of information technology is centrally important to strategicchange, and that while there are many examples of high quality digital applications that improve

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M. Hailey; G. Garrison; E. Parkinson

discipline. Funding for these educational needs and opportunities are being focused to support a particular locale,state, or the country as a whole. Also, based on what is observed at many universities, particularly in theengineering disciplines, it appears that universities are also being funded to support education needs of theglobal market. As with other industry, technology advances such as, the use of a combimtion of video tape studios andinteractive classrooms have opened up new markets of distance learning. These technologies are allowing theclassroom setting to be brought to the large student market that is outside the community of the universitylocation. The main advantage to the customer is that this allows the engineering

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Richard Magin; Margery Osborne; Bruce Bertram; Bruce Wheeler

documents.Introduction Two engineering courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) were taughtutilizing Asynchronous Learning technology in order to facilitate interaction among students andinstructors. One is a senior electrical engineering and bioengineering elective entitled Modeling ofBiological Systems, with an enrollment of 25, in which the conferencing package First Class was used. Theother is a freshman elective Introduction to Bioengineering: Focus on Medical Imaging, with an enrollmentof 10 for which PacerForum provided conferencing capability. In both courses students were encouraged to use conferencing software for the discussion of all mattersrelating to the course. The courses shared a common approach to homework in

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Julie Sandberg; Christine L. Collier; Chell Roberts; Lawrence Genalo

feel incapable of performing the tasks involved with these jobs. Society must discover what is causing women to avoid choosing careers in science and engineering. There are many different theories about why women seem to avoid technological careers. One such theory is that women are discouraged fi-om these careers in early grade school. It is thought that women leave high school feeling that they are incapable of participating in difficult math and science careers. This is a problem society needs to address. Many people believe the education system needs to be reformed. Some think segregated classes would be the answer. Since boys and girls learn differently, they believe the best way to

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Paul B. Hugge; James D. Lang

Industry Lessons Learned and Application to Engineering Education James D. Lang, Paul B. Hugge McDonnell Douglas Corporation Significant change is taking place in the way aerospace products are designed and developed. Thesechanges involve not just technology but represent some fundamental ‘Gre-engineering” of design anddevelopment processes. In addition, much of this “re-engineering” is representative of actions that are beingimplemented throughout all of U.S. industry. McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) has found that this newway of doing business has significant implications in the educational requirements for our techmcal workforce.These

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José L. Torres

the issues covered by the rules of the agreement has received considerable attention in recent months: theexchange of professional services across the border with Mexico. This increased attention is rooted in a numberof circumstances, among them the U.S. presidential election process. On a purely rational level, the issue of legal immigration of Mexican engineers could almost be dismissedon the basis of its relative magnitude. Currently the U.S. issues about 2500 temporary entry visas to Mexicannationals in all professional fields combinedz. Even if we assume that 80% of these went to engineers, the totalwould amount to about 1/1000 of the Engineering/Technology employment in the U.S .s, and to about 1.6% ofthe number of graduates of

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John A. Fillo

had only a bachelor’s degree with very littlescience beyond the sophomore year. To create the needed advanced technology to wage the war, Ph.D’s inscience were enlisted to work on undersea warfare technology, radar and nuclear weapons. Then there wasSputnik. Both World War II and Sputnik served as wake-up-calls to the universities to do something aboutengineering education, that is, a shift in the education of the engineering student to emphasize the scienceunderlying engineering. Not only courses, but research as well, reflected this change. Beginning in the 1970s through to the present, there was the realization or perception that America wasfalling behind Japan and other nations in manufacturing and in general, in relating science

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Ron K. Bhada; J. Derald Morgan; Abbas Ghassemi

Session 2 2 5 1 Engineering Education by An Application Oriented Design Ron K. Bhada, Abbas Ghassemi, J. Derald Morgan New Mexico State University Waste-management Education & Research ConsortiumIntroduction: Efficient and safe management of a sustainable environment is an increasingly critical national goal. It is a b r o a d i s s u e which c a n n o t b ea d d r e s s e d b y a n y o n e entity a n d r e q u i r e s a multi-disciplinary, multi-organizational a p p r o a c h . In 1990, the U . S . D e p a r t

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Forrest S. Keeler; Dr. Mihir K. Das

enable system design and project management for effective and efiicient humaninteraction. In today’s technology, the total Systems Engineering Life Cycle from womb-to-tomb may take asmany as 40 years or more (e.g., the B-52 and C-13 O aircraft), and each stage in the System Life Cycle and itssystem ramifications must be clearly understood by the engineer. The Fundamental SE ConceptsThe subject of Systems Engineering has been discussed by many researchers and authors [1 - 12]. According toRhode, et al. [1], SE can be viewed in many different ways: a discipline involving engineering and managementscience; a design process technology; a methodology for defining or designing “anything”; an

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Pui-Mun Lee; William G. Sullivan

Science Foundation under grant number DUE-9155917.References[1] Luther, Arch C., Designing Interactive Multimedia, Batam Books, New York, 1992,[2] Knee, Michael and Atkinsons, Steven D., HvDertext/HvDermedia: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, Connecticut, 1990.[3] Chen, Ching-chih, Hv~erSource o n Multimedia/Hv~ erMedia Technologies, American Library Association, USA, 1989.[4] Hsi, Sherry and Agogino, Alice M., “The Impact and Instructional Benefit of Using Multimedia Case Studies to Teach Engineering Design,” ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Educational Conference, 1995.[5] Hansen, E., “The Role of Interactive Video Technology in Higher Education: Case Study and Proposed Framework

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

instruction and hands-on learning in middle-school classrooms. Course content andimplementation plan are described in the paper, and results of student and teacher assessment will bepresented at the conference.INTRODUCTION The faculty of the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at the University of South Alabama(USA) began, in Fall 1993, an evaluation of the undergraduate program to meet the challenge of engineeringeducation for the 21st Century. Restructuring of the mechanical engineering curriculum at USA is alsoprompted by the changing ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) requirements fordesign. Under the current criteria, design is defined as "an experience that must grow with the student'sdevelopment," and "the

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work.Educational research has shown that there are many different types of learners. In typical basic courses, onlyone teaching method is employed -- lecture. On average, students learn better when they are active participantsin the learning process. Group efforts, hands-on learning and self-directed learning are some of the manymethods that encourage better learning.Finally, the use of advanced technology is common in many engineering courses. It is not as common in thelower division courses. All of our upper division engineering courses use computers heavily. Other schoolshave tried integrating computer applications such as symbolic algebra programs in calculus with great success.Some universities require that entering students purchase their own