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Robert E. Magowan; Azmi Bin Ahmad; Deborah Hochstein

engineering students who plan to enter a manufacturing environmentbe provided with an opportunity to study this technique as an alternative to the traditionalunivariable approach. Application of Taguchi’s experimental design methodology early in theproduct’s design phase will facilitate the evaluation and comparison of design configurations andmaterial selection. Used in the early phases of facility design, this methodology can improve Page 2.397.1process yields and reduce variability. “The use of experimental design in these areas can resultin products that are easier to manufacture, products that have enhanced field performance andreliability, lower

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ascending order are: (1) Information: the student can define, repeat, list, name,label, memorize, recall and/or relate to the information presented. (2) Knowledge: the studentshows an understanding and comprehension of the information gained in level one, and candescribe, explain, compare/contrast, identify, discuss and/or summarize it. (3) Application andanalysis: the student solves problems by applying knowledge (level two) in new situations, andcan critically distinguish the logical components of other applications of that knowledge. (4)Wisdom: the student displays professional judgment and the ability to synthesize, organize,plan, manage, teach and/or evaluate material from the first three levels. One major goal in usingstudent portfolios was

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Susan C. Grant; Sarah A. Rajala; Richard L. Porter; Kristine C. Lawyer; Hugh Fuller

mathematics andscience in high school.A report prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (4) stated that if one were tofollow a group of 2,000 boys and 2,000 girls through their middle and high school years,one would find that by age twelve about half in each group would be sufficientlyprepared to undertake the courses in mathematics which would further prepare them toenroll in college to study in a quantitative field. However, by the end of high school,only 280 of the boys and 220 of the girls would have actually completed the necessarymathematics courses. Finally, the report states that of the original pools of 2,000, “only140 of the boys and 45 of the girls will actually enter college with plans to major inscience or engineering” (p. 115

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T. Taylor; T. Egolf; R. Klenke; M. Salinas; J. Stinson; H. Carter; Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; Anthony J. Gadient

;• Analysis: Student can break down the components of a system, and can identify hierarchies and relationship between elements. Organizational structures and assumptions (unstated) can be recognized;• Synthesis: Student is able to synthesize a system from the start, using decomposition methods or otherwise. This includes the ability to produce a plan to design and implement the system and a mechanism to verify that the plan works and will achieve the objectives;• Evaluation: Student can evaluate, compare, critique, and judge various alternative solutions and improve upon a solution;3.2 Educational Maturity Model (EMM)Derived from Bloom’s taxonomy, we propose the so-called Educational Maturity Model (EMM).This model allows us to

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Doris Yacoub; Robert Pfeffer; Rajesh N. Dave; Jonathan Luke; Ian S. Fischer; Anthony D. Rosato

offered by Dr.Dave. The original objective of the course was to include classical experiments, research relatedexperiments, and also computer simulated experiments (utilizing various available computersimulation codes and animation techniques). However, the trial course only included a selectednumber of classical experiments and research related experiments. The course development isongoing, and the next offering of the course is planned in Spring 1997. It is anticipated that thelaboratory development will be completed by that time and the course will also include simulatedexperiments. In the following sub-sections, several experiments are described.* These courses, offered as special topics, are in addition to the three courses proposed under

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Hugh Jack

to computer. The camera took 8 or 32 pictures. The lower resolution of 320x240 was too poor for sharp detail, so the camera could really only hold 8 pictures.Sept., 16 - Web Site almost ready. iSept., 7 Introduced students to Web pages, reception was good. Worked on getting web pages up, including hypertext links to gifs. This was only possible by tricking WebWorks into passing it through without converting characters. Lesson Learned: plan for the document conver- sion process, the software available still limits abilities. Made some graphics to go with pages - gives the pages a polished look. Took

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F. C. 'Ted' Weston

. The purpose of the project is for the students toinvestigate/research in-depth and report on a topic area of the firm’s choosing and of interest tothe student team. The project must be within the domain of CIM and is subject to instructorapproval. ‘Value-added’ to the firm is expected. A hidden agenda of this project is developmentof teamwork skills. The project should contain a perspective that includes some consideration ofthe information systems function as well as metrics that define (if possible) project success.Also, the project should include elements that describe how successful conclusion of the projectfits into an overall plan or framework for continuous improvement. The project ‘deliverable’ isto be determined by the student and

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Denny C. Davis; Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins

Session 3530 Session 3530 Categories and Levels for Defining Engineering Design Program Outcomes Denny C. Davis, Richard W. Crain, Michael S. Trevisan/Dale E. Calkins/Kenneth L. Gentili Washington State University/University of Washington/Tacoma Community CollegeABSTRACTRecent trends in engineering education have shifted from course-based to outcomes-based degreeprograms. An outcomes-based engineering degree program requires clear definition of studentlearning targets, planning to ensure that they will be achieved, and

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Thomas Lenox; Stephen J. Ressler; Robert J. O'Neill; C. Conley

for AY 1996-97 to allow cadets of ALL classes to obtain the product.Was the new software accepted by engineering students and faculty as a valuable computationaltool? Absolutely. The evidence suggests immediate acceptance by the engineering faculty andstudents. Tables 4 lists those courses within the civil engineering program that make significantuse of Mathcad as a problem solving tool. This data is current as of the beginning of the secondsemester of AY 1996-97, only one semester after USMA implemented its plan to allow cadets ofall classes to obtain a personal copy of Mathcad. Page 2.109.5 Table 4. Mathcad Use in the Civil

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D. Raj Raman

. While it may have been possible to coverthis material in the 15 weeks available, covering material and teaching students are notsynonymous. The mid-term exam bore this out clearly; until that point the course had beenmoving according to plan. But the midterm results were dismal (57% average), and stronglyindicative of a failure on my part to adequately explain the fundamentals of mass and energybalances. A two week period after the mid-term was spent carefully reviewing thesefundamentals, and the course contents were reduced to allow slower, more considered coverageof the remaining material.Student performance ranged from excellent to poor, with two students making A’s, one making aD, and an average grade of 3.1/4.0. Student evaluations of the

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

have been devoted to plans, achievements, problems, and experiences of various coali-tions and/or coalition member institutions. The results and experiences of these coalitions shouldprovide guidance for change and the process of change.Factor 24: Curriculum emphasis and nressuresThe future of engineering education will include fewer hours (many state legislatures havealready decreed a set number of hours, generally fewer than in unregulated engineering curricula,for curricula in state-supported schools). University core curricula committees are demandingmore and more hours in existing curricula; engineering curricula problems are not viewed withmuch sympathy by most of the university community. See also the discussion for Factors 3 and9

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pp. 7-156 It appears that many of the peaks in attrition in Table #2 occur whenadministrative reorganization at RIT has been implemented. The attrition rates for CASTwhich houses all of the engineering technology programs have decreased each year withexception of 1995. In 1995, CAST eliminated three large schools in CAST and moved allfunctions of the schools either down into the departments or up to the College toeliminate staff to provide funding for the new RIT strategic plan initiatives. The schoolseliminated were the School of Engineering Technology, the School of Computer Scienceand Information Technology, and the School of Food, Hotel, and Travel Managementwhose programs enroll the majority of the CAST students. Table 2 shows

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the last 10 years, nearly two-thirds of all public institutions have received less statefunding. In the same period, however, nearly eight in 10 colleges have increased their overallenrollment12. This means that the potential for minorities to get lost in the institutional mazecould be compounded due to the stretching of resources. MEPs across the nation should haveassessment plans that demonstrate their value to the overall success of students. Each shouldhave specific achievable goals by which to measure success. MEPs must have a strong sense ofidentity as to what they bring to an educational institution from mapping the national and stategoals to aligning with the university goals for quality education. MEPs must be able to provethat they

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Kenneth Belanus; John Hartin

thecomponents are not made due to the inability of the existing laboratory equipment to provideaccurately controlled excitation of the structure. It is being planned as a future improvement to Page 2.127.6extract mode shape data from four channel data for comparison to the analytical predictions.Conclusions The total experience requires the use of the computer, both as an experimental tool, toacquire and manipulate data, and as an analytical tool to analyze large quantities of data and toconduct sophisticated matrix analysis of structures. Some conclusions to be made concerning theoutcome of the effort. 1. The usefulness of a frequency

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

session to generate new ideas to solve the problems posed.Each student design team presented an oral and written proposal for their chosen approach. Theapproved proposal was then developed into an implementation plan. Each stage of the projectwas evaluated by the group and their professor through the use of project review sessions,progress memos, and individual journals.12 Page 2.134.5One requirement for each team was to develop tests for selected aspects of their proposeddesigns. We believe that this is another essential component in developing our students’ designskills by presenting them with opportunities to design experiments in support of

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Samuel P. Clemence; Daniel J. McGinley

innovative approach to include these important subjects in the engineering curriculum Page 2.268.7prepares engineers for their future. IPP programs address the proposed accreditation criteriafrom ABET, the education action plans of professional societies like NSPE and ASCE, and the“visioning” of ACEC. Being exposed to this information during the formative stage of anengineering career is undeniably necessary. Now is the time for engineering professionals to“plant trees under which they may never sit.”Endnotes1 ABET (1996), Engineering Criteria 2000, December 1995, Criteria for Accrediting Programs inEngineering in the United States approved for a two

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Michael J. Brandemuehl; Lawrence E. Carlson

various building-as-lab features can be grouped into four main levels of complexity;details are given in the body of the paper:ExposureShowing, through example, the various engineering systems required to make a buildingfunction. Virtually everything required to make the building function is exposed andincorporated as design elements.MeasurementSensors permeate the ITLL facility to allow real-time monitoring of the “pulse” of thebuilding, including air flow and temperature, structural strain, electrical demand, soilmoisture and temperature, etc. These data are available in real time on workstationslocated in gallery spaces, and long range plans call for the data from these sensors to becontinuously monitored and posted on the ITL Internet page

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T.R. Hsu; P. Reischl; P. Hsu; J.C. Wang; F. Barez; B.J. Furman

Control System Applications Implementation of basic control algorithms for process control.Week 12-Intelligent Control Application Compare conventional control with intelligent control.ME 190 Laboratory ExperimentsWeek Project Purpose1 Motion Control Industry guest speaker on motors and motion control. Selection of motion control projects, torque calculation and determination, motor selection and static and dynamic characterization.2 Mechanical Drive Selection of mechanical drive system, motion specification and System motion planning, modeling of the motion control system.3 Motion Control

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Toward the FutureThis project was instituted in 1993 when effective and robust commercial tools to supportautomated account and disk file maintenance did not exist. The only solution was custom-builttools. The University is now planning for the next major step forward in the development of itscomputing environment. This initiative will include the merging of student and facultycomputing into a shared environment in which all lab software will be available at facultydesktops. Many details concerning this project have not yet been determined, but it is apparentthat commercial tools to support automated management are available and continue to improve.Both Netware and Windows NT, the prime candidates for the network operating system, includetools

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

. Students build on theirproblem solving skills presented in the previous semester and employ the 5 step heuristicpresented by Fogler and LeBlanc [7]. Starting from the question, “What is not green about acoffee machine?” The students define several problem areas such as power consumption,materials of construction, waste reduction, materials recycling and reuse. This was followed byresearch to gather more information and then a brainstorming session ensued to generate newideas to solve these problems. A solution was selected by groups of 4 or 5 students and theypresented an oral and written proposal. This proposal was approved by the instructor and thegroup developed an implementation plan to carry-out their design project. Evaluation at eachstage

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Tamie Veith; John E. Kobza; Mario G. Beruvides; C. Patrick Koelling

noticea size difference in the resulting cast members.Photos should be well-planned; taken with concern for using minimal colors while retaining thecontent-specific intent for including the photos. The relevance of each photo to specific contentof the Shockwave movie is important because of the contribution of each picture to the total sizeof the movie. Downloading time for a movie is proportional to the number of photos in thatmovie.Text cast members are smaller and much easier to work with if saved in rich text format (RTF)and not as bitmaps. All of the text in the multimedia system were created as bitmaps. But aseach text cast member is fairly small, individual size increases were minimal.Using Shockwave in a Lab SettingAs discussed in the

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Wade C. Driscoll

. Parametric case studiesameliorate this disadvantage of traditional case studies while retaining their merits in helping toachieve the outcomes given in Engineering Criteria 2000.3. Parametric Case StudiesThe text of the Outboard Boat Case Study which follows this paragraph illustrates the principles ofparametric case studies. Bold and italic type emphasizes those problem parameters which changefrom one student to another. Outboard Boat Company Version 1 The Outboard Boat Company manufactures motorboats. The company needs a production plan for the year for its Spring Valley, Tennessee plant. Demands by month are given in the following table. Month

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L.J. Bohmann; B.A. Mork; Noel Schulz

83-84 85-86 87-88 89-90 91-92 93-94 academic year Figure 1: Percentage of Universities With a Power Program Requiring a Course in Energy Conversion [4-13]The motivation for rethinking the energy conversion course came from planning a

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Bahador Ghahramani

particular andengineering as a whole. Besides required courses, students are also encouraged to register forelectives in management and technical areas that most effectively satisfy their personal andprofessional careers. NTU students are assigned an academic advisor from the faculty. Advisors assiststudents in selection of the academic programs, planning their curriculum, registration, and otherpertinent information. Students are responsible for interfacing with their advisors and addressingtheir academic problems and issues.US ARMY ENGINEERING SCHOOL AND OTHER PROGRAMS The US Army Engineering School at Ft. Leonard Wood (USAES) is located to the southof Rolla, Missouri. USAES is a training school for the Army’s Engineering Officer

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Michael Alley

. Basic Communication is continuing to be taught in the College of Engineering. During the1996-97 year, there were twenty-five sections, and another twenty-five sections are planned for the1997-98 year. Acknowledgments. In establishing this course, much is owed to Dean John Bollinger,College of Engineering, and Dr. Gisela Kutzbach, Department of Engineering ProfessionalDevelopment. In teaching and developing the course, much is owed to Dr. Sandra Courter,Bonnie Schmidt, and Paul Ross—all from the Department of Engineering ProfessionalDevelopment.Felder, Richard, M., G. N. Felder, M. Mauney, C. E. Hamrin, and E. J. Dietz, “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention (III): Gender Differences in Student

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Richard H. Barnett; Mary A. Eiff; D. Perry Achor; Troy E. Kostek; William J. Hutzel; Bruce Harding

delivering an ongoing program ofconsistently high quality is a much bigger issue. Every detail must be planned in advance. Issues Page 2.357.9like providing supplementary literature, transporting the equipment from school to school, andtraining the personnel who present the Techmobile were not apparent at first, but require a greatdeal of coordination. It comes down to time and money. Work on the Techmobile began in theSpring of 1996 and limited delivery will commence 1 1/2 years later in the Fall of 1997. Thebudget for the project is roughly $50,000, which does not include donated equipment or much ofthe time put in by volunteers. The cost for

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Raymond Yannuzzi; Edward McDonnell; Bradshaw Kinsey; Robert Bowman

Team" brings together administrators and faculty frompartner schools to provide prompt and detailed education and training plans that supplement Cityeconomic proposals to companies considering a move to the Naval Business Center. Philadelphiaofficials believe Shipyard Collegegives them a unique training resource that is particularly attractive to the large international firmsthat have long considered worker training and education as a key component of their operations. The emerging new role for the Shipyard site as a regional center combining rail, air, sea androad transportation has led the consortium to develop curriculum responses in which eachmember has a share. The three community colleges jointly operate a new Truck DrivingAcademy at

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

to reach out for additional things to do beyond what was planned. Since theteaching was taking place in lab setting, it was not difficult to introduce additional material. About 2-3 additionalteachers/faculty and graduate/undergraduate students were available to help the subject area lead faculty. Generalconsensus was that if middle school students are exposed to more technical skills and knowledge, more they werewilling to learn. We did not observe boredom among them. It is equally important that our faculty continue to work with school teachers to address and exploretechniques for similar models to be used in school systems.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the following for their very valuable contributions and

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success. These measures tell where weare along a planned course. They point out the direction we are headed, and give us informationregarding areas in which corrective action should be taken to prevent falling below a nominalcurve into an area where failure is a strong possibility. They allow a department or company todetermine how they are doing and also to report to their customers whether expectations will bemet. As educators, we have many metrics we use to define our success or failure. We must beskilled in their use to remain competitive in our own industry. Our customers, however, careabout only one. The most important measure of success we use in reporting to our students is thegrade.Performance indicators can be tricky to apply properly

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Robert J. Radin; Joan Dannenhoffer

, but the results have beenextremely effective. Gardner points out that not all material can be taught with all of theintelligences[4]. We have focused our energies on developing presentations which use as manyof the intelligences as possible. However, you will notice that musical intelligence was not usedin either of the applications in this paper. It doesn’t make sense to try to use an intelligence justfor the sake of using every intelligence. Of course, the presenter’s strengths also impact howcomfortable it is to use a particular intelligence.Formal assessment of student outcome reached by teaching to many intelligences will require acontrolled study. This is planned in our future research