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Rick L. Homkes; Kevin D. Taylor

and curricular mattersfrom the two local universities. The teachers receive a stipend and three graduate credits in education forcompleting the program. Improvements were made in the 1995 VISION project based upon lessons learned from the 1994 pilot.These included increased instruction time from faculty members of Purdue and Indiana Universities, especiallyin the areas of statistical control, quality management, biology, and physics. A second change provided theteachers more time to both reflect upon the industry experience and prepare the required instructional module.VISION 95 attracted more teachers, more industry partners and received funding from an Eisenhower grant. The major goals of the program continue to be increased

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Steve Howell; Ken Collier; Debra Larson; Jerry Hatfield

division ismanaged by a faculty member who role plays as a division manager. This paper describes the piloted junior level Path to Synthesis course, called EGR386 Engineering Design III - The Methods, which is vertically integrated with thesophomore course, EGR 286 Engineering Design II - The Process. The junior courseemphasizes analytical engineering skills along with sophisticated project managementtechniques including subcontract management. Written and oral communication skillsand topics on professionalism and ethics are also addressed. Greater emphasis is placedon rigorous planning and scheduling, cost estimation and economics, and coordination ofefforts between: the Design II and III teams, the Design III students and the customer,and

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T.R. Hsu; P. Reischl; P. Hsu; J.C. Wang; F. Barez; B.J. Furman; A. Tesfaye

.:.: IWeek 7 – Microprocessor Fundamentals and ProgrammingWeek 8 – Interfacing Mechanical Systems to MicroprocessorsSmart product design case study.Week 9 – Basic Sensor and Actuators in Process ControlWeek 10 – Interfacing Techniques for Digital Data Acquisition and Process ControlWeek 11 – Microcontrollers and Microcomputers for Process Control System ApplicationsWeek 12 – Intelligent Control ApplicationsME 190 Laborato~ Experiments~ ~ -1 Motion Control Selection of motion control projects, torque calculation and determination, motor selection and static and dynamic characterization.2 Mechanical Drive Selection of

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Dale E. Palmgren; Bradley B. Rogers

I .— ..-. -. A Subsonic Wind Tunnel Facility for Undergraduate Engineering Technology Education Bradley B. Rogers and Dale E. Palmgren Arizona State University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Tempe, AZAbstract project in their senior year. The project involves Development of knowledge and expertise in the identification of an appropriate

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Thomas E. Russell; David R. Loker

advanced communication systems topics including digital/data communications andhigh frequency communication techniques. During the first course in analog communication systems, thestudents are introduced to communication circuits, Fourier series, noise analysis, amplitude modulation,frequency modulation, transmission lines, and antennas. Along with the lecture material, the students meetweekly in the lab for experimentation. Since the fundamentals of analog communications have been inexistence for many years, there is a need to introduce current technology to students in this course. In this paper, an innovative use of current technology within analog communication systems ispresented. This paper describes a laboratory project which uses

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Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

. Throughthe Cook Engineering Design Center, corporations submit to Thayer School a wide variety of designproblems, which become the basis of individual and group projects requiring close interaction betweenstudents and sponsoring companies. Further, opportunities are made available for all M.E. degreecandidates to assume internships in industry prior to graduation. The selection of projects andinternships is facilitated by the strong corporate and alumni network maintained by Thayer School.1. Introduction The economic success of the United States, and of the developed world in general, can beattributed unequivocally to industrial activity, which owes its very existence to both technologicalprogress and business management. While industry has

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Sandra Shaw Courter; Lyman Lyons; Andrea Bailey; Susan B. Millar

a higher than average rate of 96Y0, compared to 75$Z0 in acontrol group. Eighteen of the twenty women were retained. Background In 1993 the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering set up the CollegeCurriculum Committee to examine whether a gap existed between its engineering education program andthe expectations of employers. The committee concluded there was indeed a gap, and identified theneeds to retain more freshmen and increase the number of women and minorities in engineering.Simultaneously, Sandra Courter and Katherine Sanders began a teaching improvement project with sixengineering faculty that would be Sanders’ Industrial Engineering Ph.D. dissertation project

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Ph.D., M. Zoghi

.— - . . Session 3215 . .. . . . USE OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO ENHANCE THE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION l M. Zoghi , Ph.D.Abstract The integration of personal computers in teaching the geotechnical engineering courses including thesoil mechanics and foundation design, as well as soil mechanics laboratory will be described herein. Inaddition, the potential use of microcomputers in undergraduate and graduate special projects as part ofindependent studies will be

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Robert L. Avanzato

troubleshooting of a “ ‘microcontroller-based autonomous mobile robot. Topics include robot design and control, microcontroller architecture, 6811 assembly and high-level (C) programming. Mini-lectures and workshops are scheduled on an “as-needed” basis. A robot competition is held at the conclusion of the course. The project-based course has proven to be highly motivating for the student participants. This project was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education under Grant No. DUE- -- 9454547. 1.0 Introduction A robotics-based microprocessor course has been designed for the associate degree electrical engineering technology program at the

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B. Grossman; William H. Mason

graduate degree program in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech.Responding to strong industry comments, five engineering departments (AOE, ME, ISE, MSE, and ESM) atVirginia Tech have established a new practice-oriented master’s degree (MEng). The new degree fit withinexisting guidelines so that no new administrative approval was required. On an individual department basis theaddition of several new courses each would have been impossible. By working together it became possible toadd two new college-wide courses. We believe that the new program is unique in that it is trulymultidisciplinary. Students from the five different college of engineering departments will be taking classestogether and working on the design project teams together

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B. Lee Tuttle

course took nearly two years.The format of the course from the beginning was two lecture hours per week and one two hour practicum session per week. The originallecture topics included DFM Methodologies Material/Process Interactions Value Analysis Design for Assembly Boothroyd-Dewhurst DFA Group Technology Future Directions for DFMThe original practicum topics included: Process Routing Analysis Product Redesign Term Project Function Analysis Creative Enhancement Techniques VANE Problem Peppy Robot Assembly Analysis BDI-DFA Exercise ( 2 sessions ) Part Classification for GT Term project Presentations

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John T. Berry; Gregory L. Ferguson

manufacturing process have been removed frommany undergraduate curriculums. The University of Alabama now offers an integrated pair of courses onmanufacturing processes and design. A central theme behind the courses is that manufacturing topics are cast ina concurrent engineering design context. The introductory first course is taught at the junior level, while thesecond course is a more comprehensive senior offering. Both courses require the student to participate in designand build projects. The students are placed in teams and must learn to communicate and work effectively in theteam environment. Further, both courses make use of the state’s educational manufacturing resources in anovel, collaborative arrangement. This approach allows the

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Said Ahmed-Zaid; James J. Carroll

complete a sequence of three labora- overall design spirit. According to the personal experiencetories culminating in the senior capstone design laboratory. of the investigators, many students performed poorly due to a number of deficiencies which can be attributed as follows:The first two electrical engineering laboratoritis are takenduring the sophomore and junior years, respectively, and are 1. Meaningful senior design projects require inter-common to all electrical engineering disciplines. ln t hfise disciplinary teamwork between students of various elec-introductory laboratories, students are introduced to the trical engineering backgrounds

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L. F. Borjón; L. M. Martínez; K. A. Córdova; J. L. Hernández; A. Lozano

Session 2659 Using Programmable Logic Controllers for an interdisciplinary oriented Instrumentation Laboratory L. F. Borjón, L. M. Martínez, K. A. Córdova, J. L. Hernández and A. Lozano Division of Science and Engineering. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico city Abstract --- This project describes the efforts towards developing an interdisciplinary laboratory toreinforce hands-on experience of engineering students. The laboratory is based on the Allen-Bradley's®(AB) SLC-500 family; combining them with resources that are typically found at an

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Donald N. Merino; D. W. Merino

know. The accuracy ofthe cost estimate increases as the design cycle progresses (Figure 1). Typically a knowledgeable designershould be able to estimate the cost of a plastic part to within + 30°/0 to t50°/0 at the initial feasibility stage. Asthe project progresses and the design team spends more time they can increase the accuracy of the estimate.Increased effort in engineering design and cost estimation results in increased accuracy. A *500/o Variation in cost 0/0 o } Design Budget

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Russell J. Deaton; Michael J. Bartz

Network Analysis,and additional elective courses that are offered as separate Honors sections or taken on a contract basis.The Honors program culminates in an Honors research project and thesis, which is defended before afaculty committee. The emphasis in the Honors program is not on more advanced work or material,but upon a different pedagogical style that involves more discussion and active learning, consideration oflarger issues in science and technology, has a larger project and design component, and allows the studentto participate in exploratory research and analysis.Requirements Students are eligible for the honors program in electrical engineering if they maintain a GPA of3.25 with junior or senior standing or have received

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William J. Hutzel; John R. Koontz

the equipment on a dailybasis. When the accumulation of buildings over the last 20 years is considered, it is not surprising that the jobmarket for Maintenance Engineers is particularly robust. In fact, the OffIce of Manpower Studies in theSchool of Technology at Purdue University projects that Maintenance Engineering will be one of the fastest 2growing technical careers over the next 10 years. Mechanical Contracting and Maintenance Engineering may have been performed by skilled tradespeople in the past, but there are new and important trends that have greatly increased the scope andcomplexity of these tasks. Energy efficiency and environmental awareness are critically important and

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Martha Ostheimer; Hal Tharp

Session 2532 Teaching Self-Evaluation Skills h a Team-Based Project Class Martha Ostheimer, Hal Tharp The University of Arizona Electrical and Computer Engineering Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ABSTRACT Recent industry feedback indicates that graduating engineers need better preparation in solvingopen-ended problems and communication. In response to this feedback, we have developed a team-baseddesign project class that emphasizes self-evaluation

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

course by providing the context of teaching and learning design. The emphasis is on experientiallearning, and service is a by-product of the learning experience. At the University of South Alabama, ServiceLearning is implemented by a partnership between the SECME (Southeastern Consortium for Minorities inEngineering) program of the Mobile County Public School System in Mobile, Alabama and the MechanicalEngineering Department. First-year mechanical engineering students are formed into design teams, and eachteam is paired with two middle-school teachers serving as customers for the design projects. The design teamsdesign, produce and test an instructional module and manipulate(s) that promote a thematic approach tomathematics and science

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Osama Ettouney; Don L. Byrkett

—.”. Session 2263 Learning about CIMS by doing Design: An integrative Model for Manufacturing Education Osama M. Ettouney, Don L. Byrkett Manufacturing Engineering/Systems Analysis Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Abstract This paper describes an integrated experience to teach students about computer-integratedmanufacturingsystems (CIMS) by engaging them in hands-on team projects to design and build usefulproducts for

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Ngo Dinh Thinh; Andrew Banta

.— . Session 2633 A Student Designed Instructional Cogeneration Laboratory Ngo Dinh Thinh, Andrew Banta California State University, Sacramento Abstract Student Design of the Cogeneration PlantThe Mechanical Engineering Department at California The design and construction of a senior project isState University, Sacramento (CSUS) has received a required of all students in the Mechanical Engineering$220,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, and

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Arvind Ramanathan

Session 2309 Teaching biomedical engineering in a nonspecialized engineering department: an integrated approach Arvind Ramanathan Department of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711Abstract The engineering department at Harvey Mudd College offers unspecialized Bachelor’s and Master’sdegrees in engineering. However, an engineering major may choose to emphasize a particular engineeringspecialty by an appropriate choice of three elective courses and two Engineering Clinic projects. Over the lastfew years, the department has witnessed a significant increase in

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Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

besuccessful in their studies. Involving the students in their learning process through enhanced active learningmethods has resulted in improved interest and participation in their engineering education. A change in curriculum has introduced a new course into the freshman year, Fundamentals ofEngineering Design, FED 101. The course introduces the new engineering student at NJIT to the variousengineering disciplines and the design process that engineers experience in industry. The course is taughtby a team of professors representing the various traditional engineering departments who direct projectsrelated to their areas of expertise. Freshman students work through these projects in teams of three or fourwith an emphasis on active learning

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Thomas Johnson; Mike A. Littlejohn; Jr., Thomas H. Brown; Carl F. Zorowski

model for other technology basedindustrial sectors looking to universities for the cutting edge discovery, invention and innovation necessary tocompete in a global marketplace.Background The proposed program has grown out of the interest by the Semiconductor Research Corporation indeveloping a Supplier CQI initiative and a project funded by the NSF supported Engineering EducationCoalition (EEC) SUCCEED. The SRC identifies its suppliers as the universities that conduct semiconductorresearch for SRC and that prepare graduate students in the physical sciences and engineering for careers in thesemi-conductor industry. The goals of the CQI initiative are to have the technical graduates enter thesemiconductor industry more quickly, become

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Samuel S. Lee; R. Narasimhan; M. Lewis Temares

with verniers and micrometers and producean engineering drawing. Other topics included in the past semester were Introduction to Engineering ProblemSolving, Engineering and Scientific Computations, Engineering Graphs and Scientific Databases, AutoCAD andOrthographic Projections, Dimensioning and Tolerancing, and C and C++ language. A simple design projectwas assigned in the beginning to stimulate the students’ interest in engineering. Two other design projects wererequired later during the semester. These design projects are discussed in more detail below. During the second semester, students will apply the concepts and tools learned in the first part of the coursefor more challenging engineering design projects. Concurrently, students

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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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Lueny Morell de Ramírez; Carlos Velazquez

used y the authors in an learning.introductory chemical engineering course, Massand Energy Balances, at the Chemical The authors tried the cooperativeEngineering (ChE) Department of the learning strategy in the Mass and EnergyUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayagiiez Balances course at the Chemical Engineering(UPRM). This teaching/learning strategy was Department of the University of Puerto Rico atpart of a multi-institutional NSF-funded project Mayaguez. As in many ChE departments, this isthat aims at increasing the graduation rate of the first course in the program. At UPRM,students in science, engineering and engineering is a five-year program

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T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; C. Stewart Slater

the ultimate flexibility to serve the new Engineering School atRowan College. A special feature of the new Henry M. Rowan Hall will be flexible laboratory modules that willallow for future modifications. The new engineering programs will be hands-on and team oriented and thus relyheavily on laboratory space to meet program objectives. Several examples of multifunctional laboratory spacesare those that can be utilized for clinic projects, multiple disciplines, teaching/research, and those thataccommodate multiple course instruction.Introduction In 1992, Henry and Betty Rowan pledged a $100 million gift to Glassboro State College [1]. Mr. Rowanis the founder and CEO of Inductotherm, Inc. which has headquarters in Rancocas, New Jersey

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Rakesh Nagi

coverstopics, enabling techniques/technologies, and case projects in agile manufacturing. It provides a core set offundamental tools, example applications and open research topics. The objective is to expose participants toagile manufacturing issues, and enable them to creatively synthesize and apply the tools covered to openresearch problems. It blends quantitative and qualitative material, from multiple disciplines of industrial,manufacturing and management engineering. The specific objectives of this paper are to discuss the design andexperiences of this course. Further, it is our desire to share the motivation behind the relevance of such acourse, and some of the challenges in designing and offering it. We would also like to propose some

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David J. Beebe

instrumentation. The second is taught duringthe fall of the senior year and covers digital signal processing. A design project in the second course requiresstudents to synthesize the concepts from both courses and use them to design and build a completeinstrumentation system. John Webster’s text, “Medical Instrumentation,” is used for the first course andWillis Tompkin’s text, “Biomedical Digital Signal Processing,” is used for the second course 1,2.NEED FOR HANDS-ON LABORATORY EXPERIENCE “Engineers put things together to make things that haven’t been around before.” - Joe Bordogna,NSF. Assuming this description of what engineers do to be accurate, an engineers training should bestructured to allow the prospective engineer time to do engineering