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Robert P Hesketh; Michael Carney; C. Stewart Slater

0.00E+00 1.00E-04 2.00E-04 3.00E-04 4.00E-04 5.00E-04 Flowrate (m3/s) Figure 3: Determination of Minimum FluidizationExperiment - Part II : Polymer CoatingThe next part of theexperiment is where thestudents coat the metal 0.035samples. The students are 121°C

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Robert Davis; Laura J. Genik; Craig W. Somerton

. Each step will be described, any assumptionswill be explained, and hints will be given to help make these types of problems easier tosolve.The Example Problem from Cengal and Boles1A refrigerator uses refrigerant-12 as the working fluid and operates on an ideal vaporcompression refrigeration cycle between 0.14 and 0.8 MPa. If the mass flow rate of therefrigerant is 0.05 kg/s, determine the rate of heat removal from the refrigerated spaceand the power input to the compressor, the heat rejection rate to the environment, and theCOP of the refrigerator.Setting Up the Problem Page 5.712.5The first step in the solution of problems such as this is to set up a

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William F. Horton; Thomas Agayoff; Saul Goldberg

: (1) Speed (nm) vs Load Torque (τload) (2) Efficiency (η) vs Output Power (Pout) (3) Slip (s) vs Output Power (Pout) (4) Line Current (IL) vs Output Power (Pout) Mark on each plot the data point corresponding to operation at half-rated and full-rated load.(B) Determine, experimentally, the speed regulation of the motor from no-load to a load torque of three newton-meters. n m no− load − n m specified − load SR = n m no− load Speed-regulation is a measure of the speed droop of the motor as load increases from no- load to a

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Jeffrey Nadel; Dan Walsh

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationstunning testament to the importance of industry partnership in sustaining our laboratory-basedcurriculum.Recently, advances in computing technology have created the opportunity to bring massivecomputing resources to bear on engineering problems. Algorithms have been developed to bringcomputing into engineering synthesis, not simply data acquisition and analysis. Computingsystems hold the promise of renewing education itself, not simply by changing delivery modes, butby allowing us to more clearly understand and couple to human learning mechanisms. In the1990’s, computing brought us the information age – and computing revolutionized thecommunications industry. In the next decade computing

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Pamela Hussen; Jose Castro; Robert J. Gustafson

including seniors, 2nd, 6th and 15thyear alumni, this area showed the fourth largest gap of the twenty-five outcomes areas surveyed.The Outcomes Assessment Committee in its deliberations did not feel it had adequateunderstanding of the root cause(s) to help programs make definitive changes. As one approachto better understand this difference, a task group from the committee choose to develop a one-page, topic specific survey of alumni to be used during 1999-2000 academic year only. The goalof the survey being to further define what preparation or abilities were of highest priority in thisarea and how these might be best accomplished. Structure and results from the survey developedare described in this paper.2. Survey DevelopmentThe Task Group

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Alexander Crispo; Beverly Davis

taken (1).Anyone who has been involved in a manufacturing process is well aware that qualityissues will surface periodically. Although we can all accept the natural variationsinvolved in manufacturing, one has to question the responses to these variations. One hasto question the authenticity, sincerity and validity of quality initiatives with the followingclaims. Six former employees of the Firestone plant in Decatur, IL, which manufacturedmany of the 6.5 million tires recalled, claim that workers used questionable tactics tospeed production in the mid 1990’s (6). This author goes on to report that these workersallege that (6): • Decatur workers engaged in practices such as puncturing bubbles on tires to cover up flaws on products that

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Ted Aanstoos; Steven Nichols

rankings(especially U. S. News and World Report), or in some cases because of family/friend Page 6.244.4connections. Not surprisingly, these schools all compared very well on the basis of requiredcourse content. This result is expected because of the constraints imposed by the 4-year“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition,Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”bachelors degree format, the efforts by all accredited engineering schools to meet ABETcriteria, and no doubt by the fact that all major colleges and universities are responding to thedynamic needs of the

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Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

Society for Engineering Education• Introduction to cooperative learning and peer evaluation.• Understanding of ethical issues in technology from multiple professional perspectives.• Examination of the assumptions, impact, and implications of technological decisions.• Exploration and research of ethical issues in application of technology. To provide the reader with a better understanding of the way the course has beendeveloped and integrated into the multidisciplinary student collective, course assignmentsamples are provided below. It is important to emphasize that students are divided into teamsthat work collaboratively to define, research, and communicate the position(s) of the stakeholdergroups each represents. The communication

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X. Qian; A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

are all required to fill evaluation forms regarding thepresentation. The presentation evaluation form is shown in Appendix 1. Project grade will begiven based on combination of written project report grade and oral project presentation grade.Evaluation will be discussed with the student before the final grade given. Improvement methodson presentation are recommended to each student.VI. Conclusion and RecommendationThe Mechanical Engineering department at AAMU has utilized s SEAARK approach to developa new undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum. This allows students to develop aDesign portfolio starting from the freshman year. Project training continues through theircapstone design course. The heat and mass transfer project was

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1998 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

additional functionality to the web-basedcourse. Some of these tools have begun to emerge in the HTML 4 specifications, in the form ofDynamic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. The web is leading the way to the virtualclassroom.References1. Naisbitt, J., Megatrends, Warner Books, Inc., New York, 1982.2. Naisbitt, J., and P Aburdene, Megatrends 2000, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1990.3. Darnell, R. et al, HTML 4 Unleashed Professional Reference Edition, Sams.net Publishing, 1st edition, pp. 818 - 1128, Indianapolis, IN, 1998. Page 3.196.7BiographyJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received B. S. and M. S. degrees in Electrical

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William Park

the more complex functions (voltage-controlled oscillators andfilters) necessary for a fully functional system are usually provided for the project due tothe complexity of these circuits for students at this level.INTRODUCTIONWhen I was assigned to teach the introductory circuit analysis course (ECE 202), I wasinformed that I would have to provide an “honors component” for those students taking itas an honors course, ECE H202. (There is insufficient demand to offer a stand-alonehonors course, so ECE H202 is taught as an “add-on” course, with the honors studentsattending a standard section.) I decided to adapt the work I was involved with during thelate 1970’s in electronic music synthesis as a project for ECE H202.HISTORYIn the mid-1960’s

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Josef Rojter

engineers. Human resource and University policies implications are found here.N External. Inadequate input from industry and society concerning the nature of engineering curricula.IDENTIFICATION OF TENSIONS The concern that current engineering education is not of best practice has promptedAustralian Governments to fund a number of inquiries into engineering and engineeringeducation.In the 1960’s Moorhouse identified a crisis in engineering education and placedthe root of the problem squarely on the shoulders of the Institution of Engineers. Theconcerns that Moorhouse identified were rather contemporary in nature; place of engineeringas a field of intellectual inquiry, differing expectations of engineering graduates by small andlarge

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Ian R. Simpson; Brian Manhire

govern-ment-subsidized. Sup-Elec now has three sites, one near Paris, one in the north-east town ofMetz (which runs a joint M.S. program with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA) andthe third center is in the Breton town of Rennes. The "Fourth Wave" of schools came about in the1950's when a number of university departments were converted into Schools of Engineering toform the Ecoles Nationales Supérieures d'Ingénieurs (ENSI) recruiting directly after the bacca-lauréat on a 5-year program. At the same time, the Instituts Nationaux des Sciences Appliquées(INSA), based on the model of the German applied-science Fachhochschulen, were establishedin Lyon, Rennes and Toulouse, with the Lyon site being the largest (4,000 students). In 1972

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Harish K. Krishnaswamy; Ryan B. Wicker

the flow bench using the same procedure, and each test followed the same procedure.At the end of the four week session, students turned in their nozzles and final reports for grading.All of the nozzles were tested to determine the “official” flow rates for comparison. The gradefor the laboratory was based on the formal laboratory report. However, for the NDC, there werebonus points given to the group with the highest volumetric flow rate (determined by at least 1%more flow than the next nozzle), and the best laboratory report (determined by the highestlaboratory report grade). A maximum of 15 bonus points were available for the winner(s) of theNDC.The student response to the NDC was remarkable. Every student demonstrated a

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Mitchel Keil; Mary Beth Krysiak; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez

Methodology. In this project the methodology proposed and used for testing is based on thegoal of predicting the performance of a variety of sands and binders with the proposed TDT.Because of the particular concerns expressed by AFS-related experts in the field of sands-bindersystems, shell and no-bake systems were tested. Two different types of shell sands, one for moldsand one for cores, and two different types of sands, silica and chromite, with one no-bakebinders, were tested. Each experiment consists of the following major steps: 1. Fabrication of specimens. Blowing mixture into jig and curing. 2. Scratch hardness testing. AFS Standard 318-87-S(1) 3. Disc Transverse Strength Testing. Tinius Olsen apparatus. 4. Thermal

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Murali Krishnamurthi

Street, New York, NY 10017. Page 3.352.52. Allison et al. “Uses of Modeling in Science and Society” in Ethics in Modeling, edited by William A. Wallace, Elsevier Science Ltd., New York, 1994.3. Barabba, V. P. “The Role of Models in Managerial Decision Making – Never Say Model Says,” in Ethics in Modeling, edited by William A. Wallace, Elsevier Science Ltd., New York, 1994.4. Bird, S. J., and Housman, D. E. “Truth and the Collection, Selection, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data: A Scientist’s View,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 1, Issue 4, pp. 371-382, 1995.5. Carrier, H. D., and Wallace, W. A. “An

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Street, New York, NY 10017. Page 3.353.52. Allison et al. “Uses of Modeling in Science and Society” in Ethics in Modeling, edited by William A. Wallace, Elsevier Science Ltd., New York, 1994.3. Barabba, V. P. “The Role of Models in Managerial Decision Making – Never Say Model Says,” in Ethics in Modeling, edited by William A. Wallace, Elsevier Science Ltd., New York, 1994.4. Bird, S. J., and Housman, D. E. “Truth and the Collection, Selection, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data: A Scientist’s View,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 1, Issue 4, pp. 371-382, 1995.5. Carrier, H. D., and Wallace, W. A. “An

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Mark A. Shields

. Finally,instructor-generated materials, workshops, lectures, and assignments were also produced duringthe five-week project period.A key emphasis of the whole project was intensive documentation and analysis of sourcematerial, including not only published articles and books on each team’s topic, but also data andreports compiled by a range of national and international organizations (including the United Page 2.176.2Nations, World Watch Institute, World Bank, Planned Parenthood, U. S. Census Bureau, Agencyfor International Development, World Health Organization, Oxfam, and many others). Teamsalso were instructed to make appropriate (but not

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Ronald W. Schafer; Mark A. Yoder; James H. McClellan

(e.g., image enhancement in a program such asAdobe Photoshop). Even the DSP first approach is derived from other efforts, most notably Prof. Ken Steiglitz[1] at Princeton. His initial effort was ahead of its time, because the software to support actual Page 2.188.1processing was neither widely available nor easy to use in the 1970's. More recently, Steiglitz haswritten another book that presents DSP material to students with a computer science background,but with a keen interest in digital audio and computer music [2]. Both of these books have had astrong influence on our definition of this new introductory course.2.1. RationaleThe

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Jawaharlal Mariappan

home appliances. Rapid changes in theindustry, and the increasing use of microprocessors in many of today′s machines lead to productsthat are mechatronics in nature. In order to design such products, an engineer must have generalknowledge of various design techniques and special knowledge of a blend of technologies. Suchskills can be obtained from multidisciplinary mechatronics courses. Recognizing the need for mechatronics education, some Japanese higher educationalinstitutions[1] and European colleges and universities[2-4] offer courses in mechatronics atdifferent levels. Some schools abroad even plan to offer degree programs[5] in mechatronics.The significance of this can be underscored by the fact that there is already an

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James R. Sherrard

MANDATORY CREDIT REDUCTION OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS - CAN QUALITY HIGH CREDIT PROGRAMS SURVIVE? James R. Sherrard Three Rivers Community-Technical College The late 1980's and 1990's have proven to be very difficult times for engineering technologydegree programs nationally. Not only have the numbers of enrolled students declined whileemployment opportunities have generally diminished, but the costs to support quality programshave continued to grow. The perceived reduction in interest for technology as a career choice hasput added pressure on both institutions and program faculty to save and revitalize these programs.Business and industry have

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Mohammad M. Asoodeh; Carl W. Steidley

companies are realizing the advantages of the team approach. An example ofthis is the recently introduced Saturn automobile. In the early 1980's General Motors decided todesign a new automobile from the ground up. To accomplish this, they formed a team of productspecialists from various General Motors divisions. Rather than assigning this team to one of theexisting GM divisions they chose to form a new company, Saturn. Many companies do not go tothe extreme of forming a new company, but they are bringing together technical specialists toeffect new product designs.[3]Teamwork is also key to the successful operation of manufacturing cells on the shop floor. Inaddition to communication skills, team members need to have excellent technical skills

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David R. Haws

administration. In the mean time, I will continue to teach these twoStrength of Materials classes (and others) with PSI methods, individually tailored learningobjectives and testing criteria, but in separate classrooms.Bibliographic InformationFor more background material on Mastery Learning and the Personalized System of Instruction, I would recommendthe following:Block, J. H. (1971). Mastery learning: Theory and practice. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.Bloom, B. S. (1968). Learning for mastery. Evaluation Comment UCLA-CSEIP, 1, pp. 1-12.Carroll, J. B. (1963). A model for school learning. Teachers College Record, 64, 723-733.Keller, F. S. (1968). Good-bye teacher... Journal of Applied Behavior and Analysis, 1, 79-89.Keller, F. S., &

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Teresa L. Hein

can lead to the sharpening of critical thinking skills. In addition, students are encouragedto make linkages between physics and their lives through the folder activities. It is my belief thatwhen students can make a connection between physics and their own lives, long-term learningand retention of material is encouraged and enhanced. BibliographyBrown, S. & Knight, P. (1994). Assessing learners in higher education. London: Keogh Page.Connolly, P. & Vilardi, T. (Eds.). (1989). Writing to learn mathematics and science. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.Countryman, J. (1992). Writing to learn mathematics: Strategies that work: K - 12. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational

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Yousef Haik

. Felder, R. M., How students learn: Adapting Teaching Styles to Learning Styles, Proceedingsof the Frontiers in Education Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 1988.7. Haik, Y., Chen, C. J. and Kuncicky, D., Development of Multimedia Instructional Tools forEngineering Mechanics, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education,Vol. 1, pp. 696-702, Chicago-IL, 1997.8. Haik, Y., Collaborative Learning in Engineering Mechanics, Proceedings of the 13th NationalCongress in applied Mechanics, Gainesville, FL, June 21-26, 1998.9. Tobias, S., They ’re Not Dumb, They ’re Different: Stalking the second Tier, Tucson ResearchCooperation, 1990.10. Felder, R. M., Reaching the Second Tier-Learning and Teaching Styles in College ScienceEducation

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Ronald E. Barr

series of SummerSchools that the Division had conducted, beginning in the early 1930’s. The most notable early SummerSchool was held after the war in St. Louis in 1946. Many of the pioneers in EDG education madepresentations at the meeting, which resulted in a hardbound book [1] that charted the course for EDGeducation during the twenty-year post-war era. The seventh Summer School was held in 1967 in EastLansing, Michigan and it focused on integrating graphics more closely with the design process. Theproceedings of that Summer School were published as a special edition of The Engineering GraphicsJournal [2], and it served as a landmark document for the infusion of freshman design projects into EDGcourses that were typical in the 1970’s and 1980

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

tradedeficit between the U.S and APEC, the loss of almost half of the U.S. commercial satellitebusiness to the Arianespace launch vehicle and the loss of market share in the Boeingcommercial airplane business to AirBus Industries1,2. U. S. Trade NAFTA-Buys 300 JAPAN-Buys EU-15-Buys 250 ASIAN-Buy NAFTA-Sells JAPAN-Sells 200 EU-15-Sells ASIAN-Sells 150 100 50 0

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James Hanson

. Butterfield, R., “Benefit Without Cost in a Mechanics Laboratory,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 4, 1997, pp. 315-320.3. Petroski, H., “Polishing the Gem: A First-Year Design Project,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 4, 1998, pp. 445-448.4. Courter, S. S., Millar, S. B., and Lyons, L., “From the Student’s Point of View: Experiences in a Freshman Engineering Design Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 3, 1998, pp. 283-286.5. Carrol, D. R., “Integrating Design into the Sophomore and Junior Level Mechanics Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 3, 1997, pp. 227-232.6. Lewis, P., Aldridge, D., and Swamidass, P. M., “Assessing Teaming Skills Acquisition on

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

3257 EVOLUTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM John E. Shea, Thomas M. West Oregon State UniversityIntroduction At the beginning of this decade, the structure of engineering curricula at most colleges anduniversities had existed since the early 1950’s, and reflected an emphasis on a solid foundation inmath, science, and engineering science as expressed in the Grinter Report of 19551. Therequirements for accreditation by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) reinforced this traditional structure of the

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Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

denotes torque, θ is degree of the link with horizon,and Β shows friction coefficient.The block diagram of above system can be shown as follow: τ X2 X1 1 1 SΙ + Β . S θ θA closed-loop control system with a conventional PID controller for above system isshown below: . θ ref e τ θ θ 1 1