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Philip Doepker

of the faculty who teaches a full course load. Input is received from a number ofsources: The Council on Design and Manufacturing, The Design and ManufacturingAdvisory Committee, faculty who have agreed to incorporate projects into their courses,and faculty mentors.CoordinatorThe clinic is led by a full-time member of the faculty who has a dual role, teaching andadministration of the clinic. It is an asset that the teaching function involves venues Page 4.512.3where clinic projects can be implemented. Roughly, eight months of the year are devotedto teaching with administration of the clinic being an administrative type function.During the summer

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A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

/laboratory materials. The web site(http://cfdlab.engr.utk.edu/551w) was specifically designed and developed to support Page 4.268.1functionality requirements for distance and off-campus local students, as well as "resident"students located in the Internet teaching laboratory at UTK.This paper details the pedagogical and technical innovations created to enable this functionality.The remote (and local) environment requires no more than a “respectable” PC with adequatesound card and some additional (inexpensive and free) software. Two way live communication isenabled via a chat room3, and networked email connects all students, support

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Michael Ruane

Session 3353 Racing to Understanding: Instrumentation Lab with Radio-Controlled Cars Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractFreshmen engineering students are being introduced to electronic measurement and instrumentcontrol using radio-controlled cars in a new Introduction to Engineering module. The seven-week module is conducted as a hands-on laboratory experience using HP VEE, a commercialsoftware package for instrument control and graphical programming. Engineering contentincludes basic descriptions of signals, simple

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Edward Gehringer

fulltext string for problems on particular topics incomputer architecture. The database currently contains homework and test questions. It isplanned also to include lecture notes, laboratory exercises, and multimedia teaching materialsdeveloped at a number of universities. Materials are gathered for the database by obtaininginstructors’ permission to include materials from their course Web sites. Scripts have beendeveloped to fetch their material over the Web, separate homework assignments and tests intoindividual problems, and store them in the database.This project has been developed in conjunction with the WebAssign project for on-linehomework submission and grading. Where the format permits, homework and test problemscan be automatically

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S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; Chih-Ping Yeh; Bonnie Shelnut

be an eternal challenge to us. The project’s assessment and evaluation for its overall usefulness as a means of instruction will be made in the upcoming year or two. 6. References 1. Karl Smith, “Computer based multimedia applications in the fundamentals of interfacial engineering and fluid mechanics”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1995. 2. Eugene E. Niemi, “Experiences with videotaped aerodynamics lectures as an aid to regular classroom teaching”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1995. pp. 38-41. 3. Nwankpa etal., “Integrating a power systems laboratory into a client/server-based computing environment”, ASEE Annual Conference proceedings, 1995. 4. Richard Parker and Walter W. Buchanan, “Circuit simulators and computer algebra - an

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Donald V. Richardson

few developments from my own Page 4.390.2experience in college teaching and private consulting. After changing careers to college teachingin 1969 the wide variety of projects that I took on in the Aerospace industry, faded away. It tooka while to fully familiarize myself with the electrical machines lab at the old Waterbury StateTechnical College (WSTC). Soon it became obvious that this was a well equipped laboratorythat had not been fully developed. The apparatus was versatile but the laboratory experimentswere being presented to the students only by using the Hampden Inc. apparatus prepared labdirections. These were the usual post WW II

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Raffaello D'Andrea

[6], and the Working Model 2D and3D multibody code software from Knowledge Revolution [4]. A new course is being being developed aroundthese experiments, entitled “Experimental Model Based Control Design Using Multibody Codes”. Limitedversions of the experimental setups have, and will be used, in other senior electives at Cornell. To our knowledge, no other projects of this scope exist; there are several projects, however, which sharea similar philosophy. In [2], a laboratory is described where computer simulations are compared to actualmeasurements as integral parts of an undergraduate mechanics laboratory. It is argued quite convincingly inthis paper that simulations should not replace real experiments in the undergraduate curriculum

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Zbigniew Prusak

calling to provide solid interdisciplinary knowledge to all graduates of 2university technical programs . Such an approach to teaching is not fully compatible with 3, 4immediate needs of employers, but benefits long term goals of national economy as a whole .Therefore, a narrowly focused technical training (presently highly popular in teaching softwaretools) is not a primary domain of academic education. It is therefore more important fromuniversity education point of view to emphasize inventiveness and good algorithms to solveproblems rather than perfecting how to solve a problem using a particular engineering tool

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Lawrence Genalo

integrate knowledge from each of the above four elements (structure, properties, processing, & performance) of the field to solve materials selection and design problemsiv. an ability to utilize experimental, statistical and computational methods consistent with the goals of the program.In addition, three outcomes specified for Materials Engineering graduates at Iowa Stateare;1. to demonstrate mastery of creative, independent, problem solving skills, under time and resource constraints, in a broad range of materials-related applications critical to the success of the final product2. to have gained experience in materials engineering practice through co-ops or internships in industry, national laboratories, or other

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Brett Barraclough

on numerical methods and basic programming helped students tounderstand how the computer helps engineers solve complex problems.III. EM370 Shortfalls prior to Collaboration with Industry Although the software used in the restructured course was fully associative, it didnot seem to support the top-down design process as taught in many of the undergraduateclasses using Pro/ENGINEER. For example, many freshmen courses in EngineeringDesign Graphics (EDG) that use parametric CAD software like Pro/ENGINEER start byteaching students the basics required to make a simple solid model or part1. The nextlogical step is to teach a novice CAD user to combine the parts into an assembly. Someinstructors and textbooks prefer to create drawings from

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S. Andrew Hale; Roger Rohrbach; Larry Stikeleather; John Parsons; James Young; Susan M. Blanchard

to increasethe application of basic principles of fluid and heat transfer to biomedical applications andconsequently to reduce the application of these same principles to agricultural situations. Thishas primarily been accomplished through the semester long special projects rather than withchanges in the organization of the lectures or laboratory periods.Prior to 1997, special projects were assigned which integrated the concepts of resistance to flowthrough a system, performance of pumps or fans, heat transfer, and psychrometrics through aproblem involving a batch grain drying system. Beginning in 1997, the emphasis of the specialproblem was shifted to a study of the flow of blood through the human vascular system, theperformance of the

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Willie Ofosu

areconcentrating on data communications. Such is the case at Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus,where wireless forms part of the telecommunications program. This paper discusses the use ofthe Serenade 7.0 PC Software in the wireless component of the telecommunications program.II. The Serenade 7.0 PC Software1The University Program of Ansoft Corporation makes the Serenade 7.0 PC software readilyavailable to universities. This software product has proved to be very useful as a teaching aid inthe laboratory and serves as a powerful design and analysis tool for RF and microwave systemsengineers. It can also be used for optoelectronic design. The analytical capabilities are broadlycategorized as linear and nonlinear.The analytical methods used in this product

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Graciano Dieck; Artemio Aguilar; Sergio Malacon; Manuel E. Macias

redesign strategy. The implementation results after 2 semestershas shown, on the students, a significant positive impact in 8 procedural and 5 attitudinalcontents established in the Mission of ITESM toward the year 2005. However, for the pilotgroups of 17 (fall 1997) and 21 (spring 1998) students, the instructor has observed a significantincrease in the teaching load compared to the traditional scheme. This is due to the detailedpersonalized formative and summative evaluations for each student and the continuousattendance to the discussion virtual environment such as “the course room”. Further refinementsare developed in order to fit the scheme to the typical teaching loads required for the traditionalcourses at ITESM.I. INTRODUCTIONIn the summer

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

vapor infiltration techniques at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)and industrial companies, such as DuPont, 3M/Delta G, B. F. Goodrich, Amercom, RefractoryComposites and B. P. Chemicals Ltd. The CFCCs are being recognized as necessary for high-temperature structural applications. The pertinent applications include heat exchangers,combustors, hot gas filters and boiler components in power generation systems, and first walls andhigh heat flux surfaces in fusion reactors. The technology for fabrication, characterization,modeling, design, and applications of ceramic composites is of crucial importance for improvingUS industrial competitiveness in the worldwide market.A three-year project on "Ceramic Matrix Composites - A Combined Research

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

: Promethean Books, Inc., 1978.12. Myers, I.B., Introduction to Type, Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., 1980.13. Wankat, P.C. and Oreovicz, F.S., Teaching Engineering, Mc-Graw Hill, New York, NY, 1993, Chapter 13.14. Yokomoto, C.F. and Ware, R., "Improving Problem Solving Using the MBTI," Proc. 1982 ASEE Annual Conference, College Station, TX, June 1982.15. Held, J.S. and Yokomoto, C.F., "Technical Report Writing: Effects of Personality Differences in the Laboratory," Proc. 1983 ASEE Annual Conference, Rochester, NY, June 1983.16. Rosati, P., "Students’ Psychological Type and Success in Different Engineering Programs," Proceedings 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 1997.17. Schurr, K.T., Ruble, V.E

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Bradley E. Bishop; George E. Piper; Richard T. O'Brien

system identification throughimplementation and tuning of a PD controller. This design project has been integrated into thejunior level curriculum in the Systems Engineering department at the United States NavalAcademy.1. IntroductionIt is well known that classroom discussion of the theory of control can be greatly enhancedthrough appropriate experimental investigations. Students unable to grasp the concepts offeedback and system response through lectures are often more receptive to hands-ondemonstrations and investigations. Further, many topics relating to the process of system designare difficult at best to teach in a lecture format. It is extremely challenging to motivate in theclassroom the difficulties of real implementation of control

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Ron Day; Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

held several section and chapter offices in the IEEE and other engineering organizations.He received the Teetor Award from the SAE for outstanding teaching and three service awards from the MemphisSection of the IEEE. He is a registered engineer in Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois and holds an FCC GeneralRadiotelephone license with a ship radar endorsement.ROBERT DOUGLASRobert Douglas received a B.S.E.E. from The University of Mississippi in 1962 and an M.S.E.E. from TheUniversity of Houston in 1967. He has taught engineering technology at Mississippi State University, and iscurrently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at The University of Memphis. Mr. Douglas has been aManager of Systems Engineering for Ingalls Shipbuilding

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Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

skills is clearly at odds with what is commonly found in Page 4.335.1most undergraduate engineering curricula. In fact, many of the studies in engineering educationhave identified, among other things, the lack of hands-on laboratory experience, multi-disciplinary or systems perspective, understanding of information technology, and understandingof the importance of teamwork as shortcomings of most of the current curricula [1–8]. Also, thecomplex set of skills summarized above cannot be provided by a few courses in an engineeringcurriculum. Ideally, the ability to work in teams and to use the computer as a platform supportinginterdisciplinary

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Richard R. Schultz

contract number DAAH04-96-1-0449.undergraduate level. Since the author’s area of expertise lies primarily in the realm of digital signal andimage processing, the injection of research opportunities into the curriculum was limited to regularteaching assignments and more informal student advisement related to these topics. Several advantagesand disadvantages of this teaching mode are provided, in which student evaluation comments are used toassess the utility of education/research integration. This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes background information regardingeducation/research integration, including project categories and research productivity ratings as definedby the author. A number of research and design-oriented

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Kay C Dee

below.Bibliography1. Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: on being a mentor to students in science and engineering, (NationalAcademy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), National Academy Press, 1997.2. P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.3. W. J. McKeachie, Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, D.C.Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1994.4. J. Lowman, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1985.KAY C DEEKay C Dee is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory in theDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. She has served as

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Paul Giolma; Farzan Aminian; Djaffer Ibaroudene

by an MIT “Handy Board,” with optical en-coders and IR sensors as inputs. Starting from a fixed position, the robot finds its way to a given destination coordi-nate while avoiding randomly placed obstacles along the path. The project is an excellent teaching and learning ex-perience due to the multiple disciplines involved: logic, electronics, control, programming and mechanics. In addi-tion, the project provides the students with a relatively realistic professional experience involving financial and timebudgeting, management, meeting of deadlines, making presentations and writing reports.IntroductionProbably due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, design has been an integral part of the undergraduatecurriculum in Trinity’s

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

at Queen’s University is described in detail. The primaryobjective of the course is to create a sense of opportunity and excitement about mechatronicssystem design. This course focuses on the practical implementation of simple mechatronicsystems with particular emphasis on the electronics for conditioning and interfacing of sensorsignals and driver control signals. The laboratory portion of the course is based on the BasicStamp II, a user friendly microcontroller from Parallax Inc. By the end of the course, studentsunderstand a relatively simple system of sensors and actuators under the supervision of amicroprocessor engaged in on/off or simple PID control.1. IntroductionMechatronics is a word which means different things to different people

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Francisco Ruiz; Michael E. Gorman; Phil Weilerstein

provides an overview and profile of twocourses developed under a program which provides support for the development of newapproaches to engaging students with innovation by providing opportunities for thecreation of new products and ventures as part of the educational experience.The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) is an independentinterdisciplinary educational program supported by The Lemelson Foundation to fosterand promote the teaching of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship by facilitatingand supporting collaborative learning structures at colleges and universities nationwide.A major focus of the NCIIA has been engineering education. The two undergraduateengineering programs described here illustrate the

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Jeffrey A. Griffin; Rick L. Homkes

ofemployment. The professor, however, had taken an in-plant graduate course from IndianaUniversity called “Teaching and Learning in the Corporate Environment” with several membersof the company’s corporate training department. They had a need to develop a new programskilling redundant electrical and mechanical engineers as embedded systems engineers, and theprofessor was rehired for a third summer to help design the program. This Software SkillEnhancement Program (SSEP) took engineers off-line for four months to complete an intensiveset of university courses and in-plant training programs. The program also had the benefit ofbringing in laboratory development money to the university as labs were upgraded for theengineers to use.A paper was written

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Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

research conducted by their faculty. Graduate programs provide the obvious benefitto a research mission of students that need to assist/conduct research and investigations in orderto pursue theses and projects. The availability of graduate students can, of course, also assistfaculty with the undergraduate program by serving as teaching assistants for labs and other taskssuch as grading assignments. Construction programs can have both a professional and researchfocus. Certainly the precedent-setters for professional construction graduate programs at manyinstitutions have been those programs in law, architecture, business, and medical specialties.A further benefit for the institution is that graduate programs help in retaining and recruitingmore

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Michael Spektor; Walter Buchanan

out-of-state program during its first academic year, and how thesechallenges were addressed as a guide to other institutions who might be interested in a similarendeavor.IntroductionThe challenges faced by OIT were formidable. In bringing the program to Boeing, it wasunderstood that the program was to be eventually accredited by ABET. It was thereforenecessary for OIT faculty to teach a substantial part of the courses. This meant that a programdirector with Basic Credentials1 must be found. For the convenience of the students, it was alsonecessary that the courses be delivered in three-hour a day blocks at three Boeing locations.Since many Boeing students had substantial manufacturing experience, it was stipulated that testouts and/or

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Jack Zecher

pause button along with a slider control that allow the animation andaudio narration to be repositioned, replayed or paused. Figure 4 Screen layout showing VCR type controlsFuture ImpactIt is not expected that these lessons will entirely replace the traditional setting of having studentsattend lectures. The lessons should, however, provide a portion of the instruction that iscurrently done in the traditional lecture format as well as a portion of the laboratory instruction.This should allow the format of the class to be modified somewhat so that fewer lecture and lab Page 4.195.4hours will be required. This new format

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Claudia House

managing internship activities. Faculty served in various internships atsites including Nortel, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Smith and Nephew, LockheedMartin and MCI. TEFATE interns performed a variety of tasks for the host industriesincluding training, establishing Intranets, installing cabling, conducting marketingstudies, network administration, and designing networks.The philosophy driving faculty internships, regardless of the type of business or activity,is based in the belief that the best curricula are developed in an environment where thefaculty have• participated directly in that business,• utilized the business’s cutting-edge technology, and• applied this knowledge with the highest possible academic standards.It is important that

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J. A. Bragg; Stephen P. DeWeerth; Clinton D. Knight

leveraged in such a way that the students produce, as a final project, anengaging, interactive demonstration of a basic ECE concept; many of thesedemonstrations have already found their way into the classroom in other courses. Theresult is a course with dual, complementary goals: teaching Java-based programmingconcepts and developing computer-enhanced educational courseware.I. MotivationEngineering topics, especially those in Electrical and Computer Engineering, are oftentaught by first presenting the underlying equations and then, by exploring thoseequations, revealing the topic’s fundamental principles. This approach, while common,has the unfortunate effect of postponing intuitive understanding of the topic until wellinto the process, when the

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Donald Mahoney; Brent Young; William Svrcek

control need to be taught in amore practical and concrete way than afforded by the traditional classical approaches. Theincreasingly overloaded degree syllabus provides the academic impetus to reorganize subjectsand reduce superfluous detail.There is also an industrial imperative to teach material that is of use to the practicing engineer.This imperative is reinforced by the comments such as the following that arise from practicingChemical Engineers.“I never made use of Bode plots or root-locus when I was designing a control loop”“There are no transfer functions out there in the real plant”“The material I had been taught was of no use in commissioning a control loop”Control education clearly needs to do better