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2001 Annual Conference

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Daniel Dobson; Fazil Najafi

program hopefully will be of value to aid professors in fast tracking a group of students to enable them to covermore course content in the time available.Fazil T. Najafi Ph.D., Professor and Group Coordinator of Public Works Engineering and Planning Program, University of Florida,Department of Civil Engineering (8/11/00 - present); construction engineering, public works management, andtransportation engineering and planning..Daniel C. Dobson B.S.Graduate of Vesper George School of Art 1966,A. A. Journalism Santa Fe Community College 1978,BS in Broadcasting University of Florida 1980Art / Publication Specialist and Webmaster Outreach Engineering Education Program UF College of Engineering.Mr. Dobson has been involved as a resource person with

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2001 Annual Conference

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Zhongming Liang

andpractical experience with them, however, I tended to skip contents on new materials in mycourses of machine elements, basic machining, tool design and manufacturing processes.During the summer interns, I was really impressed by how much and how effectively plasticmaterials and composite materials were being used or considered to be used in product designand fixture design and was shocked by how advanced cutter materials were pushing the cuttingspeeds to their limits.I have formed a plan of professional development in this and other similar areas and graduallyincorporate more and more about new industrial development into my teaching;V. Summer intern outcome four: application of mathematics in manufacturing technologyMathematics is typically a

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2001 Annual Conference

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S. Scott Moor

from the breakdown of thioacetamide using a soap bubble flowmeter. They derived equations to relate change in gas volume to extent of reaction and reactantconcentrations.Another group of two students developed a demonstration of kinetic principles aimed at grades 5and 6. They completed a lesson plan for a one-hour session. Their plan included discussions ofreactions in every day life, simple experiments and activities. In a second project this same groupof two developed a classroom demonstration of the dependence of reaction rate on temperatureusing the simple vinegar and baking soda reaction.IV. Comments and ConclusionStudents are not completely comfortable with such a wide-open assignment. They are not surewhat to expect. An example list of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

months. Each group were supervised by the Professor In-Charge of the project(author) and a Graduate Research Assistant. The paper presents how the whole research programwas planned and conducted, the details of the projects selected for the students, procedures used toevaluate the impact of the project, and what were the outcomes of the program. This paper willhelp others in planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduates.I. IntroductionThis paper describes the experiences provided in a Site for undergraduate research in "StructuralEngineering" with a special focus on techniques to study the “Development of EnhancedMaterials and Structural Assemblages Used for Seismic Performance Evaluation Studies” in theSchool of Civil Engineering

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2000 Annual Conference

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Seung H. Kim; James Scudder

. However, a multimedia tool needs to create a digital versionof the same kinds of documents as the instructor would ordinarily create on paper with extradimensions of multimedia and interactivity. In this way, the interactive multimedia lab manual isone of the exciting forms of communication available to educators.PREPARATIONPreparation and planning are not wasted efforts when creating a multimedia project, but instead,they can save valuable time later on. Prior to starting the design of a multimedia publication, thetheme and the goals of the project should be decided. It is useful to plan the pages of thepublication on a storyboard. The storyboard is a layout of the basic contents of the publication.Also, the format and the distribution method of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mary C. Verstraete; Daniel B. Sheffer; Bruce C. Taylor

Biomechanics track or in theInstrumentation, Signals and Imaging track. Students are highly recommended to participate inthe co-operative education program at The University of Akron to gain practical experience inthe area they choose to study. Students planning on attending medical or graduate school areencouraged to participate in hospital or research internships instead of the co-op program toallow them to gain valuable experience which will assist in their admission to the school of theirchoice.I. IntroductionBiomedical Engineering is a union between the scientific principles developed throughengineering practices and the less exact nature of the human body and the devices used tointeract with it. Biomedical Engineers must be prepared to deal with

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

itdifficult to select one captain so two or three are usually selected. The captains are usually verycapable technically and have very good hands-on skills. These individuals have workedsignificantly more hours in comparison to the other team members. The co-captains areresponsible for managing the overall weekly team efforts and plan and lead the weekly teammeeting.7. Team and Group MeetingsThroughout the academic year a weekly team meeting is held for one hour. The weekly teammeetings are very structured in accordance to a meeting agenda that is handed out before themeeting begins. Individuals attending the meeting are required to sign an attendance sheet. Atthe beginning of the academic year, all students receiving academic credit must sign

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2000 Annual Conference

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John P. Robinson; Edward M. Moldt

the engineering students take one or more businessclasses.The visibility of the certificate program seems high. As we look towards our next ABETvisit, it is to be expected that a more complete evaluation will be available. An effort toexpand the certificate to graduate students is under way. The level of interest is lowerand the result is unclear.III. Certificate requirementsStudents may enter the program as sophomores with at least a 2.75 UI grade pointaverage. Students will propose a specific plan of study with their advisor. The plan willbe reviewed and must be approved by the department chairperson and the College Page 5.607.2entrepreneurial

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sergy Lyshevski; Akhouri S. C. Sinha; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Mohamed El-sharkawy; Richard Pfile

career. An engineeringcourse that combines theory and design, practice with hands-on experiences, industrycollaboration, and teamwork across disciplines may require a development plan with a team offaculty from across majors with different specialties. The implementation plan of such a coursecan be developed to meet the course objectives. Unlike developing a course in common andpopular engineering areas where plenty of textbooks are available to assist in the development, anindustrial-based course in a new area may require heavy industrial collaboration in developinglecture notes and laboratory components from technical manuals and technical journals.The area of electric vehicle technology is new to engineering and technology education. There

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

, there are no required textbooks, and only a minimal number of lectures. Experts fromindustry, patent law and government agencies typically provide the lecture material. Studentsintegrate and apply knowledge from their major field of study toward a specific project.A number of biomedical engineering programs, like the University of Connecticut2 , have a fullyear of required senior design courses, here referred to as Design I and II. The major deliverablein Design I is a paper design with extensive modeling and computer analysis. Over the semester,students are introduced to a variety of subjects including working on teams, the design process,planning and scheduling, technical report writing, proposal writing, oral presentations, ethics indesign

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2001 Annual Conference

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Eric Zimmerman; Donna Dorminey

Military Estimate of The Design Process the Situation Establish the Need Mission Analysis Understand the Problem Analyze the Situation Generate Concepts Develop Courses of Action Evaluate Concepts Analyze Courses of Action Compare Courses of Action Produce Product Execute Plan United States Military Academy Figure 1. Military Problem SolvingAn important additional benefit is the practical demonstration

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1998 Annual Conference

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J.R. Phillips

Humanities and Social Sciences. Furthermore, a setof “Goals for Graduates,” set forth in 1963 , has provided a more detailed 1framework for curriculum planning and change. The Departmental goals for graduates are: 1) Acquaint students with engineering practice; 2) Develop skills, by use, in computation; 3) Foster creative ability through projects; 4) Gain insight into management and leadership skills through group projects; 5) Develop appreciation for non-technical aspects of design; 6) Foster willingness to responsibly attack open-ended problems. Once again, these desired outcomes are clear and appropriate, but notalways easily quantifiable or directly

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1998 Annual Conference

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Russell G. Bly; Ph.D., Paul E. Givens; Anita L. Callahan

class to“when are you going to do it again?” We plan on continuing the experiment this comingsemester. Future plans include broadcasting to dual-enrollment courses at local highschools and providing remote access to various manufacturing labs to both primary andsecondary students around the world.ConclusionsThe good news is that distance education provides access to educational opportunitiesthat would otherwise be denied to remotely located students. Even better is that thechoice of media does not affect the quality of the knowledge transfer. With an effort onthe part of the teacher, the disadvantages of the lack of face-to-face interaction can beovercome. Is it more work and more difficult for the instructor? Yes. Is it worth it

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1998 Annual Conference

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James A. Newell

: Page 3.314.1 I. Group Formation II. Project Selection III. Project Planning IV. Experimentation V. Analysis VI. Presentation VII. Assessment The use of oral and written presentations as evaluation tools provides the students with anopportunity to clarify their thinking and understanding of the project 5,6,7 as well as to begin todevelop the important presentation skills valued by industry and ABET. 8Procedures I. Group Formation During the third week of the semester, students are required to from four-member groups.They are permitted to select their own teams

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1998 Annual Conference

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Edward C. Roche; David B. Van Dongen

those available in the masstransfer and kinetics-reactor area. The four managerial positions are: • Research and Development Manager, • Operations Manager. • Health, Safety, and Environmental Affairs Manager, and • Project Manager.The project manager is required to organize and continually assess the performance of the entiregroup on the experiment. If there are any problems with the group, the project manager has theoverall responsibility for group performance.The “Project Outline” memorandum is the initial report submitted by the Research andDevelopment Manager. This memorandum contains the objectives, the predicted results withnumeric values where appropriate, the experimental plan and references. This document is

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1998 Annual Conference

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

. These contacts show the strong potential for widespread application of the virtualindustrial park as it can be adapted for use in many additional educational settings such as Page 3.365.3secondary school practical arts classes, university extension education, community college 3courses, corporate retraining, apprentice training, and equipment vendor instructional programs.As we transition from a planning stage to a development stage, the next logical step in our workis the refinement of the package into a viable commercial software package.CONCLUSIONThe costs associated with acquiring, updating

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1998 Annual Conference

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

e-mail directly to some ofthe interns from users of their explorations who are complimentary of the work done. Several ofthe interns have responded to teachers, families, or individual students through e-mail. Follow-up is planned with middle schools and follow-up visits to the home schools of the interns wereconducted, including a trip to Louisiana where nine of the interns live. At these visits the internsdid presentations on their research work for their high school classmates. Audience questionsabout careers in science and engineering were also answered.3. Assessment Results The assessment of this project focused on three areas: the impact of the web sites onjunior high girls who access the interns’ projects, the impact of the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi

” or “B” for ease of identification. Partner team “A” comes to class and receivesinstruction from the professor on the “Present Worth” method of analysis. Partner team “B” doesnot attend this session. Partner team “A” then does the assigned homework, contacts theprofessor with any questions and clarifications of the material, prepares a lesson plan on“Present Worth”, and schedules a time with Partner team “B” to deliver their instruction on thesubject.Partner team “B” then attends a class with the professor on another specific subject. As noted itis “Capitalized Cost” for Engineering Economics. Partner team “B” then follows a similarscenario for teaching Partner team “A” the material they learned.When examinations are conducted, each partner

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1997 Annual Conference

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Trevor B. Davey; Ngo Dinh Thinh

with a guiding role played by the state.Higher education was a very important component of this transformation. It was designed toensure Vietnam a human resource base to keep pace with needs created by the anticipatedeconomic success.The Vietnamese government devised a plan using the concept of a national university systemwith campuses in Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City. Regional universities were to be establishedin Hue, Da Nang, Can Tho, Thai Nguyen, and other cities. A system of community colleges wasalso established and provision was made for private universities and colleges. The prior systemhad a large number of separate, independent universities, each with a very specialized academicrole and all reporting to the Ministry of Education and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Lynn G. Mack; James C. Wood

three-day Chautauquaworkshops. The retreat's purpose was to increase the exemplary faculty's understanding ofnational and local need for change and to orientate them to the change process planned in thecurriculum reform efforts. The Chautauquas then provided the opportunity to learn and practiceinterdisciplinary active learning approaches for instruction.Presenters at the retreat and the Chautauquas discussed the need for multi-disciplinary facultyteams to review and redesign both the content and methods of instruction. Through this process,the faculty have developed a shared vision for reform. They have developed stronginterdisciplinary campus teams and have investigated and utilized the concepts presented at theworkshops.Because industry

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1997 Annual Conference

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K.A. Korzeniowski

. The future plans for this circuit theory class are to continue to integrate the drawings as partof the design projects. The main accomplishment of this exercise is that it improves communicationskills and exposes students to another part of the design process before they are faced with the taskat senior project time. This also broadens the design experience and exposes the student toconcurrent engineering issues and rapid prototyping methods. IV. Acknowledgment This paper was initiated at an Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement (UFE) workshopsupported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. DUE-9455076, through the Divisionof Undergraduate Education (DUE), Directorate for Education and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Alan K. Karplus

that was shown to the students. Then each team selected a topic and at theend of the first meeting submitted a plan of action listing the activities each teammember would undertake. At the end of the semester each team presented its work orallyto the Junior Laboratory class and faculty. Team written reports were received andassessed by an external engineer and the best two reports were forwarded to thecompetition. This realistic experience created novel solutions and several 'touchy' issueswith respect to protection of ideas (as often the work was saved on a networked computersystem).The titles of the completed reports are:Team A - Design of a Safety Device for a Power Take Off system (PTO's) on Farm TractorsTeam B - Power Take Off Design

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

be modular in nature and can be modified to incorporate experimentsin either Fluid Mechanics or Automatic Controls.c. Equipment SelectionThe equipment was chosen for each laboratory primarily to replicate existing equipment at themain campus. The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at the main campus is the result of over 25 yearsof planned purchases and acquisitions. Continued accreditation of the MET program at the maincampus along with its distant education component would require that we offer same laboratoryexperience to all our students.The Automatic Controls Laboratory at the main campus is relatively new. It contains, Pneumatic,Electro-Pneumatic, PLC components and personal computers. Most of the components areportable and can be stored in

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1999 Annual Conference

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Hisham Alnajjar

competition was in place between the different groups tryingto find out who can determine the frequency of the incoming signal faster. Since thisexperiment was performed by the ECE freshmen only, other students wanted to get inand play with this “toy” and a plan to do so is in place for this spring semester. Thisleads me to conclude that it is not too early to introduce some practical advanced topicsto freshman students. In fact, it might be the way to connect freshmen to their major. Finally, it is important to mention here that, in addition to what has beenmentioned earlier, freshmen have used MATLAB to perform several other experimentscentered on signal processing and image processing concepts. Also, a plan is underwayto introduce digital

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1999 Annual Conference

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Kathy Bearden; Donald D. Harter; Jerry W. Samples

them, and that there is no excuse if they selectsomeone who does not fit the description. If teaching is important, then they need to evaluateteaching. If research is important then they should ask for a research plan with adequate detail toevaluate the plan. If a team player is needed, then references are critical to the selection. In anycase, the selection is important, not only for the institution, but also for the candidate. A badmatch doesn’t get better with time.Once the new hire becomes the tenure stream assistant professor, then the emphasis changes. Ifthis is a person the faculty like, and want to have around for a long time, then the faculty musthelp this person through the tenure process. Mentors, directions and HELP are screaming

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sivasubramaniam Krishnan; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Materials ENGR 213 Continuum Mechanics ENGR 214 Electrical Circuits and Electronics ENGR 215Experimental Setup Figure 1 gives the plans for the 4-point bend test apparatus. The dial indicator is belowthe beam in the test setup as shown in Figure 2. This results in a small upward force due to thespring associated with the dial indicator. The total cost for a setup is given in Table 2. Table 2. Equipment needed for the 4-point bend test. Components Estimated cost Bend Fixture, Stainless steel $50 Dial indicator, collet, and extension $53

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1998 Annual Conference

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James S. Burns

pressurization of the larger internal cavitybalances the external pressure and permits the use of a thin-walled confinement vessel.Evacuation of the smaller internal chamber creates a uniaxial pressure gradient useful inmaterials processing.Pro/ENGINEER has been used to document the design and construction of the device. Initialprototype design was driven by materials and components selected by students foravailability and low acquisition cost. Since sea trials were planned to validate the design,corrosion was also a consideration. Figure 6 illustrates elements of the design. Buoyancy ofthe device attributable to the inner cavity volume, necessitated the use of cement weights toachieve neutrality. Round exercise weights were used to permit rolling of

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1998 Annual Conference

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R. Bruce Robinson

(reports, budget, etc.) Author 20 Planning project (story board, etc.) Author 30 Investigation of equipment/software and purchase Author 35 equipment/software Attending seminars on multimedia development Author 15 Learning Authorware 3.5 software package Author 25 Background learning about multimedia Author 10 Taking slides and video in field Author 20 Scanning slides and capturing video Author 70

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1998 Annual Conference

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

according to plan with each teamperforming their LTP and MTPs without incident. Team Gerunds' LTP was to preparea recruiting program for high school students to make them more aware of the Universityof Illinois Engineering in general and General Engineering in particular. Speci cally, theyprepared a presentation for high school science and mathematics students, and they pilotedthe presentation by presenting it at a local high school. Team Countersink's LTP was tosurvey University of Illinois's engineering students attitudes towards General Engineeringand prepare a recruiting brochure to persuade students to consider General Engineering asan option. A prototype of this brochure was completed by the end of the semester, and wasrecently printed

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1998 Annual Conference

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

. Critics maintainedABET's current way of accreditation is the biggest hindrance to "new and innovative" approachesto engineering and technology education. BackgroundThe American Association of Engineering in the 1920's established the committee on Accreditedschools and called for "more comprehensive and discriminating standards" for evaluatingengineering schools [4]. Recognizing the importance of this emphasis on quality engineeringeducation in the registration process, the National Council of State Boards of EngineeringExaminers (now National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) and parallelactivities in several major societies resulted in the formation of a Planning Committee. Thecommittee