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Science Foundation with its revised budget guidelines is therefore awelcome improvement in this regard.Acknowledgments This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation through grant numberDUE-9750757 under its Division of Undergraduate Education’s Instrumentation and LaboratoryImprovement program.Bibliography1. URL: http://www.engr.panam.edu/~dsclab/2. Diong, B., Bose, S., & Freeman, R., “Updating the undergraduate Control Systems lab experience,” Proc. ASEEGulf Southwest Conf., San Antonio, TX, Feb 1996.3. Rodriguez, H., Ramirez, P., and Diong, B., “Modeling, simulation and control of a DSP-based inverted pendulumsystem,” Proc. ASEE Gulf Southwest Conf., Houston, TX, Mar 1997.BILL DIONGBill Diong is currently an

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Chuck Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

. L.. Advanced QFD. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1994.3. Lu, M., C. N. Madu, C. Kuei, and D. Winkour. “Integrating QFD, AHP, And Benchmarking in Strategic Marketing.” Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1994, pp. 41-50.4. Armacost, R. L., P. J. Componation, M. A. Mullins, and W. W. Swart. “An AHP Framework for Prioritizing Customer Requirements in QFD: An Industrialized Housing Application.” IIE Transactions, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1994, pp. 72-79.5. Wasserman, G. S. “On How to Prioritize Design Requirements during the QFD Planning Process.” IIE Transactions, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1994, pp. 59-65.PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management at Old

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positive.Bibliography1. Hatton, D.M., Wanka, P.C., LeBold, W.K., “The Effect of an Orientation Course on the Attitudes of Freshmen Engineering Students”, Journal of Engineering Education, v.87 (1), January 1998, p. 23.2. Richards, L.G., and Carlson-Skalak, S., “Faculty Reactions to Teaching Engineering Design to First Year Students”, Journal of Engineering Education, v.86 (3), July 1997, p 233.3. Carlson, B., Schoch, P., Kalsher, M., Racicot, B., “A Motivational First-year Electronics Lab”, Journal of Engineering Education, v.86 (4), January 1998.4. Peterson, G.D., “Engineering Criteria 2000: A Bold New Change Agent”, ASEE Prism, v.7 (1), September 1997, p 31.5. Krupczak, J., “Demystifying Technology”, ASEE

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assumptions. Compared with more elaborate simulation techniques,this method is faster and more easily understood by the users. Once the major factors are betterunderstood, more complete simulation and optimizing techniques might be used in those areasthat have a major impact to the decision and reliable data can be obtained. Compared to moreholistic evaluations, this approach can lead to discussions that focus on the explicit assumptionsand relationships, instead of the quality of individual judgement. This encourages decisions thatare based more on information than feelings and premonitions. It also facilitates the explanationof the reasons for the decisions and to convince others to support its implementation.REFERENCES:1 – Johnson, R. S. and

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Raffaello D'Andrea

cameras.ChargingUnless striving for a ball, a player must not attack another. In case the umpire clearly observes such an act, it isregarded as a violent action. It is expected that the aim of all teams is to play a fair and clean game of football.Bibliography1. Blanchard, S. B. and Fabrycky, W. J. Systems Engineering and Analysis. Prentice Hall, 3rd Edition, 1997.2. Working Model. Knowledge Revolution, San Mateo, CA.3. Matlab. The Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA.4. Pro/ENGINEER. Parametric Technology Corporation, Waltham, MA.5. OrCAD. OrCAD Inc., Beaverton, OR. Page 4.452.9RAFFAELLO D’ANDREARaffaello D’Andrea received the B.A.Sc. degree in

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W. Brian Hyslop; Susan L. Burkett; Susan Vrbsky; Laura Ruhala; Richard Ruhala; John Lusth

faculty positions were acceptable. However, if weweren’t able to secure two positions, we decided to follow a first come first serve strategy. SinceSusan “got there first” with her Ph.D. and tenure-track appointment, she got priority in terms of asingle position.When is it not worthwhile for a couple to pursue two faculty appointments?We believe every couple should try to pursue what they really want. Realistically though unlessboth obtain Ph.D.’s from prestigious universities or are in “hot” fields or have had extraordinarycareer successes, the chances of succeeding seem small.What kinds of schools should a couple target in their search?Smaller and/or less well-known schools seem to have more flexibility in putting together anacceptable package

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

4.471.5concepts they had seen in previous courses such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer,and unit operations laboratory.To illustrate how a fact-based cause analysis is applied to a process troubleshooting problem, wewill describe one of the exercises we used and present examples of the cause/effect diagramsstudents produced. The problem statement given students was provided by Woods [1]: A centrifugal pump has been installed to pump water from a holding basin through a filter and on into the process. Often we bypass the filter and just pump out of the basin to an atmospheric drain. The system head curve (and thus the design conditions) is 12.5 L/s against a total head of 10.5 meters. A pump has been selected

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Page 4.479.1and, hopefully, will be used in other courses in the future.INTRODUCTIONThe Bhopal Disaster in December of 1984 (C&E News, 1985) pointed out the need for anemphasis on process safety in the chemical engineering curriculum. In response to the BhopalDisaster, the AIChE created the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) [CEP, 1985]. Oneitem to be addressed by the CCPS was “Safety Training.” A series of chemical plant fires andexplosions in the late 1980’s further accentuated the need for chemical process safety in thecurriculum. The CCPS eventually created the Safety and Chemical Engineering Education(SACHE) consortium, which began the development of instructional materials on chemicalprocess safety. Finally, the recently

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studies, if possible.V. Sources on the InternetIn the mid-1990’s, there has been an explosion of web sites for all sort of business, agencies, andorganizations. A brief sweep of the World Wide Web alone yields several listings forengineering ethics-related sites. In addition many textbooks are available, both in professionalethics and, specifically, engineering ethics2. For example, The Ethics Center for Engineering &Science on the World Wide Web maintains an excellent collection of case studies, slidepresentations, and essays on the subject of engineering ethics, which could be a valuable sourceof course material10. Page 4.487.3Good starting

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each robot,and reports are produced with the following information: 1. The design of the robot base, including control of the actuators 2. The sensors used and the desired information gained from the sensors 3. The environment in which the robot operates, including any limitations. 4. The desired function/s of the robot, especially how it should act with respect to its environment 5. The architecture used to combine sensory information or behaviors 6. Lessons learned by doing the project (e.g., which strategies worked, which didn’t work very well, and what you would do differently next time)This project produced some very creative efforts, with robot names such as Killer, Camel,Roach, NSF3D, and BeanDip. Each team’s robot

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Sohail Anwar; Paula Ford

prized in their Page 4.493.1 disciplinary and institutional communities—and helps them to manage those practices effectively in their own written work. In this way the course teaches those writing strategies and tactics that scientists and engineers will need in order to write successfully on the job. Accordingly, students in the course can expect to: • Discover and understand the discourse features that distinguish their disciplinary and institutional communities from others. • Discover and specify the purpose(s) of their writing. • Develop a range of writing processes appropriate to various

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John E. Nydahl; Nancy Peck

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Justin Pniower; Michael Ruane; Bennett Goldberg; Selim Unlu

://orange.bu.edu in spring 1998.The specific equipment used in a web-based experiment determines computer control options.Signals typically are transferred as analog I/O, digital I/O, serial or parallel port communications,or as GPIB/IEEE 488 bus data. Most new instruments now provide some automation, and manythird party boards are available for data I/O, device control, and instrument communications. Page 4.597.2Our applications use analog voltage I/O through a general commercial DAQ board. We wroteour automation programs in LabVIEW, a graphical programming language for instrumentcontrol and data acquisition.5 Our network connection is a 10 Mb/s

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May Movafagh Mowzoon; Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

of course preferences and plans. In S.F. Chipman, L.R. Brush & D.M. Wilson (Eds.), Women and mathematics (pp. 123-150). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.1. Ibid.2. Ibid.3. Ibid.4. Eccles, J.S., Wigfield, A., Harold, R.D. & Blumenfeld, P. (1993). Age and gender differences in children’s self- and task-perceptions during elementary school. Child Development, 64, 830-847.5. Byars, A.M., & Hackett, G. (1995, August). Ethnic identity attitudes, academic and career self-efficacy, interests and career consideration. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York.6. Sadker, M., Sadker, D. & Klein,S. (1991). The issue of gender in elementary and secondary education

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Tava Lennon Olsen; Joyce Yen

comply with Curriculum 2000 at the University of Michigan College ofEngineering, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering created severalnew undergraduate courses designed to address the new curriculum requirements.Curriculum 2000 was undertaken to try to bring the average number of years required tograduate down from its current value of 4.7 years per student. It was felt that if studentswere only taking four courses concurrently, rather than the usual load of five, fewerstudents would need to drop courses due to excessive loading. Therefore, core toCurriculum 2000's design is the requirement that all courses should be two or four credits(in the past, most courses have been three credits). Two-credit courses will be taken

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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

research team expresses their deepest appreciation to alumnus Mr. Edwin V. Clarke, Jr. forhis generous support of this research.Bibliography[1] Bhagat, Sanjai and Bernard S. Black, “The Uncertain Relationship Between Board Composition and FirmPerformance,” University of Colorado, Boulder, October 1997.[2] Charan, Ram, Boards at Work, Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1998.[3] Conger, Jay A., David Finegold and Edward E. Lawler, III, “Appraising Boardroom Performance”, HarvardBusiness Review, January-February, 1998, pp. 136-148.[4] Firstenberg, Paul B. and Malkiel, Burton G., “The Twenty-first Century Boardroom: Who Will Be in Charge?”Sloan Management Review, Fall, 1994, pp. 27-35.[5] Massey, Steve, “Anatomy of a Bankruptcy – Part 1,” Pittsburgh

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Wesleyby Chan S. Park2. The course includes 2 mid semester exams (15% or grade each), 10 weeklyassignments (20% total), 1 case study (25%), and one final exam (25%). Since there issignificant group work on the case and the homework, to pass the course, a student must averageat least 60% on the exams. This criteria has been used for one student during the experiment,however that student also had poor homework scores.Many reasons justify the use of this material as a web based course. The students perceive thecourse material as highly relevant and relatively easy, hence they might be enthused to use thesite and would not have excessive difficulty. This is not a desirable faculty assignment since thecourse material is considered mundane and there can

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George W. Garrison; Garry D. Coleman

). Engineers earn MS degrees from their home PCs. Engineering Times, 20(10), 6.2. Petre, M., Carswell, L., Price, B., and Thomas, P. (1998). Innovations in large-scale supported distanceteaching: Transformation for the internet, not just translation. Journal of Engineering Education, 87(4), p. 423.3. Office of Training Technology. (1997, 23 January). Course management systems. [Online]. U. S. Navy.Available: http://www.ott.navy.mil/1_1/cmsystem.htm [1998, Dec. 11].4. NetForum. (1996). Welcome to the home of NetForum. [Online]. Board of Regents of the University ofWisconsin System. Available: http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/netforum/ [1998, Dec. 14].5. RealNetworks. (1998). Real: Home of streaming media. [Online]. Available: http://www.real.com [1998,Dec

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W.V. Wilding; J.N. Harb; Ronald E. Terry; W.C. Hecker

wherethe assessment of performance in core areas is made throughout the curriculum and remedialaction is taken as soon as a deficiency is noted. This assessment is likely to be in the form ofexam problems written specifically to assess performance in core areas. One way to accomplishthis would be to change the way we write exams to include at least two classes of problems: 1)problems that test minimum competencies in core areas, and 2) more challenging problems thatcan be used as a basis for assigning grades. All students would be required to complete theminimum competency aspect of the exam(s) at the required level in order to pass a class.Students will no longer be able to survive by getting partial credit on difficult problems. Rather,they will

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Timothy Anderson; Robert Serow; James Demery; Carl Zorowski; Catherine E. Brawner

potential route toimprovement. Page 4.124.9Bibliography1. Kerridge, D. and Kerridge, S. (date unavailable) Improving a Process [On-line]. Available:http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/den/files/improve.txt.2. Losak, J. and Scigliano, J. (1994). Total quality management and institutional effectiveness: Synergy throughcongruence. Nova Southeastern University. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 368 270)3. Seymour, D. (1995). Once upon a campus: Lessons for improving quality and productivity in higher education.Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, pp. xviii-xxii.4. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (1997, December). Engineering Criteria 2000

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Nick J. Kok

staff to copewith changes in the higher education system.5.4 Faculty EvaluationFaculty evaluation by students is standard practice at the Cape Technikon. Normally facultywould request their students to complete a questionnaire anonymously to reflect student opinionon a variety of aspects regarding each course and the faculty member(s) concerned.Positive student opinion of faculty is a prerequisite when deserving faculty members areconsidered for merit promotion. Student opinion is one of a number of instruments used by theinstitution to identify and reward good teaching.5.5 Curriculum ChangesDuring the past two years the South African Qualifications Authority developed a NationalQualifications Framework (NQF) based on educational outcomes

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Paul P. Mathisen

students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. 78. AcknowledgementsThe author is grateful for the contributions of a number of people who greatly contributed to thesuccess of this class. Thanks to K. Baskin (Charles River Watershed Association), D. Brocard(M&E), and D. LeBlanc (United States Geological Survey) for serving as guest lecturers, and V.Vignally (Metropolitan District Commission) for leading the field trip at the WachusettReservoir. Thanks also to S. Johnson (M&E) for initiating the program and providing access toM&E facilities to support the interactive sessions in this course. Finally, thanks to L. Cote(M&E) for assisting with coordination of issues associated with

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Mauricio A. Colombo; Maria R Hernández; Jorge E. Gatica

define the heat exchangernetwork, with the latter determining the utilities consumption. Page 5.88.3Even with use of heuristics, the reactor presents numerous variables to specify whose determinationis not a simple task! How to select the value of important design variables as temperature, pressure,molar ratio of reactants, etc? Unfortunately, in agreement with Murphy´s laws, the heart of theproposed system, of which the value of other proposed subsystems depends, is the most difficult tosolve,, even if we had all the needful information.The solutions of the equations that model reactor behavior are, for their nature, complicated and

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extent, depending of the specific nature of theproblem undertaken. There should be regular contact with the project supervisor(s). It iscrucial that the work done on the project is evenly distributed through the group, so that thestandard of assessment can be harmonised.Study programmeThe following subjects are included in the programme:• Environmental Studies• Intellectual Property Rights in Europe• Communication Skills (Teambuilding)• International Marketing• Project Management (Theory and applications)• Simultaneous/Concurrent Engineering techniques• Engineering Product Design• Creative Problem Solving and Systematic Innovation Techniques• Languages (English and Basic Danish)• Cultural and Social ActivitiesStaffs of the host institution and

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Linda M. Head; Zenaida O. Keil; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan

extremely successful in assessing the impact of the project topics. At the Page 5.121.5conclusion of the workshop the participants were further asked to rate the overall workshop onhow the components of the entire project came together. All participants strongly agreed thatthey had a better understanding of engineering careers. Most participants also agreed that theyunderstood the importance of learning science and mathematics.In addition to the participant feedback, a survey was also given to the parent(s)/guardian of theparticipants. All questions on the survey received very positive responses. Some responses toone of the most important questions

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honed to a fine point through their oral presentations andallowed for successful interview performanceClosing RemarksThe incorporation of seven assessment procedures has resulted in a normal distribution ofresults. The bias attained by reliance on one assessor has been removed form the assessmentprocess. Overall, there seems to be satisfaction by both faculty members and the studentcohort of the final grades achieved.References1 IhseN,S. and Brandt, D. (1996) Changing the curriculum towards project orientation - The Aachenexperiences, in: Maffioli,F., Horvat,M. & Reichl,F. (Eds.), Educating the Engineer for LifelongLearning(Vienna, SEFI).2 Sjöberg,A.(1996) Project oriented courses in scientific computing with applications from natural

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), “Teaming in the Design Laboratory,” Journal of Engineering Education, v 84, n 4, p 335.• Chan, D.-Y. and Bedworth, D. (1990), “Demonstration Before Experimentation: A Laboratory Philosophy,” Engineering Education, v 80, n 1, p 37.• Kresta, S. (1998), “Hands-on Demonstrations: An Alternative to Full Scale Laboratories,” Journal of Engineering Education, v 87, n 1, p 7.• Ludlow, D., Schulz, K, and Erjavec, J. (1995), “Teaching Statistical Experiment Design Using a Laboratory Experiment,” Journal of Engineering Education, v 84, n 4, p 351.• Lyons, J., Morehouse, J., and Young, E., “Design of a Laboratory to Teach design of Experiments”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Session 2526

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subjects beyond high school general science, and describe equipment orsituations already familiar to the readers. Discussion questions and a written assignment shouldbe read by the students prior to class discussion, but the written assignment should be acontinuation of the classroom discussion rather than independent work by the student. The setfrom which answers to written assignments may be selected must be constrained to the desiredrange to keep students focused on the subject at hand. The primary value in the case study ispreparation of the students for classroom discussion.Bibliography1. URL: http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/ECL/; Engineering Case Studies.2. Cheshier, S. R., Studying Engineering Technology: A Blueprint for Success. Discovery

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Traxon Rachell; Kaori Sakaguchi-Hall; Chris Swan

students’ work. Presentations werevideotaped for additional evaluation and course records.Project Final Report: Each group will produce a final report detailing the design and analysis ofthe remediation strategy(s) that were evaluated. The main body of the report will be nomore than 25, double-spaced pages (12-point font size) in length. Appendices containing detailedcomputations and supplemental data/records are encouraged. Table 1 Summary of Deliverables and Project Schedule Deliverables Due During Week Week Week Week Week Week á

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Raymond Yannuzzi; Edward McDonnell; Bradshaw Kinsey; Robert Bowman

of Consortium: In his History, Livy examines the processes, events,and underlying changes in people and institutions that transformed a fractious group of localtribesmen into the "consortium," or "partnership," that became the Roman Republic. While the conditions of metropolitan Philadelphia in the mid-1990's differ from those inancient Rome, an exploration of the root meanings behind the Latin word for "partnership" canhelp illustrate some of the changes in institutional attitudes and practices that enabled CamdenCounty College, Community College of Philadelphia, Delaware County Community College andDrexel University to establish the unique education and training organization known as ShipyardCollege (with support from TRP-NSFCA EEC