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Max Rabiee

organizationalform of an Inter-County RECC. We will also consider loan financing and operational expenses ofthese types of utility companies. How does deregulation of electric utilities affect the Rural ElectricCooperative Company (RECC)? A better understanding of a RECC should help us to forecast theirfuture in a time of Electric Utility deregulation. Students used electric simulation software to build a model of the electric utilitytransmission system displayed in figure 1. The model shows a common method of generatingelectricity via a Steam Turbine Electric Station, and a Hydroelectric Station. The transforming ofnominal alternating voltages from the stations to high voltage for transmissions will be simulated.Different step down configurations

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Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

andmaterials created by educators and industry professionals. The wide spread availability of theWWW and new technologies for collaboration and electronically-mediated interaction willprovide new opportunities for expanding interaction among the community of design andmanufacturing educators, industry and our students.1 IntroductionEngineering educators face a set of challenges that parallel those confronting industry andbusiness: retaining competence (competitiveness) within our disciplines, incorporating newtechnology in our courses while anticipating and responding to the needs of industry with newmaterials in the same manner and timeframe as industry must respond to their customers forgoods and services. Just as industry has adopted a

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Eric W. Tisdale

lab. Page 3.236.1Students working in the laboratory after regular hours can find assistance via an Internet link.LaboratoryElectronics classes typically require a lecture and laboratory. It has been recognized that lecturesare not necessarily the best way to transmit knowledge (1). Hands-on education in an appliedtechnology program will require participation in a hardware laboratory. If we view the laboratoryas a place to make mistakes, see new situations, realize / prove theory, “touch” the problem, orvisualize the associated mathematics, we see the lab as a hands-on lecture. The objective in mybasic electronics laboratory is to teach the use

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William Park

(the usual typeused 1/4” phone plugs). As an example, if vibrato (a slight periodic (a few hertz) variationof the frequency of a sound) is desired, the sinusoidal output of a low-frequency oscillator(LFO) would be connected to the frequency control input of a voltage-controlled oscillator(VCO). The output of the VCO would then vary in frequency sinusoidally at the rate setby the LFO.Although there are many of types of modules that can be constructed to generate andmodify sounds (or rather audio frequency electrical signals) there are only a few which areused to implement most sounds. Out of this group, some are beyond the scope of anintroductory circuits course, so the problem was to determine a subset of modules whichwould be sufficient to

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Linda Hardymon; Katherine Mathis; Ahad S. Nasab; Saeed Foroudastan

can befurther broken down into 470 million tons of CO2 emissions or 34% of the CO2 emitted in theU.S., according to an “Existing Buildings Research Program Overview” published by the OakRidge National Laboratory 1. Whenever energy efficiency and conservation curb the use offossil fuels, a reduction in CO2 emissions will follow as well as other pollutants contributing toacid rain and urban smog. Energy conservation must interface with a facility’s pollution controlprogram along with the energy savings steps. Care must be taken to use conservation measureswhich do not create local pollution problems. Installation of energy efficient technologies canreduce pollution and the cost of environmental protection by lowering energy bills and

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Principles of multi-discipline engineering education; x Education models; and x Synthesis.It is the authors’ intent to present several approaches with varying objectives; however,participant input will also be sought as an integral part of this discussion.Global IndustriesTechnical education has been broadly defined as education preparatory to entering an occupationwhich requires a degree of higher education.1 The swift degree of change has influencedvirtually every angle and phase of our lives. Today’s bounds in technology guarantees totransform the way we teach more critically than any other dominance in the past one hundredyears. Moreover, led by the success of global manufacturing, improvements in communicationand

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

. For example, student evaluation forms are commonlyused for assessing professors and courses against a defined set of objectives or outcomes. Bycontrast, relatively few programs have in a place a systematic process for defining objectives andoutcomes, conducting on-going assessment, and using the data for program improvement.One model for a systematic process in shown in Figure 1. The smaller loop on the left sideillustrates the process for determining objectives based on input from both internal and externalconstituencies, as well as for refining those objectives based on the assessment results. Thelarger loop on the right side illustrates the process for defining outcomes, methods, andassessment measures and for, then, implementing them and

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

. For example, student evaluation forms are commonlyused for assessing professors and courses against a defined set of objectives or outcomes. Bycontrast, relatively few programs have in a place a systematic process for defining objectives andoutcomes, conducting on-going assessment, and using the data for program improvement.One model for a systematic process in shown in Figure 1. The smaller loop on the left sideillustrates the process for determining objectives based on input from both internal and externalconstituencies, as well as for refining those objectives based on the assessment results. Thelarger loop on the right side illustrates the process for defining outcomes, methods, andassessment measures and for, then, implementing them and

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P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

engineering disciplines -- developing esprit de corps within the freshman class• initiate a new culture of design at Northwestern from the bottom up, drawing on the design expertise of the current engineering faculty in ways that break the traditional model of undergraduate educationCourse structureOverview. EDC is designed as a two-quarter course for two reasons: (1) to integrate materialfrom two courses—design and communication—without sacrificing important material8-9 and(2) to give students the opportunity to work through the design process two or three times, whilefaculty revisit important topics at a higher level of sophistication.In the first quarter students are introduced to design and communication as parallel processes.EDC

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Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

Session 3226 ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION IN THERMAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY Lang Wah Lee Tamer Ceylan Department of Mechanical/Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin-Platteville Platteville, WI 53818ABSTRACT: This paper presents four methods to integrate design to an equipment-intensivelaboratory course. These four methods are: (1) design of measurement systems with a graphicalprogramming method; (2) design of components for testing; (3

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Mary J. Sarmiento; Dr. Takeshi Kubo; Dr. Shigeo Matsumoto

professional careers, we think it isimportant to provide them with experience in discovering and solving problems similar tothose they will face in society. It is crucial that the students be allowed to develop the skillsand abilities for tackling problems independently, rather than following the directions of oth-ers. Engineering Design I and II are courses founded on these basic principles.3. Course Management3.1 Engineering Design Process1 Page 3.558.1In our Engineering Design Curriculum, the Engineering Design Process (EDP) is defined asthe process by which the following activities are performed.1. Clarification of the Problem Domain: Clarification

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Joseph C. Hartman

the onlyinnovation in engineering economy has been the utilization of spreadsheets to perform mundanecalculations. Topics such as cost estimation have been virtually eliminated while relevantresearch breakthroughs from the past fifty years have not found their way into textbooks, andpresumably, the classroom. The reduction in material may be attributable to an emphasis on timevalue of money fundamentals and a movement away from decision analysis.For economic analysis, the decision process may be summarized in the following six steps: 1. Problem recognition and definition. 2. Generation of solution alternatives. 3. Development of feasible solution alternative cash flows. 4. Economic evaluation of alternative cash

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Josef Rojter

eclectic culture has retained some of thecomponents and traditions of its original institution. RMIT University (RMIT) and VictoriaUniversity of Technology (VUT) were established in 1991 from largely technologicalcolleges of advanced education.RESULTS OF THE STUDY Table 1 lists the percentage of engineering curriculum allocated specifically tosubjects that deal with social, managerial and economic literacies. The results show a mixed bag of trends. Generally courses such as mechanical andindustrial/manufacturing engineering whose core values are broadly defined allocate greaterpercentage of their course curriculum to subjects concerning themselves with social and

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Renata Anna Gorska

. We have observed that in some Japanese universities, students notonly build virtual, computer models, but they simultaneously make physical models of thedesigned objects [1]. We should let the student build his/her own psychical model wheneverpossible.Even abstract problems in descriptive geometry such as auxiliary view planes and the projectionof points, lines and planes on these view planes are a big problem for a student to visualize. Inmy courses, students were allowed to manipulate their own drawings and were encouraged tofold back the sheet of paper along the fold line to see that “mysterious” auxiliary view plane.Once the student had done it, it was no longer a problem for him or her to understand andconceive what we were speaking

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Ian R. Simpson; Brian Manhire

the relative simplicity of the Anglo-Saxon model in engineering education(B.S./3-4 years, M.S./1-2 years, Ph.D./3-4 years), the French system may be characterized by theextreme diversity of its components, namely: * The varying size of its institutions * The eclectic nature of the organizations which run and fund the institutions * The organization of the academic curricula and the subjects taught. Another important difference between the Anglo-Saxon and French models concerns thesocial status of engineers. In France, engineers tend to occupy the upper echelons of managementposts, competing with other specialists (such as economists and business school graduates) forthe highest positions in government and industry

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Woo Sik Kim; Song Yop Hahn; Byeong Gi Lee; Ki-Jun Lee

collegesIf we consider the status of engineering education, a subset of higher education in general, wesee a much higher growth rate for engineering education than for the overall higher educationin terms of the number of departments, the number of students, and the number of facultymembers. If we single out the number of students for comparison, it has increased by 105%for the engineering education during the decade, which was 91.0% for the overall highereducation. This increase is contributed mainly by engineering colleges in the regularcolleges/universities category : Their increase rate doubles that of the overall colleges (seeTable 1).In the case of the engineering graduate schools the numbers of engineering students inmaster's and doctoral

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Janusz Starzyk; Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski

academicinstitutions involved in engineering education, 12 % business schools, 8 % medical schools, and17 % were attending all the other schools. Out of this number 9 % of students were enrolled inprivate academic institutions (mostly business and management schools). The overall level ofnational government support for higher education in Poland remained in 1996 below 1 % of theGNP, which is significantly less than in Western European countries [6].+++4GEGPV*KUVQT[QH*KIJGT'FWECVKQPKP2QNCPF+OOGFKCVGN[CHVGTVJG5GEQPF9QTNF9CTJKIJGTGFWECVKQPKP2QNCPFYCUQHHKEKCNN[UWRGTXKUGFD[VJG/KPKUVT[QH'FWECVKQPDWVKPHCEVHKPCNFGEKUKQPUTGICTFKPIVJGFGXGNQROGPVCPFQTICPK\CVKQPQHJKIJGTGFWECVKQPYGTGTGUGTXGFVQVJG%QWPEKNQH*KIJGT5EJQQNUUWRGTXKUGFFKTGEVN[D[VJG2TKOG/KPKUVGT6JG

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

, individual teaching to student-centered, problem-based, team learning. Toreach this goal, EESP has invited diverse groups of several dozen doctoral engineering studentsand junior faculty members to participate in a weeklong, hands-on workshop focused on teachingphilosophy, classroom skills, and the essentials of the academic career.EESP ’97 enabled participants to achieve the following program objectives: 1. enhance their knowledge of teaching methods and the learning process 2. develop their understanding and appreciation of the diversity of undergraduate students related to learning styles, cultural background, age, gender, and interests 3. increase their capacity to embrace future responsibilities for leadership in engineering

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Gary Benenson; El Hadji Diop; José Sánchez; Alphie Mullings; Nadine Simms

researchhas been done to explore the potential role of engineering graduates in K-12 education. Thispaper reports on what we believe to be the first such study. RESEARCH GOALS AND METHODS The study was conducted by an engineering faculty member and five engineering students. Page 3.250.1Its purposes are threefold: 1. to determine the level of interest in teaching careers among engineering students; 2. to explore the reasons why some engineering students would consider teaching as a career; and 3. to identify the barriers which would discourage engineering students from pursuing teaching

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Douglas H. Baxter

who want solidmodeling capability on their PC; PTModeler runs on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.PTModeler files can upload to Pro/ENGINEER but Pro/ENGINEER data can not beloaded into PTModeler.4.0 Course Description4.1 Engineering Graphics and Computer Aided DesignThe course outline for EG&CAD is shown in Table 1: Course Pedagogy For EngineeringGraphics & Computer Aided Design. The course meets for three hours, once a week. Thefirst forty five to fifty minutes are devoted to lecture and the remaining time the studentswork on problems based on the lecture material. The course meets in a computer terminalroom with either IBM workstations or Unigraph workstations. During the laboratorysession there are the instructor and two teaching

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Parviz F. Rad; David M. Woodall

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Robert J. Parden

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Alfred E. McKenney; James A. Jacobs

go to the Main Menu.Now we will walk you through a tutorial to give you experience on how to select material fromtwo specific papers and prepare a composite paper for use in your classroom or laboratory. Thefinal paper will contain excerpts from an experiment by Ed Widener, It’s Hard to Test Hardnessand a companion experiment by Ed’s Purdue colleague, Patricia Olesak, Scleroscope HardnessTesting.1.Finding the PapersFrom the Main Menu, select the Table of Contents button. The result in shown in Figure 1.Figure 1 Page 3.80.4 4Next, select the Testing & Evaluation button.When the Testing &

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S. A. Mandayam; R.P. Ramachandran; A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan

being exposed to fundamentals of surveying.The field surveying measurements are followed by stress and strain measurements. Aninstrumented aluminum truss bridge as shown in the figure below was constructed to introducestudents to basic concepts of stress, strain and material properties. The bridge has a pair of planetrusses with a pin and roller support at its two ends. ¾ x 1/8 and ½ x 1/8 flatstock aluminumwas used to construct the bridge. Steel nuts and bolts, washers and lock washers were used toconnect the members. Omega bonded resistance strain gauges were mounted on certainmembers of the truss bridge to illustrate tension and compression in various members. Thesegages consist of a grid of very fine wire or foil bonded to a backing

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

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Alireza Rahrooh

candidate for this purpose. Overview of Current Laboratory ExperimentsCurrently, the control feedback systems for EET4732 include the following experiments, usingboth hardware and software (104 page-laboratory manual): 1) General System Information and Introduction ( how to use the software package) 2) Laboratory Report Format 3) Experiment #l- A/D and D/A Conversion Concepts 4) Experiment #2- Motor Control 5) Experiment #3- Analog Shaft Position Sensing 6) Experiment #4- Digital shaft Position Sensing 7) Experiment #5- Positional Control Loops 8) Experiment #6- Speed Control Loops 9) Experiment #7- PID Control10) Experiment #8 What is Analogue Computing11) Experiment #9 The Integrator12) Experiment # 10 First Order

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Tom Owen; Jack Carter; Connie Martin; Cheng Liu; Ambrose Barry; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley; Nan Byars

thesestudents expressed profuse gratitude at being afforded an opportunity to complete theirbaccalaureate degree in a part-time program offered in the evening near their work and home.Attrition Early attrition within the first month of classes reduced the enrollment to a total of 66students (26 at Forsyth TCC, 15 at Gaston College, and 25 at Wake TCC). By the middle ofNovember the total had fallen by 25% to 54 students ( 19 at Forsyth TCC, 10 at GastonCollege, and 25 at Wake TCC). An analysis of the reasons given by students for withdrawing Page 3.257.6from the program (by mid semester, Fall 1997) is shown in Table 1. Forty six students

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Robin Carr; Andrew Gregorowicz; Adam O'Donnell; Robert Quinn

transformed into an "EngineeringCollaboratory" in which multiple remote users can access and perform a myriad of experimentson state-of the art engineering workstations.The three remote labs explore different extremes of the kind of access to the workstation requiredby the remote user. In all cases, students had a prior 3 hour hands-on laboratory introducing the 1, 2basic skills and new elements involved. In the first remote lab “Control of a Model HeatingSystem”, students explore how Joule heating effects the temperature of a heating element andhow effective different control schemes are at achieving a target temperature. Performing the labchanges the properties (temperature) of the experimental apparatus, so

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Ronald H. Rockland

course material to determine competencies for these levels.All of the students used a word processor for at least one year (either Word or WordPerfect), on anaverage of twice per week. Table 1 shows the average ranking for general proficiencies in Word, Excel95, PowerPoint, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 (rating is from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most proficient). Application Average Proficiency Rating (by students) Word 2.9 Excel 2.6 PowerPoint 2.6 Windows 3.1

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Edward N. Prather; Raymond B. Landis

2000,1 or lookat the low transfer rates of students who start engineering study in community colleges, or look atthe differentially low retention of minority students (African-American, Hispanic, and NativeAmerican) to convince ourselves that there is lots of room for improvement. If that’s notenough, we can always take the TQM view that “no matter how good we are doing, we shouldalways strive to be better.”An Introduction to Engineering course with a primary focus on “student development” canprovide an ideal vehicle for working with first year engineering students to enhance their chancesof success. A Student Success Model (Figure 1), taken from Chapter 4 of Landis’ text StudyingEngineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career,2 suggests three