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Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

employment in business, industry, education, andgovernment" (p.1). Many Industrial Technology departments offer industry-orientedprograms in Manufacturing Technology, Production Technology, Computer AidedDesign Technology, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and Industrial DistributionTechnology. These programs have been established and developed to prepare industrialtechnologists that are technically competent and are able to manage personnel andfacilities in industrial organizations (Keith & Talbot, 1991; Rudisill, 1987). Page 4.153.2 3 Manufacturing

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Rafiqul Islam

ElectronicsEngineering Technology (EET) program. There are two core courses and several elective courses(Figure 1). The foundation of this course sequence is EET-368 (Communications System),which deals with fundamental concepts and theories of electronic communications systems withemphasis on analog communication sub systems. At first the students study the basic conceptsof operation of a typical communication system in terms of block diagrams (a transmitter, achannel and a receiver). During the progression of the course, electromagnetic signals, signalanalysis, noise, analog and digital modulation and demodulation techniques, transmissions linesand antennas are studied in preparation for the next course in the sequence, EET-465 (DataCommunications and

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John, Jr. Lipscomb

becameinterested in defining two aspects of the MET curriculum compromise: (1) which areas of studywere the most popular and (2) how much breath existed in the offering the array of topics.MethodologyGathering data on the MET curricula nationwide would have been more difficult prior to theInternet. However, the writer found that many of the MET programs did provide theircurriculum and total course offerings on the Web. Some Web sites even provided schedulinginformation for the next few terms. After searching for “Mechanical Engineering Technology”and sifting through the duplicates and irrelevant entries, eighteen MET sites were found thatwere TAC/ABET accredited. The results obtained from this sample of eighteen would probably

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Hal Broberg

semester, circuit analysis course during the past 14years. This course was chosen because students take a College Algebra courseconcurrently, which means students who drop out due to insufficient remedialmathematics skills do not appear in the data. This course may not be the first EET coursetaken by new students, but it is the first course requiring College Algebra and appears tobe a pivotal course when students make a decision to remain in the program. 1. The total number of graduates (A.S. and B.S.) in EET since the inception of the program in the mid-1960’s is 1013. Of these, 362 (35.7%) stopped at the A.S. and 651 (64.3%) continued for the B.S. Additionally, 72 of the 362 A.S. graduates continued for a

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Lorraine Holub; G.V. Loganathan; Craig Moore; Bill Greenberg

Session 3565 The Deflected Beam in Differential Calculus: Bringing engineering into the mathematics classroom G.V. Loganathan1, Bill Greenberg2, Lorraine Holub2, Craig Moore1 1 Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering / 2 Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061IntroductionFirst year calculus is a hard course for the freshmen students and is sometimes considered as aweed out class by the students. However, as Malcom and Triesman1 convincingly

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or for performing Mathcad operations, it turned out to be reasonably versatile forcreating tests for much of the material covered in the course.Testing packages have been developed that have the capability to evaluate the student responses,then immediately provide the grade and feedback to the test taker1,2. However the authors havenot yet attempted to implement those features in the web-based tests.Test Design, Construction and ImplementationCreating a web-based test is verysimilar to creating any other web page Design the testwith web authoring software. The Create the html form for the test in FrontPageoverall process is shown in Table 1. Create the test questionsOne of the

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Paul P. Mathisen

of the professionalcommunity.1. IntroductionFor the last decade, there has been a growing concern that a division exists between theprofessional community and academia. The university or college typically provides the studentwith an undergraduate education, and then industry takes over and trains the student for theremainder of the student’s career. New approaches are necessary to overcome this division andbetter prepare both undergraduate and graduate students for their careers after graduation.Fortunately, a number of educators have taken steps toward this goal. For example, Bourham(1997) emphasized the use of research to better prepare undergraduates for post-graduate work,while Middleton and Branch (1996) established collaborative

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Regina Nelson; Aldo Morales

4.192.1(please see web references at the end of the paper), the A+ certification courses, andrelevant Microsoft handbooks (Windows NT) [1-5]. Overall the response of the studentsat the end of the semester was very positive. With their input we were also able todevelop a 5-day continuing education course with very good results.II. Development The course material is divided into four general areas: 1) PC Hardware, 2) LocalArea Networks architecture and protocols, 3) Operating Systems, and 4) Windows NTServer Software and Administration. Proceeding through these topics should take thestudent from a point of just being comfortable putting an expansion card onto themotherboard to being able to proceed on their own, experimenting and learning

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Bopaya Bidanda; Kim LaScola Needy; Gary RAFE

virtual manufacturing laboratorymay be used by various agencies to provide continuous training and education in value-adding,manufacturing-related domains. In the next sections, we review background issues that motivatethis research.BackgroundIn its report on information technology for manufacturing, the National Research Council’sCommittee to Study Information Technology and Manufacturing called for a wide rangingresearch agenda that included investigations into tools and techniques to help enterprises andindividuals understand and manage the rapid changes they are expected to face.1 Thecommittee identified the need for better means of educational delivery to facilitate the renewaland currency of employee knowledge in manufacturing enterprises

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

engineering.6 A university retention goal of 78%has been set for the entering freshman class of Fall 1999. The average overall retention rate ofunderrepresented minority students enrolled as FFF in the CEAS in Falls 93 and 94 wasapproximately 63% at the University level and only 50.5% in the CEAS. The last two years,after the addition of the Minority Bridge Program, there has been a significant improvement intheir retention at both at the university and the CEAS level. The Fall 97 engineering minoritystudents had a 80.7% retention rate at the university level and a 69.3% level at the college level.The Fall 98 engineering FFF were retained at 75.0% in the university and 66.9% in the CEAS.See Figure 1.Additional retention programs run by the OMEP

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Maria Amparo Gotes; Dr. Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Page 4.381.1materials, and academic scholarships.The program focuses on community building and utilizes undergraduate student role models,while the curriculum focuses on engineering design, technical communication, and includes avery unique design project. The program content and curriculum are designed to prepare thestudents for success in the CEAS’s engineering program. This overall objective is accomplishedby implementing five curriculum goals, which are:1. Build community among the participants and current engineering students.2. Introduce participants to computing at ASU.3. Introduce participants to engineering and more specifically incorporate: • engineering documentation and design projects • team building and team competition

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

to support ASU MESA program activities.The Office of Minority Engineering Programs (OMEP) at ASU was established by the CEAS toaid in the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students. The OMEP isembedded in the infrastructure of the Office of Student Affairs in the CEAS.1 Specifically, thegoals of the OMEP are to build a community of minority students that are academically preparedto pursue baccalaureate and graduate degrees within the CEAS and to create a climate thatdevelops and promotes academic excellence, technical competence, and marketable skills.Furthermore, it is the goal, of the OMEP to build the foundation for life long learning that willsustain students after they leave academia and through the twenty first

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Thomas Walker; Jan Helge Bøhn

monitor, the computer/LCD projector are examples. However, in most cases, theseare used in such a way that they are simply color blackboards and color overhead projectors.There has been, on the other hand, continuous improvement in engineering text books; mostsignificantly in the quality of the graphics and in the use of color, but also in overall readability.Additionally, many texts come with software to assist the student and the instructor. TheCDROM that comes with the classic Halliday and Resnick physics text is an example.1 Thereason for this continuous improvement is simple – there is tremendous competition amongpublishers and they are constantly pushing their authors to produce new testbook editions withmultimedia content and/or computer

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Kerri Raykowski; Charles Eastlake

performed anextensive series of wind tunnel tests on a 1/4-scale Piper Cherokee wing in hopes ofremoving some of the guesswork in the VG and VG configuration design processes. Page 4.175.1Test Conditions All tests were performed in the 36”x52” closed test section, closed-circuit, subsonicwind tunnel at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Although the landing speed of aCherokee is approximately 100 ft/sec, the VG optimization tests were performed atapproximately 85 ft/sec. (Based on this, the test Reynold’s number was 7.2x105,compared to the full-scale Reynold’s number of 2.8x106.) This was done to avoid over-stressing the Aerolab 6-component pyramidal

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Cecil Beeson; William Gay

. Page 5.4.1At the same time the Electrical Engineering Technology advisory committee was expressing aneed for personal computer repair training. A survey of the local business community revealedthat the greatest technical training need was for computer repair training. The OccupationalOutlook Handbook 1 stated that, “employment of computer and office machine repairers isexpected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2006.” Atpresent there are about 80,000 computer repair technicians in the United States.1 Local businessleaders and the EET advisory committee were confirming that the demand for this type ofworker was so great that many local companies were not able to find enough qualified computersupport

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Jim Henry

live, RealVideo streaming).Figure 1 presents a diagram of how the system is connected. Numerous students can beinteracting simultaneously with the system. The experiment requests are composed byWeb-based "forms" and sent to the Web server at UTC. The Web server forwards therequest to the appropriate lab station. The station parses the request, runs theexperiments and returns the data to the Web server. The Web server then sends the dataand graphical results back to the user. Student #1 Student #2 Internet UTC’s Web Server Ethernet Level Flow Temperature Speed LevelFigure 1: Schematic of communications with lab

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Daniel M. Chen

Session 3538 3D CAD Approach for Vector Graphics Daniel M. Chen Central Michigan UniversityI. IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the 3D CAD approach in theanalysis of concurrent coplanar and non-coplanar vector systems. Much engineering data isgraphical in nature. Graphical methods utilizing such data can provide comparable accuracy foranalysis of vectors, such as forces, velocities and accelerations, in mechanics, machine designand structural analysis 1. When two or more vectors act on an object through a common point

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Karthik Ranga; Kurt Gramoll

researchconducted by the Engineering Media Lab at the University of Oklahoma in applying Java andVRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)1 for performing engineering design and analysis onthe Internet.To demonstrate the potential of using VRML and Java for design and analysis over the Internetan L-shaped beam subjected to a point load along any or a combination of three directions i.e. X,Y and Z is chosen. The user can vary the length and height of the beam. For the sake ofapplication simplicity the cross-section of the beam is constant. The user can choose the materialproperties of the beam and the loads to which the beam is subjected. After the user submits thevalues, the Java program generates the new L-beam, meshes the beam automatically andcomputes

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Marty Bowe; John Feland; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

goals as seen in Table 1 below. The details of this process are given below in theSection II: 6-Hats Based Team Formation.In much the same way, students in this study were given a form of the MBTI test. To this end,the Keirsey instrument was used [Keirsey 1984,1999]). As with the 6-Hats TFS, the MBTI typeswere used in accordance with a simple algorithm to form MBTI based design teams. Thisalgorithm is based on the MBTI TFS goals as seen in Table 1 below. Details of this process aregiven below in Section III: MBTI Based Team Formation. Table 1 – Goals of the 6-Hats and MBTI TFS TFS Goal 6-Hats Provide creativity Provide mixed

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John D. Enderle

. Information about ABETEC2000 and definitions are found at http://www.abet.org.II. Visit ProcessWork on the site visit for the evaluator actually occurs well before the site visit with a review ofthe EC2000 Self-Study Report provided by the program. A detailed description of the Self-Study Report is provided in [1] with a biomedical engineering emphasis and at the ABET WWWsite. The evaluator typically spends a few days thoroughly reviewing the information in the Self-Study Report and completes the Program Report form on the Curriculum Analysis, TranscriptAnalysis, Program Audit Form, and Faculty Analysis well before making the site visit. Page

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Zenaida Otero Keil

Chemistry Departments will be offered as junior andsenior projects in the spring ‘2000 semester.Discussion: The academic/industrial interactions described in this work have lead toenhancements in curricula, exposure of students to engineering practice, facultydevelopment, and financial and in-kind support to the Rowan Engineering Programs. Inaddition, industry has benefited from the technical expertise of the faculty and the workof students. In some cases, the results obtained lead to the realization of significantsavings. These types of academic/industrial interactions benefit students, faculty, theUniversity, industry and the regionReferences:1. Brendich G. and T.S. Pugsley (1998) The Practical Side of Chemical Engineering Chem. Eng

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Evelyn Hanna

representapproximately twenty seven percent of applicants, thirty percent of admitted students,and only twenty two percent of the school population1 (see Table 1). In accordance withthese figures, the Engineering Workforce Commission reported that in the fall of 1998,women represented a mere twenty percent of the undergraduate engineering population2.If the initial interest to pursue technical careers is not present, young women entering Page 5.609.1institutions of higher learning will not choose to major in engineering, science, ormathematics. Why do women lack interest in the fields of engineering, science, andmathematics and how can we, as program administrators

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Sam Wanis; Erian Armanios

interaction between the incident andscattered sound produces a net force on the particles. With gravity removed, this force is enough to move theparticles. In a reverberating container4, (Fig. 1), solid particles are moved towards the nodes of the sound field7. Bydriving different natural frequencies, we can generate nodal planes of various shapes. If the particles can be held in place long enough, either phase-change or chemical reactions can be used to form hard panels, just as if they were formed over solid molds. Bulky pieces needed for space stations and habitats could be

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Narayanan Komerath

over the next 20 years. The team structure, and its evolution over the first year of theproject, are presented. The GT team's endeavor has served to focus attention on the central roleof Space-based infrastructure to enable development of a Space-based economy.I. IntroductionThe NASA Means Business (NMB) program was started in 1998 by the Mars Exploration Officeof the NASA’s Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) division1. Theopportunity was publicized in Fall 1998. Six student teams would be selected, based on theirproposals to help develop NASA's Business Plan for a human mission to Mars. A NASAReference Mission was provided, and the plans were to be selected based on approaches to sixaspects:1. Vision2. Strategic Plan3

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S. S. Venkata; Doug Jacobson

waswilling to work with the design requirements specified. In October of 1998, the final design ofthe space was completed. It is shown in the Figure 1. The space consists of nine teaming areaswith movable partitions between some of the areas. This allows groups of up to 30 in two of theareas and up to 60 in the center area. There is space for 28 teaching assistants grouped in 6villages each with their own lockable storage space and work surface. Space was also added for acomputer with a scanner, color printer, and laser printer. This gave students a space that could beused to create reports, presentations, or anything requiring that type of technology. The space alsocontains a copy machine that works with the university debit card system.The

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Kandace K. Martin; Justin Benna; Donald R. Flugrad; Anthony W. Hron; Barbara L. Licklider

new learner and/or learning-centered platform of delivery.1 Researchstates that the unilateral dispensing of knowledge is an ineffective method for enhancing student learning.Supporting this finding about learning requires educators to confront how they think and to redesign what they do asa result. The shift from the lecture-based, passive-learning model to a learning-centered system of learning does notjust happen. It requires a purposeful faculty development project that challenges instructors to commit to positivechange. Such change in the classroom creates active involvement, student interaction, and intellectual engagement.Additionally, implementing new pedagogy will empower students to become actively involved in the class. But

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Zeno Philip; Michael Tsurikov; Jennifer A. Maynard; Fernando Ulloa; David Garza; Ronald Barr; Cynthia Finley

this issue, several academic institutions have founded ASEE studentchapters (1) with the goal of creating a forum for education issues among graduate students.Here we will highlight the activities of the University of Texas at Austin ASEE Student Chapter (2) whichbuild upon the national ASEE Mission (3, 4)to develop the nation’s future engineering professors: (1) to inform undergraduate students about the options and potential benefits of attending graduate school; (2) to raise the quality of graduate student teaching; (3) to enhance the teaching and presentation skills of prospective educators; (4) to encourage graduate student communication between different engineering departments; (5) to

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Rex E. Ward; Erdogan Sener

we can look at this undertaking as a construction projectand bring it to a successful completion.Bibliography: 1. The Business Roundtable Construction Cost Effectiveness Task Force, Confronting the Skilled Construction Work Force Shortage- A Blueprint for the Future, October, 1997. 2. Indiana Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, Indiana Department of Workforce Development, Indiana Career Cluster Guide, 2 nd edition, 1990-2005.ERDOGAN M. SENERProfessor and Chairman at the Dept. of Construction Technology of Purdue School of Eng. & Tech’y at IUPUI. B.S.Civil Eng., Middle East Tech’l Univ.; M.S. Civil Eng. Michigan State Univ. He has over 12 years of internationalindustrial experience in design and construction

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Wieslaw M. Szydlowski

Session 1566 Adjustment Calculus - an Interesting Part of Kinematics Wieslaw M. Szydlowski University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractLittle known method is explained for finding velocity and acceleration from positions of a pointwhich are equidistant in time. The adjustment calculus can be a powerful tool to reduce theeffect of measurements errors on the estimations of the velocity and the acceleration. In-classexercises in kinematics may brings fun to all participants.1 IntroductionThe general purpose of a mechanism

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Nisreen Ghaddar; Nassir Sabah; Jamal Abed; Fouad T. Mrad

appreciation ofdiversity, and places professional work in its proper humanistic and philosophical perspectives.”“More specifically, the educational objectives of the undergraduate FEA programs are:1. to impart a sound understanding of fundamental principles and concepts while conveying state-of-the-art knowledge and maintaining a proper balance between theory and practice;2. to develop mathematical, scientific, and computational skills relevant to engineering practice;3. to train students in analysis and synthesis when formulating and solving engineering problems;4. to teach students how to design and conduct experiments for engineering applications and use statistical methods for the analysis and interpretation of data;5. to motivate students