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Jack Zecher; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

Manufacturing Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, hasundertaken a project to make use of modern marketing technology by developing an interactiveCD-ROM aimed specifically at recruitment. The development of this recruiting tool is beingpartially funded by a grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation.The objective of this project is to develop an interactive CD-ROM. This tool will allow theviewer to: learn about engineering technology careers; learn about IUPUI’s campus; investigatedegree programs and curricula; tour the department’s laboratories; meet the department facultyand students; and have frequently asked questions answered. The obvious benefit to thedevelopment of this CD-ROM will be the

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

engineering education that enhances classroomteaching in terms of relevance and what is taught and how it is taught. A good teacher is often themost active researcher. Further it is the integration of research into teaching which is being adoptedby increasing number of educators. It is claimed by these educators that incorporating researchexamples into their courses and curricula and collaborating with students on research projects resultinto better research. In addition, the students gain important insight into engineering and scienceconcepts as applied to real life problems [2].Research is traditionally conducted by the engineering faculty at the universities with graduateprograms who can bring research grants and use graduate students to help

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K. Swyler; A. Peskin

usinganimation techniques to trace the progress of the pollutants or its remedies.There are many other suitable applications, in the fundamental sciences such as physicsand chemistry, and in applied areas such as oil exploration and protein crystallography.Use of this facility is also of obvious benefit in teaching computer technology.Collaborative applications also provide lessons in teamwork, leadership, andresponsibility in ways that conventional course delivery cannot. Perhaps such a facility’sgreatest advantage is in showcasing cross-disciplinary activities, where one may find, forexample, chemical, medical, and computer technologists working on different aspects ofthe same problem, with each gaining insight and respect for the work of the others.A

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K. Swyler; A. Peskin

usinganimation techniques to trace the progress of the pollutants or its remedies.There are many other suitable applications, in the fundamental sciences such as physicsand chemistry, and in applied areas such as oil exploration and protein crystallography.Use of this facility is also of obvious benefit in teaching computer technology.Collaborative applications also provide lessons in teamwork, leadership, andresponsibility in ways that conventional course delivery cannot. Perhaps such a facility’sgreatest advantage is in showcasing cross-disciplinary activities, where one may find, forexample, chemical, medical, and computer technologists working on different aspects ofthe same problem, with each gaining insight and respect for the work of the others.A

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Warren R. Hill

Session 1647 New Issues for Administrative Action Warren R. Hill, Dean College of Applied Science and Technology Weber State University Ogden UT 84408-1801IntroductionThere are a number of important issues facing administrators in Engineering Technologyprograms today. Beyond the more obvious issues such as tenure, teaching loads, what constitutesresearch, faculty salaries and terminal degrees, there are a host of other critical issues, five ofwhich are discussed here. While one can come up with

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Barbara E. Marino; Sandra Yost

program, obtainingfunding, securing laboratory facilities and equipment, teaching courses, and weeding through theseemingly countless requests to serve on university and research-related committees and activitiesare all demands placed on new faculty members. Unseen to most graduate and doctoral students,these tasks present an imposing reality to the beginning faculty member. Decisions at the beginning of a tenure-track appointment regarding the use of limited timecan have lasting effects on one’s professorial career. Successfully handling the demands of atenure track appointment and negotiating the “tenure gauntlet” requires an astute balancing act.Having a skilled mentor to assist in choosing appropriate activities and career strategies

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Joseph Cataldo

Hydrography Package(HEC-1)4,” and “River Analysis System (HEC-RAS)5.” It is virtually impossible to find theinstructions on the use of these programs in an introductory course in Water ResourceEngineering. This has placed an added burden in teaching hydraulics and hydrology to theundergraduate engineering students.Approximately a decade ago, the course in Water Resource Engineering (hydraulics andhydrology is introduced to junior civil engineering students in this course) at Cooper Union wasrevised to include a three hour laboratory and problem solving weekly session. In order toincorporate the use of the latest techniques in this course, projects in urban storm water runoffand flooding were assigned. The HEC-1 program and HEC-2 program was used to

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Sohail Anwar

development of collaborativecourses, the cooperative instruction of video conferences, and the exploration of the use of newinformation technologies for teaching, learning and distance education.In 1996, three faculty members from the University Park Campus of Penn State, one facultymember from Penn State Altoona and one faculty member from Penn State New Kensingtontraveled to IUT Bethune to teach and observe in several departments. Two students from theUniversity Park Campus of Penn State spent two months in industrial placements in Bethune andLille.Again in 1997, four faculty members from University Park and one faculty member fromAltoona traveled to Bethune to teach lecture and laboratory sessions and to collaborate on aconference on the use of

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Ron Bailey; Richard DeBlasio; David Freeman; Rommel Simpson; Devdas Pai

, J. McCarter, R. Roedel, and P. Williams, 1996, "Team-Based Projects for Assessment in First-Year Physics Courses Supporting Engineering," Proceedings of the ASEE 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session 8, Paper 3.3. Felder, R., 1992, "How about a Quick One?" Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 18-19.4. Felder, R., and R. Brent, 1996, "Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction," College Teaching, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 43-47.5. Mahajan, A. and D. McDonald, 1997, "An Innovative Integrated Learning Laboratory Environment," Proceedings

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Michael W. Jennings; Jamal A. Ghorieshi

pursuance ofanswering the question: “What should be taught to engineering students?”, theinstructional changes intensified sharply since 1970. The engineering curriculum Page 3.155.1progressed from stand-up lecture and laboratory demonstration format to problem-solving 1mode, visualization, and experimentation. This paradigm shift is encouraging innovation,creativity, design, hands-on experience, solution of real world problems, interdisciplinaryintegration, and response to industrial, economic and social sensitivity. Major emphasis isto teach processes that lead to a life-long learning in order to lengthen the

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William E. Cole; Jerome Tapper

2.33 Statistics 2.60 2.94 Mechanics 2.69 2.33 Building Systems 2.84 2.85 Drawing Tools 2.85 Manufacturing Processes 2.56 2.83 Laboratory Skills 2.67 Library Research 2.33 C programming 2.89 2.17 Unix Knowledge 1.83Math (Differential Equations, Calculus) and basic engineering technology skills (Thermo/Fluids,Materials) are low in importance to the respondents. This is

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

-5 students; laboratory and computer teaching assistants; and in all cases mentors for theunderclassman. In the freshman course they also assist with course development, scheduling ofactivities (OSU orientation, plant trips, library tours, etc.), writing instruction, computerinstruction, and as “big brothers or sisters” to the freshman students. In each course where thesementors have been used, evaluations are conducted such that the students evaluate the mentors andtheir group members (peer evaluation), and the mentors evaluate the students. These evaluationsare given a weighting in the final grade determination for both students and mentors.The results after ten quarters of use are encouraging, though not without some “glitches”. The “good

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J.P. Agrawal; Omer Farook; Chandra R. Sekhar

6'#/$7+.&+0)#56*'(1%75+0#%1745'10 '.'%6410+%241,'%6'0)+0''4+0) ,2#ITCYCN1OGT(CTQQMCPF%45GMJCT 2WTFWG7PKXGTUKV[%CNWOGV *COOQPF+0 The paper presents the teaching methodology of a new course in Electronic Project Engineering in the Bachelor degree program of the Electrical Engineering Technology. This course is a precursor to the course in Senior Design Project. The course contains two components: (1) Introducing the principles and concepts of project planning and engineering and (2) the execution of a demonstrable project that is run very close to the principles learned. The first component is conducted through a

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James R. Etchison

laboratory. Although the EETprogram had used this basic curriculum structure for decades, it was becoming clear that theerosion of academic standards in the secondary education system was taking its toll on thefreshmen's ability to function adequately in an environment where grades were based ondemonstrated ability rather than effort, seat time, or extra credit assignments.At OIT, merely introducing a student to a topic is considered inadequate. We cover topicsthoroughly, and expect mastery of the topic by the student in return. This educational philosophydictates that students follow the rule of thumb of two hours of homework outside of class forevery hour in lecture, plus plenty of hands-on reinforcement in the laboratory. Employers valueour

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Beena Sukumaran

Session 2615 Geo-environmental Engineering - An Integral Part of Civil Engineering Beena Sukumaran Rowan UniversityAbstractAll sophomore students at Rowan University are introduced to engineering design andexperiments through a series of integrated lectures and laboratories. The class described in thefollowing paragraphs, is one in a series of engineering clinics offered in the freshmen to senioryears. Sophomore students are exposed to a variety of engineering principles, experimentalmethods, and design tools not typically

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Klaus Wuersig

Sessions 1547 Switching and Power Electronics An Innovative Approach Klaus Wuersig SUNY College of Technology at AlfredIt is found so very often that courses that are taught in College have very little relevance to whatis happening in the real world. So many times a laboratory exercise is just that, an exercise. Inorder for meaning and relevance to intrude into this scenario it is essential that a student takespossession of an idea, a concept or an assignment. To design a product , very

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Richard K. Keplar; Eugene F. Smith; Vernon W. Lewis

: Structural Courses - Structural Analysis - Computer Applications in Structural Design - Reinforced Concrete Design - Structural Steel Design - Reinforced Masonry and Wood Design - Building Structures Design Laboratory Page 3.6.1This paper describes the curriculum characteristics of the structural portion of the structuraldesign and construction management emphasis, referred to hereafter as the “SD/CM” emphasis.One of the principal positions of the graduates of this emphasis is that of structural designer

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Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

SESSION 3213 Enhancing Underrepresented Student Opportunities Through Faculty Mentoring and Peer Interactions Antonio A. Garcia, Gary D. Keller, Albert McHenry Arizona State University Fred Begay Los Alamos National Laboratory During the past seven years, an alliance of colleges and universities within Arizona, Colorado,New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Western Texas along with professional organizations,government laboratories, educational organizations, and corporations has been committed to oneof the most

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Kassim M. Tarhini; Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

requirements for legal entry into the U.S. as a student, as specified by theImmigration and Naturalization Service, should be provided.Orientation programs should comprise two phases; a personalized orientation program focusing oncultural activities and student services provided by the university should be conducted, followed byan academic orientation program. These programs should be completed before classes begin. Thepersonalized orientation will assist international students in making a successful transition from theirhome countries to U.S. engineering institutions by familiarizing them with university services suchas the library, computer center, student recreation center, student union, major laboratories, culturalcenter and legal office. In

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Stephen C. Cooper; Michael D. Rucki; Gregory R. Miller

environment, available in Macintosh and Windows versions,simulates a two-dimensional structural testing laboratory in which users can interactively buildand test model structures in quasi real-time. Dr. Frame provides immediate visual andnumerical feedback of the primary quantities of engineering interest: displacement, internalforces, and reactions. Like its predecessor, Dr. Beam [Miller and Cooper, 1995, Cooper andMiller, 1996], the interface has been designed so that Dr. Frame's use is analogous to using abasic drawing program. Model generation and manipulation is accomplished visually, usingreadily available tools and mouse actions. Dr. Frame is capable of solving quasi-static, linearproblems, with the notable feature that solution updating is

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J. W. Stevens; A.A. Jalalzadeh-Azar; W.G. Steele; B.K. Hodge

’ experience would be a valuable addition to the course. Allstudents had seen air conditioning systems; some had even worked with HVAC consultants andcontractors. None had seen a desiccant dehumidification system, and most were not evenfamiliar with the idea prior to that section of our course. Thus, while a laboratory set-up mightnot be typically feasible, even a field trip to visit an installed and functioning system would behelpful and interesting to most students. REVISIONS IN THE CURRICULUM MODULEAs a result of using the desiccant dehumidification curriculum module in its final form, severalrevisions were made to make the module more useful for a classroom environment. Some smallchanges for clarification were made in the

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Chong Chen

course.The software and hardware used are LabVIEW and PCI-1200 board from National Instruments.LabVIEW is a graphical programming language that has been widely adopted throughoutindustry, academia, and government labs as the standard for data acquisition and instrumentcontrol software. PCI-1200 board is a low-cost, multifunction I/O Data acquisition card thatcommunicates with a PC through a parallel port. In our laboratory, they are used for measuringtemperatures, stress and other variables. With LabVIEW, PCI-1200 board, and signal conditionalcircuits, students may collect, display, and process the values of those quickly changingvariables. They may also see the variations of these variables in detail, which usually isimpossible without a digital

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Mark Schulz; DeRome Dunn; Abhijit Duraphe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai; Richard Layton

Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI.6. Mahajan, A. and D. McDonald, 1997, "An Innovative Integrated Learning Laboratory Environment," Proceedings of the ASEE 1997 Annual Conference, Session 1559, Paper 6.7. Turcotte, L., and H. Wilson, 1998, Computer Applications in Mechanics of Materials Using MATLAB®, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, pp. 12 - 23.Biographical InformationDEVDAS PAI is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University.He received the B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He teaches in the area of

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

bringto the classroom a cultural and educational background that is quite different from that ofthe typical Indiana resident. Most faculty members adjust their approach to teaching inresponse to these differences, and many gain insight into their technique as a result. Inthe long run, students who are resident of Indiana benefit from the resulting refinement oftechnique.Classroom dynamicAs of January 1998, one hundred-twenty two Malaysian students were enrolled inengineering programs on the home campus of IUPUI as a result of the agreement withTenaga Nasional. Their participation in classroom and laboratory sessions enriches thelearning environment for Indiana residents, providing Hoosiers with greater opportunityto develop international

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

bringto the classroom a cultural and educational background that is quite different from that ofthe typical Indiana resident. Most faculty members adjust their approach to teaching inresponse to these differences, and many gain insight into their technique as a result. Inthe long run, students who are resident of Indiana benefit from the resulting refinement oftechnique.Classroom dynamicAs of January 1998, one hundred-twenty two Malaysian students were enrolled inengineering programs on the home campus of IUPUI as a result of the agreement withTenaga Nasional. Their participation in classroom and laboratory sessions enriches thelearning environment for Indiana residents, providing Hoosiers with greater opportunityto develop international

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

bringto the classroom a cultural and educational background that is quite different from that ofthe typical Indiana resident. Most faculty members adjust their approach to teaching inresponse to these differences, and many gain insight into their technique as a result. Inthe long run, students who are resident of Indiana benefit from the resulting refinement oftechnique.Classroom dynamicAs of January 1998, one hundred-twenty two Malaysian students were enrolled inengineering programs on the home campus of IUPUI as a result of the agreement withTenaga Nasional. Their participation in classroom and laboratory sessions enriches thelearning environment for Indiana residents, providing Hoosiers with greater opportunityto develop international

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1998 Annual Conference

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William M. Clark; Anthony G. Dixon; David DiBiasio

instructional modules, peer-assistedcooperative learning structures, a “just-in-time” learning paradigm, and industriallyrelevant projects that introduce design concepts early in the year. Our goal is to addressproblems with the traditional academic structure that include poor retention, segmentedlearning, and the need to deliver a cost-effective education to a student audience ofdiverse backgrounds and learning styles.We will present a detailed description of the spiral curriculum and discuss the results ofthe first year’s implementation. We are teaching the new sequence to a randomly selectedgroup of sophomores and comparing their performance to students in the traditionalsequence. Our evaluation design will be described including the variety of

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S. Pennell; R. Worcester; R. Stone; Mustafa Guvench

variation of diffusion/oxidation temperature isobtained, allowing the wafer to go through a recipe of diffusion/oxidation/annealing sequence at varioustemperatures and in different gas compositions with fully controlled rates of ramp up or ramp down. Atemperature control of ± 1 C RMS is shown to be achievable which is mostly limited by noise in thetemperature readings. 1. IntroductionIn the university operated microfabrication laboratories, unlike an industrial production setting,the diffusion/oxidation furnaces employed for semiconductor device and integrated circuitfabrication have very small average usage time due to the inherent low-volume of suchoperations[1,2]. In these laboratories the standard

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James Rehg

-course.html.Development of team skills: Building team skills is as difficult as teaching problem solving in aweb-based application. Several approaches can be used, including teams linked by Internet mailworking on common problems; progress design exercises in which each team member works ona portion of the design before passing it electronically to the next team member; and use of chatsoftware technology to permit group interaction on a problem.Performance of laboratory experiments: The most difficult aspect of teachingengineering/engineering technology courses online is delivering the laboratory experience. Thecreation of a virtual laboratory online that delivers equal or better experiences than a physicallaboratory is difficult to achieve. A second example

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Ronald D. Earley

Session 3648 Use of FEA in an Introductory Strength of Materials Course Ronald D. Earley Miami UniversityAbstractThe new generation of PC-based computer aided engineering software is relatively easy to learn and use. Mosthave robust graphics user interfaces and adequate CAD modules that greatly enhance the teaching and learningprocess. These facts coupled with product availability, relatively low cost, and reliability make them aconvenient tool to be included within the curriculum of many introductory engineering