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Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harry Hess

Session 3263 Solid Modeling and Reverse Engineering: The Stimulus For Teaching Manufacturing Harry L. Hess The College of New JerseyI. IntroductionEngineering programs must motivate students to participate in the globally important topic ofmanufacturing. Required courses may be the first and only chance to stimulate the students’desire to study the basic concepts of manufacturing processes, organization and productionsystems. Unfortunately, this can be a very labored process and if

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Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Kuyath

Session Number: 3449 How Computer Animations Make Teaching Complex Topics More Effective And More Efficient Stephen J. Kuyath UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering TechnologyAbstract:Complex or abstract topics are sometimes very difficult for students to understand. Many ofthese topics can be taught in a more efficient and effective manner. Computer animations, bothuser-controlled and free running, with audio or textual clarification, appeal to a number oflearning styles that will help students master the subject. The methods used grew from teachingan introductory

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 3160 It’s Time to Re-think Engineering Education Conferences Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC Bethany S. Oberst James Madison University Thomas J. Siller Colorado State UniversityAbstractThe annual meeting of SEFI (The European Society for Engineering Education), held inCopenhagen, Denmark, on September 12 – 14, 2001, provided a model for whatengineering education conferences should be in the future. If engineering education istruly

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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Janet Powell; Richard Mines; Laura Lackey

Session 2002-781 Encouraging High School Students to Learn about Bioremediation Richard O. Mines, Jr.1, Janet Carlson Powell2, Laura W. Lackey1 Mercer University1, Department of Environmental Engineering, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, GA 31210 / BSCS2, 5415 Mark Dabling Blvd. Colorado Springs, CO 808919AbstractThis paper presents a laboratory activity for high school students used to stimulate their interestin environmental engineering and the role of bioremediation in cleaning up the environment.The proposed laboratory activity utilized six, 2

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dana Knox

Session 2613 Assessment Methods for Engineering Programs - Too Many Choices or Not Enough? Dana E. Knox Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractWhen departments begin to prepare for their accreditation visit under the new EC2000 criteriabeing used by ABET, they usually begin to search for assessment methods that they can readilyinclude in their self-study report. Often the result is that they develop a number of new surveysand

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raj Desai; Ted Loso; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

order toaccomplish this, the following research questions were proposed: · Will drawing an object in 3-D and producing that part with a Rapid Prototyping system as part of an Industry initiated project improve student visualization skills? · Does industry and education see benefits in this type of partnership?To do this several courses and industrial projects were used and evaluated for visualization skillimprovement and perceived benefits to provide a more complete picture.NeedThe need is seen as twofold in nature. Industry needs both trained personnel and access tospecial services. Education needs to provide trained personnel and access to the latesttechnology possible. Graphics is one of the core areas and permeates most

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz; Cathy Maltbie

SessionInvestigating Learning and Technology Using the MBTI and Kolb's LSI Virginia Elkins, Catherine Rafter, Roy Eckart, Eugene Rutz ,Cathie Maltbie University of CincinnatiAbstractThis presentation will share the findings of a three-year study at the University ofCincinnati on the effects of using technology on student learning in two basic engineeringcourses. We will compare our results to existing data on engineering students andpracticing engineers, as well as discuss whether techno logy affected performance amongvarious groups. Findings may clarify whether the

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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hang Choi

-called school reform whereby 2 or 3 departments were merged into one1. For example, in thecase of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, three former departments-Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Design and Production, Aerospace Engineering-weremerged. The main objective of the school reform was to expose students with diverse coursesand to allow them to choose their major from a rather broad field.In addition, freshmen are admitted to the Engineering College without being designated a fixedmajor. They would decide their major after having completed the freshman year. These studentswill be offered to take introductory courses for engineering majors each semester to help themgrasp the kinds of studies they will be going to do and

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Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sarah Williamson; Fiona Lamb

Session 1460 Desires of industry, products from academia - Ships that pass in the night? R Eley, S Williamson, F Lamb LTSN Engineering, Loughborough University, UKIntroduction. The UK-wide Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) was launched in January2000 following a British Government review of existing learning and teaching initiatives inhigher education (HE). Recognition that academics best appreciate, assimilate and implement apedagogic approach when presented to them in the context of their own discipline, resulted in

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Erdogan Sener

Session 2121 Implementing Six Sigma Breakthrough Management Strategy in an Academic Department Erdogan M. Sener Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUIIntroductionThe Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy (SSBS) is one of the successful management strategiesthat have found a number of important followers in the last 10 years. The strategy has beenimplemented by work giant companies such as GE, Allied Signal, and Motorola with successleading to achievement of an exceptional level of quality in their work.The Six Sigma Breakthrough Management Strategy was

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Dahleh

Session Sustainability of an Outcome Based Assessment Process: Analysis of the Resource Impact Marie Dillon Dahleh Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106AbstractAll ABET accredited programs are developing assessment plans, which are used to determine ifa program is successfully achieving the program outcomes. These outcomes must include butare not limited to Criterion 3 (a)-(k) of EC 2000. The assessment plans must balance the desire tomeasure all of the outcomes all of the time and the limited resources available. Most

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Madara Ogot

Session 1566 The Creative Design Workshop: Learning and Discovery through Reverse Engineering Madara Ogot Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyAbstractThe Creative Design Workshop is based on an existing learning model that currently operates onvirtually all university campuses – the college newspaper. What better way to train futurejournalists than have them work in a real newspaper environment, honing their interview andwriting skills, while at the same time providing an

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ruxandra Botez; Iulian Cotoi

inMontreal, Canada. The main objectif of this course is the study of electronic avionics instrumentationinstalled in aircraft. In this course, the following chapters are presented : History of avionics,Methods of navigation and orientation, Pilot cockpit and board instrumentation, Communicationsystems, Radio-navigation systems, Landing systems, Engine signalization instruments, Central alarmsystems, Maintenance systems and Warning systems.The presentation of the course in the class to the students is shown on PowerPoint slides and videoson modern aircraft such as Airbus and Boeing. Also, regarding the pilot induced oscillations a videofilm is provided from Bombardier Aerospace. However, the presentation of the course in the classmay be improved and

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Qianjin Yue; Peifung Guo; Hung Tao Shen; Hayley Shen

Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China 266003IntroductionScientific research and technological enterprise are increasingly global. It is important to provideopportunities for engineers and scientists to develop the international experience and capabilitiesat early stages in their careers. This paper presents the experience from a NSF-REU (ResearchExperience for Undergraduates) Program on Marine Science and Engineering in China. Thisprogram is the first REU Program in China sponsored by the NSF Division of InternationalPrograms. Over 30 students from different universities across the United States participated inthis Program in the last two years. The students spent 10 weeks during the summer in China toconduct research projects under the

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

Session 1455 Understanding and Utilizing Adjunct Professors for Non- traditional Engineering and Technology Graduate Education D. D. Dunlap, 1 R. E. Willis2 D. A. Keating, 3 T. G. Stanford, 3 R. J. Bennett, 2 M. I. Mendelson, 4 M. J. Aherne 5 Western Carolina University 1 / St Thomas University 2 / University of South Carolina 3 / Loyola Marymount University 4 / University of Alberta 5AbstractRe-envisioning adjunct faculty members for non-traditional engineering graduateeducation is developing ways to effect a national dialogue on how to re-envision

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dianna L. Newman; D. Reinhard

Session 2154 Multimedia The Use of Inquiry-Based Multi-Media Curriculum: It’s Impact on Students’ Perceptions of Learning Dianna L. Newman, Suneresh Heragu, Sybilyn Jennings University at Albany SUNY/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Russell Sage Colleg eThe use of technology is growing and simultaneously changing the learning process, thestructure of knowledge, and the nature of instruction. 1 In a 1995 survey of college campuses,Green and Gilbert 2 noted that major gains have been made in the use of informational technologyas an instructional resource and Duffy ad Jonassen 3 indicate that new forms of

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bradley Bazuin; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

processing (DSP) course, ECE 455.This has come about in response to industrial demands for students with more real-time, real-world experience, not just theory and computer simulations. In the laboratory, students workdirectly with audio signal sources, TI DSP based evaluation modules and development tools, andwrite software for real-time operations. This approach helps the students to better understand theapplication of the DSP concepts learned. Working with real-time signal processing at theundergraduate level has proven to be a challenge for both students and instructors. This paperdiscusses the real-time DSP laboratory and enumerates the opportunities and challengesassociated with teaching real-time, hands-on signal processing to undergraduate

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Keating

Session 1455 Lifelong Learning for Innovation and Leadership in Engineering D. A. Keating, 1 T. G. Stanford, 1 D. D. Dunlap, 2 R. J. Bennett, 3 M. I. Mendelson, 4 D. H. Sebastian, 5 S. J. Tricamo 5 University of South Carolina 1 / Western Carolina University 2 St Thomas University 3 / Loyola Marymount University 4 New Jersey Institute of Technology 5 AbstractIn many ways graduate engineering education has served the U.S. well. But there is now broadrecognition that it must change

Conference Session

International Graduate Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joanne Lax

Session 1655 Issues in Having International Teaching Assistants in Engineering Evaluate Undergraduate Writing Joanne Lax Purdue UniversityIntroductionABET’s EC 2000 has caused engineering departments throughout the nation to cast a well-deserved look at the state of engineering communications within their curriculum. Althoughengineering professors are well aware that excellent communications skills are essential in theirprofession, it is sometimes difficult, given the hefty content of most undergraduate courses

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Catherine Brawner; Rodney Allen; Richard Felder

implemented a faculty development program that includes teachingeffectiveness workshops, workshops for administrators on mentoring and supporting newfaculty, and measures to create and sustain engineering faculty development programs on eachmember campus. To assess the impact of these efforts, the SUCCEED faculty development teamdesigned and administered a survey of faculty teaching practices and attitudes toward teaching in19971 and administered it again in 1999 2. This paper summarizes the responses to survey itemsin which faculty rated the importance of effective teaching to themselves, to faculty colleagues,and to campus administrators, and the importance of effective and innovative teaching in theirinstitution’s faculty reward system.In 1999

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

skills areintegrated into the curriculum; a low faculty-student ratio and class size insureindividualized attention; ample opportunities for industry-based internships exist. Undersuch conditions, do female students flourish alongside the male students? The studycompares male and female students’ satisfaction with various aspects of the program andclimate in the Engineering College, and shows variation in gender differences by year inthe program. The analysis shows that female students are as satisfied or more satisfiedthan the male students with the programmatic elements of demands on the students in theclassroom and in the curriculum, the applied aspects of the program in terms of labwork,teamwork and Rowan’s engineering clinic, and peer and

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

Session 2260 International Collaboration in the Reform of Engineering Education Doris R. Brodeur, Edward F. Crawley, Ingemar Ingemarsson, Johan Malmqvist, Sören Östlund Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Linköping University/ Chalmers University of Technology/Royal Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn October 2000, with support from the Wallenberg Foundation, four universitieslaunched an international collaboration designed to improve undergraduate engineeringeducation in Sweden, the United States, and worldwide. This is a closely coordinatedprogram with

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Waddah Akili

Session 3160 Engineering Education in the Arab Gulf States: Stagnation versus Change W. Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (retired)Introduction:The latter part of the twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented economic, social, andtechnological change in many regions of the world. Perhaps, no region has experienced asdramatic a change as the states of the Arab Gulf region, referred to as the Arab Gulf States.These six neighboring states (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates andThe Sultanate of

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wilson Barnes; Gouranga Banik

study time. And last,foci of potentially meaningful research are listed.Key Words: Construction Industry, Academia, Issues, Challenges, Constructability, Partnering.IntroductionThe increasing scope and complexity of construction projects, along with a greater number ofexternally imposed requirements, has expanded the challenge to project managers for successfulcompletion. Increased competition and changing client demands are requiring the constructionindustry to address a wider range of issues than ever before in areas such as strategic analysis,worker problems, knowledge management, and emerging technologies. At the beginning of thetwenty-first century, many concerned persons are looking to the future of construction and,concurrently, to the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Matson; Elizabeth Kisenwether

need fortraining students at the undergraduate level to manage, lead, and innovate our technologicalfuture.With the support of a grant from the GE Learning Excellence Fund, the College of Engineeringthrough the Problem-Based Learning in Entrepreneurship (PBLE) Program is developingengineering undergraduate courses that incorporate product conceptualization, design, feasibility(technical and market) in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting. The PBLE Program targetsstudents from three academic areas: Engineering, Business and IST (Information Sciences andTechnology). This paper explains the processes used to define the new entrepreneurshipcurriculum, core courses, assessment approach, institutionalization of engineeringentrepreneurship, and

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Zarrugh

informationtechnology as a tool for increasing labor productivity and enhancing competitiveness.Successfully blending engineering, business, science and information technology, the coursesprovide a balanced contemporary treatment of manufacturing resource management, design andmanufacturing systems, and materials and manufacturing processes. Several laboratory modulesand group projects offered throughout the sequence provide opportunities for experientiallearning, hand-on experience and teamwork. The sequence addresses many of the criticalcompetency gaps in manufacturing engineering education reported in recent national surveys ofmanufacturing managers and practitioners.I. IntroductionEngineering education throughout its history has emphasized preparation for

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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D. Reinhard

Session: 2176 Longitudinal Evaluation of Innovative Technology Based Curricula: Integrating the Learning of Mathematics with Applied Science and Engineering Dianna L. Newman, Kenneth S. Manning, Mark Holmes, Robert Spilker University at Albany SUNY/ Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteThe role of technology as a support to instruction and curriculum is now a major concern ofhigher education faculty. An increasing number of students and instructors are using technologyboth in and out of traditional classroom settings. As these changes are being integrated andimplemented, developers and

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Jean-Lou Chameau; Dick K.P. Yue

, computer science and engineering,electrical engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering.Assessment of current practices is achieved through quantitative and qualitativequestionnaires completed by administrators of each school, questionnaires completed byfaculty at the school, and on-site interviews with deans, department heads and senioradministration of the school. Additionally, surveys of alumni, human resources managers,and line managers in industry provide external views to support assessment of theschools’ educational practices. Practices at a school are compared with the vision,mission and goals developed by the school. The findings and conclusions of the studyare shared among all the universities with the goal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

Session 2793 Preferred Learning Activities Russell Pimmel Electrical and Computer Engineering University of AlabamaAbstractIn this study, we utilized end-of-the-semester survey data in which students ranked nine learningactivities “in order of their importance in helping a student do well in this course”. The activitieswere: attending lectures, reading the text, reading the objectives, doing homework, doinghomework in study groups, attending evening reviews, completing lab assignments, doing in-class

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Glenn Wrate

Session 2333 Focus on Energy – Wisconsin’s Initiative to Reduce Industrial Energy Consumption Glenn Wrate Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents an overview of a statewide program to assure an ample supply of reasonablypriced, reliable energy for Wisconsin. To help meet this goal, the State of Wisconsin hasembarked on a three-year, $64 million initiative to improve the energy usage of its majorindustries. The initiative focuses on three aspects of energy use: increased energy efficiency,decreased peak demand, and the