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Lori S. Cook; Lawrence S. Aft

the program’s initial structure so that it could be completed within three years.As such, the curriculum includes nine semester courses on the following topics: - Total Quality - Quality Cost and Supplier Evaluation - Quality Systems Design - Process Analysis - Statistical Quality Control - Advanced Statistical Methods - Inspection System Design - Training Methods - Research MethodsAll of the courses except for the research methods class are available on the Internet. In addition,a variety of courses are offered each term. The research methods course requires the studentphysically visit the campus for two weekend sessions with the MSQA faculty

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Arthur B. Sacks

Session 2761 Human-Environment Interactions: The Initiation of a New Curriculum Arthur B. Sacks Colorado School of Mines“Philosophers since Socrates have insisted that the unexamined life is not worth living; but onlymore recently have environmental philosophers insisted that life in an unexamined world is notworth living either.” 1 -Holmes Rolston III“...we must recognize

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Rona Colosimo Warner; Paul J. Warner; Kim LaScola Needy

Session 2642 On the Initiation and Development of an Advanced Manufacturing Educational Program to Aid Displaced Workers Paul J. Warner, Rona Colosimo Warner, Kim LaScola Needy University of Pittsburgh, Department of Industrial Engineering AbstractThis paper presents a model based on classic project management and systems analysis that wascreated and utilized by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial EngineeringManufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) to develop an accelerated manufacturing trainingprogram for displaced workers. The following

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

have revolutionized opticalcommunications at 1550 nanometers wavelength. Work was extended to the development ofpraseodymium doped fiber amplifiers and lasers which are needed at the commonly used wavelengthof 1300 nanometers in optical communications. Some work in the area of mode-locking of fiberdoped lasers and use of fiber grating is currently in progress. The authors were able to avail theopportunity of summer faculty programs twice followed by two extension programs to initiate theresearch at SUNY Institute of Technology. Page 3.315.2 2The results of the research and equipment obtained was

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T. T. Maxwell; J. C. Jones; D. L. Vines; M. E. Parten

from industry, research effortsand other faculty initiatives. A number of research projects involving alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles areused in the senior project laboratory. These projects involve essentially all aspects of automobilesubsystems design and fabrication including internal combustion engine (ICE) fuel metering andcontrol, hybrid vehicle (ICE/electric motor) control, structures, fluids, heating and airconditioning, vehicle suspension, transmission, brakes, electrical subsystems, advanced systemcontrol and electronics. Although the project team is frequently large, the students do anoutstanding job of integrating their efforts and coming together as a truly effective working unit.Introduction In the

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Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

industryto an emphasis on engineering science including math, physics, and chemistry. He contends thatfaculty began to become more research-oriented and institutions of higher education placed lessvalue on industry experience among faculty at roughly the same time. Eder argues that thesefactors contributed to the recent lack of emphasis on design skills and abilities in engineeringcurricula. He attributes renewed attention to design in curricula to a 1985 National ScienceFoundation initiative that resulted in funding to improve undergraduate engineering designeducation.The Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) and many industry representativesjoin the National Academy of Sciences in calling for a renewed emphasis on the development

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Ravi G. Mukkilmarudhur; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

(a) (b)Figure 8. Mass fraction contours for propane (c3h8) produced by injecting propane in the cylinder shown in Fig. 7. The contours in (a) are for time = 1 × 10-3 sec and in (b) are for time = 9 × 10-3 sec.location for the “hot spot” (spark plug), and an appropriate number of chemical reactions as wellas interpret the numerical results. The students researched the combustion process beforebeginning the project, then compared some of their results with calculations conducted throughPerformance Trends Engine Analyzer v2.5 upon project completion. By comparing the finalproject results with predictions from the Engine Analyzer program, the students discovered thattheir initial

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Hamid Khan

Session 2260 A Qualitative-cum-Quantitative Research on International Manager Development: Acquisition of Competence in Engineering and Management Tasks Hamid Khan East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858There is a problem with the existing management development program offerings inassuring proper quality with respect to the professional need fulfillment of managers. Theassurance of program quality does not rely on critical processes of evaluation and review.This lack of a proper Effective Program Evaluation and Review Technique fails to

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Leslie Lahndt-Hearney

3.577.4The above discussion demonstrated taking pure knowledge and eventually finding a usefulapplication for it. The original questions created from some form of intellectual curiosity.Though some research does become initiated this way, and eventually find a practical form, it ismore common for the questions to be created based on a practical need. Thus the necessity for alarge bridge span, requiring a lighter weight material, would prompt questions such as how tocreate a lightweight reinforced concrete, leading to investigations involving lightweightaggregates, and lighter alloys for reinforcing. Therefore, it is also important to note thatquestions and information go back and forth along the chain linking pure and applied research.It is common

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Terri Estkowski; Mary Ann Bowman; Liwana Bringelson

Session 3592 The Model Mentor: A Telephone Survey of Mentoring Experiences Among Women Engineering Faculty Terri Estkowski, Liwana Bringelson, Mary Ann Bowman Engineering Management Research Laboratory Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Western Michigan University Introduction In their study of mentoring from the mentor’s perspective, Blackburn, Chapman andCameron [1] conclude that there are questions left unanswered about mentoring, such as, “Whatare the attributes of successful mentors” (p. 326). Hunt and Michael [2

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Fred Beaufait

thesistechniqueLaser cleaning of hard surfaces Working on MS - MEEG**Multiple laser processing of diamond surfaces Working on PhD - ELEG**SMART tool for the insitu observation of machining Working in a manufacturingprocess companyConstruction of a mechanical assembly for a novel 3-D Working on BSMEflex electronic package** Working with the author on various projects; MEEG –Mechanical Engineering; ELEG-Electrical Engineering.IV. Summary: In the last two years, the author has formalized and demonstrated CPM’s initial successwith five examples. Due to the prolific research experience three students have joined a mastersprogram and one has joined a leading

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Edward C. Roche; David B. Van Dongen

unit operations laboratory deals with mass transfer and kinetics-reactoroperation. Here the communications effort has a different approach. Four managerial positionsare created using a four-student group module. With four experiments, each student can rotatethrough each of the following positions: Project Manager; Research and Development Manager;Operations Manager; and Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs Manager. Here the emphasisis on the development of individual written communication skills.The Traditional Unit-Operations Laboratory CoursesThe chemical engineering laboratory course sequence continues to be structured to interface withthe curriculum and course scheduling. The laboratory course sequence has as its initial focus

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Krishna S. Athreya; Ann K. Dieterich; Lawrence Genalo

Session 1692 Internet Explorers: An NSF Sponsored Internship Lawrence J. Genalo, Krishna S. Athreya, Ann K. Dieterich Iowa State University1. Introduction Summer research internships were extended to twenty high school girls who hadcompleted their junior year with the primary goal of increasing middle school girls' participationin science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM). The interns spent eight weeks during thesummer of 1997 on the Iowa State University campus where they researched science andengineering topics, learned programming methods and developed SEM units for the Internet. The

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Jeffrey P. Freidberg

Page 3.569.1option for many students. Nuclear engineering departments that have initiated such programs 1have shown growth in this area. However, the area is still not sufficiently well defined andcohesive to have established a nationally recognized presence as compared, for instance, tofission research. This remains for the future.In analyzing these problems and trends the Department of Nuclear Engineering at MIT hasobserved that the resulting responses, which involve substantial efforts, have been moderatelysuccessful but are nonetheless reactionary in nature. As a result we have attempted to step backand develop a more global view of a nuclear engineering education, a view that should

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Daniel T. Schwartz

electrochemicalprinciples in their work, though most will only receive piece-meal training through on-the-jobexperience. It is accurate to say that the transmission of modern electrochemical insight tostudents has lagged far behind the pace of cutting-edge research advances.For the past six years, students at the University of Washington have had the opportunity to learnabout electrochemical science and technology, initially in a lecture-oriented advancedundergraduate course, and more recently as a laboratory-oriented course. The objectives of thiscourse have always been to develop in students a broadly based understanding of electrochemicalprocesses, to effectively integrate cutting-edge research advances into the undergraduatecurriculum, and to support efforts

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

new Page 3.255.5research initiatives. Of the remaining 80% reserved for PSET use, twenty percent is put into theprincipal investigator’s research and development account. Another twenty percent goes to theprincipal investigator’s department, and the remaining 40% is split into two PSET accounts; onethat funds faculty and staff development and one that supports school wide initiatives.Because of this fiscal model (RCM), PSET has provided another incentive to departments.Salary savings (including retirement and fringe benefits) derived from contracts and grants arereturned to the department generating the external project. Depending on the

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

Session 2555 THE ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF GRADUATE ENGINEERS IN INDUSTRY FOR TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP D A KEATING and T G STANFORD University of South Carolina 1. INTRODUCTIONFollowing a review of graduate engineering education and needs assessment studies of graduateengineers in industry, it is now evident that a transformation in graduate education is needed toimprove U.S. technology innovation and competitiveness in the worldwide economy. At present,graduate education in engineering is primarily a byproduct of research, based on a science

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Ben Humphrey

weedingthrough the basic material also falls to them. The director receives the results of initial research. They cull inappropriate material,further refine the material, identify weak areas and assign follow-up. The augmenter continues tocompile data and secure material. They organize revisions, type interim and final drafts, andparticipate in the editing process, including correcting grammar and spelling. Many other small processes are assigned to the augmenter, such as: gathering resourcesfor course-work upgrades; studying and processing information from memos; answering surveys;dealing with tax and retirement changes; keeping aware of university/church and communityevents, etc. When the director is relieved of initial research

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Rachel Speaks

SPEAKS is a Ceramic Engineering junior at the University of Washington. She has been involved inscience outreach to inner-city elementary school students, gifted junior high school students, and local minority highschool students. She has also been involved in research work in biomimetics, engineering internships at Intel, and isthe Professional Mentoring Co-Chair for the Women in Engineering Initiative at the University of Washington. Page 3.306.1

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Theodore Branoff

student responses and response times as well as informationon gender, current major, number of previous graphics courses completed, and method used tosolve the test items. The theoretical framework of the study is based on Paivio’s dual-codingtheory [1]. Coordinate axes were added to a portion of the PSVT for the experimental group todetermine if the axes provided contextual cues necessary to improve scores and response times.The researcher hypothesized that coordinate axes would provide verbal cues that could be codedalong with nonverbal information to improve mental rotation efficiency. The additionalcoordinate axes slightly (but not significantly) improved scores on the PSVT, but not responsetimes.Introduction Spatial ability has been

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Josef Rojter

dealing with social andmanagerial literacy within the undergraduate engineering curriculum. It is also hoped that thenew subject may act as foundations of a course dealing with technological and engineeringliteracy that could be offered to undergraduate programs in humanities, social sciences andmanagement.Biographical Details The author after qualifying in science and chemical engineering engineering spent some time in the plasticsindustry.Since his academic appointment,initially at the Royal Melbourne Institute ofTechnology he completedmasters degrees in science and materials engineering while teaching and researching in materials and chemicalengineering. He is currently completing a doctoral thesis on epistemological influences in

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Elaine L. Craft

these opportunitiesthrough the SC ATE Initiative, for which the SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project is providing anabsolutely essential foundation. The SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project addresses the issue ofrestructuring the learning environment to prepare two-year technical college students to competein today's high performance global marketplace. The major goal of the project has been to createa cadre of exemplary faculty teams for the express purpose of implementing innovative,research-based advanced technological education practices across the South Carolina TechnicalCollege System. As Fullan and Stiegelbauer stated in The New Meaning of Educational Change,“Educational reform depends upon what faculty do and think. It is as simple and as

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Richard Penson; Margaret Ross; Eur Ing

Branch of the British Computer Society which has a membership of over1500 in Hampshire. She is also the Chairperson of the British Computer Society Software Quality Managementspecialist group for the Southern Region and a member of the UK National committee for the same group and otherNational Computing committees. Margarets research interests are improving the quality of software, education fortechnologists and the application of computers to engineering problems, in particular to condition monitoring in themanufacturing industry. She has always taken a keen interest in public policy in Engineering Education and is activein promoting women into engineering by involvement in National initiatives such as YES (Year of EngineeringSuccess

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Edmund P. Russell

scholars from outside the university.We thought this plan made intellectual and practical sense, and we thought it might attractoutside funding in the long run. In the short run, we needed start up funds.We proposed this plan to chairs of our departments. With their support, we approached theAssociate Dean for Research of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He encouragedus to contact the Vice Provost for Research, who had a keen interest in, and budget for,promoting school-wide initiatives. The Vice Provost promised about a fourth of the fundingneeded for the program for the first three years. He urged us to ask the Deans of Engineering andApplied Science, Arts and Sciences, and Architecture to match his contribution. We did, andthey

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Edmund P. Russell

scholars from outside the university.We thought this plan made intellectual and practical sense, and we thought it might attractoutside funding in the long run. In the short run, we needed start up funds.We proposed this plan to chairs of our departments. With their support, we approached theAssociate Dean for Research of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He encouragedus to contact the Vice Provost for Research, who had a keen interest in, and budget for,promoting school-wide initiatives. The Vice Provost promised about a fourth of the fundingneeded for the program for the first three years. He urged us to ask the Deans of Engineering andApplied Science, Arts and Sciences, and Architecture to match his contribution. We did, andthey

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Tian S. Lim

into a comprehensive university of engineering, science,liberal arts, and finance and economics, concentrating mostly on engineering subjects. It is theimportant base for cultivating high level specialized personnel for the modernization of FujianProvince. The University offers master s degrees in 16 specialities, doctoral programs in 2branches of learning and trains students studying for Ph.D degrees in 5 specialities in cooperationwith other universities. Holding fast to the policy of combining teaching and learning withscientific research, the University has taken the initiative in scientific research. Now, it has 20research institutes, 9 research sections and 2 multi-disciplinary research centers. Over the past 19years, the University has

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Gwan-Ywan Lai; Laura L. Sullivan

Kettering University chapter of the Society for the Advancement ofMaterials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), an officer of the Materials Division ASEE, and is active in SPE,SWE, and SME. The Principle Investigator in two NSF ILI Grants, her efforts in modernizing the polymerprocessing curriculum have been published and presented nationally.GWAN –YWAN LAIGwan –Ywan Lai, Ph. D. is an active member of the ASME, ASM, SME, and SPE. He has taught seminars inInjection Molding, and has consulted in the area of polymer processing for 3M, DOW Chemical Company, andDynisco. Professor Lai is the Principle Investigator in a National Science Foundation Laboratory ImprovementGrant, a Brown & Sharpe Equipment Grant, and an internal Kettering Research Initiation

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Richard M. Felder

well they carried out that function, and similarly those who claim to beprimarily researchers would advance primarily on the basis of their research accomplishments. Finally, some administrators have begun to realize that many corporations and mostalumni are more interested in undergraduate education than in graduate research. Theseadministrators are successfully soliciting contributions targeted toward general improvements inthe undergraduate teaching program or toward specific educational initiatives (making advancesin technology-based instruction, improving communication and teamwork skills, increasing the Page 3.284.6level of

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Paul S. Chinowsky

and computer technologies provide the opportunity to enhancestudent access to these resources. The Civil Engineering Resource Library research effortexplores this opportunity by combining an introduction to civil engineering processes withemerging Web-based technologies. This combination is captured in an electronic library thatuses case studies to illustrate emerging civil engineering practices and regulatory compliancestrategies.IntroductionThe lifecycle of civil engineering projects incorporates a broad and diverse set of design andconstruction issues. From initial project development through construction and operations, civilengineers address a broad spectrum of requirements established by direct constituents includingthe owner and the

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Stephanie G. Adams; Karan L. Watson

management. In a 1994 survey, a number ofengineering deans felt that total quality was very important for teaching and research as well asfor university administration, but they also felt that their own faculty were much less convinced(Roberts). Teamwork is a fundamental element of total quality3. Faculty members resistance to new initiatives can be summarized under several broadareas. A study, conducted at Arizona State University, report the following reasons facultymembers resist change17: 1. New initiatives are threatening. 2. Desire to perpetuate the theory vs. application dichotomy. 3. Life as faculty members currently know it will change. 4. Autonomy decreases as integration/partnering with students