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Mark A. Shields

following objectives: (1) Enhance students’ abilities to analyze complex systemic relationships related to technology and human development in a cross-cultural context, especially the strengths and limitations of technological means for enhancing human capabilities, human development, and thus the quality of life. (2) Introduce students to the concepts of human development, human capabilities, quality of life, and sociotechnological systems–and their significant interrelationships in different nations throughout the world. (3) Apply analytical, statistical, and interpretive modes of reasoning and critical thinking to a specific current problem of technology and human development in a country or region of the world. (4) Work in

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James L. Hales

gained in the laboratoryis one of the most distinguishing features and advantages of an engineering technologycurriculum and program. For twenty years our rotating machines and power systems laboratories used M-G sets invarious configurations. The equipment used was from two different manufacturers: 1. Electrical Machines Laboratory model: EMT 180, manufactured by Feedback Instruments, Ltd., and 2. Universal Laboratory Machine (ULM) model: H-REM-120CM, manu- factured by Hampden Engineering Corp.EMT 180 Dissectable Machine The Feedback equipment consists of a dissectable machine which can be assembled in adozen or more configurations as either an AC or DC machine and to

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Raymond B. Landis

curriculum to provide freshman students increased exposure to topics such as computing,engineering design, problem solving, and creativity.Generally, little consideration is given as to whether these activities and interventions reallyaddress those factors that are impeding student success. Consequently, although worthwhile,the types of interventions listed above do not generally have a significant impact on studentsuccess. The postulate of this paper is that enhancing engineering student success can best beaccomplished by taking a direct approach to changing student attitudes and behaviors.In Chapter 1 of the author’s text Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career,2the keys to success in engineering study are described as

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Charles U. Okonkwo

designing waste reducing and energy efficientprocesses, and manage manufacturing in ways that increase the quality of life and reducenegative impact on the environment. In the spring of 1997 the department will teach one of thesecourses, Waste Minimization and Prevention. This paper serves two purposes: 1) describe whatwe are doing to create an emphasis area in environmental engineering technology and hope that itmay be useful to others thinking about similar programs and 2) stimulate discussions and ideasthat will improve our efforts toward curriculum development in this area.IntroductionManufacturing is one of several departments at Arizona State University’s School of Technology.Currently, there are no course offerings in environmental

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Edward Pines

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Alisha A. Wailer

replace a RETI.” This code is usually revealed to ERM participants through along inculturation period, but you, fortunate reader, have these introductory TLAs (and FLAs)translated for you in Table 1. New ideas for ERM activities, with appropriate TLAs will besolicited at the ASEE session. Prizes for creativity will be awarded.”Table 1: ERM TLAs and FLAs_______------__---~~~_________---__-__---~~___TLAs Three Letter AcronymsFLAs Four Letter AcronymsASEE American Society for Engineering EducationERM Educational Research and Methods DivisionNET1 National Effective Teaching InstituteNEE New Engineering EducatorsFIE Frontiers in EducationAFG Apprentice Faculty GrantRETI

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Charles N. Eastlake; Alfred L. Stanley

Session 2502 Establishing a Computer-Aided Manufacturing System to Extend the Capability of Traditional Aircraft and Spacecraft Design Courses Charles N. Eastlake, Alfred L. Stanley Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’sDaytona Beach, FL, campus has just completed the initial implementation of a ComputerAided Manufacturing (CAM) system within its long established capstone aircraft andspacecraft design course sequences. This paper details the development process whichwe went through in order to establish that capability.1. Why do we need it

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

tenthweek of the semester when all of the theory needed to solve the problem has been discussed. Theproblem is due at the end of the semester (fourteenth week).One of the computer problems assigned is shown in this paper. The problem is a variation, withupdated cost data, of a problem one of the authors was assigned as an undergraduate. Of course,in those years, the problems were solved using a slide rule and the tedious trial and errormethods. Today, the same problems are solved easily by our students using the latest computer Page 2.183.1technology.The problem statement is shown in Exhibit 1. Table 1 shows the summary of the solution to theproblem

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D. Raj Raman

program (Table 1), allowing AE 243 to focus on coreengineering topics in a biological context, as opposed to being a biology course with someengineering content thrown in.AE 243 was developed and taught (by the author) for the first time in the spring of 1994, and hasbeen taught every spring semester since. The 3 semester-hour course meets three times a weekfor 50 minutes. The course grew out of the goals mentioned above, and out of a senior-levelbioprocess engineering course taught at Cornell University (Walker, 1993). During my first yearof graduate school I had taken this course; in subsequent years I guest lectured in the class anddeveloped a case study for the class. In my final year of graduate school I taught the course, whilemy advisor

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Mark J. Sebern

ability to print reports of individual and aggregate data.Students are given a somewhat ambiguous preliminary specification, which is discussed in class. Page 2.184.3As part of a discussion on requirements elicitation, students attempt to clarify and complete thespecification. Later, they are shown the current version of the application and the analysis anddesign documentation on which it is based. For example, the initial iteration may have the abilityto maintain the list of instructors, but not yet handle workload elements such as course sections.At this point, the application interface may resemble Figure 1. Figure 1

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Peck Cho

to a comment "Whadija get?" from students.1 One can see that these negativeperceptions and experiences of exam have not changed much from earlier decades.2 This may bebecause teachers may be told about what exams should be, but the knowledge of how toconstruct such an exam is not readily available to them. Obviously, a tip about how to constructan exam invariably would involve giving specific examples. Since the examples have to becontent specific, such a tip may lack universal significance. Therefore, what I intend to providein this paper is a theoretical basis for constructing effective exams, and then give severalexamples from an introductory course in thermodynamics as illustration. It is hoped that the newfaculty would be able to create

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Walter Buchanan

A PlanWhile conducting a survey of baccalaureate engineering technology programs accredited by theTechnology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (TAC of ABET), the author compiled a small library of promotion and tenurehandbooks from some of the leading engineering technology institutions in the United States.1 Inthe author’s opinion, one of the best, and in fact used as a model for many other institutions, isthe faculty handbook for promotion and tenure used by Purdue University at West Lafayette.2 Inaddition to the handbook, the School of Technology at Purdue also has a handout for facultyexpectations. This will be used as a guide in the discussion that follows on goals to achieveexcellence or

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Vernon W. Lewis

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Ronald W. Schafer; Mark A. Yoder; James H. McClellan

traditional first course in analog circuittheory. We will discuss our motivation for teaching DSP first, before covering analog circuitsand systems. We will describe the style of the course and point out difficulties, as well asadvantages, in this organization of basic material. At Georgia Tech and Rose-Hulman, thisbeginning course has been required of all computer engineering majors. Finally, we will makesome comments about extending this approach to encompass a wider range of students fromother disciplines.1. IntroductionAn introductory electrical engineering course based on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) has beentaught at Georgia Tech since 1993, and also at Rose-Hulman for the past two years. This courseuses digital filters and simplified

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Peter Ludovice; Noel Rappin; Matthew Realff; Mark Guzdial

Session 3213 1 Experiments in Learning Chemical Engineering Modeling Skills Noel Rappin, Mark Guzdial, Matthew Realff, Pete Ludovice College of Computing/School of Chemical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 33039-0280/Atlanta GA 30032-0100 770 894-4650 {noel,guzdial}@cc.gatech.edu /{matthew.realff,pete.ludovice}@che.gatech.eduABSTRACTCreating educational

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R. A. Davis; K. B. Lodge; D. N. Baria; Dianne Dorland

sequence of two courses in hazardous waste processing; topics include wastewatertreatment, air pollution control, and solid waste management. This emphasis in the under-graduate program is complimented by the research interests of the faculty. These areas includebeneficiation and utilization of low-rank coals, rheological properties of coal-water slurries, Page 2.190.1electrochemical engineering, measurement and estimation of thermodynamic properties of Page 1 of 7 Lodge et al., ASEE 1997

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Christopher G. Braun

creativity and N Teaching specific skills or exploration knowledge N Longer duration experiments Table 1. A comparison between the merits of traditional vs. take-home laboratory projects.As part of a long term change that began several years ago, we have developed anaffordable data acquisition and control kit. Starting last summer, we required that all ofour Division of Engineering Summer Field Session students (240 students, mainlySophomores) build, test and learn how to use their own data acquisition system.2 Inaddition, we also are in the process of writing interface libraries/modules in C, VisualBasic£, Qbasic

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

AssessmentCenter program in a user-friendly package that can be used by computer novices. It alsoincludes “wizards” that serve as an expert system to lead the user through an assessment of theirtotal facility. The program is interactive and based around the Windows 95 operating system.Once users enter the necessary data into the program, it will generate a report similar to thosecreated by Industrial Assessment Centers. General code formation will be covered with adiscussion of some of the recommendations that are included.1. IntroductionSince 1978, the U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored the Industrial Assessment Centerprogram. This program provides “no-cost” industrial assessments to small and medium-sizedmanufacturers around the United States. The

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Walter S. Lund; Trudy L. Schwartz; Lee D. Peterson; Lawrence E. Carlson

architectural design of the ITL Laboratoryare flexibility and visibility. This is particularly seen in the two large laboratory plazaswhere most of the sophomore and junior level experimentation will occur. Each plazameasures approximately 4,000 sq. ft. and houses 15 experimental LabStations designed forstudents working in teams of 4-6.Each LabStation (Fig. 1) is a powerful data acquisition center measuring approximatelyfour by six feet, capable of taking data from any mobile experiment which can be wheeledup to it. It includes two Hewlett-Packard Pentium-based PCs running Windows NT,National Instruments MIO-16 multipurpose I/O interface cards and LabVIEW software tocontrol data acquisition, several SCXI signal conditioning modules, and a

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

1 Session 2266 Factors for Change in Mechanical Engineering Education B. K. Hodge, Robert P. Taylor Mississippi State University AbstractThe combination of world events and technological advances is likely to result in the mostprofound changes in engineering education since the post World War II period. Factors forchange in mechanical engineering education are postulated and described

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Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee

objects to enter a zone, leave a zone, as well as update positionwithin a zone, respectively. Combining the zone modules with a graphical representation of thesystem resulted in an effective, real-time emulation tool. With a small group of programmers ata variety of different skill levels, the development of the software took only a few weeks.1. IntroductionAn emulator was needed to test code developed for controlling an automated goods deliverysystem before installing it in a factory. A small amount of time spent on an emulator wouldgreatly reduce the time spent debugging the software on site. The purpose of the emulator was toemulate all aspects of the factory right down to an operator working on a tote. Most importantlyit had to emulate totes

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Marsha King; Eric Spielvogel; Carol Dwyer; Dhushy Sathianathan

curriculum. The value of this approach is soon to betested at Penn State since beginning July 1, 1997, all the commonwealth campuses at Penn Statewill either be independent or belong to a new independent college. Thus, the relationshipsbetween faculty teaching the first-year course at different locations will depend purely oncollaboration. As far as we can see, the model will not need to be changed at all. Indeed, inprinciple, we could include non-Penn State institutions.The model used allows us to exploit both delegation and collaboration as a means of handlingcontinuous change. The silent partner that creates the environment of change is the informationtechnology. Therefore, collaboration and coordination seems to be the necessary mechanisms

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Richard Newman; Michael Lesiecki

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John A. Marin; James E. Armstrong

defined as “the design, production, and maintenance oftrustworthy systems within time and cost constraints.” [1] Successful real-world design ismeeting or exceeding the effective needs of the client and stakeholder group in a cost-effective,high quality manner. However, it is usually not possible to resolve every aspect of a complex,real-world effective need in a one or even two semester capstone design course. In theDepartment of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NewYork, we mandate the application of the House of Quality in order to ferret out or discover thosekey criteria that are critical to the success or failure of a given system.II. Ferreting Out Design Issues with the House of Quality We introduce

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Barbara Blake Bath

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Robert L. Avanzato

-based course in microprocessors wasdeveloped and implemented for the engineering technology curriculum[1]. An engineeringdesign component to a freshman engineering design and graphics course was developed andimplemented successfully over the past two years. The robotics competition, called “Robo-Hoops” is a Nerf basketball robot competition and is detailed in [1]. Recently, a collaborationbetween computer engineering students and geoscience students has resulted in the design of“Geo-Bots,” autonomous mobile robots capable of terrain navigation and data collection. ASaturday workshop in robot design is also offered to Philadelphia area high school students. The focus of this paper is to describe a special topics course in robotics for

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Sheela N. Yadav-Olney; Jill M. Clough

! The awardsceremony was held near a main walkway in EPCOT and many people watched. The ceremonywas exciting. Along with a few speeches and presentations for numerous awards, the ceremonyhad fireworks, dancers, and -- best of all -- video clips from the competition. The wrap partygave all the teams a chance to talk about the competition and what they were planning for nextyear.During UW-Platteville=s two years of participation, some valuable lessons have been learned.Some of the most valuable lessons are listed in Table 1. Table 1. Lessons Learned Page 2.200.4

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Robert L. Reid; Bruce D. Hoeppner

sixty mostlycorporate-built solar powered boats were entered in the 100 m sprint and one-hour enduranceraces held on a lake connected to the Sea of Japan (Mikata-go-ko). Sun Warrior had beenbuilt to the Japanese specifications of 6 m length and 480 watts of solar collectors. Allcompetitors were issued the same batteries. Marquette was, and still is, the only Americanteam ever to race in Japan. Sun Warrior finished 30th out of the sixty entries. Details of theboat construction and race results have been previously given (Reid and Hoeppner, 1993)1.Sun Warrior II, 1992-93 Interest in designing solar racing boats at Marquette grew from one student in fall,1990, to five in spring, 1991, and then to seventeen students in 1991-92. In the fall

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Michael Aldaco

institutional outreach effortsthat currently utilize race, ethnicity or gender to any degree in the selection of their participants.The limited focus of the discussion. Though Proposition 209 was on the ballot only inCalifornia, the debate about its merits was national in scope. Each side recognized that afavorable outcome would give it the advantage in the broader national battle to come. Thediscussion was widespread and, with few exceptions, was focused on three distinct areas:1. The awarding of business contracts to minority/women owned contractors. Most often explored in this area was whether there should be concern for the awarding of a proportion that was set aside or targeted for such contractors. Proponents of 209 argued that contracts

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T. Hannigan; James E. Simon; K. Koenig; G. Cruse; K. Poh

full in a reasonably longperiod of time. A similar method was employedby the students to try to determine the normaloutput of a cooling fan. A continuous roll ofsemi-rigid plastic sheeting was obtained from alaundry supply, and two 100 foot long tubes werefashioned to collect flow from a fan. The two Figure 1 Total flow containmenttubes were mated to a frame that could be swung tubes with popout endsinto position on the outlet end of a fan. Thetubes would "pop" to their fully inflated form,and a "popout" plug would release when the tubes were full. A video camera was set up to filmthe inflation sequence, and the 30 Hz