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Francis J. Doyle III

., “Tutorial: What You Can Do with the World Wide Web Today - Locating and Using Teaching andResearch Resources on the Web”, ASEE Summer School for Chem. Eng. Faculty, Snowbird, August 1998.[2] Internet Literacy, The First PBS TeleWEBCourse. PBS Agenda (Fall/Winter 1997-98), 12-13.[3] Serf’s Up! Teaching and Learning with Serf: Your Servant on the Internet. AACRAO Proceedings (in press).[4] http://www.udel.edu/serf[5] Hofstetter, F.T., Serf User Guide Version 1.0, University of Delaware, 1997[6] http://fourier.che.udel.edu/~cheg401[7] Doyle, F.J., Venkatasubramanian, V., and Kendi, T.A., “Process Control Modules: A Flexible Set of SoftwareModules for an Undergraduate Process Dynamics and Control Laboratory”, Comp. Appl. Eng. Educ., 4(3), 179

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Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

cr.Advanced Mathematics 3 cr.ENGINEERING SCIENCE: (34 credits)Computer Science 3 cr.Freshmen Engineering 4 cr.Statics 3 cr.Dynamics 3 cr.Solid Mechanics / Lab 4 cr.Fluid Dynamics 3 cr.Thermodynamics 3 cr.Linear Vibrations 3 cr.Linear Systems 3 cr.Electrical Eng. / Lab 5 cr.ME MAJOR: (41 credits)Foundation to Eng. Design 3 cr.Kinematics 3 cr.Machine Design 3 cr.Material Science 3 cr.Measurements 3 cr.Manufacturing 3 cr.Mechatronics 3 cr.Applied Thermodynamics 3 cr.Heat Transfer 3 cr.Design I & II 6 cr.ME Laboratory 2 cr.Technical Electives 6

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Engineering and Engineering Technology, actualindustry experience is greatly appreciated not only by future employers, but also by the students.Employers feel more comfortable with future employees that have some experience beforegraduating from college, and have acquired a basic knowledge on how their specific industryworks (Lessard, 1996). Students recognize that the lectures and laboratory experiences deliveredwhile in college are necessary to learn the basic and theoretical principles for a given subject.However, they also recognize that due to the limitations of the campus infrastructure, they cannotreproduce as much as would be desirable, the actual industry settings. This is especially true inBiomedical Engineering Technology, as the teaching

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Gerard N. Foster

processing of voice and musicsignals can add interest and understanding to the basic concepts that are taught in electricalengineering technology. The applications presented below are some of the ways that the soundsof voice and music can be included in technical laboratories and demonstrations.Transduction and display of soundThe function generator is the standard device for the creation of waveforms in the laboratory.Such waveforms can be displayed and measured with an oscilloscope. However, waveforms canalso be gathered from physical media and transduced with a microphone and amplifier circuit.The author has successfully used this method on a number of occasions to demonstrate to highschool students and teachers the nature of sound, electronics

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Bernard J. Weigman; Glenn S. Kohne

decided to hold the graduate engineering classes off campus at a location close to wherethe student’s would be coming from. This was an easy decision because 95% of the originalstudent body came from 3 corporations which were all located in a large industrial park within 3miles of one another. There was an inconvenience for the professors teaching the courses whohad to leave campus at the end of their workday and drive to an off campus location 16 milesaway from the main campus. The thinking was that it was better to inconvenience one facultymember than the 25 or so students who made up the class. The faculty found no problem withthis arrangement. Participation in teaching in the evening oriented graduate program was andcontinues to be voluntary

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Colin S. Howat

Session 3613 Process Simulation in Chemical Engineering Design: A Potential Impediment to, Instead of Catalyst for, Meeting Course Objectives Colin S. Howat Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratory Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2223 USA cshowat@ukans.edu Capstone Design is creativity -- synthesis and evaluation. It is focuses on developing the confidence to practice

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John Marshall

: Internet resource to supplies and additional information: http://www.rmit.edu.au/departments/ch/rmpc/Biographical Information: Dr. JOHN ALLEN MARSHALL taught senior high school prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He has seventeen years of university teaching experience, and is currently the Coordinator of the Power and Energy curriculum and laboratories as well as the Internship Coordinator for the University of Southern Maine’s Department of Technology. Page 3.396.3

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M. R. Foster; H. Öz

Page 3.568.1to explain the phenomenon, but provides no remedies.Faced not only with these changes in students, but also with new and more persistent voices fromindustry about the teaching of design, in particuar2, 3, 4, and a level of dissatisfaction inside aca-demia for some of the reasons already noted, a number of institutions have undertaken significantchange in their undergraduate courses of study, with the Michigan 2000 study among the mostprominent5. A number of themes emerge from such studies, principally these: Design should beintegrated more fully through the curriculum, and more emphasis should be given to what haveoften been called “softer” skills like communications and ethics, for example. The dialogue hasled to new accreditation

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P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

, combining content and pedagogy from two different fields, and building a new program and culture of design at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.IntroductionOn any given Monday in Lecture Room 2 of the McCormick School of Engineering, 110freshmen enrolled in Engineering Design and Communication (EDC) take part in an innovativelecture class that teaches design through a combination of presentation, simulation, anddiscussion. Two faculty members—one from engineering and one from the university’s WritingProgram—typically begin and end the class with a PowerPoint presentation focusing on oneaspect of the design process. Between these two segments, four other faculty, as members of the“NU Concepts Design Team,” are

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Marjorie Davis; John Palmer; Helen Grady; Clayton Paul; Allen F. Grum

would flesh out the elements of the curriculum. These teams labored throughout 1995-96under the direction of Dr. John Palmer, whose project management efforts kept teams on trackand ensured regular feedback from teams to the whole faculty. We surveyed students to get theirhonest feedback on different elements of our curriculum, teaching styles, and expectations. Acrucial area for change was the Freshman Engineering Sequence, and Ms. Helen Grady wasselected to chair that pivotal committee. Negotiation became the imperative as we worked outmany disagreements and conflicts, both within the School of Engineering and among our facultycolleagues in other schools that provide service courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, andhumanities/social

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Scott R. Short

included in the curriculum. In an effort to minimize the number of credithours required to graduate yet still cover these two important topics, the Department of Mechani-cal Engineering at Northern Illinois University is incorporating statistics in the laboratory sectionof their required materials science course. This match is a natural one because the laboratoryprojects require data acquisition, reduction, and statistical analysis. Probability paper plots andRockwell hardness tests are used to introduce the student to the fundamental building block ofstatistics, the frequency distribution. An often-overlooked graphical statistical technique, the useof probability paper plots, is a potent teaching tool.Introducing Statistics to StudentsStatistics

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Edmund Tsang

implemented at the University of South Alabama with a grant from the NationalScience Foundation Instrumentation & Laboratory Improvement (ILI) program in Fall,1995. The laboratory course uses a discovery approach to teach students about someconcepts of materials science and manufacturing to carry out a design project involvingmechanical forming. The design project consists of the design and production of MardiGras medallions. Since the Mardi Gras tradition was started in Mobile, Alabama, thisdesign project provides a local tie-in to the student's learning experience. Details of thecourse have been described elsewhere1. Unlike engineering analysis, assessing student learning in engineering designposes a special challenge because there are

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Elaine L. Craft

complex asthat.” 2The Exemplary Faculty Project is serving as the initial building block of the three integralcomponents of the SC ATE Center of Excellence: Faculty Development, Curriculum Reform,and Program Improvement. The SC ATE project offers a valuable model for assisting faculty inrestructuring the teaching-learning process in order to produce qualified and capable two-yeartechnical college graduates.The SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project are to addresses faculty development needs in advancedtechnological education content, effective pedagogy, and assessment of student learningoutcomes. Faculty from the four discipline areas of communication, engineering technology,mathematics, and science are participating in team-based professional

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Robin Grimes; Caroline Baillie

implemented in many Universities world-wideto promote student learning1-4. Peer tutors help younger students to learn by holding groupsessions in which certain topics are discussed. The aim of the scheme is not to provide textbook answers to set problems or even to provide formal supplementary teaching, rather it isthe peer tutor’s job to act as a focus for the group and thereby make it work for itself. Morespecifically, the group provides a supportive environment for new students to: test out theirunderstanding of difficult concepts introduced in lectures; gain confidence in dealing with thevolume and complexity of material; use the staff run tutorial system effectively; take moreresponsibility for their own learning; encourage co-operative problem

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Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

throughemphasis on sustained high quality performance and opportunities for faculty development, andto provide additional accountability to the university community, to the public, and to theABOR. This article describes the policies and procedures that are being implemented at ArizonaState University.The SituationLegislators and university governing board members have begun to seek ways to provide greateraccess to higher education with improved efficiency and cost to the tax-paying public.Conventional wisdom has it that faculty members at research universities are significantlyunderutilized in teaching and focus much too heavily on research. Moreover, teaching iscommonly defined as time spent in the classroom involved in the traditional lecture format

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Don L. Dekker

stops "designing" and "fiddling around" with their design. If theconstruction group has any problems, they have to contact the design group and settle thedifferences. This provides the opportunity for meaningful communications to take place and itdoesn't go through the instructor. The construction phase takes two weeks, although most groupsare able to perform the required construction tasks in 4 to 6 hours.TESTINGThe device is then passed to a third group for testing. Although the heat exchanger is designed tobe used with a heat transfer fluid as the hot fluid of about 600 degrees Fahrenheit, it is tested withhot water for safety and economic reasons. The testing takes place in a laboratory on a testing setupwhich was designed for testing heat

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Priya Ragupathi; Eric Johnson; Dimitris Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; David Miller; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

. The faculty decided to base the teaching of the program on a previouslydeveloped NSF program that stressed the use and application of conservation principlesand the second law of thermodynamics.4 This framework helps in the integration processby enabling students to concentrate on ideas and concepts rather than memorization ofequations. The current arrangement at Texas A&M University consists of five courses,and these are listed in Table 1.5 Table 1. Arrangement of courses. Semester Engineering Area Course Numbers for 97-98 Fall Mechanics ENGR 211 Thermodynamics ENGR 212 Spring

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Hugh Jack

the term and post results to their Web pages. Homework is markedand returned electronically. The only activity still using paper is examinations. Special attentionis given to how a beginner would develop and run a new or existing Web based course.1.0 INTRODUCTIONAt Grand Valley State University we teach a course in statics and solid mechanics (EGR 209) inthe sophomore year. Originally this course was taught using traditional techniques. The recentemergence of the World Wide Web (Web) as a popular standard presented new possibilities forteaching options. In the fall of 1996 I taught the course for the first time making limited use ofthe Internet as a presentation and communication tool [5]. Based on the success of the results, Iexpanded the

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Robert Heidersbach; David Gibbs; Daniel Walsh; Alan Demmons

Constituents,it will Provide for Programmatic Excellence and it will Establish and Maintain Linkages to key Partners.We have created an upper division capstone course treating Failure Analysis which promotes the development ofthese skills and provides a vehicle for their demonstration. The course is based on a systems approach toengineering challenges. The course provides a laboratory setting for active learning in which students candemonstrate a basic understanding of engineering science, and of design and manufacturing, of experimental designand data analysis. Furthermore, students are encouraged to exhibit skill in the communication of ideas, initiative inacquiring information and knowledge, and a familiarity with contemporary tools, all in a team

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John G. Nee

movement. The intent of these courses was to providestudents experiences that would allow them to introduce and teach students this (these) subject(s)in the public schools of the state. Early courses consisted of fine and applied arts, simplewoodwork, bent iron, and mechanical drawing. The mechanical drawing course included“projection of shadows, instrumental perspective and plane geometry.”Early inclusion of CAD/CAM concepts were taught via Tektronix CRTs, digitizing tablets,joysticks, binary tape preparation devices, customized 2-D software, very early versions of NCsoftware, all with output provided by a B-size plotter. By the early 1980s the CAD operation wasupgraded to a large mainframe computer with remote dumb terminals located in

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Mariusz Jankowski

traditional lecture. For manystudents, the combination of difficulties with the level of mathematics and passivitywithin the traditional lecture style has an overwhelmingly negative impact on their abilityto learn and understand the subject matter. In recent years, scientific visualization hasemerged as an important tool in helping us understand many complex physicalphenomena. However, the problem of translating standard mathematical notation into thetraditional high-level computer languages has made it difficult to use programming andcomputers in the undergraduate classroom.To overcome these problems, state-of-the-art software for mathematical computing isbeing integrated into the teaching process to facilitate and foster an active

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Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

meetings instead Page 3.79.1only one or two. Somehow we must expand the opportunities we have for interacting with moreof our colleagues, while reducing the costs associated with the historical mode we have adopted.Furthermore, so much of the educational materials and resources we are creating in response tothe demands articulated by industry, our students and society also require a substantialinvestment of our time and financials. We need to pool our efforts, to work collaboratively inthat same manner as we teach our student engineers they must work when employed bycompanies developing products and providing services to their customers.2

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James C. Wood

-Based Education (PROBE): Learning for a Lifetime of Change.12. Wood, J. C. and Mack, L. G., The Impact of Interdisciplinary Faculty Teams on Engineering Technology Curricula, ASEE Annual Conference 1997.James C. Wood has BS and MS degrees in physics from Clemson University and Ph. D. from theUniversity of Virginia in physics. He has seven year of research experience in laboratories for AmericanCynamid and TRW. He has 25 year teaching experience in physics and engineering technology at Tri-County Technical College. He is current Division Chair and Co-PI for a statewide curriculum developmentgrant for engineering technology. Page 3.95.7

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Elliot Rothkopf

decided that it must focus on a number of criteria tobecome leaner yet provide students who are able and so desire with greater opportunities foreducational advancement. We recognized that with ever increasing technical change, we couldnot teach everything. We should give the student the best education possible by teaching thebasics of the technological field while giving the student the tools for lifelong learning. Wewould not load the student down with more than the TAC/ABET minimum of 64 credits. Ourassociate’s degree requires many more student contact hours in laboratories than do otherassociate degrees.We would do the following: l develop common core technology courses. l modify upper level courses to reduce the credit load

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Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

required laboratory reports to be completedwith a partner. Results have been very good and the students appreciate the changes.The second conclusion from this survey is that the computer skills we teach the students need tobe reevaluated. Computer literacy with a personal computer using applications packages is highin the required skills list. However, the traditional computer programming skills were assigned a Page 3.408.7low priority. Thus the emphasis in teaching computer literacy in MET should shift away fromthe traditional languages (C++, Visual Basic) and more toward application packages (Excel,Word, CAD, MathCad) available on a Personal

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J.P. Trudeau; Alan R. Klayton; A.L. Clark; Daniel J. Pack

68HC11 microcontroller is used toteach assembly language programming and to introduce the use of embedded microcontrollers insystem design. One of the most common challenges for educators who teach this type of courseis covering all desirable hardware and software concepts in a single semester. To help remedythis situation, we recently redesigned the course so each student must complete a single mobilerobot project with multiple “subsystem labs” replacing the previously unrelated lab sequence.We believe this more integrated approach improves the course for both educators and studentswhile facilitating the development of a systems design methodology. INTRODUCTIONTypically, a microcomputer assembly language

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Todd Nocera; Martha Cyr; John McDonald; Chris Rogers

Session 3553 The Design and Performance of Musical Instruments Chris Rogers, Martha Cyr, John McDonald, and Todd Nocera Tufts UniversityAbstractBy challenging the students to design and build a musical instrument, we teach the fundamentalsof engineering design and acoustics, as well as introduce statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, andvibrations to liberal arts students and first-year engineers. Using the instrument as a non-threatening medium, students get a chance to do hands-on problem solving from the beginning oftheir college career. One of the unique aspects of this course is that it is co

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1998 Annual Conference

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Ahmed El-Antably; Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla

technology that ranges from Power Electronics, ComputerSimulation, Data Acquisition, DSP, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Electromagneticsand Energies, and Microprocessor Control. Normally these topics are covered in details inmore than fifteen credit hours, while using "only as needed" philosophy, we can cover whatwe need from these materials that serve an important application: Electric Vehicles. Thepaper details the contents of the course, the laboratory components utilizing an actualpropulsion system as donated from Delphi E. Inc, a subdivision of GM, and the role ofLabView as a data acquisition system. The course was offered in a senior project formatand the student satisfaction is reported here. In addition, the course is offered officially

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Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

short-term exchanges to the US, andfor the limited support of foreign faculty for short-term exchanges to Béthune. Because of theEnglish language proficiency requirement in both their engineering and engineering technologycurricula, they expect US faculty to teach modules of selected courses in English.a For purposes of this paper, US terminology for various disciplines and program areas are used; actual Frenchterminology will differ;b Most programs require two foreign languages.c The distinction between engineering and engineering technology is formally defined be the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET). In simpliest terms the difference is in the focus on engineering theory inengineering and the focus on engineering

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W.R. Kaminski

2648 A SERIES OF HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENTS FOR THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENT W.R. Kaminski Professor and Coordinator Mechanical Engineering Technology Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 98926 Abstract A series of five heat transfer experiments that are used to teach the laboratory component fora Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) heat transfer course at Central Washington