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Katherine C.S. Whitaker; Richard W Freeman

settings. Following this taxonomy, we planned to evaluate studentlearning. The levels of the taxonomy are: • Knowledge • Comprehension • Application • Analysis • Synthesis • EvaluationApplying this taxonomy to the use of mobile robots, we planned the following steps foractivities: 1. Gradual immersion with the robot by creating exercises that introduce each sensor 2. Introduction to the use of multiple sensors 3. Increases in the demands on students to write code 4. Introduction to the concept of problem specifications 5. Creation of open-ended design challenges 6. Inclusion of student-designed challengesUsing the robots solely as an instructional technology tool was the major part of the

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Michael Mackay; George DeLancey; Richard Cole; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard; Gerald Rothberg

session, of which there are 6 throughout the week, includes a 30-studentsection each of which has an instructor who is an adjunct faculty member supported by a seniorundergraduate (peer) teaching assistant. In addition, a course coordinator (regular faculty) and agraduate teaching assistant offer planning and support for the instructors as do an Associate Deanof Engineering and the Dean himself (during the course-development phase). An EngineeringTechnical Services group and the Institute Machine Shop provide support via design andfabrication of experimental and support equipment. The one-hour-per-week design-courselecture is given separately to larger sections of approximately 60 students.The content of the course is in the form of four

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Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

off-the-shelf items.This allowed the Paducah program to provide a meaningful laboratory experience for students rightfrom the start of the program. Some of the equipment includes a converging-diverging nozzle, varioustypes of heat exchanges, fluid flow apparatus, low speed wind tunnel, and turbojet test facility. Thepurchase of this equipment was from a $1.1M start-up equipment allocation appropriated by the stateover a two year period.D. Distance LearningThe Commonwealth of Kentucky has invested heavily in distance learning infrastructure within thelast decade. Initial plans were to use the system to deliver graduate-level instruction to parts of thestate that were distant from the major research institutions. One of the first compressed

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Sheila Horan

supplied students for the intern programuse the program to help the child become more self confident, to develop their science skills, orto allow that student to develop their interest in science. Documentation of this input is needed,but the rewards of this program seem to be self-evident. A survey of science interns and teachersis planned within the next year.Bibliography1. Re-Learning, 10 Common Principles at: http://www.essentialschools.org/aboutus/phil/10cps.htmlSHEILA HORANSheila Horan is currently Freshman Advisor and a College Associate Professor at New Mexico State University.She received her PhD and MSEE in Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University afterreceiving her B.A. in Mathematics and Physics and a

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Miguel J. Bagajewicz; Mariano J. Savelski

superstructure concepts are introduced.Problems are solved using different optimization packages such as those provided inprocess simulators (ASPEN, Pro II w/Provision), EXCEL, and other widespread solverssuch as GAMS/LINDO, GAMS/ CIPLEX, GAMS/CONOPT, and GAMS/DICOPT.The students obtain then a broad vision of the current available technology and theinherent difficulties and limitations of the methods.Finally, the optimal wastewater allocation-planning problem is introduced. In thisproblem, the students face several different polluted water streams that required cleanupbefore disposal. Also available are different cleanup/ removal processes and an optimalinterconnection arrangement is sought

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Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

experiments funded through DUE-9850535. This paper describes some initial thrustareas that are part of our multi-year / multi-investigator project. The effective teaching of membraneprocesses is an important issue to be addressed by the academic community. Leading-edge industries areusing membrane technology for new gains in processing. Students need training in this rapidly growingfield. Educational initiatives are crucial to the continued technical growth and wide-scalecommercialization of membrane processes. The development plan involves the innovative use ofmembrane technology, integrating it both vertically and horizontally throughout the engineeringcurriculum and exposing students to it through the use of team-oriented experimental projects

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Stephen C. Crist

, were objectives that were notinitially planned; however, they seem to have been achieved in most cases. Student evaluations done at the end of the course were quite positive with respect to thequality of instruction and the usefulness of the lab assignments as an aid to learning. However,considering the audience and the objectives of the course, this information isn’t particularlyrelevant. What is important is whether seniors in mechanical and industrial engineering havefound the experience gained in CPE 240 useful in doing the higher level work in junior andsenior laboratories in those disciplines. Because the vast majority of students in the course aremechanical engineering majors, a survey was conducted of the current ME seniors

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Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

ourintroductory engineering graphics and design course for the past six years3. This developmentwas part of the NSF Engineering Synthesis Coalition begun in 1993. The Synthesis Coalitionwas a union of diverse institutions supported by the National Science Foundation. The keyissues and concepts addressed in the Synthesis model, as stated in the Stategic Plan of theSynthesis Coalition4 were: 1. Synthesis Interdisciplinary Content 2. Concurrent Engineering and Industrial Practice 3. Laboratory/Hands-On Experience 4. Communication and Social Context 5. Advanced Delivery Systems and Learning EnvironmentsProduct dissection helped to address items 2-4, with the strongest emphasis on meaningfulexperiential, hands-on

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Robert K. Christianson; Jeffrey F. McCauley; Denny Davis; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili

process is process is not process is evident. process is evident and used skillfully, parts evident or Depth of used effectively. repeatedly. The process is evident only in understanding is Some steps are planned, recorded, and part. There is seen in parts. The repeated to improve reviewed regularly. Both no effort to need for iteration results. Depth of processes and products are develop or is recognized. understanding is seen improved. All design criteria manage a There is some in several parts of the

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Yann Guezennec; Stephen Yurkovich; Gregory Washington; Giorgio Rizzoni

ASEprogram are required to gain admission to the graduate program of one of the participating(“home”) departments. Common to both departments, a minimum of 45 credit hours (Ohio State ison the quarter system) is required to earn the Master of Science degree, and two master’s degreeprogram plans are available: thesis option and non-thesis option. However, since the departmentalrequirements vary from one department to another, the student prepares a study plan that satisfiesthe requirements of the graduate studies committee of the home department as well as the ASEProgram. This plan is then submitted to the ASE Program Committee for approval.Depending on whether the thesis or non-thesis option is chosen, students complete one or twosequences of “core

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Willam G. Curley; Sohail Anwar

) determine instructor qualifications; (6) determine logistics; (7) develop a marketingand follow-up strategy; and (8) plan for evaluation and feedback.Course descriptions for the training programs in PLCs and industrial motor control are givenbelow: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)Duration of Training ProgramThis 24-hour training program will be conducted on four Saturdays; 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.(halfhour for lunch) every Saturday. However, it can be conducted in any other format as needed byIBEW.Topics Covered 1. Basics of a PLC a. Parts of a PLC b. Principles of Operation of a PLC c. Modifying the Operation 2. PLC Hardware Components a. The Input/Output Section b

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Nicholas A. Scambilis

and businesspartners. Twenty-eight Tech Prep consortiums were formulated and now serve most of Ohio.The Miami Valley Consortium comprised of Sinclair Community College, the University ofDayton, and seven Vocational Education Planning Districts, serves 64 high schools and over 100business partners. In Ohio, the Miami Valley Consortium, which has the highest number ofenrolled students, was named “Best In The Nation - 1996”, by the U.S. Department of Education.High School Enrollments: National statistics on high school enrollment indicate that 50percent of high school students are generally unfocused, 25 percent are preparing for college and25 percent are preparing for vocational training. Furthermore, according to a 1993 study by theU.S

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Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the student and the Program Coordinator. In addition, students wererequired to submit and to adhere to a strategic action plan for the Spring 1999 semester. Eachstudent maintained at least bimonthly contact with the WISE Program Coordinator to help ensurethe achievement of personal goals.Program evaluation included results from the Spring 1999 semester/cumulative GPA comparedto the Fall 1998 semester/cumulative GPA. Academic improvements were determined byassessing individual improvement in semester/cumulative GPA and overall improvement insemester/cumulative GPA. In addition, a log sheet was maintained to track personal contactbetween the student and the Program Coordinator.IV. Program ComponentsStudents were initially interviewed in one

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Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

favored themechanical systems course. In school year 1998-1999, 216 students took the mechanicalsystems course, and only 52 took the thermal/fluids course. This disparity is relateddirectly to the students’ choosing the overall mechanical systems track in preference tothe thermal/fluids track and not directly to a preference of one course over the other. The final lab course was a quarter long two quarter hour experimental engineeringproject planned and implemented by the students. This course and the introductoryinstrumentation and methods course suited the new curriculum without fundamentalrevision. The intermediate courses did not, so a new course was needed.GOALS AND CRITERIA FOR THE NEW COURSE For several reasons our experience

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Douglas H. Baxter

. Figure 11 -Final Beam Shape Page 5.290.11Future WorkFuture work on these examples is planned. The welded beam example could be greatly enhancedby using different solvers. Immediate plans are to implement a simulated annealing solver to showhow this class of solver differs from a gradient solver. Additional IED homework problems couldbe modeled and there are plans to add two new homework assignments next semester. Finally,there may be an opportunity to use the solid modeling software in other courses. Structures,dynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and mechatronics should benefit from these types ofexamples. New software will be needed to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

the agenda include: proposal goals, projectactivities, size of the college and area high school student body; location; course offerings;instructional needs including teaching staff, materials, equipment and laboratories; possibleprocess/procedures; how to determine priorities; and how the proposed resources would beallocated.The meeting leaders plan an agenda including the following activities: 1. Discussion of the three primary goals; 2. Identify the three most critical activities for each of their colleges, discuss them, and prioritize them; 3. List and discuss the information necessary for each activity; 4. Describe what the activity would need to look like at each site; 5. Identify Summer Programs and develop the concept; 6. Describe

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Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

is inaccordance with projection. Student current employment situations and feedback from localindustries regarding the improvement of the curriculum is presented.IntroductionManufacturing Engineering Technology is the profession in which the understanding of abroadrange of technologies is necessary to apply and control manufacturing processes. It includesmethods of production of industrial commodities and consumer products. The manufacturingprofessional must be able to plan, design and implement the facilities, tools, machines, and thesequence of operations for producing high quality products at competitive prices.Manufacturing Engineering Technology is a highly interdisciplinary field, requiring elementsfrom other areas of engineering

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Susan Haag

attempt toreform engineering education, seven institutions formed the Foundation Coalition (FC) withsupport from the National Science Foundation. One method utilized by the FC member schoolswas to offer integrated freshman programs. Embedded within this curricular reform were studentlearning outcomes that were established in the FC’s strategic plan and were implemented andmeasured across selected subject areas. Student learning outcomes were defined by theFoundation Coalition as “the abilities that we must develop, continuously improve and use inorder to realize the overall mission and vision of the Coalition.”The Foundation Coalition (FC) at Arizona State University (ASU) has incorporated strategiesinto its curriculum to: a) reform engineering

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Robert L. Armacost; Robert Hoekstra; Michael A. Mullens

from George Washington. He teaches operations research and statistics coursesand is an active researcher in decision analysis, project management, scheduling, and new product development. Heis active in academic planning and assessment activities.Appendix A. Schedule of Project DeliverablesAssignment: Project Proposals Due: 2/2/99Each team will prepare project proposals for two selected concepts. A project proposal may useany format, but must fit on no more than three 8-1/2" x 11" pages. The proposal should identifythe names of the project team members, the designated team leader and a description of theproduct. Your description may include any of the following: documentation

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Kenneth Reid

to givereturning students a different experience. Students were given more advanced topics tolook into if they had previously completed the Electronics course. This course has onlyrun one time, so some future plans are included with the module descriptions:(1) Low-level SoftwareLecture:Operating systems, programming, C languageLab:We’ll get on the computers & use Microsoft Visual C++ compiler to write some C Page 5.660.6programs! (We’ll stick with code that will work on any C compiler)The students were given a crash course in computer programming, and given nearlyfunctional code in C to finish and run. They also looked at some confusing

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Stacy Marie Olaskowitz; Shane T.J. Kemper

),Sensors, Drivers, Integration, User Interface, Calibration, and Communication Protocol.III. Planning PhaseTo meet the shortened time schedule, it is critical to invest sufficient time in planningwell. The typical planning cycle involves the following top-level steps:1. Obtain a sponsor, faculty support and interdisciplinary faculty interest2. Recruit Team members3. Clearly define Mechatronics lab goals4. Outline Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to meet laboratory goals Page 5.129.35. Assign responsibility of WBS tasks to team members.1. Obtain a sponsor, faculty support and interdisciplinary faculty interest.The sponsor is typically the department

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Edward F. Young; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

ability to analyze, design and realize mechanical and thermal systems. Page 5.137.1 • The graduates shall have the ability to use contemporary computation techniques and tools. • The graduate shall have competence in design of experiments, experimental practices and data interpretation. • The graduates shall have the ability to apply statistical methods to analyze and interpret data. • The graduates shall have the ability to plan, schedule and execute engineering projects. • The graduates shall have effective oral and written communication skills. • The graduates shall

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Hamid Khan

this modern, new phase of CADD education in thedesign curriculum.Engineers and technologists must learn about how to think in the modern world ofproduct and systems design, facilities layout and planning and manufacturing [1]. Weindeed have made great efforts toward integrating CAD into design and manufacturingcurriculum but we are still limited by what we see as automated 2D drafting. Curriculum Design Using Robust 3D Modeling / Design SoftwareThe vision of CAD’s role in engineering and technology education is:• CAD software is intuitive and user friendly• Needless time and effort must not be expended in wrestling with the software to learn the software.• Both the teachers and students will maximize their time learning to be

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Karan Watson; Jeffrey Froyd

of Alabama, the Universityof Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and the University of Wisconsin. All campuses havedeveloped improved engineering curricula and learning environment models and haveincorporated those models into their institutional fabric. As part of its strategic plan, thepartner campuses in the Foundation Coalition have focused their efforts on improvingtheir competence in seven theories of pedagogy; these seven pedagogical theories arereferred to as the core competencies of the Foundation Coalition. The seven corecompetencies are 1) curriculum integration, 2) cooperative and active learning, 3)teamwork and collaboration, 4) technology-enabled learning, 5) assessment-drivencontinuous improvement, 6) recruitment, retention, and

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Karen Frair; Jeffrey Froyd

of Alabama, the Universityof Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and the University of Wisconsin. All campuses havedeveloped improved engineering curricula and learning environment models and haveincorporated those models into their institutional fabric. As part of its strategic plan, thepartner campuses in the Foundation Coalition have focused their efforts on improvingtheir competence in seven theories of pedagogy; these seven pedagogical theories arereferred to as the core competencies of the Foundation Coalition. The seven corecompetencies are 1) curriculum integration, 2) cooperative and active learning, 3)teamwork and collaboration, 4) technology-enabled learning, 5) assessment-drivencontinuous improvement, 6) recruitment, retention, and

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Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

, & Librarians”. Working paper for Instructional Activities within the Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology. September 1998.17. Digital Libraries Initiative, http://www.nsf.gov18. Digital Libraries Phase 2 Initiative, http://www.nsf.gov19. Agogino, A., “Using the National Engineering Education Delivery System as the Foundation for Building a Test-Bed Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education”. http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/showaward?award=9817406 Page 5.425.1020. Maly, K., et al., “Planning Grant for the Use of Digital Libraries in

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

. Page 5.568.2These presentations require intensive preparation, library research, and written interim reports.The interaction among faculty has been a pleasant outcome of this program as it has grown andmatured. To be successful, the program necessitates that the faculty collaborate and planintegrated topics from their disciplines. This requires not only group meetings prior to theprogram, but also weekly progress and planning meetings during the course of the four weeks.There were many lively discussions about how best to accomplish program goals, to assesssuccess and problems, and to coordinate program activities. These meetings, which also includethe student facilitators and the residence coordinator, give us all a much better perspective of

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer; Eric Kent McKell; David S. Kelley

design,usually not one of the major projects, so that they can see the relationship between theiroriginal sketch, their computer model, and the rapid prototyped part. In EDG II, studentsproduce a rapid prototype of their team design project. In this case students are not onlyable to see the visualization chain from sketch to computer model to part, but they canalso examine some of the assembly issues of their design. Within the assembly designsproduced in EDG II, the interface and fit between components can be simulated andtested.Pro/ENGINEER, I-DEAS, and Rhino are utilized in upper division manufacturing, plas-tics, vehicle design, and industrial design courses. The plan of the faculty within the ETDepartment is to integrate course projects to

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John S. Klegka; Robert Rabb

several weeks of free or leave time that cadets are willing to trade for the opportunity toparticipate in an AIAD. AIAD participation is planned before the senior year when most of themilitary graduation requirements have been completed, and the cadet has taken more engineeringcourses (Figure 1). If possible, the AIAD project generates enough interest with the cadet that heor she continues to work on it and progresses it into a capstone project during the senior year.This early exposure and identification of a project allows the cadet to work on a two semestercapstone project if the AIAD partner provides a project of reasonable scope. Additionally, thecooperation with our AIAD partners and sponsors also allows more mentoring by true customers

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Leon L Van Dommelen; Yousef Haik; Namas Chandra

are satisfied with the chat box. There is probably not muchreward in being called to answer an active learning question and having to walk all the way to avideo conferencing computer to say that you do not know the answer. The separate link is also adistraction for the instructor.One of us (LvD) has religiously provided video-conferencing office hours using MSNetMeeting. So far, no students have made use of the opportunity. We believe this is due to thelimited number of true distance students and the trouble of installing, configuring and using thesoftware. We do believe video conferencing has significant benefits to offer and we plan topromote video conferencing more vigorously when we have more true distance students. At thattime we will