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Ramachandran Radharamanan; Angela Ansuj

suchas use of design of experiments and Taguchi methods in conducting experiments to improve theproduct quality by controlling the process variables; and the use of design for manufacture,computer aided design, and value analysis in their multidisciplinary senior design projects inimproving the product design, meeting the time schedule (project completion time), andproviding customer satisfaction (client) with high quality and minimum cost. The resultsobtained through laboratory experiments and design projects are presented and discussed.I. IntroductionConcurrent Engineering (CE) is defined as the earliest possible integration of overall company’sknowledge, resources, and experience in design, development, marketing, manufacturing, andsales into

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has 25 years of engineeringexperience, including positions in academia, industry, the military, a government laboratory, and his own consultingbusiness. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmentat Tennessee Technological University. She received her B.S. from Mississippi State University and her M.S. andPh.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in industrial engineering. She has previously served on thefaculty at Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama and is a registered P.E. (Mississippi

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. Private communication with Professor Charles W. Smith, Department of Physics, University of Maine.3. URL: http://www.wright.edu/academics/physics/programs/bsegphys.htmPHILIP W. YOUNGPhilip W. Young is Professor of Engineering Physics and chair of the Department of Chemistry and EngineeringPhysics at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. He received his B.S. in Physics from Houghton College,Houghton, NY and his PhD in Physics from University of Colorado at Boulder. Besides his interest in engineeringphysics education, he has been involved in laboratory reform in the general physics lab for engineering students. Page 6.441.10

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, several computer laboratory sessions with excelspreadsheets were used to reinforce text content and perform sensitivity analyses. Several mini-cases were used in the course to reinforce the engineering applications of engineering economy.In order to actually demonstrate understanding and application of engineering economy theoryand concepts, a comprehensive case is assigned to the class towards the end of the semester.Effective application of engineering economic principles within an industrial setting requires notonly understanding and application of the subject matter, but effective communication andteamwork skills. To simulate this aspect, teams perform the final case analysis and presentfindings and recommendations in a poster session

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Joseph J. Delfino

. Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 2nd Ed.Belmont Cal.: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning (2000).JOSEPH J. DELFINOJoseph J. Delfino is Professor and Past Chairman of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the Universityof Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with aspecialty in Water Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at theUniversity of Florida, he was Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, where he was also Head of Environmental Sciences for the State Laboratory ofHygiene and Associate Director of the Water Resources Center. He teaches courses and conducts researchin water chemistry and water quality

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Bahador Ghahramani

Source Control Branch, Nonpoint Source Pollution The Nation's Largest Water Quality Problem, EPA841-F-960 0 4A. (URL: www.epa.ffov/owow/nps}[12] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Perspectives on Nonpoint Source Pollution, Proceedings of a National Conference: Kansas City, Missouri, 1985.Biography of the AuthorDr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was aDistinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His workexperience covers several years of academics, industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani haspresented and

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Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

-long Saturday training session: Teaching in a Laboratory, Effective Grading,Office Hours & Tutoring, Leading a Recitation, and The Wired Course (using technology in theclassroom). Training is completed with a small-group videotaping session in which TAs present a5-7 minute lecturette to an audience of three other TAs and a TA Fellow, and give constructivefeedback on each other’s videotaped presentation. Each workshop is 2-2.5 hours in length.Workshop size ranges from 15-35 TAs to one co-facilitation team (2 TA Fellows).3The multicultural awareness workshop—Teaching in a Diverse Classroom-- has been a keycomponent of the training of new engineering TAs since 1993. The workshop was added to theline-up at the request of TAs in the program

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Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

men from colleges and universities as diverse as Cornell, LouisianaTech, U.C. Berkeley, and Virginia Military Institute attended the ETW 2000 at USMA.III. Workshop ContentThe grueling schedule for the five-day workshop is shown in Figure 1. The workshop activitiescan be sub-classified into seminars, demonstration classes, laboratory exercises, and socialevents.Seminars: The course schedule for the 2000 ETW contained 13 Seminars which varied incontent and were designed to provide theoretical background, teaching hints, organizationalstructure, and communication techniques. A brief description of the seminars is offered in Table1. The format for the seminars is lecture, small group activities, and collaborative discussionwith an ExCEEd faculty

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Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

are the topic of this report satisfy a portion of this need and insure that thevarious advisors at least consider the same course objectives in arriving at a grade. Grades areobtained for each deliverable required from the students, the Proposal, Oral Presentation andFinal Report.Assessment FormsFollowing the 1996-97 academic year, several new assessment instruments were developed forthe freshman design component of Drexel’s Engineering Design and Laboratory courses (ED&LI, II & III) and for the design component of the humanities courses, HUM107 and HUM108. The Page 7.446.1details of how Drexel’s Freshman Design Program is

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numerical methods course.The investigators are sufficiently pleased with this effort, that we will continue to introduce thein-house CFD code in the junior-level fluid mechanics course. The www-based help files arebeing modified to better address a number of questions raised by students. In the future, anadditional exercise will be included, the calculation of the wake behind a square cylinder so thatstudents can see the influence of boundary conditions on the solution. They will be asked tointegrate the wake velocity profile in order to obtain forebody drag. This exercise will alsocouple the CFD results with the thermal/fluid laboratory experience, where students use a pitottube to survey the wake behind a bluff body and integrate wake velocities

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Ron Eaglin; Z. Qu; Q. Zhang; P. Wahid; Issa Batarseh

. 377-384.[7] Uribe, R. B., Haken, L., and Loui, M.C., “A Design Laboratory in Electrical and ComputerEngineering for Freshmen,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 37, no. 2, May 1994, pp. 194-202.[8] Swafford, M.L., Graham, C. R., Brown, D.J., and Trick, T.N., “Mallard: Asynchronous Learningin Two Engineering Courses,” Proceedings, 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE/ASEE,1996, vol. 3., pp. 1023-1026. http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/Mallard/[9] R. Laws , "Distance Learning's Explosion on the Internet," Journal of Computing in HigherEducation, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 48-64,1996. Page 5.460.10

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

telephonyare also an area in which I am experimenting. I am a graduate assistant and tutor taking Network Installation &Maintaince and Network System Management at Edith Cowan University.PAUL MAJDr S P Maj is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientific information systems integration andmanagement. He is the author of a text book, ’The Use of Computers in Laboratory Automation’, which wascommissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, ’Language Independent DesignMethodology - an introduction’ , was commissioned by the National Computing Center (NCC). Dr S P Maj hasorganized, chaired and been invited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level. He has alsoserved on many national and

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Willard D. Bostwick

, reads, on the part of the student. • Completes laboratory recites, reports, selects, tells,RESPONDING Expects that student not only work writes attends to the phenomenon but • Volunteers for special also reacts to it in some way. tasks • Shows interest in subject

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7 Mechanical Engineering Project; AutoCAD Demo 8 Ethics Case Studies 9 Submarine Field Trip Computer Engineering Project 10 Data Analysis Exercises 11 Civil Engineering Project 12 Written Reports / Library Research 13 Systems Engineering Project; LINDO Demo 14 Coop Presentation; Wrap-up; Course Evaluation Table 2. Laboratory Topics and Projects Page 5.43.3Table 2 describes lab activities that are held for a two hour period on

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Steven H. VanderLeest

fiction places the student inanother world to examine important human conflicts, issues, questions, and desires. Second,science fiction provides a mental laboratory in which students can perform thought experimentswith new technology. Third, a science fiction course can allow engineering students to interactwith students in less technical disciplines. This cross-fertilization is often very helpful inworking through issues of technology and its interaction with the human society within which itis embedded.I. IntroductionArchibald Putt has said “technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understandwhat they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.” We generallysuppose engineers, the designers of technology

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William H. Sprinsky

theoretical discussions arereinforced by assignments on both our analog Kelsh and analytical Zeiss P-3 plotters. Theassignments require teams of two students to perform relative and absolute orientation/scaling onthe Kelsh plotter to produce a manuscript with contours from which a fair drawn map is made.The same teams perform interior, relative and absolute orientation/scaling on the Zeiss P-3analytical plotter. Their product, a DTM, is then handled through ASCII and .DXF file protocolsin much the same way as ground surveying data to produce a fair drawn map with contours andscale in the appropriate State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83).This paper discusses instruction and performance of laboratories in this course.IntroductionAt the Pennsylvania

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://links.math.rpi.edu/webhtml/DEindex.html, 1999.12. Kovacic, G., Project Links, http://links.math.rpi.edu/webhtml/DEindex.html, 1999.13. Newall, J., Manson, R., and Drew, D., Project Links, http://links.math.rpi.edu/webhtml/DEindex.html, 1999.BiographyKENNETH S. MANNINGKen Manning is the Technical Manager for Project Links, and an Adjunct Associate Professor for the CoreEngineering Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He has also worked as a thermal-hydraulic design engineer for General Electric, first at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and then at theCorporate Research & Development Center. His B.S. is in Physics from the University of Oregon, received in 1976,his M.S. is in Mechanical Engineering from the University of

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Peter J. Graybash

been found lacking in real world situations inthat they tend to be prescriptive. That is, they suggest how decision-makers ought to makedecisions, rather than reflecting on how the decisions are made.On the whole, research on decision-making by individuals has relied largely on analyzingthought processes while solving simplified problems. This theory has not been carried out inpractice. In addition, research on decision-making by groups has been concerned with theinteractions among the participants in an oversimplified laboratory situation, and not with thedecision process. The fallacy in this type of group research is that the very structure of theprocess has been ignored (Mintzberg, 1976).Decisions, whether by groups or by individuals, have

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John Regnier; Bogdan M. Wilamowski; Aleksander Malinowski

program are frequently used in circuit and in electronic classes.The most popular was the PSPICE version by MicroSim, which in the student version has itslimitation to 10 transistor circuits. Recently, the SPICE program associated with ElectronicWorkbench is gaining attention. Although much larger circuits can be analyzed with electronicWorkbench the program is designed to be used at university laboratories, and it is not affordablefor students. Also relatively simple transistor models make this program not very useful for theassignments that deal with integrated circuits.With the increase of Internet bandwidth the World Wide Web (WWW) could revolutionizedesign processes by ushering in an area of pay-per-use tools. With this approach

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Sharon A. Driscoll

experience (K). If thesubject allows, bring real-life pieces of equipment (V and K) and discuss real-life problems (Aand K) and the industrial solution. Small scale hands-on laboratory projects or demonstrationsdirectly related to the theory are now included in the course (K).V. Other SuggestionsAsk for student feedback during the semester. Problems during the semester may not be recalledat the end and is of no use to the students making comments. Try a group problem solvingexercise and have them write comments at the end of class. Was it well organized? Was enoughtime allowed? Were the problems reasonable? Student comments related to these questions canhelp in planning for the next activity. Make it a short part of the time at the end of class

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

theUndergraduate Education (DUE) under the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement(CCLI) Program.ReferencesBloom, B.S.(1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, David McKay, New York,NY.Beer, F.P., & Johnston, E.R. (1996). Vector Mechanics for Engineers, 6th Edition. McGraw Hill.Hake, R. (1998). "Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses," Am. J Phys., 66 (1), 64-74.Hibbeler, R.C. (1998). Engineering Mechanics: Statics, 8th Edition. Prentice-Hall.Johnson, D., Johnson, R., & Smith, K. (1998). “Cooperative Learning returns to college: What evidence is there that it works?” Change, July/August, 27 - 35.Mazur, Eric (1997). Peer Instruction

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Douglas M. Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

atthe University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff(DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His work experience covers several years of academics, industry, andconsulting. Dr. Ghahramani has presented and published numerous papers and is an active participant and officer ofvarious national and international organizations and honor societies. He holds three patents the "Eye Depth TestingApparatus", “A Method for Measuring the Usability of a System and for Task Analysis and Re-engineering”, and “ AMethod for Measuring the Usability of a System”. He has another patent pending “Emergency Marker System,Marker Device, Components Therefore and Methods of Making the Same”. Dr. Ghahramani also

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mathematical analysis.Hands-on simple laboratories are a major part of the course, taking up one-half to two-thirds oftotal class time. These labs span the available majors at ECC: for example, a CAD design laband a robot programming lab for mechanical, manufacturing, and CAD majors; a surveying labfor civil/construction and surveying majors; and a circuits lab (to be developed) for electronicsmajors. Field trips are also arranged. Through these hands-on labs and field trips, students candevelop more interests on engineering and technology careers.An introductory textbook on engineering 3 is supplemented by lecture notes and lab manualsdeveloped by ECC faculty. Some of the topics covered in this course include: Engineering disciplines

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

., Wright K. B., Collier, C. L., “Toying with Technology: Mobile Robots and High School Interns,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, on CD - Session # 1692, June 1997.3. Genalo, L.J., Athreya, K.A., Dieterich, A.K., “Internet Explorers: An NSF Sponsored Internship,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, on CD - Session # 1692, June 1998.4. Genalo, L. J., Collier, C., Sandberg, J., and Roberts, M., "Creating Web explorations in science and engineering," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, on CD - Session # 2392, June 1996.5. Tanner, L. N. (1997). Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons For Today. New York: Teachers College Press6. National Research Council. (1996). National Science Standards. Washington DC: National

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Marie Dahleh

covered which may differfrom the department syllabus, any laboratory projects, design experience, oral or writtencommunication projects and any social or ethical issues discussed in the course. The curriculumcommittee, to determine if the department syllabus needs to be changed, reviews the coursereports annually.Senior Exit surveyAll graduating seniors are asked to fill out a survey just before graduation in the spring. Thissurvey is quite detailed consisting of 23 questions many with multiple parts. Several questionsspecifically ask the students to give an opinion about how well the department met the MEprogram outcomes. The rest of the questions were included to correspond to questions o n theone-year alumni survey and will be used for

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Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

an Introductory Programming Course for Engineers,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, June 28 – July 1, Seattle, Washington.11. Genalo, L. J., Williams, B. D., “The Freshman Engineering Problems and Programming Course: Integrating New and Old Tools,” Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June 25-28 1995, Anaheim, California, pp. 1532-1536.12. Goff, R.M., Gregg, M.H., “Freshman Hands-On Engineering Laboratory at Virginia Tech,” The Innovator, The SUCCEED Newsletter, no. 11, Spring 1999, pp. 12-15.13. Starr, G.P., “The UNM Mechanical Engineering Lego Robot Competition,” Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Robotics for Challenging Environments, 1998, pp. 230-236.14. Hayes, G.M., and Hallan

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research focuses on Web Designand Usability Assessment.Web AddressMaterials presented in this paper are available via the Internet at: http://www.umr.edu/~bestmech/preview.html Page 7.719.15 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Robert Ribando

program. Over the last 15 years he has played a very active role in the development of the Page 7.1275.6infrastructure for making use of technology in instruction at the University. The work reported here wasbegun under the University of Virginia’s Teaching + Technology Initiative faculty fellowship program.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3430TIMOTHY C. SCOTTTimothy C. Scott is Instructional Laboratory Director and an

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He hasover 26 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, agovernment laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmentat Tennessee Technological University. She received her B.S. from Mississippi State University and her M.S. andPh.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in industrial engineering. She has previously served on the facultyat Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama and is a registered P.E

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Design for Community

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State Univ. His industrial experienceincludes General Dynamics Corp, J.I Case Co, Sandia Labs, NASA/Langley