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Lindsey Van Wagenen; Chandni Shah

given moment, the instructor is able to supervise a large number ofstudents of varying talents simultaneously.Mathematics, like carpentry, basketball, or driving, is learned by doing it,not by watching someone else doing it or talking about it. The give–and–take and the debate that occurs during these workshops is often quite pow-erful for both the students who participate actively and the ones who simplylisten carefully and think quietly.The workshops have been so successful that the department is planning toimplement them for the sophomore level math courses such as linear alge-bra, differential equations and multivariable calculus. The only question iswhether they can be implemented for the entire undergraduate and graduatemathematics

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William Szaroletta; Lloyd Ewing; Nancy L. Denton

curves. Data is reviewed as it is collected, and students have sufficient time to repeat testing of specimens with inordinate spiking. 3) A number of array-forming schemes were attempted before the correct method of bundling load and deflection data was identified. The authors chose a single plot X vs. Y graph to assure that load #1 is matched with deflection #1; load #2 is matched with deflection #2, and so forth (with a small time delay for sequential channel sampling). This array exports to Excel™ cleanly, allowing the raw data to be captured, charted, and analyzed.VI. DAQ Lessons LearnedThe inclusion of automated data acquisition in any introductory laboratory-based course requirescaution, thorough planning, and

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Richard Ciocci

opportunity to experience engineering at the collegelevel. We planned advanced course work that would be different than what the students wouldsee during the school year. Also, we wanted the students to work with practicing engineers onteam projects. The team projects would be practical applications of engineering design andwould the basis for written reports and oral presentations by the students. The Office of Institutional Development recognized the potential of involving some ofthe college’s corporate benefactors in special projects. A member of that office wrote a generalproposal for funding a summer program for minority students. As there was no request forproposals, the original concept was without a specific discipline until the

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

skills, independentgroup effort and team work. The program was well received by both the faculty and students.The Office of Institutional Planning and Research undertook a study as part of the assessmentplans. The study compared the impact of the two courses in order to find out the affect of theFED course (as compared to the Engineering Graphics course) on engineering student graduationrates and the affect on academic performance, in general, and in English, Mathematics andEngineering, in particular. The study analyzed outcomes for students who took the EngineeringGraphics course in the 1992-93 or the FED course in the 1993-94.The study showed that there was a statistically significant difference (p = 0.01 level) betweenstudent’s EG and FED

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Alexander Crispo; Beverly Davis

quality horror stories. Who can forget LeeIacocca and the Ford Pinto’s quality issues with its launch? By conservative estimates,Ford Pinto crashes caused over 500 burn deaths to people who would not have beenseriously injured if the car had not burst into flames (10). At the time, Lee Iacoccaordered the shortest production-planning period in modern automobile history. It wasdiscovered during the pre-production tests that a serious defect in the gas tank waspresent but unfortunately it was too late. Lee Iacocca was fond of saying, “Safety doesn’tsell” (10). The crash test also showed that a one-pound, one-dollar piece of metal wouldstop the puncture of the gas tank, it was thrown out as extra cost and extra weight.Internal company documents

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Thomas Lacksonen

with multiple termsdeep42b Annual or future value after year 0 with multiple terms Page 6.227.8deep51a Present worth comparison - equal life alternativesProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationdeep51b Present worth comparison - unequal life alternativesdeep52 Capitalized costdeep61 Annual worth comparison - LCM or planning horizon yearsdeep71 Internal rate of return - Excel IRR functiondeep82 Incremental cash flow IRR comparison - 2 alternativesdeep83

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Andrew Jackson

Aviation Accreditation: Auburn, AL, 1996.2. Kerzner, H, Project management - A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling (6th Ed.), JohnWiley and Sons, Inc: New York, 1998.3. Babcock, D., Managing engineering and technology, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991.4. Cook, T., and Russell, R., Introduction to management science (4th Ed.), Prentice-Hall; Englewood Cliffs, NJ,1989.5. Mitchell, T., and Larson, J., People in organizations - An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd Ed.),McGraw-Hill; New York, 1987.6. URL: http://eastair.east.asu.edu; Arizona State University East, Aeronautical Management TechnologyDepartment Home Page.ANDREW E. JACKSONAndrew E. Jackson is an Associate Professor of Aeronautical Management

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Vincent R. Canino; Lisa Milkowski

) capstonedesign.ABET GoalsOne of our ABET goals is that the student develop an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. To determine if this was effectivelybeing addressed by the design sequence, seven final design reports were studied. Allseven included information related to designing experiments, conducting, and collectionof data used to test and validate the operation of their project. Because each project wasunique, each report addressed these topics in a different way. Some reports contained acomplete “test plan” from initial component modeling to complete system integration.Other reports had a more loose structure in this regard with sections on component testingand overall testing.Another goal that we wanted

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Jr., Edward Evans; Richard B. Englund

Page 6.4.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsuggesting that even one girl changed her attitude or career plans as a direct result of thisprogram.IV. Non-Recruiting UsesA summer section of statics was in process during theconstruction of the bridge. Computation of a selection ofmember forces, and examination of one truss, wasincorporated into that course. Students in statics coursesare called upon to compute forces in structures, usuallywith dimensions provided in the problems, but do notactually consider the large size of parts until presentedwith a physical system, such as this bridge, to

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Patrick Tebbe; Bijan Sepahpour

EducationMechanical Engineering Laboratory I Students take the first course in the sequence in their sophomore, second semester. Thebulk of the experiments are related to the theories of mechanics of materials. They must sign upfor the mechanics of materials course as the co-requisite of this course. More importantly, thislab course serves as the “co-requisite” of the mechanics of materials course. In other words, thelectures in one course and the experiments in the other fully complement each other. In the first three weeks, the students are exposed to general measurement systems,experimental test plans and metrology. A complete and customized review of statistics includingregression analysis and goodness of fit is provided. Uncertainty

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Steven Chapra; Gary Huvard; David E. Clough

strength ofmaterials.The course plan includes 2 weeks on Web page creation using HTML. This is followed by themajor, 10-week segment on Excel and VBA. Of this, five weeks will be devoted to writing VBAfunctions and subroutines. A final 3-week segment introduces the use of Kaleidagraph for dataanalysis and the creation of publication quality graphs.For chemical engineers, the freshman course will set the stage for teaching advanced problem-solving and programming skills using Excel, VBA, and Mathcad in the sophomore mass andenergy balances course and beyond. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering will introduceadvanced skills using Mathcad and Matlab, respectively, through the sophomore and junior year.Computer Science courses on programming

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Ronald R. Hosey; R. Gregg Bruce; Lester K. Eigenbrod; Hansjoerg Stern

line shaft that delivered 40 hp each to asimple gear train and a V-belt drive at 1750 rpm. Although the project was an academic exercise inshafting, it served to refresh concepts taught to students in Strength of Materials, Machine Design,and Metallurgy. Each of the three-member teams was required to complete their design withdocumentation that included assembly and detail CAD drawings, parts list, sample calculations,and narrative descriptions that provided reasons for each portion of their design. The students werethen able to apply their design to the subsequent manufacturing-process design project. The intentis to use the experience of this coordinated effort to plan for students to additionally manufacture,assemble, and test a "real

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Stephen R. McNeill; Jed S. Lyons

. By letting students determine forthemselves how processing conditions affect material behavior, Material World will enable themto use scientific inquiry as an integral part of the learning process. This paper describes theconcept, technological hurdles, and implementation plan for Material World within the contextof other state-of-the-art courseware being delivered on the Internet.2. INTRODUCTION2.1. Laboratory ExperiencesVirtually all U.S. degree programs in Mechanical Engineering include a course on EngineeringMaterials. These courses often include hands-on laboratory experiments (e.g., the University ofSouth Carolina’s EMCH 371). There is no substitute for the knowledge students can gain byphysically touching the materials and

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James Rehg

movement through the course content. However, web courses become non-linear, and student movement through the course must be carefully planned and controlled withsufficient and effective navigational aids. The ability of students to move along differentinstructional paths as they navigate the material makes it difficult to verify that every topic wascovered. In addition, the course designer must make sure that the learner does not get lost in ajungle of hypertext links among related materials.The work associated with step two, creating a course script in the HyperText Markup Language,is the most demanding because it is not uncommon for a course to have hundreds of HTMLpages. Links to fourteen course templates in HTML are provided in this paper to

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Walter Vincent; Nipha P. Kumar; Craig A. Bernecker

course development.'Noncontiguous' is the word that Shaba5 uses to describe this physical separation betweeninstructor and learner. However, as one becomes more involved in designing instruction in adistance environment, other pedagogical issues emerge. Should distance course workdevelopment, as Keegan6 suggests, attempt to 're-create' the face-to-face teaching and learning Page 3.220.1experience that takes place in the traditional classroom? Further, what kinds of learningexperiences can be included?Moore and Kearsley7 expand the definition of distance education to suggest that not only isdistance education "planned learning that normally

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Mahmood Nahvi

years the course and the lab have been offered in the spring quarters with animpacted average class size of 35 students. The course has been well received by the students.During the 1997-98 academic year the course is being offered twice. Because of the need forupgrading DSP workstations and adding image processing platforms, a new phase has beenstarted with support provided by an NSF/ILI grant and donations from industry. Our previousexperience in developing the DSP platforms was greatly useful in implementing the currentproject: how to plan, combine, and interface financial resources from the ILI grant and universitymatching funds with equipment donations from industry.The new lab is being used for the first time in the winter and spring

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Eric W. Tisdale

tapes and chemicals sent to homes. It is possible but expensive to send awell equipped electronic laboratory to an individual home. This would require a multi-meter,AC-DC signal sources, an oscilloscope, a prototype board, and RLC discrete components. It ispossible that given a very good video tape walk-through on all of the equipment and each of thelaboratory exercises, the student could learn something and that the equipment might survive.Should this plan be approached, considering the cost, the potential to teach electronics ismarginal. The opportunity to make mistakes in the presence of someone who can assist in therecovery from those mistakes is a necessary element of the hands-on-laboratory. A laboratorywithout the possibility of mistakes

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Douglas H. Baxter

compared to a Windows is much higher thus there is a possible costadvantage providing no loss of function is encountered using a Windows based system.The plan is to teach a trial section of EG&CAD on a Windows 95 system for the summerof 1998.6.0 References1. Bunk, Donald S., The Role of Solid-Modeling In Engineering Graphics, American Society for Engineering Education, Regional Meeting, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, October 2, 1993.2. Bunk, Donald S. and Baxter, Douglas H., An “On-line” Course in Solid Modeling, American Society for Engineering Education, Regional Meeting, Union College, Schenectady, New York, September 22- 23, 1995. This paper may be accessed electronically at: http://www.rpi.edu/~baxted

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Jeffrey S. Beasley; Charles T. Townley

education and industry, have appeared in theTechnology Interface. Forty of these articles were authored by representatives from highereducation and seven from industry. There have been 31,415 article hits for the TechnologyInterface as of January 12, 1998. Archival and Security IssuesIt is our intent to leave all issues of Technology Interface on-line. We also plan to place a searchengine on-line so that viewers can easily search past articles. In addition, the TechnologyInterface is on the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL)9 and the Internet searchengines Yahoo2 and Lycos10.Security includes password protection on the UNIX host. A CD ROM backup for the first year is

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Olusegun Odesina; Nicholas Akinkuoye

. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 21(2), 60-69.Blackburn, R. T., O’Connell, C., & Pellino, G. (1980). Evaluating faculty performance. In P. Jedamus, & M. W. Peterson (Eds.), Improving academic management: A handbook of planning and instructional research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Bowen, H. R., & Schuster, J. H. (1986). American professors: A national resource imperiled. New York: Oxford University Press.Bowman, C. C. (1988). The college professors in America. New York: Amo Press.Duff, J. M. (1988). Tenure and promotion: A response. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 25(2), 70.Dutton, J. C., & Addy, A. L. (1986). Clearing the hurdles along the tenure track. Engineering Education, 63(5), 660-663.Jones, M. S

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Craig Gunn

. Changes in your plans or future courseworkc. Impact of experience on potential career options.IV. Overall Evaluationa. The level to which your employment experience has met your expectations?b. Ways in which it has differed from your objectives?c. Ways that your assignment could be improved by your employer?d. Ways in which it could be improved by you?e. Level to which your assignment has provided a broad, developmental experience?f. Level to which your co-op assignment has given you a progressive, in-depth learningexperience?g. Information that your professors should know about your assignment, your educationalenrichment, your technical accomplishments and your overall development as an engineer?For the students then, the answers to the above

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Robert J. Hofinger

deploying such technologies, will be in the forefront. • Teamwork will become the watchword, and in an increasingly global marketplace, teamwork will be expected on an international level. Will our engineers be able to work effectively on multinational teams?As we go about our profession as engineering educators, plan our courses, and advise ourstudents, we must keep one question in the forefront: Are we preparing students to be 21stcentury engineers? The challenge is greater than ever before, and engineering educators must bebetter and broader than ever. What is being done to increase the instructor’s knowledge aboutthe increases in technology? We owe our students and the technical competitiveness of thisnation no less

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

authors were encouraged by how well web-based testing worked for the material in some portions of the course and plan to explore thattesting method more in the future. Student response to the web-based tests was generallypositive. However this may have been partially because of the novelty of the experience. Page 3.296.6Concluding CommentsAlthough there were a few disadvantages associated with the switch from C++ to Mathcad, inthe opinion of the authors those disadvantages were more than offset by the numerousadvantages provided by Mathcad. Student enthusiasm for the package has been much higherthan has been observed for any of the traditional

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Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft

, and Society (STS) demonstrate efforts to integrateseemingly disparate disciplines, but also show willingness to challenge traditional ways of as-sessing technical, economic, social, and ecological changes engineers bring about. When theUnited Nations Earth Summit of 1992 has heads of state and heads of government representingninety-eight percent of the world's population signing an agenda for the twenty-first century, im-pacts on curricular planning ought to be profound. Agenda 21 and “The Rio Declaration”(1992)—and the pronouncements of the Earth Summit plus Five in New York in June of 1997—are not the statements of radical fringe groups, nor are they merely vague statements of intent.Concepts in these documents demand rethinking our

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Barbara Olds

-point scale from 4 = strongly agree to 0 = strongly disagree): x The writing assignments helped me to think more analytically (2.5) x I have learned to write more effectively because of this course (2.5) x I am more confident as a writer now than I was before taking this course (2.4) x I have learned to see my own writing problems and work towards solving them (2.6) x This course has enabled me to write for a variety of audiences and purposes (2.5) x I have improved my own writing processes (2.6)We plan to use these responses as well as feedback from a summer 1998 evaluation by the CSMassessment committee to improve the writing component of NHV. We will also conductinterviews with faculty who

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Mualla ÖNER; Gürses ÖNER

preliminarydesign. Kister extended the McCabe-Thiele diagram to columns having multiple feeds, multipleside products, multiple points of heat removal or addition (e.g., intercondensers or interreboilers),and any combination of these features.[3] To plan the design roughly on a McCabe-Thiele diagramis a great help in obtaining a swift convergence of the simulation program. Hence, this type ofproblem is of value in making students consider the McCabe-Thiele construction as a flexible toolrather than a rigid routine. This simplified graphical procedure is suitable for making initial designestimates of columns. For the preliminary design, this method is very useful to provide anapproximate solution for analyzing column design and performance. The number of

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J.P. Trudeau; Alan R. Klayton; A.L. Clark; Daniel J. Pack

project, we conducted an in-house mobile robot maze navigation competition (see Figure 2). DISCUSSIONIn this section we present some overall course observations, made by those who designed and Page 3.330.4administered the course to the students, followed by student feedback. Figure 4. A photo of a maze and a robot traveling through it.A careful planning effort by multiple individuals before the first class meeting was the key factorin making the course successful. We had to design and construct simple but useful robot bodies;motors and sensors had to be selected, tested, purchased, and

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Francis D. McVey; James D. Lang

Engineering Solutions in a Global/Societal Context • Understanding that Engineering Solutions are Affected by and should be Responsible to Limited Resource Availability • Understanding that Engineering Solutions Impact the Environment (e.g. CFCs, Heavy Metals, Energy Consumption, etc.) • Understanding that Engineering Solutions alter the Structure of Society (e.g. Air Transportation)(i) Recognition of the Need For, and an Ability to Engage in Life-Long Learning • Understanding that Skill Training is an Employee’s Responsibility and a Part of Page 3.335.7 Life Long Learning • Plans and Commitments to Skill

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Ronald J. Bennett

responsibilities with strategic leadershippositions in manufacturing, science-based or technology dependent firms.There are six recurrent themes framed by the objective of integrating the technological andbusiness cultures:1. Integrating technology into the organization’s strategic plan;2. Promoting cross-disciplinary team building and total quality management;3. Managing technology-driven change;4. Promoting an environment conducive to change;5. Developing integrated systems; and6. Promoting global thinking.The program deals with the issues and methodologies involved in innovation, technologytransfer, bringing new technologies to market, the integration of technology into the strategicobjectives of the firm, managing technical

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Murali Krishnamurthi

careers, and 84% indicatedthat the assignments and discussions were sufficient to exercise the concepts on ethics covered inthe course. Students’ written comments indicated that the course activities raised their awarenessof ethical issues in modeling, the need for modelers to exercise professional responsibility, andhow tactfully one may have to resolve ethical dilemmas in real-life situations.The experiences gained from this effort can be summarized in the form of the followingrecommendations for those interested in integrating ethics into their modeling courses:1. It is necessary to plan ahead to integrate ethics into a modeling course without sacrificing course topics, design course activities that highlight ethical considerations, and