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Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

BConcurrent Engineering BCommunication Skills (graphical, verbal, written, electronic) ATeam Skills AProblem Solving Skills BBusiness Concerns OCustomer awareness, ergonomics, marketing BGreen engineering B Legend: O=Overview B=Basic A=Advanced P=Prerequisite2.4 Modular Course Structure In order to achieve the desired

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Yu-cheng Liu

possible. REFERENCES 1. F. Fadul and R. Krahe, “The New Roles of Microprocessor Simulators in Education, ” 1992 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Toledo, Ohio, June 1992, pp. 1744-1746. 2. P. I. Lin, “Microcomputer Hardware/Software Education in the Electrical Engineering Technology: A Practical Approach, ” 1992 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Toledo, Ohio, June 1992, pp. 791-794. 3. B. Furht and P. S. Liu, “An Advanced Laboratory for Microprocessor Interfacing and Communication, ” IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, May 1989, pp. 124-128. 4. G. Foster, “Team Projects in an Advanced Microprocessor Course, ” 1991 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, June 1991, pp. 124-128

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Richard H. Selfridge; Karl F. Warnick; David V. Arnold

planes and the magnetic flux is shown using the tubes. Here the relationship between the two quantitiesis B=µ*H. planes of H N S tubes of B Figure 6. The magnetic field and flux forms in the air gap between two poles of a magnet. One commonly expressed definition of forms is that they are the things under integral signs. Theintegration of forms is very natural because the differential element of integration is carried in the form.The integral for a one form is a line integral. This same ease of integration extends to two forms and threeforms. Two forms are integrated over surfaces and three forms are

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Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

work with fixedl a b o r a t o r y setups suitable only for routine experiments. They are providedwith detailed and rigid experimental procedures to follow. Such a“cookbook” approach creates a passive learning environment in whichstudents’ initiative and motivation are suppressed. The learningenvironment is even more problematic when experiments involving computerdata acquisition system are conducted. Quite often, the objectives areobscured by the complicated electronic hardware and computer software. Inthis case, students consider the entire system as a IIblack boxlr and theexperiments become rather uninteresting and unstimulating. The problems mentioned above have prompted the authors to search fornew methods to improve the

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Dennis Krumwiede; Chwen Sheu; Jerome P. Lavelle

, customer satisfaction, and financial performance. Expectedoutcomes of successful implementation include: (a) higher and less variable quality of product, (b) quicker andless variable response all the way to the final user, (c) lower cost through quality improvement of the product orservice and waste elimination, (d) increased market share, and (e) increased company growth.5>9 In summary, TQM is a philosophy that requires a radical cultural shift from traditional to new managementstyles in an organization. The philosophy recognizes the customer, both internal and external, as the ultimateinfluencer of a product’s or service’s quality. The philosophy of TQM also recognizes the employee as the mostvaluable resource of an organization. As

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José L. Torres

the issues covered by the rules of the agreement has received considerable attention in recent months: theexchange of professional services across the border with Mexico. This increased attention is rooted in a numberof circumstances, among them the U.S. presidential election process. On a purely rational level, the issue of legal immigration of Mexican engineers could almost be dismissedon the basis of its relative magnitude. Currently the U.S. issues about 2500 temporary entry visas to Mexicannationals in all professional fields combinedz. Even if we assume that 80% of these went to engineers, the totalwould amount to about 1/1000 of the Engineering/Technology employment in the U.S .s, and to about 1.6% ofthe number of graduates of

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John H. Damell

. Procedure This section of the proposal includes a logical, organized, and detailed explanation of the procedures thatwill b used to accomplish the objectives of the project. The procedure section may include a technical plan anda management plan. A technical plan includes highly specific details of the methods, tests, instrumentation,quality control, materials, design approach, and special techniques. A management plan includes a descriptionof key personnel with their qualifications to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Also, include organizationsupport or collaborative effort; resources, such as equipment, space, laboratories; and schedule for completion ofthe proposal in the procedure section. Tables or diagrams used to simplify the

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John H. Damell

. Procedure This section of the proposal includes a logical, organized, and detailed explanation of the procedures thatwill b used to accomplish the objectives of the project. The procedure section may include a technical plan anda management plan. A technical plan includes highly specific details of the methods, tests, instrumentation,quality control, materials, design approach, and special techniques. A management plan includes a descriptionof key personnel with their qualifications to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Also, include organizationsupport or collaborative effort; resources, such as equipment, space, laboratories; and schedule for completion ofthe proposal in the procedure section. Tables or diagrams used to simplify the

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P. Raju Mantena

complex stiffness or complex modulus. The measurement ofdynamic mechanical properties of structural materials is of interest for at least two reasons; (a) accuratenumerical values of such intrinsic material properties are needed as input to design equations, and (b) dynamicmechanical property measurements can be used for quality control operations during fabrication and/or forperiodic in-situ inspection during the service life of the components. The increasing use of composite materialsin the aerospace, aircraft and automobile industries has brought about the need for rapid and reliableexperimental techniques to characterize their mechanical properties. In the field of vibrations frequency-domaintesting is increasingly becoming state-of-the-art

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R.J. Kennerknecht; R.H. Cockrum; G.K. Herder; E.T. Ibrahim

),stand-alone controllers, and bench top PC computers. There are twelve student work stationsequipped with computers, printers, oscilloscopes, power supplies and signal generators. Theexpense needed to equip each student station with a full complement of data acquisition,signal conditioning, and analysis equipment is beyond the budget of most universities. Byusing virtual instruments (VI’s) students can create the equipment that is needed for theirproject or experiment. There are two basic programs installed on our laboratory computers: -LabVIEW b~ National Instruments and Ma~Lab-/Simulink by the Math Works. B y using

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Jay Jones; Rebecca K. Toghiani; Hossein Toghiani

: (9) (lo) The Peng-Robinson equation is often written in terms of the compressibility,Z (= PV/RT): Page 1.403.3 $iii-’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,yyy’: . 3 2 2 3 2Z + Z (B-1)+Z(-3B -2B+A)+(B + B -AB)=0 (13)where A and B are defined as

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Blanca Jimenez Cisneros

country. It is important to say that very fewof them undertake all fields related to environmental engineering, so 74 work in the water field, 26 arededicated to air problems and 31 are working with solid residues. Based on our main problems, the fieldson environmental engineering that should be taken into account for research projects are: a) Solid wastes,of which the most important aspects are municipal and hazardous wastes; b) Air, field on which the mainresearch work is related to the development of pollution control devices and none on mathematical modeling;c) Water, line of research most studied but on which there still are many pollution problems to be solved (l)as proven by recent studies , according to which

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

virtual reality modules, and to the Department of Chemical Engineering of theUniversity of Michigan for providing the initial funding of this project. B IBLIOGRAPHY1. Bell, John T., and H. Scott Fogler, “The Investigation and Application of Virtual Reality as an Educational Tool”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 1995, pp 1718-1728.2. Bell, John T., and H. Scott Fogler, “Vicher: A Prototype Virtual Reality Based Educational Module for Chemical Reaction Engineering”, accepted for publication in the June, 1996 issue of Computer Applications in Engineering Education.3. Cooper, D.J., “PICLES: The Process Identification and Control

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra R. Sekhar; Omer Farook

1.55.4 $iiii’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.J~llllllIj . a) Number of intervals before compression: = fJAF = 100/100 1 b) Number of intervals tier compression: f~Af = 100/50 = 2 ; (Note that AF=1OO, but A&50) c) Number of zeros to be inserted: NZI = (fdAf) - (ftiAF) = 2-1 = 1 zero 6) Determine the number of zeros to be inserted between fH and fs - fH in the original spectrum: a) Number of intervals before compression

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Forrest S. Keeler; Dr. Mihir K. Das

enable system design and project management for effective and efiicient humaninteraction. In today’s technology, the total Systems Engineering Life Cycle from womb-to-tomb may take asmany as 40 years or more (e.g., the B-52 and C-13 O aircraft), and each stage in the System Life Cycle and itssystem ramifications must be clearly understood by the engineer. The Fundamental SE ConceptsThe subject of Systems Engineering has been discussed by many researchers and authors [1 - 12]. According toRhode, et al. [1], SE can be viewed in many different ways: a discipline involving engineering and managementscience; a design process technology; a methodology for defining or designing “anything”; an

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Erdogan Sener

curriculum at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).I will summarize these undertakings in principle below:- Collaborative Undertakings using Informal Groups: (Group size: two students) a. Rather than simply lecturing on the text part of a topic, material is covered in summary, highlighting the important points, and then students work, collaboratively, on detailed in-class exercises prepared for the lecture topic. b. For courses or topics that involve problem solving, in-class problems are worked on, collaboratively, by students, in groups, tier a few examples. c. At the end of each topic/chapter that has had problem solving undertakings, a problem quiz is given to informal groups who share the

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Richard West; Paul J. Laumakis

, the event that the subsystem lifetime is greater than t is the intersection of the events that thelifetim~ of each of the n components is greater than t. If we assume that the components fail independently,then we have Figure 2: Series subsystem containing n components.Parallel SubsystemsSuppose that we have a subsystem containing two components where only one of the components must functionin order for the subsystem to function. A subsystem of this type is shown in Figure 3. Once again let T denotethe time until failure of the subsystem. Furthermore, let T A and T~ represent the time until failure ofcomponents A and B, respectively, with associated reliabilities RA (t) and R ~ (t). Now, if we assume that

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Greg Bowyer; D. Gibson Peaslee; Fazil Najafi

agencies to the state leveland back. The process that aims at convincing the public to use the improved technology to save time andresources, challenges both state and federal levels. 2 In this paper, we focus on T Centers relevant only to transportation technology transfer programs. Inthe United States, there are many active T* Centers using short courses, video-based technology, and advancedtechnical training with aims to transfer the most vital practical knowledge into actual practice. State govern-ments also make special efforts to help put research into practice for their cities and counties. This process ischanneled by encouraging counties and cities to: a) establish an advisory panel; b) develop a

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Tommy L. Waskom; Ping Liu

. Page 1.110.2 $iii’ ‘..,,yyllll+~ ) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings . (a) (b) Figure 1. Schematic of compression-molded specimen: (a) Cross-section position in the specimen, (b)average unmelted diameter Z.Results and Analysis: The experimental results are shown in right columns of Table I. Surface appearance was used toevaluate the quality of specimens before cross-sectioning was made. The experimental results could berearranged according to the level of surface

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Phillip J. Cornwell

Page 1.118.3w- . . - . - {~:~> 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,~ymlc..$ . ‘-”1related.-.. Concept maps have proven to be an effective tool to improve the effectiveness of lectures and to helpstudents achieve a greater depth of understanding of course material. References1. Dwyer, F. M., Strategies for Improving Visual Learning, Learning Series, State College, Penn., 1978.2. Bloom, B. S. (Ed.), “A Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The

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Frank Wicks

recovering the availability at the 5end of the power stroke. I The Otto and full expansion Otto cycles are ‘6_ on the asumption of an 8 to 1 compressionratiq 19 Ibs of air for 1 lb of fuel and the combustionproducts are an ideal gas with a constamt pressure .1 .2 .3heat capacity of .25. (B@bm R) and a ratio of Entropy (S-S1) (8tu/lbm a)1.4 between the cxnstant pressure and constantvolume heat ~paaties, The cycle also starts

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Said Ahmed-Zaid; James J. Carroll

. Regarding y=lsin(6)+xm M+x.the documentation of the proJect, the following list of itemshas At this point a strategic decision is required whether or not to: (a) use a secondary servo to position the car- 1. Literature search riage, or (b) to apply feedback around the entire loop in order to derive the control signal to the servomotor. A 2, Mini-proposal (three or four-page proposal) secondary position servo offers a number of advantages

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Kurt J. Colella; Vincent Wilczynski

forced the faculty members to review each exercise, document how the work met itsgoal, and identify improvements. Again, without the portfolio, such self critiques by the faculty often were notperformed in their rush to complete for the “next” project (whether that be a course, experiment, or paper). B yassembling and displaying the portfolio, the program itself maintains a focus on design, and the designinitiative is kept fresh as new exercises replace old examples in the portfolio. Similar to teaching portfolio experiences, benefits of the institutional design portfolio result from theactual process of building the portfolio and from the completed portfolio. By assembling the design portfolio,the faculty must examine their teaching to

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James C. Watters

setup that way in the late 1980’s when ABET was considering the dual accreditation ----- - {hi~~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.:option. So the BS graduate is truly qualified to work in industry as a chemical engineer though the studentwith less than a 2.5 GPA from any B S program will have trouble finding employment, especially in a buyer’smadcet. Also, a non-accredited degree may make it difficult for the graduate to obtain a professional engineerlicence in some states. Another aspect of the program that is seen by some as a negative is its rigor. In order to graduatewithin the five years prescribed, a student is required to take up to 20 hours in some

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

expressed in terms of its real and imaginary parts as R. [P(&/U’)]= R, + R, cos(mT) and 1,,, [P(E~o’)]= jR, sin(~T) [19]This result implies that if we have a method of determining R] and RO,, then we have a method of determining the frequency responseby evaluating the numerator and denominator of H(z). Consider the form P(z) RIZ+RO ~– ~::2 b,,z” ~ — ~;”2 b,lz” -t [20] z2+ctz+p z2+clz+pfrom which “z+ ‘0 = ~;;_wb,lz’l

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Jo Ann Parikh

SPARCserver 1000 is a dedicated parallel processing transputersystem from Parsytec, Inc. The transputer system is configured basically as a 4x4 mesh with supple- 1mental connections as shown in Figure 1(a) to support various topologies such as pipelines, rings,hypercubes and trees in addition to array or mesh topologies. The system can be configured in softwareas a 15-node binary tree using, for example, the node configuration shown in Figure 1(b). There areseveral excellent books on transputers suitable for classroom use which provide detailed descriptions ofthe hardware design of transputer systems and offer suggestions for software configurations for differentapplications. 1’2 2 7

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Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

recommendations for (a) modified part or tool design or (b) modified laser pattern curing of part. 4. The usage of the SLA system will allow CIM students working in concurrent engineering design teams to thoroughly examine and functionally test multiple design alternatives because the time to prototype will be reduced by several orders of magnitude. This iterative process of product visualization, verification, and optimization is consistent with current best practices in industry and will constitute an invaluable learning experience. Page 1.271.3 ---- $i!ih’-’ ) 1996 ASEE

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Lueny Morell de Ramírez; Carlos Velazquez

of two (2) students, who wereIf there are mismatches in preferred learning instructed to be seated next to each other allstyles between the learner and the teacher, poor semester. Groups of four to five (4-5) studentsstudent performance, high attrition rates and were also formed for out-of-class activitiesfaculty frustration result (Felder, 1988). (meeting twice a week, for at least 2 hours). Each group of 4-5 had a tutor (in our case, a How can faculty make the former course student who had obtained an A orteaching/learning experience more effective and B average, and preferably, who had hadefficient? For one, by being aware of

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R.H. Page; L.S. Fletcher

will be put in a position where they mustwork cooperatively with other students. Students will become their own best teachers, augmenting theinstruction provided by faculty. Through this improved instruction the student develops five attributes:. Creativity and inquisitiveness● Knowledge of fundamentals, including communication skills. Desire for continued learning● Ability to work effectively with others in a group environment● Ability to respond to change as well as adapt to change Through this improved instruction the faculty develop a motivation to learn information outside of theirspecialties.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. B. Clark, “Optimizing Learning: The Integrative Education Model in the Classroom,” Merrill, Columbus, OH

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Luis G. Occeña

, and yet are not already hard-wired to handleonly a few tasks. The system components in the laboratory are modular, allowing a variety of mix and matchconfigurations. For example, one possible scenario (A) may be a robot moving a part from a conveyor to anindexing table or carousel where a non-contact barcode reader identifies a barcode on the part that willindicate the appropriate carousel bin; another scenario (B) may be a barcode reader identifying a bar codedpart and sending information to a microcomputer database which then sends a signal to the programmablelogic controller to route the part to a side conveyor; still another scenario (C) may be a robot using a tactileprobe attached to a data acquisition system on a microcomputer to