{"title":"Understanding technology: new concepts for air classification in waste processing and resource recovery","authors":"J. Peirce","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187498","url":null,"abstract":"It is noted that mechanical separation of municipal solid waste for resource recovery or waste-to-energy production, while viewed with great optimism in the early 1970s, has failed to receive widespread application in the 1990s. Using mechanical separation as a focus, it has been possible at Duke University to educate engineers to be more effective in addressing solid waste management problems in particular and problems in science, engineering, and technology in general.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114855798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Araki, A. Nakajima, H. Imamura, T. Ono, Y. Kobori
{"title":"Problems of engineering education in Japanese university and a new trial solution","authors":"Y. Araki, A. Nakajima, H. Imamura, T. Ono, Y. Kobori","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187563","url":null,"abstract":"The number of students at Japanese universities and colleges in increasing their educational needs or purposes are greatly diversified, and they show various levels of academic achievements. Such a situation gives rise to a variety of educational problems, which cannot easily be solved because of the Japanese educational environments. The authors have extensively developed new practical teaching systems consisting of CMI (computer-managed instruction) together with CAI (computer-aided instruction) systems. As a trial solution to the difficult problems mentioned above, the authors suggest that more teachers make use of the CMI/CAI systems.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128140403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which software design development methodology is appropriate for engineering education","authors":"I. Rozman, J. Gyorkos, T. Welzer","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187572","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment was conducted to highlight the technicality of two quite different but well known software development methodologies: System Analysis-System Design (SA-SD) and Jackson System Development (JSD). There was no attempt to reach a general conclusion about which software development methodology is better, looking from all aspects. Comparison was done by means of a questionnaire which was completed by 12 young engineers after they had finished their seminar work in postgraduate study. The results obtained speak in favor of the SA-SD methodology because it is more understandable to an engineer.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130791836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging telecommunication technologies","authors":"S. Garrod, R. J. Borns","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187452","url":null,"abstract":"The authors address the emerging telecommunications technologies that have been introduced into the marketplace and that are being used by businesses to gain a competitive edge by reducing costs and improving operating efficiency. It is noted that these technologies can be used by educators as well to strategically access information, to gain a competitive edge, to enhance teaching effectiveness, and to increase the technological literacy of today's students. The effect these technologies may have on the educational process is examined. Each technology is described with a basic explanation, the current status, and a discussion of educational applications. The goal of the present work is to enhance educator's awareness of this technology and to improve their ability to plan for its use in the classroom.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130834048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel approach to computer based I/O in an ME instructional lab","authors":"D. Lyons, R. Vito","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187587","url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe the philosophy and implementation of computer-based data acquisition and I/O used in the renovation of a required mechanical engineering (ME) instrumentation laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In the first part of the course, an inexpensive single-board computer is used to familiarize the student with the basic components of a computer, such as binary logic, analog and digital I/O, interrupt structures, RAM, and EEPROM A control-oriented resident BASIC interpreter is used to program hardware interactions. Sixteen single-board computers are networked to an IBM PC host computer which is used for downloading, data storage, and printing. Later in the course, PCs with menu-driven data acquisition systems are used. The authors describe the hardware and software used in the first part of the course.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132989036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways of reaching nontraditional students: an assessment","authors":"J. Libii","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187553","url":null,"abstract":"A report on dealing with nontraditional students is presented which is based on the experience of a small engineering department that enrolls about 400 students. The department is on the campus of Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Different kinds of nontraditional students are identified, with specific attention given to part-time students and their needs. The ways that were used to address the needs of nontraditional students were grouped into three categories: institutional, departmental, and individual. Although it is suggested that all three ways be used, and that, to yield positive outcomes, they need to be coordinated and integrated, it is also argued that what is done at the level of the department is the most consequential.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132289392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instruction of a technical subject with a general problem-solving methodology","authors":"G.S. November","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187511","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes an electrical course taught at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts. The course was unique in that before the subject was taught the students were taught two mental skills that were then used to teach the subject. The skills decreased memorization and increased comprehension. The two mental skills that were taught are: an analytic procedure for obtaining a problem's equations; and a way of graphically showing how a technical and/or mathematical subject is developed, i.e., a way of showing graphically the pattern of how the equations (or other kinds of relations) of a subject are combined to develop the subject.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115415843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projecting the future of overhead projection","authors":"H. Hill","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187474","url":null,"abstract":"The future of presentation technology is discussed, concentrating on needed hardware and software breakthroughs to bring about such innovations as practical animation. Conjectures are made as to how tomorrow's audio-visual aids might be best applied to educating tomorrow's post-MTV preliterate students. It is concluded that the overhead projector and projection pad already provide a very inexpensive and portable alternative to the large-screen monochrome video monitor, and soon will have affordable color capabilities. There is a long list of advantages to using the projection pad over conventional transparencies, and lower cost will soon be added to the list. Potential solutions exist for the technical problems of slow speed, and heat intolerance. Current presentation software has extensive word-processing features, and should be more powerful and less expensive in the future.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117287422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where have all the engineers gone? (engineering education)","authors":"G. Somers","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187539","url":null,"abstract":"It is pointed out that engineering enrollments have moved up and down like a roller coaster for the last 20 years. The author examines the causes of shifts in engineering enrollments using several regression models. He finds that enrollments are very sensitive to comparative starting salaries, but not to shifts in national averages of math SAT scores or a variable that measures freshman interest in science. Along the way, he discovers that despite huge increases in engineering graduates and shifts in the structure of the US economy, engineering starting salaries remained high and the market for engineering graduates good.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126115982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival in the academic arena: advice for women faculty","authors":"T. Smith","doi":"10.1109/FIE.1991.187485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.1991.187485","url":null,"abstract":"The author gives statistics on women in engineering, examines the stereotypes of women at work, and outlines the special problems of professional women. It is noted that women in engineering education programs, both as students and faculty, report relative isolation in educational institutions, as well as in the workplace. It is argued that, to reduce this isolation, institutions and industries should recognize gender-based social standards and stereotypes so that their effects will not influence workplace productivity and worker satisfaction. Since role models for women in engineering can be found in academe, the focus is on that of women faculty in educational institutions.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":414138,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129381457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}