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Lance Schachterle

{tigi~ 1996 ASEE Annual conference Proceedings ‘..+,yyy’: The new Criteria state that “engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering; (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs; (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify, folmulate, and solve engineering problems; (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (g) an ability to communicate effectively; (h) the broad education necessary to understand the

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Robert M. Edwards; Kwang Y. Lee

1994 as afirst year graduate course. The principal objective of the course was to develop the basic modeling anddynamical simulation of a complete fossil power plant including the fossil-fueled steam supply, turbine-generator, and feedwater systems. Table I summarizes subjects covered and actual time spent on each topic. Table I: Subiects Studied in Power Plant Dvnamics and Control. 3 weeks Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, thermal-hydraulics and heat transfer. 1 week Review of Simulation Methods 2 weeks Introduction to the ACSL Macro language and B&W Modular Modeling System 2 weeks Drum boiler modeling, simulation, dynamics and control 2 weeks Addition of economizer, superheaters and reheater

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Frank Wicks

. USING AIR CONDITIONING TO DEMONSTRATE 1ST AND 2ND LAW ANALYSIS Frank Wicks Union College Schenectady, New York ABSTRACT In contr~ 2nd Law efficiency is best described as the ratio of actual to ideaI performance. The 2nd Law analysk techniques have the advantage isentropic efficiency of a turbine, pump, or of demonstrating the lost work associated with each compressor is the 2nd Law efficiency of a process

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George Meyer; James K. Randall; Charles T. Morrow

. 121(4): 220-2244. Vest, D., M. Palmquist, and D. Zimmerman, 1995. Enhancing engineering students communication skills through multimedia instruction . Journal of Engineering Education. 383-387.5. Cyars, T. E. And F.A. Smith, 1988. Teleclass Teaching. A Resource Guide. Las Cruces, New Mexico. New Mexico State University. 368 pp.6. Meyer, G.E., J. A. DeShazer, and C.K. Spillman, 1991. Engineering instruction using video between Nebraska and Kansas. ASAE paper 915514, Chicago Il.7. Salvador R. J., A. G. Schmidt, and B. E. Miller, 1993. Sustainable agriculture course delivered nationally via satellite. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Science Education 22(10):11-21.8. Cyars, T. E. And F.A. Smith, 1991

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John T. Berry; Gregory L. Ferguson

, ASME Magazine, Vol. 116, No. 1, Jan. 1994.9. J. Wander, G. L. Ferguson, J. Moore, and S. Fair (1994). A New Approach to Teaching Design and Manufacturing, Proceedings Advances in Capstone Education Conference, ASEE, ASME, SME, NSF joint sponsored conference.10. G. L. Ferguson and J. Wander (1994). Development of a Concurrent Engineering Experience, Proceedings ASEE 1994 Southeastern Section Conference.11. G. L. Ferguson and J. Berry (1995). Implementing Modern Product Realization, accepted for International Journal of Engineering Education.GREGORY L. FERGUSON is a licensed P.E. with B. S., M. S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineeringfrom New Mexico State University. Prior to becoming an educator

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Lucian P. Fabiano

. T h e design Specification r e p r e s e n t s t h e d r a f tdesign o f t h e p r o j e c t a n d includes the s e c o n d l e v e l b l o c k —— diagram, -_-— - — . t h e circuit d i a g r a m s , u n t e s t e d s o f t w a r e c o d i n g , a n d t h e definition o f h o w t h e project will be tested (i..e. t h e t e s t strategy, tests, a n d e x p e c t e d test r e s u l t s ) . The draft design specification is graded by the instructor and returned to the student at the beginning of the second semester of the senior project course. It is the basis on which the second semester activities are defined. Detailed instructor

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R. Rinker; J. Peterson; H. Hess; Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

-Packard Company and MicronTechnologies.References[1] ASEE Prism, September 1995.[2] M.S. Wrighton, "Unique Engineering Program sets Pace for Innovative University Cooperation,"Washington University (St Louis) News Letter, Summer 1995.[3] E. Zinser and R. Jacobsen, "A New Paradigm for Engineering Education in Idaho," Report to theIdaho State Board of Education, January 27, 1995.[4] University of Idaho General Catalog, 1995-1996 edition.[5] S. Beyerlein, D. Blackketter, T. Gottschalk, and B Willis," An Interactive Model for StatewideEngineering Education," ASEE Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, April 1995.[6] B. Willis , Distance Education: A Practical Guide (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1993).[7] S. Beyerlein, H. Hess, and D. Blackketter, "Role

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Merl Baker

’-’ ‘?JHly?#$ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings . In applying the reengineering concept to graduate education in this paper, Leschly’s concepts are deemed tooffer the most appropriate focus. Paraphrasing for our focus, “real improvement comes from working with smallprocesses --- that’s where the corrections need to be made”. The traditional Ph.D. process in U. S. universities is an integration of (a) a block of academic courses, (b)literature reports, (c) academic work experiences, and (d) an original basic-research dissertation. At the offset of thispaper challenges by respected leaders of the traditional process have been recognized. However

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Partha P. Sarkar; Kishor C. Mehta; James R. McDonald; Ernst W. Kiesling

willalso be useful in short courses for professional continuing education. The four modules, which are inkvelopment, are (a) Thunderstorms, Tornadoes and Hurricanes — A General Overview, (b) Damage Causedby Hurricanes and Tornadoes, (c) Impact of Windbome Debris, and (d) Wind Loading on Low-RiseBuildings. Page 1.267.1 ##..% } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘,Dlla: 11. BACKGROUND The following statistics attempt to emphasize the importance of wind engineering in the

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William E. Barnes; Michael Khader

classes) and thus lack the real time interactions and theresulting collaborative support among students. At NJIT we added a collaborative and interactive distanceeducation delivery system into the distance education program which has been in existence for fifteenyears. This paper describes the implementation of that system and the results as perceived by faculty andstudents.INTRODUCTION Current implementations of distance learning come with limitations including: the lack ofinstructor’s presence; the absence of real time collaborative work among students as it relates to classmaterials; the lack of interaction among students, and between the instructor and students; and difficultiesassociated with performance feedback. To overcome these

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Christopher Stook; Asad Azemi

Previous works in using MATLAB [16] in graduate level control systems, such as [3-4], have beenfocusing on the numerical solutions and simulation capabilities of MATLAB. In this section we will introduce,by way of several examples, some functions in the Symbolic Math toolbox that are useful in obtaininganalytical solutions to common control system problems. A typical problem in linear control is to obtain the transfer function matrix of a system given in statespace representation. If the system is given by i(t) = Ax(t)+ Bu(t) y(t) = Cx(t) +Du(t)where A, B, C, and D are constant matrices of appropriate dimensions, the transfer function matrix, H(s

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Ph.D., J.G. Shiber; H.R. Bogale

compared with those of 975 students in anearlier (1993) survey. One striking difference between the two groups was their perception of student confidence in their academicability. Forty percent of the teachers believed that most of their students were incapable of getting anything above a C in theircourses and that most students agree with this. Ninety-four percent of the students believed they were capable of getting a highergrade (i.e., 49% an A, 45% a B). Further, a much higher percentage of teachers (66%) than students (22%) believed students areunder pressure to get A's at the expense of learning the material. Another difference was seen in the attitude towards tests. Seventy-seven percent of teachers said test scores should not

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Steven Widmer

goal and be willing to modify it, after all the B-52 started with a twelve page proposal and is still flying today. Project work should be limited to workableassignments that are attainable within the given time frame. Class projects can give the learner confidence andthe final icing on the cake to an excellent learning process.SUMMARY My personal experience teaching technical courses has definitely changed me over the years. When Iwas a student in college there was a war going on and administrators and professors shared an attitude ofindifference. If you get the material fine and if you do not, well that’s fine too! There was always a line at theadmissions office and very little thought was given as to the needs of the customer. My

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Manon Bourgeois; Gilbert Drouin

there is a risk deteriorating performance. B y way of example, a publication in Prism in September 1995,entitled SOFTENING ENROLLMENTS, clearly note the decline of clientele in the engineering programs in theUnited-States: “Survey results revealed that fill-time undergraduate enrollment in engineering dropped almost 3percent from 337,817 students in fall 1993 to 328,463 students in fall 1994. This decline (1 percent steeper than thatof previous year) occurred more or less evenly across all undergraduate levels of enrollment, with the number offirst-year students dropping the most - approximately 4 percent to 85,047 students. (...) Full-time graduateenrollment in engineering declined for the first time in more than 10 years. It dropped over 5

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Richard Magin; Margery Osborne; Bruce Bertram; Bruce Wheeler

documents.Introduction Two engineering courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) were taughtutilizing Asynchronous Learning technology in order to facilitate interaction among students andinstructors. One is a senior electrical engineering and bioengineering elective entitled Modeling ofBiological Systems, with an enrollment of 25, in which the conferencing package First Class was used. Theother is a freshman elective Introduction to Bioengineering: Focus on Medical Imaging, with an enrollmentof 10 for which PacerForum provided conferencing capability. In both courses students were encouraged to use conferencing software for the discussion of all mattersrelating to the course. The courses shared a common approach to homework in

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Donald N. Merino

Edition, McGrow-Hill, 1988 3. Merino D.N., Proceedings : Metrics in R, D & E Stevens Alliance for Technology Management (SATM), March 4, 1993 4. Reitman, Valerie and Simison, Robert L. Japanese Car Makers Speed Up Car Making, Wall Street Journal, December 29, 1995 pg. B 1Author’s Profile : Dr. Donald N. Merino is a tenured full Professor of Engineering Management and Management atStevens Institute of Technology. He has developed undergraduate and graduate courses and teachesEngineering Economics, Total Quality Management, Decision Analysis and Concurrent Engineering. He is the Program Director for the Masters in Technolgy Management (MTM) program. He wasfounder of the

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Steve Ligh; David Fung

file MISC.MTH. The file contains the function FLOOR(a, b) which is defined as the greatest integer less than or equal to a/b. Therefore, the greatest integer function of t is given as FLOOR(t, 1). When we used the Derive command “Simplify” on this function, we obtained the following representation for [t]: [t] = ~arctan(cot(7rt)) + t - ~. (1) By means of elementary properties of trigonometric functions, we proved (1) for non-integral t. Representation (1) and its generalization have been studied by Fung and Ligh[l ]. Let F(z) = JO’ [t]dt. In this paper, we will consider F(z) and show how we can approximate it by two quadratic functions. In

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Lawrence Genalo

;.$ b 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings .-As we attempt to provide more meaningful hands-on engineering experiences taught in a collaborative, teamed environment , the need for students to have access to courseware from their dorms on a 24 hour basis provided impetus for creating web-based courseware. Web-based Courseware Development For several years the Engineering Fundamentals Division has maintained a database of Authorware lessons [2,3]. Figures 1, 2, and 3 are images from this database showing opening menus and a sample slide from one of the lessons. One of the problems with these lessons has been the access to our network to view them. Because of its heavy use, the network is closed to

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M. Dayne Aldridge

., "Educating Tomorrow's Engineers," IEEE Education Society Newsletter, Fall 1994, pp. 1-5.7. Aldridge, et. al., published paper on first cross-disciplinary senior design project coordinated by center.8. Introduction to Team-Based Design, NSF Grant # DUE-9354523, February 1, 1994-September 30,1996.9. Dally, J. W. and Zhang, G. M., "A Freshman Engineering Design Course," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 82, No. 2, pp. 83-91.10. Grubbs, Lbert B. Jr. and Zoghi, Ehbood, "Overview of a Capstone Project Prerequisite Course," The International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 386-390.11. Brickell, Col James L., Proter, Col David B., Reynolds, Col Michael F. and Cosgrove, Capt Richard D., "Assigning

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Mark Gordon; Joel Greenstein; Jack Hebrank; Douglas E. Hirt; Daniel P. Schrage; Bill Mason; Tom Miller; Jim Nau

Page 1.169.7 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingschance to teach and use the skills learned during their academic career, (10) put design into the curriculum at avery early stage, and (11) prove that bright, energetic sophomores can do good, basic engineering and designprojects with only basic math and science course backgrounds. The course met twice a week (1 one hourlecture, 1 one hour and 40 minute practicum) for thirteen weeks. Each week will be described in detail below. An Early Engineering Skills and Design Course, Dr. John C. Sutton III, Ms. Ashley B. Donahue, Ms. Monica J. Shakib, Ms. Angela G. Powell, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State

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Josann Duane; Amgad Saleh

b- Vertical Interpolation c- Diagonal Interpolation p measured point q interpolated point Figure 2. Interpolation of area features. Generation of Triangle Lists A list of four triangles per quadrant is generated through the entire quadtree. First, an intermediate pointin each quadrant is found. If the quadrant is empty, its center point is chosen to be the intermediate point.Then, the four triangles are formed by connecting that center point to the quadrant four corner points. Thebackground color is given to those triangles. When a quadrant has a point or more inside, the point that isclosest to the center of the

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Ir. Frank J.F.M. Witteveen

between engineeringuniversity and (foreign) business world.This program also contains a number of other possibilities.Strand A, financing a co-ordinating center.Strand B, not only the exchange of students, but also of professors.Strand C, the spread of knowledge to companies by means of short courses.Strand D, special projects, especially fact-finding missions to Eastern Europe and economicallyweaker countries in Southern Europe.As a third program the building up of a network of one’s own should be mentioned. For contactsoutside The Netherlands and outside Europe there was the Stir scheme, a grant offered by theMinistry of Education, Culture and Science to support and stimulate studying outside the EuropeanUnion.Act oneCombining these elements

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Steven Beyerlein; John Law; Donald M. Blacketter; Herbert Hess

1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings[2] R. Wall and K. Belknap, "Capstone Design for Education and Industry: ThePerspective of Industry Sponsors and Graduates," ASEE Annual Conference, June 1996.[3] E. Zinser and R. Jacobsen, "A New Paradigm for Engineering Education in Idaho,"Report to the State Board of Education, January 27, 1995.[4] S. Beyerlein, D. Blackketter, T. Gottschalk, and B. Willis, “An Interactive Model ofStatewide Engineering Education," ASEE Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, April1995.[5] H. Hess, R. Rinker, R. Wall, J. Peterson, and K. Belknap, "Two UniversityCooperation: Paradigm for the Future of Statewide Engineering Education," ASEEAnnual Conference, June 1996.[6] Barry Willis, Distance Education, Strategies and

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Sheila C. Palmer; Pamela M. Norris

Session 3630 Effectiveness of the Woodruff School Doctoral Teaching Intern Program Pamela M. Norris, Sheila C. Palmer University of Virginia/U.S. Naval Academy Abstract This article discusses a unique teaching internship program that has been in place in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology since 1990. The objective of the program is to provide doctoral students who are considering an academic career

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa

entrepreneur,and be the organizational leader of the engineering process.” Similar concerns appears in Europe, as suggested by Drewes and Romisch[b]. They understand that basicand general training at the university level should be designed as broadly as possible to ensure that a speedyacquaintance with different subjects is possible, thus recognizing that the aim of a university is not to trainspecialists at that early stage of education (undergraduate). The responsibility to society and environment is .considered a major concern in future-oriented educational programs. These trends towards the general education of engineers can also be seen in the recent curricular reformprocesses in Brazilian programs. But several difficulties have

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Leevones Dubose; Jean Newman; Cecil Ramage; Burke Johnson; Brenda Litchfield; Edmund Tsang

implemented for the first time in Fall Quarter, 1995; (b)a two-credit hour, sophomore-level course employing writing to explore the social impacts of technology and Page 1.265.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsengineering ethics will be implemented in Spring Quarter, 1996; and (c) a two-credit hour, sophomore-level"Introduction to Design" will also be implemented in Spring Quarter, 1996.METHOD Course development of ME125, "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering," is guided by a recentreport on engineering education for the 21st Century2. The report, "Engineering Education for a ChangingWorld

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Ruth D. Fogg, United States Air Force Academy; George W. P. York, United States Air Force Academy

INPUT ADDRESSED P ORT' S VALUE TO ACCUMULATOR ADDI 0110 6 ADD IMMEDIATE VALUE TO ACCUMULATOR LDAI 0111 7 LOAD IMMEDIATE VALUE TO ACCUMULATOR THREE WORD INST - 2ND AND 3RD WORDS ARE LO AND HI-ORDER ADDRESS AND 1000 8 AND ACCUMULATOR WITH VALUE AT ADDRESS JMP 1001 9 UNCONDITIONAL JUMP TO ADDRESS JZ 1010 A JUMP TO ADDRESS IF ACCUMULATOR = 0 JN 1011 B JUMP TO ADDRESS IF MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT = 1 (NEG) OR 1100 C OR ACCUMULATOR WITH VALUE AT ADDRESS STA 1101 D STORE THE

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III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

projects as undergraduates, a Sufilciency, an InteractiveQuali@ing Project (IQP) and a Major Quali@ing Project (MQP). The MQP is typically done over thesenior year and is an engineering research project within the students’ major field of study, theundergraduate projects done within the Learning Factory have all been MQP’s. The school year at WPI is divided into two semesters each divided into two terms, The students takethree courses per quarter or term. A typical MQP counts for three courses and would be completed in A,B and C terms. The Learning Factory has students on site at PWA for one term. The term before theyare on site the students are required to investigate the project that they will be working on and to write apre-project proposal

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W. Max Lucas

to demonstrate a particular principle in the Page 1.256.3design of long span, high volume structures. For example, the design and construction of the ExpositionHall (Salone “B”) in Milan continued and improved Nervi’s use of prefabrication and also introduced #.-&%., - :4 } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,pll~’,:“ferrcmxmento’! which allowed very thin members to span large distances. The salt warehouse inTortona used parabolic arches with prefabricated lattice ribs between, while the G. A.T.T.I. wool

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R. H. Parsons; S.J. Steiner; K C Dee; G. Judd

a number of ways to handle the problems. Academic Year ProgramIn addition to the summer programs, the graduate school assisted in the development of an academic yearteaching seminar for new TAs. First these questions were asked: (a) What population should it address? (b)Should the seminar be discipline-based or interdisciplinary in scope? (c) Should it be optional or required? (d)Where should such an experience be housed - department, school, or across the university? (e) Who wouldorganize and present the various topics? (f) How would if be funded? (g) How would it be evaluated? In anattempt to resolve these and other issues, it was decided to develop a seminar housed in the mathematicsdepartment