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Edward Pines

. As part of its manufacturingengineering education program, NMSU has developed partnerships with a variety of industrialfirms and two national laboratories. A telephone survey was made of human factors specialistsat the industrial partners. Respondents indicated a need for actual facility use. It was suggestedthat as much actual equipment and workplace experience as possible be built into the class.Additionally, a telephone survey was made of colleagues working in the ergonomics area. Thissurvey was undertaken to further develop the academic content of the course.A set of course objectives and topics were finally developed and discussed with the curriculumcoordinator. This agreed-on set of topics became the basis for the course syllabus

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Charles N. Eastlake; Alfred L. Stanley

?Students in the design sequence began using Computer Aided Design (CAD) in 1983 andby 1993 the CAD system had evolved to the point of having the capability of doing 3-dimensional solid modeling. At that time Dr. Jim Ladesic acquired a National ScienceFoundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant to acquire astereolithography rapid prototyping system which could create actual parts from the CADsolid models. Students learned many lessons about the realities of making three-dimensional shapes from this system and took great pride in showing off their designs.But the STL machine is limited to relatively small parts, about 9 inches in the longestdimension. And the polymer material made by this system is both expensive andsufficiently

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Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.VINCENT M. ALLEN has recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Maine. Currently he is working in the Instrumentation Lab at the University of Maine toward a Masterof Science degree in Computer Engineering

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Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.VINCENT M. ALLEN has recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Maine. Currently he is working in the Instrumentation Lab at the University of Maine toward a Masterof Science degree in Computer Engineering. Page 2.194.4

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Robert F. Kubichek; Eskild T. Arntzen; Donald S. Warder

,however, many of these issues never arose. For example, the issue of sexual harassment did notcome up in this class. Furthermore, I never felt any peer pressure from the students, nor did I feelthat I was not taken seriously by the students. I believe this might have been caused by the factthat I was older than the students in my class and that I had been a graduate student much longerthan the graduate students in the class. However, I found it useful to discuss these and otherethics questions with the mentor as well as with other faculty members.I had previously taught laboratory sections for various electrical engineering courses and wascomfortable with managing a group of students. However, I still found that the switch from thelaboratory to

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Kevin S. LeBlanc; Bruce E. Segee

, Inc., Foster City, CA.6. BiographyDr. BRUCE SEGEE received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. Hehas been an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine since that time.At the University of Maine, he heads the Instrumentation Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, and networking. Work also includes the used of fuzzy logic and artificial networks.KEVIN S. LEBLANC received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at theUniversity of Maine in 1996. He is currently pursuing a

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Wessel Koning

list of project task suggestions.This approach for selecting the team and project task contributes to the student’s andteacher’s motivation.During project hours students work in a surrounding which is intended to be a reflec-tion ofthe professional practice. The available laboratory has a number of necessary machines andfacilities to realize the electrical or electronic device.When the EE project period finishes in June a exposition market is organized on the finalday of the year where all groups can demonstrate their projects. First year students arespecially invited to get an impression of the results of EE project course where they have towork on the next year.4 The points of reference of the NHL teaching concept.The ten points of reference

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S. Gokhale; J. Aldrich

PhaseOne of the first tasks accomplished was the determination of structural sufficiency of the existingfloor beams, roof rafters, and stud walls. Inspection revealed that the existing members were Page 2.243.3rough sawn and not of standard dressed dimensions. The origin of the lumber was questionableas it did not have any grade stamp. Students were able to extract some samples to conductstandardized testing in the laboratory. A forestry expert was also contacted to help determine thespecies origin.Most of the structural members appeared to be in very good shape. The studs were 2” x 3.75”,the floor beams and roof rafters were 2” x 7.5” in dimension

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John E. Mayer

whole class and a brief (one-two paragraph) written report issubmitted to the professor. No lectures are given by the professor. The mode of operation is asan advisor to the project, during the class period and outside of class. The class meets 1-2 hoursonce a week for the progress report sessions. The students also receive laboratory credit for thiscourse; however, the teams meet independently to work on their projects. The teams visit theirindustrial sponsor and work on problem solutions, designs, analyses, reports, and on preparationof their presentations. Two major reports are required. Each team submits a written Mid-TermReport and makes an oral presentation of this report to the class. There is no final exam;however, a written Final

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

Engineering students and faculty take Several FC faculty have volunteered time and design activities to the 5th and 6th materials grade campuses at local schools TAMU Tours of campus and laboratory One FC faculty arranged with MEP and WEP activities for local community the tours and raised funds for the buses. centers serving 2nd through 4th graders. ASU Collaboration with girl scouts to WISE offer 1 week camps for 1&2, 3&4, and 5&6 graders.Middle School TAMU SWE one week residential camp FC

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James Lombardi; O. G. Petersen

works as an Electrical Engineerat Krones Inc. in Franklin, WI with responsibilities for integration of machine vision systems into high speedmanufacturing lines.DR. O. G. PETERSEN is an Assoc. Prof. in the Dept. of Elect. Eng. and Comp. Science at the Milwaukee School ofEngineering and Assoc. Director of the Applied Technology Center. He is a former Member of the Technical Staffat AT&T Bell Laboratories. His areas of interest are integrated circuit technology, high speed integrated circuitdesign, and quality in manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Page 2.320.4 RESEARCH AND

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Roger A. Messenger

). Page 2.321.43. Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems, A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (1991).4. Yang, Edward S., Microelectronic Devices, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY (1988).5. Streetman, Ben, Solid State Electronic Devices, IV Ed., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1995).6. Nilsson, James W., and Reidel, Susan A., Electric Circuits, V Ed., Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1996).7. Sedra, Adel S., and Smith, Kenneth C., Microeletronic Circuits, 3rd Ed.,Saunders College Publishing (1991).ROGER A. MESSENGER received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and has been atFlorida Atlantic University since then. He is currently Professor of Electrical

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Henry W. Kraebber

" serving several courses with information about the companies that support the CIMT program and laboratories.• Linking to files containing weekly editions of course handouts, assignments and lecture notes.• Posting of the current grade spreadsheet.• Posting of additional information, papers and pictures that supplement the content of the lectures and labs.The procedures used to create "no frills" web pages and links to other files are not difficult tocopy. My first pages were in fact copies of another instructor's source code in hypertext markuplanguage (.html) for a page with titles, pictures, text and links to other sites. A sample of the.html code and the simple page it produces can be found in figures 1 and 2 at the end of thispaper. New

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Thomas R. Williams; Judith Ramey

of Technical Communication, College of Engineering, Universityof Washington, Seattle, WA. A cognitive psychologist, his primary interests lie in comparative media and in theeffects of medium (or media) on comprehension, retention, and performance.JUDIH RAMEY is Professor and Chair, Department of Technical Communication, College of Engineering,University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Her research interests are in user-centered design and usability researchtechniques; she is also Director of the UWTC Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation. Page 3.62.6

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Paul Mooney; Michael A. Mooney; Gerald Miller

school math and science education. Mike also conducts research ingeotechnical engineering. Page 4.507.5GERALD A. MILLERGerald Miller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He received his B.S. and M.S. from ClarksonUniversity in Potsdam, NY and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Educationalactivities include the development of a design oriented graduate level class on laboratory and field testing of soilsinvolving extensive “hands on” lab and field work, as well as participation in the Sooner City project. He is alicensed professional engineer in Oklahoma and a member of ASCE, ASTM, ASEE

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M. Mavromihales; K. Sherwin

4.171.1available for construction.2. Design briefThe following brief applies to one particular academic year in which the heat exchangerformed part of the general design course. Students were expected to work in groups of four,each group being required to design a cross-flow heat exchanger incorporating severalstaggered rows of rectangular tubes, to cool water flowing at a rate of 1.5 litres/min from70ºC to 55ºC. One type of rectangular tube, nominally 2 x 13 mm was available. Therewere no limits on the number of water-side passes but the heat exchanger was required tohave minimum tube length as a realistic design constraint.Air-flow was provided at ambient conditions within the laboratory by means of a constantspeed fan having an outlet duct 160 mm

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Kay C Dee

below.Bibliography1. Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: on being a mentor to students in science and engineering, (NationalAcademy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), National Academy Press, 1997.2. P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.3. W. J. McKeachie, Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, D.C.Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1994.4. J. Lowman, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1985.KAY C DEEKay C Dee is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory in theDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. She has served as

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Frank Franklin; Ed Espin; Christopher Viers; Lawrence Fryda

. Page 4.14.3LAWRENCE FRYDALawrence Fryda is a Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology atCentral Michigan University. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree from the University of South Dakota and aPh.D. from Colorado State University. Dr. Fryda has extensive experience in the fields of electronics, automationand computer interfacing. His area of research emphasis includes moving experimental technology-based systemsout of the laboratory and into everyday applications.CHRISTOPHER J. VIERSChristopher Viers directs the International Services Office at Wayne State University. He is the current chair ofthe Michigan Association of Foreign Student Affairs and Board Member and Conference Chair of the

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Albert Lozano-Nieto; Willie Ofosu

electromagnetic waves in other equipment, with this course being the continuationof a traditional Electromagnetic Fields course. We believe that, especially for ElectricalEngineering Technology, a more hands-on experience EMC/EMI course will better suit theneeds of graduates. An outline of such course is shown in the next paragraph. We believe thatthe topics described in the outline would make up a rigorous course in which the weight hasbeen shifted from a theoretical to a laboratory content. We believe that this course should betaken by EET students in their senior year when the have the basis to comprehend and interrelatethe concepts from different areas in the profession.A model of a course in EMI/EMC1. Introduction to Electromagnetic

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Shann Coleman; Megan Gaberell; Harold W. Walker

the City of Columbus, and (2) a survey ofthe water quality in the Olentangy River for a community group called Friends of theLower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW). A major component of these projects was theparticipation of both the City of Columbus and FLOW during all stages of the project.At the beginning of the Autumn Quarter, the students were introduced to the two projects.Different teams of 3 students each were assigned to each of the following tasks: watersampling, sample analysis, synthesis and report writing, and preparing a finalpresentation. To guide student’s efforts, each team was given a detailed outline of thetasks to complete. Handout materials were also given, including a sampling proceduresmanual, laboratory analysis manual

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Brett Barraclough

Page 4.312.8improvement of any engineering design course through a coordinated collaborationeffort. Page 4.312.9Bibliography1. Barr, R.E. & Juricic, D., Extending Engineering Design Graphics Laboratories to Have a CAD/CAMComponent: Implementation Issues, The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 60, (2), 27.2. Bolluyt, J.E., Design Modeling with Pro/ENGINEER, 3rd edition, Schroff Development Corporation,Mission, 1998.3. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th edition. McGraw-Hill, New York,1994, p.2043.4. Barraclough, B.A., Memorandum, Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) Simulation BasedAcquisition Summary, 1998. PM ATACMS-BAT, ATTN

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Sema Alptekin; Deena Daggett

, 1996.5. Alptekin, S. E. and Lizabeth Schlemer, “Team Based Product Development in Mechatronics Design Class”, Proceedingsof the 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, LA, November 1998.6. Martin, F.G., "The Mini Board 2.0 Technical Reference", Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1994. Page 4.313.7DEENA DAGGETTDeena Daggett is a first year doctoral student at Georgia Tech in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She obtainedher B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and M.S.I.E from StanfordUniversity. She worked for seven years as an

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Daniel Davis

University of Hartford began in 1991 - 1992 with only 6 students. Theprogram has grown to close to 100 students. Its mission is “to prepare students for a variety ofprofessional careers in the design and building industries”.The AET program’s goals are to: • provide a proper foundation in mathematics and the basic sciences. • retain the hands-on laboratory and studio features that are the hallmarks of all engineering technologies. • provide a broadly based education that will go beyond the bounds of technical competence. • enhance the graduates’ capacity for upward mobility within and beyond the profession.The objectives of the AET program are to provide students with the opportunity to developtechnical and professional competence

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Jerome Atkins

accredited institutions - college-level courses delivered by business, industry or the military and validated by the American Council on Education (ACE) - credit by examination (Regents College, CLEP, DANTES, GRE, etc.) - special and portfolio-based assessment. What Regents College does not provide is: instruction in coursework (correspondence or otherwise) of its own; clinical or laboratory experiences; automatic credit for all educational experiences towards a degree; or general credit for life experiences. What the College recognizes for credit is the learning that results from various professional college-level educational experiences. The

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Terri Estkowski; Mary Ann Bowman; Liwana Bringelson

Session 3592 The Model Mentor: A Telephone Survey of Mentoring Experiences Among Women Engineering Faculty Terri Estkowski, Liwana Bringelson, Mary Ann Bowman Engineering Management Research Laboratory Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Western Michigan University Introduction In their study of mentoring from the mentor’s perspective, Blackburn, Chapman andCameron [1] conclude that there are questions left unanswered about mentoring, such as, “Whatare the attributes of successful mentors” (p. 326). Hunt and Michael [2

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Linda V. Itzoe; Charles A. Gaston; Janice Margle

Session 1547 A Multipurpose Windmill Design Project Charles A. Gaston, Linda V. Itzoe, Janice M. Margle Penn State - York / Penn State - Abington College ABSTRACTThere is growing recognition of the value of having engineering design projects in the freshmancurriculum1. The Windmill Project described here not only provides a design challenge, butincorporates elements of team-building, laboratory data collection, engineering designcalculations and optimized testing procedures. If desired, the project can be expanded to includesignificant research and writing on the

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

environment.Practical work is designed to reinforce the material that is covered in the lectures and eachcourse has an associated laboratory1. The Department also has a strong enterprise engineeringfocus which integrates business and personal skills development with the technical aspects of the Page 3.427.1program2.In 1997 the Department introduced a graduate course work program in electronics that wouldcomplement the undergraduate program and lead to the Master’s degree. The same practicallyfocused philosophy is still maintained, with each course having a corresponding laboratory. Theaim is to provide professional development opportunities for practising

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Alexander D. Poularikas

low-glass optical fiber and the recent semiconductorlaser/detector systems initiated the photonics area. Within the past few years, long-haultelecommunications have become dominated by light wave systems. Research laboratories areengineering systems based on III-V materials to manipulate photons in some of the samesophisticated ways that silicon systems manipulate electrons. Such systems and devices arereferred to as photonics systems and devices. Parallel development of other materials, such asnonlinear optical organic materials, show great promise for providing a basis for sophisticatedand inexpensive devices. Compact, robust passive optical systems have been demonstrated thatwould have been regarded as impossible only a few years ago

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Stephanie Goldberg

group officehour). Especially in the beginning, the recitations will be formal mandatory scheduled sessionswhere group support will be nurtured. An equipped laboratory will be available for the womento work on hands-on projects.In the following section, some background information is collected from existing surveys andinterviews of students. A description of overall program structure follows. Section 4 highlightsspecial curriculum issues and Section 5 involves the recruitment of women students.Monitoring and evaluating the program is discussed in Section 6.2. BackgroundThe technical education of women and minority students is continuously highlighted as animportant piece of our overall technical growth as a nation for reasons ranging from

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Leonard Sokoloff

circuits aregenerally very costly to design and build. If a circuit has to be modified, it must be tornapart and rewired, thus making modifications very costly.This application is part of an effort at DeVry to include into the curriculum importanttechnologies such as the virtual instrumentation and the programmable logic controllers.The PLC Stepper Motor Controller is one of several projects that are being added to theupper trimester laboratory. Page 3.447.1 1 Stepper Motor OperationThe shaft of a stepper motor rotates one step at a time. This type of motion is called adiscrete motion. The step angle is determined