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Ilya Grinberg

demonstrated and measurements are recorded.At the relay laboratory the students are exposed to digital relays and perform actual testing of anovercurrent relay using the company’s tools and software.5. Senior Design ProjectAt the beginning of the second semester the students are assigned a senior design project. Theproject objectives are to perform preliminary design of a power distribution system for anindustrial facility. Students are given a site plan of the facility as well as dimensions of thebuildings. Load characteristics are given for each of the buildings with one building being givenin full details. After determining rated demand for the facility, the students have to adjust powerfactor of the plant and to propose at list two variants of the

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William Sutton; Kathryn Laskey; Elbert White; Mark Houck

Outcome Goals Goals Assurance Plan ASSESSMENTS Curriculum/Program School Level Institution Level Constituency Group A: State; SCHEV; BoV; Other Constituency Group B: IT&E Advisory Board; Employers; NVTC; Administrative Council; Alumni; Student Leaders; Student Advisory Group; Other Constituency Group C

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Arturo Fuentes; Cristina Villalobos

& Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationNACME plans to develop a national public service advertising campaign to educate the publicabout issues related to a higher education.4 Since many of UTEP’s students are first-generationcollege students, parents may not fully appreciate the value of a higher education. These parentsmay be less informed about the process and be less able to guide and support their children duringtheir college education. In fact, research shows that first-generation students have higher attritionrates, whereas students who have a parent who earned at a minimum a bachelor degree are morelikely to complete college2.Studies have shown that students employed full-time

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

designcourse as a major source of assessment data for EC 2000 accreditation. We have shown at bycarefully planning the process for grading the design reports and presentations, we can obtaindata for Criterion 3, items a, b, c, d, e, g, i and k, leaving only items f , h, and j for assessment inother courses.VI. References[1] URL http://www.abet.org/eac/EAC_99-00_Criteria.htm[2] Skvarenina, T.L., “Developing a Department-Wide Learning Assessment Program,” Proc. 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, St. Louis, MO, Session T1A, Oct. 2000.[3] Daniels, P., and Mailer, K., “Assessment of the Senior Design Experience and ABET 2000,” Proc. Best Assessment Processes in Engineering Education, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre

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John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

excellent documentation to help satisfy the new Engineering Criteria 2000(EC2000) accreditation guidelines published by The Engineering Accreditation Commission ofThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). One component of thecurriculum development plan is to perform several DACUM workshops focused on differentindustries that hire significant numbers of our graduates. Over the past few years the departmenthas recognized that an increasing number of our graduates are being hired by localmanufacturing companies. Although several members of the faculty have industrial experience,most have little experience with the small to medium size manufacturing concerns that areprevalent in Memphis. Given the limited experience base, and the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Winston F. Erevelles

interfaces for the cellThe author and the laboratory technician adopted a predominantly advisory role where they wereinvolved in all discussions. The team itself was led by a student project manager who wasresponsible for the execution of the project according to the plan, within the time allocated forthe project, and within the budget allocated for the cell. Since the area of injection molding andthe specific equipment used for the process was new to some of the class, a special session wasled by Professor Gwan Lai of the department to familiarize the participants with the process andthe machine.In each of the major areas identified in the preceding table, the following strategy was adopted2.• Discussion of underlying theory• Discussion of current

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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

will describe the design process that thestudents persued and describe the results that were obtained by the end of the first semester’swork.Description of the Design Process We began the semester by setting the task schedule that we thought would be required tocomplete the lantern design and construction in a single semester. In retrospect this was overlyambitious, however it did set a high standard for the group. Table 1 shows how we planned toorganize the tasks for the semester. The students were very excited about the project andplanned to see it to completion in the span of the semester. Table 1. Task Planning for Solar Lantern Project TASK JAN FEB MAR APR

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Patricia Backer

, multimedia course. The course chosen for this project wasTechnology & Civilization, a general education science-technology-society course. This courseis required for Industrial Technology majors in the College of Engineering as well as being apopular Advanced General Education course for other majors at San Jose State.A needs assessment for this course was done, eliciting input from faculty and experts in thefield. An overall framework for the multimedia document was developed that was used as theplanning document for subsequent development. This plan was evaluated for content using theexpertise of many faculty members in addition to evaluation from an instructional perspective.Before any multimedia development work was done, a faculty panel

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Walden S. Rio

discipline and enjoy prestige and authority, comparable to that of international universities. At least 75% of its programs must have attained Level III status for a minimum period of 10 years and must meet additional criteria or guidelines, such as excellent outcomes in research, teaching and learning and community service. There should be evidence of international linkages and consortia and well- developed planning processes, which support quality assurance mechanisms.The

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

to the Fellows include improvedcommunication skills and self-image. Page 5.270.1The ProgramThis paper describes the planning and implementation phases for a NSF sponsored GK-12Teaching Fellows program. Students from North Carolina State University College ofEngineering are placed in elementary schools in Wake County. The activity theme for theprogram has a primary focus on physics, engineering and math. Curriculum development is donewith consideration to various learning styles and to teaching science and math to diversepopulations. The particular diverse populations addressed are children who have been identifiedas “at risk,” hearing-impaired

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James N. Peterson

in this capstone design sequence, normally taken during the fallsemester, introduces students to the design process by first requiring individual students toaccomplish two assigned designs which are sufficiently simple that these two projects can beaccomplished within six weeks time. These initial projects serve to introduce students toseveral aspects of engineering design, including understanding of the project objectives,project planning and time schedule estimates, using available resources - time and devicesand lab equipment - to create a working solution, and written and oral reports.Following these introductory individual design projects, the students are then presented withthe industry-sponsored projects and choose among the half

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Igor M. Verner; Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

breakthroughs will not be made by adults, but by students who are still in college, or in K-12 classes. Building a robot offers Page 5.300.2 a unique educational exercise that provides hands-on experience in physics, mechanics, hardware, software, and teamwork. Students also learn how to overcome failure and how to plan and organize a long-term, multi-faceted project. Fig. 1. Contest MazeThe development of an autonomous fire-fighting mobile robot is a challenging problem forcompetitors at all levels. This design problem is ideally suited to solution by an interdisciplinaryteam, an approach that is

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

seniors or graduate students (Chemical Engineering-11, Electrical and Computer Engineering-7, Environmental Engineering-2, Civil Engineering-4,3 undeclared). Five of the respondents were Ph.D. students, fourteen were M.S. students, threewere seniors that are planning on attending graduate school next year and five were unspecified.Eighteen were U.S. citizens; five were non-US citizens and four undeclared.The survey was designed to get reactions related to when the students decided to go to graduateschool, why they went to graduate school, who or what influenced them to go to graduate school,and what were their impressions of graduate school during their first or second year inundergraduate school.III. Survey ResultsThe tabular results for the

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William Biles; Carroll Hyder; Mark R. Rajai

internationalcompetitiveness1. American companies not only have to compete with their traditional Japaneseand European counterparts, but with a surge of the newly industrialized countries (NICs) such asChina, Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia. In order to compete effectively, American firms muststrive to produce high-quality products at low cost and with short lead times, while providingoutstanding customer service. They also must be able to deal with shorter product life cycles.As the American manufacturing companies become more aware of their weakness, they aredevoting attention to the process by which they define customer needs and product performance.They plan concurrently for design and manufacturing with full consideration of the entireproduct life cycle, including

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Jeffrey A. Jalkio

course evaluations it also had theeffect of integrating a number of modeling and controls concepts in the students’ minds.Included in the presentations are feedback from students and plans for futuremodifications to the laboratory experience. Page 5.350.11. BackgroundThe University of St. Thomas mechanical engineering program seeks to combine theadvantages of a liberal arts school with a rigorous introduction to engineering. As part ofthis, we try to show students interconnections between fields and encourage thedevelopment of “soft skills” such as communication and teamwork which are muchprized by employers. Among other tools for accomplishing these

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Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

class covers all aspects ofengineering design, including problem formulation, conceptualization, design planning,optimization, reporting and implementation, etc. The class emphasizes “In-Practice” learning bygoing through the entire design cycle on specific projects. A team-based project is assigned to agroup of students at the beginning of the first semester. A complete hands-on implementation ofthe design process will be achieved at the second semester. It is our belief that through this two-semester design program, students can finally integrate their engineering knowledge, skills andcreativity gained throughout the years into the realization of a final design product

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2000 Annual Conference

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William N. Smyer

whilemaintaining an incentive for students to attend class to complete their notes. As Paterson1 saysin his paper, "… partial notes allowed students to remain engaged during class." This "fill in theblank" plan was adopted for the spring 1999 semester, with the partially completed notes denoted"Lecture Outlines." An arbitrary target of 80% complete was adopted for the lecture outlines.That is, the student would need to attend the lectures to obtain the remaining 20% or so of lecturematerial.Two methods of lecture outline distribution were considered: hard copy and web. The web wasselected and that decision proved to be popular with the students, as will be seen later in theresults of a survey

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Bethany S. Oberst; Russel C. Jones

. engineering degree programs; and a five year,two-degree program in which B.S. engineering students acquire in-depth knowledge of aforeign language and culture and complete a semester-long capstone experience workingabroad as an engineer during their fifth year. A unique feature of the Lafayette programsis the use of two-way video conferencing to offer necessary technical courses to studentsabroad.In 1983, the University of the Pacific started sending its students to Japan for their Co-opplacements. Based on the experience and a similar program in Germany, a structuredprogram for preparing students for such international Co-op experiences has beeninstituted. Martin (11) describes how the University has made available a plan wherebystudents can take

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2000 Annual Conference

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J. Nazalewicz; H. Hadim; D. Donskoy; B. Gallois; Keith Sheppard

students on the integration of theDesign laboratory with engineering mechanics course as well as the diversified skills that werecovered in the laboratory. A more comprehensive assessment based on carefully defined sets ofcourse performance criteria and assessment performance criteria are planned. This will beconducted through a variety of means, including web-based assessment surveys of the students,as we implement within the next year the Stevens Assessment Plan to meet ABET Criteria 2000requirements.VI. ConclusionsUsing an integrated approach, the new mechanics lecture and laboratory design courses atStevens Institute of Technology are developed to allow the students to understand more clearlythe role of mechanics in the design of engineering

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Ashraf M. Ghaly

surface Footing (substructure) Elevation of footing Shape of soil deformation Stiff box Column Footing Plan of footing and shape of soil deformation Figure 4. Elevation and Plan of footing in Project GeoChallenge.Project BeamBang: This project was a required component in the Reinforced Concrete Designcourse in which the design of reinforced concrete beams is covered in detail. The

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2000 Annual Conference

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Zachary R. Kaufmann; Nickolas S. Jovanovic; Lance W. Laettner

speed. Figure 1 compares the price-to-performance ratios ofAthlon and Pentium III processors, and shows the large advantage of the Athlon for this metric.We used the SPECfp95 benchmark2 for estimating performance, and the Computer Shopper website3 and various other sources for estimating prices. Prices from many sources were averaged. Page 5.679.2One disadvantage of the Athlon processor is a lack of software that has been optimizedspecifically for the Athlon instruction set. In our case, we plan to develop our own software, sothe only things we really lack are C and Fortran compilers that can optimize for Athlon. So far,the Athlon processor has

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2000 Annual Conference

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

“standard” engineering curriculum. In particular, it requires a comprehensive view of engineeringeducation and an understanding of the skills and attributes that must form the core competenciesof future engineers. These skills are, at least partially cited in a number of references and can besummarized as follows.1 Engineers must:• Possess a solid foundation in the applied sciences and be able to apply this knowledge inpractice;• Have a creative outlook while maintaining a critical attitude in the problem solving setting;• Possess good communication skills;• Understand the significance of organizational, scheduling, planning, and decision-making skillsand are able to apply these skills in practice;• Possess functional knowledge of business concepts

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Bruce A. DeVantier; John W. Nicklow

; • Student-teacher interaction is reduced in an off-campus program, but can be maximized through effective use of the Internet and electronic mail; • Instructors must plan to allocate additional time and effort for planning and preparing courses, as well as for commuting to the classroom location. Page 5.582.6Bibliography1. Lewis, V.W. Jr. (1997). “Expectations of On-Campus and Remote Students in a Course in Civil Engineering Technology.” Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education, Milwaukee, WI, June 15-18.2. Lowman, J. (1995). Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. Jossey-Bass

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William J. Norman; Jerald Rounds

association, academic andprofessional advising, and work experience opportunities in place to support the new curriculum.Project members plan to meet several times each year to coordinate the project and do a lot ofcoordination on line.There has been significant interest among other schools in the shared curriculum concept. Theanticipation is that upon completion of the initial project, other schools with an interest inparticipating will be allowed to join the ECAA with the investment of a new course and a plan todevelop a new academic area of emphasis, together with its support infrastructure. Thecurriculum will belong jointly to the Alliance members, so expansion will be up to thosemembers.Summary and ConclusionsA second generation shared

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Charles Moore

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) class synthesizes theory and programmingapplications to provide a plan for the automation of a local feed mill. Following adequateclassroom training on sensors and the PLC relay ladder logic instruction set, the students go to alocal mill, where they take notes on the current non-automated method of operation. The teamsthen prepare a plan for automating the process and a formal report describing their new design. Ithas been gratifying to see the level of effort and quality of work emerge from just averagestudents when they are released to be creative. Figure 4 shows a

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Chris Lorenz; Trevor Harding; Jennifer Kadlowec; Kurt DeGoede

, worked toestablish the UM-ASEE Student Chapter. The process consisted of developing a framework and Page 6.206.1constitution, becoming a recognized student organization on campus and chapter of the American “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Society for Engineering Education, electing officers and planning events. With the constitutionratified in August 1994, the first events during the 1994-95 academic year included a few paneldiscussions on topics pertinent to graduate students exploring

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Danny Bee

continuing education opportunities for practicing manufacturingengineers. The M.S. program is currently in the curriculum planning stage with a projectedinitial program offering in the fall of 2002. This masters program will provide several additionalavenues of applied research for program faculty and students. In addition, the masters programwill provide opportunities to increase the scope of selective course offerings, especially in therealm of maintaining global competitiveness through applied manufacturing philosophies.Future plans will also strengthen the industry partnerships that funnel real industrial applicationsback to the classroom and lab. The masters program will significantly strengthen thesepartnerships as many of the survey

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James Newell; Kevin Dahm

rationale for the choice• A detailed cash flow diagram of revenues and expenses for a planning horizon of at least 10 years• Specification of how the cost of the stadium would be divided between the city and the team owners• A detailed, realistic time frame for paying back the loan, if any• A decision on who would own the stadium- city or team- upon its completionStudents were advised that both the city and the team had an absolute veto on any stadium plan,so their design must appeal to both groups to be effective.Public Speaking Skills: In recent years, many engineering educators have recognized5-7 thattechnical communication is a vital component of engineering practice and have sought ways todevelop these skills in their students

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Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

a continuing interest in environmental and analytical chemistry.MARIA CURRO KREPPELMaria Curro Kreppel is professor of English and Communication at the University of Cincinnati’s OMI College ofApplied Science. Dr. Kreppel teaches oral and written communication courses, concentrating on research anddesign project curricula within engineering technologies. Trained in English and American literature and holding adoctorate in Organizational Communication, her scholarship ranges from technical communication and policyanalysis to organizational systems, strategic planning and alternate dispute resolution (ADR). More specifically,her study of organizational communication has focused on planning and implementing the communication oforganizational

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William E. DeWitt; Timothy L. Skvarenina

consulted to help shape the new plan of study.For many years, the Purdue EET program prided itself as being one of only a few in the UnitedStates with a strong electric power program. The plan of study included a required electricmotors course, which was organized in a traditional pattern of magnetics, DC machines,transformers, and AC machines. Electives included a course oriented toward electric utilityoperations (generation and transmission), an electrical distribution course, 1 and two controlscourses. Despite this history, some faculty viewed the required course as a target for elimination,which would allow other topics to be included. Surprisingly, however, there were a few non-power faculty who felt the course should be kept exactly as it