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Mary Schlembach

difficult to locate materialsand resources that are outside the scope of an online catalog and article databases. The localdatabases are accessible for any Web user from the top-level menu at Grainger public terminals,from a custom reference desk menu, and from the Grainger Home Page(http://www.library.uiuc.edu/grainger/). These databases have greatly improved the training ofreference staff, particularly new graduate assistants, librarians and paraprofessionals. FromDecember 1997 through February 1, 2000, the Grainger local databases have been selected26,067 times, which makes up approximately 24% of the over 107,000 selections from publicterminal main menus. This paper describes how these resources are developed and theimprovements that Web

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William L. Scheller

Kettering University to direct development and testing for a major golfequipment manufacturer.2. Design PhaseIn the first term, a mechanical engineering faculty member and several students designed the putter headusing IDEAS. The basic putter design is shown in Figure 1. The design specified the material to bestainless steel. 304 stainless steel was chosen, because it is already in use in golf equipment.When the project came to me, I was teaching my senior level course in Material removal Processes.Because the teaching schedule for the course had recently been changed, the class had only 12 Figure 1: Kettering Putterstudents. This was ideal for a high intensity project, because the teams would remain within my

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Mark W. Meredith; David B. Meredith; Brooke M. Morrison

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Stephen Simms; Jane M. Fraser

answer to improve engineering retention require qualitative approaches.2. Various qualitative approaches are available and are doable.3. Some qualitative approaches have been used in engineering and these studies provide models for us to follow.In order to support these arguments, this paper has three sections:1. Questions. What types of questions do we need to ask and answer?2. Qualitative approaches. What qualitative approaches are available? We also discussexamples in which these techniques have been applied in studies in engineeringeducation, although not all are studies of retention. We examined all papers in theJournal of Engineering Education and the ASEE Proceedings from 1996 to 1999.3. Three well known examples. We review the

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Andrzej A. Markowski; Harry Petersen

and manufacturing - in one continuous project. Students are required toapply in practice what they have learned from other classes. CAD, Manufacturing, Automationand Management classes are prerequisites. In-class instruction is limited. Students will oftenindependently follow class guidelines but must meet the all milestones of the project. One goal isto train students to approach and solve problems on their own, with guidance from an instructoras needed.1. IntroductionManufacturing Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs are challenged with a rapidlychanging industrial environment, emerging new technologies, and new methods of production.MET graduates are faced with a demanding work environment at the shop floor, in the

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Josette L. Rice; Edwin L Zivi; Christopher T. Field; Thad Welch

availability of both PCs andDAQ software that allow for seamless introduction of real-world data into the MATLABworkspace has facilitated this process. This paper discusses some of the lab exercises that areused in this course. These lab experiments have allowed our students to see immediateapplicability for the theory and skills that they are learning in class.1. IntroductionA sophomore or junior level course entitled Signals and Systems or Linear Systems Theory iscontained within almost every undergraduate electrical engineering (EE) program in the country.The majority of these courses are taught for three hours of academic credit. While variationsroutinely occur, most programs provide three hours of lecture per week. Homework, whichregularly

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Jianxin Tang

outputs matching theoretical calculations.1. Introduction One of the most common problems in signal processing is to extract a desired signal from anoisy measured signal 1 . The noise component of the signal depends on the application. Forexample, it could be (1) a white noise signal, which is typical of the background noise picked upduring the measurement process; (2) a periodic interference signal such as the 60 Hz power-frequency pickup; (3) a low-frequency noise signal, such as radar clutter; (4) any other signal-notnecessarily measurement noise-that must be separated. The use of digital signal processors (DSPs)has permitted the increasingly stringent performance requirements and fast, efficient, and accuratefiltering of the desired

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer

Page 5.520.2these areas and attaining the desired level of competency.As part of an internal review of our own programs as preparation for ABET review, the facultyof the Engineering Technology (ET) Department at WWU developed a list of desired skills ofgraduates for our department student learning objectives, which are given in Table 1. The ETDepartment has approximately 425 students in six different majors: Electronics, Manufacturing,and Plastics Engineering Technology, Industrial Design, Industrial Technology, and TechnologyEducation. Of these programs, only the three engineering technology programs fall under therubric of ABET. Nevertheless, the ET faculty elected to adopt all of these desired student skillsas objectives for every program

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Clifford R. Goodwin; R. Andrew Schaffer

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Robert McCulley; Joseph Arumala; Emin Yilmaz

transducer attached to a display unitand a load cell washer. The results obtained show that the published yield and tensilestrengths of the screws are quite conservative. The clamping forces generated in thescrews were well below the yield strength of the screws. The nut factor in the torqueformula decreased with the nylok and silver finish and thus increased the clamping force.IntroductionThis project began with the need to establish engineering torque values for variousfasteners and to determine the associated clamp forces generated during the assemblyprocess of microwave filters manufactured at Filtronic Comtek Inc. (see Figures 1 and 2).The filters designed at this facility utilize up to 400 screws per filter. The screws are inthe range of 0-80

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Jack Crotty; Chong Chen

,people can easily operate remote computer systems. The distance between the computer and theoperator is no longer measured in feet, and could be hundred or thousand miles. Tocommunicate with a computer network, the operator usually needs another computer linked tothe network. Figure 1 shows a computer network [1]. Any computer in the network may sendinformation to, or receive information from, any other computer in the network. Page 5.523.1 Figure 1. A Computer network Computer networks, especially the Internet, provide convenience and accessibility tocomputer users. A person on a trip may read email and check

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

strategy of the Learning Factory model implemented by the ManufacturingEngineering Education Partnership. The NASA PaSCoR program is outcomes-based and studentcentered, focused on hands-on learning activities provided throughout the student’s academiccareer. The program’s outcomes will be a graduate that is knowledgeable of the technology andapplications of remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS), and, possessesthe necessary skills either to enter graduate school or becomes a professional in these areas withsuccess.The program also aims at developing values such as diversity, teamwork, global awareness andcommunication. PaSCoR goals will be achieved through five tasks, namely: 1) curriculumdevelopment, 2) undergraduate

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Marehalli G. Prasad; Consantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

instructionthat enhances student interest for the experiments and typically results in positive studentfeedback (Chan and So2).Remotely accessible approach to laboratory educationAt Stevens Institute of Technology, an Internet-based remote-access interactive approach tolaboratory experimentation is currently being developed and implemented. In this approach, thestudents will be able to access the laboratory facility remotely through the Internet and connectto the computer-controlled laboratory setup of interest as shown in Figure 1. Page 5.525.3 Client 1 Client 2 Client 3 Client

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Robert S. Thompson

that graduates have “an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams. 1”The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) has an established tradition of teamwork education 2,3.Teamwork and critical team skills that are a part of CSM’s Multidisciplinary Petroleum Designcourse are introduced in the following paragraphs. In this course, students from the disciplinesof geology and geological engineering, geophysical engineering, and petroleum engineeringwork on ill-structured open-ended problems from the petroleum industry. The goal ofmultidisciplinary team education is to improve team performance. The focus of this paper is onperformance feedback of the behaviors that characterize successful teams. Feedback typicallycomes from faculty but in the case of the

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Ricardo Castillo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

. Even though in underdeveloped countries thatobsolete practices of domination and the use of routine disconnected work are very deep-rooted,the new purpose of work organization points out to the necessity of wide and integratingknowledge, which is possible to get only with a good qualification. This is the maincharacteristic of this intense process of competition all world wide that changes the formation ofenterprising and autonomous people, distinguished of environment where a vast unqualifiedlabor was an strategic advantage 1. Page 5.527.1For the new mutating work market of next century the new professional has to have some extraabilities to

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Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

started as a major multidisciplinary research effort involving several partners. Thisexample shows the synergistic benefit of such an approach and reinforces a prevalent belief thatinnovation in research can help enrich education. Under the umbrella of the NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurement (CISM), aresearch and development program for harsh environment sensors is being actively pursued at Page 5.52.1The Ohio State University (OSU).1-4 Research teams include students and faculty from theDepartments of Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering,Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering and

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Anant Kukreti

ComponentsThe module starts with a graphical representation of a vector (F) in two dimension and ananimation of how to find its components (Fx and Fy). In the first step, a vector is drawn on thescreen, as an instructor would draw it on a chalkboard. In the second step, the components (Fxand Fy) of the vector are identified as the projection on the x and y axes, respectively, as shownin Figure 1. Along with the animation of how to construct the projections, pertinentmathematical expressions are displayed in the same sequence as the projections appear on the Page 5.528.2monitor screen. A message is displayed on the top indicating when the user can

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Stephanie Weitemeyer; Stephanie Draeger; Rebecca Morrison; Lehang Huynh; Ashok K. Goel; Sarah Bergstrom; Jami Meteer; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha Sloan

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Steven Mickelson

peers provides support, opportunities, and models for pro-socialbehavior2. Students are also more likely to stay in college if they are satisfied with their learningexperiences3. The main contact with the freshmen with faculty was through two R-credit coursesthat were offered the first and second semester of their freshman year. Each of these courses metfor one hour a week and were mainly lecture format with little or no interaction with our AEstudents. To help combat this problem, the curriculum committee decided to develop a 1-creditinteractive, hands-on agricultural engineering laboratory course to replace the R credit seminarcourse offered in the second semester of the freshman year. The course title changed from AE110-Seminar to AE 110

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Michael McCracken; Wendy Newstetter

misconceptions of designing3. In this paper, we will focus on attacking some of themisconceptions via design recovery. We do not portend that design recovery is the solution toovercoming all of the misconceptions, but we feel it is an important initial step in the process.The misconceptions manifest themselves as student behavior and include:1. Ideation without substance - Students believe design is coming up with good ideas. Obviously, design has as a constituent element, ideation, but designers also concern themselves with the realizability of ideas and evaluate ideas based on their informed decision-making and analysis.2. Design arrogance - Students do not place their designs in the context of the environment in which the design will

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Matthew V. Galati; Joseph C. Hartman

making periodic decisions regarding the manufacture and sale of aproduct in a competitive market. However, a variety of the parameters that define the game havebeen generalized and a number of decisions have been added in order to provide greater realism.Also, the game has been rewritten in C++ with students interacting via the World Wide Web. Thesestructural changes have greatly reduced the time and effort an instructor must expend in executingthe game over the course of a semester. It is hoped that these improvements in administering thegame will help in its dissemination and use at other institutions as it provides a unique learningexperience that can supplement the teaching of engineering economy or operations managementcourses.1. Historical

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Sheila R. Curl; Leslie J. Reynolds; Brent Alan Mai; Alexius E. Smith

the students.1 Pamela Sebastian, "A Special Background Report on Trends in Industry and Finance," The Wall Street Journal (4 November 1999): A1.2 K. Subramanyam, Scientific and Technical Information Resources (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1981): 5.3 Roxanne Starr Hiltz and Barry Wellman, “Asynchronous learning networks as a virtual classroom,” Communications of the ACM 40:9 (Sept. 1997): 46.LESLIE J. REYNOLDSLeslie Reynolds is currently assistant professor of library science and assistant engineering librarian at PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette, Indiana. She received her B.A. from Drake University and her M.S. in LibraryScience from the University of Illinois.SHEILA R. CURLSheila Curl is currently assistant professor of library science

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Ron Humble; Michael Caylor

have faced. Page 5.533.5System Overview (C1C Chris Gentile)To achieve our design altitude, a total change in velocity (or ∆V) of about 8000 ft/sec is required.After preliminary design analysis we chose to use a single-stage core vehicle powered by a“hybrid” propulsion system. Hybrid engines typically use a solid fuel grain and a liquid orgaseous oxidizer. A drawing of the 13' tall (4.0 m) core vehicle configuration is shown in Fig 1.Two solid “strap-ons,” each providing about 150 lbs of thrust, will help accelerate the vehicle offthe pad to obtain a velocity suitable for fin-stabilized flight. The 500 lb thrust hybrid engine willuse hydroxl

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Robert Engelken

explore how engineering consulting fits into the role and scope of a newengineering professor’s career and his/her pursuit of “academic wealth” [1, 2, 3]. Consulting isdefined as offering one’s professional services to external clientele for a fee or other reward,usually independent of one’s standard university salary [4]. Although a fundamental part ofengineering, consulting for engineering professors can be an ill-defined and controversial matterwithin the framework of employment, time, public relations, and intellectual property policies ofa university and whether a particular university actively encourages and supports, passivelyallows, discourages, or prohibits such activities.Consulting offers many benefits for a new engineering professor

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Peggy Samson; Ken Vickers

also occur early in the year to ensure that all venues areavailable and that conflicts with major local events are minimized. The new hub committee mustfind a suitable facility for (1) the kickoff activity, (2) the trial run for the teams at week five(known as Mall Day), and (3) the gymnasium that will be used for the contest day itself. Thehub must also be cognizant of its obligation to begin the process in the BRI-sanctioned timewindow.As BRI is maturing as an umbrella organization, it has been recognized that a start-up hub thatavoids part of this training process is in significant danger of not becoming a long-term,sustained operation. As the number of hubs continues to grow, it is expected that BRI will nolonger sanction a group to use

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Charles U. Okonkwo; Jerry Gintz

to manufacturing engineering and technology students.PSM and its fourteen toolsProcess safety management according to [1] may be defined as a list of fourteen comprehensivetools for addressing the identification, evaluation, mitigation, and or prevention of hazards that Page 5.642.3could occur as a result of failures in manufacturing process, procedures, or equipment in theindustrial setting. The fourteen tools are numerated as follows: (i) employee participation, (ii)process safety information, (iii) process hazardous analysis, (iv) operating procedures, (v)training (both initial and refresher), (vi ) contractors, (vii) pre-start up safety

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Wesley P. Lipschultz; Jean Landa Pytel; Jayne Klenner-Moore

themselves.In developing the Engineering Destinations program as a decision support tool to assist studentsin the selection of one of twelve majors in the College of Engineering, input from practicingengineers and students in the major was used in the design. The objectives of the project were:1. To create an interactive system to enhance the decision-making process of selecting a major in the College of Engineering. This system is to be used by students in the first and second years in conjunction with the services offered through the Engineering Advising Center (EAC).2. To help develop life-long decision-making skills that will be applicable to making further career choices after graduation. This was accomplished by: • Creating a process

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Hakan Gurocak

scheduling could becreated. However, finding a product that is not too complicated and at the same time not tootrivial was challenging because (1) this is the first design course at the junior level and studentsdo not have a lot of design experience and knowledge yet, (2) the product must not requireexpensive parts since the students must pay for any parts they use in the design, (3) the designand fabrication of the product must be completed in six weeks and, (4) the product must notrequire any machining since the Manufacturing Engineering program currently has no machineshops until the new Engineering and Life Sciences building construction is finished in summerof 2000.In the last two offerings of the course, design of a rope climbing machine was

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William Dalzell; Rae Jean N. Wiggins; Nishikant Sonwalkar; Michael C. Kutney; Clark K. Colton; Bonnie Burrell

Session # A Comparison of Web-Based and Laboratory Learning Environments Bonnie Burrell1, Rae Jean N. Wiggins2, Nishikant Sonwalkar2, Michael C. Kutney1, William Dalzell1, and Clark K. Colton1 1 Dept of Chemical Engineering/2Hypermedia Teaching Facility Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionA Web-based computer simulation of an actual laboratory experiment was developed for the MITLaboratory classes. This virtual experiment, which we call the Web Lab, was introduced into the"Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory" in spring 1999 and the

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W. Ed Howard; Stephen Rather; Joseph C. Musto

involved the use of the SolidWorks to design a vehicle body. Wheeled bases were available; the vehicle body would be constrained to dock with the existing bases, shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Solid Model of the Vehicle Base While the students had a wide range of academic backgrounds, few had any solid modeling experience. SolidWorks has proved to be an ideal teaching tool for such environments. In the morning session, the students were lead through the modeling of an example vehicle body. The example vehicle can be seen in Figure 2. Figure 2: Solid Model of Example Vehicle Body After stepping through a tutorial, the students had constructed a solid model of the vehicle; in addition, they had