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Resit Unal; Derya Jacobs; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

. 1, 1994, pp. 41-50.5. Armacost, R. L., P. J. Componation, M. A. Mullins, and W. W. Swart. “An AHP Framework for Prioritizing Customer Page 5.539.7 Requirements in QFD: An Industrialized Housing Application.” IIE Transactions, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1994, pp. 72-79.6. Wasserman, G. S. “On How to Prioritize Design Requirements during the QFD Planning Process.” IIE Transactions, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1994, pp. 59-65.PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management at Old

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Sanjay P. Ahuja

", Proceedings of the ACM Computer Science Education Technical Symposium 1991, San Antonio, TX, SIGCSE Bulletin 23(1), pp. 25-34, March 1991.[3] Barnett, B. L. III, "A Visual Simulator for a Simple Machine and Assembly Language", SIGCSE Bulletin, 27(1), pp. 233-237.[4] "Major Applications of COMNET II.5, Network Analysis and Capacity Planning Through Simulation", CACI Products Company, pp. 22-23, August 1993.[5] Ahuja, S. P., "COMNET III: A Network Simulation Laboratory Environment For A Course In Communications Networks", Proceedings of the Frontiers In Education Conference (FIE 98), Tempe, AZ, November 1998.SANJAY P. AHUJASanjay P. Ahuja is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of

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John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord

were introduction to engineering design courseswhile the senior courses were about half capstone design courses and half traditional engineeringcourses such as “Vibration Analysis” or “Urban Transportation Planning”. We suspect that theremay still be many unreported capstone design projects geared toward community service.Whether they have all the recommended aspects of service-learning such as community-definedneeds, reciprocity, and reflection is unknown.Our survey results show that service-learning is being used in a variety of engineeringdisciplines, with engineering students at all levels, in large and small classes, and usuallyincorporated more than one semester in a given course. However, twelve of the respondentsindicated that they had

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John S. Mullin; James J. Alpigini

. Next, an overview of the coursematerial is presented, noting the obstacles faced by the students and the contributions that theirdiversity in background brings to the course. The paper then concludes with a discussion of thelessons learned and future plans for this course.II. Course Design DecisionsAssuming that the students who would take this course have no background in computer orinformation science, two objectives presented themselves immediately. At the conclusion of thiscourse, these students should be familiar with a basic design methodology and they should be ableto apply this methodology to design and implementation of programs using a “modern” computerlanguage. In addition to identifying the objectives for this course, it was

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Winston Conway Link

. This approach allows a little time to plan a response when and if areporter calls.Even though the instructor may be directing several project groups with widely varying topics, he/sheneeds to have basic background information on the topic in the event of an interview by a reporter. Infact, it would be best to anticipate questions that may be asked.Results from student project groups will not be taken as seriously as results from those who collectand analyze data for a living, and the instructor has to be ever mindful that there is always thepossibility that less-than-honest students will attempt to submit phony results. To guard againstrunning a story based on fraudulent data, a reporter may ask to interview some of the studentsinvolved, and

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Shannon Birk; James Fonda; Christopher C. Ibeh

Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansa for Academic and Economic Development”, American Soceity for Engineering Education, Midwest Section, 29th Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings, March 30 – April 1, 1994.6. Springer R., “Energy, Efficiency, and the Environment: The Big E’s of Transportation”, 1991 Soichiro Honda Lecture – Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas.7. Scherr, C. R., Smalley A. E., Norman E., “Clean Air Act Complicates Refinery Planning”, Oil & Gas Journal, May 27, 1991, page 68 – 75.8. O’Conner Leo, “Fuel Cells Turn Up The Heat”, Mechanical Engineering, December, 1994.9. Ibeh C. C., Studyvin W., Backes R., “A Student-Oriented Fuel Cell Project At Pittsburg State University (I

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Jennifer Temple; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

items in this category represent visible signs of civil engineering.Three ABET categories received an average of about 10% of the items: (E) – Problem solving,(K) – Tools and Techniques, and (F) – Profession. Items were coded as problem solving if theyreferred to problems or goals for engineers to achieve. Example items included “Improve cityquality,” and “Protecting populations.” Tools and techniques accounted for a similar number ofitems in the subject responses. Examples included tools such as Matlab, GPS, and Theodoliteand techniques such as Seismic planning, recycling, and surveying. Subjects also seemed tohave a significant number of items related to engineering as a profession. These included itemssuch as “clients” and “building codes

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Yi-Xian Qin; Partap Khalsa; Michael Hadjiargyrou; Mark W. Otter; Kenneth J. McLeod; Danny Bluestein

businessorientation. These skills are not associated with cognitive processes, but with perceptive (i.e.intuition, insight and enthusiasm, leading to the ability to generate solutions and make decisions),and pragmatic (i.e. experiential/observational modes of thought which facilitate planning,implementation and evaluation) processes. In response to the perceived "over-correction"towards solely analytical thinking, the National Science Foundation has made significantinvestments in engineering education reform (4). In addition, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) has recently adopted accreditation criteria which requiredemonstration that graduates of accredited programs can do more than manipulate mathematicalexpressions (5,6).In order

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

Engineering faculty. Furthermore, the instructor and projectsponsor must approve (in writing) the project proposal. The project proposal is really akin to astatement of work and is meant to be somewhat of a “contract” for the project, setting futureexpectations. The project proposal can be very important at latter stages in the project when it isnot uncommon for the project sponsor to try to expand the scope of work (project creep). Inaddition, the project proposal helps to make sure that the team is taking a systems approach tothe project and has a solid plan. Page 7.1039.2 Proceedings of the 2002American Society for Engineering Education

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

occasions meetings had to be cut short or canceled simply becauseof technological problems. These technological issues need to be resolved for the followingterm.Second, design teams were required to share a single video teleconferencing facility. Thislimited the amount of time teams could meet together. In general, students wanted to meet moreoften than was practical. Next term the internet will be used for video conferencing. This willallow students to arrange their own meetings. It also means that multiple teams can meetsimultaneously instead of having to share the video conferencing facility.Third, participation of the MEGR105 class was less than initially planned. Delays in getting theprojects started meant students were rushed for time and

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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Murat Tanyel

applications where it is cumbersome to program in LabVIEW, we couldhave an experienced programmer write the painstakingly difficult algorithm and make it availableas a subVI to the rest of the class so that students do not get bogged down by a few non-intuitiveprograms. This paper is a report on the state of the progress that has been made to achieve thisend.The works that remains is twofold. I plan to expand the toolkit in future offerings of the course.An equally important task is to “polish” all the VIs in the toolkit so that they all have their uniqueicons and their documentation so that LabVIEW’s help facility may display adequate informationon each of the VIs. Right now, only a limited number of these VIs benefit from such luxuries (seeFig. 6

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Issues in Physics and Engineering

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Harold Evensen

thispoint. We are looking into the regional demand for graduates with training in fields such as laserpatterning and plasma processing in order to help determine what to add next.We plan to replace the laboratory component of the second introductory physics course with aone-credit course for majors. This is because many aspects of the “Physics II” laboratory arealready covered in the required courses in circuits and optics; electrical engineering students arealready exempt from this laboratory. It is thought that this course could be replaced by anintroductory course in instrumentation; e.g., oscilloscopes, simple analog and digital circuits,computer interfacing, and simple machining.ConclusionWhile the major work of defining the goals and

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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Sarah Faitak; Monika Blair; Matthew Johnson; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

. (anon-profit organization), now serves as the organizing umbrella over the hubs, with financial andvolunteer support from several major corporations.The BEST games typically involve a radio-controlled robot picking up game pieces and placingthem in a container to score points. Both offensive and defensive maneuvers can increase thetotal number of points a team wins in a round. The theme and game rules change each year andare announced at “Kick-Off” where each team is provided with an identical box of materials andthe current year’s rules. After four weeks of brainstorming, planning, developing prototypes,and building, the teams are invited to an exhibition event, usually held at a local mall, to testtheir robots and get a sneak preview of the

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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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Omid Ansary; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

infrastructure ofmost institutions and engineering programs are not exceptions. For example, most institutionsinclude activities similar to ABET’s criteria in their strategic plans. The program faculty andadministrations are usually charged to monitor these activities to ensure the feasibility andquality of their programs. However, the major difference is that ABET’s criteria requireenormous documentation, bookkeeping, statistical analyses, data gathering, periodic surveys, andABET’s way of documenting students portfolios on a periodic basis. These require atremendous amount of resources and burden on programs and institutions. For some engineeringdisciplines the benefit of being accredited is so minimal that many institutions are questioningtheir

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

3.79 0.918 3.79 0.918 Overall Mean 0.93 3.74 3.74 Biographical Information Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suárez Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suárez is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of EXITE! Camp. She obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Bartolomei-Suárez is an active consultant to manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico, and specializes in facility planning and simulation. At UPRM, she works with the pre-college programs to introduce engineering to junior and high school students. Silvana Tarazaga Silvana Tarazaga is currently a Master of Science candidate in Industrial

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Hunting for MINDs

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Sr., Willyerd Collier; Ken Vickers; Benita Wolff; Greg Salamo

to select students themselves t hat theyfelt would be a good match to the REU programs.As two of the three REU programs were housed in science departments in the Fulbright Collegeof Arts and Sciences, and the third microEP REU was interdisciplinary between Fulbright andEngineering Colleges, this resulted in the Carver Project managing nine positions suitable forstudents from science undergraduate programs. An additional benefit from the Carver/REUpartnerships was a plan to more tightly coordinate the Carver Project students’ social activitieswith the social activities of the REU programs.The third expansion of scope of the Carver Project came from the endorsement of the programby the Dean of the College of Engineering to the engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Clark Merkel

car. Before they build theirmodel, they should consider such things as model strength, methods of construction,available materials, model reliability, ease of use, and safety considerations. They shouldhave some plan to weigh the relative importance of the different features that will allow Page 7.870.9them to select a design which is a good balance of all the most important features. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Step 10 is the stage where the model becomes a real car. Working with tools is

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

approach public schools with ideasfor providing help, only to make it clear that “help” is defined by the university, often inisolation of what the schools need. By the same token, teachers must be aware of the tendency tobecome territorial about curriculum and lesson plans, and to remain open minded about thepotential of the partnership.If the relationship has been properly initiated and set up, the management aspect of thepartnership should be minimal. The goal of the university, the engineering student and theschool must be to minimize the additional responsibilities placed on the classroom teacher. Tothat end, it is imperative that each school have a single point of contact, preferably inadministration or instructional resource, who will serve

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Design for Community

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Jennifer Kushner; Jay Martin

, with a plan to spend additionaleffort in the future on the larger issue of efficiency in patient escort monitoring. Rather thanpresent the details of the process we followed, we will just show the final result from thisendeavor, pictured in Fig. 3. This prototype is currently undergoing testing at the hospitaland we will evaluate the effectiveness of the changes made in the coming months.What Happened This Time? What was the Impact?When the students learned that we were going to carry out one of the projects, there were acouple of reactions we had not anticipated. First, students questioned why we wanted to do aproject. Because we were unprepared for this question, we did not respond with anyreference to the pedagogical intent of our actions

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Richard Goff

them an experience of howproducts are designed and assembled. The main drawback of this approach is scalability. Weoffer this course to nine sections of 32 students each. This still only reaches 20 percent of ourentering engineering students. To address the issue of offering active learning opportunities to allentering freshman, we have worked to develop activities that could be offered during the regularclass time rather than as a separate laboratory.Pilot Project 1Development and implementation of any significant change in course delivery method, in thiscase hands-on early design activities, for the entire entering engineering class at Virginia Techrequires significant planning and trials. There are usually thirty-six sections of EF1015

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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Jørgen Hansen; Arvid Andersen

part of a much broadersociety. Besides being the technical specialist, a Danish engineer is expected to speak at leasttwo foreign languages, to be flexible, to be able to communicate clearly and hopefullywithout too much ambiguity, to be able to do teamwork and to plan and manage projects.Also understanding of inter-human relations when executing projects with cross-cultural andmultidisciplinary participation is expected. Certainly the paradigm has changed and will Page 7.500.1continue to do so. The tendency to allocate home computers to employees is growing fast.Also short-term contract employment is a trend. It seems to be attractive to work on

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Tools of Teaching

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Maher Murad

Page 7.1248.7write a formal report. Sophomores tend to appreciate the concept more than seniors whoadmitted they did review their exams more frequently than when they first entered college. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOverall, the foregoing discussions gave evidence that the concept of After Action Reports(AAR) proved to be an effective learning tool that extends learning beyond the examinations.The author is planning to continue this activity in other courses and administer similar surveys inorder to continue getting feedback from students. This will help in the improvement

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Steve Thomas; Vinod Lohani; Bevlee Watford

California for further testing the approach. Also, it is planned to repeatthe analysis with weekly PDSI data, if available, to get a better characterization ofdrought probabilities. Page 7.892.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2: C++ Class for Analysis of PDSI DataClass Name WeatherPurpose Used to perform analysis on weather dataOperations int Convert(double); bool insert(double, int, int); double longterm(int pattern); double

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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Joseph Callinan; Gary Hikiss

directly (except for the thermocouples). The output of the pressure transducers,load cell and fuel flow system are fed through a switching box to a Kiethley Model 175AAutoranging Digital Multimeter. The output of the thermocouples was measured using anOmega Model DP25-TC Digital Thermocouple Controller.The operating procedure is described in Reference 4. The following is an overview of thatprocedure. Prior to the test, the fuel, lubricating and compressed air systems must be checked toinsure they are functioning properly and adequately supplied for the tests planned. The engineoperates satisfactorily using a variety of fuels (e.g., various grades of jet engine fuel, keroseneand diesel fuel). Various switches are turned on in sequence to power up

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Hugh Jack

controls. Hisresearch areas include, process planning, robotics and rapids prototyping. He previously taught atRyerson Polytechnic university for 3 years. He holds a Bachelors in electrical engineering, andMasters and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario.Appendix A - A Problem ExampleA feedback control system is shown below. The system incorporates a PID controller. The closed loop transfer function is given. X + Y Ki 3 - K p + ----- + K d D ------------ D

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Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

design 2. Acquire software and hardware materials for lab development 3. Setup the Web server, Web camera, and Web site 4. Design programs and Web pages for; student access control (ID and password), to gather information on user log-in and connection time, to use the Web camera 5. Design, code post, and test the Web-based labs 6. Design and write Web pages for posting the syllabus, lecture materials, homework, and lab assignments 7. Use the Email system for communicating with students, receiving and returning homework assignments and lab reports 8. Develop a course evaluation plan 9. Complete summative evaluation exercisesIII. The Web-Based Laboratory EnvironmentMajor hardware components of the lab include a

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Mark Hickman; Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

sub-section, there is anavigation button to return to the section overview to proceed to the next topic (or they could usethe navigation toolbar to return to the overview).4. ExperimentThe first draft of the module content was completed during summer 2000 and a test was set up ina Civil Engineering junior level class on transportation engineering. The course was 4 creditsand 1 credit covered engineering economics. This was the plan that the Department chose whenthey reduced degree requirements to 128 credits.The class was introduced to the site on the first Monday session. All students knew that the site Page 6.1144.5was experimental

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Sean DiBartolo; Linfield Brown; Chris Swan

groups to develop innovative concepts, methodologies andtechniques for the remediation of complex/unique environmental problems. Typically, studentschoose to address one or more tasks from a field of up to 12. Deliverables in the contest includea written report, an oral presentation, a poster presentation, and working bench-scale modeldemonstrating their final solution.The contest promotes that the teams of students be assembled from a variety of disciplines (i.e.majors). These areas not only include appropriate technical expertise, assessment and design butan economic analysis of the proposed remediation scheme in addition to an accompanyingbusiness plan. Teams must consider legal and regulatory issues, health considerations (both toon-site

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Edmund Tsang

6.1156.5Service-Learning in Engineering is the training ground for faculty and students todevelop the knowledge and skills to implement “Public Engineering.” In his essay in theAAHE monograph on Service-Learning in Engineering, R. Decker proposes thatService-Learning as a means for “Professional Activism,” [15] where engineers will setaside a portion of their professional practice for service, similar to physicians andlawyers. Decker describes a plan for implementating Professional Activism by linkingthe alumni office and the office of community service of institutions of highereducation, and the local chapters of professional engineering organizations.V. ConclusionIn conclusion, the author believes C.P. Snow would approve of Service-Learning

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller

, administrative and reference information such as the course syllabus and policies is freeof graphical clutter and interactive elements. For the industry audience, the bridge collection hassuccinct sets for the location, overview, foot traffic, and vehicle loading (see menu in Figure 3). Thetypical industry user is anticipated to have a desire to obtain information simply and quickly.However, for both audience groups, there is more complex content. The course tutorials contain avariety of graphics, and on-line features such as self-quizzes and simulations are planned. Intrasitelinks are highlighted, in particular to the bridge documentation, to encourage user exploration. Thebridge collection includes a live view from a web camera to stimulate interest