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David G. Tomer

Session 1263 Design of Machine Systems - a Technical Elective David G. Tomer ASEE/Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe author has proposed, developed, piloted and now teaches a course at Rochester Institute ofTechnology entitled Design of Machine Systems. Over the past two years, it has beensuccessfully offered as a technical elective to 4th and 5th year students in RIT’s 5-year, co-opbased, BS in Mechanical Engineering program. It is nominally a follow-up to the classicalMachine Design course, but the focus is quite different, concentrating on system design asopposed to

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Eldon D. Case

oral researchpresentations required of the MSM 885 class. For the third session, I suggested that the classfocus on a topic such as authorship of technical papers, plagiarism, or data management. Theclass picked “data management”, which involves questions of who owns scientific data alongwith the storage and dissemination of data. To aid the in-class discussion, I selected the Fall,1996, issue of a Michigan State University newsletter entitled “Research Integrity”, since thatparticular issue deals exclusively with data management. The discussion was helpful, since thestudents became aware of both (1) University policies and (2) the “common practices in the field”.I think the ethics “addendum” to MSM 885 went fairly well, but next time I would

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Vijay K. Arora

Session 3261 Integration of Liberal Arts, Management, and Technical Skills for Professional Development Vijay K. Arora Wilkes UniversityIntroductionIn the global era of planet Earth moving into trade blocks and multinational organizations, thereis a need for Renaissance Engineers—able to integrate science, humanities, and managementconcepts. This need is creating a paradigm shift to teach design process to solve any problem—engineering or non-engineering—as opposed to learning specific solutions to a specific set ofproblems. Design is a process

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

Session 0575 The Engineering Education Scholars Program— Preparing a New Generation of Faculty Eric Matsumoto, Christine Masters University of Texas at Austin/Pennsylvania State University Alkim Akyurtlu, David Hill, Melody Ivory Pennsylvania State University/University of California at Berkeley Amelia Regan, Erol Tutumluer University of California at Irvine/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kathleen Coppock, Sandra Courter, Kathleen Luker, Sarah Pfatteicher

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Shomir Sil; Sashi Sekhar; Chandra R. Sekhar

Session 1547 A Technology Curriculum for the Year 2000 and Beyond Minor in Management Program for Technology Sashi Sekhar, Shomir Sil/Chandra Sekhar Department of Management/Department of Electrical Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet AbstractWhether it be in Industry or in the Service sector, today’s Technology graduates are developing,implementing, and maintaining systems that are the foundations of the American economy. So,what is next for these individuals who understand the technical aspects, but not necessarily

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

Session 1261 Technological Capability: A Multidisciplinary Focus for Undergraduate Engineering Education Mark A. Shields, John P. O’Connell University of VirginiaIntroductionProfessional interest in the purposes and scope of liberal education for engineering studentstracks a long history during this century, going back perhaps as far as the years immediately afterthe First World War.1, 2 Humanities and social science faculty at the University of Virginia’sSchool of Engineering and Applied Science (UVA–SEAS) have been active participants in thatdebate for more than

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Steven Youra

Session 3461 Integrating Communications into Engineering Courses: Dimensions of a New Paradigm Steven Youra Cornell UniversityEngineering students must develop the ability to communicate effectively. To address this need,a growing number of engineering programs are integrating communications into technicalcoursework. Writing and other forms of presentation can be central to engineering education forboth pragmatic and conceptual reasons: (1) The ability to communicate effectively is crucial tothe success of engineering projects and careers

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James C. Wood

)Integrated Technology 1 1(3) Integrated Technology 2 1(3)Technical Communications 1 3(3) Technical Communications 3(3) 2General Ed 3(3) General Ed 3(3)Major Course 4(6) Major Course 4(6) Total 17(23) Total 17(23) Second Year Semester 3 Semester 4 Credits Credits (contact (contact

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Nancy L. Denton

Session 1547 Designing the Report Process Nancy L. Denton, P.E. Purdue UniversityABSTRACTWritten communication constitutes a key component in the education and future success ofan engineering technologist. Developing skill in technical report writing requires practicecoupled with timely, thorough feedback. At Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus, thesophomore level course in strength of materials provides the core venue for this practice andfeedback for mechanical engineering technology (MET) students. Such report writingdemands a significant time investment

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Thomas V. Mecca; Sara Cushing Smith; Lynn G. Mack

Session 1547 Shaping a Curriculum from Workplace Research Lynn G. Mack, Thomas V. Mecca, Sara Cushing Smith Piedmont Technical College Greenwood, SC 29648Abstract: The sixteen South Carolina Technical Colleges, through a National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant (DUE # 9553740), utilizinginterdisciplinary faculty teams (communications, mathematics, science, and engineeringtechnology), conducted workplace research as a strategy for designing a new integrated"workplace-focused," first-year core

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Mark A. Shields

Session 3661 Collaborative Teaching: Reflections on a Cross-Disciplinary Experience in Engineering Education Mark A. Shields University of VirginiaIntroductionMost of us know a lot more about cooperative learning than about collaborative teaching. We arealso far more sympathetic to the former than the latter. The principled virtues and practicalbenefits of having our students work together in teams seem altogether less attractive when weenvision ourselves joined in (chained to?) a common teaching enterprise. While collaborativelearning seems to offer an

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Jule Dee Scarborough

congruence or alignment Page 3.465.1 1 Session 3147between the internal and external be achieved. The internal reflects what is thought and felt andthe external reflects what is said and how it is said. $In order to operate congruently in the world,you need to take into account three general factors: self (the internal world), other (theimmediate external world of people), and context (the larger external world of things, structures,processes, laws, and cultures)# (McLendon & Weinberg, 1996, p.34). This

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Janusz Starzyk; Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski

Page 3.249.2of secondary schools: general, technical and vocational. General and technical secondary schoolsadmit students based on an entrance examination and graduate them within 4 and 5 years, re-spectively, upon completion of an exit examination and obtaining a certificate called matura.Only the graduates of general and technical schools can be admitted to colleges and universitiesupon passing an entrance examination.Unlike the United States, where almost all students attend general-type high schools, in Poland,only 31 % students choose general secondary schools [5]. Traditionally, these schools have beenselected by college-bound students since they do not prepare students for specific trades. Since96 % of all young people attend a

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Session 3257 Technology Education in the Next Century: Is the Proposed TAC/ABET Criteria Compatible? Amitabha Bandyopadhyay State University of New York, Farmingdale,NY 11735 IntroductionAmerican higher education in the last decade of the twentieth century faces escalating costs,uneven demographics, faltering revenues, and serious erosion of public confidence [1]. Thisdepressing picture of academia is emerging at a time when concern over the decliningcompetitiveness of the products of American businesses and industry has made

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Mike Kemp; Steven S. Schneiderman

does the course content compare between environmental engineering, civil engineering, Session 1347 and environmental engineering technology programs?5. How broad is the environmental course content in environmental engineering, civilengineering, and environmental engineering technology programs? Graduate Employment Survey Thirty, randomly selected, MSU environmental engineering technology graduates fromthe past five years were surveyed to determine current job titles and salary levels. The job titles,presented in Table 1, show a wide variety of technical and administrative positions held by thegraduates. Many of the positions

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Barry M. Lunt; C. Richard Helps

studyhabits, test-taking skills, taking notes, and campus resources. This section also brings in theopportunity to discuss those general things that senior students know and wish they had knownfrom the beginning. Students also learn simple laboratory skills such as breadboarding (by breadboarding asimple 1-stage audio amplifier), soldering (by building a circuit board with a simple blinkingLED circuit), and microprocessor programming (by modifying a simple melody program in amicrocontroller programmed in BASIC). A final effort to assist students in learning about engineering as a profession is providedin a class session known as “A day in the life.” In this session, students come to class dressed asthey would on the job. They engage in

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Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

Session 1421 Approaches in Teaching “Construction Estimating” Julie H. Wei, Ph.D., P.E. and Richard K. Sase, P.E. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster “Estimating” skill is a basic requirement in the construction industry. Typicallycontractors specialize in one of the following two types of projects: 1) buildings and 2)industrial facilities and heavy civil work. Building construction can generally be classified intoresidential and commercial projects, and heavy

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Zhou Qiong; Zhang Jianhua; Xu Daping; Xie Yuzheng; Tao Hongzhu; Luo Yingli; Liu Zhiyong; Liu Lianguang; Li Gang; Cui Hanli; Chen Xiqiang

Session 1633simultaneously obtain the necessary knowledge of the point, how about the relationship withor instruction concerning his operation from other points, etc. Multimedia technology is usedanother screen. The combination of operation in the demonstration of each knowledge point,skill training and related knowledge training is and 3D animation is introduced to explain theeffective because it tells the operator both how to inner structure and make the physical fieldsoperate and why to do so. visualized in the corresponding knowledge points. For example, Figure 1 shows the2. System Description

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Lucy C. Morse

. Page 3.614.1The Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology (BSET), Operations concentration, Session 3147is the initial program being offered at a distance and it provides an orientation for professionalcareers in technical management and operations in the manufacturing, sales, service andconstruction industries. Through the selection of the upper-level technical concentration,students can tailor their program, based on previous knowledge, to assist them in launching acareer that best meets their needs and aspirations. Projects in cooperation with local industry,solving real-world problems, are required of all students in the BSET program.Since the

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Jeff Griffin; Peter J. Biegel; Ronald Goodnight

! Page 3.637.2 Session 1648 Table 1. Using Infoseek as the primary search engine for fourteen job-search world wide web locationsInfoseek Careers* ** http://www.infoseek.com/Topic?tid=421 The Monster Board* ** http://www.monster.com Career Mosaic* http://www.careermosaic.com IntelliMatch Job Finder - AD Detail http://www.intellimatch.com HOTJOBS Online Technical Employment Center http://www.hotjobs.com Job Web* ** http://www.jobweb.com America’s Employers* ** http

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Wayne Woldt; Mohamed Dahab; Bruce I. Dvorak; Dennis Schulte

Missouri). Matching funds are provided by the University of Nebraska.Support for the program is provided by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. Thethree main goals of this program are to provide: 1) an intensive educational experience inpollution prevention for engineering students, 2) technical assistance to small businesses andindustries in Nebraska, and 3) research on complex pollution prevention problems. The technical assistance is delivered each summer by 15 to 18 undergraduate engineeringstudent interns and three graduate students. The undergraduate interns participate in two weeksof intensive formal training before spending nine weeks in an assigned (industrial, smallbusiness, or regulatory) location providing a

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Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

. In this paper, we present the results of thisanalysis. These results include information on what our graduates are doing, what they find mostimportant from their education, their pursuits of further education, their professional associations(including registration), and general implications these results have upon the MET curriculum. INTRODUCTIONIn February 1997, we undertook a survey of the MET graduates from The School of EngineeringTechnology at Northeastern University. The main goal in this survey was to learn what skills ouralumni found most and least important in the work place. Particular interests were the balancebetween technical knowledge and skills versus the process skills including problem

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Richard P. Long; Kandace Einbeck

1 Session 3561DEVELOPING EUROTECH German emerged as the best target for culture and language study in an internationalengineering program, and we had to make sure that industry would support such an initiative.From members of the Connecticut Legislature we learned of several enthusiastic administrativeofficers in industry and discussed the project with them. Letters of support from both thelegislature and industry accompanied the proposal that was prepared and submitted to the U.S.Department's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. EUROTECH receivedfunding of $250,000 to develop the program. Although Germany is the initial target

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technical skills and abilities within a group,and specifically exclude any usual lab partners from being in the same group. All of the groupsdid some work outside of class time, and had the design, construction, and measurementcomplete in the first two weeks.The project was assigned enough points to make it equivalent to five ordinary laboratoryassignments. The objective of the project was: Page 3.373.2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE: 1. To theoretically design and analyze one circuit to demonstrate KVL, KCL, voltage division, current division, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition, and Delta / Wye and/or Wye / Delta conversions

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Craig Gunn

Session 3461 Addressing the Communication Needs of a Mechanical Engineering Department Craig James Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MIAbstract. Departments of Engineering are preparing for the new accreditation standardsunder ABET 2000. The flexibility inherent in the way in which engineering departmentsaddress the needs of engineers can be both exciting and uncomfortable. Somedepartments may see the above flexibility as too vague and therefore suspect. The area

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Marcus Huggans; Halvard E. Nystrom

), TechnologyManagement (2) and Technology (1). The most common career objectives of the students inthese programs as perceived by the respondents were technical management (42%), operations(20%), consulting (13%), and R&D management (8%). The other career choices received lessthan 5% of the responses.Courses:The courses sought were those that had significant technology management content. Thisevaluation is subjective and the respondents were asked to make that evaluation. Most programshad one to four of these courses. Seven of the schools felt they offered a number of coursesranging from nine to eighteen that fit these criteria since most of the courses in the program hadsignificant technical content. These schools generally service regions in which most of

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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

, Latex etc. should be a standard requirement for all engineering students. Proficiency in document transfer using e-mail attachment, FTP etc. should also be integrated into the curriculum. Student must be required to use computer-generated overheads or presentations using modern tools such as Power Point, Harvard Graphics as part of oral communication skills requirement.x Programming Languages: Experience and skills in writing and debugging programs in several of the modern programming languages such as FORTRAN-77, Fortran-90, C, C++, Pascal, QBasic, Visual Basic, Ada, Java, etc. for technical calculations, information transfer and engineering problem solving should be integrated throughout the curriculum. Program

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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

, Latex etc. should be a standard requirement for all engineering students. Proficiency in document transfer using e-mail attachment, FTP etc. should also be integrated into the curriculum. Student must be required to use computer-generated overheads or presentations using modern tools such as Power Point, Harvard Graphics as part of oral communication skills requirement.• Programming Languages: Experience and skills in writing and debugging programs in several of the modern programming languages such as FORTRAN-77, Fortran-90, C, C++, Pascal, QBasic, Visual Basic, Ada, Java, etc. for technical calculations, information transfer and engineering problem solving should be integrated throughout the curriculum. Program

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Michael B. Cutlip; Mordechai Shacham

in the technical details of the solu-tion process. In order to familiarize engineering educators with the most widely used pack-ages and to assist in the selection of the most beneficial packages to be used in corecourses in the chemical engineering curriculum, we have assembled a set of tenbenchmark problems. This problem set was utilized in conjunction with an ASEESummer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty which was held in Snowbird, UTin August of 1997. This paper will give a general overview of the benchmark problems that havebeen formulated and will identify the mathematical software packages that wereused in the problem solution comparisons. Various criteria for comparison will bedescribed, and ratings for the software

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George G. Karady; Daniel Tylavsky

Session 1532 PS6 Use of Animation for Improvement of Student Understanding of Energy Conversion George G. Karady, Daniel Tylavsky Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287, USA1. IntroductionThe typical American University offers a one-semester, three-credit-hour course on energyconversion. This basic course, often mandatory for all electrical engineering students, deals withtransformers, motors, generators and basic parameters of transmission lines. In addition, ACcircuit theory is reviewed and phasors are regularly used for problem