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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

Session 2439 Undergraduate Integrated Engineering & Business Practice Curriculum in the College of Engineering Robert M. Dunn, Ph.D. , John M. Brauer College of Engineering University of Notre DameAbstractThe College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame has completed the third year ofteaching its undergraduate Integrated Engineering & Business Practice Curriculum. Thecurriculum was developed as a response to corporate and parental requests for a morecomprehensive engineering education. The curriculum is

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”digital control systems in view of greater flexibility of a digital controller1. This course wasoriginally taught in a traditional, lecture oriented fashion due to the lack of laboratory equipment.This traditional approach of teaching control systems ignores the gap between theory and reality.No matter what illustrated examples used in textbooks or lectures, students are only exposed toequations, matrices, block diagrams, frequency response, and signal flow graphs. Even simplesystems, such as a single-input, single-output DC motor can be abstract when described only onmathematical terms. Not only do demonstrations and experiments help students bettercomprehend theoretical concepts, they allow

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Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wade Peerman; Michael Payne; Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

Session 2651 Community-Based Approach to Environmental Education Vivian Chang, Eliot S. Metzger, Michael Payne, Sonya M. Havens, Wade R. Peerman, and John M. Lendvay University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CAAbstractThe Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco, California, is a diverse communitythat experiences an inordinate amount of pollution. Within this five square mile area, heavyindustry, the city’s sewage treatment plant, and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard(HPNSY) all act as concentrated and diffuse pollution sources. This research project focuses

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ethan Brue

public. All social activity requires a person to have asense of cultural development. Language itself necessitates an understanding of history for fullcomprehension. Historical study for engineers is not simply a nicety, it is a necessity. History isan essential for good design.Approaches to Teaching History in the Engineering CurriculumThe teaching of history in the engineering curriculum is not new. Over the last fifty years therehave been a variety of approaches used to introduce history in the engineering curriculum5.A common approach at many technical universities is simply to outsource their humanitiescourses. An engineering student is provided a block of optional courses offered on the other sideof campus from which to choose from. In

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Law; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

Session 2533 New Three-Level Undergraduate Curriculum for Teaching Electrical Energy Subjects Herbert L. Hess, Joseph D. Law, Brian K. Johnson University of IdahoAbstractA new approach to an electric power and energy curriculum is presented. Student interestsappear in three categories: those who take only one introductory course for breadth, those whowant the greatest available depth of study in power and energy topics, and those who will studyanother area of electrical engineering in depth but find understanding power and energy topicshelpful to their anticipated

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mahmoud Ardebili; Ali Sadegh

environment. The class teaches fundamentals ofengineering graphics. It provides students with an opportunity to learn solid modeling asa tool for design process and product realization in addition to skills/competencies thattraditional introductory graphics classes promote.The main thrust of the new curriculum is on the project-based learning. It is believed thatpresenting the topics of the course through a project would expose the students toreal engineering practice. In fact, this approach helps students, throughout theirengineering programs, to prepare themselves for the Capstone Projects in the seniordesign courses. Specifically, students are given the opportunity to disassemble a realproduct and construct drawings of its parts. At the end of the

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Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Session Number 1349 New Baccalaureate Degree with a Concentration in Industrial and Enterprise Networking Harold L. Broberg, Paul I-Hai Lin ECET Department, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, INAbstractThe curriculum and details concerning specific courses and course content are describedfor this innovative program which was developed by faculty from the Electrical andComputer Engineering Technology and Computer Science departments. Theconcentration in industrial and enterprise networking requires courses in programminglanguages, application programming, local and wide area networking, networkingsecurity, and

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Dettman

Development and Assessment of a New Project / Practice Based Civil Engineering Curriculum Matthew A. Dettman, P.E. Western Kentucky University1. IntroductionWestern Kentucky University is currently in the process of developing a new undergraduateengineering programs in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering focusing on engaging thestudent in a project / practice based environment and preparing them for a career as a practicingengineer. This paper will discuss the process of developing the civil engineering program thatbegan with the creation of goals for the engineering department up to the present day with aclearly defined

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

Session 3692 Model Eliciting Activities: An In-class Approach to Improving Interest and Persistence of Women in Engineering Heidi Diefes-Dux, Deborah Follman, P.K. Imbrie, Judith Zawojewski, Brenda Capobianco, and Margret Hjalmarson Purdue University West Lafayette, INAbstractA Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) is a real-world client-driven problem. The solution of anMEA requires the use of one or more mathematical or engineering concepts that are unspecifiedby the problem – students must make new sense of their existing knowledge and understandingsto formulate a

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What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matt O'Connor; Kathleen Simione; Dale Jasinski; Chad Nehrt

Learning Approach to Curriculum Integration,” Journal of Management Education, 22 (5): 618-636.14. Barker, R.T., Gilbreath, G.H., and Stone, W.S. (1998). “The Interdisciplinary Needs of Organizations: Are New Employees Adequately Equipped?” The Journal of Management Development, Volume 17, 219.15. Aurand, T.W., DeMoranville, C., and Gordon, G.L. (Fall 2001). “Cross-Functional Business Programs: Critical Design and Development Considerations,” Mid-American Journal of Business, Volume 16, 21-30.16. Barber, C.S., Borin, N., Cerf, D.C., and Swartz, T.A. (2001). “The Role of Marketing in an Integrative Business Curriculum,” Journal of Marketing Education, Volume 23, 240-248.DALE W. JASINSKIDr. Dale Jasinski is an associate

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stacy Hutchinson; Larry Erickson; David Steward; Lakshmi Reddi; Alok Bhandari

, it became clear that the scientific and engineering issuesinvolved were diverse and required adoption of interdisciplinary approaches. The need forinterdisciplinarity in assessing and solving geoenvironmental problems requires that students,researchers, engineering personnel and research managers synthesize and apply principles from adiverse set of disciplines. The immense growth in research on waste containment and siteremediation coupled with the need for interdisciplinarity, brings about the necessity for thedevelopment of multidisciplinary and integrated research and curriculum development programsin geoenvironmental engineering.This paper presents a curriculum framework for geoenvironmental engineering developed withsupport from the

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

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Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

), “Comprehensive Approach cuts Project Failure,” Computing Canada, 25(1), pp. 15-16. 4. Boehm, Barry W., (1981), "Software Engineering Economics," Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 5. Ewusi-Mensah, K., (1997), “Critical Issues in Abandoned Information Systems Development Projects,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No 9, pp. 74-80. 6. Sullivan, W.A, E.M. Wicks, and J.T. Luxhoj (2003), "Engineering Economy," Twelfth Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey. 7. The Standish Group International, Inc. (1995), "The CHAOS Report," West Yarmouth, MA. 8. The Standish Group International, Inc. (2001), "Extreme CHAOS," West Yarmouth, MA. 9. Ward, J.A. (1999

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

. Tanyel, “Innovation in teaching mechanical engineering applications,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. 82-86, 1994.[7] P. Dalep, “LV as a Standard” Email posted to info_labview@pica.army.mil on September 1993, archived on ftp.pica.army.mil[8] B. Kauler, “Dataflow and visual programming: The way ahead for engineers,” Education Conference, New Zealand, 1993.[9] G.B. King, R.D. Evans, D.P. DeWitt, and P.H. Meckl, “Curriculum-wide Systems Programming Environment for Mechanical Engineering Instructional Labs,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. 233-236, 1994.[10] R.A. Layton and C. Grigg, “Experimentally identifying the transfer function of an

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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

engineering degree requirements to 128 credithours. Faculty must carefully design degree programs that reflect these directives and at thesame time minimize the potential effects of such directives on the public’s health and safety.Elizandro and Matson1 have presented a systematic methodology for administering degreeprograms in this type of environment. That approach extends the ABET Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Programs2 by defining curriculum effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness refersto the achievement level of ABET Program Outcomes and Program Objectives, and efficiencymeasures the portion of the curriculum devoted to each Program Outcome and ProgramObjective

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Williams

Using New Technology to Deliver Traditional Courses – An Evolving Transformation Ronald K. Williams, P.E., Ph.D. Department of Technology Minnesota State University Moorhead As a part of the Pre-engineering curriculum at Minnesota State University Moorhead(MSUM), the author has been delivering three courses in Engineering Mechanics: Statics,Dynamics and Strengths of Materials, since 1990. The course content has not changed greatly inthat time, focusing on problem-solving for analysis and design. A typical week includes alecture highlighting and interpreting the text assignment for the week, presentation

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett; Debra Ricci; Arnold Weimerskirch

1793 Assessing Educational Performance A Strategic Approach Ronald J. Bennett PhD, Debra Ricci PhD, and Arnold Weimerskirch School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MinnesotaAbstractThe 21st century promises to be an extraordinarily challenging era. The demands of a newtechnology revolution, globalization, pressing social concerns and a renaissance in businessethics all call for a new kind of engineer. The 21st century engineer must possess not onlytechnical skills but also interdisciplinary skills and a firm foundation for making

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Healy

or a device are interrelated. Troubleshoot a piece of equipment through logical deduction. Analyze an engineering system to see how it works. Key Words: analyze, separate, subdivide, interconnect, distinguish, examine, inspect, question, contrastSynthesis Combine elements in a new way to create a new product. Combine ideas to create a new idea or concept. Devise a new experiment to obtain information. Relate knowledge from different areas. Key Words: synthesize, create, build, design, invent, devise, plan, organize, revise, manage, compose, formulateEvaluation

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

these problems, the STS(Science, Technology and Society) approach has developed an educational proposal that intendsto teach students and teachers new attitudes to cope with those issues. The focus of STS is toknow about the relationship amongst science, technology, and the culture of a society, aiming atsome “harmonious solutions”. Also, environmental factors are frequently being taken intoaccount, as well as economical issues. One of the most important aspect in STS educational Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.25.1 Copyright © 2004

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Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

Session 2540 “TO MOVE PEOPLE FROM APATHY”: A MULTI-PERSPECTIVE APPROACH TO ETHICS ACROSS THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Donna Riley, Glenn Ellis, and Susannah Howe Picker Engineering Program, Smith CollegeAbstractHumanist Algernon Black wrote that the unifying goal of ethics is “to move people from apathy,from an acceptance of the evils in life, to face the possibilities of the world….” To this end,faculty in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College are teaching ethics across thecurriculum, employing a range of pedagogical tools that are learner-centered, grounded in

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fanyu Zeng

Session 2558A New Approach to Integrate Computer Technology Certifications into Computer Information System Programs Fanyu F. Zeng Indiana Wesleyan UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a newly designed curriculum model for the computer informationsystems. It first reviews the history of profession and certifications. It then addresses thecharacteristics and categories of information technology certifications recognized byindustries. The curriculums recommended by ACM and IEEE are reviewed to define corecourses for Computer Information System program. Several technology

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

undergraduate engineers to design thecomplex circuits that will ultimately be a part of smart communications systems on a single chip.These new technologies are also excellent motivational tools to help students put theoreticalconcepts into a current context. This is especially true in required undergraduate courses likeelectromagnetics (EM) that are heavily mathematics based.The integration of contemporary topics into EM courses is fundamentally different than the useof multimedia assets that help students visualize EM concepts that are quite mathematicallycomplex [1-3]. Contemporary topics that faculty introduce are frequently based on theirresearch or consulting activities. Increasingly, undergraduate students are involved in researchunder the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

Session 1725 A Capstone Design Approach in Civil Engineering Harriet S. Cornachione, Michael A. Cornachione, and Valerie. J. Vance Oregon Institute of TechnologyAbstract Assessing student outcomes from the civil engineering program at Oregon Institute ofTechnology (OIT) identified several areas of concern. Ineffective team skills, limitedmulti-disciplinary design experience and inadequate integration of technicalcommunications with the engineering curriculum were specifically targeted forimprovement. To strengthen student outcomes in these areas, technical communicationsfaculty and civil engineering faculty at OIT developed

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ibrahim

Session 1168 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR THE ENGINEERING DYNAMICS COURSE S. R. Ibrahim Professor of Mechanical Engineering Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.AABSTRACT This paper aims at studying the feasibility of a new approach for teaching the dynamicscourse, which is usually taught in the sophomore year of engineering curriculum. The newproposed approach is an integrated one, which will be designed to offer the general concept fromwhich the special

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

question we can ask ourselves is: Are we ready to meet theengineering education challenges of the 21st century?The answers to these questions lie not just in the tweaking of some courses or curriculum,improving our teaching, or enhancing our efficiency, but in a willingness to consider new waysof doing business to better prepare our students for the future. Our response to the engineeringeducational challenges will determine the vitality, relevance, and indeed, the very future of ourengineering academic programs and our engineering profession. It is our contention thatengineering faculty with a passion for the scholarship of teaching and learning are uniquelyqualified and well positioned to face these challenges and assume the leading position in

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

, university administrationsand governing board. Indirect influence tends to come from groups that fund new curricularapproaches, e.g. the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, and various privatefoundations. A group that is becoming more active in curriculum issues is the employers ofengineers. This group is providing advisory input to many colleges and departments, often as aresponse to ABET requirements.AccreditationThe single most influential group driving curriculum reform in engineering is the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology, ABET. As the only accreditation agency, ABET directlysets the standard for engineering curricula. Prior to the year 2000, ABET’s approach wasprescriptive in nature where specific components

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timokleia Togkalidou; Rudiyanto Gunawan; Mitsuko Fujiwara; Jr., J. Carl Pirkle; Eric Hukkanen; Richard Braatz

Engineering Education • an emphasis on economics throughout the technical discussions, and • the immediate application of the concepts to chemical processes in the laboratory.The lecture/discussion periods are mostly based on questions/answers and discussionsbetween the students and the professor on the topics covered in handouts, which the studentsare assigned to read before they come to class. The professor starts the period with questions,and uses the student answers to pose subsequent questions so that students are guided throughthe course material. Initially the students are uncomfortable with the Socratic method, butbecome increasingly comfortable with the approach as the semester progresses. Thelaboratory experiments are open-ended, which

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Zhang

Session 2548 A Systems Approach to Teaching “Introduction to Electronic Communications” for ECET Students James Z. Zhang, Kenneth Burbank, Robert Adams Department of Engineering Technology, Western Carolina University Abstract Traditional electronic communications course in ECET covers a wide range of topics incommunications theory, with the focus on different modulation schemes and the respectivereceivers’ baseband structures and performances. However, it is often found that students donot necessarily grasp the essence of a communications system from a

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Murphy

Session 1648 Building Safety Education into Engineering Curriculum David L. Murphy The University of North Carolina at Charlotte “The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book” – John Wilkes Workplace injury and the associated costs significantly erode employer profit margins. Anestimated seven percent of profits are spent, directly or indirectly, as a result of a workplaceinjury. An effective illustration is that of an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg (the smallest yetmost visible part) represents the actual cost of the injury, such as medical

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

allengineering majors; chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering here atYSU. Courses were given up by all the majors in order to get the required space in thecurriculum. Three courses were developed, one for each quarter, and each course was worth 3quarter hours and included a laboratory component. The courses were designed to incorporatefeatures that would maintain students’ interest in engineering and develop useful skills for laterparts of the engineering curriculum. Faculty resources would need to be about the same asrequired for the courses replaced so that the program could be instituted without requiring theaddition of new faculty.The factors determined as fundamental to a successful freshman engineering program

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Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karel Stryczek; Bryan Griffen; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

Session 2463 A New Approach to Implementing a PLC-Based Model Predictive Controller for Application in Industrial Food Processes Bryan T. Griffen Karel Stryczek Nestlé USA Rockwell Automation Glendale, CA 91203-3213 Mayfield Heights, OH 44124-6118 818-549-6453 440-646-4711 bryan.griffen@us.nestle.com kstryczek@ra.rockwell.com Recayi Pecen Teresa J.K. Hall