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means for serving the Boise area has been Page 1.493.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsdeveloped. Comparison of the numbers given above indicates that annual operating savings aresignificant over a comparable, but separately administered, engineering college in Boise.Curriculum An integral part of the virtual department concept is that the curriculum in each location isidentical. But more than that, control of the curriculum rests with a single curriculum committee at eachadministrative level. In the following discussion, the Electrical Engineering curriculum is the vehicle.The ME and

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designed toenhance students’ abilities to solve complex problems using computers and active learning. The curriculumalso strives to create experiences which parallel those in the workplace. This curriculum is voluntary and one-quarter of the RHIT freshman class typically volunteers for the program. In the IFYCSEM curriculum, alltechnical courses in the first year have been integrated into three, twelve-credit courses which are team taughtby an interdisciplinary group of faculty. Courses include calculus, physics, chemistry, computer science,desi~ and graphics. There is special interest in examining the processes used by students in solving complex engineeringproblems. The study will answer the questions: 1) What processes and tools are used

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Page 1.277.5 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings3. Nagle, Edward “What a Graduate of an Associate Degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program Should Know” Proceeding of 1994 ASEE Annual Conference PP 2393-23954. Wilczynski, V “Integrating Engineering Design Across the Curriculum: Results from the Trenches” Proceeding of 1994 ASEE Annual Conference PP 1877-18815. Brice, C. W., “Design of a New Electromechanical Systems Instructional Laboratory”, IEEE, May 1, 1991, v6, n2, pg 8726. Tillman, Tracy “A Two Course Sequence for Teaching Concurrent Engineering and Lean Production Manufacturing” Proceeding of 1994 ASEE Annual Conference PP 271-2737. Tavora, Carlos J. “A Laboratory Design

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concentrations, whichresults in a greater reduction in p-DIPB production. Our experience with this problem is that students tend to focus on one possible cause and onepotential remedy. This is a because they are still used to the single-answer problems used in traditionalcourses. Even with the vertical integration of design throughout our curriculum, single answers are still themode. The most popular single answer, in our experience, is catalyst deactivation or poisoning, which iscertainly a reasonable possibility. The most popular single remedy is, therefore, plant shut-down to replacethe catalyst. When we use problems like this, students must present their solutions and are subject toquestions from faculty. Most can readily suggest an

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-oriented Master of Engineering (M. E.) degree program. Building on Thayer School’s strength ininterdisciplinary engineering education and its close relationship with Dartmouth’s Tuck School ofBusiness, this degree program is distinguished by its simultaneous emphasis on a broad graduate-leveleducation in engineering, a working knowledge of the design process, and a practical understanding ofthe business environment. The absence of departmental barriers at Thayer School offers students theability to bring an integrated view to the engineering design process. The M.E. program is a rigorous two-year progression requiring 18 graduate-level courses instatistics, optimization, engineering design, engineering science, and business management

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. What the team approach will accomplish isproduce competent engineering scholars, each of whom is an interactive player, a connectedproblem solver and an original investigator who will be cognizant of how various and diverseparts work together as a connected whole in the real world. This new research-training approachis cooperative, interactive and integrative.The aim of the inclusion of professional engineering studies in graduate instruction is to furnishgraduate students with a holistic and integrated view of a given branch of engineering within theframework of its industry in local, national and global contexts. This may involve case studies ofengineering industries, examining how they operate, interact and connect with varioussubsystems

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concepts learned in different courses. Economic analysis concepts can be combined in simulationstudy to provide information for decision making. Probabilistic data can be used as input to a deterministicoptimization process through the use of averaging. A capstone design experience does not stand alone - itmust serve as the integration agent for the discipline specific curriculum. For many years, this has beenrecognized as an important process in the education of industrial engineers. More recently, however, it is Page 1.473.1 ---- ~’fix~~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+

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ProceedingsAlthough Deschamps’s article and others are quite useful in introducing differential forms to specialists inelectromagnetics, they have done little to promote the use of differential forms in the broaderelectromagnetics community. If differential forms are to gain a wider acceptance in electrical engineering,not only should researchers and practitioners be made familiar with them, but students should be exposed tothem in the undergraduate curriculum. Presentation of differential forms to undergraduates in electrical engineering requires a differentapproach than teaching forms to graduates. In currently available articles and texts differential forms areusually presented in the most general and complex manner even to beginners. Presenters begin

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among engineering educators on how to measure and documentperformance in this area. Though not a panacea, institutional design portfolios are proposed as a tool to helpassess and communicate the design content of an institution’s curriculum. The design portfolio can be a usefulmechanism for a program to articulate its design philosophy, document how student design experiences haveput that philosophy into practice, reflect on successful design exercises and evaluate the students’ completedesign experience. Creating and using a design portfolio highlights design as a developmental skill within theengineering curriculum and allows the faculty to focus on design as an integrated component of engineeringeducation. Because of this focused attention

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engineering started in 1934, while doctoral work was initiated in 1955. Theconcept of cooperative education was an integral part of the undergraduate program ab initio, as one of theintents of the Speed family in endowing the school was that graduates should be versed in “hands-on”engineering as well as academics. In 1970, a five-year program leading to the graduate professional degree, Master of Engineering(M.Eng.), was introduced, keeping the required cooperative internship during the first four years. Thisprogram has now been in place for 25 years, and its valuewas reaffirmed by the school faculty during discussions held in the early 1990’s. The M.Eng. degree isadministered by the Speed School as a professional engineering degree, and it

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Zhongming Liang

Session 2647 Menu-Driven Control of the MiniMover-5 Robot Zhongming Liang Purdue University Fort Wayne Abstract The paper discusses a utility program developed by the author for the MiniMover-5 robot system. Theprogram provides menu-driven control of the robot and allows students to easily work with robot positions.The paper also includes an example of using the utility program for a project, in which two MiniMover-5robots were controlled with their interface units receiving inputs from

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CMCs into interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate level curricula at UT. Anumber of distinguished UT faculty members and renowned ORNL scientists have been actively participatingin this NSF-funded program. In addition, strong administrative commitment to the implementation of thenewly developed program has been made by UT and ORNL administrators, in the form of matching equipmentfunds, cost sharing, graduate assistantship, personnel time, space, facilities, etc. Furthermore, state-of-the-artinstructional modules, such as on-line hypermedia lecture notes, are being developed for quality teaching andeffective learning.Curriculum Development Our vision is to provide students with an interdisciplinary curriculum with an emphasis on

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play a bigger role if theseindustries are going to be competitive in global markets. Graduates of four-year engineering technologyprograms will be asked by manufacturers to work in the applied engineering area; therefore, the curriculums mustprepare them with control training at both the machine and system level. A strategy for delivering laboratorycontrol exercises at the machine and system level to standard laboratory section sizes has been presented.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Tomovic, Mileta “A Manufacturing Laboratory to Prepare Technology Students for the 21 st Century”Proceeding of 1994 ASEE Annual Conference PP 300-3012. Fabiano, Phil “An Engineering Technology Course Responsive to the Needs of Industry” Proceeding of 1994ASEE Annual Cotierence PP

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towards 2computing in civil engineering programs . Another task committee of the TCCP Education Committeeconducted a survey in 1989 to assess the current computing curriculum in civil engineering education and the 6computing needs in civil engineering practice . In 1991 Baker and Rix of Georgia Institute of Technologyconducted a survey to obtain information that would enable them to better assess the role of computing within 1the curricula . In 1992 Henry summarized the information collected by these surveys and discussed a 4philosophy of integration into the civil engineering

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Enterprise,” 1995ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28, 1995.5. Nancy Fitzgerald, “Mastering Engineering,” ASEE PRISM, Jan. 1996, pp. 25-28.6. E.F. Crawley, E.M. Greitzer, S.E. Widnall, S.R. Hall, H. L. McManus, J.R. Hansman, J.F. Shea and M.Landahl, “Reform of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Curriculum at MIT,” AIAA Paper 93-0325, Jan. 1993.7. W.H. Mason, “Aircraft Design at Virginia Tech: Experience in Developing an Integrated Program,” AIAAPaper 95-3894, 1st AIAA Aircraft Engineering, Technology, and Operations Conference, Los Angeles, CA,Sept. 19-21, 1995 Html version: http://www.aoe.vt.edu/aoe/faculty/Mason_f/ACDesP/ACDesPgmVPI.html

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comfortableuse of the thinking styles available to them, preferably through curriculum integration of these skills. Second year results recently obtained have confirmed the original findings. Data was also gathered forseniors in the metallurgy capstone design class at Michigan Technological University in 1994-95. The instructorswere most impressed with the results of teams who had the strongest right-brain thinking preferences. The UNCCharlotte project is designed to provide additional, more detailed quantitative and qualitative assessment andcomparison to this earlier, more limited study. Curriculum Development Objectives. Studies throughout the literature certify the need for early studentinvolvement in design to encourage retention. The

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demonstration as well as a more sophisticated lab-oratory experiment so that we could also provide students with data showing a quantitative comparison. Adetailed write-up documenting the required hardware completed each HOH developed. In addition, undergraduate students needing design credits are also working on HOHS. A typical, chal-lenging HOH is assigned one credit when successfully completed.Evaluation and Impact Ultimately, hands-on-homework assignments will be liberally sprinkled throughout the engineeringcurriculum at UCB. They will be an integral part of an overall curriculum revision taking place to accommo-date and utilize the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) at the University of Colorado atBoulder. The ITL is

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concerns. The Writing Across the Curriculum movement has focussed on making writing apart of every classroom. Writing Centers have taken the role of guides to writers who need an additionalaudience for their texts. Freshman composition courses have tried to get students involved with writing asthey enter colleges and universities. And writing-intensive courses have been designated by an individualdepartment to handle the writing experience for the department’s students. There is never a loss to find someone to say something about communication, from broadgeneralizations about speech patterns to highly specialized notions of exactly which word to use in atechnical document. One of the most important realizations that we can ever make is that

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this understanding. Given the fragmentation of course work into individual courses, it is challenging for students to integrate the concepts from one course with others before or after it in the curriculum. Many schools, MSOE included, have had considerable success mitigating this problem through the use of just-in- time instruction approaches and capstone design sequences. This, though, is often not enough to guarantee that a curriculum-wide understanding is obtained. Course material is often too distanced in time to properly reinforce or link the topics sufficiently for most students. The effects of this temporal distance can be reduced by insuring that the basic concepts are well understood or that appropriate

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-2269.8 The Learning Factory of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership , E. DeMeter, J. Jorgensen, A.Rullan, Proceedings of SME conference on Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century, San Diego CA,March 13-15, 1996.9 Mechanical Dissection: an experience in how things work , S.D. Shepard, Proceedings of the EngineeringEducation Conference on Curriculum Innovation and Integration, Jan.6-10, 1992, Santa Barbara, CA.10 ME99 Mechanical Dissection - course notes , by Sheri Shepard, Stanford University.11 Teams in Engineering Education , L. Bellamy, D. Evans, D. Linder, B. McNeill, G. Raupp, Report to NSF ofGrant Number USE9156176, March 1994.Biographical Information on AuthorsJOHN S. LAMANCUSA, P.E. is an associate professor in

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differentproblems and deploy different analytical tools and technologies. And industrial design addresses differentaspects of a product than the original engineering design.9 The energy devoted to design, and the commentary about it, increased in the 1980s due to pressures fromglobal competition.10 Some of this design energy has spilled over into engineering education where efforts toadd more (some) design to the curriculum have been in evidence since the late 1980s and are codified in thecurrent ABET requirements.11 This paper will adopt an approach to design that is less than a comprehensivestatement, but more, we hope, than two biographies. We will take design to be problem solving activities thatoccur where human needs meets technological

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Mark Gordon; Joel Greenstein; Jack Hebrank; Douglas E. Hirt; Daniel P. Schrage; Bill Mason; Tom Miller; Jim Nau

freshman engineeringcurriculum, enabling students in other engineering majors to take the course as well. A number of innovationshave been introduced in this course, including: Page 1.169.3 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings • Introductions to the product development process and engineering practice through course activities and real world design projects in the first course of the industrial engineering curriculum. • An early and continual focus on the customer and users of the product. • Integration of a variety of writing and speaking activities into the course to

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engineering curricula does a rather poor job of teaching hands-ondesign. While this is currently being addressed at many universities via the introduction offreshman/sophomore level integrated design courses and through NSF funded programs such as EXCEL andSUCCEED coalitions, many curricula still do not introduce a hands-on design course until the junior/seniorlevel. Thus, it is important that the first lab exercises have a high degree of structure. As the students gainbasic skills, the labs progress in complexity and freedom of design culminating in an open-ended designproject during the second course. The lectures and labs cover the general topics listed below in the orderlisted. Also listed are examples of topics covered in the associated

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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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Session 2230 Review of a Possible Model for Technology Aided Engineering Design Graphics Gary S. Godfrey Northern Illinois UniversityAbstract This research project looks at the present state of 2-D Visualization. It uncovers 3-D Visualizationlearning issues using an analysis technique. Integration of solid modeling into the curriculum is refined usingthree advanced cognitive Instructional Design training techniques. The model of Cognitive Apprenticeship isexamined. The theory of Contextual Module Analysis is put into practice

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. Unfortunately, this course is not integrated withthe remainder of the curriculum. For instance, after taking this course, an EE or ME major rarely sees thetools employed in a sequel course within his major. This issue has been addressed by a multi-university project funded by the National ScienceFoundation [1]. Tasks accomplished by this coalition during the period 1991 - 1992 include thefollowing: (i) Integration of economic principles in a Thermosystems Design Analysis course, (ii)Development of a economic design simulator for estimating cost to manufacture for various thermalcomponents, (iii) Development of case studies focusing on economic principles in design, and (iv)Development of course materials for a course entitled Economics of

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. I[4] Coowar F. and Robinson B., “A Student-Oriented Component in an Integrated Foundation Year Engineering Course”, Proc. I.E. (Aust), Vol. 4, pp. 67-70, 1989.[5] Buczkowski J., Coowar F., Harris D. J., Hoole P., Ilahuka N. and Rugemalira R., “Engineering Analysis - Laboratory Handbook”, University of Technology, PNG, 1987.FEROZE COOWAR graduated with a B. SC. (Hens.) in Electrical Engineering from the South Bank University,U. K., and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is presently withthe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is Advisor to the Headof Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Polytechnic Institute of

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recentlyassume that its students have knowledge of probability and statistics. Third, analysis of uncertain y requiresmuch computation which, if done by hand or even with the use of a calculator, would be a significant amount ofwork and would detract from the focus on Engineering Economy methodologies. The time has come to revise and advance Engineering Economy -- to provide engineering students withpractical tools for assessing uncertainty and risk as an integral part of capital investment decisions. Engineeringcurricula increasingly emphasize critical thinking and modeling skills in addition to solution methodologies.Courses in probability and statistics are now a common part of the core curriculum in engineering. By the timestudents study

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andconceptually difficult physical phenomena and to provide “hands-on” experience. In this process of change,the teaching and practice of engineering design principles began to disappear from the curriculum. Issues raised and discussed in this paper support a return to design as the primary purpose for theengineering laboratory. The issues include: the purposes and style of experimentation, the roles of simulationand the computer, pedagogical relationships between the laboratory and the lecture, the role of engineeringscience in support of design, and intended outcomes for students (graduate school vs. immediate career entry). We provide an example which articulates our goals for an engineering laboratory experience: thegathering of

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into there courses in order to receive graduate course credit. The implementation ofsome of these laboratories K-12 classroom is described.The institute was evaluated through an engineering perception and knowledge survey administered before andafter the institute, as well as through daily feedback forms. Results of these evaluations are also given anddiscussed.IntroductionThe SouthEastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering (SECME) was founded in 1975 to increase minorityappearance in engineering by improving the science and mathematics curriculum for pre-college students. The Page 1.428.1