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Boris Butman

management strategy and procedures for implementation of the project at a shipyard or a similar production facility including a project plan, a work breakdown, a network diagram and a computerized schedule, and optimal workforce distribution - design of modernization and/or improvement proposals intended for ship construction or repair including justification of the proposals, necessary design calculations to support the intended design, preparing supporting diagrams, drawings, charts, etc. Page 4.372.7 - design of production processes for selected items including development of production procedures with flow charts

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

toU.S. electronics manufacturers in the highly competitive world of the 90s. Page 4.23.1The field of electronic manufacturing is a multi-disciplinary area that encompasses severaltechnologies from electrical, materials, industrial, chemical, and computer engineering. Forexample, circuit analysis, electronics, automation, thermal sciences, physics, chemistry, materialproperties, CAD/CAM, software engineering, and production planning are necessary for studentsto learn the latest techniques in computer and DSP technologies. It is our belief that the growingelectronic manufacturing industry will demand increasingly large numbers of engineers who

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David A. Sabatini

required me to consider alternate funding optionswhile I was waiting to hear. Roughly one out of ten applicants is funded by a GermanFulbright award.I was very fortunate that our German host looked for housing for us ahead of time. Heidentified university housing for visiting professors. This proved to be ideal for us because itwas convenient to campus and shopping and because it was completely furnished. While theapartment was quite a bit smaller than our house in Norman (~ 1/3 of the size) and the rentwas quite a bit more than for similar housing in Norman (~ twice), the rent was less than itwould have been on the open market.Schooling for our children was a major issue. All along we planned to put our children (ages6 and 8) in German schools

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E. J. Mastascusa; Brian Holt

texture permits those colors to stand out so that the importance and function of a particular word or phrase can be coded into the color and style of the text.♦ The background is generated from a small bitmap used repetitively as a ToolBook resource. That permits one small bitmap to generate a larger background, and keeps the file size smaller when the book is stored.Summary At this point the control systems lessons have been used in the fall of 1998 for thecourse taught within electrical engineering. Other lesson packages are planned or beingproduced for courses in Introductory EE, Basic Circuits and Linear Systems. The Page

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S. Mouring; S. Brown; P. Mead; M. Natishan; I. Goswami; C. Lathan; Linda Schmidt

the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics and Engineering,” Ed. D. V. Rosser, Teacher College Press, Columbia University, New York, 1995, 25-42.[Seve97] Severiens, S. and G. T. Dam, “Gender and Gender Identity Differences in Learning Styles,” Educational Psychology, 17:(1,2):79-93 (1997).[SME97] SME, Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report. Industry Identifies Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates, SME, 1997.[Wank93] Wankat, P. C., and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993. Page 4.106.8 Table

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Said Shakerin; Daniel Jensen

. Specifics of their use are presented in reference 13.Specific courses, at the University of the Pacific, affected by this project are presentednext. Since these courses are offered in different semesters, there is no problem withequipment use overload. The experiments designed for this work are outlined in theAppendix. The instructor can choose one or two experiments as appropriate for a givencourse.III. Impact of the ProjectFour courses, Mechanics of Materials, Machine Design, Instrumentation andExperimental Methods (all required), and the Finite Element Method (elective) have beenimproved through integration of carefully planned experiments and student projects instress analysis. The equipment has also been used at occasions when faculty

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Erol Inelmen

not been implemeted as yet. To our knowledge only Drexel University can be shown as ashowcase, where integration is high in the agenda of the administrations’ strategic plans. Basedon the above mentioned recommendations, the author tries to present here the experience gainedwhile implemented in his courses an "integrative approach" to engineering education.II. Needs For Education Reform in EngineeringChanges in education are needed to cope with the pressure emerging from the new technological,economical and social developments. Educational methods applying the traditional disciplinaryboundaries are not adequate anymore to solve the industrial expectations of today 2. Althoughuniversities -in order to cope with these changes- have created

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Gopal Mohan; J. Michael Jacob

• H bridge • Buck regulator • Boost regulator • High speed op-amp compensation • Common emitter amplifier design verification • LC oscillatorsStudents use circuit simulation to design and layout printed circuit boards to fabricate in theElectronic System Fabrication (EET 296) course in the second semester of the sophomore year.This course introduces project planning and basic concepts in electronic design automation(EDA). The students develop a project from an engineering rough sketch to a printed circuit byutilization of EDA (PSpice). MicroSim “PCBoards” is used. The project training involvesanalog, digital, and mixed signal circuit ideas. Circuit performance is

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Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

student design team), and ozone disinfection of apples for cider production.Clients for these projects included university planning committees, local companies, zoningcommissions, and researchers in food science and horticulture. Most of the student designs arenow in the process of being built or implemented. The interactions between client and class aredescribed and updates on the status of the projects are presented.I. IntroductionStudent design projects that are real and relevant and that can be conducted with the input frompracticing professionals are desirable in engineering education.12 The first two steps in thequality function deployment (QFD) design methodology, as described in Ullman11, are to identifythe customer and determine the

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

, and NSF support The curriculum presented to middle schoolrecognition. teachers and counselors as well received. There were concerns on part of faculty about our ability to teachTEACHER PERCEPTIONS middle school teachers and counselors and our ability to explain the technical subject matter. In some At the end of first week, participants filled sessions, some faculty had to reach out for additionalout an evaluation form for each and every class things to do beyond what was planned. Since

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Howard A. Smolleck; Nadipuram Prasad; Barbara Powell; Bhargava Jayanti; Shakir Manshad; Sashadry Divakaria; Paul Arellanes

languageBased upon the experience of the authors as described above, the original plan was to develop aninteractive, graphical program in the C language. That language had been chosen for the earlier,successful software 2-7 because of its extensive interactive and graphics-display capabilities. The firstmodule of the present series was actually begun in C. However, examination of recent multi-mediausage, and recently-acquired equipment to perform this kind of development, led to the use of theVisual C++ TM (rather than C++) language. Visual C++ has advantages over C in its ability tocreate programs which function in a very windows-like environment, including display of qualitystill-life graphics, animated graphical sequences with audio capability, and

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Robin Lovgren; M. Racer

important role within any environment considered by a mechanicalengineer. For instance, an engineer designing an HVAC system must be able to assess expecteddemands on a system. In order to determine the expected lifetime of an air conditioning system,for instance, the mechanical engineer must consider the uncertainties inherent in the weather aswell as personal usage preferences.Another example of the need for an evaluation of expected demands would be within the area ofpower generation. On a daily basis, the demand for power fluctuates constantly, as it does on aday-to-day and seasonal basis. The impact of inadequately planning for expected demands –and being unable to accommodate fluctuations – is significant. Overestimating power demandsresults

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Hakan B. Gürocak

is not possible to offer a digital control systems course at the undergraduatelevel. As a result the students either have to take such a course at the graduate level or, as isusually the case, they graduate without the digital control systems knowledge.The Manufacturing Engineering degree program at Washington State University in Vancouverrequires 128 credits for graduation. When the curriculum was designed a single control systemscourse was planned. There is no graduate program at the Vancouver campus and also there is nodigital control elective in the curriculum.This paper presents a hybrid analog/digital undergraduate control systems course with laboratoryexperiments. The course enables the students to learn the most fundamental theory of

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Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, RIABSTRACTA graphically-oriented MATLAB program written by the authors facilitates teaching real-world digital signalprocessing concepts such as quantization of digital filter coefficients that occur in fixed-point processors, forexample the widely used TMS320C5x. While many universities have or plan to buy the inexpensive floating-pointTMS320C31 DSKs for pedagogical reasons, this MATLAB program simulates certain fixed-point effects on thesefloating-point devices and eliminates the need to purchase expensive specialized software programs or extrahardware. The program described in this paper provides an interactive graphical user interface that communicatesdirectly with the DSK, and demonstrates in real-time how both coefficient quantization and

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

the end of a course. Thistype of standardized tests for physics (e.g., the Force Concept Inventory or Mechanics Baseline)tests are available (Mazur,1997)10. To date, a similar test for statics has not been found. (Ifsuch a test does not exist, we plan to develop one.) However, for now our discussions arelimited to students’ perceptions and observations.An analysis of results with respect to overall student GPA provides further insight into use ofthese strategies. For example, while the daily attention quizzes and team projects were not ashighly rated as some activities, they were perceived as more helpful by students with lower GPA(see Table 2 and Figure 1). A team project on a roof truss design also seem to show similartrend. The “+” signs

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Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

Curriculum Delivery. More informationon these Focus Areas, as well as the coalition itself, can be found on the Web athttp://www.succeed.vt.edu/ .The goal of the Technology-Based Curriculum Delivery (TBCD) focus team, the workingcommittee for this Focus Area, is to support the effective use of technology in enhancing thelearning and teaching environment in the coalition’s colleges of engineering. In preparation forachieving this goal, the TBCD focus team plans to offer a series of workshops targeted atintroducing various technologies and building skills in faculty members to facilitate technologyincorporation. In order to provide the appropriate training, at the appropriate level of expertise,the team must undertake an assessment to determine the

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Trevor Harding

promotion of excellence in teaching and thedevelopment of innovative teaching methodologies. In this role, the office is called uponto provide GSI training to much of the university, including the College of Engineering.Within the engineering program, the responsibilities of the CRLT consultants are to: • Design, plan and implement GSI orientation • Implement workshops for international GSIs • Provide sufficient training for graduate student mentors • Meet regularly with graduate student mentors to provide consultation, support and Page 4.558.7 resources • Provide consultation services to faculty within engineering • Serve as a

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Sadikin Djumin; James J. Mager; Jane M. Fraser

his master’s thesis.• We made a small, but significant, contribution to research in higher education.• The work will result (we plan) in a publication in a journal in higher education.In this paper we present information on what was involved in doing the project, the mathematicalmodel that we used, comments on what went well – and what didn’t, and our recommendations Page 4.542.1to others attempting to do such projects.2. What we didForecasting enrollments at Ohio State University (OSU) is a very important function performedby the Office of Enrollment Management. A large portion of the University’s budget derivesfrom tuition paid by students

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Edward Gehringer

"facilitating online activities such as locatingand using educational content." One of its goals is to allow content from multiple authors to beintegrated into a coherent whole. The WebAssign project plans to incorporate IMS metatagswhen this becomes feasible. At that point, our project will be able to add metatagsautomatically to material that would not necessarily be tagged by its authors, and thus enhancethe ability to locate specific kinds of content.There have been at least two other efforts to promote sharing of course materials over the Web.Steve Beaty 7 at Colorado State compiled a list of pointers to Web sites of courses in all areas ofcomputing at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~beaty/. This database currently containsabout 65 courses. More

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Emin Yilmaz

requiredthem to use their mathematics, machine design, computer programming, engineering analysis andreasoning, and dynamics knowledge.This paper conveys our experiences with the project, shares my experiences in how to guidestudents towards a common goal in a systems design course and how to lead them to finish theproject on time.II. IntroductionStudents in Mechanical Engineering Technology program at the University of Maryland EasternShore are required to take a senior level "ETME 475 - Mechanical Systems Design" course duringtheir last semester. This course is 3 credit hours. Two hours are used for lecture and two hours areused for laboratory. Depending on who is taking the course and the type of projects planned, either

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

Congress which aredistributed to all University and some segments of the Academic Community.The students are stimulated to assume more responsibilities and so they have to work hard toensure the good score for their works. They pass the day in the University taking classes, in theLabs, in the Libraries and they have after six in the evening to develop their researches and tostudy.Besides the project of "Scientific Introductory" the students also have other works of othersubjects to do.The Project that is the introducing of this new method was planned considering the followingaspects:• the Global Economy which has an incidence straight in Education, with the fall of theboundaries and the exchange of ideas, technologies and culture;• the new work

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Ronald H. Rockland

project lab that incorporates these steps are also discussed.IntroductionTechnical people do not think effectively in assembly or higher level programming languages,but rather in their native language. However, it is too easy for students taking an introductorymicroprocessor course to start programming first by thinking in a computer language, withoutany planning. This can lead to poor programming skills, as well as frustration with programmingin general.In a third year introductory course to microprocessors in the electrical engineering technologyprogram at NJIT, assembly language was introduced as a tool to understand the x86 structure. Inthe past students were given assignments to enhance their programming skills, and developedincreasingly

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Tava Lennon Olsen; Joyce Yen

introducedalongside one of its key application areas, namely statistics. This course is a pre-requisitefor our new course.Given the opportunity to design a new course, we wanted to increase the level of activeand cooperative learning in the classroom. Consequently, in planning the course in thesummer of 1998, we created lab activities intended to actively engage students in thelearning process. As mentioned above, research on student learning has shown thatstudents maintain information better when engaging in cooperative learning groups. Wehope that these activities will create a more enriching educational experience for ourstudents. The new course will be taught for the first time in winter 1999.3. Class Outline and Lab DesignIn the new course students

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Jeff Goldberg

they spent more time on course and that the material was more difficult than their predecessors had reported. Page 4.231.6V. Future WorkThe site is primarily a “flat” site and the major interactive portions are the spreadsheet models. Itis clear from the evaluations that we need to improve the students’ insights and ability to use thematerial outside of simple textbook type problems. Our plan is to augment the site with dynamicdemonstrations as well as online evaluation and testing of students. We are using funding from aGE Foundation Grant to finance augmentation of the site and we are developing dynamiclearning tools

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George W. Garrison; Garry D. Coleman

. 15].6. Blackboard, Inc. (1998). Blackboard CourseInfo. [Online]. Available:http://www.blackboard.net/ps_courseinfo.htm [1998, Dec. 15].GARRY D. COLEMANGarry D. Coleman is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Instituteand a Senior Associate of the Performance Center. Dr. Coleman is a registered professional engineer in Virginia. Inaddition to teaching and advising in the graduate engineering management distance education program, Dr. Colemanstudies how organizations use planning and measurement approaches to improve performance.GEORGE W. GARRISONGeorge W. Garrison is a Professor of both Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of TennesseeSpace Institute. Dr. Garrison's interest

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Lawrence H. Trachtman; David Ringholz; Carolyn M. Sommerich

and olderpeople is not only important, it also must be integrated with data for the general population.Therefore, the design process cannot be so reliant on personal experiences and insights of thedesigner, but rather must be based on input from people with varying needs and abilities. It isthis perspective that provided the basis for this course.BackgroundDuring the 1997-98 academic year, engineers and designers, faculty and researchers at NorthCarolina State University, planned and offered a new one semester course, entitled IntroductionTo Human-Centered Design. The course was designed to attract upper level undergraduates andgraduate students in design, engineering, psychology, textiles, and business with interest inlearning about

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

ASUcampus to attend and to participate in ECE 100, an introductory engineering assembly designclass, to tour the campus, and to participate in engineering and science labs. Students participatein workshops and panel discussions with ASU students, staff, and faculty on educational andcareer planning, admissions, and financial aid. Students attend leadership retreats, industry tours,Saturday Science Academies, participate in local, state, and national math and sciencecompetitions (such as MESA Day, Future Cities, and Science Olympiad). ASU engineeringstudents, referred to as MESA Liaisons, are assigned to each MESA school to work with theadvisors and students on projects, tutoring, and mentoring. Industry members offer partnershipswith MESA schools

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Alexander N. Cartwright

used thetechniques for choosing effective groups discussed by Hunkeller and Sharp12. In particular,students were assigned to groups in such a way as to make the groups as heterogeneous as Page 4.158.7possible. 7VI. AssessmentThe complete assessment of this technique is very difficult because of the small class enrollment.In addition, this style of course requires that the professor be completely prepared for lecture. Infact, the professor is opening himself/herself up for questions that they are not prepared todiscuss. It is planned to conduct a complete assessment of the next offering of

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William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

can be easily talked out of studying. (reverse scored)22. I get depressed sometimes and then there is no way to accomplish what I know I should be doing. (reverse scored)23. Things will probably go wrong for me sometime in the near future. (reverse scored)24. I keep changing my mind about my career goals. (reverse scored)25. I feel I will someday make a real contribution to the world if I work hard at it.26. There has been at least one instance in school where social activity impaired my academic performance. (reverse scored)27. I would like to graduate from college, but there are more important things in my life. (reverse scored)28. I plan well and I stick to my plans.Evaluation of Engineering ActivitiesThe students were asked to

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Gary P. Langenfeld; David Wells

Valuation of Lifelong Learning”; Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration; American Society for Engineering Education; Palm Springs; February 1999 2. “Shareholder Scoreboard”; Wall Street Journal; February 25, 1999 3. Steve Prough; “Training is Part of Your Job”; Frontiers in Education; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Phoenix; November 1998 4. Gustav Olling; Remarks from the Conference Co-Chair; Manufacturing Education for Excellence in the Global Economy, 2nd International Conference on Education in Manufacturing; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; San Diego; October 1998 5. Manufacturing Education Plan, Phase I Report: Industry Identifies Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering