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Allen Leybourne

Session 2275 ASPIRATION, INSPIRATION AND PERSPIRATION Allen E. Leybourne The University of Southern MississippiAbstractHuman activities, other than biological ones, occur primarily as a result of the conscious andunconscious, moment by moment, actions within our minds. In order to guide those actions,some internalized model, guiding the ricocheting of ideas and emotions in the brain wouldappear to be useful. An approach to developing such a model, based upon the conceptsembodied in the title is developed. New faculty seeking tenure and ultimately promotionthrough the academic ranks

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W. Brian Hyslop; Susan L. Burkett; Susan Vrbsky; Laura Ruhala; Richard Ruhala; John Lusth

Session 3675 Solving the Dual-Career Dilemma: Three Case Studies Susan L. Burkett, John C. Lusth, Laura A. Ruhala, Richard J. Ruhala, Susan Vrbsky, Brian Hyslop Boise State University/The Pennsylvania State University/The University of AlabamaAbstractThe objective of this paper is to share personal observations from science and engineeringcouples seeking suitable employment in academia. Dual-career couples have a number ofobstacles to overcome in satisfying their career goals. It is difficult enough to find one tenure-track position and suitable

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Frederick Orthlieb

research, problem definition, specification setting, projectplanning and evaluation phases of a project-based design course and analogous stages ofinformation gathering, program description, goal and outcomes identification, performancemeasurement and evaluation that comprise an engineering program assessment task. NCIIA-designated level I, II and III projects are covered, including both embedded laboratory modulesand full semester efforts. Students not only benefit from interdisciplinary interaction amongand outside of engineering fields, but also get to specify, acquire, use and evaluate componentsand equipment items not commonly found in many undergraduate labs, particularly at smallerinstitutions. In developing their own project plans, reports

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William E. DeWitt; William J. Hutzel; Timothy L. Skvarenina

Session 1333 An Interdisciplinary Facilities Engineering Technology Graduate Course William J. Hutzel, William E. DeWitt, and Timothy L. Skvarenina Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstract A new graduate course called “Facilities Engineering Technology” is addressing thegrowing demand for multi-skill employees who can solve problems associated with mechanicaland electrical systems in buildings. Identifying energy conservation measures and evaluatingtheir economic impact is an important focus of the course for both mechanical and

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John Pongo; Barrie W. Jackson

Session 2323 Technology Engineering and Management: An Integrated Approach to Process Design Barrie W. Jackson Queen’s University John Pongo Hyprotech Ltd.INTRODUCTIONThe Technology Engineering and Management (TEAM) program is a cooperative venturebetween academia and industry that is managed by the Department of Chemical Engineering atQueen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. This program is open to senior undergraduate studentsin the Faculty of Engineering, the

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Shann Coleman; Megan Gaberell; Harold W. Walker

independent projects: (1) An assessment of waterquality in recreational ponds operated by the City of Columbus, and (2) a survey of thewater quality in the Olentangy River for a community group called Friends of the LowerOlentangy Watershed (FLOW). To carry out the projects, different teams of threestudents each were assigned to the following tasks: water sampling, sample analysis,synthesis and report writing, and preparing a final presentation. At the end of the quarter,the students submitted formal reports to the City of Columbus and FLOW describing theresults of their projects. The students also gave a formal presentation to FLOW at theirmonthly public meeting. Incorporation of community-based projects into the curriculumimproved open-ended

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Brett Barraclough

Session 3325 Industrial Collaboration in an Undergraduate Computer Aided Design Course MAJ Brett A. Barraclough United States Military AcademyAbstract For the past two years, the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering atthe United States Military Academy has been improving a multi-disciplinary designcourse called EM370, Computer Aided Design (CAD). Based on student feedback andadvances in technology, goals were established to ensure the computer design tools werecompatible with the top-down design process and that the course content andEngineering Design

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John Spinelli; Cherrice Traver

Session 2520 International Robotics Design Competitions: Potential and Pitfalls Cherrice Traver, John M. Spinelli Union CollegeAbstractThe role of international design competitions in an Engineering Curriculum isinvestigated using a case study involving participation by 9 Union College students in anautonomous robot competition in France. As part of their degree requirements, all UnionEngineering majors are required to have an international experience. Participation in the1998 E=M6 Robot Soccer competition in France, and subsequent study of Frenchengineering education, was used by some to fulfill this

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Ronald E. Terry; Kurt Sandholtz

studentsunderstand these concepts before they left the university would accomplish two goals. Onewould be to teach material related to one or more of the attributes listed above and the otherwould be to empower graduates to take more control of their own career development.The objectives of this paper are: 1) to provide a brief review of the Dalton-Thompson FourStagesSM model and other related concepts; and 2) to present a module for use in teachingstudents the concepts of how to manage their own careers. The paper will also present studentreaction to the teaching of this material. Page 4.228.1Review of Four StagesSM Model and Related ConceptsIn the late 1960s

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Gary Grossman; Steve Wells; Michihiro Nishi

be looking for college graduates, including engineers, with some sort ofinternational exposure. Hence, many universities and colleges have developed and aredeveloping methods to expose their students to international culture, business and engineeringpractices. Traditional methods involve exchanges of students and/or faculty between a U. S.institution and a foreign one. Types of exchange include: the exchange of graduate orundergraduate students with another institution for part of their education; the exchange ofgraduate students for research efforts; and, the exchange of faculty for purposes of research orteaching. Other methods involve the teaching of globalized culture, business and engineeringcourses at the U. S. institutions, and

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

strengthen mental powers. --Donald Norman, Things that Make Us Smart 1Nearly everyone would agree that students come to the university to improve how they think andsolve problems. Yet beyond insisting that students think, faculty often fail to teach studentsmuch about developing effective tools for thinking. Hence, our goals—as a business managerand a university professor--have included developing tools for reflection and analysis andintroducing these tools to engineering students so they can use them throughout their educationand career.One of the best tools that humans can use to enhance thinking is a notebook. Since elementaryschool, students have probably kept some sort of notebook, using it to record what the teacherwrites

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

Session 2313 Structured Troubleshooting in Process Design Anthony Vigil, Ronald L. Miller, E. Dendy Sloan, Jr. Colorado School of MinesSummarySenior-level process design courses have historically focused on large-scale chemical plant flowsheet development for grass-roots projects. While this is a worthwhile and necessary part of anychemical engineering curriculum, most new process engineers will not initially be placed in adesign situation, but rather may be assigned small-scale troubleshooting projects as a means ofintroducing them to existing processes. To help students acquire experience

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Asad Yousuf

Session 3659 Laser Induced Fluorescence Imaging Of Thermal Damage in Polymer Composites Using LabView and IMAQ Vision Asad Yousuf, P.E Professor, Electronics Engineering Technology Savannah State UniversityABSTRACTPolymer-composites (PMC’s) are becoming increasingly important in the production of highperformance vehicles and aircraft, where their low weight and high mechanical strength,combined with advancements in manufacturing technology, ensure increased use for a variety ofapplications. Of

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Adrian Ng; Kurt C. Gramoll

Session 3522 Online Review and Practice Tests for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Adrian Ng, Kurt Gramoll University of OklahomaAbstractWithin the past few years, the World Wide Web has proven to be a tool of great potentialboth as an instrument for education as well as for technology application. This is evidentwith the increase in distance learning sites available on the Internet. This paper focusesusing the Internet by students to prepare for the Fundamentals in Engineering ReviewProject. This project implements the computer-based, distance learning

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James Kang; HonShing Wu; Shy-Shenq P. Liou; Peter Leung; Hans Soelaeman

devices and systems are purchased and some of them are made in house, takingadvantage of a Printed Circuit Board prototype machine, which was acquired through a NSF-ILIgrant. We will introduce a few projects that demonstrate our design philosophy in setting up thisPower Electronics and Motion Control (PE&MC) Laboratory: Hands on Experience and SystemApproach.Hands-on Experience: One of the most important objectives for the PE&MC Laboratory is for students toacquire as much hands-on experience in power electronics as possible. We believe the best wayto re-enforce any engineering theory is to do it yourself in the laboratory. This is especially truein power electronics because many circuits are inherently high voltage and high

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Kurt Frederick

trainingand workshop activities, site visits to industry locations for data gathering, the placement offaculty in industry internships, and the preparation of 25 case studies developed as a result of theproject activities and faculty experiences. Also to be discussed are the activities and eventsplanned for the follow-up project to TEFATE, named the South East Advanced TechnologicalEducation Consortium Case Model Development Project.IntroductionSEATEC is a consortium of five two-year colleges located in Tennessee. Those colleges areChattanooga State Technical Community College, Jackson State Community College, NashvilleState Technical Institute, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, and State TechnicalInstitute at Memphis. An overall goal of

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Charles S. Elliott

Session 2222 Development of Engineering On-line Courses: Faculty and Student Support Charles S. Elliott Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) at Arizona State University hasembarked on a variety of initiatives to provide on-line engineering courses to several audiences.This paper will describe these various efforts and our special attempts to provide direct supportto our faculty and students to maximize success in these courses. It will also present somelessons we have learned to date.I

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Phillip C. Wankat

Session 1675 Effective, Efficient Teaching Phillip C. Wankat Chemical Engineering, Purdue UniversityAbstractNew professors are anxious to prove themselves in the classroom, but they know thattheir promotion and tenure prospects likely depend more on research productivity thanteaching. The challenge is not only to teach well, but also to teach efficiently.Fortunately, most good teaching practices are both effective and efficient. Methods fordeveloping a good course and hints on lecturing, testing and improving rapport withstudents are presented. Finally, a path for future

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Kip P. Nygren; Wayne Whiteman

Session 3268 Basic Vibration Design to Which Young Engineers Can Relate: The Washing Machine Lieutenant Colonel Wayne E. Whiteman, Colonel Kip P. Nygren United States Military Academy, West Point, New YorkAbstractA first course in vibration engineering is typically a content based, engineer scienceoffering with limited time and resources for engineering design. This paper offers oneexample of an early design project in vibration engineering with strong instructionalcontent that enhances the learning environment. It is crafted in a manner that is withinthe student’s capability to complete, yet offers a taste

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Raffaello D'Andrea

Session: Instrumentation Design and Applications 2259Experimental Model-Based Control Design Using Multibody Codes Raffaello D’Andrea Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 218 Upson Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 rd28@cornell.edu www.mae.cornell.edu/raff Abstract In this paper we discuss an on-going project at Cornell University aimed at introducing a significant

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Nancy White

Session 2606 TS/1 River of Law III – Duty of Engineers to Third Parties Prof. Nancy J. White, J.D. Assistant Professor Department of Construction Science Texas A & M University1. IntroductionNo doubt law and the American legal system are mysterious to those not routinely associated with it.The law and the American legal system is a living process. A process whereby the law is debatedand tested by different courts, eventually being hammered out after much trial and error, no punintended. Perhaps therein lies

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Winston F. Erevelles

Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and

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Andrew Grossfield

be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the canonical forms that embody the objects being studied. • The principles and techniques involved in changing forms should be made apparent.2. Elementary Examples of the PrinciplesFirst, consider fractions. Many forms for writing fractions exist. A canonical form is thefraction expressed in lowest terms. This form is suitable for multiplying and dividing fractions,but this form is not suitable for the addition or subtraction of unlike fractions. Then we need toknow that it is always possible to find numbers that will serve as common denominators (andeven a best common denominator) so that we can make the fractions alike. We need to knowthat the multiplication or division of any fraction

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William Durfee

Session 3325 The New Product Design and Business Development Program: Engineers and Business Students Join With Industry to Create New Products William K. Durfee Department of Mechanical Engineering University of MinnesotaI. IntroductionNew products are the driver behind most successful businesses and the key to maintaining acompetitive position in today's market. The University of Minnesota has launched an initiativewhich creates a novel educational model for teaching the principles of product design anddevelopment. The goals of this

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Jeff Goldberg

Session 3557 Engineering Economics on the Web Jeff Goldberg Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering The University of ArizonaAbstractIn Fall 1996, an NSF workshop on Engineering Economics and Design1 was presented inconjunction with the Salt Lake City FIE Meeting. At that workshop, multimedia instructionalmaterial was used and given to the participants. In this paper, we present an outgrowth of thatmultimedia material - the development of a web site for engineering economics. The site islocated at www.sie.arizona.edu/sie265. The site was

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Philip Doepker

Session 2323 The Design and Manufacturing Clinic: Bringing Industrial Projects into the Classroom Philip E. Doepker University of DaytonAbstractFor over a decade capstone design courses and other project related courses haveimplemented projects that have roots in industry. This was done on an informal basisbetween professors and contacts in industry. This process lacked consistency in thatsome projects would be repeated from previous terms or projects would be completelydefined by faculty with no input from industry. With recent findings (1,3,8) from varioustechnical

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J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

development, regardless ofthe discipline. The purpose of this paper is to show how student design projects furnished by industrycultivate this partnership and benefit both groups. A further purpose is to present specific steps forarranging these industrial projects. The basic concept is to use actual $real world# problems suggestedby companies for student team design projects which are a required component of senior mechanicalengineering design courses. The successful experiences of the mechanical engineering departmentat Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will be used as a model to describe how such programs canbe implemented. It is hoped that the procedures described here will assist other institutions inrealizing the same benefits. The two

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Hai-Shuan Lam; Kurt C. Gramoll

Session 3220 Practical Streaming Video on the Internet for Engineering Courses On- and Off-Campus Hai-Shuan Lam, Kurt Gramoll University of OklahomaAbstractOver the last few years, the Internet has been increasingly used for education and researchpurposes. In particular, since the introduction of streaming video technology for the Internet,there has been a large interest in broadcasting engineering courses in part over the Internet. Thispaper discusses topics on how to prepare a streaming video in several inexpensive ways withinan organization for

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Charles McIntryre

assignments, and 3)course assessment and evaluation. It is anticipated that this interactive and innovative style ofteaching should allow students to gain valuable experience in: teamwork, organizing anddelivering presentations, critical peer evaluation, and a better overall understanding the academicprocess. The contents of this paper document the procedures used to incorporate and integrate thisapproach into the instructional sequence of an existing course in construction management.Conclusions are formulated as a result of this $experiment in education.#I. Introduction$CME 425 - Risk Management and Decision Support# is a senior level course offered by theDivision of Construction Management within the Department of Civil Engineering andConstruction

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William M. Maalouf; Fazil Najafi

Session 3460 Effective Educational Delivery Tools Using Multimedia and Distance Learning Fazil T. Najafi, William M. Maalouf University of FloridaAbstractDistance learning, or the delivery of educational programming to remote sites, has recentlycome in vogue again as a hot topic, although it is far from being a new subject. There aremany world remote areas and sites consisting of a single individual, a whole classroom, or acorporate training center. Existing delivery methods are the Internet and the World WideWeb (WWW), emails, hardcopy documents, disks, CD’s