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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

the customers; f) How much would itcost; g) What should be the competitive strategy; h) What is the schedule and i) What are therisks and critical issues. Providing answers to these questions resulted in an effort to developa synthesis of engineering best practices with ABET AC2K within the new mechanicalengineering curriculum.III. The Big Picture; Converging Views for a New Engineering Curricula.A series of documents emerged by the mid-nineties that represented a national view on thesubject of engineering education. These documents are enlightening and were helpful indeveloping the new ME curricula . A few points from them are discussed briefly herein.National Research CouncilIn 1995, a report was issued on a new study conducted by the Board

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Systems Approach, industry’s wider acceptance ofcontinuous improvement techniques and a faster search, acquisition, utilization, adaptation, anddeployment of technological breakthroughs.Engineering has become more interdisciplinary and team-oriented than ever before. Industryhas demonstrated and supporting this new practice by re-organizing members of engineeringdivisions into production teams which focus on new projects, products or processes.Professional engineering societies as well as the National Research Council and theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology are amenable in supporting attention to acall to new “Best Practices” for engineering from industry (i.e. elements of a constituency).However, in established engineering

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Dick D. Desautel

, are well organized, properly formatted, and convey a specific concept.3. Demonstrate an ability to convey technical information through the use of data plots, graphs, calculations, drawings and equations.Outcome 8: Graduates will have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context.Outcome 9: Graduates will have a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.1. Demonstrated ability to research, gather, and assess information using external sources specific to a given engineering issue.2. Demonstrated ability to learn certain things on their own.3. Demonstrated recognition of the need for professional licensing.4. Demonstrated

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Nathan Stott; Gregory B. Markus; Diann Brei; Deanna M. Winton Hoffman; William W. Schultz

students designed a modular, cheap and robust wheelchair that waseasily modified. The focus was to accommodate growing children. Page 5.502.9 Figure 4: Reconfigurable Wheelchair for Growing ChildrenBoth of these projects presented the students with good open-ended design problems. Inaddition, students working on the projects were generally more apt to be faced with challengingproblems outside standard engineering practice, such as communicating and interacting withnon-technical sponsors. Market research conducted by the reconfigurable wheelchair grouphighlights the importance of ProCEED in helping to work with the community.1

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graduates with a broader perspective. Beyonddiscipline-specific needs, our engineers need communication skills, the ability to work in teamsand to understand design and manufacturing processes, and a basic understanding of the contextin which engineering is practiced” [8].A key experimental educational method in the microEP graduate program is putting the programdirector in the roll of manager of a technology/engineering group in industry. The technologistsreporting to him are the microEP students, and the industry they are supporting is the“educational factory” that is producing technically trained graduates (themselves). Each studentmust meet the program director’s requirements for developing industrial soft skills as well astheir major

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Yaw A. Owusu; Tarsha Dargan; Kimberly M. Richardson; James Thagard

, who must integrate a changing technology with two sets ofcomplex systems, the environmental and the economic systems. In most cases, the uncertainty isdefined and managed through evaluating and quantifying risk factors for the environment.Perhaps, the product life cycles analysis is the best systems approach to solving such a complexdesign problem.To organize a course in design for environmentally conscious design and manufacturing(ECDM) implies the infusion of environmental considerations into traditional design andmanufacturing methodologies. It is necessary to modify the conventional course material andmethod of delivery by taking into consideration the environmental impact of a manufacturedproducts and processes used to make those

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Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

students, and friends can see what UIUC students are capable of. PACE alsohas the potential to turn into a valuable recruiting tool for the ECE department and employers.Employers, in particular, will be able to search projects for skills that they need. Finally, the sitewill grow over time into a valuable and practical resource that future students can tap when it istime for them to do a project. Some of the best projects will be identified each semester andplaced in the Senior Design “Hall of Fame,” while the rest will be accessible by semester and Page 5.485.3search engine (Figure 1.2). PACE allows students to easily create a basic Project

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; it was best to add additional stations, so all students would have an opportunity forhands-on manipulation.Overview of Lab Uses to DateEach format above formats work, albeit with impacts increasing with the time of commitmentavailable to the lab. The lab is cost efficient primarily because the activities are self-powered:the lab manual and student curiosity combine to provide directed, student driven inquiry.Manpower for the day-to-day operation is provided from a resident student population offormer lab students. A PhD graduate student trains the new student assistants prior to eachsemester during the academic year (11 sections/week for the integrated semester course), andundergraduate and graduate TAs have manned the summer minority STP

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Mechanical Design, and CAD/CAM/CAE/and RP. His researchinterest is focused on the above as well professional development of Professional Engineering andTechnology Managers to integrate teaching for practice. Dr. Khan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, anMS in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, an MBA in Production Strategy and a Doctoratein Management Education. Hamid is a Registered Professional Engineer. He is active in the ASEE’sEngineering Technology Division, Educational Research and Methods Division, and Computers inEducation Division. He is also active in IEEE/Frontiers in Education conferences. He has published andpresented about twenty-five papers in their annual proceedings and conferences. Hamid has served as areviewer for

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Natasha Balac; Daniel M. Gaines

. We also believe that students learn best through doing. Therefore, we felt aproject-based course in which students participated in a small research project would beappropriate. With this in mind, we have designed a graduate course in artificial intelligencethat is intended to introduce students to some advanced topics in AI and give themfirst-hand experience in many aspects of a research project. As part of the project,students design and evaluate a system, write a proposal and report and present their Page 5.697.1results to the rest of the class.We had several factors in mind when deciding on a topic for the project. We wanted aproject that

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Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

equilibrium with adeionized water (DI) trap. By analyzing the ammonia concentration in the DI trap, hecould then determine the ammonia concentration in the gas phase using Henry’s law.Students participated in a campus-wide research symposium. Five of the students in thecourse participated in a campus-wide student research project. Furthermore, one of thestudents won the award for the best graduate level research.Students developed ideas and preliminary research for their master’s projects. At leasttwo of the students are pursuing their projects as their M.S. research project, which isrequired for all M.S. students at WSUTC. The data they have collected in the class willcontribute to their projects. Since both students work full time, their efforts in

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Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

), incoherent curricula, and other factors in addition to instructional practices and course content.• Department chairs affect individual service courses by the faculty they assign to teach them, by the workload credit given for teaching these courses, and the by rewards allocated to faculty teaching them. Consider workload policies. At MSU faculty are given credit for teaching one course whether or not it’s 230 students in a service course or 5 students in a graduate seminar. The current work allocation formula works against a major investment in faculty time in reforming service courses.• Innovative instructional approaches developed for service courses as part of a funded research project must be placed in the context of the typical faculty

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Robert D. Knecht; Barbara M. Moskal; Michael J. Pavelich

“processes for producing new materials.” Pahl and Beitz11 consider the integration of technical,psychological, systematic, and organizational aspects of engineering design as “prerequisites forthe physical realization of solution ideas.” Still others have argued that design includes teamworkand management skills12, 13. Based on these different views of engineering design, Bieniawski14has argued that design is not typically learned in a classroom setting, but rather through practice.CSM has responded to this concern in the development of the design stem. The design stemconsists of four courses: freshman EPICS (Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence),sophomore EPICS, Field Session (junior year) and Senior Capstone design. An

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

newengineering graduates to succeed in this environment were more fully appreciated by the Fellows.Several conclusions are advanced from our collective experiences that form the basis of thispaper. In essence, to best prepare our future engineers for success in the workplace, they must bebetter educated and trained in terms of:•Having a broad working knowledge of engineering design beyond what is commonly taught in asingle engineering discipline;• Appreciating a system's perspective of the organization and how the engineer interacts andworks in this cross-functional environment;• Developing the ability to work in teams, interact successfully with co-workers and communicateeffectively within and outside the engineering discipline; and• Having the

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Bryan L. Gassaway; Masoud Rais-Rohani

, cost, and overallproduct quality. In addition, many of the assignments include design problems that require thestudents to propose alternatives that would result in a better performance at a lower cost.The issues related to manufacturing and cost are addressed in this course by focusing primarilyon designer-controlled elements that influence product design complexity, efficiency, andquality. Many of these issues have been a subject of research by the first author1-3 for severalyears, and have made a natural transition from research to education arena.The design activities culminate in this course with a fairly comprehensive design project with

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suggest that thiscurriculum be used by the teacher in conjunction with a disciplinary text, or a reader ofenvironmental writings depending on the teacher’s course objectives. What our text does is toprovide teachers with materials that can be used in class to achieve a participatory, project-basedfocus that we feel enhance the instruction of environmental literacy.Target Audience: The potential audience for this text is large and varied. As stated in theintroduction, the curriculum in this text is designed to help the citizen gain a workingunderstanding of environmentally responsible decision making on several levels. The citizenmay be a student of engineering who needs to understand the impact that engineering decisionscan have on the

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Tim O'Neill; Gregory M. Maxwell

graduate students from a variety of engineering disciplines that are lead byengineering faculty. Teams visit 25 manufacturing facilities per year to study the plantoperations, collect data and write reports which detail the findings. Since the center’s beginningin 1991, nearly 100 students have participated and 239 manufacturing facilities have beenstudied.I. IntroductionEngineering education is always enhanced when students have an opportunity to be involvedwith engineering practice, and with the present demand for engineering graduates, there aremany ways students can gain engineering experience prior to graduation. In today’s economyfuture employers routinely seek out students for co-op programs, internships and summeremployment. In addition

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

the context of research, the American system of graduate education has set the world standard for preparing scientists and engineers for research careers in academe, government, and industry.” 21.4 Changing the Context of U.S. Graduate Education for EngineersAlthough the U.S. system of graduate education for research has proven to be a world leader, “and is one of thenation's strengths in carrying out graduate education where a large portion of the nation’s best research is done”, it isnow evident that a change is required.2 The change that is required is not a change in the graduate education of thenation’s scientists and engineers for academic research. Rather it is a change in the advanced professional educationof the nation’s

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thecourse of a semester.MethodParticipantsSeniors from the disciplines of geology and geological engineering (GE), geophysicalengineering (GP), and petroleum engineering (PE) at the Colorado School of Mines wereselected for the study. The participants are students in a senior capstone design class that isrequired for all undergraduate students in the Petroleum Engineering Department. The course isan elective for undergraduate students from the Geology and Geological Engineering andGeophysics Departments. A course objective is development of team skills and critical problem-solving skills in multidisciplinary teams. There were 41 students in the class (33 males and 8females). Participation in the research was voluntary and students were given the

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Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

computer-aided graphics, engineering design, soil and water conservation engineering, and land surveying.His research areas include soil quality evaluation using x-ray tomography, evaluation of best management practicesfor reducing surface and groundwater contamination, and manure management evaluation for environmentalprotection of water resources. Dr. Mickelson has been very active in the American Society for EngineeringEducation for the past 13 years. He received his Agricultural Engineering Degrees from Iowa State University in1982, 1984, and 1991.CARL BERNCarl Bern is a Full Professor of Agricultural and Bioystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa State University. Heobtained his BS and MS degrees from the University of Nebraska and his Ph.D. from

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Belle R. Upadhyaya

Session 2559 Development of a Senior-Level Course on Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Belle R. Upadhyaya Nuclear Engineering Department, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleAbstractThe development and delivery of a new course on Maintenance and ReliabilityEngineering (MRE), for seniors and first-year graduate students in engineering, is thefocus of this paper. The objective of this course is to present the fundamentals of MREand maintenance management. Students learn the principles of various maintenancetechnologies as they are currently practiced by U.S. industry. The course

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Molly M. Gribb; Elisabeth M. Alford

the connections betweenscience and engineering. Using Internet search tools, students located and listened to a storyfeatured on NPR’s Morning Edition, entitled "Flies Hearing." This segment is an engaging andunusual story about an entymologist and a mechanical engineer whose collaborative research onthe parasitic Ormia Ochracea fly led to improvements in hearing aid design. Students took notesas they listened to this rather vivid account of Ormia’s directional hearing system that allows it tolocate crickets to use as hosts for its offspring maggots. After hearing the sound of a maggoteating a cricket from inside out, students then heard the stories of the scientist and engineer whoworked together to understand the fly’s hearing apparatus and

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Hajrudin Pasic; Gregory G. Kremer; Bhavin V. Mehta

problem-solving methods. This paper describes an ongoing process of course andcurricular review that has resulted in the development of a web-based learning environment (theInteractive Problem Solver) to supplement traditional instructional methods in an undergraduateDynamics course. The Interactive Problem Solver, which is still under development, is beingdesigned 1) to help students learn (and practice) rigorous problem solving skills, 2) to helpstudents develop an ability to understand and evaluate mathematical models and results in thecontext of physical reality, and 3) to provide a forum for instructors to evaluate the impact ofvarious features of a learning environment on student learning of tasks (problem solving skills)and concepts.I

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John S. Klegka; Robert Rabb

ProgramObjectives:3) Cadets and graduates understand the philosophical basis for the practice of engineering as asocial enterprise that uses design to solve problems.4) Cadets and graduates develop an understanding of and an appreciation for the naturalphysical laws, particularly as they apply to mechanical engineering.5) Cadets and graduates internalize the design process and demonstrate creativity in solvingproblems.6) Cadets and graduates are provided the elements of engineering practice necessary for successas entry-level mechanical engineers or for admission into and success at top mechanicalengineering graduate programs.7) Cadets and graduates demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning.Please provide any further narrative input on these questions

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W. Bradford Cross; Susan M. Morgan; Mark P Rossow

responsibility • the broad education necessary to understand the impact of an engineering solution in a global and societal context • proficiency in a minimum of four recognized major civil engineering areas • an ability to perform civil engineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum Engineering tools • an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice Laboratory experience

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Mohammad A. Zahraee; Lash Mapa; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

plays a large role in defining the culture under which the academic side ofhigher education functions. Furthermore, once a culture is established it is very difficult tochange within an organization.Therefore, rather than changing this academic culture outright, TQM concepts (such ascontinuous improvement and assessment) should be implemented within the context of theexisting culture as shaped by requirements of tenure and promotion. By tying these TQMconcepts to the existing tenure and promotion requirements of teaching, research and service,faculty will be able to focus on them as a routine function and expectation for tenure andpromotion

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

they have on student learning. In particular,assessment methods, perhaps both qualitative and quantitative, that can elicit studentperceptions of the classroom environment are needed. As previous studies havesuggested, authority and disciplinary practices are among the issues at stake when facultyfrom different disciplines collaborate on writing instruction. Team-teaching in all itsforms should continue to provide rich ground for exploring the relationship of writing tospecific disciplines such as engineering.References1. J. Newell, A. J. Marchese, R. P. Ramachandran, B. Sukumaran, and R. Harvey, “Multidisciplinary design and communication: A pedagogical vision,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 15, 1999.2. R. Harvey, F

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Where Others Fail, New York: Villard Books, 1995.13. Cross, K. Patricia, “Teaching for Learning,” AAHE Bulletin 39: 3-7, April, 1987, ED 283 446, 6pp MF-01, PC-0114. Eccles, J. 1989. "Bringing Young Women into Math and Science," In M. Crawford and M. Gentry, eds, Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives, New York, NY: Springer-Verlag. Page 5.662.1115. Evans, D. L., G. C. Beakley, P. E. Crouch, and G. T. Yamaguchi, "Attributes of Engineering Graduates and Their Impact on Curriculum Design," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 4, October 199316. Frair, Karen and David Cordes, "Sharing Innovation: The NSF Foundation

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Narayanan Komerath

the Attitudes of Freshmen Engineering Students”. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.87, No.1, January 1998, p. 23-28.11. Hoit, M., Ohland, M., “The Impact of a Discipline-Based Introduction to Engineering Course on Improving Retention”. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.87, No.1, January 1998, p. 79-8612. Collicott, S.H., “Increasing Freshman Experience in, and Awareness of, Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University”. AIAA Paper 98-0821, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 1998.13. Komerath, N.M., "Design-Centered Freshman Introduction to Aerospace Engineering". Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Meeting, Session 1202, Seattle, WA, June 1998.14. Burton, J.D., White, D.M., “Selecting a Model for Freshman

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Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

development of faculty, particularly thosefrom under-represented populations such as women and ethnic minorities. The primaryobjectives of the faculty development program are to engage veteran and young faculty inECSEL’s theme of learning by design; to deal with diversity issues; to improve the prospects ofyoung faculty for success; and to change the tenure and promotion process.• In 1996 a four-day workshop was held at Penn State for young faculty and graduate students from ECSEL schools and nine other universities from outside the coalition. The workshop topics included basics of course design, research funding and proposal writing, and time management. A Junior Faculty Development Workshop was held at the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference