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Yousef Haik

industry for products to be synthesizedexperimentally by a master mechanic. The value of synthesizing on paper was soon realizedsince it was less costly and more efficient to erase rather than to remake parts in the shop. Thisapproach was adopted in engineering education. The science and the hand on experience wereessential ingredients in the engineering education until the period that followed the SecondWorld War. Following the Second World War the trends in engineering education emphasizedthe science portion more than the applied side in engineering. Recently, and with the ABET2000 criteria more engineering schools are readjusting there curriculum to implement the designas an essential part in the engineering education.A successful design is

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Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

Page 4.269.1commonly found in all engineering curricula. In addition to the customary engineering sciencecourses, the BE curriculum includes studies in the life sciences. A graduate of the BE programwill have completed 21 quarter credits of biology, organic and biochemistry, anatomy, andphysiology. The life sciences are also integrated into many of the traditional engineering sciencecourses taken by the biomedical engineering students. Continual and progressive assessment ofa student’s progress is crucial to improving the quality of the BE program at MSOE. Thefaculty at MSOE have elected to use a four year design process as the primary method ofassessing the learning of the BE students.Design in the Biomedical Engineering Program

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Martha A. Centeno; Julie A. Jacko; Marc L. Resnck; Marcia Groh-Hammond; Seth Berkowitz; Amanda M. Mitskevich; Janet Parker; John Schmidt

equipment.From the start, all projects done by the students would in one way or another become a part oftheir regular curriculum. In our program of study, students must do a total of five industryprojects. Projects done under the auspices of the A.R.I.S.E. are considered as projects for one ortwo of the required courses. The contents of the project are assessed to make a match to one offive courses: Work Design, Human Factors, Project Management, Facilities Planning andMaterial Handling, and Senior Design. In cases were the project falls outside the scope of thesecourses, a consideration is given as to whether it may be counted as an elective independentstudy, with additional requirements. Students are paired in teams of two to work on selectedprojects

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Paul Johnson

Environ-mental Engineering Division program at the ASEE Annual Conference, June 18, 1997, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Available on-line at http://mse.engineer.gvsu.edu/environment/Environment_Resources.html.PAUL D. JOHNSONPaul D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Engineering in the Padnos School of Engineering at Grand Valley StateUniversity. Although a materials engineer, he has been active in the development of the computer engineering pro-gram and the integration of web resources into the engineering curriculum. He received his BA from Houghton Page 4.605.5College (NY) and his MS and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Email

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Chotchai Charoenngam; Abdul Samad Kazi

aspects of information technology in construction, it failed to provide a hands ontraining environment exposing students to the realities of working in a complex and diverseconstruction project environment. Extensive course load limited the students from actuallystepping out of the classroom for long periods to experience construction reality. For this the sitehad to be brought into the reach of the students and this was possible through an intitiative suchas Construction Communications Simulation through Virtual Set-Up Environment andInformation Technology (CCSTVSUEIT). Virtual sceanarios were created to simulate real lifeconstruction activities and to engage the students into the dynamics of decision making throughinformation exchange and

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William Durfee

required and significant cost are incurred.Because experiential design should be an integral part of any engineering curriculum, ourexperiences may server as an example for others wishing to take the same path.II. Background and OriginsThis project must be viewed in the context of current engineering education practice. Engineeringdesign is widely recognized as a critical component of any undergraduate engineering curriculum.Recently there has been considerable debate on what and how to teach design. The debate is fueledby the perception that methods of teaching design which may have worked in the past are no longerappropriate for the current era of intense global competition, pressure to be first to market andincreased emphasis on quality that

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Lawrence B. Korta

students were not well versed in topics such as engineering economic evaluation, financial analysis, product costing, marketing, finance coming from analytically oriented institutions, the students would benefit from some exposure to key manufacturing technologies and techniques an integral part of the program would be familiarization of the students with Allen- Bradley products, services, and manufacturing processes in addition to technical and business subjects, the students should be exposed to American cultural activities in order to pull these multiple “soft” engineering topics together, some sort of “capstone” project should be incorporated into the programBased upon these

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Nadia A. Basaly

Session 2563 Developing Competencies For Engineering Foundations Courses Nadia A. Basaly, Ph.D. The university of Texas at Brownsville College of Science, Math and Technology Brownsville, TX 78520Abstract Pre-college Minority Engineering Program has been designed to motivate and prepareminority middle and high school students for careers in science and engineering. The Program, called“Tex-PREP,” is an aggressive, pro active outreach system that introduces a joint curriculum betweenscience, math and technology to

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Keith V. Johnson

a modular engineering technology curriculum and then implementing it.As an example, the author recently worked with a faculty member from the history department. Thefocus of the project was to link engineering faculty with faculty from core subject areas such ashistory, math and English. The experience was very rewarding. Shortly after employment, the writer enlisted his former graduate advisor in a joint ventureto write a paper, and possibly a chapter in a book. The former advisor welcomed the opportunity,and the efforts were successful. As his former advisee, the author posed no threat to the quality ofwork that the advisor is accustomed to producing. He was a tenured, associate professor, therefore,his primary goal was to have an

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Robert M. Ybarra

Session 1613 Introduction of Process Dissection and Reintegration into Undergraduate Laboratory Robert M. Ybarra University of Missouri–RollaAbstractStudents often approach the engineering curriculum as discrete parcels of knowledge–knowledgeidentifiable only by course number. The lack of integration among courses only reinforces thistendency. To combat this tendency, we initiated a novel pedagogical approach to laboratoryinstruction, which we call “process dissection and reintegration”. Under such an instructionalmethodology, we dissect a unit operation

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Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

engineering clinic class. This class is a major hallmark ofthe Rowan engineering program. The theme of the Freshman Clinic class in the spring semester is reverseengineering of commercial products. Students in teams of four or five spend an entire semester learning aboutengineering fundamentals such as fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics and engineering materials.They are also exposed to intellectual property rights, safety and ethics, ergonomics and environmentalconsiderations in engineering design.IntroductionThe college of engineering at the Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift from Henry andBetty Rowan in 1992 to the then former Glassboro State College (1). This newly constructed state-of-the-art$28M Henry M

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Ronald A. Lessard

tools from Cosmic Software and Ashling. This will givestudents an edge as the tool learning curve is much shorter. These Windows-based toolswill allow for better evaluation of operating robot time constraints and result in a higherperformance software design. Their cost however, is more than an order of magnitudegreater. Regardless of the tools used, the student educational experience can be asuccess. Page 4.227.15References1. Ashley, S., “Getting a hold on mechatronics”, Mechanical Engineering, May 97, 60-632. Chen, N., Chung, H., Kwon, Y., “Integration of Micromouse Project with Undergraduate Curriculum: A Large-Scale Student Participation

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Justin Pniower; Michael Ruane; Bennett Goldberg; Selim Unlu

have run successfullyfor several months with minimal operating problems at http://orange.bu.edu. Based on thisexperience, we are developing other web-based experiments, improving the site with more livevideo, Java applets, and better supporting pages, and integrating the web experiments intoregular classes in engineering and science. Web-based experiments will play an increasing rolein making experimental science available to students and the public.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Melles Griot for its donations of equipment, computer hardware and softwareused in the benchtop experiments. We also want to acknowledge the National ScienceFoundation Combined Research and Curriculum Development program, which supported manyaspects of the

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Hugh Jack

successfully and are currently in use.2. The Keytag MakerEGR450 (Manufacturing Controls) is a course that teaches logic based process control usingPLCs. The course includes extensive lab work that applies PLCs in a variety of applications. Thefirst labs effectively teach the student to program and interface the controllers, but for the peda-gogy some of the unpredictably of real implementations is hidden. An advanced lab was neededto expose the more difficult problems such as integration of multi-module systems, process star-tup, process integration, alignment, etc. [1]. This need was met by having a senior project studentteam develop a small production machine.Initially the objectives for the project were left somewhat open, they were, - make

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Christopher Ibeh

,” ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-18, 1997. David Lopez, a professor aCentral Michigan University, vividly describes the instruction methodology that he uses in hisundergraduate manufacturing engineering technology class. His approach favors a “hands-on”project format over the previously used lecture format. His classes are divided into teams ofstudents, and each team analyzes an entire product by dissecting it into its component parts.Each student team writes and submits an engineering report that is evaluated. He concludes thatwhile the projects emphasize concepts such as design for assembly, design for manufacturability,concurrent engineering overall product quality, the success of the projects depend on

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Biwu Yang

what they have learned.This virtual lab provides the opportunity for students to practice in an environment close to thereal world problems.II. Need for Virtual LabIn the curriculum of computer networking technology, lab based hands-on activities will benefitthe learning experience because, typically, our students do not have the opportunity to get hands-on experience by themselves. To mimic a real world computer network situation, severalcomputers are needed to form a network and they serve as the client and server roles in thenetwork. The exercises listed below are typically required for students to better understand andretain the knowledge:• Setup client computer to be connected to network• Setup server computer to be connected to

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Scott Wayne; Alfred Stiller; Kristine Craven

used for visual aids in the oral communication portionof the project.Another important aspect of a student’s life is the scheduling of classes. As has been mentioned,the first year in the general engineering program includes a common curriculum for allengineering majors. These students are therefore advised by one of two (sometimes three)assigned advisors.Professional DevelopmentStudents beginning their education in an engineering field often are unaware of an engineer’sduties and responsibilities. In order to help them clarify their perception of the field, twoseminar series are organized and attendance is required. The West Virginia University Collegeof Engineering and Mineral Resources consists of nine engineering degree-granting programs

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Herbert Holland; Dean Bruckner

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy. He holds a B.S.E.E.from the Academy and an M.S.E.E. from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has servedaboard the Coast Guard Cutters VIGILANT and ORCAS, and commanded the Coast Guard Loran-C transmittingstation in Kargaburun, Turkey. He enjoys teaching and has taught the Introduction to Engineering Design course fivetimes in the last 3 years. His current research interest is integrated radionavigation systems. He can be reached atdbruckner@exmail.uscga.edu.HERBERT HOLLANDHerbert H. Holland, Jr., is a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Mr. Hol-land received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University in

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Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

filter implementationaffect filter performance, without the need for tedious programming of the TMS320C31.1. INTRODUCTIONModern software tools such as MATLAB greatly facilitate the professor's ability to demonstratethe concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) in class, and to assign realistic projects toreinforce these concepts.1-3 An increasing number of DSP textbooks are becoming availablewhich take advantage of this ability,4-8 and a growing trend is for DSP concepts to be introducedearlier in the curriculum.9 These concepts can be further reinforced, and greater interestgenerated by the students, if they can be easily implemented in real-time on modern DSPhardware.10 Affordable hardware is now available to schools: Texas Instruments, for

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Daniel Davis

attitudes toward teaching and research. Establishing experience in industry as animportant criterion in hiring new faculty may be fundamental to changing the existing cultureand to placing greater emphasis on teaching.8 Schools are being asked to enrich the educationof students, and this can be done by increasing the numbers of faculty with relevant industrialexperience. Integral to accomplishing our educational goals is having the participation ofpractitioners in the educational process. It cannot hurt to have faculty with practitionerexperience in the classroom on a daily basis. Engineering education must reflect the conditionsof practice.According to many, the cornerstone of building a strong education curriculum is balancingpractical experience

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Robert E. Bruninga; Dave D. Myre

engineering procedures at the Naval Sea Systems Command. He proceededfrom NAVSEA to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, where in December 1992 he received an MS inAeronautical Engineering from the Space Systems Engineering Curriculum. In March 1993, he was assigned to theCruise Missile Weapon Systems Program as the Installation and Integration Manager for the Tomahawk WeaponControl System. In December of 1994 he was detailed to the Joint Program Office for Unmanned Aerial Vehiclesas the Shipboard Integration Manager. During this time, LCDR Myre worked with many UAV’s and the TacticalControl System Program. He has instructed in the Aerospace Engineering Department at USNA for the past twoyears. He holds a PE in mechanical engineering in the

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Charyl Delaney; Alejandro Scalise; Larry J. Shuman; Harvey Wolfe

levels in which this experience was recognized within freshmen to freshmen, freshmen to mentor, and mentor to mentor interactions. Through sharing the engineering curricular experiences, all groups appeared to spend more time together inside and outside of the classroom [12; 13]. Thus, the relationships the shared experiences cultivated also appeared to perpetuate an excitement and a desire to learn and succeed. These relationships have been defined as integral components of an environment that fosters student achievement [14].• Support systems created through peer relationships were especially effective with students whose “life-tasks” make attending college a difficult experience [15]. Commuters, students who must

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

understanding:First, what do culture and diversity mean? Webster defines culture as "acquaintance with andtaste in fine art, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational andtechnical skills" and diversity as "the condition of being different, an instance or a point ofdifference" 4. Furthermore, Schein defines culture as a type of mutual fundamental premise thatpeople learned as they resolved their problems of adaptation and integration 5. And yet, Jiangasserts that "It is human common property and the relationship between higher education andcorporations also is more important now than at any other time in history 6." As such, there is amuch-desired relation between these descriptions and engineering education, and the

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Bruce P. Johnson

, Northern Arizona State University and Montana StateUniversity. Based on our participation in spring, 1998, we have identified severaladvantages and some disadvantages that arise from participation in the consortium andthese will be the topic of this paper. More specifically, the paper discusses theexperiences associated with importing a videotaped course from another university for acourse the instructor typically taught. The justification was to provide a course-loadreduction so that the instructor could team-teach a new course in the department.IntroductionFor the spring, 1998 semester, the author was scheduled to teach two classes in thedepartment. The first was a senior-graduate elective in Integrated Circuit Engineeringand the second was a

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Sal Arnaldo

century state that programs must demonstrate that their graduates have anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility, an ability to effectively communicate,the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a globalsocietal context, and a knowledge of contemporary issues3. In the past, required courses such asIntroduction to Engineering or Professional Issues in Civil Engineering typically includedinstruction in ethics issues.In Florida, there is pressure from the state legislature to reduce the number of credit hoursrequired for graduation4. This places courses that introduce student engineers to societal issues,ethics, and the role of the engineer in jeopardy because they are neither required nor

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A. Eberlein; M. R. Smith

of project management”. In this paper we shall report on the currentformat of the course and how it overcomes many of the problems with our initial offering.Although only part way through the second offering, we recognize the need for new changes inorder to account for the increased maturity and experience of the students returning from their16-month internship experience. The changes needed to handle the 80% of our students who willreturn from internship in September 1999 are discussed.1. IntroductionTwo years ago the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) placed a requirement thatall engineering students experience an extensive 4th year design project. With accreditationlooming, the Department put on an experimental team project

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Leonard Sokoloff

Controls laboratory at DeVry,in order to provide them with hands-on experience that they are likely to experience onthe job.Virtual Instrumentation is a current technology that is making a significant impact intoday’s industry, education and research. DeVry Institute selected LabVIEW as an goodrepresentative of this technology and is using LabVIEW in its curriculum at all DeVrycampuses in the United States and Canada. This article is a result of a research projectfor LabVIEW implementation into the Industrial Controls course. LabVIEW is also usedin the communication and physics courses. LabVIEW is one of many skills that thestudent will need as he enters today’s highly competitive job market.I. IntroductionLabVIEWTM (Laboratory Virtual Instrument

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Robert Engelken

materials at a predominately undergraduate institution as hewas climbing the ladder toward tenure, promotion, and reputation. It should provide "savvy" forthe new engineering educator establishing research in such an environment.I. IntroductionResearch has historically been a component of the mission of universities and most colleges1.Emphasis on research has been heaviest at graduate degree - granting land grant or flagship Page 4.238.1institutions but mission statements; public relations material; promotion, tenure, and merit paycriteria; and even classroom objectives often loftily address the noble role of research even atpredominately

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Michael Ruane

1,2 Intro Fundamentals Develop system view of BlackWolf car; Signals Create an HP-VEE pulse generator 3,4 Specs Scopes; Function Spec and create AM signal in PC; Use Generators oscilloscope to measure function generator 5,6 Schematic Signals; Read controller schematics and identify Carriers signals; Observe control circuit and its signals 7,8 Simulation Generate Create signals to accomplish driving functions; Waveforms Spec and create simulated signals on bench9,10 Integration Communications, Describe communications channel; Control

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James Devault

modulated-IR detectors and abumper system capable of detecting contact at left front, front, and right front. All robots wererequired to maintain an IR beacon so that the guard (killer-cop) robots could locate them. Theguard robots would then attempt to ram the contestant robots. The guard robots were equippedwith software routines that supported three modes of operation; search, attack, maneuver. Themaneuver mode of operation prevented the robots from becoming stuck in a corner and allowedthem to find their way around intervening obstacles while pursuing a beacon signal. In additionto being an integral part of the contest event, these robots served as an example of simple, yetruggedly constructed robots of base-line capability. The software design