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Semiconductor in Richardson, Texas. This internship was unique fromtwo perspectives. First, TwinStar, a relatively new joint venture between Texas Instruments andHitachi, had never offered an internship; and second, this author had little expertise in thesemiconductor industry. TwinStar was still in the startup phase of its new $500,000,000.00semiconductor fabrication unit. Mr. James Watson, TwinStar’s President, recognized the needfor his employees to have the educational opportunity to continually upgrade their technicalcompetencies. He had been working with the Advanced Technology Advisory Board of CollinCounty Community College to develop and implement a curriculum template to provide theseneeds at the associate and bachelor levels. Dr. Albert B

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2.387.3packages which are later used in senior classes. With a similar intent an example from a finite-element software package Algor4 was also used. The use of the finite-element package wascursory as it can confuse the students at an early engineering stage. However some examplesshown were calculation of weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia of plates. Theproblems were selected to show how numerical analysis can very accurately match theoreticalresults. Several such case studies can be accessed on Algor’s world-wide-web page. 0 a .= 3.m h := 22.m mms := 4.88.106.kg I,:=+d ,. Ii B I .u Figure 4

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descriptions for interns, adapted tomeet the project objectives, and capable of modification as the project moves forward.None of the proposals had a plan for analyzing the work experiences of student interns, despite allthe talk about articulation. Internship experiences can tell us much about the competenciesexpected of graduates in other countries. We can learn much about the goals and boundaryconditions for professional preparation.International faculty articulation “dialogue” not well planned: If this is to be a major fundedactivity, the plan must explain why the dialogue is necessary. It is not enough to just discuss orexplore “differences.” There are five key points: a) the need or rationale for the dialogue; b) criticalissues and core

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solving engineering (design) problems.This is so because engineering problems are, by their very nature, holistic, in contradistinction tonatural scientific problems, which are, by their nature, abstract. Thus the humanities and socialscience component of undergraduate engineering education ought not be limited to courses takenoutside the school of engineering, but ought also be integral with engineering courses—particularly upper level design courses.ReferencesDordt College, 1993, Self-Study Questionnaire for Review of Engineering Programs Using Engineering Topics Criteria, A report submitted to the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.Monsma, S.V. (Ed.), 1986, Responsible Technology, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand

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accompany How a Writer Works, Harper & Row Publishers, New York 1981.12. Ref. 11.13. Sharp, J.E., "Grading Technical Papers During Student Conferences, Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 24th Annual Conference, 1994, pp. 724-728.14. Carnicelli, T.A., "The Writing Conference: A One-to-One Conversation," in Donovan, T.R., and B. W. McClelland, Eight Approaches to Teaching Composition, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana IL 1980.15. Ref. 13.16. Held, J.A., et al., "Incorporating Writing in Engineering Classes and Engineering in Writing Classes," Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 24th Annual Conference, 1994, pp. 628-632.17. Hirt, D.E., "Student Journals: Are They Beneficial in Lecture

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Marilyn Dyrud

the experiment, toprovide original documentation if litigation occurs--more students might appreciate why theirnotes must be detailed and why they must not remove pages from their notebooks.Clearly explaining criteria also helps orient students. Since it is difficult, if not impossible, tomeet unknown expectations, preparing a "grading criteria" handout for students will help clarifyinstructor expectations. The criteria should clearly specify what constitutes an A, B, C, D, and F. And instructors, of course, must be conscientious is adhering to their own criteria.It's also important to realize that students are not professional writers. They will have awkward

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

was at midcentury. As mechanical engineering educators we must devote considerable energy to outliningthe paths that ME curricula and courses must take in the future. ReferencesBAKER, A. J., PIONKE, C. D., TAYLOR, M. J., and LUTTRELL, B., “FEM Brought to the Academic EngineeringDesktop,” Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN, April 1996.GRAYSON, L. P., The Making of an Engineer, John Wiley, New York, 1993.HODGE, B. K., TAYLOR, R. P., and SMALLI, A., “Mechanical Engineering Student and Faculty Perceptions ofTeam Projects in Engineering Courses,” Proceedings of the 199 1 ASEE Southeastern Annual Meeting, Charleston,SC, pp. 13-18, April 1991.PETROSKI, H

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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

debugged in an iterative design cycle as illustrated in Figure 1. After successfuldesign and test of the board-level HW/SW subsystem, the multi-board system is integratedmanually, wherein the software and the hardware are merged and tested via diagnostic softwareand input from the application (stimuli and test). This integration is done manually and mayinvolve silicon fabrication, manufacture and assembly/test, and is iteratively refined until anacceptable prototype is produced. The development of an acceptable prototype often involvesdelays totaling 3 – 4 years, at the cost of 20 – 30 man-years because the three software designloops a, b, and c shown in Figure 1 all include hardware fabrication

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Peter Martin; Bill Bitler; Rulph Chassaing

;branch to use XINT0 for interrupt .endThe FIR program can then be compiled and linked to produce an executable COFF file which canbe directly downloaded into the C31 on the DSK and run. Similarly, the mixed coded (Cprogram calling an assembly function) FIR filter example 3 was also implemented with the C31.b) The following partial FIR assembly coded program illustrates the use of a number of assemblydirectives: .start ".text",0x809900 ;where text begins .start ".data",0x809C00 ;where data begins .include "AICCOMA.ASM" ;include AIC communication routines .include "BP55.COF" ;include coefficients file .data

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Ronald Matusiak; David Andruczyk; D. Steven Barker; Stephanie Goldberg; Ilya Grinberg

systems activities isshown in Figure 1. Table 1 provides a short description of the SM intercommunications labeledon the diagram.The electrical engineering (EE) section represents all aspects of the electrical segment of a SMapplication. Applying systems categories, the authors consider the EE section as a system.However, the EE system consists of various subsystems that differ by function and by content.These subsystems are:a) Electric Machines subsystem - responsible for research, design, selection, installation, adjustment, operation, and maintenance of a stepper motor as a rotating machine;b) Digital Circuits subsystem - responsible for the sequential excitation of motor windings in response to signals from the control subsystem.c

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Ronald E. Yoder; D. Raj Raman

Session 1608 Relevant Design Experiences for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers: Team Focus through Competition. D. Raj Raman, Ronald E. Yoder The University of Tennessee, Knoxville AbstractThe multitude of specializations within biosystems engineering makes traditional capstonedesign courses, which typically focus on a single topic, less relevant. In our department, our year-long capstone design experience involves machine component design. While this experience isuseful to students in all

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Anthony J. Muscat; Evan D. H. Green; Emily L Allen; Linda Vanasupa

Session 2613 The Start-Up Company Approach to Teaching Semiconductor Processing Anthony J. Muscata, Emily L. Allenb, and Evan D. H. Greenc, and Linda S. Vanasupad a Department of Chemical Engineering b Department of Materials Engineering c Department of Electrical Engineering San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192

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Max Rabiee

) pin willturn the chip on. The address lines A0 and A1 will select one of the four internal registers at onetime. Table 1 contains the address assignments for ports A, B, C, and the Control Register (CR). Port/register A1 A0 Address in Hex Number Address in decimal Number Port A 0 0 300 h 768 decimal Port B 0 1 301 h 769 decimal Port C 1 0 302 h 770 decimal Control Register (CR) 1 1 303 h 771 decimal Table 1 Address Assignments for Internal Registers of the 8255 PPI The 8255

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Andrzej J. Gapinski

Session 3548 On Some PC-Based Electrical Measurements in EET Laboratory Andrzej J. Gapinski Penn State University-Fayette Electrical Engineering Technology Uniontown, PA 15401IntroductionIt has become a standard in the EET programs to incorporate the personal computer as atool in various stages of student work. Writing reports using word processing, learningcomputers programming skills, and application of many software packages like PSPICE,in the case of circuit analysis, are the areas that have to be mastered by any successfulstudent. However, recent

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specialty Equipment relevant to the specialty Investigating new technology Fig. 4 Matrix Organization of the Work FUNCTIONS 1 2 3 4 5PROGRAM A Project 1 x x x Project 2 x x x Project 3 x x x Page 2.494.3PROGRAM B Project 1 | | | Project N Page 2.494.4Career progression of engineers and engineering managers is illustrated in Figure 5

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Ray N. Nitzsche

comparable way of measuring teaching ability. Consequently, sinceit is human nature to tend to base an evaluation upon those properties which can be measured,research output has grown in importance in making faculty evaluations. 7. Three serious misconceptions are widely held: a) A faculty member must do research to be a good teacher. Page 2.96.3 b) All a faculty member needs to perform his or her function is a thorough knowledge of his or her field.4 c) Simply presenting the subject material is teaching. Effects of Overemphasizing ResearchThe overemphasis on research

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Henry W. Kraebber

Session 2263 Multimedia Technology Supporting Manufacturing Education Henry W. Kraebber, P. E. Purdue University - School of Technology Accredited programs in manufacturing engineering technology stress hands onapplications and problem solving using the computer as a tool. The computers found intechnology laboratories come in many different forms directed at solving a particular problem,developing and documenting a product design, controlling a process or machine, or even helpingto manage the business side of the operation. Students learn to program and operate manydifferent

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Sohi Rastegar; Gerard L. Coté

to each student for each course is available on our home page describedunder the dissemination section of this paper and is attached to this article as appendicesA and B. Dr. Coté focused on the "Optical Diagnostics and Monitoring Principles"course and Dr. Rastegar focused on the "Optical Therapeutic and InterventionalPrinciples" course but each took an active and interested role in the other's course contentand materials covered. Within the two principles courses about 1/3 of the students wereenrolled in both the Optical Therapeutics and the Optical Diagnostics/Sensing courses. Texas A&M Engineering Medical Centers Bioengineering Texas A&M Veterinary College

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Chong Chen; Walter Buchanan

voltage’s frequency, which causes resonance, is called resonantfrequency. When a series RLC circuit is in resonance, the circuit has the following properties: (a) The impedance has its minimum value. (b) The current has its maximum value. (c) The voltage across the capacitor equals the voltage across the inductor. (d) The voltage across the resistor equals the applied voltage. (e) The phase angle between the current and the applied voltage is zero degrees.With Electronics Workbench, these properties can be used to locate a circuit’s resonantfrequency or be proven when the resonant frequency is located.Let students build the circuit shown in Figure 1, where it is known that the resonant frequency ofthe circuit

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J. M. Mendel; H. H. Kuehl

years to a thorough review and a substantial revision of the undergraduate curriculum. Thispaper describes the resulting new curriculum, which became effective in the fall of 1996. Duringthe creation of the new curriculum, the task force was guided by several broad principles anddesired objectives which the members believed were of major importance to a superior andrelevant undergraduate curriculum. These included: A. FundamentalsThe undergraduate curriculum must provide a basic grounding in the fundamentals ofmathematics, basic sciences, engineering, as well as appreciable content in humanities and socialsciences. B. FlexibilityA greater opportunity for choice is appropriate, including a wider variety of up-to

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

. In the restructured system, instead of thetraditional five-year program, the student has the following options: • first-level studies (undergraduate studies) available in two versions: (a) a 4-year program leading to the degree of "inçynier" equivalent to Bachelor of Science (Bachelor of Engineering), (b) a 3-year program leading to the certificate of basic education in engineering; for a good student, such a certificate is sufficient to apply for admission to second-level studies; • second-level studies: a 2-year program leading to the degree of "magister inçynier" equivalent to Master of Science (Master of Engineering); the candidates must hold the Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline or the

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James C. Wood

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from this exercise include: a) students are exposed to other methods of problem solution, b) gives quiet/shy students an opportunity to be a leader, without making a big deal out of it, c) it is an active, hands-on learning experience, d) it attempts to simulate multidisciplinary team work, and e) faculty member can develop more personal relationships with the students. Problems with this technique include: a) roles are arbitrary and difficult to enforce, b) many students (up to 1/3) are uncomfortable with role playing, c) sacrifices time that might otherwise be spent on additional material, d) student groups may not work if members do not cooperate. In summary, the majority (80%) of students have responded very well to the exercise, and have

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Dr. Mihir K. Das

related to the course. It makeslearning fun, the students can surf-the-net around the globe to gain knowledge about TQM topicsand the students can put the internet to serious use. INTRODUCTIONThis paper will discuss some of the advantages of using a webpage for facilitating andaugmenting student learning. The title of the course on the web is “ENGR 375I: Total Qualityand Continuous Improvement”. It has been designed to offer insight to students on salient andpractical issues and upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: A. Define the Total Quality concepts and their implications. B. Identify the major components of Total Quality Management (TQM). C

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Bob Lahidji

typical course description. Course Number: CADM 411 Course Title: Mechanical/Machine Design Credit Hours: 3Statement of Course Goals and Objectives:In this course the students will learn the fundamentals of mechanical design which include:1. The meaning of mechanical design2. The phases of design3. Design consideration4. Codes and standards5. Stress analysis6. Mohr's Circle7. Failure criteria8. Design for fatigue strength9. Design of mechanical elements (a) Screws and fasteners (b) Welded joints (c) Bearings (d) Springs (e) Gears.Course Description: A study of the decision-making processes which mechanical engineers use in theformulation of plans for the

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Brian S. Mitchell

forStoichiometry, which is taught concurrently with Design I. The early introduction of designfundamentals into the chemical engineering curriculum provides a framework for designproblems in subsequent courses and allows a greater emphasis to be placed on computer-aideddesign in the capstone design course. Table 1 Outline of Chemical Engineering Design I Course Content Topic Approximate # of Lectures Statistics and Probability A. Descriptive Statistics 3 B. Probability Models 3

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Marsha King; Eric Spielvogel; Carol Dwyer; Dhushy Sathianathan

will be very valuable.On-line Student Portfolio / Projects Database: 5 All students taking the first-year engineeringcourse will be required to be proficient in the use of information technology. Students arerequired to document their work and make it available on-line. Therefore, all design projectsdone for the course will be placed on-line, and will be assembled as a project database. Theproject database can be accessed by students. The same database can be used by other faculty asa resource for design projects.Strategy B: Provide faculty development workshops to encourage the use of informationtechnology in the course.In order to institute systemic changes in the practice of coordination, the faculty must beproactive in the use of

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Philip J. Regalbuto; Page Ransom; Mary Morton-Gibson; Lise V. P. Esch

Session 3586 TEAMING AND COMMMUNICATIONS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM Philip J. Regalbuto, Mary Morton-Gibson, Page Ransom and Lise V. P. Esch Trident Technical College, Charleston, SCIn 1993, due to declining enrollment in engineering technology at Trident Technical College inCharleston, SC, a course was developed to help increase the retention of students. EGR 103,Preparation for Engineering Technology, was designed as a bridge course between pre-Engineering Technology and the Engineering Technology courses. The rationale was to supplybasic skills that would enable underprepared

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G. Frederick d'Almaine; Brian Manhire; Samuel O. Atteh

with formally equal status but with differentiated missions. The binarydistinction between the two sectors is based on the universities’ role in general formative andprofessional education and basic and applied research, and the technikons’ role in vocational andcareer education and ‘product related’ research and development.”12 Thus technikons and universities enjoy equal status but different foci.13 This means thatin the South African context, both the technikon B Tech and university BSc (Eng) degrees arerated as M+4 (matric + 4 years) qualifications. The differences are in emphasis with the B Techbeing more pragmatic (e.g., by way of the experiential training component of the National Di-ploma which is a B Tech prerequisite

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Matthew R. James; Mario G. Beruvides

Session 2542 PERCEPTIONS FROM THE TRENCHES: ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT vs. MBA Mario G. Beruvides and Matthew R. James Industrial Engineering Department, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractWhat is the difference between an engineering management graduate and a student who obtainsan MBA degree? If there is no difference, then why do we teach engineering management? Thisissue, EM vs. MBA, has been played out in the literature, in conference presentations, anddiscussions amongst practitioners, researchers, and students. Some claim there is no debate.Others are confronted regularly by