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Krishnan K. Chittur

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John G. Nee

some students recently employed in EDG/CAD/CAM positions include: 1) planning,selecting and applying computer/automated systems for manufacturing or processing;2) designing computer and automated systems machines, and equipment used in manufacturingor processing; 3) research and development leading to the creation of new or improved computerand/or automated equipment or processes; 4) developing common computer-related databases tobe shared by engineering design, factory automation, and manufacturing planning functions; and5) product design and development. PROBLEMS AND ISSUESThere appears to be a reduction of EDG/drafting/design visualization courses available nationallyin grades 7-12. Also, spatial related

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Vijay K. Arora

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Robert M. Koretsky

Session 1253 An Integrative Approach to Computer Graphics for Freshman Robert M. Koretsky University of Portland School of EngineeringABSTRACT: The paper describes a multi-disciplinary computer graphics course with a finalproject whose basic intentions are 1) to provide motivation through creativity and cooperation forthe study of engineering and 2) to develop the graphical communication and visualization skillsof the student via the use of pencil-and-paper sketching supported by appropriate computersoftware. A majority of the course content was designed around a report

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

Session 3230 AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING AND LEARNING AT THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL FOR GRADUATE ENGINEERS IN INDUSTRY T G STANFORD and D A KEATING University of South Carolina 1. INTRODUCTIONWhile traditional engineering education and graduate outreach programs are primarily based onthe didactic approach to teaching and learning, namely the transmission and acquisition ofknowledge, it is now apparent that an educational transformation and a different approach toteaching and learning is needed at the advanced

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Robert E. Wilson; Amy S. Fong

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Peter Idowu

calculations and plotting of results.Introduction of the IDAC system has offered the typical power engineering undergraduate aunique opportunity to learn the principles of real-time data acquisition, and to apply it in thestudy of electric machines.1. IntroductionA downward trend in enrollment in graduate and undergraduate electrical power engineeringprograms has been observed over the last decade or two 1-2. The causes have been attributedto shifting interests among the student population and stalling electrical load-growthdynamics, among others. Efforts to remedy the decline in interest have resulted in the wideruse of computer simulation tools. This has significantly aided students in gaining a betterunderstanding of power system devices and

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Alan Felzer

–Click on the dots on the vertical axis of the following graph to see how the open circuitvoltage of N is related to its equivalent circuit. V = 103I + 1 I RTH = 1K 1 + V VTH = 1 volt I (10–3 A) – –1ASSESSMENT - My students not only seem to like but also benefit from interactivedemonstrations like those above. But I am doing so many interrelated things in my classesincluding group discussions and peer instruction (Mazur, 1997) that it would be very hardto isolate the

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George H. Staab

smaller segments. Thisprovides an easier, more relaxed environment when attempting to master a concept.While interacting with a computer, a student can gain knowledge and confidence withoutfear of judgment. Using interactive computer software, a student can review missed orconfusing material, explore examples, and work quizzes as often as needed to master atopic.A software package is currently being developed for strength of materials usingAuthorwarwe Professional (a Macromedia product). The package contains four primarymodules representing major topical areas. Within each primary module are a series ofrelated topics, as delineated in Table 1. The related topics contain sub-topics whichinclude theoretical developments and examples. A series of

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William R. Smith; Ronald W. Missen; Ishuwa Sikaneta

implementation by computer. A new Java applet for the latter is introducedin this paper and on the web site. Page 3.364.1 1In spite of a long history of the use of an algebraic method for the simplest situation in CRS,that of balancing a single specified reaction (method of Bottomley3 ), there appears to beconsiderable resistance on the part of instructors to the use of MRM in CRS. The reasonsgiven are: (1) that it emphasizes mathematics and not chemistry, (2) that, as a result, stu-dents don’t learn about chemistry in the form of “oxidation numbers” and “half-reactions”,and (3) that, if implemented by computer, it

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Thomas J. Crowe; Herman Budiman; Elin M. Wicks

No. 1, Washington, DC, The George Washington University, School of Education and Human Development.2. Jonassen, D. H., 1988, “Designing structured hypertext and structuring access to hypertext,” Educational Technology, v.28 n.11, p.13-16.3. Lynch, P. J., 1992, “Teaching with multimedia,” Syllabus, v.22 n.2.4. Sinatra, R., J. S. Beaudry, J. Stahl-Gemake, and E. F. Guastello, 1990, “Combining visual literacy, text understanding, and writing for culturally diverse students,” Journal of Reading, p.612-617.THOMAS J. CROWE is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and a member of the ManufacturingSystems Research Group at the University of Missouri - Columbia. His research interests include dynamic businessprocess

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Michael Guillorn; Joshua Sachar; Brian Hall; Antony Arciuolo

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James C. Wood

for the use of “real-world” problems that resemble aninterdisciplinary work environment which incorporates the industrial methods (especiallyteamwork) and allows for new pedagogical techniques such as active learning andcollaborative learning.The South Carolina Technical College system of 16 technical colleges through an NSFgrant (DUE 9602440) has undertaken to create a freshman year integrated curriculum forassociate degree engineering technology that employs industrial problem-based activitiesin the classroom. To coordinate the statewide curriculum development, a nine memberinterdisciplinary, intercampus Curriculum Oversight Team (COT) was formed.Curriculum development has had five phases: 1. Create a cadre of interdisciplinary

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Sohail Anwar

Campus of Penn State and the IUT Bethune. The second project involvescollaboration between Penn State Altoona and the IUT Bethune. Details of each project are asfollows:Project 1 - Collaborative Design Teams: One section of a first year design class of Penn StateUniversity Park students (approximately 30) will collaborate with a similarly sized first yearclass of IUT students. Ten teams of six students will be formed; each composed of threeUniversity Park and three IUT students. All teams will be assigned a design project which comesfrom one of the surrounding industries of Penn State or the IUT. Faculty at Penn State haveextensive experience in working with industrial partners to identify an appropriate project for thislevel of instruction. A

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

internship hoped to achieve. Over the winter, more data will becollected for further analysis.Impact of the Internship on the Explorers. Assessment on this aspect of the internship was conducted quantitatively andqualitatively. Quantitative data was gathered through pre-internship and post-internship surveys.Three variables rated by the Explorers on the surveys were 1) their understanding of howscientific research is carried out, 2) their ability to perform scientific research, and 3) theirinterest in pursuing a career in science. Although the ratings for all three increased between thepre and the post-surveys, the ratings did not show a statistical significance. This is possibly due

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

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Linda Parker; Lawrence Burton

U.S.workforce that includes (1) engineering degree recipients at the baccalaureate or higher degreelevel, and (2) people in engineering occupations with and without engineering degrees. TheProject addresses a wide range of topics, including those related to educational backgrounds,occupations, job activities, and mid-career training. (See Appendix A for more information onthe Project, including data sources and how to order publications.) It will also examine changesin the profession of engineering in the latter half of this century. This paper is based on Project analyses that examine a pervasive theme in engineeringpractice: the intersections of engineering and management. The relationship betweenengineering and management is discussed in

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James L. Hales

reports of the events in Tiananmen Square. RETURNING While in China this first time we asked about opportunities to return and spend a longerperiod of time there. We came home with many business cards. I subsequently wrote to variouslocations expressing interest in working with them. None of these overtures generated anyresponse. In retrospect I believe the approach was wrong. One needs to understand the conceptof "guanxi" in dealing with the Chinese. Guanxi: "Not precisely translatable into English.Guanxi is often spoken of as something that links two people who have developed a relationshipof mutual dependence." [1] A contact person is essential. Recognizing this, we were lookingfor an appropriate

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Robert Allen; Richard Penson

intracranial pressure and life threatening conditions sothat immediate action can be taken.1 IntroductionIntracranial hypertension is caused by raised intracranial pressure (ICP) which is the pressure thatcan be measured within the cranial cavity between the outer membrane (dura) and the brain tissueincluding the ventricles within the brain and the spinal compartments. These ventricles andinterconnecting passages contain a lubricating or damping fluid known as the cerebrospinal fluid(CSF). The CSF circulates over the surface of the brain, brain stem and the spinal cord at a rateof about 500 ml/day and has a rate of formation of about 0.4 ml/mm. This means that the CSF isrenewed 4-5 times every day. Normal ICP is about 10 mmHg average with dynamic

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John S. Schmalzel; Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

through the use of a bridge builder software developed by the United States MilitaryAcademy (USMA). This final section introduces students to innovation and creativity inengineering design while emphasizing the significance of the use of computers in structuralanalysis and design.INTRODUCTIONFounded in 1923 as Glassboro State Teachers College, Rowan University has evolved into acomprehensive regional state university with six colleges including the new College ofEngineering. The College of Engineering was initiated as a result of a major donation in 1992from the Rowan Foundation [1]. The engineering faculty is taking a leadership role by usinginnovative methods of teaching and learning, as envisioned by ASEE (1994) [2], to better

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Kenneth Reid

technical skills and abilities within a group,and specifically exclude any usual lab partners from being in the same group. All of the groupsdid some work outside of class time, and had the design, construction, and measurementcomplete in the first two weeks.The project was assigned enough points to make it equivalent to five ordinary laboratoryassignments. The objective of the project was: Page 3.373.2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE: 1. To theoretically design and analyze one circuit to demonstrate KVL, KCL, voltage division, current division, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition, and Delta / Wye and/or Wye / Delta conversions

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Henry W. Kraebber

responses to the reading assignments. The course is now a “lettergraded” course. A proposal to change this class to a “pass/not pass” grading system is now beingprepared for the CIMT Curriculum Committee. The “pass/not pass” format may be a better fitwith the intent and structure of this course. There now appears to be a need for a “classexemption” for some of the upper-class students in their 6th, 7th or 8th semester who areworking to complete the Associates Degree in addition to a Bachelors degree. These areas willrequire additional faculty consideration.The course outline shown in figure 1. was implemented during the fall of 1997. This was thesecond offering of the course, and the content and plans for the course continue to develop

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Dominique McMillan

students into civil engineering-relatedcareers. Funded by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Committee on EqualOpportunity Programs, the program has proved to be successful by serving to (1) expose studentsto science and engineering in a college-related environment (2) introduce it's student participantsto the study and career of civil engineering and (3) involve engineering faculty, students andprofessionals in a worthwhile community-based program.The program took place on two-consecutive Saturdays on the California State University , LosAngeles (Cal State L.A.) in late August for a total of 12 hours (6 hours each Saturday). Theprogram was free to all participants and in 1997 a stipend of $25.00 was given to students thatattended both

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Reginald G. Mitchiner; John T. Tester

educational agenda, though in other venues. We discuss the practical andaccreditation problems associated with incorporating the "new" design features in an existingmachine design course. A separate design course, dedicated to plastic product design, is alsooutlined. This last alternative is likely the best bridge from a machine design curriculum withoutplastics concepts to one with metallic/nonmetallic product design.1 IntroductionPlastic products† are a dominant part of the manufacturing world. It is very likely that you thereader could, at this moment, reach out and touch a plastic product from where you sit. Yet,mechanical design curricula at universities, as a general rule, do not have plastic product designintegral in their construction. The

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Scott R. Short

, proceeding from the simple to the more complicated, based uponthe inherent mathematical processes that underlie the distributions. King’s approach emphasizesthat associated with all naturally occurring processes are many kinds of statistical distributions.Within a reasonable approximation, the more complex distributions are mathematically definablecombinations of the simpler distributions.Included in the students’ laboratory manual is a table3 (see Table 1, Appendix 1) summarizingstatistical distributions. Table 1 shows that the mathematical operation of counting results in adiscrete statistical distribution called the binomial distribution. The mathematical operation ofaddition results in the continuous distribution referred to as the normal

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Aaron A. Jennings

The products of the summer 1995 effort were presented and evaluated at a workshopheld in Newark, N.J., Aug. 24 -25, 1995. Module prototypes were presented, discussedand evaluated. The essential conclusions of this meeting were as follows:1. In evaluating materials for our three focus group (Case Studies, Databases, and Software) we come to the conclusion that all of these areas are strongly linked and should not be treated as independent entities. Preparing a useful module based on an environmental software code requires that one provide practical examples illustrating how the code can be used. This is best done with a realistic example problem that is, in essence, a case study. Furthermore, analysis codes generally require

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Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

teaching seniorcapstone design courses. Since the summer of 1996, both authors have been part of a committeewhose charge has been to restructure the entire engineering curriculum for all freshmen at UTwith an emphasis on design, teamwork, and communication skills. This restructuring is inprogress and both authors are part of the teaching team for this new curriculum. Also, in 1994,Dr. Parsons developed and implemented a sophomore level introduction to design course [1].Based on their own experiences as well as a consensus of the engineering education community[2,3], the authors decided that a design-oriented course with an emphasis on engineering problemsolving was the best approach to satisfy all the objectives listed above.The core of the new

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Gary A. Ybarra

Session 2526 Introduction to Wireless Control and Virtual Instrumentation using LabVIEW Gary A. Ybarra gary@ee.duke.edu Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, NC I. Introduction The initial objective of the laboratory is for students to learn to use properly the HewlettPackard (HP) digital instruments at their lab bench and the correct method of measuringphysical quantities with each instrument. The four HP digital instruments used in the labare:(1) HP E3611A DC

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Susan M. Blanchard; John D. Enderle

biomedical engineering courses are out-dated, do not cover emerging topics such as tissue engineering, do not have example problemsand exercises, require an in-depth knowledge of electrical engineering, are written at a level thatis beyond the capabilities of most undergraduate students, or are written for the biomedicalengineering technology student.1-6DiscussionNearly 20 experts have contributed to a new book, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, thatwill be available late 1998.7 The text is written primarily for engineering students who havecompleted differential equations and basic courses in statics, dynamics, and linear circuits. Eachchapter in the book begins with a short list of instructional objectives to help the students focuson the

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Randall A. Yoshisato

, satisfied society. How eachsegment works to do this is described in the systems schematic shown in Figure 1.The model is expressed using the “systems thinking” approach proposed by Peter Senge.1 Theoverall system is composed of three interrelated subsystems: academia, industry, and society. Forthe purposes of this model, “society” represents that portion of our community which is notdirectly associated with academia or industry. In some sense it can also be interpreted as“government” to the degree that a representative government interprets and aligns itself with thecommunal will. Together each subsystem works towards our common goal indirectly byimproving the productivity and satisfaction of the people within society.Although academia makes many