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at Purdue University, School ofTechnology at Anderson. His industrial background includes over 25 years of technical staff assignments withNASA-Langley Research Center, Texas Instruments, Inc. and Seyberts/Anderson Electronics. Dr. Aubrey receiveda B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and a M. S. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His current teaching interests are in the areas ofintegrated circuit design, computer simulation, analog and digital electronics. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Thomas Zickel is currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Technology at Purdue University ,School of Technology at Anderson. He received his Bachelor of

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Session 1639 ENGINEERING ECONOMY - A Historical Perspective Gerald J. Thuesen, William G. Sullivan Georgia Institute of Technology/Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityThe purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with the accomplishments and contributionsmade by four individuals in the field of engineering economics. These “pioneers” of theprofession enabled the field to develop from its infancy in the 1870's to become a criticalcomponent of engineering practice and education. Their introduction of fundamental ideas, thedevelopment of methodologies of

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is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University.His research interests are intelligent computer applications. His is currently investigating integration problemsbetween enterprise resource planning systems and real-time intelligent decision making processes. Dr Vassiliadisreceived a B. S. degree in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in ElectricalEngineering from the Mississippi State University.BRIAN MANHIREBrian Manhire (bmanhire1@ohiou.edu) received BEE, MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from TheOhio State University in 1972 and 1980 respectively. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School ofElectrical Engineering and Computer

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Omar Barkat

Page 4.236.3student. The faculty engagement in this effort is very important. He/she administersacademically, technically, and administratively the project. Although the role of the faculty is tomake the project possible, it is not of his/her responsibility to solve any part of the problem. Thefaculties play the role of a coordinator between the student and the administration, and giveguidance to the student on the project. He/she during the course of the project discusses coursesof actions to be undertaken when difficulties arise. The student(s) working on the problem areresponsible for the success of the project. Success is not only measured by arriving at the rightsolution but by the decisions and approaches the students have taken during

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Shreekanth A. Mandayam; John L. Schmalzel; Ravi Ramachandran

. P. Hesketh, K. Jahan and A. J. Marchese, “Multidisciplinary experimental experiences in the freshman engineering clinic design at Rowan university”, ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 1997.2. A. J. Marchese, R. P. Hesketh and K. Jahan, “Design in the Rowan university freshman engineering clinic”, ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 1997.3. K. Jahan, R. A. Dusseau, R. P. Hesketh, A. J. Marchese, R. P. Ramachandran, S. A. Mandayam and J. L. Schmalzel, "Engineering measurements in the freshman engineering clinic at Rowan university", ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, June 1998.4. B. W. McNeill, "Beginning design education with freshmen", Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 79, pp. 548

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3 Learning Model for Environmental Security Graduates use concepts in environmental security to be able to make fundamentally sound decision in matters affecting quality of life options to our society. Amplification and RationaleConcerns over degradation of the Earth’s natural resources and of global pollution havegrown exponentially since the 1960’s. The first rallying cries from the ‘fringes’ ofsociety preceded major scientific studies that did, indeed, indicate that Humankind wasplacing extreme stress on our planet. Increasing populations, unwise national policydecisions concerning the environment and greed have all played a part in the rise

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theoreticaland practical knowledge needed to satisfy the demands of tomorrow’s industry.REFERENCESAbrams, S., 1997. ESD in the sky: Keeping Static Grounded. Compliance Engineering, Sept/Oct. 26-32Butler, J., 1997. A guide to selecting effective shielding against EMI. Medical Electronics Manufacturing, Fall1997, 50-52Center for Devices and Radiological Health Web Page: http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/emc/Gerke D and Kimmel B, 1994. EMI Regulations: Why, where and what do they mean. Electronic Design News,Vol. 39, N.2, 15-22Hanada E., Watanabe Y, Antuku Y. et al., 1998. Hospital construction materials: Poor shielding capacity withrespect to signals transmitted by mobile telephones. Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology, Vol. 32, N. 5.489-496Hasse P and Birk J

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John C. Duke; Jack Lesko; Flynn L. Auchey; Siegfried M. Holzer

enhanceengineering education.Bibliography1. Petroski, H., Invention by Design: How Engineers Get From Thought to Thing, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, (1996).2. Kolb, D., Experiential Learning, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1984).3. Wankat, P. C. and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill (1993).4. Habel, Margaret, CEUT Faculty Workshop, Virginia Tech, February 10 (1996).5. Lyman, F., “Think-Pair-Share: An Expanding Teaching Technique,” MAACIE, Cooperative News, 1(1) (1987).6. Holzer, Siegfried M. and Raul H. Andruet, “Learning Statics with Multimedia and Other Tools,” ASEE, Seattle, WA (1998

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Rafiq Noorani; Omar Es-Said; Boris Fritz; Anthony Barrata

Extends the Limits of Analysis, MechanicalEngineering, January, 1990.[8]. Jacobs, P. Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing and Fundamentals of Steriolithography.SME Publications, 1992.[9]. Thomas, C.L. Introduction to Rapid Prototyping, SDC Publications, Kansas, 1996.[10]. Ashley, S. Rapid Prototyping is Coming of Age, Mechanical Engineering, July, 1995.[11]. Noorani, R., Golda, K., Dao, Q., Frimodig, J., Le, H., Li, X. and Putnam, B.P. 1998.Calculation of Shrinkage Compensation Factors For Rapid Prototyping (FDM 1650),Preliminary Report, Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, Loyola MarymountUniversity.[12]. Stratasys (1996) FDM System DocumentationF1650-5, F1650-6, F1650-11, G-8, G-9, and

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Page 4.317.4educational requirements for professional practice. For example, in many states, a CertifiedPublic Accountant (CPA) must have completed 30 semester credit hours in addition to theBachelor’s Degree in order to become licensed. Architecture generally considers the Master’s asthe first professional degree.Pharmacy is in the process of requiring a six-year Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.) degree forprofessional practice. At Purdue University, effective Fall ’98, pharmacy students can enrollonly in the doctor of pharmacy program 6. Not long ago a B. S. degree was considered adequate.The Pharm. D. is not considered a research degree. In the future, the engineering profession mayfollow pharmacy and require a six-year Doctor of Engineering

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Shih-Liang Wang

, 1993.[2] Farin, G., Computer Aided Geometric Design; From Theory to Applications, 3rd edition, Academic Press,Boston, MA, 1995.[3] Ibrahim Zeid, CAD/CAM Theory and Practice, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991[4] Shah, J.J., and Mantyla M., Parametric and Feature-Based CAD/CAM, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, Page 4.345.71995.[5] MATLAB 5.2 User’s Guide, The MathWorks, Inc., Natick,MA, 1998.[6] S. Nakamura, Numerical Analysis and Graphical Visualization with MATLAB, Prentice Hall, 1996[7] A. Rockwood and P. Chambers, Interactive Curves and Surfaces, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, 1996.Shih-Liang WangShih-Liang Wang is Associate Professor

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develop badprogramming habits. This concern has yet to be validated by our higher-level programminginstructors. MATLAB does, however, allow students to write and run simple problem-solvingprograms without a demanding learning curve. The result is a student who, without feelingoverwhelmed, is capable of using MATLAB’s basic operations and computer programmingtechniques to solve engineering problems. MATLAB also serves as a springboard for thestudents when they begin their follow-on high-level programming course(s).Lessons LearnedThere were numerous lessons learned from incorporating MATLAB into the introductoryfreshman engineering. The four primary lessons learned are provided below.Course instructor opinions on MATLAB vary greatly. Some

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Oscar D. Crisalle; Haniph A. Latchman; Denis Gillet; Christophe Salzmann

point of view.Bibliography1. Latchman H. A., Salzmann Ch., Thottapilly S. and Bouzekri H., "Hybrid Asynchronous and SynchronousLearning Networks in Distance Education", International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE’98, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil, 1998.2. Gillet D., G. F. Franklin, R. Longchamp, and D. Bonvin, “Introduction to Automatic Control via an IntegratedInstruction Approach”, 3rd IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Tokyo, Japan, 1994.3. Gillet D., Ch. Salzmann, R. Longchamp, and D. Bonvin, “Telepresence: An Opportunity to Develop PracticalExperimentation in Automatic Control Education”, European Control Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 1997.4. Salzmann Ch., H. A. Latchman, D. Gillet, and O. D. Crisalle, “Requirements for

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).7. K. Scales, C. Owen, S. Shiohare, and M. Leonard, "Preparing for Program AccreditationReview Under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000: Choosing Outcome Indicators", J. Eng. Educ.,87, 207-210(1998).8. J. McGourty, C. Sebastian, and W. Swart, "Developing a Comprehensive Assessment Programfor Engineering Education", J. Eng. Educ., 87, 355-361(1998).9. G. M. Rogers and J. K. Sando, "Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide", ARose-Hulman/Foundation Coalition Report based on support from NSF Grant EEC-9529401,1996.GARY K. PATTERSONGary Patterson is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where hehas also been Associate Dean of Engineering. Previous to that he was Head of ChemicalEngineering at the

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Timothy J. Robinson; Jeffrey B. Connor

-common students.• Over the course of the semester, favorable opinion of the academic influence of their engineering classmates decreased among non-common students.• Compared to students grouped only in their engineering class, students belonging to the same English and engineering groups had no higher opinion of the effectiveness of group work.• At the end of the semester common students that had greater academic achievement disagreed that groups will produce a “good” result.Bibliography1L. Springer, M. E. Stanne, and S. Donovan, “Effects of Small-Group Learning on Undergraduates in Science,Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology: A Meta Analysis,” (Madison, WI: National Institute for ScienceEducation, 1997

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computational units: ALU, multiplier, shifter â Dual-ported 1-megabit internal, DMA controller and I/O processor â Two 40 Mbit/s synchronous serial ports m Analog Devices AD1847 16-bit Stereo SoundPort® CODEC m RS-232 interface m Socketed EPROM SPORT0 m User push-buttons 6+$5& CODEC Stereo IN Stereo OUT m Programmable LEDs m Power supply regulation m Expansion connectors PROM UART RS-232 Figure 1. EZ-KIT Lite functional block diagram.The EZ-KIT

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Sallie (Lee) Townsend; Howard A. Canistraro

scheduling.I. Recruiting and Retaining Full and Part-Time FacultyThe education of the technology student in the 1990's is different from earlier years; it not onlydemands academic excellence on the part of the faculty, but also current, relevant industrialexpertise. There are three basic types of faculty with that experience.(1) Full-time faculty with past industrial experience(2) Full-time faculty that work part time as consultants and(3) Adjunct faculty that work in industry full time. Page 4.442.1Full time faculty must form the nucleus of a given technology major since they provide the“home base” for the students in the major. Of the two types of

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

, Chicago.3. Mabe, P.A. III, & West, S.G.(19 ). Validity of Self-Evaluation of Ability: A Review and Meta-Analysis,Journal of Applied Psychology, 67, (3), 280-296.4. Mehta, S.I. & Gronhovd, S. (1996). Instrumentation and Communication Modules on CD-ROMs for EnrichingEngineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Education, pp. 304-308, August.5. Porus J., & Johnson, R. (1994). Assessment and Testing: Myths and Realities, New Directions for CommunityColleges, No. 88.BiographiesSUDHIR MEHTASudhir Mehta is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University. He was named the 1997North Dakota Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. His areas of interest are engineering educationresearch, instrumentation

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Considerations for Research on Integrated-Science Process Skills and Formal Reasoning Ability”, Science Education, vol.71, (1987), pp.259-269.3. Bransford, J.D., Stein, B.S.: “The Ideal Problem Solver”, W.H. Freeman and Co.,New York, NY, 1984.4. Brown, S., Walter, M.: “The Art of Problem Solving”, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1983.5. Robinson, J.A.: “Engineering Thinking and Rhetoric”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol.87, no.3, (1998), pp.227-229.6. Prusak, Z.: “Challenges to Future Engineering Professionals – How to Prepare Students to Face Page 4.462.6 Them”, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 28- July 1, 1998, Seattle, WA.7. Turski

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pennies and was aloft for 3.5 meters, the score would be seven points; (2 penniesx3.5 meters = 7 penny-meters). l Distances are measured as the linear distance from the point of takeoff to the point at which the plane landed. l All of the energy imparted to the plane must come from a single rubber band, through a single propeller, in the spirit of a propeller driven plane. No sling- shot type devices should be allowed. The students should not allowed to push or throw the planes. l All plane-s are to be launched from ground level, For less advanced students, it may be wise to leave out the cargo (the pennies)and limit the competition to simply the farthest distance aloft

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Chi-Wook Lee

, joining with other companies to form a consortium to send a timely industry voice toensure relevant engineering curricula, exchanging faculty and engineers between universities andindustry, and participating in continuing education programs. In all cases, the primary goalshould be to share information, and to encourage the flow of ideas between industry andacademia so that society may benefit as soon as possible.Bibliography1. Alptekin, S., et al., “Mechatronic Education,” Proceedings, 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 1995, pp. 2110-2114.2. Gregory, E.H., et al., “University/Industry Strategic Partnerships – Benefits and Impediments,” Proceedings of 1997 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, ASEE, 1997, pp. 11-12.3. Lang

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Page 4.543.5IC to o er the following design tradeo s: Interpreted execution that allows run-time error checking and prevents crashing. For example, IC does array bounds checking at run-time to protect against programming errors. Small object code. Stack machine code tends to be smaller than a nataive code representation. Multi-tasking. Because the pseudo-code is fully stack-based, a process's state is de ned solely by its stack and its program counter. It is thus easy to task-switch simply by loading a new stack pointer and program counter.IC includes a full library of math functions, servo and DC motor control, analog and digitalsensors, and is supported on PC, Macintosh, and Unix workstations.Actuators and

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or method of collection to make the data more reasonable? 4. How can an equation be obtained for the data? 5. How can the equation(s) obtained be used to predict values?CONCLUSIONS and RECOMMENDATIONS: This experiment is pushing the envelope for students in the second year of amechanical engineering technology curriculum. The students do not have a goodbackground in electronics or electrical technology. However, exposure to computer dataacquisition and data manipulation using Excel can be introduced at this juncture in thecurriculum. The understanding of phenomena observed and how to interpret the results is quite achallenge for the students. Again this is pushing the envelope somewhat. It is clear,however, that the

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Press, 1996 @ @ D@@8 < D Duxx = a * u x + h + b * u x + c * u x - hs = Normal Series uxx, h, 0, 2 @ @ 8< @D @D @DD D@D Ds1 = s - u’’ x @ @ @ DDDderlist = Prepend @ D 8 > taylr.mFirst ss @ D@D@Duxx @Duxx = First uxx . ss 2u x u - h+ x u h+ x- + + h2 h2 h2OutputForm uxx > > > taylrFigure 1. Mathematica code for construction of thefinite-difference approximation of the second derivativeMathematica graphics: from Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations,Victor Ganzha and Evgenii Vorozhtsov, CRC Press, 1996 u

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T. T. Maxwell; J. C. Jones; D. L. Vines; M. E. Parten

Laboratory," 1988 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 17-18, 1988, pp. 24-30Alexandrou, Andreas N., and Durgin, William W., "An Interdisciplinary Project Approach to Engineering Design," Innovations in Engineering Design Education, ASME 1993.Benedict, Arthur H., et al., "The Use of Interdisciplinary Teams in Successful Senior Engineering Design Projects," Innovations in Engineering Design Education, ASME 1993.Fletcher, L. S., et al., "The Role of Design Projects in Engineering Education," Innovations in Engineering Design Education, ASME 1993.Kennedy Francis E. Jr., and Collier, John P., "Interdisciplinary Design as an Introduction to Engineering," Innovations in Engineering Design Education, ASME 1993

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Oscar, Jr. Barton; Jacob Wallace

, N yy = Nxy =0 and M xx = 1000 in-lb/in, M yy =Mxy= 0. Figure 6 - Stress Variation for composite laminateThe Composite Beam Analysis menu option provides a familiar structure, a beam, toinvestigate since many are quite familiar with the mechanics of isotropic beams. A user is ableto compute the deflection of either a symmetric or anti-symmetric laminate. The ply stacking Page 4.138.8 Figure 7 - Strain Variation for composite laminatesequence for the symmetric laminate must the following arrangement [ 2/-2/2/-2/2]s and theanti-symmetric laminate must the following arrangement [ 2/2/2/2/2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2

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Chotchai Charoenngam; Abdul Samad Kazi

Session 1606 Construction Communications Simulation Through Virtual Set-Up Environments and Information Technology Abdul S. Kazi, Chotchai Charoenngam School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, ThailandThis paper describes and presents Construction Communications Simulation through Virtual Set-Up Environment and Information Technology which was embedded as a pilot learning moduleinto the course Information Technology in Construction which is taught in the Spring term at theAsian Institue of Technology, Thailand. It was felt that while the course did justice to thetheoretical

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Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

ContentTable 2 Content requirements for a B S in Manufacturing Technology________________________________________________________________________Title RatingProblem solving skills 4.55Preparation, analysis, and presentations of technical reports 4.34Study of Computer aided manufacturing 4.31 Page 4.153.6Study the methods of improving industrial productivity 4.06

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semester, circuit analysis course during the past 14years. This course was chosen because students take a College Algebra courseconcurrently, which means students who drop out due to insufficient remedialmathematics skills do not appear in the data. This course may not be the first EET coursetaken by new students, but it is the first course requiring College Algebra and appears tobe a pivotal course when students make a decision to remain in the program. 1. The total number of graduates (A.S. and B.S.) in EET since the inception of the program in the mid-1960’s is 1013. Of these, 362 (35.7%) stopped at the A.S. and 651 (64.3%) continued for the B.S. Additionally, 72 of the 362 A.S. graduates continued for a

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Thomas Walker; Jan Helge Bøhn

2314 began complaining aboutthe lack of traditional instruction early in the course and the decision was made to hold twoquestion and answer sessions each week to provide student-instructor contact. Additionally, tenhours per week of undergraduate student assistance was provided to the EF 2314 students. Thecombined courses produced computer grading of more than 10,000 homework submissions,fifteen graded computer programming assignments per student.Course Web Site DesignThe EF 1574 course homepage is shown in figure 1, (EF 2314’s page is similar). Figure 1The course Web sites were developed to be as simple as possible for two reasons: • to keep the bandwidth requirement as small as possible so that