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Paul Marquard; Bruce R. Dewey; Sally Steadman; Raymond Jacquot

VS VL R2 RL TP4 Figure 4. Board for Maximum Power Transfer Experiment4. Future ProjectsProjects in other areas of engineering, which contribute significantly to the experiential portionof the course, will be added to the course. The concept of variation in manufactured productscan be illustrated by making measurements on machine parts (washers, nuts, bolts) or by makingtemperature measurements. A component involving material balance is planned as well. In orderto

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2001 Annual Conference

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Hilda Black; Jenna Carpenter

. Supporting material includes itemssuch as syllabi, review sheets, course documents and links to text-specific web-based tutorialmaterial. The instructors also made use of optional communication tools, such as e-mail and thevirtual classroom.Tracking was used to collect data on student use, and students were surveyed at the end of eachterm to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the sites, interest in options not utilized in thecourse, ease of access to the site, etc. Improvements were then made to the sites, incorporatingthe student feedback and instructor experiences. Based on the feedback from this and othersimilar projects, plans are to seek funding to expand and implement a web-based system for usein integrated curriculum

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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

business plan, many others will not achieve a sustained growth trajectory because of the absence of a corporate governance structure able to adjust to changing conditions. A successful NTBF requires superior governance and management capabilities, including comprehensive understanding of product technology, manufacturing technology, market research, financial planning, accounting, legal aspects, contracts and networking, as well as a supportive environment of relevant business services.”6) Innovation depends on promoting networking and clustering. “When identifying barriers to greater innovativeness, it is necessary to take into account that firms differ from large ones in the skills and professional training of their managers and in

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2001 Annual Conference

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Joshua Talbert; Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

applied. A high performance starting batterycan produce 1000 cranking amps at 12 volts which corresponds to 12 kw or 16 hp. This would result in some of thecars kinetic energy being absorbed by the battery rather than the brakes. There are some plans to increase the voltageof future cars to 42 volts, which would further help this mode of regenerative braking. Another possibility would be a car with two engines that might be 20 hp and 50 hp. Engines provide substantiallymore power per weight than an electric motor-generator and battery system. Both engines would be shut down forsustained stops. The smaller engine would provide more efficient city driving. The larger engine would be forhighway speeds and both engines would operate for high power

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sheila Horan

finish the calculus sequence.Many incoming freshmen also have not had the opportunity to tinker around with electroniccomponents, and so have no “feel” for the basics that students 15 to 20 years ago seemed tohave. Somehow they have missed knowing what a short circuit is and the damage it can cause.Much of this practical experience is no longer present in our incoming freshmen. At thecapstone level, it has been noted that students don’t really know what they need to do. They lackinsight and experience into design and planning a substantial project.This freshman level circuits class has been designed to give this hands on experience that hasbeen found lacking. Students who complete this class will have had exposure to simple design

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Stephen G Ritchie; Carlos C. Sun

schedules of trafficengineering professionals. There are several possibilities for improving coordination. First, moreeffort can be expended on planning the course and the development of a course packet instead ofusing separate handouts for each sub-topic. Another possibility is to make such topics moreindependent so that they could be re-scheduled based on professional work schedules.AcknowledgementThe authors want to thank Mr. Brian Gallagher and ATSAC staff from the City of Los Angeles,Mr. John Thai, and Mr. Yochan Baba and the Anaheim TMC. The authors also thank Dr. WilfredRecker for his contributions to the course.References1. Lipinski, M.E., and Wilson, E.M. Undergraduate Transportation Education - Who Is Responsible. ITE Journal

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Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

later, a team of students is working on a senior capstone design project that isconcerned with the weather conditions and possible ice damage on the nearby Mohawk River.Some of the team members had worked on the original weather station and suggested that it beincorporated into the current project. Their portfolio documentation on the original project willbe helpful in reviewing and planning this new use of the original project. Page 5.494.3Portfolios as a Record of AchievementOne of the student projects in the First-Year Design Course was to design and build a woodenpedestrian bridge to improve a nature trail in a local city park [Wolfe, 1999

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Sally J. Steadman; Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman

, issignificantly strengthened when coupled with cooperative learning techniques, ensuring morefrequent interaction between students. Anecdotal reports from students in Power Groups indicatethat they develop study groups on their own and jointly plan common schedules for the springsemester. Clustering, through the use of Power Groups, has indeed proven to be an effectivemechanism to increase student retention in engineering and is an extremely successful strategyfor improving individual student academic success.Bibliography1 Landis, Raymond, “Building Collaborative Learning Communities,” Proceedings ASEE Conference, 1990 pp. 1204- 1208.2 Steadman, Sally J, Bruce R. Dewey, and David L. Whitman, “Power Groups for Engineering Students”,Proceedings WEPAN

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2000 Annual Conference

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Pedro E. Arce

my learning practices) the “ColloquialApproach” (Arce, 1994a) plays a very important role in the promotion of active Page 5.501.1learning environments. Within this style of teaching, the identification of“Principal Objects of Knowledge”, or POK’s is an important aspect of activatingthe knowledge already built in the students’ minds. These objects are part of astructure of a given lesson plan that allow the students to build up more blocks ofknowledge based on what they already know. The students can achieve this byadding elements to their present knowledge with the help of carefully coachedapproach. The POK’s are usually an intermediate part of an

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Stephanie Weitemeyer; Stephanie Draeger; Rebecca Morrison; Lehang Huynh; Ashok K. Goel; Sarah Bergstrom; Jami Meteer; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha Sloan

. Their opin-ions of the program continued to be high. Almost all participants felt that this undergraduateresearch experience had greatly enhanced their overall education. Most of these REU stu-dents had accepted or were looking for industrial research positions or were planning toattend graduate schools. Page 5.529.5 Session 3592V. AcknowledgmentsThis work is based on research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundationunder Grant no. EEC-9619646. The support provided by the Michigan TechnologicalUniversity is also acknowledged. The authors

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Hakan Gurocak

used as theproject in ME 316. This product met all of the constraints above and proved to be fun andchallenging, yet it was not overwhelming for the junior students. In the following sections,details of this project as well as an approach developed to assess the contribution of anindividual student to the project while working as a team member will be explained. But first,the course content will be briefly reviewed.Course ContentME 316 Systems Design is a three semester-credit course introducing the engineering designand decision making process. The main topics are: • Technical writing and oral presentation, • Introduction to design process, • Design process terminology, • Reverse engineering, • Design process and planning

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Mohammad H. Alimi; Howard B. Wilson

$42,000 after taxes. The couple expects their yearly income, saving, and spending to grow 1% over inflation throughout the next sixty years. They plan to put $3000 yearly in a Roth IRA devoted to an S&P 500 Index fund which earned an average return of 18.6% yearly over the last 10 years. If a conservative return of 10% is anticipated during 40 working years and 20 retirement years, what pension amount can be expected at time of retirement? Take s = 3, R = 10, A = 5, I = 4, t1 = 40, t 2 = 20. This leads to r = 6, a = 1, u = 5 so that p = 3(e (.05 )( 40 ) − 1) /(1 − e − (.05 )( 20 ) ) = $30.322 thousand per year. Since the investment growth will exceed inflation by 1%, the pension value at retirement will be (30.322)(e (.01

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James A. Reising

surveys given to both students and faculty involved in the new courses indicated thatboth groups viewed this new strategy positively.Combining lecture with short laboratory exercises reinforcing the lecture material is apparentlythe most effective aspect of the new courses. (The courses replaced by the new courses not onlyhad separate lecture and laboratory sessions, but the lecture and lab were usually taught bydifferent individuals and did not necessarily cover the same topic in the same week.) The newcourses will be used as the sophomore circuits sequence in the 1999-2000 academic year.Current departmental plans are to retain the new courses as the standard sophomore circuitssequence replacing the former sophomore circuits sequence, so they

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Brandon Ian Reed

only be achieved by exposing and exciting its students to coretechnologies during their formative years.There are very few schools in South Africa that have access to these sorts of facilities yetthere is an inherent expectation that when school leavers enter the market place that they arecompetent in these areas. The South African Government identified Technology as one of theeight basic learning areas in its plan for their new curriculum framework, Curriculum 2005[1, 2]. However, in an environment of ever shrinking resources, schools are struggling tosuccessfully accomplish this when the cost of introducing this technology is often more thantheir annual budget.It is often the tertiary educational institutions that have made the significant

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Harry L. Hess

Engineering (RE) Introduction Plus Yes Single Point Machining 2 Metallic / Plastics Welding 3 Organization of the Enterprise Yes 4 Engineering Economics, RE Project Yes Approved and CNC Programming 5 Metallic and Plastics Casting 6 Manufacturing Engineering Yes 7 Gantt, CPM and PERT Planning Yes 8 Mid-term Exam 9 Plastics Processing 10 Materials and Labor Costs Plus Bill of Yes Materials 11 Hot and Cold Forming 12 Materials Handling and RE Presentation Yes Techniques 13 Materials Packaging and Multi Point

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Gouranga Banik

Third PriorityFall Protection 46 8 14Excavation 14 8 14Electrical 8 14 8Safety Planning 8 8 14Recognize Hazards 14 8 0OSHA-General 8 0 8Subcontractor Safety 0 14 8Accident Costs 0 8 14Handling 0 14 0Compensation Costs

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Harry W. Blackwell; Charles N Eastlake

CER’sSeveral other adaptations were also made. Probably the most important is that a multiplyingfactor was included to allow the user to adjust costs for the changes in the consumer price indexrelative to the base year represented by the equations. A bar chart illustrating CPI trends over thelast several decades are presented in class so that students can get a feel for the unpredictabilityof this trend out into the planned lifetime of their design. Another change was a deviation fromstandard wisdom in Air Force Systems Command handbooks in applying the “learning curve” orquantity discount factor to account for the effect of production quantity on the price of each unit.An 80% learning curve is widely used. This means that each time the total number

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How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven LeBlanc

essential thatdocumentation be kept about what was discussed, what was changed, why it was changed, andhow the constituents were involved in the change process. One interesting assessment tool that Iobserved on a visit was the use of Course Summaries. At the end of each term, each facultymember prepares a Course Summary for the course(s) they have just completed teaching. In thesummary, they addressed things that went well in the course, things that didn’t go as planned andthat they would change the next time, as well as any deficiencies noted in the students'preparation from the prerequisite courses that feed into their particular course. These summaries

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

well as business enterprise issues, beyond technology, which ultimatelydriving product design decisions.These aspects of design were considered in the original planning and implementation of the 3-semester-hour course [2], formally titled ‘Aluminum Based Product Design and Manufacturing.’This has been offered annually since 1995 to entering graduate students and to senior mechanicalengineering students as a technical elective. Owing to the applied nature of the course and theoffering of a fresh industry-generated project each time, the course has been popular especiallywith students that are looking for learning experiences with industrial relevance. This typicallyincludes graduating seniors and graduate students that have gone directly to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dennis Stevenson

Engineering Education Annual Conference © 2002 ASEEThird, the instructor grades the file.Grader4 checks both the absolute answer against a key, and also investigates the integrity of thelogical model underlying the solution. In this case, Grader4 has determined that both the answerand model for the annual payments are “OK.” However, it has detected that the answer and modelare “Suspect” for the other plan. The error in the model logic is reported in termsof the data itemsthat appear to be handled improperly. Here, the “P” and “i%” values are both “Suspect.” Thisindicates that the incorrect expression (or series of expressions) use these two data items. Otherpossible reported errors include “Missing effect” and “Unexpected effect.”Grader4 also

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zachariah Chambers; Clark Merkel

pitfalls for projects with students at this level of development is that they tendto get focused on planning and building on one idea too quickly. They don’t alwaysexplore other options thoroughly and seem to be more interested in the hands-on buildingof the project rather than on the modeling and analysis of it. It's as if the building of theproject is an end in itself. This type of behavior underplays the more important role ofthe design steps in the project. After all, the design process is the real reason we aredoing the project in the first place.One reason to expand a regular design project to a competitive poster project is to putmore of the focus back on the design process. By incorporating the poster presentation asa well-defined and

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jean Paradis

Education, Halifax, Nova Scotia : Dalhousie University, 1998, p. 633-640 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.107.7 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationJEAN PARADISAfter a career in the construction industry as a project manager and estimator, Jean Paradis is now a projectmanagement professor in the construction engineering department of l’École de technologie supérieure del’Université du Québec. He teaches courses in planning and control, estimating and project management. His mainresearch interests are in the use of the

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ed McCaul; Alfred Soboyejo; Robert J. Gustafson

stay technically andprofessional current.References1. Gustafson, R. & Merrill, J. 2000. Developing an Outcomes Assessment Survey for Seniors, Alumni and Managers/Supervisors. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 18-21, St. Louis, MO.2. Gustafson, R., Castro, J. & Hussen, P. 2001. Alumni Perceptions of the Graduate Needs in Business and Finance. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 24-27, Albuquerque, NM.3. Soboyejo, A.B.O. 2001. “Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Analysis, Planning and Design” Teaching Manual, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.4. Soboyejo, A.B.O. & Gustafson, R. J. 2002. Statistical Modeling of Data from Lifelong Learning

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Venkataramanan Mandakolathur; Malur Srinivasan

graduate research carried out by the second author under thesupervision of the primary author. Two undergraduate students observed the research work atregular intervals and gained valuable information on nanostructured ceramics and theirprocessing for the preservation of the fine-scale structure. The primary author teaches bothsenior-level undergraduate and graduate courses in materials science and plans to include thetopic of this research in the updated versions of the courses.Bibliographic Information: 1. G.E. Korth and R.L. Williams, “Dynamic consolidation of metastable nanocrystalline powders”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, vol. 26A, 1995, p.2571 2. M. Greneche, “Interfaces, surfaces and grain boundaries in

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barbara Christe

available on campus. Each category receives a total score and an overall scoreis obtained using all responses (un-weighted). Departments receive these scores and faculty maybe ranked within the department using the sub scores or the overall score. Dossiers also mustcontain the score for each course taught for the previous three years.III. Development of Meaningful StatementsAs an instructor of Internet based courses, delivered asynchronously, several problems quicklyemerged. The first challenge: how to get the forms to the students? The traditional form was notavailable electronically and so it was decided to mail the surveys to the students. Dismal returnrates indicated this plan would not work.The second challenge was not nearly as

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Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Roth

first and second year women students is planned forspring 2002.It is important to reinforce that the FLRR position is to serve as a coordinator and a facilitator.The FLRR maintains a full teaching load and a research program and is not responsible fororganizing recruitment or retention activities. It is easy for the FLRR to become involved inthese activities (beyond the requirements of the position) and this tendency must be steadilyresisted by the FLRR. Also, the FLRR is a member of an engineering department, and it ispossible that there may be issues related to faculty or students in which the FLRR mustcircumvent his/her department head to achieve a successful resolution to the problem. Thedepartment head must be aware of the requirements and

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

Knowledge General Knowledge Continuous Learning Quality Orientation Initiative Innovation Cultural Adaptability Communication Teamwork Integrity Analysis & Judgment Planning Professional Impact Customer Focus.Definitions for each of these ISU Competencies, specific to Iowa State University’s and theCollege of Engineering’s vision and missions, were then created. Each definition was designedto be clear, concise and independent of all others. Specific to each definition is a set ofobservable and measurable key actions that a student may take that demonstrates theirdevelopment

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Christianson; Paul King

acquired in earlier coursework and incorporating engineering standardsand realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic;environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political.”That biomedical engineering design work would involve health aspects is obvious, to include theseveral aspects involving safety and the potential for liability requires some planned activities interms of lecture content and student exercises. These activities, as performed in the senior designcourse at Vanderbilt University1,2 are outlined in this paper.Some of the methods employed include more traditional statistics, case studies and special topiclectures. An innovative approach that has proved

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Randy Lewis

audience.These assessments will demonstrate how well team members can relay information to be utilizedby others and how well audience members understand what is being presented.Conclusion. The first competition went very well although some safety and environmentalissues need to be addressed as discussed above. Excitement is high among the students for theSpring 2002 competition. Currently, 11 teams from both courses (3 students from each class) areparticipating in the Spring 2002 ChemE-Car-Competition. In addition to the students, the facultymembers are very enthused about the event. Additional plans for the Spring 2002 competitioninclude having the Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC) members cometo Oklahoma State University during

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2001 Annual Conference

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wilson ruggiero; regina silveira; itana stiubiener

we can not see and feel the reactions of our students, the problem ofmaintaining he/she attention becomes strongly bigger.One possible solution to resolve this problem is the employ of multimedia elements in Webcourses as an enriching and improving agents in this process. When we use elements suchas video, audio, pictures, animations, etc in a logical disposition during the course we caninduce he/she interest and attention and also induce he/she action of searching relevantinformation that is logical distributed among the course. In fact to produce a course usingmultimedia elements we have the same process of producing a theater script, when at eachinstant the scriptwriter must plan every elements that are appearing to the spectator.When