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James C. Wood

technology) to solve problems. Figure 1 shows the contrast between theisolated discipline educational model and integrated use of knowledge on the job. Curriculum Model Industrial Model First Year Second Year Fall Spring Fall Spring Te ch tics nic Math Math ET Maj 3 ET Maj 6 m a al the Sk Ma Communication ills Eng Eng ET Maj 4 ET

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T. Taylor; T. Egolf; R. Klenke; M. Salinas; J. Stinson; H. Carter; Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; Anthony J. Gadient

Institute of Technology, University of Virginia, University of Cincinnati, Raytheon, andArthur D. Little has developed a new digital system design curriculum and supporting courseinfrastructure in the form of an electronic archive of instructional material – course modules,labs, projects, and interactive educational CD-ROMs. Included in this electronic archive ordigital library are over 200 hours of instructional material suitable for immediate insertion atthe undergraduate and graduate levels. To date, over 80 educational institutions have obtainededucational material developed by the RASSP E&F team. In this paper, we present the technicalgoals and rationale, including an Educational Maturity Model (EMM), motivating our efforts.Additional

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Kirk E. Hiles

six weeks. Based on student feedback, this hands-onapplication of the engineering design process was much more effective (and more fun) than thetraditional lecture style course. The freshman felt they learned a great deal more about 'real'engineering when faced with deadlines, budget constraints, teamwork conflicts, the laws ofphysics, etc. The FIRST robot competition is an ideal project to expose freshman to theengineering design process.Background The Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) course at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy(USCGA) is a one semester course and is part of the core curriculum taken by all freshmen. Thecourse begins with a nine step design process1 to provide a logical technique for solvingproblems encountered

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Ward J. Collis; Shih-Liang Wang; Esther A. Hughes; John Chen

engineering curriculum. A team of faculty from thedepartments of mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering acted asconsultants to a team of twelve electrical and mechanical engineering seniorstudents whose joint task is to design, construct and test a solar-powered boat. Theboat will be entered into the 1997 Solar Splash regatta, to be held in June 1997 inMilwaukee, Wisconsin.Introduction In the increasingly competitive global market, government and industry haverealized the importance of cohesive, multidisciplinary engineering teams for productdesign and realization, and for problem solving. The benefits realized result fromthe wealth of experiences and skills brought to the team by the diversity of itsmembers. In the typical

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Bob Lahidji

properties7. Failure criteria8. Design for fatigue strength9. Design of mechanical elements--screws and fasteners10. Design of mechanical elements--welded joints11. Design of mechanical elements—bearings12. Design of mechanical elements—gearsRecommended Text:Shigley, J.E., & Mitchell, L.D. (1989). Mechanical engineering design. McGraw-Hill BookCompany.Method of Course Evaluation: 2 Exams 30% (15% each) Final exam 20% Quizzes 25% Assignments/Project 25%Laboratory Experience in ET Program According to Dr. Israel3, the laboratory experiences should provide students with theability to do the following:1. Become familiar with test equipment2

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Walter S. Lund; Trudy L. Schwartz; Lee D. Peterson; Lawrence E. Carlson

interactiveteaching tool that gives students the capability to demonstrate, monitor and manipulate thefacility’s many complex engineering systems (Carlson and Brandemuehl, 1997).Interdisciplinary CurriculumReflecting the interdisciplinary nature of ITL, planning for the new curriculum has crossedtraditional departmental boundaries. The initial impact on students is First YearEngineering Projects, a College-wide course that introduces beginning students to theexcitement of engineering and to the practical considerations of the design process(Carlson et. al., 1995, Piket-May et. al., 1995). Students design, build and test realproducts with real customers, such as an assistive glove that a quadriplegic student uses to

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Jerry W. Samples; Robert Martinazzi

curriculum, student life and activities, academic performance,education support services, and administrative policies and procedures. These five areasconstitute the foundation for the freshman seminar series3,4. CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTOnce the five areas of concern were identified, each area was analyzed in detail so meaningfulcontent could be established to satisfy student needs. The first area of study introduces thefreshman student to the Engineering Technology Division and the three ET departments. Thisintroduction receives the highest priority since the students will commit to a particulardepartment at the end of the freshman year. Consequently, four seminar sessions in the Fallsemester are devoted to the department’s

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Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

Session 2625Health (NIOSH) initiated Project SHAPE (Safety and Health Awareness in PreventiveEngineering) to enhance the safety awareness of safety engineering faculty and assist in thedevelopment of course materials for the integration of safety, health, and environmental conceptsin the engineering curricula.One significant problem is how to add additional safety and health related material to an alreadyovercrowded engineering curriculum. In some situations, the University of Utah for example, theBoard of Regents has established a maximum number of credits that can be required for a 7baccalaureate degree in any discipline. It has been proposed by Bloswick that there are

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; David D. Clark; David W. Rosen

(Mistree, et al., 1990) • A computing environment in which a number of computer-based tools are integrated: The DSPT Workbook (Allen, et al., 1989) which is being transformed into the Design Learning Simulator (Turns, et al., 1995)In this paper, we focus on describing the process for converting information that characterizes theneeds and requirements for a product into knowledge about the product. This process isembodied in a part of our Design Learning Simulator.1.1 Implementing the DSP Technique: ME3110 Creative Decisions & DesignME3110: CREATIVE DECISIONS AND DESIGN is the first design course in our curriculum and isrequired for every ME student. Product realization, over a 10 week quarter, is the focus of thecourse

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Carol Richardson

thetelecommunications engineering technology programs. The computer, electrical andtelecommunications engineering technology programs are all in one department soseveral joint sessions were held with the students from all of the programs in thisdepartment. The undeclared engineering technology freshman seminar class meets foranother hour and half each week to explore the various engineering technology,information technology, and packaging science programs in the college. Some of the common sessions in the engineering technology freshman seminarsessions are study skills, Red Barn activities, group project activities that are applicable toprograms in the department, group presentations on the projects, time management,creativity, risk taking, ethics

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William W. Schultz; Roger W. Pryor; Michael Vaksman; Mark Schumack; Kevin Belfield; Vladimir Sheyman; Mukasa Ssemakula; Shuvra Das

candidates’ daily experience. Thefoundational principles for most of the eighteen modules are taught in interactive tutorials writtenwith the multimedia authoring package Authorware®. Complementing the computer-basedtutorials are instructor-assisted problem-solving sessions, experiments, work-related teamprojects, case studies, or traditional lectures. The tutorials include periodic assignments such ascomputer problems (solved using a spreadsheet or mathematics package) and traditional "pencil-and-paper" problems.Presented here is a discussion of the teaching philosophy, a description of the structure of thethermophysics curriculum, and a summary of content. Portions of the computer-based tutorialsare described, and examples of experiments, projects

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Thomas R Phillips

Session 3260 North American Engineering Education & Academic Exchange: -- Canada, Mexico, the United States -- Thomas R Phillips, ABET/FlPSE Project Consultant Managing Director, Collegeways Associates (USA)From 1993 to 1996 the author served as ‘External Evaluator’ for the Regional Academic MobilityProgram (RAMP), a multilateral exchange program run by the Institute of International Education(IIE). RAMP has brought together 26 institutions in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, movingover 200 students in its first three years. However, only about 12% of the exchanges

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Arnold F. Johnson

engineering degrees through a more traditional on-campus education1. The firstcourse was offered via videotape beginning in January, 1989. In 1993, GE Plastics, HutchinsonTechnology, Inc., and Dupont formed a consortium with 3M to provide financial support andguidance for the CEDP. As of March 1, 1997, there are fifteen members in the consortium. Theconsortium provides advice regarding the needs of the students from an industry viewpoint inaddition to providing financial support for the additional costs of delivering the courses viavideotape.Students whose employers are members of the consortium are able to take math, chemistry andengineering courses that lead to undergraduate degrees in chemical, electrical and mechanicalengineering. Laboratories

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Andrew S. Lau

: • It goes beyond ‘green engineering’ to discuss ethics, diverse cultural critiques of technology, and the politics of technology. • It is a technical elective and requires a significant group design project. • It qualifies as a ‘Diversity-Focused’ course and considers three specific cultural groups and their attitudes toward technology: feminists, the Amish, and Native Americans. • It makes use of collaborative groups throughout the course and requires considerable writing and speaking assignments.BACKGROUNDThe course evolved from several other courses taught by the author since 1984, including anIntroduction to Energy Technology course which made use of Jeremy Rifkin’s

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Heather Nachtmann Umphred; Kim LaScola Needy; Jerome P. Lavelle

large sized classes. And large class sizes placed more weight on pop quizzes than did small class sizes. • IE faculty are more likely to use a graduate student to teach an engineering economy course than Non-IE faculty. • Page 2.168.9 Nearly half (47%) of those surveyed are reworking or redesigning their curriculum. • Non-IE faculty use groups nearly twice as frequently as IE faculty as part of their class. • Non-IE faculty use projects more than one-and-one half times as much as IE faculty. • Only 44% of respondents indicated that they supplement the single

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

. The experiments show the principle of reverse osmosis and provide some introductionto the students on system design and applications.Both the coffee machine and reverse osmosis units are very effective tools to get studentsmotivated within the field of engineering!ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFunding for some of the curriculum development activities described above are funded by a grant from the DuPontFoundation. Funding for the new School of Engineering was initiated using a major gift in 1992 from the RowanFoundation (Rowan and Smith[22]).References1. Engineering Education for a Changing World, Joint project report by the Engineering Deans Council and Corpo- rate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, DC, 1994.2

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew M. Hoff

of such devices. Personnel requirements not only include material scientists and engineers but a host of competent support people who together will implement the technology roadmap for this industry. The task at hand is to develop a workforce that must have a new skill set which has not previously been the focus of any existing organized technical curriculum. This paper will address one approach to presenting the important process steps in microdevice fabrication to a non-materials major audience. Particular attention will be spent on the problems and challenges associated with introducing what the technical demands and expectations of the industry will be, presenting the material

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Richard A. Young

am also indebted to my colleagues in physicsMark Utlaut, Tom McGlinn, and the University of Portland computer support staff for their help(past and present) in this project. Finally I would like to thank the adjunct lab instructors: EllainLaJoie, Bruce Meeves, and Greg Mulder, for their often heroic effort.References1. David Hestenes (1987), "A Modeling theory of physics instruction", Am J. Phys, 55, 440-454.2. David Hestenes (1992), "Modeling games in a Newtonian World", Am J. Phys, 60, 732-748.3. R. R. Borchers (1988), "In Praise of Visualization and Simulation ", Computers in Physics Jan/Feb )4. P.W. Laws (1988) in The Conference on Computers in Physics Instruction, E. F. Redish and J. S. Risley, Eds,Addison Wesley.5. P. W. Laws, et al

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Mumtaz Usmen; John Raad; Haluk Aktan

will be retrofitted Page 2.20.2 2into the existing structural member and connections existing rebars needs to be made. Currentlythe most prevalent use for this technology is to locate reinforcements before drilling anchorageholes into a concrete member. However, as our infrastructure continues to age, and retrofittingand upgrade projects increase in number and complexity, this technology is expected to becomeincreasingly popular.Corrosion Mapping: A major component of strength in a concrete member is the condition ofthe rebar. At early ages the properties of steel reinforcements are fairly