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Zhi Shi; Clarence Calder

1 Session 2668 Newton’s Law and Accelerometer Integration Applied to Impact Analysis Clarence Calder, Zhi Shi Oregon State UniversityAbstract This paper presents an experimental technique which illustrates to the student an application ofNewton’s law, the use of an accelerometer, and numerical double integration of the acceleration to obtaindisplacement. The simple impact experiment consists of a falling rigid projectile

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Harvey A. West; F. Xavier Spiegel

Session 1664 A Novel Approach to Hardness Testing F. Xavier Spiegel, Harvey A. West, 11 Loyola College/Materials Analytical ServicesKey Words: Hardness, rebound, scleroscope, coefficient of restitutionPrerequisite Knowledge: Knowledge of physical testing of metallic materialsObjective: To demonstrate a simple rebound hardness measuring device and explore its applications andlimitations.Equipment:1. Rebound hardness tester as outlined in Reference 1.2. Several metallic samples of various compositions and harnesses.Introduction

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Professor Michael J. Rabins; Jr., Professor C. Edwin Harris; Jeremy E. Hanzlik

niche in many requiredundergraduate engineering courses as home-work problems, quiz problems or lecture demonstration problems.The presentation which this paper summarizes covers the approach adopted and results achieved at theworkshop. The thirty-six faculty participants (including a visitor from Mexico) are listed alphabetically inFigure 1, along with their affiliations and e-mail addresses. All of the participants from this workshop arededicated to helping you use these cases as effectively as possible. You should feel free to contact the caseauthors. They are prepared to respond to any e-mail queries. The eight Bovay Undergraduate Fellows who worked alongside the faculty participants are also listed.These Bovay Fellows were students

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Don Engelberg

technicians to distributed feedback (DFB) lasers anderbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). The concept behind the project is to teach the students not onlyhow the devices work and how to operate them, but also how to characterize and test them. Thus, we had todeal with an array of test instruments as well as the devices themselves. The Equipment EDFA Most mature of the optical amplifiers k the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). A practical EDFAsystem has several parts in addition to the doped fiber itself. [See Figure 1] A pump laser producing radia-tion with 980 nm wavelength works well for erbium-doped fiber. The laser is most conveniently

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Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Peggy Fussell; Manuel Aroz; EIT, Maria Reyes; Catherine R. Cosgrove; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

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Dr. John W. Nazemetz; Dr. John B. Solie; Dr. David R. Thompson

the committees intentions but were allowed to modify the skeleton syllabus.Instructor Philosophies. The two faculty assigned to teach the course undertook the detailed course designwith four guiding philosophies: 1) that the design experience should follow a structured, theoretically-based design procedure, 2) that the design project should be realistic: open ended, have a large number of possible solutions, require some introductory level engineering analysis and testing to find the best alternatives, consider cost of the solution in the process, and have a realistic probability that the student team’s design might not satisfy all of the design goal(s), 3) that all

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Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski; Eugeniusz Toczylowski

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Ishwar Rattan

Threads in distributed systems - thread as opposed to a process, design issues in user andkernel level threads (case studies: kernel-level 1,6, user-level7).þ Distributed file systems - file servers, stateless file servers, file service, directoryservice, interface models, file sharing, file replication(case studies: Amoeba 1, Andrew filesystem8). 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.343.2The Laboratory Set-up The laboratory consists of fourteen PC/ATs. There are four 486DX2/66s (16Mb RAM), six486DX/33s (8Mb RAM), and four 486DLC/33s (4Mb RAM) machines. Each machine has a 520Mb IDE harddisk, a

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Craig Gunn

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Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

questionnaires, sent to graduates (and possibly employers) two to Page 1.345.1three years after graduation. The questionnaires focus on the graduate’s preparation for the challenges of a ~~xij 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings +3&..?“real” job, both from their own and from their employer’s perspectives. Other measures of learning outcomescan include records of job/graduate school/professional school placement and portfolios of student work.General methods for designing and implementing an assessment plan are discussed elsewhere6-1°. Assessmentplans at a variety of

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

the most up-to-date technology in order to achieve thenecessary functionality. Ablock diagram is shown in Fig. 1, anda brief description follows thereafter. Figure 1 Connections Program - Network Architecture 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page

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Marvi Teixeira

projects. A typical specification sheet for the analog amplifier design would look like this:1- Voltage amplification of 25 times is required.2- The amplifier will be driving a 150 ohms load.3- An input resistance in the range of 1 kohms to 3 kohms is acceptable.4- Both, bias (de) and gain (at) stability are required.5- Maximum voltage amplitude expected for the input signals is 0.04 V.6- The available DC supplies are 1.5V, 3V, 6V, 9V, and 12V.7- - No distortion of the output signal is allowed.8- Select transistor models which are available within the Pspice student version.lo- Try to use commercially available resistors. Remarks:i) Turn in a formal report and documentation.ii

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Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; David P. Wilsey; Anthony J. Gadient

-prototyping technologies into the curricula and research activities of the university community will the longterm benefits of these technologies be realized. This paper discusses the need to change the existing embeddeddigital system design education paradigm, and the efforts being undertaken by the RASSP E&F program towork with the university community to effect this change. The result is a clarion call to stimulate academicparticipation in a progressive educational program that adopts the latest instructional methods and industrialstrength tools to revolutionize the way system design is taught in United State’s colleges and universities.1. Introduction Embedded digital systems are those digital electronics systems that are dedicated to

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Landon C. Onyebueke; Chinyere Onwubiko

of computation but the advancement in technology has reduced the rigors that normally accompany Page 1.470.1 ..”*x’ c’,,, O) regions. Given the point probability density function (PDF), fX(X), the probability of failure in thefailure domain Cl is, (1)This multiple integral is difficult to evaluate directly for complicated g-function. It can be computed usinga straight forward standard Monte Carlo procedure which is usually time consuming. The limit statefunction method applies the

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Robert Pfeffer; Rajesh N. Dave; Jonathan Luke; Ian S. Fischer; Anthony D. Rosato

concluded that the normal load on the wall of a storage hopper increases linearlywith depth. The actual load is better modeled by Janssen’s equation (see [1]) which predicts that the normalstress on the bunker wall increases exponentially to an asymptotic value. If a designer were tempted to optimizethe storage hopper design by tapering the thickness of the wall toward the top, the hydrostatic model wouldresult in overbuilding at the bottom and perhaps underestimating the thickness at the top. The hydrostatic modelalso fails to predict the shear stress which a granular material at rest in a bunker exerts on the wall, andneglecting that load may result in a failure of the structure. The fluid-mechanics hydrostatic model also is inadequate

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Gordon E. Guffner

, SOME TEST DATA - As was stated earlier, the compression tester can be used to provethe Euler equation. The followrng is a typical test result obtained by testing the pasta known asbucatini:Compression Test of Bucatini (by DAVINCI) -- Performed in ENT 301, Mechanics 1, section no. 1364- 10/24/95 0 2 4 6 8 10 100/ L The experimentally determined fimction is: F = 649/L sq. Page 1.348.3 $i!fii’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘O..,ylyc:: .,.. ,. USING

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Walter Beck; S. Rebecca Thomas; Janet Drake; J. Philip East; Eugene Wallingford

Session 1626 Pattern-based Programming Instruction* J. Philip East, S. Rebecca Thomas, Eugene Wallingford, Walter Beck, Janet Drake University of Northern Iowa/Marist College Several years ago a group of our computer science faculty began seriously examining initialprogramming instruction. We discovered a shared perception that too many students don't write reason-able programs even after completing a semester course in programming. Others have noted the same mayeven be true after the second course (e.g., [1]). There is cause for concern as computer applicationspervade our society, often in life-critical situations. Our students are producing some of

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R. Welch; K.R. Goheen

1 ---- Session#: 3525 Pedagogical and Cost Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Learning in Control Systems Education R. Welch, K.R. Goheen Ingenia Communications Corporation/Ryerson Polytechnic UniversityAbstract This study examines the use of courseware to teach feedback control systems material to undergraduatemechanical and aerospace engineering students. Courseware for teaching the frequency

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Denise Dorricott; Richard Devon

engineeringdesign. It is suggested that pedagogy is one of those activities that can benefit greatly by being informed bydesign methods. Thus, we can prepare all students for a changing world by teaching them the norms andmethods of design through a pedagogy which embraces those norms and methods. The theoretical and researchsupport for such a pedagogy is also presented.Social Change Technology is one of the forces that drives social change, and it seems to be doing so at an increasingrate. It led to the transition from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy to a service economy.Now, with massive corporate re-engineering laying off hundreds of thousand of white collar workers, a neworder may be emerging.1 This time it is information

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Kim J. Manner

should be obvious that times have changed with regard to CADsoftware instruction. When graphics meant traditional hand-created 2D mechanical drawing, instruction in the tools was minimal. Astudent, through years of experience, knew how to use the pencil. Now however, for mechanical design, the pencil has changed.Why use professional level CAD software in curriculum? There exists several reasons why we as engineering instructors should dedicate ourselves to integration of professional levelCAD software into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum: 1) As it gains further acceptance, this software has driven many changes in the approach industry is taking to design. Becauseof their flexibility in design variation and their tie to both

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William H. Bassichis

First Year Integrated Program at Texas A&M University wasimplemented in 1994 and initially combined the study of engineering, graphics, calculus, physics, and English.Later, the first course in chemistry was added to the program. The first semester then consisted of 2 credits inengineering, 2 in graphics, 4 in mathematics, 2 in physics and 2 in English. The second semester consisted of 1 credit in engineering, 1 in graphics, 4 in mathematics, 2 in physics, 1 in English and 4 in chemistry. Twosections of about 50 students each were chosen somewhat randomly from those entering freshman who werejudged to be calculus ready. After completing the Freshman year the performance of these students wascompared with that of students enrolled in the

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Douglas J. Cooper

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Nancy L. Denton; Christine L. Corum

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George Ioannou; Michael P. Deisenroth

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

1 .— . .. Session 2560 Polish University Confronted with Economic Transformation: Two Strategies of Survival Jerzy Woznicki, Roman Z. Morawski, Andrzej Krasniewski Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information TechnologyAbstract: The process of economic transformation in Poland is briefly characterized, as well as the situation of Polish

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Sarah Lynn Garrett

installed in openings just slightly larger than the window frame. To level the window, the installer ‘shims’ around the frame using thin pieces of wood. After the window is leveled, it is fixed in place and insulation is inserted into the gap around the window to prevent air infiltration. The masonry rough openings in this building were, in some cases, as much as 8 1/2 inches larger than the window units. This large gap was not filled with insulation, and allowed massive infiltration of hot, humid, outside air. Roof drainagel gutter overtop Rain in central Florida can be quite predictable; in summer, midafternoon downpours of several inches are a regular occurance. The gutter detail on the courthouse

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installed in openings just slightly larger than the window frame. To level the window, the installer ‘shims’ around the frame using thin pieces of wood. After the window is leveled, it is fixed in place and insulation is inserted into the gap around the window to prevent air infiltration. The masonry rough openings in this building were, in some cases, as much as 8 1/2 inches larger than the window units. This large gap was not filled with insulation, and allowed massive infiltration of hot, humid, outside air. Roof drainagel gutter overtop Rain in central Florida can be quite predictable; in summer, midafternoon downpours of several inches are a regular occurance. The gutter detail on the courthouse

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Zhihua Cao; Suphan Kovenklioglu; Rahmi Yazici; Dilhan M. Kalyon

1 .— . Session 1626 Polymer Dissolution Experiment for Chemical Engineering Laboratory Zhihua Cao, Suphan Kovenklioglu, Dilhan M. Kalyon, Rahmi Yazici Stevens Institute of TechnologyIntroductionPolymer dissolution is increasingly becoming important in pharmaceutical applications such as controlled release,polymer fractionation, microlithography and in the recovery and recycle of energetic materials where the

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Rulph Chassaing; Roderick Ayers

Ixthos provide libraries of optimized functions for theSHARC that can be called from C. Over the last ten years, senior students at Roger Williams University (RWU) have implemented a widerange of real-time DSP applications in areas such as communications, controls, and adaptive and multiratefiltering. Those applications, based on both Texas Instruments’ floating-point TMS320C30 and fixed-pointTMS320C25 digital signal processors, are described in references 1 and 2. Investigation of the SHARC was undertaken at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) todetermine its suitability for large processing requirements. Page

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David W. Russell

the UK is based on nation-wide, standardized examinations. These are somewhat similar to the familiar SAT but far deeper in content and highly subject specific. By testing students at the end of 10th grade, only those intending to go onto college are allowed to stay in school for 1 lth and 12th. grades, at the end of which, the advanced (and scholarship) level examinations determine if the student is college-material. The student requests to which department within a colleges s/he wishes the results of these Certificates of Education examinations to be sent, and receives an acceptance letter direct from the institution. If no acceptances are forthcoming, a clearing house system then “introduces” students to colleges which