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R. S. Cartier; Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

ABSTRACT The Microelectronics Teaching Factory is an Intel, Motorola and ASU East partnership toequip and staff a top-of-the-line teaching facility that mirrors a real microchip fabricationfactory. This facility will provide a unique learning environment for students from ASU East,ASU Main and Maricopa Community Colleges who represent the future microelectronicsworkforce. As well, Intel, Motorola and other local industrial and educational partners will usethe facility for education and training purposes.Introduction: The catalyst for a teaching factory at Arizona State University (ASU) East is theworldwide shortage of trained personnel in the semiconductor manufacturing industry in the1990s [1]. Semiconductor manufacturing

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John Marshall

andengineering at North Carolina State University, magneto-rheological fluidswill lead to a whole new generation of brakes, automatic transmissions,actuator devices, hydraulic valves, pump parts, and motors (Conrad, Page 4.383.21992). Procedure: Safety Considerations: 1. Protective eye wear is mandatory for all those in the lab area. 2. Read the operating instructions that accompany the magneto- rheological clutch assembly and power supply. 3. Obtain a "Material Data Safety Sheet" on the fluid from the supplier. Read the sheet completely and ask questions to any information you do not understand.Observing the tunable clutch assembly

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Michael Lee; Charles Sampson; Ingrid St. Omer

to the 1993 National Study of PostsecondaryFaculty, African Americans made up only about 2.8% of full-time engineering instructionalfaculty and staff; Hispanics fared slightly better at 3.1% and American Indian/Alaskan Nativeswere less than one percent.1 Thus, within the engineering academic community, a relativelysmall number of minority faculty members are available at undergraduate institutionsnationwide. This paper explores the institutional support of minority student interaction withethnic professional societies for students at a predominantly white institution to help compensatefor the scarcity of minority faculty and professional role models. Undergraduate and graduatestudents from the University of Missouri – Columbia received

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Patricia Click

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Eric Adams; Rafael Bras

components and are presented both in writing and orally to prospective Page 4.386.2clients, at the end of the fall semester. Oral presentations are tape-recorded, and students areasked to critique both their own presentation and that of a classmate.The projects are taken from large real-world engineering problems, and prepared incollaboration with outside practitioners. Environmental students have typically worked inteams of 3 or 4 students; their projects during 1998-99 encompass: (1) water resourcesdevelopment on the island of Cyprus, (2) appropriate waste water technology for the state ofSao Paulo, Brazil, (3) assessment of constructed wetlands

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Mahlon Heller

theactivities performed by the students during the lab periods which are to 1) construct the mobileplatform for the MOBOT to familiarize them with mechanical components such as motors,wheels, gears, and gear ratios, 2) mount the MOBOT Brain on the MOBOT Brawn platformthat includes light-sensing photo resistors, bumper switches, sound-sensing microphone andmotor-driver circuitry, and a MC68HC11 system with a LCD, 3) determine the maximum Page 4.387.1MOBOT carrying capacity, maximum ramp slope for the MOBOT, and torque/speed curve forthe MOBOT motors, 4) write IC code to test and obtain data that characterizes each sensor, 5)design and implement in IC, MOBOT

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Debi Switzer; Siegfried M. Holzer; Richard M. Felder; Douglas E. Hirt

Foundation-sponsored coalition of engineering schools. The participatinginstitutions are Clemson University, University of Florida, Florida A&M University–FloridaState University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T University, NorthCarolina State University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University. The coalition began its second five-year funding period in 1997with a mission of scaling up and institutionalizing the educational reforms developed and pilot-tested in the first five years.A major component of the Year 6–10 effort is the design and implementation of a coalition-widefaculty development (FD) program. The program objectives are (1) to promote faculty

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Donald V. Richardson

. Fig. 1. confirms Forgue's Method. The spread between the twogroups' data probably is due to winding temperatures. g.) REPORT: No formal report was yet produced but class and lab excitement ran high Page 4.390.4when I announced that we were collectively involved in something outside the literature of the1 a.k.a. stray load lossfield, and that I wanted help to expand this concept. I think I convinced the class that weshould, at the same time, continue with the rest of our class and lab syllabus but extra work wasto be welcomed.Follow up on Forgue’s Method came step by step. Tests at various rotating speeds showedconclusively that a

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Bahador Ghahramani; Stephen A. Raper

pollution rests on four basic assumptions [2]:1. Air is in the public domain. Such an assumption is necessary if air pollution is to be treated as a public problem, of concern not only to those who discharge the pollution but also those who may suffer as a result.2. Air pollution is an inevitable concomitant of modern life. There is a conflict between man’s economic and biologic concerns; in the past, this conflict was recognized only after air pollution disasters. We need a systematic development of policies and programs to conserve the atmosphere for its most essential biological function.1. Scientific knowledge can be applied to the shaping of public policy. Information about the sources and effects of air pollution is far from

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Alice Y. Scales; Aaron C. Clark

. Cadkeyand Mechanical Desktop were listed third and fourth, respectively. MasterCAM was the CAMpackage listed most by respondents and 3-DStudio was the most commonly listed animation soft- Page 4.1.2ware (see Table 1).Table 1 Six Most Identified Software Packages Used in Technical/Engineering Graphics Courses Software Frequency (n=111) Percent* AutoCAD 90 81.1 ProEngineer 25 22.5 Cadkey 21 18.9 Mech

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Hugh Jack

interfaced to the Internet, in thesecond the project was design to be interfaced to a PLC. All of the projects are now in use sup-porting undergraduate laboratories and outreach programs.1. IntroductionThe school of engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) had it’s first graduates in1988. Since then, the school has continued to grow and now has students in electrical, computer,mechanical and manufacturing engineering. The faculty and curriculum are not departmentalizedby program as is found in most programs. As a result, it is quite easy to offer courses and projectsthat have multidisciplinary content.The engineering program at GVSU is practical in nature. This includes mandatory co-op employ-ment and a two semester capstone project. The

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

e-mail:rizkalla@engr.iupui.eduAbstractIn 1995, we received a NSF ILI grant to develop a one-credit laboratory component for our three-credit lecture course on electronic manufacturing aspects of printed circuit boards [1-3]. In thispaper, we describe how we have been able to increase the utilization of the equipment from itsoriginal intended use. We do this by developing two additional one-credit laboratory courses fortwo lecture courses using the laboratory that was set up with the grant. The two new laboratorycomponents will give students experience in the electronic manufacturing aspects of applicationspecific integrated circuit (ASIC) design for digital signal processing (DSP) and computerengineering applications. This will require

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Charles Slivinsky

student assessments of theclassroom teaching materials and presentations on a lecture-by-lecture basis.I. IntroductionThe author began studying multimedia systems techniques several years ago to support the firstelectrical circuits course in electrical engineering. The next eight sections below discuss thestatus and plans for the suite of techniques that have been or are being developed. The finalsection gives the lessons learned to-date and the conclusions. The remainder of this sectiondescribes the circuits course.Enginr 124 is a three-credit, three-lecture-per-week course on circuit analysis that coverstraditional material and uses a standard text.1,2 The course description is shown in Table 1. Thissingle course serves both EE majors and other

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Robert Voigt; Patricia Warren; Charles Cameron; Anne Madsen; Eric Twite

diagrams on a chalkboard, representation of the time-varyingdimension is difficult to grasp, especially for the visual learner. In order accomplish our learningobjectives, we chose a combination of tools to help us describe these phenomena.As a comparative example of the strength of animation, we show the sinusoid and phasorrelationship. Starting with a MATLAB program, we provide a static description of a sinusoid asa complex vector in the phase domain. We describe the sinusoid generally as v(t) = A sin(2πft+φ)and its corresponding vector as A∠φ. Setting 2πft equal to θ , we display these graphically infigure 1. To the uninitiated eye of the student, the time varying component is not wellrepresented by either of these graphs

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Muniram Budhu

CONSOLIDATION MODULEBackground A consolidation test is one of the most important soil tests for geotechnical engineering.Engineers use the results from this test to calculate total and time rates of settlement, and makedecisions concerning the type and size of foundation for a variety of civil engineering projects. Atypical laboratory apparatus is shown in Figure 1 Figure 1 A typical consolidation apparatusThe apparatus consists of a loading frame and a cell. The cell comprised a ring to confine the soilsample, a reservoir to prevent drying out of the sample, porous stones for drainage of the porewater, a ring cap to hold the ring in position, and a loading cap to transmit load from the loadingframe to the soil. The loading frame varies

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Rochelle Payne Ondracek

happened.They first must decide what test to perform and will be able to choose from a list of standardmaterials tests: tensile test, fatigue test, impact test, hardness tests, microscopy (electron andlight), and x-ray analysis.This project’s emphasis on active engagement with real-world problems is in line with educationreforms in undergraduate science education. For example, the success of interactive methods inteaching students physics is well documented by Hake 1. Physics departments around the nationhave put tremendous effort towards physics education reform in the past several years.Dismayed by declining enrollment in physics courses and a lack of students’ conceptualunderstanding of introductory physics material, physics faculty have put their

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David A. Sabatini

. faculty, students and professionals the opportunity tostudy abroad and increase global understanding. The purpose of the Fulbright program is“… to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peopleof other countries … and thus to assist in the development of friendly, sympathetic, andpeaceful relations between the United States and other countries of the world.” Since 1946nearly 32,000 American scholars have lectured and conducted research in countries aroundthe globe. The Fulbright program is just one of many programs that provide funding for asabbatical leave.When considering a sabbatical leave, a number of “pros and cons” may need to beconsidered, as summarized in Table 1 below. In terms of positives, a

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Ernest Tollner

standardmetropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) in north Georgia (see Figure 1). Numbers of farms of alleconomic classes have gradually declined over the last decade (Snipes, 1997). Cropped acreshave remained nearly the same over the past decade; however, farms with cattle, hogs and dairyanimals have decreased (Snipes, 1997). Poultry production has increased steadily (Figure 2) inGeorgia, with significant increases in North Georgia in the first part of the decade and increasesin south Georgia in the last few years. Poultry production is concentrated in the indicatedcounties in Figure 3. Similar trends are true with other animal enterprises in other states.Georgia and the nation have continued the development of an information-based society via thecontinued

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Francisco Ruiz; Michael E. Gorman; Phil Weilerstein

professional market: those who are called to give a jump to a car in the dark and may, therefore, easily connect the wrong terminals. With his invention, the cables are always connected properly.Engineering Educators have been aware for a long time of the need to add a creativeelement to their programs. Many Engineering schools have recently started open-endedproject courses that are intended to provide some help in this direction. If the students’creativity is to be cultivated, however, these isolated project courses are insufficient. Tosummarize, from the experience and perspective gained at IIT’s Invention Studio ahigher education program whose purpose is to cultivate inventors should have thefollowing characteristics: (1

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Sandra J. Miller; Paul Yock; Mark C. Tsai; Kenneth L. Melmon; Christopher T. Shen; Larry Leifer

biomedical knowledge, each system is onlyaccessible individually and often any system does not contain an adequate constellation ofdatabases with non-overlapping content to satisfy the needs of a designer. Maintainingapplications is costly and learning from them is awkward.This paper describes a joint effort of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education(SHINE) [1] and the Medical Device Network (MDN) [2]. We aim to examine the potentialvalue and enhancement of efficiency of a biomedical digital library system that offers thebiomedical information needed during conception and design of a medical device. We explainwhy understanding the use patterns of medical information and facilitating presentation offocused medical information are very

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Kip P. Nygren; Wayne Whiteman

ApproachMost design groups approach modeling the inner housing and rotating drum assembly ofthe machine as a simple SDOF with a rotating imbalance. The assembly is connected tothe remainder of washing machine sitting statically on the floor (See figure 1). c x, x&, &x& ball of clothes, mass=mcl ecl rotating ω drum k

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Eric W. Tisdale

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Maurice Bluestein

capstone course in MET, two senior students developed a test bed for airconditioning with the desired features noted above and with appropriate laboratory experiments.They, with this author as advisor and a team of engineers from Carrier Corporation in Indianapolis,designed and built a self-contained mobile air conditioning system which is now in use in our METlaboratories.II. System DescriptionThe Air Conditioning Trainer is mounted on a 6 feet by 3 feet wheeled cart. The major componentsof the system are shown in Figure 1. Room air is taken in at the base of the fan coil unit (position3). The fan is visible through a window in this unit. The air is cooled as it passes over theevaporator coil (C) and exits through louvers at position 4. The air

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Raymond Berg; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

per statisticsgathered by ASEE(1), and currently has over 700 employer sponsors. Kettering’s cooperativeemployers have recommended that M.E. graduates have experience in the virtual prototypingand design techniques of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), so that student experience in theundergraduate program matches the expectations and tools available when those students reachresponsible positions in the workplace. This has been implemented through gradualincorporation of a “continuous thread” of design synthesis, computational modeling,experimental validation, and undergraduate participation with faculty and industry in sponsoredresearch in the thermal fluids sciences courses.Several sections of undergraduate fluid mechanics and heat

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Phylis Katz; Howard A. Canistraro; Ann Lankford; Joan Dannenhoffer; Janice Girouard

members of the faculty as possible, three different professors would eachhave one section. The staff personnel consisted of the Director of Student Services and the EnrollmentManager.It was also decided that the course would retain its pass/no pass grading format. A grading format wasthen established to determine the award of a passing grade as follows: Attendance is critical; a daily sign in log will be taken. The student will be allowed 3 absences Three late class arrivals (greater than 10 minutes), will equal 1 absence. A technical review of an article is also required to pass. -Abstract due week of October 5 -Final report due December 1

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Sheila Palmer

studentsderive the equations in groups. I gave them a leading handout and they were to fill in the blanks.The text of the handout follows. T ds EQUATIONS: ALL equations that you write should be on a differential basis (e.g., the heat transfer is expressed as q and e is written as de.) 1 - Write the Conservation of Energy equation for a closed system. 2 - Divide the above equation by the system mass. 3 - If changes in kinetic and potential energy are negligible, what is the simplified expression for de? 4 - If the process is internally reversible, write the expression for the heat transfer as given by the definition of entropy. 5 - If the only work involved is boundary work, what is the expression

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Mark Tufenkjian

companies. Sixth, the resources and expertise available at the University’s Career Centerwould be used as much as possible.The flowchart shown as Exhibit 1 illustrates the sequencing of activities from beginning to endalong two parallel tracks: (1) company track and, (2) student track. The activities are describedbelow in more detail according to the numbering shown on the far right-hand side of the flowchart.Activity 1: Solicit/Select Companies - This step involved soliciting and selecting the host companies to participate in the program. Background information (such as anticipated intern duties, compensation rate, start date, etc.) was collected from the companies

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William Durfee

effort are: 1. To train future leaders of product design and business venture teams. 2. To improve the process of product design and business development through the understanding and development of new product design methodologies and entrepreneurial strategies . 3. To design new products and business opportunities for sponsoring companies.The program represents a new partnership between the University and industry to advance the stateof product design and business development. This paper describes the program, discussesessential issues for university-industry collaboration, and provides examples of projectsundertaken to date.II. Program DescriptionNew Product Design and Business Development is a graduate level course

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Mohamed El-Faham; Ibrahim El-Mohr; Asser Zaky

regarding humanities and social science courses.Hopefully, the inclusion of such courses will help improve the interaction betweenengineers and the societies they serve. Page 4.30.3 Table I. Degree plan (LC: Lecture, LT: Laboratory or Tutorial) Semester 1 Semester 2Course title LC – LT - CR Course Title LC – LT - CREnglish for Special Purposes(1) 1- 3- 2 English for Special Purposes (2) 1- 3- 2Mathematics (1) 2- 2- 3

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R. J. Helgeson; Troy Henson

recent Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) site visit1. The original goalwas to visually portray the required courses in our engineering curriculum so that the evaluatorscould easily see which courses were offered, what the required prerequisites were, and when thetypical student would take each course. It was decided to dedicate a complete wall within aclassroom for this purpose. As the map developed, an additional wall was added to contain mapsfor each of the four upper-division discipline-specific elective paths in our curriculum.The overall arrangement of the map is shown in Figure 1. The eight semesters that make up theundergraduate curriculum were arranged in eight columns