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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

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Mulchand S. Rathod

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Peter D. Heimdahl

summer engineering and technology camp, for 163girls entering 7th grade in four one-week sessions for the first time in July 1997. The purpose ofthe camp was to expose women to the opportunities for technical careers early enough toinfluence their choices of math, science, and technical courses in middle and high school. Fortygirls were invited to attend each of the one-week sessions during the following Sunday throughFriday sessions: Week 1: July 6-11 Week 2: July 13-18 Week 3: July 20-25 Week 4: July 27-August 1Background: A Manufacturing Engineering program at UW-Stout began officially in the fallof 1994. In recruiting engineering faculty to support the program, great difficulty wasexperienced in locating and

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M. Wayne Hall; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

agriculture.(1) In addition to thisforthcoming document, the PCSD has already published several related documents, most ofwhich can be obtained from the World Wide Web (http://whitehouse.gov/PCSD). State and local governments also are making commitments to Sustainability. Havingstarted with the $sustainable# act of recycling, numerous communities are now reaching out toincorporate sustainable policies in many of their local affairs. There exists a profusion ofinformation about recent community commitments, local projects, formulas and implementationplans available on the Word Wide Web that can be found on the PCSD home page listed above. Neither is industries being left behind in the move towards Sustainability. Onceindustries, large

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Klaus Wuersig

much like one thatis produced in the market place gives meaning to an exercise and now it is very important tolearn all about the theory associated with the product. Therefore any projects that are assignedshould have as much reality associated with them as possible.Now the instructor becomes acoach , a mentor, a project engineer that guides each individual student to produce within acertain timeframe this product that has his or her name on it. Learning has become an activeprocess, where theory and hands on activity reenforce each other. Page 3.525.1 1

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W. Ernst Eder

requirements, usingsketches and the thoughts and discussions (with the Stage Barge personnel) that accompanied them.Relationships of these thoughts and discussions, especially during conceptualizing, to existing designtheory are shown. Emphasis is placed on how the models from the Theory of Technical Systems,and the procedures from Engineering Design can be used to make designing more effective. The roleof calculations based on engineering sciences is also shown. The design process was necessarilyiterative, but showed many signs of systematic procedure.The resulting gangway has been fully detailed for manufacture, and can readily be seen as the resultof innovative, and even creative activity.1. INTRODUCTIONJust over a year ago, I was given a design

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Karen E. Schmahl

the students were familiar with their process, visits to GEAE were arranged.GEAE process technology leaders for each process demonstrated the technologies and answeredquestions. The students were given notebooks of actual operation sheets from various GEAEfacilities.The students were to analyze the process plans for commonality and “best practices”. The GEAEprocess leaders served as the technical resource for the students and several teams madenumerous visits to the manufacturing facilities to see their process in use. In general, the stepsused to arrive at the final deliverable were:1. Evaluate current work instructions for a variety of parts.2. Create an outline of general areas to be included in the process plan template.3. Determine the

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R. Pimmel; R. Borie; J. Jackson; D. Cordes; B. Dixon; A. Parrish

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Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

a summary of the researchon teaching design and assessing student design competence and concludes with implications forfuture research to improve engineering education.Definition of engineering designEngineering design is complex problem solving (Lewis & Samuel, 1989) that involvesgenerating and evaluating specifications to achieve objectives and satisfy constraints (Dym,1994). This definition implies that: (1) engineering design is a cognitive process that can bemodeled and understood; (2) representations exist for both the form and function of the processesinvolved in design; (3) the objectives of the design problem and any constraints can bedetermined from this representation; (4) design alternatives can be generated using problem

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Deborah M. Mechtel; K.A. Korzeniowski

, Alternating Current (AC) analysis using phasors, transient analysis, three phase power andtransformers. The second semester covers applications including motors and generators, diodes,filters, operational amplifiers, AM/FM communications systems and digital logic. Textbooks usedin the course are listed in the References section 1, 2, 3, 4. III. First Semester Preparation The majority of topics covered in the first semester are similar to those presented in anintroductory circuits course for electrical engineering majors. Topics are presented in a simplifiedformat, with some concepts eliminated entirely. The goal of the first semester of the class is to givestudents the tools to comprehend the wide variety of

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Terrence E. Dwan; E. Eugene Mitchell; George E. Piper; Carl E. Wick

wheresystems engineers impact environmental issues. The course concentrates on environmentalhardware, sensors, data handling, and modeling. For the second course in the track, studentschoose from two traditional environmental courses in the Ocean Engineering Department at theNaval Academy. One course centers on marine pollution: its causes, effects and remediation.The other course centers on ocean resources: their identification, recovery and utilization. Thispaper presents an overview of the Environmental Systems Engineering track and focuses on theSystems Engineering Department's environmental course. It discusses the course philosophy,content, and labs.1. INTRODUCTIONAs the country's environmental concerns expand, engineers in all disciplines have

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Youngmee Lee; Yasuo Kuga; Thomas Stoebe; Minoru Taya; Mani Soma

jointly offered by the Departments of MechanicalEngineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. The lab projectconsists of three parts: Lab 1, Dissection of Electronic Packaging; Lab 2, Processing ofElectronic Packaging; and Lab 3, Reliability Testing of Electronic Packaging. To complete thethree labs, six weeks were required; one week for Lab 1, three weeks for Lab 2, and two weeksfor Lab 3. Students were able to gain a good understanding on the electronic packaging. Futureimprovements planned for the course include expansion of the lab subjects, adding moreexperimental equipment, and establishing a closer correlation between the lectures and labsessions.IntroductionThe lab course on Electronic Packaging and Materials

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Sameer Kumar; Jeffrey A. Jalkio

priorities using competitive data. QFD should help organizationalprocessing activities and outputs match customer wants (Cole, 1989).A typical QFD matrix is shown in Figure 1. On the left side of Figure 1 are the customerrequirements: what the customer wants in the product or service. The top of the QFD matrixshows the manufacturer’s or service provider’s requirements, what the manufacturer or serviceprovider does to ensure the consistency of the product or service. These can be items that aremeasured by the manufacturer or service provider and are specified from suppliers.The right side of the QFD matrix indicates the planning matrix. This matrix specifies the level ofservices or product to be provided or produced after evaluating the customers

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1998 Annual Conference

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Izak Smit

through project management which allows students to provideproof of knowledge gained whilst working at their own pace and within personal constraints.Students provide their own scenarios of environment, responsibility, and personalcommitment. By these means the educator becomes a facilitator, rather than a teacher,evaluating the student's management skills of the project whilst ensuring technicalcompetence of subject knowledge. The student sets the pace within the broader spectrum oftime constraints determined by the course.Ongoing evaluation of the performance rather than the limiting time constraint of a normalthree-hour examination paper is effected. A meaningful evaluation of predicted futureperformance is achieved.1. INTRODUCTIONThe joint

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Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

particular DSP concept describedin this paper is an interactive demonstration showing how quantization of digital filtercoefficients, which is inevitable with widely-used fixed-point DSP hardware, adversely affectsfilter performance.INTRODUCTIONModern software tools such as MATLAB greatly facilitate the professor's ability to demonstratethe concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) in class, and to assign realistic projects toreinforce these concepts.1–3 An increasing number of DSP textbooks are becoming availablewhich take advantage of this ability,4–8 and a growing trend is for DSP concepts to be introducedearlier in the curriculum.9 MATLAB is an excellent learning tool when used for DSP education inthis way. It enables an easier transition for

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Charles D. Turner

Teaching Sustainable Design Using Engineering Economics Charles D. Turner Department of Civil Engineering University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas 79968 1998 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Seattle, Washington June 28 - July 1, 1998Abstract: The objective for a junior level course entitled “Introduction to EnvironmentalEngineering” is to introduce the student to environmental engineering fundamentals and toexamine the principles of an

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Michael A. Cornachione; Harriet S. Cornachione

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John N. Berry; Thad Welch

systems [1]. The basic concepts of three-phasepower are taught to a wide variety of engineers in either a general circuits course or a classdedicated to energy conversion and power systems. The systems used as examples when teaching power systems typically involve dangerouslyhigh voltages and currents. For obvious reasons of safety and logistics, it is not practical to havestudents work with actual power systems. Power demonstration stations that allow students towork with relatively low voltages (hundreds of volts) in a laboratory setting are available. Withthese stations, students can build and experiment with motors and other three-phase loads.However, these demonstration stations are usually large (the size of a lab bench), expensive

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Ratan Kumar; Bill Watt

ELEMENTS OF “ZQC” SYSTEMThe ZQC system clearly recognizes that “to err is human”. It is letting the errors turning intodefects that causes the problem. ZQC prevents defects by integrating Check and Act stages of thequality improvement cycle as shown in Figure 1b. It does it by combining four basic elements:1. It uses source inspection to catch errors before they become defects. There are three basic approaches to the inspection of products: judgement inspection, informative inspection and source inspection. In judgement inspection, a person or machine simply compares the product with a standard, discovers items that don’t conform and rejects them as defects. However it does not prevent the defect from occurring as this type of

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J.P. Agrawal; Omer Farook; Chandra R. Sekhar

6'#/$7+.&+0)#56*'(1%75+0#%1745'10 '.'%6410+%241,'%6'0)+0''4+0) ,2#ITCYCN1OGT(CTQQMCPF%45GMJCT 2WTFWG7PKXGTUKV[%CNWOGV *COOQPF+0 The paper presents the teaching methodology of a new course in Electronic Project Engineering in the Bachelor degree program of the Electrical Engineering Technology. This course is a precursor to the course in Senior Design Project. The course contains two components: (1) Introducing the principles and concepts of project planning and engineering and (2) the execution of a demonstrable project that is run very close to the principles learned. The first component is conducted through a

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J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey W. Honchell

defined as to require key elements from each block ofthe course (see figure 1). Otherwise, the problem was largely left to the abilities, and imagina-tion of the team. EET 368 Analog Integrated Circuits Fall 1992 End-of-Semester Team Project DESIGN Design a digitally controlled sine wave generator to meet or exceed the following specifications. each of these parameters must be digitally set. frequency 20Hz (or less) to 20kHz (or more) amplitude 50mVrms(or less) to 2Vrms(or more) offset

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David E. Goldberg; W. Brenton Hall; Lindsay Krussow; Eunice Lee; Aaron Walker

Session 2525 Teamwork for a Quality Education:1 Low-Cost, E ective Educational Reform through a Department-Wide Competition of Teams David E. Goldberg, W. Brenton Hall, Lindsay Krussow, Eunice Lee, & Aaron Walker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1 IntroductionCurriculum reform is all around us. The NSF Coalitions Coleman, 1996 are the most visibleof the e orts, but reform is occurring both nationally and internationally, the direct result ofa combination of higher demand for fully assembled" engineers, 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

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1998 Annual Conference

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

Session 1261 Technological Capability: A Multidisciplinary Focus for Undergraduate Engineering Education Mark A. Shields, John P. O’Connell University of VirginiaIntroductionProfessional interest in the purposes and scope of liberal education for engineering studentstracks a long history during this century, going back perhaps as far as the years immediately afterthe First World War.1, 2 Humanities and social science faculty at the University of Virginia’sSchool of Engineering and Applied Science (UVA–SEAS) have been active participants in thatdebate for more than

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Richard Spillman

hours. The classroom sessions consist of lectures,discussions, and demonstrations. Each lecture/discussion section is broken down into two parts.The lectures begin with a look at the historical development of privacy and its protection. Thesecond part is a study of the means to protect and expose information. The topics for eachlecture are listed the following table:Lecture Number Historical/Social Topic Cryptographic Topic 1 Introduction to Privacy 2 Privacy Rights Simple shift 3 Privacy Rights Keyword substitution 4 Early history of cryptograpy Breaking keyword 5

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Earl A. Evans; Susan L. Murray

Books and articles (on-line or Self-study, library hard-copy), web instruments On-line sources of course information Computer simulation, lab kits, On-line laboratory modules and Lab work remote control of instruments simulations Electronic mail for 1 to 1 communication Interaction with tutors and Groupware, web, list serve, between student and teacher and teaching assistants electronic mail vice-versa Chatrooms for group interaction

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Sharon M. Schlossberg

dormitory check-in and program orientation(Figure 1). This is followed by a family BBQ, campustours, and evening social activities. The technical part ofthe program runs Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM -4:00 PM, with special activities or social and sportsevents in the evenings. A half-day typically is devoted totours of industry. Design competitions and award cere-monies close out the program on Friday.An experienced team of student counselors accompaniesthe students at all times outside of “class” hours. Coun-selors also arrange and manage evening events - poolparties, tennis, movies, etc. - and assist with design proj-ects and competitions. Meals are provided by the campusfood service. Arrangements for housing, meals, counsel- Fig. 1. TC

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Shomir Sil; Sashi Sekhar; Chandra R. Sekhar

Engineering Technology toprovide their graduates with essential management skills required in today’s workplace. Withthese practical tools “in-hand” as well as their “hands-on” education, EET graduates will findmore opportunities available in areas outside the mainstream of technical occupations.Ultimately, this combination of skills will provide EET graduates with an effective track forcareer advancement.This paper will discuss the curriculum details necessary to achieving these objectives. Page 3.56.1 1

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Session 3257 Technology Education in the Next Century: Is the Proposed TAC/ABET Criteria Compatible? Amitabha Bandyopadhyay State University of New York, Farmingdale,NY 11735 IntroductionAmerican higher education in the last decade of the twentieth century faces escalating costs,uneven demographics, faltering revenues, and serious erosion of public confidence [1]. Thisdepressing picture of academia is emerging at a time when concern over the decliningcompetitiveness of the products of American businesses and industry has made

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Fred I. Denny

vertically structured, with "end to end" responsibility for power generation, power delivery,and customer service. Decision making in the vertically structured companies has been regulatedby State and Federal regulatory bodies charged with assuring managerial prudence, effectiveperformance, and allowing reasonable returns on investment.During the next decade electric power industry restructuring will break down the verticalstructure of electric utility companies and introduce competition in the place of traditionalregulation. This restructuring can be described in terms of moving through the following phases: Phase 1: Markets for power generation are opened up to non-utility generators. (This phase began in 1978