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1998 Annual Conference

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Joan F. Brennecke; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Mark A. Stadtherr; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Mark J. McCready; Roger A. Schmitz; Wallace B. Whiting

piping systems to drain bygravity so less solvent is need for flushing and cleaning. An excellent source for this material isthe newly published book by Allen and Rosselot1. 2. A discussion of the pertinent environmental regulations that impact the design andoperating costs of chemical processes. Environmental regulations of particular interest includethe Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Pollution Prevention Act, the Resource Conservationand Recovery Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Comprehensive EnvironmentalResponse, Compensation and Liability Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and the Toxic SubstancesControl Act. These laws are the

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Peter C.M. Burton; Fred Payne; Dinesh Kant

graduate course workprograms in electronics leading to the Master’s degree. Hands on experiential learning is stillemphasised and professional development opportunities are provided for practising engineers.This paper will describe the development of the program. It will discuss the rationale forintroduction, the aims and objectives, the program structure, and the first year of delivery. Inconclusion the paper will outline modifications and new initiatives planned for 1998.IntroductionRMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) is a dual sector university providing highereducation and TAFE (Technical and Further Education) programs to 38,000 students in theMelbourne metropolitan area. RMIT is internationally respected for its intellectual

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Thomas V. Mecca; Sara Cushing Smith; Lynn G. Mack

able to use word processing software 7. plan and prepare short reportsComputers and Technology 1. e-mail(This was a check list, top 7, 50% checked) 2. word-processing 3. programming 4. fax 5. equipment control 6. pneumatics 7. internet Page 3.490.3

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Charles D. Turner

environmental ethic that will lead to sustainability for humans and theecological systems that support us. An essential part of the class is a design project in which thestudents design a “Center for Sustainable Education”. The facility must utilize sustainabletechnologies for power, heating, cooling, and water supply. The students must demonstratefinancial feasibility of their project through the development of a business plan that provides adetailed analysis of construction costs, operating expenses and revenues. The cost of renewableresources must be compared to conventional resources. The students are given an initial “startupgrant” of 1.5 million dollars and are expected to leverage this money through innovative strategiesto cover the cost of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

University, Pomona, students take two estimatingcourses in their junior year. The first course covers the general aspects of constructionestimating fundamentals and practices and the technical details of building constructionestimating. The second course focuses on estimating heavy civil construction projects. Thefollowing are some of the teaching approaches adopted in these courses.ESTIMATING REQUIREMENTS Construction Estimating can generally be broken down into the following phases:1) Determination of the appropriate construction approaches, 2) Planning, 3) Quantity Take-Offand 4) Pricing. All phases require a thorough understanding of drawings and specifications. Aclear understanding in construction methods, equipment and productivity is

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1998 Annual Conference

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Carl A. Erikson

or reducing population growth in the cities around the world. However,if you have flown into Los Angeles or Caracas and seen the sickening layers of "smog", youwould quickly believe in the appropriateness of improving urban transporattion systems. It is Page 3.109.2estimated that by the year 2010 three out of every four people on the earth will live in cities. Inparticular, as the Third World countries become more developed, strategic planning for theircities must include a look at transportation alternatives if the world is to survive ecologically.Engineers working to help solve the urban transportation problems will need to look at each

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Stanley J. Pisarski; James L. Hales

-fivestudents graduated on April 27, 1975. Planned growth in the program brought the peak total full-time day enrollment close to 550 in 1982 with twenty-one faculty members. In the most recentschool year (1996-97) there were 257 students enrolled. The faculty consists of eighteenmembers. There are more than 1900 total graduates of the three programs working throughout Page 3.4.1the United States and in foreign countries.History of Cooperative Education at UPJ In 1976 the University of Pittsburgh received a grant to implement cooperative educationprograms. A decision was made in 1977 to extend the grant to include UPJ with the primaryintent to

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Tom Owen; Jack Carter; Connie Martin; Cheng Liu; Ambrose Barry; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley; Nan Byars

. Six semester hours, representing the sciencecourse and the humanities/social science elective course, may be taken at the cooperatingtechnical and community colleges, for a total of 70 semester hours of such transfer credit (forstudents in this distance learning program only). Even though the program is spaced out over a period of four or more years, it is arelatively intensive commitment for the working adults, many with families, which it serves. Itrequires taking two courses per semester, involving two evenings per week plus study andresearch time. And it is relentless, maintaining this pace for four years. Furthermore, sincethere are no other cohorts planned at this time, any failure or withdrawal from a required courseis

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Daniel Jensen

document the steps of disassembly in a disassembly plan (in order to aid in reassemblingthe product) and also develop a bill of materials which lists all of the parts contained within theproduct. An exploded view and subtract-and-operate procedure are required to make the studentsconsider assemblability issues and to truly understand how their product fits together. Actualproduct function is documented and compared to the prediction. A morphological matrix isconstructed using the parts and their corresponding functions, and function sharing throughoutthe device is investigated. Once the students fully understand the physical nature of their productand its functionality, they are asked to develop complete QFD matrices for the product

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J.R. Phillips

Humanities and Social Sciences. Furthermore, a setof “Goals for Graduates,” set forth in 1963 , has provided a more detailed 1framework for curriculum planning and change. The Departmental goals for graduates are: 1) Acquaint students with engineering practice; 2) Develop skills, by use, in computation; 3) Foster creative ability through projects; 4) Gain insight into management and leadership skills through group projects; 5) Develop appreciation for non-technical aspects of design; 6) Foster willingness to responsibly attack open-ended problems. Once again, these desired outcomes are clear and appropriate, but notalways easily quantifiable or directly

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1998 Annual Conference

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Russell G. Bly; Ph.D., Paul E. Givens; Anita L. Callahan

class to“when are you going to do it again?” We plan on continuing the experiment this comingsemester. Future plans include broadcasting to dual-enrollment courses at local highschools and providing remote access to various manufacturing labs to both primary andsecondary students around the world.ConclusionsThe good news is that distance education provides access to educational opportunitiesthat would otherwise be denied to remotely located students. Even better is that thechoice of media does not affect the quality of the knowledge transfer. With an effort onthe part of the teacher, the disadvantages of the lack of face-to-face interaction can beovercome. Is it more work and more difficult for the instructor? Yes. Is it worth it

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James A. Newell

: Page 3.314.1 I. Group Formation II. Project Selection III. Project Planning IV. Experimentation V. Analysis VI. Presentation VII. Assessment The use of oral and written presentations as evaluation tools provides the students with anopportunity to clarify their thinking and understanding of the project 5,6,7 as well as to begin todevelop the important presentation skills valued by industry and ABET. 8Procedures I. Group Formation During the third week of the semester, students are required to from four-member groups.They are permitted to select their own teams

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1998 Annual Conference

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Edward C. Roche; David B. Van Dongen

those available in the masstransfer and kinetics-reactor area. The four managerial positions are: • Research and Development Manager, • Operations Manager. • Health, Safety, and Environmental Affairs Manager, and • Project Manager.The project manager is required to organize and continually assess the performance of the entiregroup on the experiment. If there are any problems with the group, the project manager has theoverall responsibility for group performance.The “Project Outline” memorandum is the initial report submitted by the Research andDevelopment Manager. This memorandum contains the objectives, the predicted results withnumeric values where appropriate, the experimental plan and references. This document is

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Thomas J. Crowe; Herman Budiman; Elin M. Wicks

. These contacts show the strong potential for widespread application of the virtualindustrial park as it can be adapted for use in many additional educational settings such as Page 3.365.3secondary school practical arts classes, university extension education, community college 3courses, corporate retraining, apprentice training, and equipment vendor instructional programs.As we transition from a planning stage to a development stage, the next logical step in our workis the refinement of the package into a viable commercial software package.CONCLUSIONThe costs associated with acquiring, updating

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Krishna S. Athreya; Ann K. Dieterich; Lawrence Genalo

e-mail directly to some ofthe interns from users of their explorations who are complimentary of the work done. Several ofthe interns have responded to teachers, families, or individual students through e-mail. Follow-up is planned with middle schools and follow-up visits to the home schools of the interns wereconducted, including a trip to Louisiana where nine of the interns live. At these visits the internsdid presentations on their research work for their high school classmates. Audience questionsabout careers in science and engineering were also answered.3. Assessment Results The assessment of this project focused on three areas: the impact of the web sites onjunior high girls who access the interns’ projects, the impact of the

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James S. Burns

pressurization of the larger internal cavitybalances the external pressure and permits the use of a thin-walled confinement vessel.Evacuation of the smaller internal chamber creates a uniaxial pressure gradient useful inmaterials processing.Pro/ENGINEER has been used to document the design and construction of the device. Initialprototype design was driven by materials and components selected by students foravailability and low acquisition cost. Since sea trials were planned to validate the design,corrosion was also a consideration. Figure 6 illustrates elements of the design. Buoyancy ofthe device attributable to the inner cavity volume, necessitated the use of cement weights toachieve neutrality. Round exercise weights were used to permit rolling of

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1998 Annual Conference

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R. Bruce Robinson

(reports, budget, etc.) Author 20 Planning project (story board, etc.) Author 30 Investigation of equipment/software and purchase Author 35 equipment/software Attending seminars on multimedia development Author 15 Learning Authorware 3.5 software package Author 25 Background learning about multimedia Author 10 Taking slides and video in field Author 20 Scanning slides and capturing video Author 70

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1998 Annual Conference

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David E. Goldberg; W. Brenton Hall; Lindsay Krussow; Eunice Lee; Aaron Walker

according to plan with each teamperforming their LTP and MTPs without incident. Team Gerunds' LTP was to preparea recruiting program for high school students to make them more aware of the Universityof Illinois Engineering in general and General Engineering in particular. Speci cally, theyprepared a presentation for high school science and mathematics students, and they pilotedthe presentation by presenting it at a local high school. Team Countersink's LTP was tosurvey University of Illinois's engineering students attitudes towards General Engineeringand prepare a recruiting brochure to persuade students to consider General Engineering asan option. A prototype of this brochure was completed by the end of the semester, and wasrecently printed

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1998 Annual Conference

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

. Critics maintainedABET's current way of accreditation is the biggest hindrance to "new and innovative" approachesto engineering and technology education. BackgroundThe American Association of Engineering in the 1920's established the committee on Accreditedschools and called for "more comprehensive and discriminating standards" for evaluatingengineering schools [4]. Recognizing the importance of this emphasis on quality engineeringeducation in the registration process, the National Council of State Boards of EngineeringExaminers (now National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) and parallelactivities in several major societies resulted in the formation of a Planning Committee. Thecommittee

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1998 Annual Conference

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Charles S. Elliott; Albert Winn

# 3518) project known initially as JACMET(Joint Arizona Center for Manufacturing Education and Training). It has now been officiallyestablished by the universities and industry sponsors as JACME2T (Joint Arizona Consortium -Manufacturing and Engineering Education for Tomorrow).What is JACME2T?The Consortium effort began in 1993 as a TRP planning grant (EEC-9310456) and is now a self-supporting group devoted to advancing university - industry interactions - especially in life longlearning areas. Overall direction is provided by a Policy Board of top industry, university andpublic sector leaders. Day to day direction is provided by the Technical Advisory Board, againcomprised of industry and university managers. A central office is maintained at

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1998 Annual Conference

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Gary Benenson; El Hadji Diop; José Sánchez; Alphie Mullings; Nadine Simms

engineering students who have expressed a strong interest in pursuing teaching careers after graduation, and in some cases, also after a few years in industry or graduate school; and 3. similar interviews with nine recent engineering graduates who are currently working as K-12 teachers. The survey was administered to 288 engineering students, including 276 from City Collegeand twelve from other schools. The City College respondents were asked to complete thequestionnaire forms by students at the end of regular engineering classes. The questionnairescontained two questions about the student’s plans after graduation, with “Teach” as one of theoptions. Those who did not select this option were asked to answer five

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Gulcin Cribb

librarians and the results wereintegrated into the overall marks for the subject.Towards the end of 1996, the Dean of Engineering who coordinates the subject, madefunds available to the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library to enhance theinformation skills component. This was a wonderful opportunity to explore use ofinteractive media. The funds were used to increase the hours of two part-time librariansand to pay a multimedia designer to create the webbooks. At the same time, plans wereunderway to establish a training room / electronic access facility with 16 Pentiumcomputers in the library.The reasons why we decided to move from print-based workbooks to the webbook were:• The Web provides flexibility as to where, when and how students learn and

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Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

, infrastructure planning, academic scheduling and sharing institutional data. Thespecial collaboration extends to housing and academic/student support services as well. Theprimary focus of this paper is to illustrate the innovative educational partnership that existsbetween ASU East and CGCC and its benefits to students and the two institutions. Page 3.342.2BACKGROUNDASU East is a new campus of Arizona State University located in the city of Mesa, Arizona. It isat the former Williams Air Force Base in the southeast part of the Phoenix Metropolitan area,now know as the Williams Campus. The Williams Air Force Base conversion to a collegecampus has opened

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1998 Annual Conference

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Warren R. Hill

astrong voice in what happens within our respective departments, programs, schools or colleges.To become active rather than reactive, we administrators must take the lead in strategic planningfor our units. While strategic planning is not the be all and end all, it does provide a mechanismby which we can start to determine our future; a concept of where we want to be and how weplan to get there. Furthermore, such planning forms a sound basis for making decisions aboutsuch things as budget allocations, hiring, equipment purchases, and programmatic goals as arenow required for ABET accreditation. Finally an appropriately developed strategic plan providesfaculty, the institution and the public at large a mission statement and an agreed upon set of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Matthew J. Cline; Gary J. Powers

studentstranslating open-ended problems into detailed experimental plans. We have observed aswitch from “read the recipe in the lab manual and do what it says” to “think about thesolution of the larger open ended problem, perform some preliminary calculations todetermine the important features of the problem and then plan the important experimentalsteps.” Initially, students were hesitant to develop a solution without consultation withone of the course instructors. As the course progressed, students increasingly grewindependent in solving even basic problems. For example, one lab involved acquiringfour thermocouple readings simultaneously where only one was available. Students

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Robert E. Zulinski; Jon A. Soper; Dennis O. Wiitanen; David Stone; Allan R. Hambley; Martha E. Sloan; Noel Schulz

senior year for completing the transition of our studentsinto practicing professionals. We are experimenting with several approaches to the senior-yearexperience. This paper describes our plans for communication systems students.Collaborative EducationA growing body of literature shows that students learn more effectively when they actively workin teams and help one another.12-15 One example is Peer Instruction, developed for introductoryphysics courses by Eric Mazur at Harvard University. 12 In this method, a concept is presented bythe lecturer, and then a related question or problem is posed. Individual students work on the Page 3.460.1

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J. Rene van Dorp; Michael R. Duffey

conditional branching would add another dimension to subjectiveuncertainty estimation which would complicate but not necessarily improve modelvalidity. Is It Practical? The authors have observed the practical application of simulation-based projectrisk analysis, particularly among civil construction firms. Practices at one such firm,Ballast Nedam Engineering (based in the Netherlands, with $1.8 billion revenues in 1994),were documented in the course of a recent project [7]. Their risk analysis department hasbeen using simulation-based risk analysis in project planning and budgeting for over sevenyears. Typically large projects exceeding an overall budget of $30 million are candidatesfor a risk analysis

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Mel I. Mendelson

be presented.II. Quality AssessmentAn assessment process has been identified using the principles of total quality: being focused onstakeholder needs, creating a strategic plan, establishing relationships between quality andstakeholder needs, having a strategic plan, establishing relationships between quality andoutcomes assessment, and measuring improvement. The quality assessment process that has Page 3.471.1been utilized is shown in Figure 1, which is similar to the process that has previously beenreported [1]. Evaluating Assessment

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Melvin Cherno

, representing as many humanities/social science perspectives as possible. These faculty members, even if they are intensely devoted to cross-disciplinary work, will inevitably wish to pursue their independent research programs as well and have the opportunity to use their narrower professional expertise in their teaching; faculty members willnot want to deny their own specialized training and interests and should not be expected to do so. The Division has taken special care to provide for both these aspects--the pooling ofindividual interests and the maintenance of separate teaching/research programs. TCC 101, 401,and 402 are multi-sectioned courses, in the planning and teaching of which all Division membersare expected to participate by

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1998 Annual Conference

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Melvin Cherno

as many humanities/social science perspectives aspossible. These faculty members, even if they are intensely devoted to cross-disciplinary work,will inevitably wish to pursue their independent research programs as well and have theopportunity to use their narrower professional expertise in their teaching; faculty members willnot want to deny their own specialized training and interests and should not be expected to do so. The Division has taken special care to provide for both these aspects--the pooling ofindividual interests and the maintenance of separate teaching/research programs. TCC 101, 401,and 402 are multi-sectioned courses, in the planning and teaching of which all Division membersare expected to participate by contributing