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Michael A. Magill

fracture mechanics opportunitieswill continue to emerge. Fracture mechanics is a relatively new field and is rapidly growing. Itis rare that a new field or area of expertise emerges with such a clear-cut opportunity forengineering technology. [1]METHODOLOGYThe primary objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of fatigue andfracture mechanics. The course is applied in nature with several laboratory experiments and fieldtrips. Other hands-on activities include case studies, failure analysis projects, and a final majorproject.The course is three credit hours and is taught with two hours of lecture and two hours of lab eachweek. It is a graduate course but easily could be modified to be an elective senior level course.The

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Neal F. Jackson; James L. Barrott

3147 APPLYING CASE STUDIES IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COURSES* James L. Barrott, Neal F. Jackson Chattanooga State Technical Community College/Jackson State Community CollegeABSTRACTIn 1996, five Tennessee technical community colleges received funding for a National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technology Education (NSF/ATE) project. The purpose of the projectwas to develop a group of faculty who will provide leadership in telecommunications curriculumdevelopment. Two of the goals of the project were to 1) develop a framework for atelecommunications curriculum and 2) develop thirty

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Virendra K. Varma

, and that is to provide students on-the-jobtraining. “Adults learn by doing. You can teach concepts in a classroom, but if you wantemployees to be able to do the physical tasks of running machines and keeping production goingin your plant, at some point you’re going to have to let them onto the shop floor.”1 The exposureof students to real tasks while they are still going through school in a co-op or an intern’s role,provides several benefits, such as reinforcement of theoretical principles already learned, andapplication of engineering fundamentals to solution of challenging problems encountered inindustry.“It is important to recognize that internships have as their major purpose the development ofoccupational (professional) competence

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Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

Session 1421 Approaches in Teaching “Construction Estimating” Julie H. Wei, Ph.D., P.E. and Richard K. Sase, P.E. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster “Estimating” skill is a basic requirement in the construction industry. Typicallycontractors specialize in one of the following two types of projects: 1) buildings and 2)industrial facilities and heavy civil work. Building construction can generally be classified intoresidential and commercial projects, and heavy

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Carl A. Erikson

solutions in aglobal/societal context"[1]. The engineer of the 21st century must be an appropriate technologist /engineer to succeed in theglobal environment, whether it be in a city in the Western World or a Third World rural area.Several specific examples will be given to demonstrate what appropriate technologists/engineersdo to meet the needs of the global village. These examples are taken from two AppropriateTechnology courses, one which fulfills part of the General Education requirements under theScience, Technology, and the World framework for non-technical majors, and the other is anengineering major elective. Introduction The first step in the engineering design process is finding and defining a need

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Sara McComb; Robert Kiesow; Eric Mulkay; Douglas Boyd; James D. Jones; William Oakes

seminar series for both the undergraduate and graduate engineering student populations.Implementation of these programs has required an engineering-wide organizational structure ofgraduate students. This paper documents the successes and struggles of the Purdue chapter ofASEE, highlighting issues such as chapter organization, communication structure, programfunding, graduate and undergraduate seminar series, and a newsletter over the first five years.This retrospective of the first five years offers both the perspectives of participating graduatestudents and the faculty advisor. The three most important lessons learned are 1) delegateresponsibilities broadly, 2) develop effective communication protocols, and 3) seek startupfunds. For students and

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Edmund Tsang

usually more than one "correct" answer indesign. Also, the feeling by the faculty of a personal stake in the outcome of the designproject can influence the instructor in evaluating student learning. A method to evaluate student learning in engineering design that employs morethan one instrument and that looks at the correlation between the results of multiple Page 3.111.1methods of assessments is described below. By "triangulating" the results, a morecomplete picture about student learning can be constructed.ASSESSMENT METHOD There are two objectives to assess in the "Materials, Manufacturing & Design" labcourse:1. Students

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Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill

Thermodynamics applies as much to courses and productsas it does to heat engines.There are a number of different continuous improvement processes (e.g., Plan Do Check Act). Inits simplest form, the continuous improvement process is a cycle made up of the following threesteps:1. define a course,2. assess the course, and3. modify the course returning to step 2.The authors of this paper have developed, assessed, and modified four major courses during thelast five years (Introduction to Engineering Design, Intermediate Design Methods, UnderstandingEngineering Systems : Computer Modeling and Conservation Principles, Thermodynamics).This paper presents our current thinking about the continuous improvement process and providessome of the tools and techniques

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Michael F. Young; Sheryl A. Sorby

standardizedtest problems and traditional engineering graphics problems. Some problems from the PurdueSpatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) developed by Guay 1 were used to test mentalrotation ability. Traditional engineering graphics problems such as missing view orthographicand section view problems were also used to assess other areas of visualization. Also identifiedfor inclusion in the placement exam were several areas of engineering graphics standards.Problems used in MTU graphics courses were used to assess understanding of standardorthographic practices and conventions, standard dimensioning practices and scale readingability. We also assessed the student's ability to read and interpret engineering drawings. Furtherdetail of the questions

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Susan E. Babcock; Oscar Marcelo Suarez

are required to apply theoretical principles and analyze the corresponding experimentalresults. In the present article, a spreadsheet implementation results in a simplified alternative toanalyze experimental data when numerical techniques are required. Numerical integration anddifferentiation are performed by using Microsoft Excel™ 7.0 for Windows. Finally the resultinganalysis is contrasted against literature data and important conclusions are drawn.1. IntroductionCookbook-type of data analysis can help those students with less computer skills catch up withthe rest of the class and comply with the requirements of the course. However, when dealingwith mathematical problems that cookbook approach can hinder the understanding of thephysical or

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

Engineering and Technology (ABET) ascriteria that must be satisfied for a program to be accredited. The findings of the investigationcould be utilized, for comparative purposes, by other institutions and departments that may wishto study their curriculum.Engineering CurriculumRecently, engineering educators have indicated that, overall, effective teaching is rated as theirhighest priority.1 Nevertheless, the question of breadth vs. depth in engineering education is Page 3.115.1presently being debated by the engineering profession. Numerous executives believe that it was

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1998 Annual Conference

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Charlie P. Edmonson; Joseph A. Untener

opportunities. The study includes feedbackfrom the employers of the graduates relative to their satisfaction with academic preparation andperformance of the graduates. A comparison is made of this information with similar work donein 1991 that covered a twenty-five year period of bachelor degree graduates. 1 This paper alsoprovides the procedures and approaches used in completing this assessment, and otherinstruments that are used for similar purposes.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDThe University of Dayton offers four programs in Engineering Technology, all of which areaccredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology. 2 In preparation for a Fall 1997 visit, the Department of

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P. David Fisher

comply with ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 [1], [2]? What has changedin terms of the institutional self-study process? What important feedback has come fromconstituents? What benefits have been realized? What are some of the ongoing projects to furtherimprove the academic programs? And, finally, how much did this effort cost? IntroductionIn the April of 1996, I attended an IEEE-ABET/EAC Program Evaluator's Workshop in SanDiego, California. For me, this was a refresher workshop since I had previously been certified bythe IEEE-ABET/EAC as a Program Evaluator for electrical and computer engineering programs.Attendees were given a draft of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (ABET 2000), and it wasdiscussed for

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Scott J. Amos

freshman year up. Inherent to the projectbased approach is the opportunity to work in teams, see the big picture and make technicalpresentations. The University of Colorado has opened a chalkboard-less Integrated TeachingLaboratory. This facility houses numerous project stations, computers and instrumentation thatserves as the nucleus for curriculum reform enabling more hands-on learning.Performance based approaches to education have been described by Spady and Marshall andplaced in three levels: traditional, transitional, and transformational with traits as outlined inTable 1. The traditional approach is best illustrated by the competency based education that hasbeen used in engineering technology programs for years. It is characterized by

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William Gay

new technical program is theformation of an advisory committee. Such a committee was formed, and its first task was todetermine program need. Employment opportunities as commercial pilots was a primeconsideration. Also, of concern was whether there was an institution of higher education in thearea offering such a program. Predicted employment opportunities seemed good for the 1990's and the beginning decade ofthe next century. Pilots who had been trained by the military for the Vietnam War and laterbecame commercial pilots would be nearing retirement age of sixty. Pilots who reachedmandatory retirement age will generate several thousand job openings each year.1 The militarywas making concerted efforts to retain their present pilots due to

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Donald J. Winiecki

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

capabilities.1. IntroductionThe combination of constantly evolving DSP algorithm development and continually advancing DSPuP hardwarehave formed the basis for an exponential growth in DSP applications. The increased market demand for theseapplications and their required hardware has resulted in the production of DSPuPs with very powerful componentscapable of performing a wide range of complicated operations. Due to the complicated architectures of these newprocessors, it would be time consuming for even the experienced DSP analysts to review and evaluate these newDSPuPs. Furthermore, the inexperienced DSP analysts would find it even more time consuming, and possibly verydifficult to appreciate the significance and opportunities for these new

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Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

the supervision of a mentor,who provides guidance and critique to the doctoral students1,9. These programs, while rare, arestarting to attract a lot of attention among academia-track students and concerned faculty.The idea of team-teaching is slightly different than faculty mentoring. Specifically, in team-teaching a course, the doctoral students get an opportunity to work along with the facultymember in addressing all aspects of the course, hence being treated as a peer, instead of having amentor-student relationship. The main advantage of team-teaching is that both the student andthe faculty get to lecture as equals, thereby achieving two goals: (1) providing the undergraduatestudents with two different views on the lecture topics; and, (2

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Ed Gohmann

goal. This derivation does not appear inMachine Design texts geared for the sophomore MET student.Derivation: The starting point for this derivation presents an opportunity to review and toexpand the students understanding of linear springs. Linear springs are usually first presented ina course on statics with the relationship 1) F=kx F=load x=change in length k=spring constantThe examples of the application of this equation center around coiled springs either in tension orcompression. Modeling a bolt and bolted plates as springs takes some additional explanation butthis is fundamental to obtaining the final relationship. Here a review of an expression fromStrength of Materials for the

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Bernadette Longo

on for a corporate project places the teacher in the middle ofthese competing needs and it is sometimes difficult to decide whose needs get met. Students’need to learn and the teacher’s need to teach should take precedence in planning and assigning acorporate project.1. Payne, R. 1998. “Common goals.” ASEE Prism 7.5:56.2. Hayhoe, G. 1998. “The academe-industry partnership: What’s in it for all of us?” Technical Communication Page 3.122.3 45.1:19-20.3. Lempert, D. 1997. Escape from the ivory tower. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.4. McCullough, L. 1998. “Progressive partnerships: Building stronger communities through

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Stephanie Goldberg

support and guidance to work with a higher level of textbook. The goalis to develop a structure allowing an advanced book to be used in a Technology program.1. IntroductionWith technology changing at lightning speed, textbook selection must be based on providing abroad range of material, currency, practical input, and the provision of a foundation for continuedtechnical growth. A textbook was found that satisfies these criteria for two courses in the four-year Bachelor of Technology program at Buffalo State College. The textbook, however, iswritten to an engineering student audience. A plan to acclimate a Bachelor of Technology classto an engineering-level text is presented in this paper. The key feature of this plan is a hypertextdatabase

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

to be hired, inmany fields the half-life of an engineer is five years. Faculty need to be continually exposed tothe best practices of industry. Just as their counterparts in industry, the faculty need to belifelong learners1. One of the best ways for a faculty member to maintain technical currency is tobecome involved in industrial projects as a consultant or in a school center that conducts appliedresearch. Besides keeping faculty members’ technical skills up-to-date, involvement in appliedresearch and consulting renders other benefits such as: (1) providing real-world case studies to beused in classrooms and laboratories, (2) strengthening relationships between the school andindustry which can boost corporate donations to the school and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Julia L. Morse

their classrooms on their own.Provide suggested learning objectives at various levels. A set of possible learning objectives, as Page 3.125.2shown in Figure 1, were designed to help the project find a place within a wide scope of science,math, and technology classrooms. Using the same basic hands-on data collection activity, theproject could be simplified or expanded within the instructor-led class discussion portion of theactivity to meet the needs and mathematical and technical background of the particularclassroom. If desired, an instructor could also use these objectives as a guide to fine-tune theactual student activity to more closely

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David E. Clough

classroom component of my already-successful control course to anactive-learning format. During the Spring 1997 semester, I wrote 41 workshops on-the-fly foruse in the course. In the Spring 1998 semester, I am teaching process control for the 21st timeand using the active-learning approach for the 2nd year.Course Objectives and OutlineAll required courses in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado have publishedlearning objectives. These have been developed and approved by the faculty and are distributedto students at the beginning of each course. The course being described here is Instrumentationand Process Control (CHEN 4570, 4 credits, Spring Senior), and its objectives are:1. Chemical Process Instrumentation • knowledge of

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Ravi G. Mukkilmarudhur; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

ROYA (a code developed by H. K.Navaz). The students post processed their data using TECPLOT by Amtec Engineering Inc.,and CFD-VIEW by CFD Research Corp. For post processing, the students learned to viewpressure velocity, temperature, and species mass fraction profiles. The students also learned toproduce velocity vector plots and to use animation for flows evolving in time. To monitor thetransient behavior of some flows, the students learned to use tracers at points of interest in thecomputational domain.The first formal laboratory involved the computational solution of steady flows. The flow ofwater over a flat plate with an approach velocity of 1 m/s, the flow of air over a flat plate with an

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Charles S. Elliott; Albert Winn

ASU and abranch office for Southern Arizona at Hughes Missile Systems in Tucson. Currently, sixcurriculum development groups composed primarily of industry representatives with two orthree academic members are developing/providing advanced level education at the non-credit,certificate and graduate levels in the following areas: Manufacturing Processes IPPD Software Environmental Design QualityA Marketing Group seeks to expand our organization and participation; a Delivery SystemsGroup is active in expanding awareness of and delivery of programs via a variety of distanceeducation methods - closed circuit TV, videotape, World Wide Web and others. AnOrganization Chart is shown in Figure 1.The Technical

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Kevin Otto; Joseph Bezdek; Daniel Jensen

Abstract A variety of design-process and design-methods courses exist in engineering education. The primary objective of such courses is to teach engineering design fundamentals utilizing repeatable design techniques. By so doing, students obtain (1) tools they may employ during their education, (2) design experiences to understand the “big picture” of engineering, and (3) proven methods to attack open-ended problems. While these skills are worthwhile, especially as design courses are moved earlier in curricula, many students report that design methods are typically taught at a high-level and in a compartmentalized fashion. Often, the students’ courses do not include opportunities to obtain

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1998 Annual Conference

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Jr., Harry J. Sauer

by using the computer. The HVAC simulation program developed for thisproject significantly reduces the time required to analyze various energy saving ideas against a basecase (no energy saving option).With this software, five types of HVAC systems (or terminal systems) can be simulated. TheseHVAC systems are: Variable (or constant) air volume system with (or without) reheat Dual duct/multizone (2 deck) system Four-pipe fan coil system Triple deck multizone system Closed water loop heat pump systemAs an example, Figure 1 provides as schematic of the dual deck multizone systems with severalenergy saving options.Fig. 1 - Schematic of multizone system with economizer and air-to-air energy recovery

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Patrick E. Connolly

vehicle, aircraft, sophisticatedelectronics system, most industrial and manufacturing equipment, and most consumer productsdepend upon these tools.”1 Although, realistically, we cannot expect academia to be able toprovide all the latest ‘bells and whistles’ of CAD industry developments to all our students as Page 3.131.1 1soon as they emerge, we can be expected to be forward-thinking enough to focus our curriculaon the direction we feel these developments will take within design departments, manufacturingcompanies, and entire industries, so that our students will be adequately prepared to

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Ronald Whitwam; James Ridge; Amy Dickinson; Jorge Rodriguez

most efficient integratedsoftware package today which is capable of generating solid models(7). Design Intent is a concept Page 3.132.1which requires the engineer to study a part before attempting to create the model on Pro/E. Theengineer must decide how to relate each feature of the model to the model itself, instead ofsimply assigning a dimension to that feature. If improperly designed, models may becomeinoperable when engineers attempt to modify them. Since a single solid model can be modifiedto create other related product designs, it is important to the engineer and the company thatmodels be created using proper Design Intent techniques(1