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Gerard N. Foster

were read in prior years, but the most helpful ones, the ones cited in thebibliography, were more current and more advanced. At the initiation of this project, May 1999,Java was in version 1.2, which became known as Java 2. In this version, the library ofcomponents was expanded into what is called Swing components. Classes in this group havenew names. The class Button becomes JButton and so forth, although old classes and names aremaintained. Wishing to keep current, the author selected to learn Java 2. Another decision wasto learn the raw language and not use a Java editor. The author does not regret these decisions.However, the learning curve is steep especially if one does not know the basics of object-oriented programming.In some ways

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Donald N. Merino

”; Computerworld; Framingham; May 19, 1997.4. Hicks, Capt. Philip C. “What Are We Teaching Our Engineering Managers”; Capstone Project for MEM; 1998; pp. 331-340.5. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Educating Engineering Managers for the Future”; 1983 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings; pp. 794-798.6. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Engineering Management Education And Research”; 1984 IEEE; pp.341-342.7. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “The Emergence of Engineering Management Discipline”; 1986 ASEE Conference Proceedings; pp. 240-247.8. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Education for Leadership in Management of Engineering and Technology”; 1992 IEEE; pp. 78-83.9. Maglitta, Joseph. “Top 25 Techno MBA”; Computerworld; Framingham; Dec 4, 1995.10. Nystrom

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Ted D. Loso; Raj Desai; Michael E. Courbat

are, respectively, student evaluation, juried journal articles, bookspublished, peer evaluations and recipient of grants 6. The nearest category to the adoption ofinformation technology is a item called technology based projects. It placed dead last in a list of21 items evaluated.Clearly the question being asked shouldn’t be when this new technology will be adopted butwhy do you expect the faculty to adopt it at all? Any realistic analysis of the efforts required toutilize the world wide web in a university level course reveals it to be very time intensive.Activities including web page design, web document design, document conversion into HTMLformat, and file transfer times are all very time consuming 3,4,5. Without even anacknowledgment of

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Yosef Gavriel; Robert Broadwater

pertainingto the componentvirtual double v() must be overridden by each derived component class to calculate the voltagefor the componentvirtual double i() must be overridden by each derived component class to calculate the currentfor the component.The above code illustrates the use of base class pointers to manipulate derived class objects.Note that a new type of component may be defined and the code for solving the circuit,represented by the two while loops associated with the reverse and forward trace, does not needto be changed. This is illustrated in the next section. Figure 4: Class Inheritance Diagram for Project Component Voltage

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S. Hiranniah; N. W. Scott; B. J. Stone; M. A. Mannan

level 2 page defining phase angle. There is no need to access thispage from the top level (the recommended path) unless the definition is required. If afterexamining the page the definition is not clear there is a link to an animation program that shouldclarify matters. A static screen-shot from this program is shown in Figure 10. Again thebenefits of animation can only be appreciated by running the program.With so much to be gained from illustrating vibration by means of animations it is surprisingthat apparently there are very few examples on the WWW. This may be the result of a lack ofJava skills. Scott and Stone [7 - in these proceedings] have developed various Java shells forthe work described in this project and a detailed description of

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Osama Ettouney; James Stenger; Karen E. Schmahl; James Moller; Christine Noble

work from courses in the sequence and shows how the integrateddesign thread is implemented.3. Pre-Post Learning of Engineering Design - Design reports generated in the freshman course,Introduction to Engineering Design, are used as a pre-learning vehicle for determining first-yearstudents' understanding of the professional ways of knowing, reasoning, and problem solving.The design reports of first-year students are collected, evaluated and compared to the students’work in their capstone projects during the senior year. Results provide information about valueadded during the students’ time at Miami.Customer FeedbackThese methods solicit our customers’ feedback. Our primary customers are considered to beindustry, employers of students, and

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty; Harvey Wolfe

part of a larger research project, in which we are evaluating theinformation obtained when multiple methods are used on a cohort of industrial engineeringstudents who are being tracked from the beginning of their sophomore year until graduation.Overall, we are investigating four different methods for measuring outcomes: questionnaires, Page 5.674.1multi-source feedback, concept maps, and intellectual development. The purpose of the studydiscussed here is two-fold: 1) to triangulate and verify two or more different methods formeasuring outcomes in order to determine the extent that these methods yield consistent,corroborative results, and 2) to

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

powerpoint presentations on self-directed projects is incorporated into the computer web-based instructional multimedia tools thatstudents can access from any remote computer and on a 24 hour basis. By using student basegroups, video tapes, demonstration kits, interactive computer-based instructional modules,lecture notes, homework problems, case studies, and learning in different contexts and off-campus environments, we hope to dramatically improve teaching effectiveness at ISU. We feelquite strongly that this pedagogical development will have a substantial impact on teaching in thematerial sciences and chemical engineering at ISU, making the learning process easier for thestudents.Significance of Web-based Teaching At Iowa State University

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Christine D. Noble; Beth M. Myers; Karen E. Schmahl

interest compounded monthly for three years? Financial A financial problem set in an engineering A project will cost $5000, the benefits applications in situation, but without an engineering decision- at the end of the first year are estimated engineering making process. The problem would have the to be $100, increasing at a 10% settings same financial solution if the situation were uniform rate in subsequent years. switched from an engineering application to a Compute the benefit-cost ratio using as different context. eight-year analysis period

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Xian Zhao; Matthew Lee; Jiang Li

Session 2793 APPLICATIONS OF COLDFUSION TO INTERACTIVE TEACHING IN ENGINEERING COURSES J. Li, X. Zhao and M. Y. Lee Morgan State University/SaLute Inc./Amherst CollegeAbstractThe present paper is written to demonstrate applications developed with CFML(ColdFusion Markup Language) for online interactive teaching in engineering coursesthrough the World Wide Web. How to design such online interactivity with CFML forteaching engineering courses utilizing a web site is discussed. The interactivecomponents including online assignments such as online homework, tests, quizzes,projects, etc. are designed for both

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David S. Cottrell

, downloadableshareware from the West Point web site (http://bridgecontest.usma.edu). A newerversion will be released at a later date to support the actual competition, but the currentsoftware is quite powerful and, for the young budding engineer, very interactive andenticing. The software effectively guides the user through the design of a truss-typehighway bridge and includes – at an elemental level – all of the fundamental aspects ofdesign as defined in the ABET accreditation criteria. The projects are based on real-world scenarios; they are open-ended, permitting many possible solutions; and theyrequire formulation of problem-solving methodologies as well consideration ofalternatives and economic concerns relating to the finished project. The final

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Frank Wicks

combination desiccant and evaporative system shown in Figure 16 that a prior student had designed and built at a senior project (Reference 1). Page 3.185.5 Figure 16 Combination Desiccant/Evaporative AirFigure 14 Heat Recovery from Desuperheating Freon Conditioner 6 Analysis of this system requires measurement of

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Kassim M. Tarhini; Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

addition to touring these locations, supplemental written details should beprovided. For example, the student union may not only provide different varieties of food servicesand recreational areas, but may also provide offices for student affairs, multi-cultural studentdevelopment, career services and the International Student Association (ISA). The ISA is composedof many organizations, each representing one nationality. The student union provides a sample ofuniversity community life, offers the total development of students through a diversity of experiencesoutside of the classroom and promotes multi-cultural awareness through special programs,workshops, exhibits and research projects. It will purvey opportunities for the international studentsto

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Alfred E. McKenney; James A. Jacobs

materialseducators an easy manner to use any of the 213 experiments. Additionally, they could customizedthe experiments to meet their students needs. After several years of further research onmethodology and efforts to secure funding, we finally were able to put together a project thatused several sources of funds, much volunteer help and resources, and a publisher who wouldmass produce and package CD-ROMs from the master and distribute them.The structure of the CD-ROM allows materials educators to manipulate individual papers in a Page 3.80.2 2variety of ways for both hard copy or digital outputs. They can

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Robin Carr; Andrew Gregorowicz; Adam O'Donnell; Robert Quinn

future) hands-on real laboratory experiment. Interested readers Page 3.258.6may wish to also look at the remote labs developed by Jim Henry for a systems course. 4, 5Acknowledgments - This project of the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition (NSF AwardEEC-9109794 and EEC-9727413), is supported by the Engineering Education and CentersDivision of the National Science Foundation.Many thanks go to our student assistants without who this work would not have been possible -Andrew Gregorowicz, Adam O'Donnell, Hala Jacob, Adam Miezianko and Edward Payne.Thanks to Dr. Steve Dubin (Drexel Biomed) and to Dr. Edward Gerber (Drexel ECE) for manyuseful tips

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Mireya Fernández; Albert Lozano-Nieto; Ferran Silva

consideration to increase the student’s interest and to facilitate the learning process. Someof the issues explored in this paper include: How to incorporate non-traditional support materialsuch as catalogs and data-sheets into the classrooms, the integration of several experiments intomini-projects, the integration of measurement science into the lab work, and to stress theimportance of not only designing and building a circuit that works according to thespecifications, but also the need for the student to sell his or her product to a potential customer,in this case the instructor. All these issues will be examined at the light of the experiences atboth institutions.INTRODUCTION: THE GOAL OF LABORATORY EXPERIEMENTSLaboratory experiences are a key

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Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

the ASME for student design contest has been included as integralpart of this course. The principles of design for manufacturability (DFM), simplicity, costoptimization, and teamwork are emphasized. In the junior year, design has been well integrated in Mechanics of Solids, Kinematics,Applied Thermodynamics, and Machine Design courses. Material selection and Measurementtechniques for testing are introduced to add strength to the component of education in design.Similar to Statics, the courses on Mechanics of Solids and Applied Thermodynamics includeopen ended problems. In the Mechanics of Solids Laboratory course, an emphasis is given tointroduce the various aspects of Probability and Statistics. In Kinematics, a design project hasbeen

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Peter Idowu

, current, power, speed, and torqueas the energy conversion devices are subjected to loading or other test conditions. Data islater correlated, processed, and plotted on graph paper to determine parameters of interest.This approach to problem-solving and power engineering laboratory experience has been inplace for decades and certainly has proven very useful. However, advances in digitalcomputer technology have engendered a new generation of hardware and software conceptsthat enable routine and mundane tasks such as "meter-reading" and data logging to beautomated, processed and presented in useful and desired formats. This frees the student tofocus on intellectual aspects of the project. Furthermore, it ensures a significantly higherdegree of

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

in an approved health care facilitybefore graduation. This paper analyzes how the students perceive the need to be involved in theinternship, including its effect on their professional development as well as on their ability toperform the tasks associated with their responsibilities. The students were asked to describe andsummarize their experiences in the workplace in a daily log, to write a formal report describingin detail a project that they undertook and provide a comprehensive description of theirexperience. The effect of working in a Clinical Engineering department before graduationstrongly increased the students’ confidence in their strengths and made them aware of thoseitems that required further attention and development. A very

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Dominique McMillan

-plus students. The School isorganized into four departments: Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering,Mechanical Engineering, and Technology. The School's three engineering programs receive thehighest award granted by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).Taught by an excellent faculty of 50 full-time members, several of whom have achievedinternational reputations through their widely-adopted textbooks, Cal State L.A. engineering majorspursue a curriculum that strikes a balance between theoretical programs and practical, technology-oriented programs.In recent years, the School has demonstrated its commitment to excellence through its highlysuccessful Solar Eagle projects. Designed and fabricated by

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P.J. Sackett; G.P. Nelder; A. Skandalakis

’, Manufacturing Accounting, May 19932. Sackett, P.J., Nelder, G., ‘Managing Manufacturing Change in SMEs, a UK position study’, Proceedings Vol. II, Autofact ’95, Chicago, 4th November 1995, pp129-144.3. Network of Excellence in Intelligent Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems (ICIMS - NOE), European Commission funded ESPRIT Project Number 9251, Project Co-ordinator Professor Peter Groumpos, University of Patras, E-Mail: groumpos@ee.upatras.gr, Greece.4. The Edition XII Guide To Postgraduate Science, Health and Engineering Programs in Europe 1995/1996’, 4th Edition, the Edition XII Publishing Company Limited, London, 19955. ‘The Postgrad, The Students Guide’, The directory of graduate studies on the Internet http://www.hobsons.co.uk

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Stephen P. DeWeerth; Clinton D. Knight

-mediatedaccess to static information is only the beginning. The ultimate use of the Web will be as a 1software delivery mechanism . Now that the Java language and development tools are maturing,truly interactive WWW applications are becoming feasible2.Distance learning is one of the most promising applications of the Internet, and many universitiesare creating new correspondence courses with WWW delivery in mind. Certainly the Web is aphenomenal avenue for navigating efficiently through course material. The distance learningmodel falls short, however, in a critical component of any electrical engineering curriculum:instructional laboratories. This need can be partly filled by electronics simulation projects, butthere is no

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Charles N. Eastlake; Alfred L. Stanley

described in Section 3. Page 2.182.4Another somewhat mundane but nonetheless critical problem was physically getting themachine into the lab. In spite of our best efforts to plan ahead for handling large pieces ofequipment, a communication slip occured somewhere. We had to cut out the concreteblock doorway of our brand new building to get the machine through the door. Theactual cutting involved little time and expense, but the venting of emotions was notinsignificant. It would be wise to follow up on such considerations with a degree offanaticism in future projects.6. What have we accomplished so far ?A fortunate change in computer prices allowed us to

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Walter Buchanan

publication of quality articles.In engineering technology, papers of a pedagogical nature are quite appropriate.8 Also, seniorfaculty members in the department should be encouraged to mentor junior faculty in their Page 2.186.2scholarship endeavors including co-authored papers. In addition, scholarship throughapplication-oriented projects with business and industry should be encouraged.9As to the actual publication expectations, it should be emphasized to new faculty members, thatfull citation of authorship and credit is expected. Publication in the appropriate media for thefield is also expected. For engineering technology faculty, one of the most

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

process calculations, Kawamura2 and the Engineering News RecordIndex for process cost analysis and inflationary effects, and Water Treatment Federation, ASCE 3for equipment size determinations.Student results varied for the wastewater process design. Figure 1 shows a typical student flowsheet for the process with flows and compositions summarized in Table 1. Table 2 shows thequantity and size of units required. The plant cost estimates for the groups ranged from $6million to $7.6 million. Operating and maintenance costs ranged from $450,000 to $500,000 peryear and the size estimate was 30-35 acres.Overall, the students found the project was too much work, but they enjoyed the effort, especiallythe team approach to the problem solution, and the

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Eric W. Tisdale

and confidencethat the material presented is current. Programmable controllers, CNC simulators, computerinterface boards, relays, operational amplifiers, and chip level sensors are components that areused in laboratory experiments to show students both how the systems may be interfaced and toallow them to create the interface. Sensors cover a broad range of measurement needs and can beused for many types of data collection. They are application specific so must be used in multipleexperiences to show diversity and how the same device can be structured to take differentmeasurements.This laboratory experiment will use the Motorola MPX5010D pressure sensor to measure waterlevel. The class project will include building a PID controller to regulate

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Fazil Najafi

with their local power company, Northeast Utilities System, andwith Connecticut high schoolers. The college seniors serve as project leaders and mentors ofhigh schoolers where they gain exposure to industry and learn from practicing industry engineers.This process likens the experience to industry work, with “the college students serving asmanagers, and the high school students as the worker bee” 5 . Another example is that the author witnessed during 1993-94, when he was teaching civilengineering courses in the college of engineering, Qatar university, under a senior FulbrightScholarship. To increase student’s awareness of the engineering profession, senior students arerequired to spend two months in practical training with national or

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

where the ISO 14000 standards may betaught and perhaps, even implemented is in a senior design course. It is in these courses thatsenior environmental engineering students are expected to solve an open-ended design problemincluding all the externalities, i.e., social, ethical, economic, and political issues. Obtaining localand state permits, doing Environmental Impact Assessments, and general project managementcan all be used as examples of environmental management. Additionally, the evaluation ofalternatives of a project, is also an intrinsic activity of the ISO 14000 standards.CONCLUSIONSThe ISO 9000 Standards for Quality Management are fast becoming the norm for globalorganizations dealing with products and services. It is very likely that

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William Peterson

this faculty unit.The eventual ability of the program to pay for itself is dependent on its student base. The resultsof a professional marketing research study exceeded the steering committees' projections ofdemand for an engineering degree program in Muskegon County (and confirmed that aMuskegon-based program would also draw students from the counties to the north and south ofMuskegon County). Based on this research, it was established that when the program wasoffering its full schedule of courses and had filled the pipeline with students, the program wouldbe a break-even proposition for Western.The problem was that this ramp up would take about 4 years. During the first three years, reducedcourse offerings and smaller class sizes (plus one

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Roger A. Messenger

and characteristics ofvarious types of batteries. Several problems explore the concept of maximum power tracking asirradiance changes and then a few examples of life cycle costing are assigned. The students are now ready to test their skills at system design. The first designproblems involve relatively simple water pumping and d-c refrigeration systems. The waterpump has no battery storage, but must be properly sized. The refrigeration system needs batterybackup for critical operation. Then an outdoor lighting system is assigned where the studentsneed to perform illumination calculations in order to determine lamp wattage, battery size, andarray size. As a final project, the students design the complete PV system for a mountain