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Ilya Grinberg

systems, electric machines, and power electronics). While the first level courses dealprimarily with elements, devices, and circuits, the second level courses deal with their advancedapplications, as well as with systems.This paper discusses curriculum structure, topical outlines, methods of delivery, pedagogicalstrategies (collaborative learning, individual and team projects, off-site industrial laboratoriesamong others), industry collaboration, including industrial advisory committee, and evaluationand assessment techniques, among others. Samples of student work and their involvement inresearch and creative activities are presented.2. Curriculum Objectives and StructurePower/machines option curriculum is structured based on the objectives of

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

surveys? Rankings ofUS News and World Report? Licensing exams? This is a difficult question to address, and onlyrecently have engineering programs been asked to formally assess the outcomes of theireducational process. Many biomedical engineering programs continually assess and remold theircurricula to enhance their educational missions in specific, practical, measurable ways, with thegoals of improving the effectiveness of training and education. However, these assessmentshave typically been somewhat informal and randomly distributed. Even with NSF’s solidcommitment to engineering design project experiences, and widespread enthusiasm about thisexperiential approach to learning and service, there is a lack of documented solid empiricalsupport for

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C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

main focus of most 4-year programs in engineering technology, it isessential that students be taught the skills that will make them proficient in design. Three keyskills which are essential are creativity, estimating, and critical thinking.The ability to think creatively is the skill that allows the designer to step ahead beyond whatalready exists, and to envision what does not yet exist. It is particularly useful in steps 1, 2, 3,and 5 of the design process outlined above. The ability to estimate allows the designer to lookahead to assess feasibility, to look back to verify assumptions and calculations, and to around tokeep one’s feet on the ground during the design process. It is very useful at all steps of the designprocess. And lastly, the

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Winston F. Erevelles

providethe facility with its computing capabilities. The facility shares Cincinnati Milacron injectionmolding machines and a SLA-190 rapid prototyping machine with the neighboring PolymerProcessing facility.The Polymer Processing laboratory houses a thermoformer, an extruder, and three injectionmolding machines. In addition to this process equipment, there are also facilities for mechanicaltesting of ASTM standard specimens. Polymer processing laboratory investigations focus on therelationships between process parameters and part quality. Mechanical tests are performed onthe molded parts and measurements are made to assess shrinkage.The paradigm shift advocating a continuum of experiences sought to provide students(individual and in teams) with

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2000 Annual Conference

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Therese A. Mylan; Ravi K. Ghai; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary E. Rafe; Bopaya Bidanda

item control in the controlling applet offers the second scenario.When this configuration is selected, the initial scene is removed and replaced by the new scene.Following this brief exercise, MOST general move sequences are derived for the two scenariosand compared.We conclude this discussion by noting that the development of appropriate qualitative andquantitative tools to assess the usability and effectiveness of our DVL in this case-study remainto be completed. We will be describing these assessment tools and the results of our assessmentcase-study in a future paper.SummaryThis paper described our recent efforts in the development and implementation of a distributedvirtual laboratory for continuous manufacturing education and training

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Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

. Ininstrumentation, the course would be remiss without at least some experience with a Pitottube. This simple, but important and pervasive, instrument demonstrates Bernoulli flowin its own operation while measuring the experimental flow being investigated. If anLDV is not available, it would not be missed as much. Since thermal anemometers arenow much used in the field, one should be included; but it need not be a research qualitysystem. In data analysis, regression analysis seems mandatory, and the analysis should notbe considered complete without using comparing a regression model with a literaturemodel. Furthermore students should use the Coefficient of Determination to quantify theperformance of the model and evaluation the alpha risk to assess

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2000 Annual Conference

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Debbie T. Brown; Masoud Rais-Rohani

truss structures.Therefore, by demonstrating to the students how the solution is formulated and how the resultsare checked and validated, T-DAT can help to enhance their ability to work such problems ontheir own without any outside help, which is our primary goal.VI. Test-Your-Knowledge ExercisesTesting has a significant role in education, and in the case of online education, assessment couldhelp to determine how well the student has understood the concepts in solid mechanics and howwell he or she can apply the methods of analysis to the solution of a given problem. The test-your-knowledge exercises in each module represent a collection of problems to which thestudent must supply the answers. The questions range in degree of difficulty. In some

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2000 Annual Conference

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Walden S. Rio

always be aliability.The main goal of accreditation is to improve the quality of engineering education of that school.This is done by using criteria and guidelines, which will be used to assess the educationaleffectiveness of the school. The main characteristics of accreditation are the following:1. It is voluntary in nature2. It is done as a self-regulation by the school itself3. Its main focus is to evaluate the educational quality of the school.4. It functions as an evaluative process and the institutional survey is the Instrument used indoing the evaluation.All engineering institutions undergo one form of recognition before it can operate. This is whena school is recognized by the government to operate as an engineering

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

rubricused in assessing the program will be the likelihood of the various activities to have long-termimpact on students, teachers or both. This is somewhat vague, but is felt to be quite important.If the fellows are left in charge of the science lesson in a particular classroom on a regular basiswith the teacher “checking out,” either literally or figuratively, that interaction will be judged tohave been ineffective. The teacher will have gained nothing from the experience.The student, teacher and parent surveys will be repeated at the end of the year to determinewhether attitudes toward science have been affected in any way. Some of the questions on theparent survey ask how frequently children ask about science at home, so this will also

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2000 Annual Conference

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Karim M. El-Dash

session. The discussions in the current studywere conducted once a week after one of the two weekly classes of the course. The subjects tobe handled were picked to serve, support, and clarify the objective of the ConstructionManagement course. The discussion titles were: 1. What is construction management? 2. Phases of construction project life cycle. 3. The importance and aftermath of using quality in construction. 4. Role of construction manager in planning, staffing, and coordination. 5. Responsibilities and duties of students and engineers. 6. Assessment of civil engineering program. (Self-assessment for the students.) 7. Contractor’s presentation for a giant contract. (Student-led session) 8. Importance of planning and scheduling in

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

, removed unnecessary GD&T features, andcorrected the students’ work as needed to develop the final documentation.V. Project Benefits and DrawbacksWith any new academic endeavor, review of course outcomes to determine what new Page 5.285.3aspects should become standard in a course and which components should never occuragain must follow the initial implementation. Tables 2 and 3 address the revisiting ofthe cart-tipper project and the instructors’ assessment regarding its successes andlimitations.VI. Conclusions and Recommendations for Future ClassesIncorporating an industry project into this second-semester freshman course brought

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Lisa Wipplinger

building structure inlieu of a comprehensive final exam. The students work in assigned teams to perform a preliminarydesign based on material they have learned in class. The teams generally all work on one buildingwith minor variations. Each team is required to turn in calculations, plans, sketches and individualjournals. The class professor serves as $senior engineer#, providing guidance during the designprocess and assessing the final project for accuracy and clarity. Smaller design projects have alsobeen used in the Concrete Theory/Design classes.Evaluation projects have been used in the Steel Theory/Design classes to reinforce the structuralfundamentals of load path and material behavior. These projects generally involved analysis of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

Session 2647 IMPACT OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION TO LOCAL INDUSTRIES George Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology Mohammad Najafi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology Missouri Western State College, 4525 Downs Drive, St. Joseph, MO 64507AbstractIn this paper, the history of a newly-established two-year manufacturing engineering technologyprogram is presented. Impact of the program to the local community has been characterized bystudent population, student employment situations, and on-going collaboration with localindustries. Statewide and local need assessment

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Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock

having a unique set(s) ofdata. This will further enhance the student’s understanding of data reduction, data analysis andstatistical analysis of real-world data.IV. AssessmentThe program was tested using in a small focus group of 24 students and faculty. Assessment wasperformed through a questionnaire. Each question throughout the survey was marked according to a7-point Likert scale where a value of 7 indicated the highest possible positive response, and a valueof 1 indicated the lowest or most negative. When calculating the totals, a value of 168 is the highestpossible, whereas a value of 24 would be the lowest possible. The results are divided into threecategories, as shown in Tables 1-3. Overall, the project received favorable reviews.V

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2000 Annual Conference

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

engineering education experiment titled “Computer-Aided Design Across Universities” (CADAU) between the mechanical engineering (ME)department at Iowa State University (ISU) and the mechanical systems (MS) department at theUniversite de Technologie de Compiegne (UTC). The objective of the experiment is thedevelopment and assessment of an international collaborative infrastructure between the twodepartments at the undergraduate level.1. IntroductionEvery four years, ASME sponsors the Mechanical Engineering Education conference. The themeof the conference depends on the general consensus regarding the critical issues facingengineering education in the following years. The theme for the 1997 conference, which washeld on March 19-21 in San Diego

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Tracy L. Chandler; John A. Petersen; Janet M. Sharp

select a beam, based on information from our charts [table of cross-sectional and weight properties of I-beams]. They will use either a different bridge and/or a different load, then will have to find a correct beam. Finally, the students will determine and justify, using mathematical principles, how they would select the most cost-effective beam. Page 5.598.4 For an assessment, the students will write a report in which they: • describe tension and compression • provide a diagram of the entire bridge • provide partial diagrams of each individual joint, (including

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ann M. Anderson; Richard D. Wilk

tunnel at both upstream and downstream ports.ÃÃHEAT TRANSFER LABORATORY EXERCISEWe have developed an electronics packaging design exercise in which students are asked todesign a cooling system for a CPU chip. They use the table top wind tunnel systems to measurethe heat transfer from a CPU chip under various conditions.The students are specifically asked to perform tests to determine the chip case to ambient airthermal resistance and then predict resulting chip temperatures for four possible cooling schemes(forced, free convection, with or without a heat sink). In addition we ask them to perform a liquidcrystal temperature visualization study to assess the heating effect of upstream modules andrecommend a module to module spacing. They are told

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2000 Annual Conference

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John C. Anderson; David Kelso; Charles Yarnoff; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

the fact that there are always two perspectives present whenthe course is planned, taught, and improved. Second, integrating design and communication sothoroughly improves students’ learning in both areas.Finally, our cross-disciplinary collaboration provides both an occasion and an incentive to keepexploring what we have in common, and what differences we must negotiate. The result hasbeen an almost continuous process of planning, assessment, and revision as we strive to keepthe two parts of our course in balance and in synch. In doing so, we have applied to our ownprocess of course design something of the same team-based, user-driven, audience-consciousprocess that we teach our student: practicing what we preach leads to a high quality

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W.D. Jemison; W. R. Haller; W. A. Hornfeck

experience with this printed circuitboard milling machine. Specifically, the paper will describe how the machine is beingused in a number of courses ranging from our first-year Introduction to Engineeringcourse, through sophomore and junior year laboratory projects, to our capstone seniordesign course. The integrated design process used by our students to design printedcircuit boards will be described and several representative designs will be discussed todemonstrate the level of design complexity that can be achieved using this technology.Finally, some initial assessment data regarding student reaction to the PCB millingmachine is provided.I. IntroductionVirtually all fundamental phenomena associated with the Electrical and ComputerEngineering

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Jack M. Winters; Binh Q. Tran

assignment was useful for students in developing quantitative, as well as qualitative, testprotocols for product evaluation. Important parameters such as audio and video delays wereassessed. Additionally, tests were conducted to evaluate the delay in data transmission (i.e. largedata file) over LAN and modem lines: (1) without audio or video, (2) with only audio, (3) with only video, and (4) with audio and video presentStudents also assessed the interaction and trade-offs in audio and video quality during each testcase.Using the campus LAN, temporal delays results showed audio and video delays to be on theorder of approximately 400-500 ms. Data transfer times varied by almost 100% for test cases 1-4, ranging from 3.10

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Erlandson

knowledge is also found at theuniversity level.Most college and university faculty, and thus students, are not aware of the evolving laws andregulations dealing with accessible design for individuals with disabilities. This hypothesis issupported by a review of online course offerings. As part of the needs assessment for an NSFcurriculum development grant, about thirty university web sites were reviewed. With theexception of Industrial Engineering, human factors, and rehabilitation engineering courses,issues of accessible design for individuals with disabilities were not mentioned. In a review ofthe on-line listings of the introductory level engineering texts of McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall andJohn Wiley, only one of 26 books mentions disability and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Paul Chinowsky

of four students decides to pursue.Following the outline of the course modules, the students must complete everything from amarket needs assessment to a financial plan and budget. At the conclusion of the course, thestudents make two project presentations. In the first, the students present to their class for aformal critique of their plan by their peers. In the second, the students present their businessesto a panel of industry executives who critique the plans and select the top-rated business plan. Page 6.137.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001

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Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

children in a technologicalworld need to be taught problem solving skills. Engineering faculty in other states are alreadydevising strategies to assess the effectiveness of reaching out to K-12 programs.7Another approach is to take a longer-range view and address the issue from a pre-serviceperspective. We are working toward approval of an Engineering Education degree in which thecandidate would major in engineering and complete the typical engineering and science coursesthrough their junior year. In order to keep degree requirements within a reasonable four-yearschedule, they probably would not take all of the senior design and technical courses required foran engineering degree. They would take the secondary education courses required to obtain

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Steven Chapra; Gary Huvard; David E. Clough

engineering professionals; and/or they are unfamiliar with theteaching of 17-year-olds just out of high school. A rational approach to introductory computingis based on the real needs of students and professionals. These should be assessed throughsurvey, study and evaluation, and then used as the basis for curriculum design. We believe wehave done this.There have been tendencies across the US to go in one of two directions when it comes tointroductory computing for engineering students:1) The "tools" approach. Here, the focus is on the built-in capabilities of a number of software packages. Students solve a variety of engineering problems within the confines of the software’s menu options. The features of the software define the scope of the

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1998 Annual Conference

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Susan Montgomery

fulfilling all degree requirements.Advisor's signature DateStudent's signature DateOriginal: Faculty Advisor Yellow copy: Student Pink copy: Department Figure 3 - Advising Report Form Page 3.7.9IMPLEMENTATION, ASSESSMENT, AND FUTURE PLANSStudents were surveyed following the first advising period Fall 1997 through an e-mail survey.Approximately 20% of each class replied. Table 1 records typical student comments, and Figures4 through 6 summarize student responses. Overall

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert Knecht; Randal Ford

applications.Central to the curriculum is a project which requires teams to make decisions based onassumptions and constraints imposed by the problem, situation and client. This project providesan opportunity to exercise both creative thinking (brain storming and data gathering) and criticalthinking (technical assessment and economic analysis). Teams assess various design parametersto develop the “best” solution through evaluation, analysis and synthesis of alternatives. Second -Year Students Propose A ProjectSecond-year students proposed to the Director of Design (EPICS) that they use their production Page 3.224.1of The Music Man as a

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G.J. Freeman; A.M. Mankowski; Daniel J. Pack

team. So far, the project has fostered the desired skills, and we will report thecomplete results at the upcoming conference. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe authors would like to acknowledge Byron Formwalt and David Pittner now both serving as2nd Lts, United States Air Force, who created the first-fire fighting robot. REFERENCE[1] Gloria M. Rogers, “Student Learning Assessment and the ABET Student Outcomes Criteria:“Good News/Bad News,” proceedings of the 1996 American Society for Engineering EducationConference, Washington, D.C., June 1996. Page 3.10.6[2] Accreditation Board for

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Kristopher Delgado; Hartono Sumali

learning.AssessmentSince this course is started as a response to input from industry, the most important measure thesuccess of the course is the feedback from the graduates from the department who work inindustry. This feedback can only be obtained years after the students take the course. Formativeassessment (Shaeiwitz, 1996), such as students’ feedback while the course is administered, mayor may not reflect how much students actually learn. However, this assessment helps determinehow students feel about the course. Page 3.344.7Course web siteAt the time this paper was written, the course was still under development. The course will beoffered in Fall 1998

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Daniel P. Schrage

OBJECTIVES ROBUST DESIGN GENERATE FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES SYSTEM SYNTHESIS ASSESSMENT & THROUGH MDO OPTIMIZATION EVALUATE ALTERNATIVES ON-LINE QUALITY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ENGINEERING & MAKE DECISION & STATISTICAL

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert Allen; Richard Penson

Session 1559 Intracranial Hypertension - Condition Monitoring by Time Domain Analysis Professor Richard Penson, Dr Robert Allen Southampton Institute/Southampton University UK AbstractThis paper discusses the developments in the assessment of intracranial hypertension in humansand recent research carried out by the authors on the techniques for the non-invasive measurementof intracranial pressure. A brief historical review sets the scene with regard to clinical and invasivepressure can be predicted. Although a simulation