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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Narang

Session No. 1557 An Approach to Teach and Implement Lean Manufacturing Ramesh Narang Manufacturing Technology Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, INIntroductionCompanies have adopted lean manufacturing principles as a way to reduce costs, reduce leadtimes, improve customer satisfaction, and increase productivity. Lean manufacturing is a cultureand philosophy for an entire enterprise. The process of becoming lean may mean transformingoneself from one's existing style of operations to an entirely different one. The process mayrequire significant

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

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Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

Education, National Research Council, From Analysis toAction: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology-Report of a Convocation,National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1996. 18. Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development, Learning for the Future:Changing the Culture of Math and Science Education to Ensure A Competitive Workforce, 2003. 19. Campbell, Patricia B., E. Jolly, L. Hoey, and L.K. Perlman, Upping the Numbers: Using Research-BasedDecision Making to Increase Diversity in the Quantitative Disciplines, A Report Commissioned by the GE Fund,January, 2002. 20. University of Hawaii, Institutional Research Office, Undergraduate Enrollment of Hawaiian/Part-HawaiianStudents

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

functions of science and engineering (Appendix A)and the professional engineering skill-sets, technical knowledge, attainments, and practical experiencerequired for responsible engineering leadership of technology development and innovation in engineeringpractice (Appendix B) may serve as conceptual guidelines in creating a new template for unit criteria for Page 9.825.10professionally oriented faculty.24 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”5. Drawing the Right ConclusionsThe panel

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chris Daubert; Steven Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard

Session 2131 Assessment of Teaming, Writing, and Speaking Instruction in Chemical Engineering Courses Steven W. Peretti, Paula Berardinelli, Lisa Bullard, Deanna P. Dannels, Dave Kmiec , Chris M. Anson, Chris Daubert North Carolina State UniversityA multidisciplinary faculty team at North Carolina State University has been iterativelydesigning and implementing teaming, writing, and speaking instructional modules to beimplemented within a junior-level chemical engineering laboratory course and a senior levelcapstone design course. The laboratory course is the

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

P.O. Box 116580, Gainesville, Florida, 32602-3394 Phone: (352) 392-9537, ext.1493 Fax: (352) 392-3394 E-mail: fnaja@ce.ufl.eduThis paper presents an overview and comparison of regular courses of study in undergraduateCivil Engineering at the University of Florida (UF) and the National Autonomous University ofHonduras (UNAH). Both courses of study aim to impart a solid education in the area of civilengineering, but achieve the objective using different tools. Both curriculums provide necessaryfoundation courses such as mathematics, chemistry, and physics, and general sciences, whichserve as a common foundation for an engineering degree. In order to obtain a Civil Engineeringdegree

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ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Horacio Sosa; Vladimir Genis

Education DigitalPulser / Receiver Oscilloscope GPIB T/R R Trig Output EXT A B X,Y,Z micromanipulator Y Z X Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Transducer

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

Information Technology in US Higher Education. The Campus Computing Project October 1999. http://www.campuscomputing.net2. Green, K.C., Campus Computing 1998, the Ninth National Survey of Desktop Computing and Information in Higher Education (Encino, Calif. The Campus Computing Project, February 1999).3. IS 2002: Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems, http://www.acm.org/education/curricula.html#IS20024. A. Benander, B. Benander, and J. Sang, “Factors related to the difficulty to program in Java-an empirical study of non-novice programmers”, Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 46, 2004, pp. 99-107.5. Zayed University Catalogue, http://www.zu.ac.ae/6

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TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

havetraditionally been measured by engineering technology faculty the same way they are evaluatedin the workplace: “I know it when I see it.” While this method may lead to a letter grade (“Thatpresentation was pretty good – I’ll give it a B”), this is not truly assessing the student, thepresentation or the degree program. Meaningful assessment of the student or of the presentationshould include constructive feedback, and assessment of the degree program should includequalitative measurement of the necessary characteristics of a good presentation. Goodassessment practices also recommend that data be “triangulated”, or measured in more than oneway.Gloria Rogers1 has recommended a variety of assessment techniques for a comprehensiveassessment plan. All

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

) hasoffered the Women in Engineering and Technology program (FEMME) since 1981.Started as a program for 25 ninth graders, the program now serves 125 post-4th throughpost-8th grade students each summer. In that period of time since the initial program, anassortment of program evaluation instruments have been developed and implemented.This paper will discuss these instruments, some successes and some failures, and some ofthe results that have been obtained.IntroductionStudies over the past twenty years on the relationship between gender and achievement in Page 9.582.1SMET fields have shown that the most striking difference between boys and girls in the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Tang; Lynn Johnson

into a four-year engineering degreeprogram. In this paper we will describe the:• FEST Program design and organizations,• Academic objectives using learning technologies,• Development of blended online versions of the FEST core courses,• Integration of engineering applications into the FEST core courses,• Development of a Collaborative E-Learning Library System (CELLS), and• Lessons learned.FEST Program Design and OrganizationsThe FEST project involves collaboration among faculty and administrators from severalinstitutions, including the CU at Denver College of Engineering and Department ofMathematics, the Arapahoe and Red Rocks Community Colleges. These are the peoplethat develop and deliver pre-engineering courses preparatory to a four-year

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Kavetsky

enterprise of science and technology (S&T). Today, DoD must continueto adapt to the current pace of technological change, rapidly integrate new and breakthroughtechnologies into its operational systems, and sustain a research and development environmentthat fosters innovation in order to preserve our significant lead in military capability.1-9 To dothis, DoD must continue to attract and retain the very best scientists and engineers in itsworkforce.2 This is especially true for those scientists and engineers working at the forefront ofemerging S&T, who need a unique set of technical skills in order to transition S&T to the fleet.There are many that truly believe the DoD of the future should simply turn all S&T matters overto academia

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

higher education. Daedalus, 1- 42. 22. Bellas, M. L. (1997). Disciplinary differences in faculty salaries: Does gender bias play a role? Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 68, No. 3 (May/June 1997) Ohio State University Press. 23. Gumport, P., & Pusser, B. (1995). A case of bureaucratic accretion: Context and consequences. In Journal of Higher Education, 66:493-520. 24. Council Report, Fostering the teacher-scholar model. University of Saskatchewan. http://www.usask.ca/univeristy_council/reports/04-02-00.html. 25. Coate, K., Barnett, R. & Williams, G. (2001). Relationships between teaching and research in higher education in England. Higher Education Quarterly, 0951

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Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

) Review the two reports that you have been assigned. Be sure to provide as many helpful comments as possible. You should mark directly on the manuscript, and you must prepare a 1-2 page summary of your comments.Revising your report 4) Revise your report based on the peer reviews. a) Prepare a 1 page summary of changes that you made as a result of the peer review. b) Proof read your report one final time before turning it in.Submission of your report 5) You should turn in the following: a) Revised report. b) The 1 page summary of changes that you made as a result of the peer review. c) The original reports given to the reviewers (with their markup). d) The separate

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Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

aremonocultural yields of two different crops. Yab is the output of species (a) grown with(b), and Yba is the output of species (b) combined with (a). With basic LERcomparisons, if the ratio value for plant-plant combination is greater than 1, the proposedpolyculture is superior to the monoculture of the primary species. If the comparisonration is less than 1, monocultures are the better option 3.Competitive productionWhen two crops share and compete for the same resources, they may exploit theresources more efficiently than a single species. This is called competitive production,resulting in greater productive gains than a single-species system and having greater LERvalues. Two separate components are 1) competitive acquisition, the

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Tatum; Mannur Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

An Apparatus for Monitoring the Health of Electrical Cables D. M. Pai1, Paul F. Tatum2 and M. J. Sundaresan1 1 Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures 2 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Intelligent Structures and Mechanisms Lab Dept of Mechanical Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411IntroductionAs with most elements of infrastructure, electrical wiring is innocuous; usually hidden away andunnoticed until it fails. Failure of infrastructure, however, sometimes leads to serious health

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

Session: 1793 Integrating Skills, Transforming Culture: Reforming all Engineering Curricula in SEAS Amit Shukla1, Michael Bailey-Van Kuren2, Catherine B. Almquist3, Douglas W. Coffin4, James D. Kiper5, Christine D. Noble6 Miami University, Oxford, OhioIntroduction The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) [1] at Miami University of Ohiois undergoing significant growth by adding new majors and increasing enrollment. To supportthis growth SEAS has developed a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Pichai Rusmee

Page 9.985.9 University. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”6 E. B. Fiske, Fewer Students in U.S. are Graduating on Time, International Herald Tribune, The IHT Online, February 17, 2004.Biographical InformationP. RUSMEE: P. Rusmee was a graduate of University of Utah. He is currently, at the time of writing, an assistantprofessor in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand.SIIT is an independent engineering institute in association with Thammasat University, which is one of the top-tieruniversities in Thailand

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

9worried about why the Romans produced these technologies--it's just assumedthat the Romans had these technologies. In the end, after consulting with acolleague at UVA who specializes in Roman history, I came to argue thattechnological change in Roman times was driven by the patronage of aristocraticlandowners. This powerful group (of whom the emperor was the exemplar)supported technology that allowed them to (a) generate an agricultural surplus, (b)demonstrate their power through spectacle and public works, and (c) gain powerthrough military prowess. In a larger sense, my experience in writing about Roman technology served toremind me about what we should be trying to do when we teach the history oftechnology to our students. While we are

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

., et al., Final Report of The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) Project. 2002, http://www.grginc.com.17. Cunningham, C.M., Pavone, M. L., and Muller, C. B., Factors influencing women's pursuit of a college science major or science career: An evaluation of the Women in Science Project (WISP). in Proceedings of the Women in Engineering conference: Capitalizing on today's challenges, S.S. Metz, Editor. 1996, Stevens Institute of Technology: Hoboken. p. 289-292.18. Faison, J.J., The Next Generation: African-American Graduate Students on Predominately White University Campuses. 1995, Emory University: Atlanta.19. Shah, K. Seduction in Sciences. in The Association for the Advancement of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrea Welker

in the mid 1990s are a blend of outcomes-basededucation and continuous-quality improvement. Eleven skills are described, one of which (3d) is“an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams” (ABET 2003). Teams are often used to obtainall of the educational outcomes described by ABET, however, the explicit statement that studentsmust learn how to work in teams highlights the increasing importance of this skill. Lovgren andRacer (2000) and Felder and Brent (2003) recommend several teaching methods to help studentslearn to work effectively in teams, such as having students work in teams on various projects;providing training in effective team functioning; and providing learning objectives that cover

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York.[3] Nqoi, B.K.A. and Tan, K.C.K., 1996, ‘Tolerance stack analysis for assembly’, Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs, Part B, J. Engineering Manufacture, 210(B), 279-289.[4] Kalos, M.H. and Whitlock, P.A., 1986, Monte Carlo methods, J. Wiley & Sons, New York.[5] Liu, S.C. and Hu, S.J., 1997, ‘A parametric study of joint performance in sheet metal assembly’, Int. J. Mach. Tools Manufact., 37(6), 873-884.[6] Early, R. and Thompson, J., 1989, ‘Failure prevention and reliability,’ ASME Publ. DE 16, 139-144.[7] Heisler, H., 1999, Vehicle and engine technology, 2nd edition, Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., Warrendale, PA.[8] Kubo, M. and Ejiri, E., 1998, “A loss analysis design approach to improving torque

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins

. Baker, A.J., Pionke, C. D., Taylor, M. J., and Luttrell, B., 1996, “FEM Brought to the Academic Engineering Desktop,” Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Southeastern Section Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN, AprilBiographyGREGORY K. WATKINSGregory Watkins received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina StateUniversity, a Master of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University, and a Ph.D. inMechanical Engineering from UNC Charlotte. He has taught in the Engineering Technologydepartment at UNC Charlotte for the past 1.5 years. He taught in the Engineering TechnologiesDivision at Central Piedmont Community College for 8 years and has 9 years of industrial workexperience

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Mayer

B Demand Center(s) Fishing Stock 2 C 3 Figure 1. Network flow model for trawler fleet routingsThe well-known critical path method (CPM) is another network model that calls for optimumscheduling of project activities with various sequential relationships. Adopted in manyindustries to determine least time and least cost schedules, CPM is a useful tool for effectivescheduling of ocean-related construction and shipbuilding projects. Once more, such problemsare readily

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

improved inter-disciplinary learningopportunities for graduate students and faculty investigators. In addition, it has resulted in anincreased rate of successful commercialization of USF faculty innovations and development ofsuccessful spin-out ventures.Bibliography1. Sexton DL and Bowman NB. "Entrepreneurship Education Suggestions for Increasing Effectiveness", Journal of Small Business Management, April 1984. 22 (2): 25-342. Garavan TN and O'Cinneide B. “Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Review and Evaluation - Part 1”, Journal of European Industrial Training, 1994. 18(8): 3-12.3. Standish-Kuon T and Rice MP. “Introducing Engineering and Science Students to Entrepreneurship: Models and Influential Factors at

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

. Williams, “Computer Vision Research Teaching Modules for Community CollegeComputer Science and Engineering Courses”, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference & Exposition, June, 2003.2. N. Nagappan et al, “Improving the CS1 Experience with Pair Programming”, SIGCSE’03, February 19-23, 2003,Reno, Nevada (www.oopl.com/Papers/Pair-Prog-2-SIGCSE-2003.pdf).3. H.J. C. Ellis, “An Experience in Collaborative Learning: Observations of a Software Engineering Course”, 30thASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (http://www.rh.edu/~heidic/pubs/fie2000.pdf).4. Schneier, B. , Applied Cryptography , 2E, New York: John Wiley & Sons,1996, p. 255

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Henry; James Bandstra

associated equipment necessary to accomplish the program objectives in an atmosphere conducive to learning b. laboratory equipment characteristic of that encountered in the industry and practice served by the program”2Significant planning and funding are required for the implementation of well-designed materialslaboratory courses3. Different schools have developed various integrated courses andlaboratories to meet this need for the materials lab4,5.To provide a fundamental grounding in materials and manufacturing, the MET curriculumoriginally included a single junior level course in Materials and Manufacturing. However, thiscourse consisted primarily of coursework taught from a text, enriched by selected

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Johnson; John Weese

specific than is Criterion 4 for engineering programsor the corresponding Criterion 2 for engineering technology programs. This reflects the broadrange of applied science programs so Criterion 4 places substantially greater responsibility on theinstitution to define the professional component requirements of the applied science,engineering-related program. The ASAC 2001 Criterion 4 requires: (a) a combination of college level mathematics and basic sciences (some with experimental experience) appropriate to the discipline (b) engineering-related topics appropriate to the program (c) a general education component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with program

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Qaissaunee

. • Introduction to Wireless • Introduction to Networking/ TCP/IP • Introduction to SecurityCourses that have been submitted for approval include: • Wireless LANs • Fundamentals of TelecommunicationsEquipment has been acquired to create and test labs in telecommunications and wirelesscommunications, including: • Access points (802.11a) • Antennas • Access point upgrade kits • 802.11a/b/g PC cards • TIMS Telecommunications Instructional Modeling System • Bluetooth adaptersAn advisory committee meeting has been scheduled for April, workshops have been scheduledfor high and college faculty in May and in July. A 1-credit survey course has been created forconcepts in wireless, security and telecommunications. This course will run with 58

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

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Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationauthor. The project involved servicing two complicated systems, and designing, installing andtesting the instrumentation for the fuel consumption measurements. This was a very successfuland a very useful project for the students involved. Students were very exited and liked workingon a full size engine.Planned extensions for this project are:(a) solving vibration problems of the torque meter,(b) taking measurements at higher engine loads, beyond 50 ft-lb, and(c) measuring the effect of the engine speed and the engine load on emissions.AcknowledgementsSome of this work was done as a requirement for the “EDTE 341-Power and Transportation”course by Teri Blount, Marc Charleston, Wendell Gaymon

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

Session 3513 Updating the Chemical Engineering Curriculum for the 21st Century Dana E. Knox & Robert B. Barat Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractThe field of chemical engineering is evolving, and curricula must evolve to match the new worldin which graduates of our programs will find themselves. There is a general consensus that thereshould be ever-greater emphasis on biological-based processes and on batch