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Russell R. Barton; Robert P. Smith; José L. Zayas; Craig A. Nowack

, 1994.2. Clark, Kim B., and Steven C. Wheelwright, Managing New Product and Process: Development: Textand Cases, Free Press, New York, 1993.3. Dieter, George E., Engineering Design: A Materials and Processing Approach, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1991.4. Dixon, John R., and Corrado Poli, Engineering Design and Design for Manufacturing, Field StonePublishers, Conway, Mass., 1995.5. Dyer, William G., Team Building: Issues and Alternatives, 2nd cd., Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.,1987.6. Ettlie, John E., and Henry W. Stoll, Managing the Design-Manufacturing Process, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1990. Page 1.120.4

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Ngo Dinh Thinh; Andrew Banta

, routing of piping andelectrical condui~ and pump selection could be made. The system design includes a PC based data acquisition system which monitors all major pressures, temperatures Instrumentation and flows. b the gas turbine the compressor inlet and discharge pressures and temperatures are measurd also,Computer (PC) based instrumentation was chosen for this the turbine inlet temperature is monitored. Stackcogeneration project. That is to say, information or input emissions will be continuously monitored with particularfrom each of the instruments will be

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Thomas M. Lahey; Thomas D. L. Walker

• Dynamic memory allocation - allocatable array size and lifetime under programmer control• Whole array expressions and assignments are allowed, i.e COS(A) where A is an array• Array sections are allowed• WHERE statement applies a conforming logical array as a mask on individual operations in an array assignment, i.e. WHERE (A > 0) B = LOG(A)• Intrinsic functions may be array-valued• Assumed shape arguments, i.e., dummy arguments assume the length/dimensions of the actual argumentsElf90 Elf90 is the acronym for Essential Lahey FORTRAN 90. Lahey began creating Elf90 early in1995 primarily as an “educational version” of their ANSI standard FORTRAN 90 compiler. However,unlike most educational versions, this was not to be a

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Yildirim Omurtag; Rawin Raviwongse

Session 1663 A SURVEY OF MANUFACTURING RELATED EDUCATION IN THAILAND Rawin Raviwongse, Yildirim Omurtag Department of Engineering Management University of Missouri-RollaAbstract The development of Thailand’s economy in the past decades was mainly induced by the rapidgrowth of the nation’s manufacturing sector. In order to sustain the advantage of such expansion, asufficient number of skilled personnel in manufacturing-related fields is needed. The higher educationsystem in Thailand is currently playing a key role in preparing such

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Richard J. Reid

animation, interactive control of the simula-tion time is provided, so every change can be observed. Networks to be simulated are implemented by declaring the signals involved and connecting those signals to the componentinputs and outputs. The general format of component specification is: (, , cOutput(s)>);as C++ function invocations. Consider the following simple example, written in C++, of a two-input And gate activated by Switches and monitored by a digi-tal Probe: #include maino { Signal a, b, c; // Declaration of signals Switch (” la”, a, ‘a’ );// Position Switch at schematic position “la”, and associate keyboard ‘a’ key with Signal a Switch (” la

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William H. Jermann

? . Function definitions and declarations Introduction to a system function that requires dozens of supporting functions Function argument lists Initialization of an abstract data type. (A character array terminated with a zero byte) Transmission of a pointer value to a function Development of a user-defined function (main) Use of a function that accepts a variable number of arguments The above concepts can be illustrated using the followingexample.#include cstdio.h>int main(void){ char *a = “hello world\n” , *b = “save the %s whales\n”; printf(a) ; printf(a+6) ; printf(b,b) ; printf(b+8,b+12

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Mohamed Shwehdi; Chris Jacobsen; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University

new meter design and its fictional use. It is not intended to give a goodunderstanding of the transistor. It highlights the importance of the parameter D and its use in electronic biasingcircuits and design. D is a constant for the particular transistor. For modern npn transistors, D is in the range 100to 200, but it can be as high as 10003. The meter provides a quick and direct measure of values of B at differentconditions. It helps in developing confidence when using a curve tracer and using the BJT’s characteristics tofind B, Therefore, it maybe a very valuable device for basic electronic design laboratories and manufacturers.It is extendable, easy to use and may use other microprocessors with minor modifications of the circuitry

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David F. Ollis; Ann Brown

Session 1 2 6 1 Team Teaching: A Freshman Engineering Rhetoric and Laboratory Ann B r o w n ( C o l l e g e o f E n g i n e e r i n g W r i t i n g A s s i s t a n c e P r o g r a m ) and David F. Ollis (Chemical Engineering) North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Abstract Team teaching usually involves the back-and-forth trading of lecturing between two instructors. The present example illustrates a looser side- by-side collaboration consisting of a first year rhetoric, based upon readings, poetry, and videos in technology, literature and history, and a “hands-on” laboratory centered around consumer

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David G. Meyer

instructional technique. Another motivation was toprovide students with an "evaluation scale" they readily understood: the "A-B-C-D-F" grading scale. To clearlydelineate the "course" and "instructor" criteria, as well as to help focus students’ responses through the use ofsubsidiary questions, were additional factors motivating the design. Last, but certainly not least, was themotivation to clearly show how each calculation was performed, and to illustrate — in a graphical fashion —how a given course "stacked up" against other courses in its comparison group (and to clearly define the consti-tuents of each comparison group). A key challenge in the design of the new course & instructor evaluation instrument was not only thechoice of criteria

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Jeffrey J. McFarland; James D. Shuffield; J. Sherwood Charlton

or an A/B switch for the printer. We foundthat extra parallel port cards for our computers were no more expensive than A/B switches and do notrequire the student to remember to switch from the prototyping board to the printer. Page 1.21.2 ?@ii’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,,,HI.3JSOFTWARE DESIGN The program is both very powerful and easy to use, with a learning curve consistent with theknowledge of any student in an introductory digital electronics class. The software has two maincomponents: A user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a

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Utpal Roy; Daniel Panayil

, flange, rib, offset plate and ?$iii’ ) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘...,~yml’: . Figure 3(b). A Typical Pulley Figure 3(a). A Typical Roller Bearing With Arms With Cylinder Roller Figure 3 . Some Complex Macro Features

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Gordon W. Couturier

software selected was GroupSystems, by The University of Arizona and VentanaCorporation and LOTUS Notes. GroupSystems and LOTUS Notes are installed on eight 486 IBMmicrocomputer networked together on a Novell Ethernet. These computers are installed in a formalmeeting room equipped with an overhead projector (attached to the facilitator’s computer), screen andcopyboard (a white board that allows you to seize, by computer, anything written on it). GroupSystemsconsists of the following tools for facilitating group meetings and brainstorming sessions: a. Meeting Manager - supports session leader and group by initiating activities, accessing files, printing reports, and saving session reports. b. Agenda - assists in planning and

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Kristin A. Young; Masoud Rais-Rohani

--- $iifii’ > 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.Sample of Libraries on the Internetdh3>LC4a> - Library of Congress VL4a> - The WWW Virtual Library -di>ASE4a> - Aerospace Engineeringdli>41 >4ul> Figure 2-b. The HTML source code of the document shown in Figure 2-a.Description of the Home Page Complex The home page complex contains five sections with each devoted to a major topic discussed in thecourse as outlined in Figure 1. Directory of the major topics, with information as to which chapters in thetextbooks they correspond to, are shown at the beginning so the student can easily identify and hyperlink to anyparticular topic he or she wishes to study

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Pieter A. Voss; James M. Tien; Anil K. Goyal

recognition that this is a special case. 3. Illustrative Example As an example of employing the risk-analytic approach to Engineering Economy, consider that $9,000can be invested in three mutually exclusive alternatives: A, B and C. We assume that there are three mutuallyindependent variables (namely, the constant annual cash flow over the project life, the length of project life, andthe effective interest rate) associated with each of the three alternatives. We further assume a discreteprobability distribution for each of these variables. The probability distributions of these variables are identifiedin Table 1. Table 2 shows that the present worth of each of these three projects is not a single

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William W. Predebon; Peck Cho

Session 2655 .— - ..-. .— —. A. Teaching Assistant Training Program with a Focus on Teaching Improvement and Graduate Student Development Peck Cho, William Predebon Michigan Technological UniversityABSTRACT This paper presents a case study of a teaching assistants (TA’s) training program in the Department ofMechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University. This trainingprogram may be unique in that it is designed to achieve dual objectives: to improve the quality of

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Narciso F. Macia

, the Manufacturing Technologyand the Aeronautical Technology Department. Students are initially given a general positioningproblem with few restrictions. Then, by adding constraints and making suggestions, they determinethat a DC solenoid is a viable solution. As the students evaluate the system, they recognize thatwithout the mathematical tools that they are acquiring in class, their task is very difficult orimpossible. The series of experiments enable students to learn more about: (a) modeling, (b) blockdiagram representation, (c) instrumentation and data acquisition, (d) component characterization,(e) frequency response testing (f) analysis, (g) computer simulation using MATLAB/SIMULINK, (h)controller design, (i) implementation of

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Bill Manaris; Ingrid Russell

Bulletin 6(3), (1995), 2-6.[2] LaRusch, M.R. Teaching AI as the Year 2000 Approaches. SIGCSE Bulletin 25(1),(1993), 38-42.[3] Manaris, B., Aiken, R., Koutsougeras, C., Munakata, T., & Valtorta, M. Report on the ACM CSC'95 AI panel: “Artificial intelligence: finally in the mainstream?’. SIGART Bulletin 6(3), (1 995), 7-11.[4] Manaris, B., Russell, I. Pedagogic Resources for Artificial Intelligence in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Florida Artificial intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS-96), May 19-22, 1996, Key West, Florida.[5] Munakata, T. (Guest Ed.). Commercial and industrial AI. Communications of the ACM 37,3, (1994).[6] Noyes, J.L. Teaching AI: a breadth-first approach. SIGCSE

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Michael L. Smith; Mary R. Marlino; Jeff V. Kouri; D. Neal Barlow; A. George Havener

instructortraining program begins in July, 1996, and will be implemented the following year. II. SCENARIO Small cadet teams address problems associated with the design and deployment of a manned researchbase on Mars. The scenario models an Air Force System Program Office (SPO) called Project Falcon Base. 6The name of a famous 19th century astronomer, Giovanni V. Schiaparelli (1877) , is used to identify the SPOdirector, “General Schiaparelli.” The mission statement (the task given to the cadets; see Appendix B), thedirectives (the assignments; see example in Appendix C), and progress review assignments come from the

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Andrew Wilhelm; Edmund Tsang

-credit hour course to provide Page 1.247.1substantial design experience in the freshman year, was implemented in Winter Quarter, 1996; (b) a 2- 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingscredit hour, sophomore-level course employing writing to explore the social impacts of technology andengineering ethics will be implemented in Spring Quarter, 1996; and (c) a 2-credit hour, sophomore-level"Introduction to Design" will also be implemented in Spring Quarter, 1996.METHODS1. Curriculum Design Course development is guided by the ideas outlined by Stice on teaching problem-solving skills 2.According to Stice

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Jerome P. Lavelle

world examples andthe effects of “green” issues, classical economics and cost accounting. To me, this is encouraging!b In the survey, 57’% of the respondents indicated that they use groups in some form in their courses. Most wereused for term projects — with a few used for case studies and homework. So it seems that although mostinstructors require some group assignments, little relative weight (on the average) is placed on those assignmentsin terms of calculating student grades. One interesting exception to this that I have become aware of recently iswith the engineering economy courses taught by Professor Bob Martinazzi at the University of Pittsburgh —-Johnstown. In his course he has experimented with team teaching (small student groups

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Christopher G. Braun

A LTER A PLD C o n tro l C o n t r o ll e r C o n tro l D a ta B u s A D C D ig ita l D ig ita l D A C (In p u t) (In p u t) ( O u tp u t ) ( O u tp u t ) M A X IM 1 9 7 74H C T 541 A V G 573 M A X IM 5 0 5 8 C h a n n e ls 8 C h a n

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Christopher R. Carroll

above were constructed, and passed through the largeclass to establish groups of eight or so students per station, and the stations were powered by six-voltlantern batteries to make them entirely self-contained. Figure 1 shows the schematic for the labstations. As the figure shows, there are almost no components other than the microcontroller chipitself. The electrical characteristics of ports B and C on the 68705P3 allow direct connection to thefour-digit calculator-type LED display for use as an output device. Port A includes internal pull-upresistors so that no external components are required to connect to the telephone’s standard twelve-keymatrix keypad. The clock generator in the microcontroller can operate without an external crystal

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T.C. Young; S.E. Powers; Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.45.6Table II. Course work for Professional Concentration in Environmental Engineering - School of Engineering Course Category Course Selection A. Advanced Sciences (Two required, one from each category) 1. Biology BY 210 Cell Biology BY 323 Microbiology for Engineering Applications 2. Chemistry CM 241 Organic Chemistry I CM 371 Physical Chemistry B. Environmental (One course

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John K. Estell

Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 31-35, February 1983.4. C. Shub, “A Project for a Course in Operating Systems,” SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 25-30, February 1983.5, A. Silberschatz and P. B. Galvin, Operating System Concepts, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994.6. W. Stallings, Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995.JOHN K. ESTELL Dr. Estell received his BS degree (summa cum laude) from The University of Toledo in 1984. AwardedNSF Graduate and Tau Beta Pi Fellowships, he received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science fromthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1991. Dr. Estell is a member of ACM, ASEE,IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Pi

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Sheryl A. Sorby; Beverly J. Baartmans

impact on student test scores. The student comments regarding the course have beengenerally positive and encouraging.REFERENCES1. McKee, Marie, “Increasing the Participation of Women in Engineering Careers: A Corporate Perspective,” Proceedings of the 1991 WEPAN Conference, Washington, D. C., June 1991, 107-120.2. Frize, M., “Women in Engineering in Canada,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, Coventry, England, July 1991, 42D-45D.3. Gimmestad, B. J. “Gender Differences in Spatial Visualization and Predictors of Success in an Engineering Design Course.” Proceedings of the National Conference on Women in Mathematics and the Sciences. Eds, Sandra Z. and Philip Keith (St. Cloud, MN: St. Cloud

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Jennifer M. Jacobs; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

works with the TA Development Program, and the HTF hire diverse TFs who areselected based on several factors including teaching ability, departmental affiliation,personality, gender, cultural background, and TA Development Program experience. TF duties include: (a) working with Cornell's Office of Instructional Support to developand present workshops in the TA Development Program offered to all new TAs during the first threeweeks of the semester, (b) leading small group discussions on selected topics such as teaching,grading, teaching labs, and leading recitations, (c) conducting microteaching sessions withsmall groups of TAs, which entails videotaping their teaching and facilitating feedbacksessions, and (d) providing support to new TAs

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Robert A. Chin; Amy R. Frank

electronic keypads to provide a Page 1.467.3mechanism for active learning; (2) internet training, including a multimedia “how to” package that covers the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsuse and development of WWW (World Wide Web) pages and other internet tools; and (3) GIS (GeographicInformation Systems) exposure to assist in the training of decision makers and planners, and virtual realitymultimedia technologies to improve student participation in lectures (B. L. Killingsworth & B. E. Mennecke,personal communication, May 22, 1995).Department of Exercise and Sports Science This

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Joseph A. Heim; Gary M. Erickson

important means of preparing students for an increasingly competitive global economy in which thewinners will be those able to combine the organizational skills and advanced technologies with a comprehensiveunderstanding of customers and their needs.Bibliography1. Stalk, Jr., George and Thomas M. Hout, Competing Against Time, New York: The Free Press, 1990.2. Bowen, H. Kent, Kim B. Clark, ,Charles A. Holloway and Steven C. Wheelwright (eds.), The Perpetual Enterprise Machine, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.3. Ulrich, Karl T. and Steven D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.4. Turino, John, “Making It Work Calls for Input From Everyone,” IEEE Spectrum, July, 1991, 30-32.5. Corporate Design Foundation

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John Y. Hung; Carlee A. Bishop

theeducator that they have not done their part in this student’s education. Case studies, used properly, can enablethe student to challenge those problems they have never seen before and succeed.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. "Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change," Report of an NSF Workshop on Engineering Education, Publication # NSF 95-65, Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation, April 1995.2. "The vision for change: A summary report of the ABET/NSF/Industry Workshops," Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD, May 1995.3. Louis B. Barnes, C. Roland Christensen, Abby J. Hansen, Teaching and the Case Method, Harvard Business School Press, 1994.4

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E. J. Mastascusa

’..’ . Several observations lead to this conclusion about this link,A. The inputs to the network can take on any real value, positive or negative.B. The weights of the connecting links can take on any real value, positive or negative.C. The internal signals, and the outputs can only take on values between zero and one.In this list, A and B imply that the input layer determines the truth level, in a fuzzy system sense, ofstatements about the input variables, and C implies a set of logical statements that use the truth levels at theoutputs of the first layer. We will consider these two stages separately.The Input Layer Each neuron in the input layer determines, as its output, the truth of a statement:Quality Q. is true.The quality, Qn, is a