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Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

individual basis. An executive committee consisting of the dean of ISET, chairpersons ofeach departments and one faculty member from each of the three departments of electrical,mechanical and industrial engineering technologies run the program. The Dean is an ex-officiomember; the coordinator of the program chairs the committee.Although these three departments offer different areas of concentration at the undergraduatelevel, we selected only the areas which had some commonality and contained an element, whichmakes the program practice-oriented and integrated. The college supports a practice-orientedlearning environment with state-of-the -art laboratories in all primary areas of academicofferings.The program is currently offered only to part-time

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Alice Swanger

as theoretical knowledge, it was determined that we would benefit from abenchmarking study of existing ways to grant credit for experienced based learning outside ofthe traditional laboratory or classroom. Five types of models were explored.Benchmark #1 Medical School -- ApprenticeshipThis model employs the learning methodology of coaching-mentoring by an expert. It is aknown and time honored model. It is also extremely time and labor intensive as well ashighly subjective. It generally is time based rather than competency based which leaves roomfor crucial gaps in knowledge. Nonetheless, we used the rotational aspects of this model inour own structure.Benchmark #2 Directed StudyIn this model, the Academic Dean of the CAT works with the

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Robert M. Koretsky

the sequence of courses presented to freshman, EGR112 normally comes in the Springsemester, following Fall semester classes EGR110, Introduction to Engineering, and EGR111,Introduction to Engineering Laboratory. The engineering graphics content of the Fall semesterclasses is supportive of the design content contained in them, but it was decided to put a majorityof graphic communication and visualization skills training into a specialized computer graphicsclass given in the Spring. The major curricular objectives of EGR112 are to:• make the beginning of learning engineering a positive, exciting, and pleasant experience. Page 3.90.2• amplify

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Henry W. Kraebber

to develop the infrastructure andfacilities supporting the new Purdue degree program in Computer Integrated ManufacturingTechnology (CIMT). CIMT is an ABET accredited degree program following the criteria ofSociety of Manufacturing Engineers. The focus on the development of the CIMT laboratory Page 3.374.1facilities led to corporate donations of nearly $4 million supporting a unique teaching laboratoryfor manufacturing. During 1994 a team of undergraduate students helped make the equipmentcome to life to produce the first products from the CIMT model factory.During 1994 the number of students entering the last two years of the CIMT program

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Reginald G. Mitchiner; John T. Tester

. Page 3.376.1† In the context of this article, we consider only thermoplastic products. Thermoset products are not within the scope ofthis discussion.Some thirty to forty years ago, most mechanical engineering programs (indeed the many of thepremier programs of the Midwest—Illinois, Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan State, among others)included significant metal castings and processing experiences in required coursework. Theseuniversities maintained extensive laboratories which provided practical as well as theoreticalexperiences for the student.Over the intervening years, however, we have lost the provision to the mechanical design studentof an integrated approach to mechanical structure design with the requisite considerations offormation. Many

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" serving several courses with information about the companies that support the CIMT program and laboratories.• Linking to files containing weekly editions of course handouts, assignments and lecture notes.• Posting of the current grade spreadsheet.• Posting of additional information, papers and pictures that supplement the content of the lectures and labs.The procedures used to create "no frills" web pages and links to other files are not difficult tocopy. My first pages were in fact copies of another instructor's source code in hypertext markuplanguage (.html) for a page with titles, pictures, text and links to other sites. A sample of the.html code and the simple page it produces can be found in figures 1 and 2 at the end of thispaper. New

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Thomas R. Williams; Judith Ramey

of Technical Communication, College of Engineering, Universityof Washington, Seattle, WA. A cognitive psychologist, his primary interests lie in comparative media and in theeffects of medium (or media) on comprehension, retention, and performance.JUDIH RAMEY is Professor and Chair, Department of Technical Communication, College of Engineering,University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Her research interests are in user-centered design and usability researchtechniques; she is also Director of the UWTC Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation. Page 3.62.6

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Terri Estkowski; Mary Ann Bowman; Liwana Bringelson

Session 3592 The Model Mentor: A Telephone Survey of Mentoring Experiences Among Women Engineering Faculty Terri Estkowski, Liwana Bringelson, Mary Ann Bowman Engineering Management Research Laboratory Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Western Michigan University Introduction In their study of mentoring from the mentor’s perspective, Blackburn, Chapman andCameron [1] conclude that there are questions left unanswered about mentoring, such as, “Whatare the attributes of successful mentors” (p. 326). Hunt and Michael [2

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Linda V. Itzoe; Charles A. Gaston; Janice Margle

Session 1547 A Multipurpose Windmill Design Project Charles A. Gaston, Linda V. Itzoe, Janice M. Margle Penn State - York / Penn State - Abington College ABSTRACTThere is growing recognition of the value of having engineering design projects in the freshmancurriculum1. The Windmill Project described here not only provides a design challenge, butincorporates elements of team-building, laboratory data collection, engineering designcalculations and optimized testing procedures. If desired, the project can be expanded to includesignificant research and writing on the

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Peter C.M. Burton; Fred Payne; Dinesh Kant

environment.Practical work is designed to reinforce the material that is covered in the lectures and eachcourse has an associated laboratory1. The Department also has a strong enterprise engineeringfocus which integrates business and personal skills development with the technical aspects of the Page 3.427.1program2.In 1997 the Department introduced a graduate course work program in electronics that wouldcomplement the undergraduate program and lead to the Master’s degree. The same practicallyfocused philosophy is still maintained, with each course having a corresponding laboratory. Theaim is to provide professional development opportunities for practising

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Alexander D. Poularikas

low-glass optical fiber and the recent semiconductorlaser/detector systems initiated the photonics area. Within the past few years, long-haultelecommunications have become dominated by light wave systems. Research laboratories areengineering systems based on III-V materials to manipulate photons in some of the samesophisticated ways that silicon systems manipulate electrons. Such systems and devices arereferred to as photonics systems and devices. Parallel development of other materials, such asnonlinear optical organic materials, show great promise for providing a basis for sophisticatedand inexpensive devices. Compact, robust passive optical systems have been demonstrated thatwould have been regarded as impossible only a few years ago

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Stephanie Goldberg

group officehour). Especially in the beginning, the recitations will be formal mandatory scheduled sessionswhere group support will be nurtured. An equipped laboratory will be available for the womento work on hands-on projects.In the following section, some background information is collected from existing surveys andinterviews of students. A description of overall program structure follows. Section 4 highlightsspecial curriculum issues and Section 5 involves the recruitment of women students.Monitoring and evaluating the program is discussed in Section 6.2. BackgroundThe technical education of women and minority students is continuously highlighted as animportant piece of our overall technical growth as a nation for reasons ranging from

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Leonard Sokoloff

circuits aregenerally very costly to design and build. If a circuit has to be modified, it must be tornapart and rewired, thus making modifications very costly.This application is part of an effort at DeVry to include into the curriculum importanttechnologies such as the virtual instrumentation and the programmable logic controllers.The PLC Stepper Motor Controller is one of several projects that are being added to theupper trimester laboratory. Page 3.447.1 1 Stepper Motor OperationThe shaft of a stepper motor rotates one step at a time. This type of motion is called adiscrete motion. The step angle is determined

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Christopher R. Carroll

incorporate it intovarious digital system designs. Examples of laboratory exercises that use this instrument as inputand output are included. SETTINGThe instrument described in this paper is used to test and exercise digital systems designed bystudents in a second-quarter digital system design class. Students in this class have already Page 3.448.1completed an introductory course that concentrates on basic logic and synchronous state machinedesign. In this second class, students learn to assemble the fundamental building blocks of gatesand flip-flops along with medium-scale devices such as counters, shift

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G. F. Paskusz

bridge program to ease the transition from high schoolto college. In an urban environment where high school graduates can find summer employmentrelatively easily, and with financial aid starting only in the fall, bridge programs at the Universityof Houston cannot reach those students most in need of them. Our program for disadvantagedstudents (PROMES- PROgram for Mastery in Engineering Studies) therefore built the bridgeprogram concept into the freshman year. In the fall semester we teach this problem solvingcourse and a student development course based on Ray Landis’s book “Studying Engineering : ARoad Map to a Rewarding Career” [10] In the spring, these courses are followed by a one credithour laboratory where the student has a choice of a

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William M. Clark; Anthony G. Dixon; David DiBiasio

and energy balances with thermodynamic information toanalyze or design processes. Cooperative Group ProjectsThe next step in developing the project-based, spiral curriculum was to develop a seriesof industrially relevant projects to use as a framework for achieving the learningobjectives at each level. Examples of project titles and the topics they cover arepresented in Table I. Two or three projects were developed for each level, some that Page 3.39.3require laboratory experimentation and others that contain engineering designcomponents. ProjectFigure 2. Schematic diagram of the spiral curriculum for sophomore

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Henry G. Ansell

an electrical engineer by AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since fall 1987 he has been teaching atPenn State Berks Campus (now part of Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College). He can be reached athga1@psu.edu for questions or comments. Page 3.488.5

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Lib Crockett

questions that promote self-awareness. Previously all students had to do was sit andlisten to a lecture. We added several reading and written assignments from this text to activelyengage them.To meet Objective Two, tours of the various engineering departments were implemented.Because Clemson has no organized engineering tour, this was the first opportunity that many ofour students had to view the various laboratories and facilities. The tours are organized bydepartmental faculty and students. Students are led through the department in small groups of 20where they observe demonstrations and participate in discussions about the latest research.These tours occur late in the semester after all departments have made the presentations. Sincestudents are

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

other technical subject with minor modifications.INTRODUCTIONEducation in Engineering Technology is aimed at training future professionals in the arts ofmaintenance, repair, acquisition and management of technical equipment. However, it is widelyrecognized that Technology is today undergoing major changes. The training of these futureprofessionals needs to be reviewed and updated. The traditional educational approach consistedof theoretical lectures complemented by hands-on experiences in the laboratory. However, at thepresent time, students will have to compete in a career that demands not only that they be well-trained professionals, but also that they possess a broad vision of the profession (Buchal, 1997).To provide the breadth of

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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

, lecture notes, tests andcommonplace visual aids are expected of every teacher. Instructional development must includethings that are distinctive and relevant. The key to instructional development is to determine whatwill give a new or better twist to the topic to improve student learning. If students learn more orquicker, this will be reflected in better student evaluations in addition to being an achievementthat can be included in the tenure document. If new technology, processes or procedures areadded to a course, they also would count as instructional development. Other instructionaldevelopment activities include the development of computer based tutorials, handbooks forlaboratory exercises, textbooks, innovative laboratory experiments, and

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Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

, identified as the Blue Team (electrical team), Red Team (interfaces andsensors), Black Team (software), and Green Team (system maintenance). Each team’s progresswas recorded on a large dry-erase board located in an electrical engineering laboratory. TheGreen Team was helped by a retired mechanical engineer once responsible for manufacturingoperations at an aerospace company and now eager to help with machining tasks. Thus studentshad the chance to work with a knowledgeable practitioner more than fifty years their elder.Robot DesignsTrinity’s first working robot (Phoenix) competed in the 1996 and 1997 contests. It won the $500second-place senior division prize in 1997. A second robot, Ot-Bot, is nearly complete and willcompete along with Phoenix in

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Thomas K. Jewell

Page 3.595.2 Assessment of Transfer Courses Application of Assessment Results to Improve Program CRITERION 4. PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT Curriculum Course Content Course Requirements of Basic-Level Curriculum Table Course and Section Size Summary Table One year of Mathematics and Science One and One-half Years of Engineering Topics General Education Component How the Curriculum Meets the Program Objectives of Criterion 2 CRITERION 5. FACULTY Faculty Workload Summary Table CRITERION 6. FACILITIES Laboratory Descriptions and Future Development Plans CRITERION 7. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND

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Stephen A. Fulling; David L. Barrow

University and four years' engineering experience in jet propulsionwith the US Air Force. He has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He has co-authored twoMaple laboratory manuals, and has research interests in differential equations and numerical analysis.Stephen Fulling is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Texas A&M. He has an A.B. from Harvard anda Ph.D. from Princeton, both in physics. He is the author of a book on quantum field theory in curved space-timeand research papers in mathematical physics and asymptotics for differential equations. He is completing anapplied-analysis-oriented textbook on linear algebra

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Max Rabiee

Converters (DACs) are used to perform this operation. In thispaper we will examine important characteristics associated with ADC/ DAC converters. In addition,we will explain how to specify a converter to meet the requirements of a specific system. We will also state and describe different types of ADC / DAC converters. Binary-weighted,and R- 2R Ladder type DAC circuits will be displayed and analyzed. Parallel Comparator or Flash,Dual Slope, and Successive Approximation type ADC circuits will be displayed and analyzed. Wewill explain extensively the advantage / disadvantage criteria associated with each type of ADC orDAC converters. Finally, two computer interfacing laboratory assignments will demonstrate theconstructions of the R-2R Ladder

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Julia L. Morse

transfer the excitement of creative engineeringapplications, this approach was successful. Students were excited to learn how the math andscience concepts they already knew could be applied to real life. REFERENCES 1 Byrd, Joseph S. And Jerry L. Hudgins, “Teaming in the Design Laboratory,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 335-341. 2 Morse, Julia L., “Design of a Gage R&R Experiment for a Basic Manufacturing Processes Course,”Thesis, Auburn University, 1996, p. 99. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJULIA MORSE is an Assistant Professor within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering andTechnology

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Arnold F. Johnson

ABET-acceptable capstone design experience that is implemented at the student’s work site.A Higher Education/Industry PartnershipIn response to a need from industry, UND started working with 3M of St. Paul, Minnesota, on a distanceeducation program1 in engineering in 1988. As a result of this effort, the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram (CEDP) evolved offering undergraduate distance education degrees in chemical, electrical, andmechanical engineering. The delivery method consists of taping lectures, duplicating the video tapes,and distributing them to the students. Students watch the same lectures, complete the same homework,and take the same exams as the on-campus students. Laboratories are offered in a compressed format(time but not

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Robert L. Avanzato

-Hall, 1995[2] Avanzato, R.L., “Fire-Fighting Robots To The Rescue,” Proceedings of the 1997 Annual ASEE Conference, Milwaukee,WI, June 15-18, 1997.[3] Handy Board Web Site: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/[4] Avanzato, R.L., “Mobile Robot Design, Integration, and Outreach,” Proceedings of ASEE Middle Atlantic DivisionConference, West Point, N.Y., April 1997. BOB AVANZATO is an associate professor of engineering at the Penn State Abington College. His interests include fuzzylogic, expert systems, mobile robotics, and curricular enhancement. Prior to his position at Penn State, Bob was a senior engineer atthe Advanced Technology Laboratories at Martin Marietta where he was involved in digital signal

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Douglas G. Schmucker

. Page 3.343.32.2 Physical DemonstrationsThe nature of most engineering disciplines lends itself to using physical models to demonstratelesson topics. This author firmly believes that physical models are an essential part of a balancedengineering curriculum. The expense both in terms of finances and time in devloping the modelscan be daunting, however. Indeed, the “cost”of the traditional laboratory is one reason the authorhas heard for justifying the development of computer simulation/animation programs. Apersonal concern for the author develops, though, as to whether students retain or even developan understanding of the real physical behavior of such “computerized” models. This authorasserts that computer models are best used as a supplement

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Krzysztof Malinowski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

student has to take 10 or more courses per semester, with over 30hours of regularly scheduled lectures, recitations, and laboratory sessions per week. Eachgraduating MS student has to submit and defend a thesis.A recipient of a Master's degree can follow one of two basic paths leading to a PhD degree. Oneway, typical for the 70's and 80's, but still frequently adopted, is to take a position of a teachingassistant or research assistant at a higher education institution or research institute and pursue - inparallel with routine teaching, research and administrative duties - research work in the selectedarea, under supervision of a senior member of academic or research staff. An alternative is topursue a program of study leading to a PhD degree

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Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho

that presents eight steps in developing an assessment plan4. But regardless ofhow the assessment plan is developed, an effective plan must start with the identification ofspecific goals and objectives, definition of performance criteria, followed by the data collection1 Penn State University, University of Washington, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in collaboration with SandiaNational Laboratories. Project sponsored by the Technology Reinvestment Project. (TRP Project #3018, NSF Award #DMI- Page 3.500.19413880)2 John S. Lamancusa, Jens E. Jorgensen, and José L. Zayas, The Learning Factory – A New