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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

for computer engineering skills bystudents, employers, and graduate schools. This paper will discuss the motivation formaking a change in the curriculum, describe the curriculum options identified includingthe advantages and disadvantages of each option, describe the chosen degree programand the plan for implementing it, and outline the challenges that are expected during theimplementation.I. IntroductionThere are a number of developments, both external to and internal to Lafayette College,which drove the decision to develop and approve a four year combined BSECE degree[1]. First, there has been a rapid proliferation of technology in the form of computers andcommunication systems throughout society and in engineering in particular during

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John Cervantes; Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

practices. LRPO will be prepared to respond professionally, should anincident occur.”Section 4.3 covers Planning. It outlines the mill’s commitment to maintaining procedures toidentify environmental aspects of its activities and products, to determine associatedenvironmental impacts, and to consider these when setting environmental objectives. Itestablishes the mill’s commitment to establishing and documenting environmental objectivesand targets for each relevant function within its operation. Finally, this section describes themill’s commitment to creating detailed environmental management programs which address itsenvironmental objectives. It is supported by four EMSPs which provide details for implementingthe planning function. The four EMSPs

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Lawrence B. Korta

principles, a program was proposed and ultimately approved by Rockwell(Allen-Bradley). In summer of 1991, 24 visitors (including three faculty from Czech TechnicalUniversity) participated in the first program, fully funded by Rockwell. Various MSOE faculty,typically selected from the electrical engineering and school of business graduate program ,conducted the four week program. Some lectures and facility tours were conducted at localRockwell facilities by their personnel. Students were housed in the MSOE dorms. Topics wereoffered in two or three hour blocks, some requiring two or three blocks; the project was thedevelopment of a business/manufacturing plan for a hypothetical product. For the project,students were divided into small teams of five or

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Warren Perger; Leonard J. Bohmann; Bob Bohnsack

agency. Since our lastregional accreditation ten years ago, the NCA had embraced a continuous improvementphilosophy, and our department was in the process of implementing an assessment plandeveloped over the past year and a half.From our perspective it would be easy. We would be able to make small adjustments to ourassessment plan developed for the NCA, collect our program information, and sail through theaccreditation process with a N.G.R. (next general review).Euphoria LostIt turned out to be a much bigger problem than we had initially thought. There are manydifferences between what NCA wanted and what ABET required. In the assessment programsthat the University developed for NCA, the departments were primarily concerned with whatstudents were

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

a result, one should feel free to write down all kinds of new ideas. They can include • ideas for new products, software, or devices; • ideas for new procedures for manufacturing and marketing; •solutions to major problems confronting human society; •predictions about the future, or how one would like society to be; •plans for your education, career, family; •insights to personal problems; •activities you would like to try, such as new hobbies, sports, or places to visit; and •themes or topics for assignments and essays.In short, IMS provides a framework which can help individuals shape a notebook into a

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Teri Reed Rhoads; Susan Haag; Gwen Lee-Thomas

success and retaining engineering students. In an attempt to reform engineeringeducation, seven institutions became part of the Foundation Coalition (FC) sponsored by theNational Science Foundation. One method utilized by the FC member schools was to offer anintegrated freshman or first-year program. Embedded within this innovative curriculum reformwere seven student learning outcomes that were established in the FC’s strategic plan and wereimplemented and measured across selected subject areas. The student learning outcomes wereemphasized for high academic success, student retention, and professionalism. The learningoutcomes were so important that the Foundation Coalition now uses three of the four as theircore competencies. A core competency is

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Ernest Tollner

the farm or small watershed scale. The notion becomes moreexplicit in Natural Resources Engineering. “Scale” can delineate between regional scale effortsmore appropriate to Civil engineers (e.g., river hydraulics) and the field scale appropriate toNatural Resources engineers. “Scale” also delineates between bench scale efforts moreappropriate to Chemical engineers and the field scale appropriate to Natural Resourcesengineers.Stream improvements and sediment control plans that have typically been left to civil engineerscan in our view be more appropriately done by Natural Resources Engineers. Some extensiveapproaches such as constructed wetlands for environmental management and somebioremediation techniques are field scale in nature and thus

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mark Tufenkjian

Session 1375 A New Engineering Educator’s Guide for Creating a Summer Engineering Internship Program Mark R. Tufenkjian California State University, Los AngelesAbstractAn internship experience can play a pivotal role during a student’s educational journey. Aninternship provides a student with an outstanding opportunity to advance their qualifications botheducationally and professionally. This paper presents an organizational framework for newengineering educators to plan, develop, and implement a simple yet effective internship programat their universities. The

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Halvard E. Nystrom

Extended Plan and Treat Bridge life bridge life Time: (year 0) (~ year 5) (~ year 8)Figure 1. Rehabilitation Timing Chart.Actual SituationThis research is a collaborative effort between the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studiesat UMR and engineers at the Missouri Department of Transportation. The first step was to createthis conceptual model and make rough estimates of the costs. This is the current project status.The next step is to formally work with the Missouri Department of Transportation analysts anddecision-makers to: • Better understand their needs in relation to decision making in this area, • Present the preliminary model for

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Sohail Anwar; Paula Ford

on yellingout their windows to communicate with each other. Your company has decided to market a low-tech communication system on the island. This system will be comprised of tin-can phonesinstalled so that the islanders can relay messages around the island.For the first paper, students were to describe the tin-can phone system for an internal audience inthe writer’s company. Technicians would use the description to build the system; marketingpersonnel would use the description to plan the advertising campaign. Students had to build aworking model of their tin-can phone system and bring it to class on the day they turned in theirpapers. The instructor’s office looked like a recycling center!The basic components were the same for each tin-can

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Johm W. Duggan; Francis J. Hopcroft

description, including materials balances and process flow diagrams, waswell done as well as the identification of regulatory issues, system objectives and comparison ofresults to performance criteria.As a result of the evaluation of these student designs both individual and class strengths andweaknesses were identified. Capstone Design lecture topics involving identified strengths werecovered in less detail than originally planned in the course syllabus. Weaknesses identified inthe class were reviewed in more detail than originally planned in subsequent weeks in thecourse. As this paper is being written in the second half of Capstone Design, it is too early todetermine how well students have responded to efforts to correct the weaknesses identified

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Justin Pniower; Michael Ruane; Bennett Goldberg; Selim Unlu

tools, and the video link setup. We alsodescribe a typical user’s experience across the web, discuss plans for extended web-basedexperiments and give suggestions for creating and maintaining a successful web-basedexperiment at another institution.IntroductionThe World Wide Web (WWW) is a growing vehicle for distance education, but most effortshave treated the web as a communications channel, not as a means for tele-presence. BostonUniversity has been developing several photonics experiments that demonstrate basic principlesof science and engineering through active experimental control over the WWW. Visitors to ourweb-site have real-time control over scientific equipment using their basic web-browsers, andreceive observed data across the web. We

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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

DisseminationBecause of the importance of corporate governance in engineering management education, acritical element of this research project will be its dissemination. Plans are being made todisseminate the results of this research in the following manner: Presentations – Presentations in educational seminars, corporate seminars and professional society meetings (such as the ASEE Conference) will be utilized to disseminate work in progress as well as final research results. This form of dissemination is particularly beneficial in soliciting feedback and constructive criticism while the research is on going. Papers – An obvious outlet for scholarly work is to share the results with colleagues via refereed conference

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Joan A. Burtner; Laura Moody

of this newcourse over the past two semesters as well as our progress toward increasing the use ofactive learning techniques in other School of Engineering courses.I. IntroductionMercer University’s School of Engineering is currently in the third year of an intensivecurriculum renewal effort. Several factors provided the impetus for this curriculumrenewal effort. First, Mercer University switched from the quarter system to the semestersystem for AY 97-98. Second, a decision was made to reduce the number of credit hoursrequired for the bachelor’s degree. Third, the school plans to apply for programaccreditation during our next ABET visit. (We currently offer an ABET-accredited BSEdegree with specializations in biomedical, electrical

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Maria Amparo Gotes; Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

and, at the same time, use their knowledge and creativity to solve problems,6. allow the students to learn about the engineering documentation process in a planned and stepwise manner.The design project has always involved the creation of the documentation that completelydescribes the various individual and team assignments that were undertaken during the program.During the first two summers of the program the project consisted of the creation of individualand team design notebooks, the creation of personal Web pages, and the presentation of a finalteam oral report2. During the third summer the personal Web page was replaced with thecreation of a web based team newspaper.The Newspaper – a New Design ProjectDuring the planning for the Summer

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Maria Amparo Gotes; Dr. Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

and, at the same time, use their knowledge and creativity to solve problems,6. allow the students to learn about the engineering documentation process in a planned and stepwise manner.The design project has always involved the creation of the documentation that completelydescribes the various individual and team assignments that were undertaken during the program.During the first two summers of the program the project consisted of the creation of individualand team design notebooks, the creation of personal Web pages, and the presentation of a finalteam oral report2. During the third summer the personal Web page was replaced with thecreation of a web based team newspaper.The Newspaper – a New Design ProjectDuring the planning for the Summer

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Philip Doepker

of the responsibilities for the faculty mentors are: 1. Provide technical guidance to students for obtaining needed theoretical or applications information. 2. Work with students to establish a plan, identify deliverables and develop a schedule. 3. Follow up with students to assure they are on schedule and will meet deliverables. 4. Assist in preparing students for oral presentations. 5. Understand the context within which the projects must be performed. 6. Ask questions. 7. Serve as a guide on the side for document preparation and scheduling. 8. Provide ideas after students have had a chance to develop concepts and brainstorm. 9. Provide feedback regarding

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1999 Annual Conference

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

steadily toward closure, and perception describes a preference forthings being open-ended, remaining open to changes. Thus, judging types are said to likethings settled, decided, and planned, and perceptions types are said to like things open-endedand flexible, and they like options and the freedom to adapt as they go. Each individual usesboth judgment and perception, but generally, one is preferred.2.2. Forming Personality Types from the Four ScalesThe four scales, each with two poles, result in sixteen different personality types, each indicatedby a set of four letters, such as ISTJ, ENFP, ENTJ, etc. The ISTJ personality is one who Page

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Brian Butz

to choose whatever action is deemed appropriate. The problemthen becomes: given that a student may do a finite number of things, can the expert systemanalyze what is going on and what tutoring a student needs on what topics? Because this paperis written as the project is developing and well in advance of its presentation, it will be * Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation’sDivision of Undergraduate Education through grant DUE #9752417. Page 4.271.1concerned with the planning associated with the implementation of the expert system. Thepresentation will demonstrate the system.2. Interactive

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Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

will be required. Maple source codeswill be provided and can be downloaded from the project web server.The second module is in planning and is to be developed in the Spring semester of 1999.It addresses the selection of a potential location of facilities in a geographical area. Such aproblem is often referred to as the facility location problem. This class of problems canhave several objectives but the most common one is to reduce the total transportation costand the delivery time. When the distance measure used is Euclidean distance, finding anoptimum solution to the problem involves finding partial derivatives and then solving aset of equations to locate stationary point(s). We have recently solved a real problem inlocation for a company and

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David Alexander; Ronald Smelser

also houses the HTMLdiscussion groups that were developed for each laboratory exercise. Each laboratory is containedon one Web page. All the background material and information is available from these pages. Page 4.411.3The information is in three major components, an Activity Plan, a Notes page, and a Procedurespage.The Activity Plan was designed to outline the laboratory exercise and identify the skills thatwould be developed as well as the measures by which the student would be assessed. All thecourse assignments, termed Tasks, are located on the Activity Plan. This enabled the students togo to one location to find all that was

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Randy Russell; Nicholas Basker; Lisa Scranton; J. L. P Jessop; A. B. Scranton

Internet course can provide an added level of communication of the scientificconcepts through carefully planned audio-visual content (including voice, simulations,animations, pictures, and video) that can be continuously updated and improved. Finally, anInternet course allows each student to control the pace of the course to suit his or her uniquestyle of learning. Again, this flexibility in pace is hard to duplicate in a traditional classroomwhere the instructor must be more concerned with the class as a whole than any individual Page 4.483.3student and therefore adjusts the pace to the “average” learning pace of the class. In a relatedpoint, the

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Rama K. Vedachalam; George L. Engel

courses are still taught. In other cases, however,it appears that low-level circuit issues are almost totally ignored in favor of an exclusive systemslevel approach to the topic. With careful planning, we feel that there is an acceptablecompromise between these extremes. Much of the success of this approach relies upon the useof state-of-the-art, industrial grade software.The class-size during the Spring ’98 offering of the EE484 was twenty-one, five of of whomwere undergraduates with the remainder being, for the most part, first- or second-semestermaster’s students. A prerequisite for the course was successful completion of or concurrentenrollment in EE483: Computer Architecture and Organization. This pre/co-requisite wascritical to the success

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Christopher Ibeh

on “Thermoplastics in AutomotiveApplications” (Table II). Some of these examples are:* “Thermoplastics in Automotive Dashboard Applications”,* “Thermoplastic Materials Used for Automotive Bumpers”, and* “Thermoplastic Polyurethanes for Automotive Engine Block Prototype.”The students are especially encouraged to choose topics that include experimentation.Accompanying the list of suggested term paper topics is the schedule showing the variousdeadlines for the term paper process. The students are instructed to keep to the deadlines andavoid procrastination. This inculcates in the students the need for planning and scheduling.Planning and scheduling are elements of good leadership.IV Literature SearchLiterature search is a pivotal part of the

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Francois Michaud; Mario Lucas; Gerard Lachiver; Andre' Clavet; Jean-Marie Dirand; Noel Boutin; Philippe Mabilleau; Jacques Descoteaux

backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer engineering, civil engineering,mathematics, psychology, technical communication and business) working together tocoordinate the activities related to INGÉNIUS. Professors meet each week to plan theseactivities and to resolve issues related to student teams. In addition to the professors directlyinvolved in teaching to these students, other professors are included in activities related toINGÉNIUS such as team formation, robot assemblage, familiarization with the Handy Board,robot programming and organization of the robot competition.Similarly to problem-based learning8, ROBUS is used in INGÉNIUS as a general platform togive students hands-on technical and teamwork experiences early in the curriculum

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1999 Annual Conference

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John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

receptacles. Confined to an office, someonepours the available material resources onto a table. As time passes, disaster seems to beinevitable, when the engineers emerge victorious. Amazingly, they have crafted a solution from,among other things, duct tape, plastic bags, and pieces of the flight plan document. This isengineering at its unambiguous best. When needs, goals, time constraints, and availableresources are unambiguous, engineers can solve problems.Rarely, however, are the scope and boundary of an engineer's work so well defined. In theUnited States, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) describesengineering as devising components, systems and processes to meet needs. This is the process

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William E. DeWitt; William J. Hutzel; Timothy L. Skvarenina

teaching and learning Although the interdisciplinary Facilities Engineering Technology course required someextra coordination among the three participating faculty members, the overall experience waspositive. Most of the planning meetings were held in the year leading up to the initial courseoffering. Once the semester was underway, the faculty members operated nearly autonomously.At the end of the semester, a wrap-up meeting coordinated a comprehensive examination andfinal course grades. There were some challenges to teaching students with differing technical backgrounds.Topics that were remedial for MET students were sometimes new to EET students, and vice-versa. There was no easy remedy for this problem. Since the course is part

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

roles andresponsibilities for the graduates, the academic programs to produce professionals in the fieldcannot become static. The activities described in this paper, although focused in a BETprogram, can be easily adapted to any other Engineering Technology program. They are basedon presenting the BET curriculum not like a series of different courses that the students need tocomplete in order to graduate, but a whole set of knowledge that shares a common idea. In thisway, the students are introduced to their future profession since their first contact with college.This approach puts additional work load in the faculty, as we need to create new ways ofinstruction delivery, we need to plan and coordinate all these activities and speakers, and

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R. S. Cartier; Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

semiconductor industry due to restrictions imposed by production constraints,scheduling and legal (liability) issues. One of the goals of the ASU East teaching factory is tobridge this gap through contextual learning in a live teaching factory.ASU East Teaching Factory:Cleanroom design The Arizona State University Board of Regents authorized microelectronics teachingfactory plan to construct on the ASU East campus in Mesa, Arizona and the state legislatureappropriated six million dollars to build the facility. ASU East is located at the formerWilliams Air Force Base and commissary building was selected as the site for the teachingfactory. The warehouse area of the building was selected as the location of the teaching Factorydue to the high

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Sheila Palmer

email or inperson. Aspects of the course that were enhancing learning as indicated in Item #1 were notchanged.ConclusionsDuring the course of the semester, I found that one section tended to need more attention andrepetition than the others. This section generally had more questions, was slower picking up newmaterial, and did not perform as well as the other sections on exams and quizzes. I addressed thisby trying to anticipate the more difficult points and then planning an opportunity for a groupactivity associated with it. During the group activity I could work with students in small groups andaid those who were having difficulties. Page