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Russell D. Jamison

engineering or business major. Ad-mission to the program is competitive and requires application by prospective students during thespring semester of their sophomore year. Admission is based on academic standing, extracur-ricular activity, and essays in which the students describe their background, experiences, motiva-tion, and career objectives. Applicants who pass an initial screening of qualifications are inter-viewed individually by faculty of the program to assess interpersonal skills and to ensure thatthey understand the level of commitment required to complete the program.The most recent entering class was comprised of 22 business and 22 engineering students chosenfrom 110 applicants. The average grade point average for this class was 3.8 on a

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Devdas M. Pai; Shih-Liang Wang; Juri Filatovs; Richard Layton

engineering.RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard A. Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and he is currentlyan Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. Prior to hisacademic career, Dr. Layton worked 12 years in consulting engineering, with the final five years as agroup head and project manager. His technical research is in the area of dynamic systems andcontrol. He is a registered Professional Engineer in NC. Page 5.689.8

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Craig W. Somerton

students may develop a negative attitude towards team activities.With the prevalence of teams in industry, this negative attitude could be detrimental in thesestudents’ career development The approach at the other extreme would be to do acomprehensive team survey as suggested by [1]. The difficulty with this approach is the timeand effort required by the instructor to implement it. In many cases what is needed is someuseful feedback tool that will give an indication as to poor team performance. A mechanism hasbeen developed in a senior level class in thermal design to provide this sort of information.A primary premise in this mechanism is that the best individual grade a student may receive forthe team activity is the team grade. However, due to

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Nickolas S. Jovanovic

Education, 1997.8. Stephen R. Cheshier, Studying Engineering Technology: A blueprint for success, Discovery Press, Los Angeles, 1998.9. Raymond B. Landis, Studying Engineering: A road map to a rewarding career, Discovery Press, Los Angeles, 1995.10. David Beer and David McMurrey, A Guide to Writing as an Engineer, Wiley, New York, 1997.11. Gary R. Bertoline, Eric N. Wiebe, and Craig L. Miller, Fundamentals of Graphics Communication, 2nd edition, WCB McGraw-Hill, Boston, 1998.NICKOLAS S. JOVANOVICDr. Jovanovic received the B.S.M.E. degree from Northwestern University, the M.S.M.E. degree from RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and Applied Science from YaleUniversity. He is an Assistant

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Ted Eschenbach

courses this is primarily a workloadquestion. And far too many engineering instructors seem to fail this standard. This is judgeddifferently for core, required, and elective classes. Notice my student definition of core means Iwill use it in my career – soon after graduation. Required means that the academic programbelieves I must study this, but I don’t expect to use it. Elective means that I have some choice inthe matter. Demanding instructors are given more latitude if they are clearly working as hard atthe teaching as they are expecting the students to work.An easy test of how demanding you or your colleagues are is to propose dropping an assignment.If everyone breathes a sigh of relief and no one is concerned about whether their

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Thomas Slack

student who is only there for the grade and not the subject.It must be remembered that it is the demand for technical competence by society that is drivingpeople to technical careers. Students seem different to teachers today partly because they aredifferent. Society is demanding more technically competent workers. Students often do nothave the same internal desires that they once had.However, students actually do have a desire for relevant information, but it seems to them thatmuch of the information that they are being force-fed is not relevant to their situation. The factthat the teacher is a much better judge of relevance is itself irrelevant to this discussion. Theteacher must establish the relevance of the subject for the student in order

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Enno Koehn

of these subject areas are required by ABET as criteria that must be satisfied for a programto be accredited. Specifically, they are included in Engineering Criteria 2000 which wasadopted by ABET and will be required by all programs for accreditation purposes in the year2001-2002. It appears, therefore, that the knowledge and experience gained by students workingon steel bridge and concrete canoe projects complements the criteria required for accreditation.In addition, the activities should enhance the skills required by engineering students for asuccessful career involving the design and management of engineering and construction projects.AcknowledgmentThe author wishes to recognize Mrs. Debbie Graves for her assistance with the

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Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

pursue a career in that particular area. Can one startwork directly, or does one need further education? Is this a focus more conducive to the researchlaboratory or industry?A third general objective is to evaluate the student’s preparation. The papers written as part ofeach course give evidence as to the student’s preparation. Feedback from each research advisor(at the laboratory site) helps to evaluate both the individual student and the program's ability toprepare the student scholastically. This evaluation is important as part of the senior yearexperience for ABET 2000 goals, as these courses form a capstone for the basic engineering andbiomedical engineering educational experience

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1998 Annual Conference

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B. S. Sridhara

Sciences. We offer Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, 2Pre-engineering, and Pre-architecture programs. Our Department has an enrollment of600 students, of which 200 are majors in Computer, Design, Electro-Mechanical, andManufacturing Engineering Technology concentrations. The Solar Car Project We built our first solar car, the Solaraider and competed in the Sunrayce 95qualifier in June, 1995. The objectives of Sunrayce are to stimulate interest in technicaleducation and careers among students, and to promote energy efficiency and the use ofrenewable sources of energy.1 The race is nationally sponsored by

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Todd Nocera; Martha Cyr; John McDonald; Chris Rogers

Session 3553 The Design and Performance of Musical Instruments Chris Rogers, Martha Cyr, John McDonald, and Todd Nocera Tufts UniversityAbstractBy challenging the students to design and build a musical instrument, we teach the fundamentalsof engineering design and acoustics, as well as introduce statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, andvibrations to liberal arts students and first-year engineers. Using the instrument as a non-threatening medium, students get a chance to do hands-on problem solving from the beginning oftheir college career. One of the unique aspects of this course is that it is co

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Jack Zecher; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

Manufacturing Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, hasundertaken a project to make use of modern marketing technology by developing an interactiveCD-ROM aimed specifically at recruitment. The development of this recruiting tool is beingpartially funded by a grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation.The objective of this project is to develop an interactive CD-ROM. This tool will allow theviewer to: learn about engineering technology careers; learn about IUPUI’s campus; investigatedegree programs and curricula; tour the department’s laboratories; meet the department facultyand students; and have frequently asked questions answered. The obvious benefit to thedevelopment of this CD-ROM will be the

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Paul H. King

aseries of lectures and exercises on the general process of design (modeled after a NSF/ASEE Creative and Structured Design Methods Workshop, 1989) accompanied bydesign project requests. After about 6 weeks the remainder of the term was dedicated toproject development. The Biomedical Computing course was difficult to administer and teach, as thestudent body came in with quite disparate backgrounds. Several students, especiallythose with BME-EE backgrounds, were well versed in some of the lecture material anddid not like the class; others did not see the relevance of the course to their careers. Thedesign course was reasonably well received, though a universal comment was that therewas not enough time to properly complete many of the

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Paul J. Eagle; Jonathan M. Weaver; Roger W. Pryor; Mukasa Ssemakula

Page 3.209.2 The curriculum development capitalizes on the principle that students graspprinciples most effectively if the principles are presented first in the context of familiarphenomena and then generalized. The curriculum is based on the premise that a clearunderstanding and appreciation of mechanics can be developed using descriptiveapplications-intensive methods. Once a candidate has an intuitive grasp of mechanics, theanalytical techniques are much more easily learned. This is often demonstrated whenpeople in the skilled trades pursue relevant academic degrees later in their careers. Thesepeople often exhibit an exceptionally clear understanding of mechanical phenomena. The complete knowledge area was subdivided into a

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Susan M. Bolton; Scott D. Bergen; James L. Fridley

additional courses in 10 departments,in addition to the 34 ecological basis courses, for a total of 61 acceptable thematic electives. Theadditional courses include hydrology, geomorphology, resource management, economics, andland-use planning.Table 2 lists three example combinations of ecological basis courses and thematic electives. It islikely that students will first identify thematic electives that match their career or future studygoals, and then pick ecological basis courses that support those goals. Page 3.77.5Table 2. Ecological basis courses and thematic electives for three example ecological engineering programs.Example 1

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Mary J. Sarmiento; Dr. Takeshi Kubo; Dr. Shigeo Matsumoto

professional careers, we think it isimportant to provide them with experience in discovering and solving problems similar tothose they will face in society. It is crucial that the students be allowed to develop the skillsand abilities for tackling problems independently, rather than following the directions of oth-ers. Engineering Design I and II are courses founded on these basic principles.3. Course Management3.1 Engineering Design Process1 Page 3.558.1In our Engineering Design Curriculum, the Engineering Design Process (EDP) is defined asthe process by which the following activities are performed.1. Clarification of the Problem Domain: Clarification

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Alireza Rahrooh

integrating computerswithin the control loop is essential. An innovative feedback control laboratory has been developedin the department of engineering technology at University of Central Florida to fill this need. Thelaboratory is equipped with some of the most frequently used control systems in engineering andindustry. It is designed to bridge the gap between theory and real-life problems, and to give thestudents valuable hands-on experience which helps them better prepared for their careers. Anumber of practical feedback control system experiments are being developed that will allowstudents an opportunity to develop appropriate transfer functions and control programs forclosed-loop system with a computer in the loop

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Stephen E. Binney; Andrew C. Klein

Radiation Health Physics can also pursue apre-medicine track by replacing a set of restricted electives with the same set of organicchemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, and biochemistry courses that other pre-medicine students take. This option allows students considerable flexibility in their career choiceshould their plans to enter medical school change for any reason. We expect to see an increase instudents enrolling in this special program as more prospective students become aware of itsexistence.Also, students entering the Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics degree programsfrom states that participate in the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) program can attendOSU at a reduced tuition rate (compared to the full

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Francis J. Doyle III; Ferhan Kayihan

systemsengineering consulting company. He is a chemical engineer with BS and PhD degrees from Robert College(1970) in Istanbul Turkey and University of California Santa Barbara (1974), respectively. During his earlyprofessional career he was on the faculty of Oregon State University where he received the 1981 college ofengineering “Lloyd Carter Outstanding and Inspirational Teaching Award”. Before starting IETek in 1996, hewas a research fellow at Weyerhaeuser Technology Center. He is an industrial trustee of CACHE since 1995. Page 3.277.8

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Barry M. Lunt; C. Richard Helps

in the class in addition to the general questions shown inthe table; these are summarized in the final entry of Table 1. Average Survey Question Response*I understand the field of Electronics Engineering Technology and how it relates to 4.0other disciplinesI feel better prepared for my university career 3.5I know the professors in the major better 4.3I feel I can approach the professors and talk to them about technical or other topics 3.9Summary of other more specific questions

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Suzanne Keilson

applications used for subsequent courses is alsoprovided. Project teams consisted of 3-4 students and grading was based on student“portfolios” for the course. Although collaboration was encouraged throughout thecourse and for this project, each student had to submit a portfolio of all their work, whichincluded written reports on team projects such as the solar car, as well as individualassignments and essays. Grading of portfolios encouraged attention to written expressionto demonstrate understanding of technical concepts. Other kind of follow-ups for teamprojects include poster presentations or oral presentations. Thus students getreinforcement of important academic and career skills. Students learned a number of valuable lessons

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Mireya Fernández; Albert Lozano-Nieto; Ferran Silva

the first exposure to electronicinstrumentation, these laboratory courses should be heavily oriented towards making the studentto feel comfortable in the lab through their progression in the use of instrument and measurementtechniques.In addition to the technical contents, these courses should also emphasize other aspects of vitalimportance in the student’s careers: the importance of good writing skills, the importance ofprofessional appearance, and the importance of selling a measurement, circuit, system to apotential buyer that in the case of academia is the instructor. Our experience in differentlaboratory settings for different curricula show that a key point to maintain the student’s interestin the field is to base the experimental

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M.P. Hottenstein; C.O. Ruud

preparation for QMM studies at Penn State and for the careers of itsgraduates. While students may enter the QMM program immediately after completing abachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or business, they must take an internship with amanufacturing company in the summer before entering the program if they have no industrialexperience.Upon entering the academic year in the fall, students with an engineering or science backgroundare required to take an introductory core course in business principles, and students with abusiness background are required to take an introductory core course in engineering principles.The introductory business and engineering courses, together with the nine remaining corecourses are all 3-credit courses to be completed

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William F. Reeve

. Aubrey, R.A., Brelage, T., “A Temperature and Voltage Monitor Board for the Electrical Engineering Technology Laboratory,” 1995 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp 484-87.5. The Memory Jogger for Education, GOAL/PC, 13 Branch Street, Methuen, MA 01844-1953.Biographical InformationWILLIAM F. REEVEMr. William Frank Reeve is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology Departmentof Purdue University. He has had a varied career in industry, the military, and in education. He received theBachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in physics from the University of Louisville. He has conductedresearch on ionic vacuum pumps and quadrupole mass spectrometers, investigated physical properties of salt-ice,snow, and

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Scott A. Starks; Reza Torkzadeh; Michael E. Austin

strategy PM strictlypower-limited channels; (4) The link budget analysis; (5) The study of countermeasuresto interference in a network of satellites; (6) The study of neural net based equalizationtechniques, antenna switch combining, and diversity combining to combat ISI caused bymultipath.The UNEX Systems Engineering & Mission Operations Facility will help train graduateand undergraduate students by enabling them to develop the skills necessary to weigh theadvantages and disadvantages of alternative designs. The performance evaluation facilitywill permit students to conduct meaningful applied research, to gain experience inresearch methodology, and to become interested in careers relating to satellitecommunication research.The UNEX Systems

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Carolyn L. Dull; A. George Havener

Officers who, duringtheir careers, participate in and have responsibility for a variety of systems-programs.Such programs often present interdisciplinary ill-defined problems involving engineering,economics, politics, sociology, medicine, psychology, and law. Accordingly, USAFAcadets need school-experiences working on multifaceted interdisciplinary situations asopposed to device-oriented problems. The ill-defined aspects of a manned mission toMars presents the cadets a challenging and timely interdisciplinary problem that requiresthem to interact with instructors from various engineering and social science departmentsas well as external agencies such as NASA.Problem Solving - Among the USAFA educational outcomes, developing problemsolving skills

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Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

updatetheir academic credentials, help improve the productivity of the corporations they are workingfor, and to seek career advancement. Most existing graduate programs concentrate in one areaand prepare students for a specialized field emphasizing more theory and less hands-on. In mostcases engineers enroll in a graduate program related to their undergraduate majors unless they arestudying for an MBA. The aim of our Master's program in advanced technology (MSAT) is toprepare students in a wide range of engineering and technology practices, in addition to the areaof their undergraduate background. In the current environment, industries have becometechnologically more advanced and have to compete in a global market. This puts extra demandson

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1997 Annual Conference

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Brian S. Mitchell

, studentshave been introduced to linear regression, and graphical techniques and software in Design I.Design III and IV are unit operations laboratories, taught during the spring and summer semestersof the junior year, respectively. In addition to the tradition unit operations emphasis of these 3-credit lab courses, safety, ethics, report writing, presentation skills and career guidance areemphasized. Some of these topics have already been introduced in Design I. Ethics have beenintroduced during a lecture on quality control. Report writing is also emphasized in Design I.As in most chemical engineering curricula, the design sequence is finalized with the capstonedesign course, entitled “Process Design and Economics.” This first semester senior

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Vernon W. Lewis

. Many of the students were older and had started a career, even if in a sub-professionalarea. In contrast, the local students were mostly full-time, generally younger, and most had littleif any experience in the field. It should be noted that some of the on-campus students wereemployed, but in most instances the employment was not in a field related to EngineeringTechnology. Action Taken to Resolve the Disparity in Student ResponseAction is being taken in several areas to make the class better suited for distance learningstudents. It is important to note at this point that it may not be possible to meet the needs anddesires of all students. Even in an entirely on-campus

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Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

, international relationships, etc.Corporations should seek ways to make participation in these programs financially feasible, suchas requiring participation for career-track development and advancement. In universities, facultyshould be encouraged to use their sabbatical leaves for corporate assignments to enhance globalawareness of technological advances. This creates a win-win situation for industry and academia;it can have far-reaching positive effects in the quality of engineering education world-wide. Both authors have been active in consulting. Not only does this keep one current with thevarious codes, but provides examples of modern engineering practices to be used in the class-room. This further provides students with an insight of the

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James E. Maisel

systemsavailable, large amounts of data can be stored and viewed later for analysis. Raw data sets haveto be processed to characterize the important data features buried in the raw data. This is wheredata analysis plays a key role. Data processing is becoming a very important facet for engineering technologists. Atsome point in their professional career, they will be faced with using data analysis or using theresults of data analysis to study the behavior of a manufacturing process [1]. In either case, theirexpertise in data analysis may give them the competitive edge in industry. The Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology at Arizona StateUniversity introduced a new course this past year called Data Analysis. It assumes that