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Zhongming Liang

andpractical experience with them, however, I tended to skip contents on new materials in mycourses of machine elements, basic machining, tool design and manufacturing processes.During the summer interns, I was really impressed by how much and how effectively plasticmaterials and composite materials were being used or considered to be used in product designand fixture design and was shocked by how advanced cutter materials were pushing the cuttingspeeds to their limits.I have formed a plan of professional development in this and other similar areas and graduallyincorporate more and more about new industrial development into my teaching;V. Summer intern outcome four: application of mathematics in manufacturing technologyMathematics is typically a

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from the breakdown of thioacetamide using a soap bubble flowmeter. They derived equations to relate change in gas volume to extent of reaction and reactantconcentrations.Another group of two students developed a demonstration of kinetic principles aimed at grades 5and 6. They completed a lesson plan for a one-hour session. Their plan included discussions ofreactions in every day life, simple experiments and activities. In a second project this same groupof two developed a classroom demonstration of the dependence of reaction rate on temperatureusing the simple vinegar and baking soda reaction.IV. Comments and ConclusionStudents are not completely comfortable with such a wide-open assignment. They are not surewhat to expect. An example list of

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Anant Kukreti

months. Each group were supervised by the Professor In-Charge of the project(author) and a Graduate Research Assistant. The paper presents how the whole research programwas planned and conducted, the details of the projects selected for the students, procedures used toevaluate the impact of the project, and what were the outcomes of the program. This paper willhelp others in planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduates.I. IntroductionThis paper describes the experiences provided in a Site for undergraduate research in "StructuralEngineering" with a special focus on techniques to study the “Development of EnhancedMaterials and Structural Assemblages Used for Seismic Performance Evaluation Studies” in theSchool of Civil Engineering

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

, there are no required textbooks, and only a minimal number of lectures. Experts fromindustry, patent law and government agencies typically provide the lecture material. Studentsintegrate and apply knowledge from their major field of study toward a specific project.A number of biomedical engineering programs, like the University of Connecticut2 , have a fullyear of required senior design courses, here referred to as Design I and II. The major deliverablein Design I is a paper design with extensive modeling and computer analysis. Over the semester,students are introduced to a variety of subjects including working on teams, the design process,planning and scheduling, technical report writing, proposal writing, oral presentations, ethics indesign

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Eric Zimmerman; Donna Dorminey

Military Estimate of The Design Process the Situation Establish the Need Mission Analysis Understand the Problem Analyze the Situation Generate Concepts Develop Courses of Action Evaluate Concepts Analyze Courses of Action Compare Courses of Action Produce Product Execute Plan United States Military Academy Figure 1. Military Problem SolvingAn important additional benefit is the practical demonstration

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

personal assessment of dailylessons, a block of lessons in a course, or an entire course.IV. A. Hints – OrganizationSuccess in any endeavor requires proper organization. This is especially true in highereducation. Without an organized plan for teaching preparation, it can and will be placedsecondary in relation to research. The preparation and presentation will not have the desiredeffect – properly educating and then motivating the students to continue in the discipline as astudent, an educator, or a practitioner. “Most excellent instructors plan very seriously, fullyaware that alternative ways of organizing class sessions are available, which go beyond the merepresentation of material to the promotion of active higher-order learning and

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Vinay Dayal; Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education • The result should be a consistent, standard, simple, quality-centered approach to on-line delivery of engineering courses. • The modules should include learner-centered materials that follow pedagogically accepted instructional design. • Meaningful representations of engineering concepts and theories will be explored and tested. • The process will avoid the trappings of an ad hoc development effort that cannot be easily captured or repeated due to lack of planning and documentation.At every step in the development process the instructors were

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Michael McGeen; James Friauf

community. The instructors could draw from AE/BC graduates working in the Milwaukee area. This larger audience allows for professional feedback to the students and forces the teams to plan for a more diverse audience. G Plan additional collaborative teaching activities. Right now, the two instructors work fairly independently of each other as far as actual classroom teaching. Both instructors introduce the class at the beginning of the quarter and they join as “client” for presentations. Otherwise, they do not teach class sessions together. G Increase the number of impromptu presentation opportunities. This should be a “hands-on” course with more of a workshop approach. Impromptu exercises such as

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Douglas H. Baxter

the limited usage of PDM/Works last semester, students seemed very pleased thatthey could submit data for grading in a secure system. They also liked how the instructorcould read their data, make modifications or suggestions which would then be stored as anew data file. The two-way communication of the database allowed for students to seekhelp outside of class time. At present, PDM/Works has been implemented in EG&CADand the sophomore design course, Introduction to Engineering Design (IED). Otherdesign courses plan to start using PDM/Works in the coming semesters.EvaluationTo help evaluate the effectiveness of the new course format, several techniques are used.To examine the effectiveness of the lectures, laboratory quizzes have been

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Rachel Shinn; Ron Madler

our engineering faculty serve asguest lecturers and as resources for our students. Another factor that enabled our students tosucceed in their designs of communications and power subsystems was the addition of anelectrical engineering student to our class. The team with the electrical engineering student wasvery effective, and illustrated that mingling the two disciplines (AE and EE) when doingspacecraft design is extremely helpful. We plan to incorporate more EE students into our designcourses in the future and are currently recruiting for next year.We have also developed a Spacecraft Detail Design course in which the students are required todesign, build and test a project related to spacecraft. The actual design project will change

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Joseph Betit; William Swart; Sushil Chaturvedi; Gary Crossman

and the western world headquarters ofthe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The excellent port facilities also attract manyinternational vessels, making the area a major center for world trade, and there are also located inthis region a large number of international manufacturing facilities. The University therefore hasnatural strengths in activities with international scope.In recognition of these strengths, the University’s strategic plan for 2000-2005 1 includes as oneof its ten initiatives a call for Old Dominion University to be recognized as the premierinternational university of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Amplifying that initiative, the plangoes on to say that “Old Dominion University recognizes its mission to serve as ‘the

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William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

,entrepreneurial thinking, and cross-discipline teamwork.Each collaboration is reviewed, with experiences gained and future plans presented.I. IntroductionDesign of Industrial Systems (DIS), IE 4915, is the five-hour capstone design course in theIndustrial Engineering (IE) curriculum at Mississippi State University. In the course, students areformed into project teams with typically five to six students per team. Each project team selects asingle manufactured product to analyze as part of a comprehensive venture analysis. The productmust contain significant fabrication and assembly content as determined by the instructor.Each member of a project team is responsible for two functional areas. Example functional areasare marketing, facility site selection

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Denise Nicoletti; John Orr

10. The broad education envisioned by the WPI Plan, and described by the Goal and Mission of WPI 11. An understanding of electrical engineering in a societal and global context.The assessment strategy for the outcomes is centered around four efforts:• Course-based assessments,• Assessments of each Senior Project by the project advisor,• A comprehensive biennial review of Senior Projects,• A senior survey.These activities are complemented by campus-wide activities to assess other aspects of the WPIprogram, notably the Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP), and to gather data on theaccomplishment of longer-term objectives, principally through alumni surveys.Course-based assessment is the focus of this paper. Following

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Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

ABET and thedepartment’s industrial advisory committees asking for better integration of writing with theengineering concepts, the department chose to go with a new plan for improving writing andputting writing as an explicit goal for all department courses.The matrix approachThe department’s discussions on technical writing instruction led to thoughts about developing anew approach to writing in engineering. Maybe some student learning did not need to becontained in a 15-week, classroom format. The university had a few years of experience with“Writing Across the Curriculum,” a thoughtful plan to implement writing as a focus throughoutthe total general education experience. Championed by a professor in the English department, itis an approach

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William Schultz; Marc Smith; Marc Perlin; John Foss

Session 1155 Improving Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics across the Curriculum Marc Perlin, William W. Schultz, Marc K. Smith, John F. Foss University of Michigan/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology/Michigan State UniversityAbstractWe initiated an NSF-sponsored workshop of Faculty and a few representatives from industry toinvestigate methods to increase student expectations and performance in the fundamentals ofundergraduate fluid mechanics education. We originally planned to build a pool of fluidmechanics exam problems and a consortium to provide feedback on evaluation of these

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Sara Soderstrom; Chris Lorenz; Michael Keinath

students can ask more specific questions.The difference between MSE and PhD programs and funding opportunities are often questioned.This program is held twice a year, in the beginning of the fall term and the end of the winter termdue to the high attendance and great interest. We also organize “Choosing a Graduate School” inmid-February for undergraduate students who are planning graduate school visits. Multiplegraduate students from various programs discuss what they evaluated at different schools andhow they made their decision. A large focus is on climate, program reputation, and choice of Page 6.582.3advisor. This is followed by a question

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David Myszka

faced as an organization adopts a solid modeling system, wasdocumented.The resulting objective was to propose a structured approach to integrate solid modeling intoMechanical Engineering Technology courses. The plan involves all courses, in the curriculum,that has a design component. This paper reviews the results of the solid modeling study. It alsodiscuses the manner in which solid modeling has been integrated into the MechanicalEngineering Technology curriculum at the University of Dayton.I. IntroductionThe purpose of the study was to identify the specific details of using a solid modeling, CADsystem in an industrial setting. The resulting objective was to propose a structured approach tointegrate solid modeling into the Mechanical

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Taggart Smith

Session 3642 Knowledge Management and Core Competencies: Process Improvement Potential? Taggart Smith Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn the 1970s, Michael Porter developed frameworks for business strategy called force analysiswhich helped managers to see external opportunities and competitive threats. Dubbed the“environmental school,” this strategy approach dominated management thinking at that time.1 Acriticism of this ends—ways—means approach to strategic planning questioned whetherdeciding on a strategy before deciding on the

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Terrence Freeman

tends to rise.Problem Solving ApproachesThere are numerous approaches to problem solving. Polya (1973) describes a four-step processfor problem-solving that includes7: (1) understanding the problem, (2) devising a plan, (3)carrying out the plan, and (4) looking back. The process steps are generally clear, but it is notenough to suggest these steps to students without providing some direction on what they mean,and how they apply. Over the years dozens of approaches have been devised, and the literature isfilled with acronyms. Woods (2000), who examined over one hundred approaches to problem-solving, reports that students show significant gains in grades, confidence, problem-solvingskills, attitude toward life-long learning, and self-assessment

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Sue Ann Kearns; Merredith Portsmore; Judy Barsosky; Catherine Rogers; Chris Rogers

energy, gear ratios, torque, and engineering systems. Teachersleft the first summer workshop with a better understanding of physics concepts and engineeringbut without a solid plan on how they could incorporate these concepts into their classroom. Anumber of the first grade teachers implemented a selection of projects over the course of the yearin their class but were still unsure of exactly how engineering and the materials fit into theircurriculum. Many expressed that they felt much of what they had learned in the workshop wastoo advanced for their students and they were unsure of how to scale it to the first grade level.High teacher turnover in subsequent years yielded a number of classrooms that had the necessarymaterials but whose teachers

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Jeff Fant

, local ham radio clubs, and local radio-controlled aircraft organizations. TheTAP Program includes workshops for training teachers in wireless telecommunicationsand summer camps for middle school (grades 7-9) students with game-based activitiesthat teach the fundamental technologies that will prepare them to enter further studies inResidential Broadband Wireless, Voice over IP · TCP/IP Wireless Networks, and Voice,Video and Data Integration. Plans also include transmissions to and from theInternational Space Station and other projects coordinated with the help of NASA.Background:The U.S. Census Bureau reveals that less than twenty percent of all new jobs created inthe twenty-first century will require a four-year degree or higher. Greater than

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Leslie Dorworth; Barbara Mania-Farnell; Susan Scachitti

body in the TEAMS fields were female.This paper will begin with an overview of the TEAMS Leadership Institute including adiscussion of its origin and support structures that were used at PUC to sustain and grow theprogram. A few of the challenges that arose due to the diversity of disciplines that are involvedin the program will be discussed. In addition, future follow-on components and plans for theinstitute will be presented. Page 6.1040.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationI. Origin of

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, human resources and marketing.Typical company positions are identified below: Production Department Marketing Department Production Manager Marketing strategist Quality Assurance Director Advertising Production Planning and Control Packaging Industrial Engineering Sales Manufacturing Engineering Human Resources Finance Department Employment Finance Director Safety and Training Comptroller Wage and Salary Administration Purchasing

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Miguel Torres-Febus; Jaime Pabon-Ortiz; Jose Cruz-Cruz; Jorge Velez-Arocho

D. Hernández22 Development of Business Plan J. Vélez23 Consulting: Prototype development Staff24 Development of Market Plan J. Pabón Business Plan25 Consulting: Business Plan Staff26 Consulting: Market Plan J. Pabón27 Seminar on Intellectual Property: Business Method H. Hoglund & Algorithms28 Consulting: Intellectual property Staff Market Plan29 Consulting: Putting the finishing touches I Staff30 Consulting: Putting the finishing touches II Staff

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Paul Flikkema

Page 6.676.3 Knowledge Factual, methodological, theoretical Comprehension Interpretation, extraction (e.g., of data trends), translation (e.g., from math to text) Application Prediction (e.g., based on change of parameter), abstraction Analysis Ability to distinguish assumptions, hypotheses, and facts Synthesis Communication skills, project planning Evaluation Develop criteria and evaluate with respect to them Table 1: Summary of Bloom’s cognitive-domain taxonomy.Objectives and PedagogyPerhaps the best starting point for educational objectives is Bloom’s cognitive-domain taxon-omy [1], briefly

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Tim Coppinger; Ray Bachnak

the objectives may be necessary. < Selecting the best approach. This consists of a comparison of the alternative solutions based on some selection criteria that may include such factors as performance, cost, time, size, speed, etc. < Developing a plan. This should consider all the phases that lead to the completion of the project. The plan should be comprehensive with a schedule of all activities and their relations. < Implementing the plan. This includes the design, construction, and testing of the product. < Evaluating the results. This entails evaluating the performance of the product in meeting the original goals. If the results are not satisfactory, a

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Kenneth Halliday; Israel Urieli; Gregory Kremer

established for eachteam assignment is divided among the team members by means of a peer review assessment tool[1.]. Emphasis is placed on the need for the design team members to continuously teach eachother what they themselves are learning, as well as learning from the other team member’sefforts.Each student is required to maintain a formal design notebook, and each team is required tomaintain a team design file that contains memos of meetings, all design documentation and acomplete project plan and schedule. The design files are accessible to everyone involved in thecourse. These materials are reviewed by the faculty advisors once a week and are also availableon the course’s Blackboard web-site for review by off-campus industrial referees

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Robert McLauchlan; Jennifer Crosby; Gary Weckman

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationalso served to assess the effectiveness of the program. The assessment staff actively seeks theinvolvement of faculty and administration in the planning, creation, interpretation anddissemination of FC assessment processes and findings. TAMUK is working to implement thebest assessment and evaluation practices that can be adapted for classroom use. The informationshould serve to improve student learning with corrective feedback upon which they can improvetheir performance. The FC has maintained a comprehensive record of the history andperformance of all of its students. The A/E Center gathers this data. The basis for

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Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

courses and curricula that foster competencies, provides forcontextual learning, promotes lifelong learning, and promotes high standards of academiclearning and performance. Students acquire work experience related to their field of interest.School-to-Careers connects young people with supportive adults, mentors, and other role models.See Utah State University’s efforts to promote this model at www.usu.edu/stc. Activities for Lifelong Learning Practice ( 13-up) Preparation ( 11-12 up) Planning ( 9-10 up) Exploration (7-8 up

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Paul Duesing; Kevin Schmaltz; Dan Goodrich; Pamela Schmaltz

, American Society for Engineering EducationSenior Projects Faculty Board to determine the team’s failure to design a control system.If that design review had also occurred in the fall, the team may have been able tocomplete the project on time, rather than during the summer after graduation. As a result,LSSU now has an increased emphasis on early design reviews and has implemented anextensive system of monitoring team progress. The major purpose for design reviews isto communicate proposed designs and plans, to solicit input on the designs and plans, andto finalize design issues. Two or three hour design reviews, attended by both faculty andrepresentatives of the sponsoring company, provide the teams with intense, useful inputinto the project. This