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Murali Krishnamurthi

careers, and 84% indicatedthat the assignments and discussions were sufficient to exercise the concepts on ethics covered inthe course. Students’ written comments indicated that the course activities raised their awarenessof ethical issues in modeling, the need for modelers to exercise professional responsibility, andhow tactfully one may have to resolve ethical dilemmas in real-life situations.The experiences gained from this effort can be summarized in the form of the followingrecommendations for those interested in integrating ethics into their modeling courses:1. It is necessary to plan ahead to integrate ethics into a modeling course without sacrificing course topics, design course activities that highlight ethical considerations, and

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Michael Tarnowski; Sara Wadia-Fascetti

motivational objectives. Additionally, faculty who teach the same students inlater years have noticed a marked improvement in student writing abilities. The laboratorycourse provides students with marketable skills in communication, teamwork, and with computerapplications. Furthermore, the new laboratory curricula helps them in the theory-based course.Future plans for the laboratory include the integration of data acquisition methods.SARA WADIA-FASCETTI is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University where she isactively involved in a research program on structural condition assessment. She completed a B.S. in CivilEngineering at Carnegie Mellon and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering at Stanford University

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Eldon D. Case

behaviors for houseguests. Carrying throughwith the same logic, the guest might walk around the host’s home, asking the price of variousitems. “Fifty dollars? Well that is a bit expensive... Fifteen dollars, not too expensive! I thinkI’ll steal it”. Such a person might show up at Bill Gate’s home with a semi-truck and a movingcrew, since for Bill, most household items would be inexpensive.The third “ethics” meeting of the MSM 885 class was held at the request of the class. In fact, wewere obliged to arrange for another time and classroom for the third ethics session, since onlytwo case study discussions had been planned, and my colleague, who taught the “regular” part ofthe seminar course needed all of the remaining class meetings to finish the

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Sohail Anwar

Pennsylvania State University, the SETCE Head has had theauthority to enter into this collaboration. Also, both the French Government and thePennsylvania State University recognize the importance of international collaborations.3. Continuous Evaluations - Assessments are conducted immediately after each activity andthe planning for the next activity is carried out while the results of the previous activity are stillfresh in everyone’s mind. OBSTACLES1. The Penn State students who obtain industrial placements in France get paid for workingin industry. The IUT Bethune students who get industrial placements in the USA usually do notget paid for their work. The industrial internship is an unpaid

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D. Raj Raman

. While it may have been possible to coverthis material in the 15 weeks available, covering material and teaching students are notsynonymous. The mid-term exam bore this out clearly; until that point the course had beenmoving according to plan. But the midterm results were dismal (57% average), and stronglyindicative of a failure on my part to adequately explain the fundamentals of mass and energybalances. A two week period after the mid-term was spent carefully reviewing thesefundamentals, and the course contents were reduced to allow slower, more considered coverageof the remaining material.Student performance ranged from excellent to poor, with two students making A’s, one making aD, and an average grade of 3.1/4.0. Student evaluations of the

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

have been devoted to plans, achievements, problems, and experiences of various coali-tions and/or coalition member institutions. The results and experiences of these coalitions shouldprovide guidance for change and the process of change.Factor 24: Curriculum emphasis and nressuresThe future of engineering education will include fewer hours (many state legislatures havealready decreed a set number of hours, generally fewer than in unregulated engineering curricula,for curricula in state-supported schools). University core curricula committees are demandingmore and more hours in existing curricula; engineering curricula problems are not viewed withmuch sympathy by most of the university community. See also the discussion for Factors 3 and9

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Carol Richardson

pp. 7-156 It appears that many of the peaks in attrition in Table #2 occur whenadministrative reorganization at RIT has been implemented. The attrition rates for CASTwhich houses all of the engineering technology programs have decreased each year withexception of 1995. In 1995, CAST eliminated three large schools in CAST and moved allfunctions of the schools either down into the departments or up to the College toeliminate staff to provide funding for the new RIT strategic plan initiatives. The schoolseliminated were the School of Engineering Technology, the School of Computer Scienceand Information Technology, and the School of Food, Hotel, and Travel Managementwhose programs enroll the majority of the CAST students. Table 2 shows

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the last 10 years, nearly two-thirds of all public institutions have received less statefunding. In the same period, however, nearly eight in 10 colleges have increased their overallenrollment12. This means that the potential for minorities to get lost in the institutional mazecould be compounded due to the stretching of resources. MEPs across the nation should haveassessment plans that demonstrate their value to the overall success of students. Each shouldhave specific achievable goals by which to measure success. MEPs must have a strong sense ofidentity as to what they bring to an educational institution from mapping the national and stategoals to aligning with the university goals for quality education. MEPs must be able to provethat they

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Kenneth Belanus; John Hartin

thecomponents are not made due to the inability of the existing laboratory equipment to provideaccurately controlled excitation of the structure. It is being planned as a future improvement to Page 2.127.6extract mode shape data from four channel data for comparison to the analytical predictions.Conclusions The total experience requires the use of the computer, both as an experimental tool, toacquire and manipulate data, and as an analytical tool to analyze large quantities of data and toconduct sophisticated matrix analysis of structures. Some conclusions to be made concerning theoutcome of the effort. 1. The usefulness of a frequency

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

session to generate new ideas to solve the problems posed.Each student design team presented an oral and written proposal for their chosen approach. Theapproved proposal was then developed into an implementation plan. Each stage of the projectwas evaluated by the group and their professor through the use of project review sessions,progress memos, and individual journals.12 Page 2.134.5One requirement for each team was to develop tests for selected aspects of their proposeddesigns. We believe that this is another essential component in developing our students’ designskills by presenting them with opportunities to design experiments in support of

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T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

PRIDE will maximize the likelihood of inclusion at various levels into different typesof curriculums. Finally, PRIDE presents a general curricular structure useful to many areas of researchand education.References 1. Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, “Optoelectronics Technology Road Map: Con- elusions and Recommendations,” (1994). 2. National Research Council, “Photonics: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Information Era,” Na- tional Academic Press, (1988). 3. Critical Technologies Plan, Report AD-A234 900, Department of Defense, submitted to Committee on Armed Services, US Congress, (1991). 4. Guide to Optics Courses and Programs in North American Colleges and Universities, published annually by

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Richard Ciocci

cleanliness of the surroundings, where their effects on theperformance and the reliability of the product are of primary concern. As important as the use environmentis to the performance of the product, the manufacture and the use of the product are important to the globalenvironment. All product and process materials come from and eventually return to the environment, suchthat the residual effects are critical to global well-being. The main drivers for environmental consideration activities can be divided into those that are internalto the organization and those that are external. Internal drivers are those that result from conscious businesspolicies, such as environmental stewardship, and from an employee- or community-oriented business plan

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Samuel P. Clemence; Daniel J. McGinley

innovative approach to include these important subjects in the engineering curriculum Page 2.268.7prepares engineers for their future. IPP programs address the proposed accreditation criteriafrom ABET, the education action plans of professional societies like NSPE and ASCE, and the“visioning” of ACEC. Being exposed to this information during the formative stage of anengineering career is undeniably necessary. Now is the time for engineering professionals to“plant trees under which they may never sit.”Endnotes1 ABET (1996), Engineering Criteria 2000, December 1995, Criteria for Accrediting Programs inEngineering in the United States approved for a two

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Michael J. Brandemuehl; Lawrence E. Carlson

various building-as-lab features can be grouped into four main levels of complexity;details are given in the body of the paper:ExposureShowing, through example, the various engineering systems required to make a buildingfunction. Virtually everything required to make the building function is exposed andincorporated as design elements.MeasurementSensors permeate the ITLL facility to allow real-time monitoring of the “pulse” of thebuilding, including air flow and temperature, structural strain, electrical demand, soilmoisture and temperature, etc. These data are available in real time on workstationslocated in gallery spaces, and long range plans call for the data from these sensors to becontinuously monitored and posted on the ITL Internet page

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T.R. Hsu; P. Reischl; P. Hsu; J.C. Wang; F. Barez; B.J. Furman

Control System Applications Implementation of basic control algorithms for process control.Week 12-Intelligent Control Application Compare conventional control with intelligent control.ME 190 Laboratory ExperimentsWeek Project Purpose1 Motion Control Industry guest speaker on motors and motion control. Selection of motion control projects, torque calculation and determination, motor selection and static and dynamic characterization.2 Mechanical Drive Selection of mechanical drive system, motion specification and System motion planning, modeling of the motion control system.3 Motion Control

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Gregory M. Dick

Toward the FutureThis project was instituted in 1993 when effective and robust commercial tools to supportautomated account and disk file maintenance did not exist. The only solution was custom-builttools. The University is now planning for the next major step forward in the development of itscomputing environment. This initiative will include the merging of student and facultycomputing into a shared environment in which all lab software will be available at facultydesktops. Many details concerning this project have not yet been determined, but it is apparentthat commercial tools to support automated management are available and continue to improve.Both Netware and Windows NT, the prime candidates for the network operating system, includetools

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

. Students build on theirproblem solving skills presented in the previous semester and employ the 5 step heuristicpresented by Fogler and LeBlanc [7]. Starting from the question, “What is not green about acoffee machine?” The students define several problem areas such as power consumption,materials of construction, waste reduction, materials recycling and reuse. This was followed byresearch to gather more information and then a brainstorming session ensued to generate newideas to solve these problems. A solution was selected by groups of 4 or 5 students and theypresented an oral and written proposal. This proposal was approved by the instructor and thegroup developed an implementation plan to carry-out their design project. Evaluation at eachstage

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Tamie Veith; John E. Kobza; Mario G. Beruvides; C. Patrick Koelling

noticea size difference in the resulting cast members.Photos should be well-planned; taken with concern for using minimal colors while retaining thecontent-specific intent for including the photos. The relevance of each photo to specific contentof the Shockwave movie is important because of the contribution of each picture to the total sizeof the movie. Downloading time for a movie is proportional to the number of photos in thatmovie.Text cast members are smaller and much easier to work with if saved in rich text format (RTF)and not as bitmaps. All of the text in the multimedia system were created as bitmaps. But aseach text cast member is fairly small, individual size increases were minimal.Using Shockwave in a Lab SettingAs discussed in the

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Wade C. Driscoll

. Parametric case studiesameliorate this disadvantage of traditional case studies while retaining their merits in helping toachieve the outcomes given in Engineering Criteria 2000.3. Parametric Case StudiesThe text of the Outboard Boat Case Study which follows this paragraph illustrates the principles ofparametric case studies. Bold and italic type emphasizes those problem parameters which changefrom one student to another. Outboard Boat Company Version 1 The Outboard Boat Company manufactures motorboats. The company needs a production plan for the year for its Spring Valley, Tennessee plant. Demands by month are given in the following table. Month

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David R. Haws

; Sherman, J. G. (1974). PSI: The Keller Plan handbook. Menlo Park, CA: W.A. Benjamin, Inc.Sherman, J. G. (1992). Reflections on PSI: Good news and bad. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 59-64.Washburne, C. W., (1922). Educational measurement as a key to individual instruction and promotion. Journal ofEducational Research, 5, 195-206.Biographical InformationDAVID HAWS received undergraduate degrees in English (University of California at Berkeley) and CivilEngineering (University of Utah), and completed master’s and doctorate in Civil Engineering at Brigham YoungUniversity. He has completed post-doctorate course work in adult education, and instructional and performancetechnology, and is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Boise

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William E. Cole

use of reinforced learning, willresult where students progressively learn based on the foundations provided by the lower levelcourses and repetitively used in the upper level courses.Though Northeastern University has no explicit plans to restructure its curriculum along theselines, it is the authors vision to try to work toward this approach to education. This program willbuild on the basic graphics taught in the freshman year. The basic building block is the threedimensional solid computer model. Under this vision, facilities for rapid prototyping, propertiesanalysis, finite element analysis, and kinetic analysis of the computer model will all be available.These tools for analysis can then be used in the basic engineering technology courses

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Greg Hilker; Fred Jenkins; David Westine

Session 1633 WIND ENERGY ROTOR SPEED CONTROL David Westine, Greg Hilker, Fred Jenkins Montana Tech / Ball Aerospace / ASiMIA grant involving the Department of Energy, the Montana Science and Technology Alliance, theMontana University System, and industry support from the Montana Power Corporation hasfunded construction of a wind energy test bed at the Rice Ridge Renewable Energy Park. Twosmall wind machines were planned for the initial phase of the Rice Ridge site shown in Figure 1.Located near Norris, MT which is approximately half way between Butte (Montana Tech) andBozeman

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Martha A. Centeno; Julie A. Jacko; Marc L. Resnck; Marcia Groh-Hammond; Seth Berkowitz; Amanda M. Mitskevich; Janet Parker; John Schmidt

equipment.From the start, all projects done by the students would in one way or another become a part oftheir regular curriculum. In our program of study, students must do a total of five industryprojects. Projects done under the auspices of the A.R.I.S.E. are considered as projects for one ortwo of the required courses. The contents of the project are assessed to make a match to one offive courses: Work Design, Human Factors, Project Management, Facilities Planning andMaterial Handling, and Senior Design. In cases were the project falls outside the scope of thesecourses, a consideration is given as to whether it may be counted as an elective independentstudy, with additional requirements. Students are paired in teams of two to work on selectedprojects

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Eric Connell; David L. Batie

the investigation for such programs in their curricula. This research presents thedevelopment strategies created to instigate an Internet Design/Build class for the two schools. Thepaper relates the positive and negative components confronted during the development andimplementation of the overall class. Using available computer information technology resources,such as NetMeeting and MIRC32, the Design/Build class approach of study emphasizes themanagement of design, construction, planning, finance, and marketing, as well the absolute need forcommunication between the team members. Rather than face the traditional confrontation of theparties, this class is intended to strengthen the professional bonds, complementing each partners’strengths

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William M. Maalouf; Fazil Najafi

will work if team members are self-disciplined and when they solve the problemin the class, they should be able to create interaction with students and be able to demonstrateall issues related to the assigned problem. The instructor must also participate in the processto improve the class understanding of the problem and he/she must dramatize key points inthe problem to stimulate student interest.Todd plan was to answer questions related to homework and lecture on the new material. Hethen formed teams of three or four students in the classroom and assigned a problem for thestudents to work on until the end of the class period 1. This method is interesting as long asboth instructor and the graduate assistant are working and observing team

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W. F. Walker; S. MacGuire; L. D. Benefield; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

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A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

Internet course organization is that only a minimal amount ofwhiteboard writing is required, even though the technical content is quite detailed. Thissignificantly eases the video load, such that students can focus on absorbing knowledge in a multi-media presentation framework. The longer-term plans are to extend this development to ourgraduate course compliment in computational mechanics. Accomplishing this will not only servethe local graduate student population, but also will readily support on-site professional trainingappropriately piped to remote industrial locations on an as-needed basis. The opportunity for trueinternational collaboration in preparation of cutting edge lecture courses will also become enabledvia this

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Russel C. Jones

is valuable.Outcomes assessment appears to be growing as a desirable measure, replacing detailedcurriculum specifications.In graduate education, practice oriented masters degree programs for engineers were seenas growing in popularity as the “first professional degree”. Traditional MS and Ph.D.paths were still seen as valuable for those planning to enter R&D, teaching, or advancedtechnical practice.Offering of continuing education programs was seen as a responsibility and opportunityfor engineering schools, along with offerings from industry, societies, and commercialsources. It was observed that engineering schools need to involve faculty members whounderstand current industry requirements, and who can teach at the current state of

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Peter Rosati

Indicator” Palo Alto CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 198510. McCaulley, M., "The MBTI and individual pathways in engineering design", Eng.Ed., Vol. 80, No. 5, 1990, pp. 537-542.PETER ROSATIPeter Rosati is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of WesternOntario. He has engineering degrees from Oxford and Western and an education degree from the University ofWest Virginia. His research in engineering education has zfocussed on personalizing the large enrolment courses,beginning with a Keller plan course in Dynamics. He is currently researching student learning styles and academicperformance in relation to MBTI personality type

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William B. Perry; Victor Barocas; David E. Clough

programmingand students who worked the modules will be better prepared for CHEN 4580. As the modulesprogram matures, we expect more complete incorporation into the classes.Finally, introducing students to computational methods in a curriculum-wide plan such as this isnot a task that is restricted to chemical engineering. The programming module concept would beapplicable to any engineering curriculum. In fact, implementing computational methods intocourses throughout the curriculum may be the best way to teach this topic to engineeringstudents. After all, computational methods are tools to be used with other subjects—would it notbe best to teach them in the same way they will be used? With enough background information,these modules could potentially