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1998 Annual Conference

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Peter W. de Graaf; Michael J. Walker; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

students inthe course material. The students also see the courses as being more relevant to their overallprogram as engineers. Additionally, the academic performance (as reflected in the grade pointaverage, GPA, for students in these courses) was much better. From the Fall ’96 to the Fall ’97offerings, the course GPAs increased about 0.4 (on a 4.0 scale). Page 3.85.4 4 Rated Area Fall ’96 Fall ’97 Stimulated Student Well Below Slightly Above Interest Average

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1998 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

the outcome in terms of education and training weexpect from a student at the time of graduation, and (ii) What are the Primary traits or the core ofknowledge we expect in student’s learning at the time of completing each course. It may becalled as Primary Trait Paradigm (PTP). It is a viable concept and it provides a great opportunityfor outcome based assessment. The challenge lies in the implementation process. It requireschanges in course perspectives, style of teaching, and assessment methods. The goal of each course is written to reflect the principles of PTP, which changes thecourse perspective. It almost serves as a frame to an existing picture. The teaching style isaimed at satisfying these goals. The assessment methods are

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1998 Annual Conference

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Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

. With the increase oftechnology in the high school curriculum, these teachers may also profit from practice-orienteddegree.DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMBased on the feedback from industry as reflected in our survey, a practice oriented,interdisciplinary Master of Science program in advanced technology (MSAT) was developed bya committee comprising of the Dean and faculty from electrical, mechanical and industrialengineering technology departments. These three departments are part of the school ofinformation systems and engineering technology (ISET), which also includes the departments ofcivil engineering technology, computer science and telecommunications. The program has beenbuilt upon the institute's successful undergraduate

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1998 Annual Conference

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Peter Idowu

Penn State-Harrisburg,and to provide students with skills necessary for the modern power engineering environment,laboratory experiments on electric machines are revised to reflect current practices in theindustry.This intelligent data-gathering and processing system offers the students some very significantbenefits. They are highlighted as follows.(a) Creating the instruments that are necessary for completing the experiment gives the student a further insight into the subject, and reinforces basic concepts.(b) A single student could conduct the same experiment more efficiently and accurately with the IDAC system. Three or more are required in a conventional setup.(c) The success or failure of the experiment is judged by the student

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1997 Annual Conference

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Ali Behagi

newly established laboratory, thestudents get acquainted with the high frequency components, computer-aided design, fabricationand testing of high frequency circuits using both distributed and lumped elements.5.0 Laboratory Experiments To give students some design experience, several laboratory experiments have beendeveloped. Following is a partial listing and description of the laboratory experiments.5.1 RF and Microwave Amplifier Design Today’s wireless and satellite communication systems require very tight amplifierspecifications especially with regard to noise figure, linearity, and distortion. The vector networkanalyzer and the spectrum analyzer are used to measure the amplifier S-parameters as well asgain, reflection

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1997 Annual Conference

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Halvard E. Nystrom; Diego Rodriguez

subsequent to the live session. It allows for comments generated with further reflection, or from participants who did not have the opportunity to give their feedback during the live session. Page 2.155.6SUMMARYThis process assists engineering educators to design educational interactions that takes intoaccount educational and motivational objectives as well as available resources to utilizeappropriate methods and delivery media. As an example, the interaction between the Universityof Missouri - Rolla and the Cibertec Technological Institute is presented.This educational interaction is designed with two parts: asynchronous web-page

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1997 Annual Conference

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James L. Neujahr; Herbert Seignoret; Gary Benenson; Ed Goldman

students gradually assume a collaborativerole with classroom teacher, discussing the learning process in the classroom with him or her,and developing collective strategies for facilitating the progress of the groups.Weekly meetings of the participating students provide opportunities to reflect on the classroomexperiences. One recurring theme has been the kind of information students need beforehand toengage in inquiry or design projects. Some students have argued that basic technical information— for example, about series and parallel circuits or gear ratios — should simply be presented,while others say that it can only be acquired through guided experiences. Another common themehas been the responsibility of teachers to prepare students for

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1997 Annual Conference

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Taggart Smith

placed on issues both at the strategic and the operationallevels" (p. 79). Dr. Kocaoglu further stated that the foci of different programs varied with theregion being served, but generalized that "they all reflect on a discipline starting where IndustrialEngineering stops, and going up to a point where Public Policy starts." Page 2.174.2The Scope of Engineering ManagementIn detailing the dimensions of the field, Dr. Kocaoglu said that EM included basic and appliedresearch, developing, designing, and implementing the transfer of technology, as well as testing,marketing, and maintaining the technological life cycle, all of which seem to represent

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1997 Annual Conference

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James C. Wood

agriculturalsociety and has had only slight changes to reflect the influence of the assembly linemanufacturing structure. This current model consists of isolated courses divided into isolateddisciplines and taught in semesters or quarters. This isolation has built barriers not only betweencourses but also in many cases between the faculty in the different departments that teach thesecourses. In order to improve the education of technicians, these barriers must be removed alongwith the isolation of the disciplines. Industry does not operate in an isolated compartmentalizedmanner, and employees expect the technician to be able to function in an environment thatrequires them to integrate the skills from many disciplines (mathematics, science,communications, and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mark J. Sebern

team building and cooperative effort,and often apply these lessons in the two-quarter “capstone” senior design sequence (CS-400 andCS-401). Even when a team fails, valuable lessons can be learned. One student, reflecting on suchan experience during a job interview, was told by the recruiter that his company “normally expectsa new hire to take two years to learn that.” Page 2.184.1The Bad NewsIn spite of many successes, CS-489 still had some problems:• Most students enter the course with little knowledge of the large-scale software development process.• Earlier versions of CS-489 had taken a survey approach in lecture, covering a

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Vernon W. Lewis

simple drafting class would cover this.It was noted that there were relatively fewer written comments from the remote locations thanfrom the on-campus group. Considering that the remote students were located in 10 locations,the majority of the written comments may reflect the opinions of students at only one or two of Page 2.187.2the locations. The written comments are not identified by campus or author in keeping with theuniversity’s privacy policy. Differences in Student Demographics At the Various SitesAt the beginning of the class, all students were requested to provide

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1997 Annual Conference

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Carlos Aldana; Winston F. Erevelles

system.Various four-way valves are ganged together and derive the actuator, the gripper and theescapement. A nylon test strip is mounted at the upstream end of the feeder track and on top ofit. This nylon strip features three chamfered and precision-machined holes to receive thesteel-balls that are dropped by the actuator. The three holes reflect the three sizes -nominal (1/4”), oversized (9/32”) and undersized (7/32”) balls that the system is designedto handle. The function of the plate is to establish a one-to-one relationship between theparts being recirculated and the sizes of the holes in the strip. This provides students withthe opportunity to check the accuracy of their programming and experiment with thesettings of the set-point modules

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1997 Annual Conference

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Wessel Koning

project and to achieve a universal approach a 5-phase projectmanagement prescription was introduced. This prescription is widely accepted among stu-dents and teaching staff in the department and resulted in noticeable more organization andmanagement skills.In spite of the University’s wide teaching con-cept is based on a specific philosophy and in away is contemporary it was an useful instrument to evaluate the EE project course. Theevaluation has resulted in a plan to improve the lab which is accepted to be carried out.Through a more professional and job-reflected approach student motivation and enthusiasmhas increased. This increase resul-ted in a higher technical level of the projects.7 Bibliographic information.1 Board of Governors

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Brian A. Alenskis

curriculumstructures and instructors’ credentials.[1] Among them, are: • A free-standing ethics course (required or optional), by technical or philosophy faculty • An ethics component within a free-standing “professionalism” course [2] • An issue for review within a senior project/thesis [3] • Integration of ethics throughout the curriculum [4] • Commingling ethical issues and problems in technical courses [5]While these approaches evolve around local constraints and preferences, they also reflect thecompromises made among somewhat conflicting methods. For instance, few technical curricula can easily incorporate a required ethics course, eventhough such status can highlight the importance of ethics. And yet, segregating the subject

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1997 Annual Conference

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

with a remote manufacturing facility through electronic media. • provide a model for development of interdisciplinary student team activities that reflect a real design and manufacturing process 4) This project has grown from industry and university interaction. The formation of the PCB Design and Manufacturing Advisory Board, and the significant commitments of equipment and support from the industry ensure continued long term industry interaction. 5) This unique program that addresses a critical area of technology and educational reform will serve as a model and provide valuable materials for educational institutions concerned with similar issues.SUMMARYObjectives 1 and 2, to a large extent, have been met. The

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1997 Annual Conference

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Gregory M. Dick

to the same (single) table of office hours. Maintenance of this single copy is automatically reflected in all syllabi. • Quizzes and Exams - are maintained electronically. They are protected from public access until they have been administered. Home page access to quizzes and exams, and their solutions, is then enabled. Students view the solutions to "close the loop" on the learning process. As successive offerings of the course occur, the "file" of quizzes and exams grows automatically. It is always available as a study aid for students. The normal logistics involved in collecting a set of quizzes and exams and transporting them to the library are

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1997 Annual Conference

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John K. Estell

7 keeps a history of recent photocopier use byeach user. The monitor grants priority to those individuals who historically make the fewestcopies while other users are placed into lines that reflect their photocopier usage. In this examplethe users are separated into having short, medium, or long photocopying jobs. The lines aretreated in a similar manner as that used in the multilevel feedback algorithm, with the exceptionthat if a user is preempted by the monitor or makes fewer copies than expected, then the nexttime the person comes to use the photocopier the monitor can reassign the individual to adifferent line. Now that the various scheduling algorithms have been introduced to the students, theycan be revisited and explained

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1996 Annual Conference

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Virendra K. Varma; Mohammad Najafi

technology during the last 10-15 years have contributed significantly to thesophistication of the contemporary construction industry. This affects undergraduate education significantly.The thrust of education must be to provide engineers and construction managers with a strong knowledge-baseof both conventional and non-conventional methods of construction. Owners and engineers should feelcomfortable in trying out the newer methods of construction, and their willingness to utilize the latest advancesin technology should be reflected in the project specifications. Contractors should be encouraged to submit bidsthat utilize conventional and non-conventional approaches for underground infrastructure construction. This canall be feasible only if the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

orlessening of the defined impacts. Again, evaluation of an improved environment is a primeobjective.Ultimately, an ISO Environmental Management System should reflect a commitment from topmanagement to meet the appropriate laws and regulations and for continual evolution of themanagement system. To meet these commitments, an organization must integrate the makingand implementation of continuous improvements into the global objectives of the organization.Primarily, the environmental management system should provide a means for an organization toreach its target goals through the structures, internal management, controls and documentedaccountability procedures. The mechanics for achieving these goals should involve a variety ofmeasuring and monitoring

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1997 Annual Conference

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Ed Gohmann

haveexperience with the metric system of weight and length. The necessary physical concepts for Page 2.286.3understanding properties of materials are taught at the level of a first year physics course for non-engineering majors.The first two labs are designed so as to give all the students an equal level of lab skills. Forinstance the first lab involves determining the specific gravity of 8 objects by weighing and thenmeasuring volume by displacement of water. It is a relatively crude lab but serves to orient thethinking of the student toward observing, measuring and recording data with a brief introductionto reflecting on the purpose and results of

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1997 Annual Conference

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

their education;employers become more fully engaged in characterizing the skills and attributes required of the21st century engineer; faculty redefine their relationship to the students and to each other acrossdisciplines, and more directly address the building of student skills and attributes. The FC, firston our own campuses and then nationally by dissemination and replication, will establishimproved curricula and learning environments, attract and retain a more demographically diversestudent body, and graduate engineers who reflect the FC vision.Access and Equity for Underrepresented Groups and WomenThe Foundation Coalition members are developing curricula and academic environments at eachinstitution which are accessible and provide

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William Peterson

AppliedSciences, the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, was established in Muskegon.Although a Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering exists at the Kalamazoocampus, it does not offer a degree program in manufacturing engineering - its most closelyrelated bachelor Page 2.316.3degrees are in manufacturing engineering technology and industrial engineering. Theestablishment of a new department located in Muskegon (with offices in the HEC at MCC)places Western faculty on-site for teaching, student advising, and student recruiting andretention. It also allows for departmental policy and procedures to reflect the expectations of thecollege for

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1997 Annual Conference

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Roger A. Messenger

the east and setsin the west at different times on different days at different latitudes. Black body radiation isdiscussed and why a 6800 K blackbody should make 1367 watts/m2 available at a distance of 93million miles is assigned as a computational problem. Air mass absorption and dispersion effectsare discussed as formulas for direct, diffuse and reflected components of sunlight are presented.At the end of this section, students have an appreciation that someone has spent a lot of timedeveloping a set of involved formulas based on solid geometry and a significant amount ofempirical data, and have a more quantitative feeling for the amount and composition of sunlightavailable at various locations during various times of the year

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1998 Annual Conference

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Joan A. Burtner; Laura Moody

analysis). We will not attempt to use cooperative base groups duringthis phase of the curriculum development plan.Much of the success of the active learning exercises will depend on how well the studentsprepare for class. In an attempt to encourage students to come to class prepared, we requirestudents to use a word processor to answer homework questions. During the class period, theyare allowed to write in additional information. Students who submit hand-written homeworkreceive less credit than those who submit typed responses do; we hope that this will encouragestudents to become familiar with the material before class.Course grades will reflect both the students’ individual and team efforts. Homework, quizzes,exams, and class participation will

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1998 Annual Conference

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James P. Solti; James M., Jr. Greer

intellectual effort.While many of the cadet teams were willing to "adopt" the problem, others werefrustrated by the open-endedness of the problem. For these cadets, the missingingredients in the problem definition were difficult to deal with. Interestingly enough,those who waited until the last minute did fine technically since all the relevant subjectmaterial was completed a couple days prior to the project due date. However, since theirreports contained little on the design process, the final scores on these reports werejustifiably low. Page 3.260.4The reports turned in by the various teams reflected a bi-modal response in terms of levelof effort. Many of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Kay C Dee

-evaluative - problem oriented - non-dogmatic - not superior Focus On Speaker and Topic Non-Verbal Cues Attending - open posture - look directly at speaker - lean forward Verbal Cues Encouraging - minimal verbal messages (“uh-huh,” “yeah”) Dialogue Reflect and Summarize; Clarify - “What I hear you saying is...” - “So what should we do

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1999 Annual Conference

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Peter J. Shull; Joseph C. Hartman; Jerome P. Lavelle; Robert Martinazzi

that reflect the different needs of the community.3. Concept ImplementationThe design team currently consists of two IEs and two non-IE faculty members all from differentuniversities. The two IEs hold doctorate degrees in the field and have extensive experience in thearea. The non-IEs are from engineering and engineering technology programs and combined, havetaught the introductory Engineering Economics in excess of twenty five years. A common love ofthe subject, membership in the EED, attendance at the annual ASEE conferences and now theenhanced ability to communicate via the Internet brought the design team together. The synergisticpotential associated with the above ingredients serves to

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

generation of professionals to match or exceed the monumental advances ofprevious generations of engineers. This paper explores the technological, social, andprofessional agents of change which must be recognized and understood in order tosuccessfully meet these challenges. The concluding section of the paper describes theprinciple characteristics of the curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering atLafayette College. These features reflect the changes in the professional environmentwhich we believe our graduates will encounter in the years ahead. Page 4.60.1II. Technological Agents of Change"Even when the external and scientific requirements for

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1999 Annual Conference

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Phillip C. Wankat

and make some changes to improve the course.A course headed for disaster can be turned around by such midcourse corrections basedon this formative evaluation. Letting students have input into test dates and due dates ofprojects also reinforces your willingness to listen--and will be greatly appreciated.At the end of the semester ask for student evaluations and reflectively analyze thesuccess of the course. Plan what you will change for the next offering while the pain ofany failures is sharp. The formative and summative evaluations provide the feedbackneeded to improve our engineering design. Page 4.220.2Lectures. For a brief moment in pedagogical

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1999 Annual Conference

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Thomas Zickel; Russell A. Aubrey

with the input. Shorting the swamping resistor has drastically increased Page 4.87.5the gain of the second stage causing the clipping and reflects a change in input impedance backto the first stage. When the second stage transistor (Q2) saturates, its input impedance no longerfollows the small signal model used for calculations and loads the first stage causing it’s outputto clip also. Students home in on this clipped output as a symptom of a fault in the first stageand usually spend the allotted time spinning their wheels before mandatory help is given. Thepositive feedback on this problem is that once students experience the frustration of