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Michael H. Gregg

, "L" record2: beam depth, “b” = "c"*2 record3: beam cross sectional area, "A" record4: beam moment of inertia, "I" record5: beam modulus of elasticity, "E" The applied load data is supplied in a second data file, whose name will also be entered by the user during execution. The data in this file is as follows: columns 21-22 Integer number of load columns 23-32 Magnitude of load in pounds force, "P" columns 33-38 Direction of applied load, Cartesian degrees columns 1-4 application point, inches from left end Note the

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T.R. Kurfess; M.L. Nagurka

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P.R. Roberge; M.A.A. Tullmin

assignments have subsequently been designed in electronicformat to develop skills in applying the knowledge and understanding gained from thepaper based course notes. Following detailed planning, additional work is underway topresent further selected material in electronic format.1. IntroductionCorrosion Science and Engineering (CSE) is an important element of chemicalengineering education, at both the university student and practicing professional levels.For the purposes of this paper these two populations will simply be referred to as “thestudents”. While not all chemical engineering university students receive formaleducation in this field, most chemical engineers can be expected to have to deal withcorrosion damage in technical and/or managerial

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

process calculations, Kawamura2 and the Engineering News RecordIndex for process cost analysis and inflationary effects, and Water Treatment Federation, ASCE 3for equipment size determinations.Student results varied for the wastewater process design. Figure 1 shows a typical student flowsheet for the process with flows and compositions summarized in Table 1. Table 2 shows thequantity and size of units required. The plant cost estimates for the groups ranged from $6million to $7.6 million. Operating and maintenance costs ranged from $450,000 to $500,000 peryear and the size estimate was 30-35 acres.Overall, the students found the project was too much work, but they enjoyed the effort, especiallythe team approach to the problem solution, and the

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Jim Morgan

first semester, they do receive credit for the firsttraditional calculus course and (with the addition of a 1 credit hour lab course) the mechanicsphysics course. Each student is assigned to a team of 4 (or 3) and works with the same team in all classesuntil reassigned. Student teams are changed once during the fall semester (before midterm) andagain at the start of the second semester. Pseudo-random team assignments account for academicability, gender and ethnicity. The goals during team assignment are: no team with a singlemember of an underrepresented group, and all teams with equal academic ability. Students alsoare given the opportunity to participation in an interaction team (composed of five or six studentsand one member from the

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Carol Richardson

engineering technology programs at RIT has improved from 21% in 1991 to12% in 1994. Introduction A decrease in freshman enrollments at RIT started in 1989 and continued to 1994with a one year increase in 1992. The number of engineering and engineering technologydegrees awarded by schools with ABET accreditation has been relatively constant sincethe early 1990’s in the surveys conducted by the Engineering Workforce Commission ofthe American Association of Engineering Societies. 1 Engineering and engineeringtechnology programs at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are five-year programsas they require fifteen months of cooperative work experience so engineering andengineering technology degrees

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Jerry W. Samples; Robert Martinazzi

,approximately 30%, leave or change four-year universities taking with them frustration about theacademic system as well as a lower self esteem.1 It is incumbent on universities to offerfreshman a learning experience designed to minimize the fear of the unknown. Concurrently, theeducational experience should provide the freshman with the knowledge of the various importantaspects of their first year and the understanding necessary to survive and succeed in thistraumatic encounter with university life.Many universities have freshman orientation programs that focus on the difficulties of this newexperience. The concentration is on generic issues including; study habits, getting along withroommates, campus layout and activities, security, and so on. The

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Patricia Olesak; Christine L. Corum

% = \ 0.680If the Hume-Rothery solubility rules are to be followed, a solute atom must be within the rangeof 0.920-0.680 inch in diameter if the solvent atom measures 0.800 inch in diameter. A dimemeasures 0.755 inch in diameter, a nickel measures 0.855 inch in diameter, and a quartermeasures 1.000 inch in diameter. A substitution of dimes or nickels can easily be made withoutmuch disruption to the penny matrix, since either substitution is within 15% of 0.800 in.However, a quarter substitution substantially distorts the penny matrix, since it is 25% larger thanthe 0.800 inch diameter pennies. These substitutions can easily be demonstrated as shown inFigure 1. Figure 1. Hume-Rothery solubility rulesA vacancy can be

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; David D. Clark; David W. Rosen

developing aDesign Learning Simulator (DLS). The DLS consists of three components - processes andprocedures that are embodied in a product realization process, tools that support those processes,and a domain knowledge base from which to gather information to complete tasks. The Design-Learning Simulator may be accessed on the World Wide Web at"http://www.srl.gatech.edu/DLS/". In this paper, we describe a Function-Behavior-Structure model, which is embodied in a part of our Design Learning Simulator, for convertinginformation that characterizes the needs and requirements for a product into knowledge about theproduct.1 Graduate Research Assistant2 Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Systems Realization Laboratory3 Assistant

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David M. Woodall

accreditation following the substantial downsizingwhich seems to have become the norm. Philadelphia, 1995The first UWC [1] had about 80 attendees from academe and industry for a one and a half daymeeting. There were four principal themes as the focus of that working conference: a broaddefinition of nuclear engineering, employability of NE’s in diverse fields, importance of facultyresearch activities for a viable program, and the importance of strategic planning for a successfulprogram. Following is some elaboration on each of these themes.Nuclear engineering faculty members should espouse a broader definition of nuclear engineerthan that traditionally associated with commercial nuclear power. The redefinition of nuclearengineering as “the

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Robert J. Herrick; Dennis R. Depew

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Peter A. Rosati

significantly more Reflective, Verbal and Sequential than themales’. The teaching and presentation of most engineering courses would be more effectivefor the majority of students if they contained elements which appealed to all learning styles,which, these results suggest would require them to incorporate and emphasise more Active,Sensing, Visual and Global components.1. IntroductionStudent learning styles are frequently modelled along dichotomous dimensions such asactive/reflective, right-brained/left-brained or sensing/intuition. These dimensions, welldescribed in the literature’, represent continuous scales and an individual student might reporthis preference for one pole as strong or weak. Teaching approaches that address a variety oflearning

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T. Al Austin; Steve Wells

which the students were taking thecourse and the last column indicates the number of students that have successfully completedthem. Page 2.213.1 Course # of Classes # of States Total # of Students Introduction to Engineering 3 16 29 AutoCAD Drawing 2 19 23 Chemistry 2 12 13 Surveying 1 4 4 Calculus 1 5

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Raul Herrera

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Richard Gilbert; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

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

perceived needs. The program advisory board then negotiatesthe final requirements for the student’s activities. The five required components are: 1) Ateaching seminar, 2) Investigation of current teaching practices, 3) a mentored teachingagreement, 4) A reinvestment activity and 5) developing a teaching portfolio.The mentored teaching agreement is an agreement between the graduate student and a facultymember where the faculty member agrees to supervise and guide the graduate student duringhis/her classroom teaching experience. The teaching portfolio includes a collection of teachingmaterials representative of the graduate student’s abilities. The purpose of this collection is todocument teaching experience, strengths and achievements. The documents

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V. Gerez; G. Venkataramanan; D. Egolf; Brian K. Johnson; Jerry Hamann

, Venkataramanan and Johnson, began discussing the possibility of cross-listing graduate courses in the electric power area several years ago. The objectives were to 1)increase the number of power courses available each semester, 2) increase the diversity of topicsavailable for students, and 3) free up the power faculty at the two schools for other activities. Thedepartment heads of the respective electrical engineering programs were approached, and a planfor an experimental exchange of courses was agreed upon. The experiment was also expandedbeyond the electric power area. Faculty members at the University of Wyoming were also con-tacted just prior to the experiment, but there was not sufficient time to work out the logisticsprior to the start of the

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Glenn S. Kohne

programs. The first program, "Curvefit", accepts experimental data points and fits an n-degree polynomial (n = 1 to 5). It provides very easy to use graphing mechanisms for the screenand for the printer. It has been adopted for course use by one of our materials science professors.The second program, "Diode", provides the same experimental data collection and graphingservices as the first but it fits an exponential curve through the data points. This program isintended to provide the exponential equation describing a semiconductor diode. This program isused in the basic electronics course and associated laboratory at Loyola College.IntroductionThere is a wide variety of software designed to provide mathematical analysis and graphingfunctions to

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Audeen W. Fentiman

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John Tuttle

disasters. Students can see trend curves as thecodification of the past, helping them to realize trend curves potential and limits. Finally, thereare benefits of pointing out past errors if only to keep from repeating them or reinventing thewheel.Ships are among the most complex systems created by man. Ship design is a creative activity,the development of an integrated system using data from previous designs and tools of varyingdegrees of sophistication. Advanced technology is or should be reflected in the designers' toolsand in his designs. Currently most authors looking at the future of ship design activity focusingon the impacts of advanced technology (1) or total systems approaches (2), few, if any focus onthe designer, the most important

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Tracy Vogler; Nelson Jaramillo; Lia F. Arthur; Jeff Gray; Irem Y. Tumer; Frank Serpas; Eric Matsumoto; Ronald Barr

the UT student chapter were: 1) initiating a student chapterand establishing the student core, 2) developing the chapter framework, 3) electing officers andratifying the constitution, 4) garnering faculty support, and 5) starting up events. These stepshave been accomplished in the seven month period between August 1996 and February 1997.IntroductionWhy establish an ASEE student chapter? The significant benefits for students interested inacademia, as well as for academic institutions and National ASEE, make it rather easy tounderstand why a student chapter is desirable. Benefits already enjoyed by students at existingASEE chapters include: preparation for successfully entering the competitive academic jobmarket, mentoring by genuinely

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John M. Dorosz; Ester B. Johnson

computer scientists actually do, departmentchairs or their designees are brought into the class to discuss 1) what a major in his/her particulardepartment is like; 2) what course sequence does one follow to enter it; 3) what employmentopportunities are available upon graduation; and a range of other topics. Presentations are oftensupplemented by audiovisuals. During open discussion, students' questions range from, "How Page 2.416.2much was your first paycheck as a new engineering professor?" to "What international computercompanies have the best record in minority hiring and retention? Specifically Asian-Americanfemales?" In addition, students

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William J. Adams; Curtis A. Carver

Military Academy, hypermediacourseware development focused on a single pilot program, CS383 [see 1-7 and Figure 1]. Begunin 1993, this program was highly successful and based on its success and the popularity of theWWW, hypermedia courseware spread throughout the Academy. As different departments beganto develop hypermedia courseware, fundamentally different interface designs, directory struc-tures, and courseware functionality were used. Moreover, different departments developed differ-ent tools that provided the same functionality (assessment, learning styles assessment, etc.). Thiswasted courseware development time and confused students as they had to learn different courseinterfaces that provided basically the same functionality. Finally

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Lynn G. Mack; James C. Wood

places a high premium on teaming, the Chautauqua workshops began with teambuilding not only to develop the interdisciplinary faculty groups into functional teams but also todemonstrate the process for teaching teaming in the classroom. In fact, subsequent Chautauquaprograms used teaming as part of the instructional process. For example the workshops onintegrated curriculum and active learning employed teaming as an educational strategy as well asshowing it as a workplace skill to be practiced. Another Chautauqua dealt with how studentslearn and process information as developed by Gardner8 in his concepts of multiple intelligences.The last Chautauqua included active learning strategies and student assessment. Table 1 givesthe content of the

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Carlos Aldana; Winston F. Erevelles

and escapement foraccurate part feeding and sensors for part-size detection, and the detection of the limits oftravel of the pick and place device. The system is designed to distinguish between and recirculate steel balls of threedifferent sizes (7/32”, 1/4”, 9/32”). Inputs and outputs of the system were examined andthe appropriate ladder logic was developed. This ladder logic acts as the main control forthe system, however the PLC features a data highway which was used to interface ourpick and place device to a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) softwareand develop a man-machine interface (MMI). During the development of this module, students were exposed to a series ofdifferent fields, from the mechanical design

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Michael Wagner

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Ward J. Collis; Shih-Liang Wang; Esther A. Hughes; John Chen

literature documenting such experiences, as reviewed by Todd etal.1 and by Dutson et al.2. Within this body of literature, however, there exists very few documented Page 2.223.1cases of capstone design courses being implemented across two or more engineeringdisciplines. This is surprising given that two recent surveys,3,4 which included bothindustry and academia, ranked the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams and amultidisciplinary systems perspective as among the most important traits ofemerging engineers. Clearly, there is a need for more frequent use ofmultidisciplinary engineering design in undergraduate curricula. While the needsfor such efforts are

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Arnold F. Johnson

engineering degrees through a more traditional on-campus education1. The firstcourse was offered via videotape beginning in January, 1989. In 1993, GE Plastics, HutchinsonTechnology, Inc., and Dupont formed a consortium with 3M to provide financial support andguidance for the CEDP. As of March 1, 1997, there are fifteen members in the consortium. Theconsortium provides advice regarding the needs of the students from an industry viewpoint inaddition to providing financial support for the additional costs of delivering the courses viavideotape.Students whose employers are members of the consortium are able to take math, chemistry andengineering courses that lead to undergraduate degrees in chemical, electrical and mechanicalengineering. Laboratories

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Gwan-Ywan Lai; Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

costs2. The “shadow casting” shown in Figure 1 highlights the need to incorporatemanufacturability and assemblability concerns early in the design cycle. It has also beenrecognized that while design defects are relatively inexpensive to rectify at the conceptual/initialdesign stage, not much can be done once the design process has been completed and initialproduction begun. The stair-step phenomenon shown in Figure 2 demonstrates the relative costsassociated with design changes at various stages in a product’s development and release, andclearly highlights the importance of getting the design right the first time3. % of Influence Launch 70 20 5

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Ravi Jain

programs (Saikali and Jain, 1996). The study provides a synopsis of thekey features of each program surveyed and comparisons among the programs (See Table 1). Tofocus on the objectives and goals of establishing an international engineering program, it isimportant to understand the need in a global context.Clearly, the United States of America is entering a “new world order” without its customaryleadership in technology, industry, and economy. The changing international role of this countrydemands that leaders of educational institutions ensure that their graduates have adequateknowledge of global issues (Smickler and Sommers, 1989).In a modern global economy, international trade is essential for continued economic growth of anation. Figure 1