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Michael V. Doran; Herbert E. Longenecker; David L. Feinstein; David D. Langan

the fields of computing, computing education and educational psychology, was conducted atthe beginning of the project to critique project planning and initial materials. Materials currently developedwill be class tested and evaluated by other faculty during the remainder of this year. These updated materialswill be refined and further disseminated. The evaluation of materials will continue with the original five on-site consultants, three off-site consultants and several review/adoption institutions. An Undergraduate FacultyEnhancement workshop has been funded and is being planned for June of 1996. This will allow 20participants to be exposed to the methodology and materials developed in this project

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Julie Sandberg; Christine L. Collier; Chell Roberts; Lawrence Genalo

researched and scientific explanations of the phenomena at hand, butexplained so that the average 6th or 7th grader (the target audience) could understand them. These twostudents were directly supervised by an undergraduate woman, co-author Collier, herself a former internin this program. The purpose of the internship program is to give young women experience in researchlaboratories under the mentorship of an Iowa State professor, thereby solidifying their interest in SEM(Science, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers. This particular research project not only provided sucha research experience for the two high school women but it also provided an internship in supervisingresearchers for the undergraduate student as well as allowing a

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Utpal Roy; Daniel Panayil

Session 2263 Development Of A Feature Based Rapid Design Environment Utpal Roy, Daniel Panayil Syracuse UniversityAbstract Computer based realistic projects are required in all of our undergraduate design related courses.Students are encouraged to design their individual projects (related to some real-life design and manufacturingproblems) using state-of-the-art computer-tided design (CAD) tools. However, due to some inherentinflexibilities of current CAD tools, students cannot use them efficiently. It is now recognized that feature

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Paul F. Packman; Charles M. Lovas

from all engineering disciplines. DEED continues tosupport the Engineering Case Library~ which evolved from the Engineering .Case Program originated atStanford University in 1964. The Sloan Foundation in the 1950’s and 1960’s funded many of the strongest engineering design pro-grams that continue at institutions such as Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Drexel University. The SloanFoundation was a founding supporter of six Engineering Design and Design Education Conferences held inalternative years between 1963 and 19734. During the 1960’s and 1970’s many of the local design programspublished compendiums of student senior design projects. A large number of these senior design projects werecollected nationally into the Design Projects

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Herbert Hess

energy conservation, but there is a need for better understanding of drive behavior. Inan electromechanical conversion course, opportunities to incorporate drive systems exist in theintroductory portion, as individual machines are introduced, in the laboratory, and in the course closure.Capstone design is a feasible place for realistic machine-drive projects. Methods of incorporating topicsare presented and tradeoffs are discussed.Introduction Not many years ago, the Adjustable Speed Drive (ASD) was just a specialized electronic systemassociated with direct current machinery. Now it seems that induction motors in many places havesprouted an ASD. The primary reason is the energy saving advantages, which are well documented.[1,29] Since

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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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Landon C. Onyebueke; Chinyere Onwubiko

structures ormachine elements. This technology has been successfully applied to various loading conditions encounteredduring space flights. However, this technology is yet to be accepted in the industries. This paper usesPDM to demonstrate the role of students in the transfer of technology. Included in the paper are overview of PDM, the different stages that are necessary in preparingstudents for effective technology transfer. Projects carried out by engineering students at Tennessee StateUniversity are used to illustrate the features of PDM and how students can be used as a means for thetransfer of the technology to industries.Introduction: The effectiveness of any new technology is reflected in its usefulness. Its popularity depends on

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Steven Wayde; Ph.D., Roger W. Webster

://zansiii.millersv.edu AbstractA great deal of research being performed in computer science and in undergraduate and graduateprograms in the sciences, centers around collaborative scientific projects and the visualization of theresults. With so much activity in the scientific community today comprised of collaborative projectswhich include and require computer scientists, a logical step at this time is to expose students to thehardware, special devices, and software techniques of virtual reality, virtual world modeling, andscientific visualization. This paper describes a virtual world modeling laboratory for undergraduatesin Computer Science. Specific hardware, devices, software, project specifications, and

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R. Papannareddy

techniques 6-7 to conduct the newlaboratory experiments in analog electronics courses in a two-year electrical engineering technology curriculum.Section II describes the setup of MBEIL workstations and Section III discusses the application software.Section IV outlines the list of experiments along with the plan of study. The results are presented in Section V.Finally, the project is summarized in Section VI.II. MBEIL WORKSTATIONFigure 1 shows a typical MBEIL workstation. A typical MBEIL workstation consists of programmableequipment such as DMM, digital storage oscilloscope, power supply, and1 This project is sponsored under NSF-ILI award 9550836

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Vinay Govande; Kristine Laubach; Jr., Dr. Emory W. Zimmers; Jennifer Montemurro; Dr. Roger Nagel; Alice Swanger

creatively apply new -technology and business practices in small to medium-sized manufacturers, and by developing a highly skilled Page 1.328.3 $itii’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,yyy’:an~cZ%i@itive ‘work force. To help initiate projects, the center provides funding and assistance to linkcompanies to universities for technological support. Projects implement new technologies and practices orappljwdready existing

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James V. Masi

New England College in 1982 setup, as part of its Capstone Course, called Senior Design Projects, a cooperative utilizing the facilities of the school, industry, andhospital, the talents of professor, medical professional, industrial technologist, and student, and the base of ideas generated by allparties, including NASA’s Technology Utilization Services (as found in NASA Tech Briefs). The meetings of the parties involved,student, professor, medical professional, industrial advisor, and patient, was part of the structure which proceeded quite easily. Theorchestration of the effort was the only portion of the program remaining to be clarified. How would costs be shared? How wouldtime be allocated? Who would own the invention if one resulted

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Robert L. Drake; Ottis L. Barron; J. Douglas Sterrett

design team. Although initiated before therelease of a 1994 ASEE report 2, the new program parallels the recommendations contained in the report. 3 4Ideas fi-om Keen and a March 1995 workshop are being incorporated into a two-course freshmansequence initially offered in the 1995-96 academic year. These courses are the first of several that incorporatedesign projects, reports, and presentations in an effort to produce better prepared graduates. An oflen heard complaint fi-om fist and second year engineering students is “I’m studying all of thismath and science-when will I get to do some engineering?” ~s comment maybe a clue to the cause of thehigh attrition rate of entering engineering students

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Steven M. Click; Jr., John W. Baugh; Joseph E. Hummer; Bhavani P. Konuru

students and greater efficiency for instructors. In the past, the resourcesnecessary for CBI were in short supply, but now that many universities maintain powerful computingenvironments, questions about the effectiveness and efficiency of CBI arise. To investigate the effectiveness of CBI, the project team developed three CBI units--one each for design,analysis, and background information--for use in a junior-level transportation engineering class. The team thenconducted controlled experiments with the units. The team divided the participating class randomly in half. Anexam covering material other than that in the CBI units was used to ensure that neither group had superiorstudents. One group received traditional classroom instruction

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John O. Dimmock; Stephen T. Kowel

ABSTRACT An interdisciplinary Master’s Program with a concentration in Optics and Photonics Technology hasbeen developed under the U.S. Manufacturing Education and Training Activity of the TechnologyReinvestment Project. This development has been a collaboration between the University of Alabama inHuntsville, Alabama A&M University, Northwest Shoals Community College, the NASA Marshall SpaceFlight Center, the U. S. Army Missile Command, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Advanced Optical SystemsInc., Dynetics, Inc., Hughes Danbury Optical Systems, Inc., Nichols Research and Speedring Inc. Theseorganizations as well as the National Institute for Standards and Technology and SCI, Inc. have beenparticipating fully in the design, development and

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Denise Dorricott; Richard Devon

and personal causes that need to be controlled by constant recourse to the designproblem itself (and by the norms of the group). This problem may well get changed by the client or the designteam at several points in the design and product development process, but it is important never to lose sight ofits centrality to the mission and the need to have the design problem clearly delineated. It is also at this stagethat broad constraints of resources, cost, safety, and environment are first laid out - as are the project schedules(e.g., Gantt and Pert charts). Page 1.471.3 1996 ASEE Annual

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David W. Russell

major obstacle to doctoral study for fblly employed post-Masters students in the US is the residency and candidacy requirements. The residency requirement provides the doctoral student with intensive study leading to candidacy examinations. The rationale varies from college to college, but has its reasoning based in the necessity for departmental academic interests to be understood and also as a preparation for the research project that the student selects. The candidacy examination gatekeeps the quality of preparation and facilitates the construction of a committee that will direct and monitor the project Page

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Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

principals, we employ the following assessment tools:Time Survey. This simple but effective tool documents the time spent by students in out-of-class preparation foreach lesson. It is administered at the start of every class attendance, in every course taught by the Department ofCivil and Mechanical Engineering. For the individual instructor, the time survey provides feedback on how muchtime students are spending on class preparation, homework, projects, and examinations. For the programdirector, the survey provides a reasonably accurate assessment of the relative academic rigor of the courseswhich constitute the program. More important, time survey data for successive offerings of the same courseclearly indicate an increase or decrease in academic

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Luis G. Occeña

problems. This paper presents the result of a NSF-ILI project to examine the alternative of teaching students howto integrate system components themselves, from the ground up, making use of basic principles and seeing firsthand how everything does not always fit together nicely. A laboratory was established consisting of modular,table-top system components that can be mixed and matched to build many different computer integratedsystems using a variety of configurations. The development of this lab and the outcome on student learning ofCIM are described in this paper and in the presentation.INTRODUCTION Systems integration and control refers to the design, development, and orchestration of both the majorand supporting components and

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Richard A. King; Jack Van de Water

the world as easily as withthose in the same office complex. Beyond the simple act of “keeping up” with colleagues, it has become feasibleto share projects and research in the same manner. This capability will have a profound effect on professional lifein the future.This paper describes a program initiated by the higher education system of Oregon, to foster changes in theeducation paradigm which will embrace the coming global design arena. This new program - Global Graduates:the Oregon International Internship Program - is designed to improve the educational preparation for the“borderless” careers that present students will encounter upon graduation

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T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

1.360.2 ?@x~j 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,Dll#l: Iprovide the necessary educational breadth, and to meet the projected demands for engineers and scientistsin photonics. The engineering student must learn not only the knowledge base of photonics, but also theskills to integrate and synthesize that knowledge. There is an undeniable need for courses, textbooks, instructional modules and laboratories, anddesign experiences. Rarely is photonics found in undergraduate engineering or physics courses or textbooks,despite immense student

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William H. Mason; Michael P. Deisenroth

with respect to individual components and subsystems of the aircraft. Industry is helping us todevelop case studies illustrating the manufacturing processing sequences associated with particularcomponents. The lectures then focuses on manufacturing cost analysis and cost drivers in aerospacemanufacturing. This was followed by a discussion of the manufacturing environment as an integrated system.Finally, concepts in design for producibility were addressed in light of the materials already presented.Laboratory demonstrations, field trips, and a term project served to reirdlorce class material and provided thestudents with some hands-on experiences.Introduction In the last few years, it has become clear that aerospace engineers need to

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Forrest S. Keeler; Dr. Mihir K. Das

enable system design and project management for effective and efiicient humaninteraction. In today’s technology, the total Systems Engineering Life Cycle from womb-to-tomb may take asmany as 40 years or more (e.g., the B-52 and C-13 O aircraft), and each stage in the System Life Cycle and itssystem ramifications must be clearly understood by the engineer. The Fundamental SE ConceptsThe subject of Systems Engineering has been discussed by many researchers and authors [1 - 12]. According toRhode, et al. [1], SE can be viewed in many different ways: a discipline involving engineering and managementscience; a design process technology; a methodology for defining or designing “anything”; an

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R.J. Kennerknecht; R.H. Cockrum; G.K. Herder; E.T. Ibrahim

and 3 show asimple system used to control pH in our analytic system. The diagram shown in figure 3shows the individual function modules that were selected from the LabVIEW library andgraphically linked together. It can be seen that there are no complex functions needed to createthis type of system.Our laboratory is set up to teach all types of engineering and engineering technology studentsabout instrumentation and control systems. Engineering technology students have used thislab for special projects since its dedication in 1992. Courses designed around the new labcapabilities started in Spring 96. We now teach engineering technology studentsinstrumentation systems, including sensors and data acquisition circuits in this laboratory

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D.E., Lt. Col. Randall K. Liefer

“near space” environment relatively easily. As a case in point, theAir Force Academy’s recent flight of a small satellite under a 250,000 cubic foot balloon to 110,000 feetis summarized briefly.Introduction Engineering educators are always looking for ways to involve their students in real-worlddesign projects that move beyond paper solutions to actual hardware. In the best of all worlds,students get to apply theory from the classroom and experience all the joys and frustrations associatedwith the design, fabrication, and testing of working systems. Innovative programs in all the traditionalengineering disciplines are being developed and reported regularly. For example, at the Air ForceAcademy alone, the Civil Engineering Department has

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Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; John E. Gastineau; Ernest E. Burniston

team of professors using acombination of traditional lecturing and alternative instructional methods including cooperative learning,activity-based class sessions, and extensive use of computer simulations. A single computer-equippedclassroom that accommodates 36 students serves for all class meetings (except for chemistry wet-labs). Thispaper outlines the approach used to develop and teach the curriculum and proposes necessary conditions formultidisciplinary team teaching to be effective.Faculty Roles and Tasks One faculty member (RMF) serves as overall project coordinator and instructor in the first-semesterengineering course. Another (JEG), who is fully supported by the project funding, takes principalresponsibility for student

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Donald N. Merino

‘.,+,~ll~’: . However, the R, D & E Lab Directors indicated that there are problems associated with the use ofmetrics. For example, if you measure the time to market of your new product development projects will thisresult in a reduction of time to market or if careful records are kept of field failure, will the reliabilityincrease? Often metrics are employed in the hope of decreasing time to market and/or reducing costs. Yetthese metrics often fall short of delivering the desired results. Fipure 1 Metrics in the Im~rovement Process One conclusion from this experience is that for significant and/or rapid improvements you need toapply metrics in conjunction with

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Lynn Kiaer

thistechnique in projects on empirical distributions. As soon as the students can generate exponentially distributed variables (using the random numbergenerator on a hand-held calculator), we develop a single-server simulation manually, and keep track of it onthe board. The tabular format for keeping track of the simulation manually eases the later transition to aspreadsheet. The f~st few lines of the manual simulation are often quite exciting to the students, as they beginto realize the possibilities of the technique, but this interest peters out long before they have managed a dozenevents. Simulation on a spreadsheet is introduced at this time by demonstrating a twenty-line simulation of asingle-server queue having a Poisson arrival

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Yolanda Guran

fromEnschede to complete their senior project at OIT. After a hesitant yes everything started. We had to jumpthrough many logistical hoops: visas, accommodations, etc., but we had students from the Netherlands since.Table 1 shows the evolution of the student exchange program.Year Students exchanged Activity Campus1991 Two Hogeschool Enschede students Senior Project Klamath Falls1992 Two Hogeschool Enschede students Senior Project Klamath Falls1993 Two Hogeschool Enschede students Senior Project Klamath Falls1993/94 One Hogeschool Eindhoven student Internship Portland1994 10ne Hogeschool Enschede sstudent Internship Portland1995/96

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Daniel Davis

Session 2206 DESIGNING WITH HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY The Hop Brook School: a case study Daniel Davis, AIA Architectural Engineering Technology Ward College, University of HartfordAbstractThe Hop Brook School in Naugatuck, Connecticut, is a project that blends history with technology. The costeffectiveness that resulted from using the most advanced technologies available allowed the traditional styleadditions and renovations at the Hop Brook School to be possible

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Jerome P. Lavelle

discourage use ofbuilt-in functions until I am convinced that the students understand what they are doing and who to modeleconomic analysis situations + Add notes on accounting + Add engineers journal, scheduling and planning,activity based accounting concepts + Supplement with note and articles from TEE ● T_Jse case book + Use casestudies from my casebook ● Supplement with a finance text and a Managerial economics text in two quarters + Supplement notes on cost estimating and cost accounting ● Use notes developed from NSF project + Eachlecture supplement with examples fi-om other texts, will use cases later in semester ● A workbook in conjunctionwith a text has been used + Augment with personal notesC)UESTION: Do You Use “Spreadsheets” in Your