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Kevin M. Nickels

fuzzy” is not likelyto generate much useful information, but “Which method would you solve this circuit with (andwhy)?” might do a better job.4. Group WorkAs Johnson et al.7 point out, group work in the classroom can range from small clusters of studentsworking together on homework problems before class to long-term assigned formal groups work-ing on projects. When deciding whether to use group work as a component of a course, the courseobjectives and current organization must be taken into account. As new engineering educators,many of us don’t have the time or the inclination to re-invent courses, but wish to incrementallychange them to improve the pedagogic style and learning of students. I’ve described my use ofshort-term problem-solving

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Patricia Backer

predictable and are less deterministic than other modes ofinstruction. Other researchers5,6 have found that a student’s learning style affects achievementon multimedia-based learning. Divergers (using Kolb’s learning style preference) were found toinprove more on posttest measures than those who have other learning styles. This would leadone to state that the successful use of hypermedia requires nonlinear thinking on the part of theuser--this type of thinking may not be successful for all users.II. Design and Development of the multimedia modulesThe designer of this project applied for a SJSU Improvement of Instruction grant and wasawarded one for the 1994 calendar year. This project provided for the design andimplementation of an interactive

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William Peterson

industrialengineering. The establishment of a new department located in Muskegon (with offices in theHEC at MCC) placed WMU faculty on-site for teaching, student advising, and studentrecruiting and retention. It also allows the manufacturing engineering department to set policyand procedures to reflect the expectations of the college for this faculty unit. The chair of theDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering serves as chair the Department ofManufacturing Engineering.The startup phase of the program was projected to take 4 years. During the first three years,reduced course offerings and smaller class sizes (plus one time startup costs) were projected to

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Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

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

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S P Maj; D Veal

career at a senior technical or Page 5.367.3supervisory level in this field of activity. It combined theory, practical work and presentationtechniques with the associated industrial management problems. The focus of all moduleswas industrial applications, ranging from basic electronics to control systems theory. TheInstitution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers, leading to IncorporatedEngineer status, accredited the course. In both years of the course students undertake projectwork. Projects include investigations of materials to be used, costing, standards and codes ofpractice. An important part of the course is the development of

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Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

IntegrationOur new program is also restructured such that it is integrated vertically throughout the entirecurriculum. Several key integration concepts are adopted as follows: (1) provide students withgeneral skills required for their engineering problem solving as early as possible; (2) reinforcethese skills continuously throughout the curriculum; (3) offer more technical elective courses forstudents to choose during senior year; (4) strengthen the senior capstone design project whichutilizes and integrates the skills learned in the integrated curriculum and requires the creation ofa final product, similar to an indurial engineering process . To achieve these goals, two newcourses were introduced during the sophomore year: (1) Introduction to

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Kevin M Torres; David Johnson; David Forsman; David Baird

used as a lead-in to a presentation on basic rocketry principles, such as, aerodynamics andpropellants. In the evening, the students used the information they learned during the day topractice using rocketry software, such as wRASP and VCP. After successfully arriving atthe answers, the students were allowed to start working on the competition project. They were towork in teams of two and create a single stage rocket using parts from the Estes Designer’sSpecial kit provided by the instructors. The teams were to predict their apogee altitude (AA) anddistance downrange (DD). The team’s prediction arriving closest to the actual AA and DD,would win the contest. The quality of their working drawings, craftsmanship and paint designwere also judged

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

% 7% 26% Research/sponsored projects for faculty 3% 17% 43% 12% 24% Page 5.673.3 Table 4. Industrial Advisory Committee Effectiveness - Two-year schools Very Very Not Industrial Advisory Committee Provides Effective Effective Ineffective Ineffective Applicable Curriculum guidance 17% 80% 0% 0% 3% Student scholarships 2% 12% 46% 12% 28% Co-op employment 6

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Gilbert J. Groendyke; Frank G. Lopez

Institute.FRANK G. LOPEZ, BSFrank G. Lopez is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University ofHouston-Downtown. He also is a CADD Design Specialist at Brown & Root Energy Services, aHalliburton Company. He specializes in onshore and offshore design of pipelines for the oil and gasindustry including broad experience in Civil related projects in the petrochemical industry as well asmanufacturing and process. He brings over twenty years of practical experience to academia. He holds aBS degree in Engineering Technology from the University of Houston-Downtown. He teaches 3DModeling, Rendering and Animation, and surveying including GPS and GIS

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Diane Saphire; J. Paul Giolma

engineering degree at Trinity.The CIRP SurveyThe Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) was established in 1966 at the AmericanCouncil on Education to study the American higher education system. One of the projects of theCIRP is an annual nationwide freshman survey, conducted by the Higher Education ResearchInstitute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The survey gathers information from newcollege students about their academic and family backgrounds, interests, college and careergoals, and attitudes. Institutions participating in the freshman survey receive summary data on Page 5.681.1their own new students as well as comparative

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J. Giolma; Kevin Nickels; Farzan Aminian

engineering, taken during the junior and senior years. The program provides significant hands-on experience through engineering laboratories and participation in engineering projects required in eight semester-long design courses. The emphasis on fundamentals is intended to prepare students for dealing with the rapid pace of technology and the interdisciplinary nature of engineering practice. The laboratory and design portions of the program provide the students with a balanced perspective on the theory and practice of the engineering profession.9One impact of this mission is the delineation of courses into fundamentals and elective courses.The fundamentals and design courses are required of all students, and lay the foundation

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Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

individual faculty member working with each student“stakeholder” group. Course content is organized around a specific technological “focus issue.” Sample issueshave included the Hamilton County Environmental Priorities Project and the Fernald UraniumPlant Superfund clean-up effort. Entwined within the broad issues above are discussionsinvolving solid waste management, water pollution, air quality, public concern, accountability,environmental justice, and regional implications. In this course students sift through andcritically review data from multiple sources identifying the technological assets, limitations, andassumptions those sources use in formulating their data and analyses. The course aims toexamine the assumptions, impact, and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Timothy M. Weise; Daniel J. Biezad

. Page 3.201.1 System Description The project began with a standard radio controlled helicopter, which included a gas en-gine and radio controller. Several pieces of hardware were needed for the control system: ratefeedback devices, control system electronics, input/output devices, and mounting hardware. Thechoice for the feedback devices was made simpler because most of today’s RC helicopters comeequipped with a rate gyro to help control the yaw of the helicopter, which is very tightly coupledto the power setting. The yaw gyro, developed by the radio manufacturer, was developed tosense the yaw motion and send a rudder servo command to stop the unwanted yaw motion. Thissame device was determined to be

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1997 Annual Conference

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S. Keith Hargrove

the rules are executed. The system underdevelopment uses the former. The user interface is another part of the software programused to communicate with the user and display results.The objective of this project was to develop a computer-assisted program for academicadvising for Freshmen engineering students. With computer accessibility, the programwill provide Freshmen with advise about registering when their advisor is unavailable.However, the student must still see the advisor for signature approval of the registrationschedule. The design and development of the knowledge base system consisted of anadvisor (expert), a graduating senior (knowledge engineer), and several Freshmenstudents (end user). A PC-based expert system was used as the

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Ravi Jain

Engineering, University of Cincinnati, to develop andenhance the IEP. Specific objectives of the project funded by FIPSE were:• To fully develop, implement, and institutionalize a unique IEP• To develop curriculum and implement language and culture training programs with a focus on German and Japanese• To train engineers to have a global perspectiveMain Components of the IEP• Introduction to International Engineering (1 unit course)• Intensive language and culture courses (approximately 300 classroom hours)• Humanities and social sciences courses (four in total) related to history, international relations, or management styles specifically focusing on Japan or Germany• Approximately five-month internship

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Yeu-Sheng Shiue; Bernard B. Beard

assemblycreation and parametrization. The manufacturing module is then introduced, in which studentscreate a manufacturing model, build operation sequences, and manufacture a complex part.Students also learn how to perform structural and thermal analyses using integrated computertools. Design projects are assigned to student groups in different stages of the class. A finalproject allows students to apply all techniques including design, analysis, manufacturing, andmachining codes. A course outline is provided in Table I.Pro/ENGINEER is the parametric design tool in this class. Pro/MECHANICA is used for stressand thermal analysis. Pro/MANUFACTURING is used to generate a manufacturing model and tosimulate the cutting process trajectory, as well as to

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Venkatramana N. Reddy; Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

inputs of testing samples. Finally, replacing the small fixed learning ratewith a one-dimensional search significantly improves the speed of optimizing network inputs.Applications to Process MeasurementsThe data for the examples that follow come from temperature sensors in the air heaters of anelectric power plant. A total of 44 variables will be considered.We first examine prediction errors of models constructed from PCA and from IT-Nets. Processdata obtained as measurements from the plant often contain noise. The reduced set of variablesshould retain the most important non-random variation within the data set. When the reduced setis projected back to the original dimension, a corrected set of values is reconstructed based on thenon-random

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Michael J. Brandemuehl; Lawrence E. Carlson

control building climate. Computer workstations located in several locationsfeature graphical building layouts and displays of current values of all sensor points, as wellas allowing trending of the data. As mentioned earlier, this information will also be madeavailable on the WWW.StructuralVibrating Wire Strain GagesTo introduce students to the workings of structural building systems, vibrating wire straingages were installed in the foundation and column system within the ITL Laboratory. Thevibrating wire instruments were attached to the reinforcing steel and the concrete was pouredaround them. Data was gathered showing strain in a caisson as load was built up duringconstruction. Using this BAL project, students will be able to make measurements

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Deborah Hochstein

Session 2275 Merging Research with Service and Teaching in an Engineering Technology Department Deborah Hochstein The University of Memphis ABSTRACT When asked for a definition of research, engineering and engineering technology facultyusually respond with definitions that describe the technical and scientific projects they have beeninvolved with. This type of research usually falls under the scholarship of discovery.Consequently, research activities are segregated from the other activities

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1997 Annual Conference

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

Session 2457 Session 2457 MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION ON THE INTERNET C. Patrick Koelling*, John E. Kobza*, Tamie Veith*, Mario G. Beruvides+ *Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/+Texas Tech UniversityBackgroundIn August 1995 the National Science Foundation, through SUCCEED (Southeastern Universityand College Coalition for Engineering Education), funded a project to develop and test amultimedia laboratory experience in work measurement and methods engineering. The primarypurpose was to evaluate the efficacy of the multimedia

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1999 Annual Conference

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Corrado Poli; Beverly Woolf

4.165.4cutouts and projections are present, iv) the number of stages required to bend the part.Figures 5, 6 and 7 show still versions of the animations used to explain, by example, some ofthese points. In the tutors, the punches are shown moving up and down while the strip is shownmoving from right to left through the various stations. (a) (b) (c)Figure 4. Three L-shaped parts in which the direction of mold closures is shown in two alternativedirections. In (a) the direction of mold closure has no effect on tooling complexity. In both situations noexternal undercuts will result. In (b) when the direction of mold closure is perpendicular to the long legof the part, an external

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1999 Annual Conference

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Tony N. Rogers; David R. Shonnard; Besty M. Aller; Kirk H. Schulz; Anton Pintar

developed to measure the success in attaining the above goals:(1) department designed skills test to be given in a senior-level course, (2) plant design reportsand AIChE senior design project, (3) exit survey and interview of graduating seniors,(4) survey of alumni two and five years out, (5) portfolio of written material in capstone andcommunication courses, (6) portfolio of oral presentations in capstone and communicationcourses, (7) participation in the “PAWS” Safety Program, and (8) performance on theFundamentals of Engineering Exam.Parts of the assessment plan have already been implemented. The first cycle of implementationof the entire assessment plan will be completed in the summer of 1999

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Monson H. Hayes; Lonnie D. Harvel

, capturedcourses may be enriched with various forms of multimedia information, and may behyperlinked to a textbook, other lectures, and other sites on the world wide web.In this paper, we are concerned with capturing the classroom experience, and putting itonline. We begin, in Section II, with an overview of what we have done at Georgia Techover the last eighteen months in internet course delivery. Then, in Section III, we turnour sights to the future and describe the projects that are on the horizon, and speculateabout what internet distance learning may be like in the 21st century.II. Distance Learning at Georgia TechIn 1991, a campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology was opened in Metz, France,offering masters degrees in electrical engineering. In

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Sung Kim; Kevin Logeais

, low-pressure nozzle wasreplaced with a high pressure one. Not only did wheel wear decrease, but grinding energydecreased and surface finish improved. With the conventional fluid delivery system only,workpiece burn developed and the test was terminated. In all cases where high-pressure fluidwas utilized, no workpiece burn was noticed. A correlation can also be drawn between wheelwear, power requirements and surface finish of the workpiece and the number of high-pressurenozzles being utilized 5. The step grinding process is essentially a creep-feed grinding process,and should respond analogously to the GE test. The project therefore will be loosely patternedafter this test.2. MethodologyThe requirement of the coolant delivery system is to

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1998 Annual Conference

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Sanjiv Sarin

begiven that the results are applied to the further development and improvement of the program.The assessment process must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of theinstitution and the objectives of the program are being measured. Evidence that may be usedincludes, but is not limited to, the following: student portfolios, including design projects;nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data ofgraduates.Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to applyknowledge of mathematics, science and engineering, (b) an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as

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1998 Annual Conference

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Nancy L. Denton; Christine L. Corum

whenformulating your plan. Special consideration is warranted when setting major milestones other than tenure and promotion (dueto their fixed time period). Do you wish to write a nationally accepted textbook within three years after yourpromotion? Is receiving another promotion within five years of tenure important? Have you set your sights onan administrative position within the next ten years? Would serving as principal investigator for amultidisciplinary, multi-campus project within six years satisfy your desires? Is being recognized as the bestengineering educator at your campus within eight years the goal you are striving for? Achieving any of thesemilestones requires long-term preparation and accomplishment of specific actions in a

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H. Hsieh; Eugene Golub; Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

1998CONCRETE NAQTC AASHTO T 119 Apparatus • Slump cone conforming to AASTO T 119: The mold shall be provided with foot pieces and handles. The mold may be constructed either with or without a seam. The interior of the mold shall be relatively smooth and free from projections such as protruding rivets. The mold shall be free from dents. A mold which clamps to a

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1998 Annual Conference

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Youngmee Lee; Yasuo Kuga; Thomas Stoebe; Minoru Taya; Mani Soma

started the hands-on laboratory experience. To completethree laboratories, six weeks were required; one week for Lab 1, three weeks for Lab 2, and twoweeks for Lab 3. A detailed time schedule and procedures are shown in Table 1. Basically,individual work and an individual lab report were required from each student, however, Lab 1and Lab 3 were conducted as a group project, but still required an individual report.Course ContentLab 1: Dissection of Electronic PackagingThe objective of Lab 1 is to have students understand the common package features byexamining the cross-section and components of electronic packaging (wire bonding, die, andlead frame). Three common plastic-based surface-mount packages, Plastic Quad Flat Package(PQFP), Plastic Leaded

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert J. Beichner; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

, technical writing, oral presentations, and presentation graphics (PowerPoint); assignments that involve summarizing sections and doing chapter-end exercises in Studying Engineering by Raymond Landis; orientation presentations by representatives of different engineering departments; field trips to engineering laboratories and a construction site; guest presentations by recent engineering graduates; and team projects that involve elementary engineering design and analysis, application of principles from the science and calculus courses, and preparation of oral and written project reports.• A nominal schedule states which courses meet during which hours, but the actual schedule changes every week according to which topics are to

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Joseph Speight P.E., United States Military Academy; Brett Rocha P.E., United States Military Academy; Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy

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) conference paper [3] authors spoke about anew education space that would have flexible laboratory modules that would allow for futuremodification. The authors spoke that these new spaces would be utilized for clinic projects,multiple disciplines courses, for teaching / research, and be able to accommodate multiplecourses of instruction. In the field of Civil Engineering, space was constructed to providetechnology focused courses and research, discipline courses and research, and student teamprojects. More specifically it was made with three contiguous modules that form a 66 x 40ft openarea with one half dedicated to environmental engineering and the other half dedicated toinfrastructure engineering with a classroom centrally located in the center