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E. J. Mastascusa

. 48-50.BiographyE. J. MASTASCUSA, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University, also taught at theUniversity of Wyoming. His interests include development of an interdisciplinary computer-assistedcontrols laboratory, modelling and simulation in control systems, and development of electronic modules forintroductory EE material. Page 1.333.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘o..,yyRc,:

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William R. Conrad; Earl F. Brune; Elaine M. Cooney

be used with a common schematicentry point. This paper explains the actual program fiuwtions that allow CapFast to be used as a schematic entry to 2interface with PSpice , for an analog circuit, and with CUPL3 for a digital circuit to be programmed in a PLD.Students use the software as a prelab exercise. Then the actual electronics laboratory was conducted to veri~the simulation tool. The students were pleased with the experiments because they could do computersimulation using the schematic as the entry point. Using a schematic as the entry point for electronicscomputer simulation programs is an advantage over writing the netlist files by hand. CapFast is a schematiccapture program which intetiaces with a variety

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Steven Widmer

remember in a technical class to include basis in the course. Thestudent is not far removed from high school and still cannot see the light at the end of tunnel. How and wherewill the student potentially apply the knowledge from the course? Associate some application or variedexperiences that students can identify with in the very first class session. The automobile has to be the mostoverworked application and article of identity used in technical courses. Try other ideas such as processesused to manufacture household products or even services. Association is a very powerful tool and can be usedto gain the attention of the learner in every single lecture or laboratory session.Do not omit the obvious The obvious for one person may not be

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Richard Korchak; David Swanson

improving manufacturing profitability A secure public funding base Availability of competent and experienced staff Unbiased recommendations Responsiveness to the needs of industry Excellent leadership and management Accurate evaluation systems Cost effective delivery systems Political and industrial support Links to training, education and research Defined plans and objectivesBiographical InformationDR. DAVID H. SWANSONA guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. Former director of the Economic Development Laboratory. Directed the Center for IndustrialResearch and Services at Iowa State University and several

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,identification, and visual servoing and navigation,1 the manufacturing technology department sees theimportance of teaching fundamentals of machine vision. It has been a difficult topic to teach since it involves anumber of concepts that many students in manufacturing technology programs are not familiar, especiallywhen laboratory support was not completely ready. In the spring and the summer of 1995, with help of a student majoring in electrical engineeringtechnology, the author used the basic vision system to develop a number of experiments for robot vision. Theyinclude thresholding, image binarization, edge detection, object recognition, image feature extraction andrandom object picking. This paper will briefly discuss all the

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Robert O. Harger

), imageprocessing (e.g., motion blur removal, character recognition, Markov random field generation for textures),adaptive filtering, adaptive equalization, wireless voice communication, QAM communication with v34 protocols(accompanied by actual implementation on DSP chips in a contemporaneous laboratory course), and manyothers. The limitations of Mathcad for large data sets is sometimes encountered: but learning to fit the problemto the computer is a valuable professional skill. For many students, their project presentation is their first quasi-professional presentation and the relaxed atmosphere is helpful. Communication outside of class is mainly by email. Traditional office hours are held, with the bookrunning on a laptop computer with an

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Mark F. Costello; Jerry W. Samples

Session 3625 Client Based Capstone Design in Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy Jerry W. Samples, Mark F. Costello United States Military AcademyAbstract: Over the past year the Mechanical Engineering Program at West Point developed a client based capstonedesign course. The clients for the capstone projects are Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers,Army Research Laboratories, or other Department of the Army agencies with a need. Since cadet interest

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Scott A. Stefanov; Pamela J. Neal; George W. P. York; Daniel J. Pack

, robot vision, and walking robots.SCOTT STEFANOV, Captain, USAF: BSEE (1985) Worcester Polytechnic Institute. MSEE (1991) Univ.of Dayton. He was an avionics cockpit engineer at the USAF Wright Laboratories from ‘85-’90. He is an AirForce Pilot flying the C-130E and T-3/A. Research areas include: Computer intelligence, Computer Graphics,and Multiprocessor Architectures. He is an Electrical Engineering Instructor at the US Air Force Academy.GEORGE YORK, Captain, USAF: BSEE (1986) US Air Force Academy. MSEE (1988) University ofWashington. he developed guidance computers for missiles at the USAF Wright Laboratories from ‘88-’92.He then served two years as an exchange engineer at the Korean Agency for Defense Development.Currently, he is teaching

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Alan K. Karplus

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘O.+,pllllc;:References:1. Kundu, N.K. and Wickman, J.L., An Affordable Material Testing Device, NASA Conference Publication 3304, National Educators’ Workshop: New 94, November 1994, pp.201-209.2. Hibbler, R. C., Mechanics of Materials, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1991, Ch 7.3. Tsoumis, G., Wood As A Raw Material, Pergamon Press, N.Y.,NY, 1968, p.2294. The Forest Products Laboratory, Wood Handbook, Agricultural Handbook 72, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Printing Office, 19555. Higdon, A. Et.al., Mechanics of Materials, 4th edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. N. Y., NY, 1985Acknowledgments:The author received assistance over the 1995 summer from

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Kristin A. Young; Masoud Rais-Rohani

introductm-y course in Thermodynamics. Mosterman et al, have utilized the concepts derivedfrom virtual reality in creation of a virtual laboratory. Daily and DailyQ have conducted a study on the use oftelev~ed interactive multimedia distance education with a focus on engineering. Numerous projects have beencarried out over the past decade or more to integrate computers with instruction in engineering education.While the approaches taken are somewhat different, the ultimate goal remains the same — to improve thequality of higher education in engineering. Although not yet fully utilized, the technology exists today that allows the dissemination of informationthrough the network of computers (i.e., the Internet) in a multimedia format with the

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John C. Reis

on Delayed Retention Learning Acquired Via Individualized, Self-Paced Instructional Texts," Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 52-63, 1991.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJOHN C. REIS earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked forChevron, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as a privateconsultant, and currently teaches at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In 1995, he received the RalphR. Teetor award from the Society of Automotive Engineers for excellence in engineering education. Page 1.454.7

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Thomas M. Lahey; Thomas D. L. Walker

inexpensive and high quality C++ compilers for PCs. But that is a pretty minor consideration in our business and it is outweighed by the enormous liabilities we have observed with C++. First, we regard C++ as the weakest of the object-oriented languages. Objective C is a far more solid and well designed OOPS language, C++ is really some OOPS capability slapped on top of C. C++ is consequently extremely inefficient, inconsistent, overly large, and enormously difficult to program in. The experience of our clients mirrors our own, and in fact many DoE and DoD laboratories are finding that their headlong rush to C++ has been a hideously expensive mistake. I know of several C++ scientific coding projects there

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Jack Bryant; Howard Seidel; David L. Barrow; Dante DeBlassie; Arlen Strader

forreview, homework discussion, and quizzes. In addition, there is a computer laboratory once a week, theprimary purpose of which is to learn and use Maple. Our course uses the same structure, but we have adifferent emphasis. The recitation class is called the Calculus Workshop, and typically involves team activities.An activity is presented at the beginning of the period, to be completed during the period, using computerswhen appropriate. This offers numerous opportunities to make connections with their other courses. We alsouse this period to review for exams by giving a practice exam every exam week. We also have a Maple Lab each week. This lab also involves a team assignment,but, in contrast with theworkshop activities, is usually due a

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Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

kitchen electric appliances and designing applications for slider crank mechanisms. In the fall of 1994, a module in Chemical Engineering was introduced. It consisted of measurementexperiments where students were placed in a laboratory setting and used various instrumentation to measurethe effects on flow through different valves and orifices. Students learned about relationships of flow,pressure, and water level by running the experiments, collecting data, plotting, and analyzing thisinformation. Some of the experiments included rotometers, air filtration through a packed column, andflow through parallel and series pipes with valves and orifices. In the spring of 1995, Bio-medical Engineering was added to the selection of modules

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Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

● students will be proficient in the oral and written communication of their work and ideas ● students will be proficient in computer programming and in the use of computer software ● students will have the ability to learn independently, but also be able to participate effectively in groups of their peers ● students will be able to design and perform laboratory experiments to gather data and test theories . students will understand the safety and environmental consequences of their work as chemical engineers ● students will be prepared for a lifetime of continuing education ● students will conduct themselves in accordance with the highest professional and ethical standards

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

laboratory work, and field tripsto industry sites.II.E. High School Outreach Program Students from selected high schools are invited onto campus and provided the opportunity to experiencethe Internet first-hand. They are provided the opportunity to “surf” the net as well as develop their own Webpages. This is a new initiative for 1996, and has been warmly received. A web site is available which fullydescribes the goals and activities of this initiative4 .III. ImplementationIII.A. Overview In providing access to the School of Engineering's networked facilities via the Connections Program, thehigh schools are given access to sophisticated computing tools used in scientific and engineering disciplines,which can be incorporated into

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Kim J. Manner

makeprogress in the understanding of the software through this approach, but many students struggle in their efforts, especially since thissoftware is often non-intuitive in both its approach and uses menu terminology which many students will find cryptic. Students whobecome frustrated with the software will be less likely to use the software in other courses. There is also the likelihood that the studentonly learn a small fraction of the functionality of the system through this approach. Regardless of outcome, this represents a heavy timecommitment on the part of the student. 3) Provide a specific modeling course which is dedicated to both instruction on the principles upon which the software arebased and “hands-on” laboratory experience with

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Dale E. Palmgren; Bradley B. Rogers

that covered in the pre-requisitetunnel became operational in 1986. instrumentation course. However, the emphasis of Permanent instrumentation is installed to the course is on the laboratory portion, with 85%monitor the temperature in the test section, at the fan of the grade determined from the laboratorymotor, and the test section mean velocity, which is performance.measured through use of static pressure ports At the beginning of the course, thepositioned in the entrance and exit of the contraction students perform a simple experiment in the windsection. In addition, instrumentation and signal tunnel to familiarized them with the

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M. Nabil Kallas; Dhushy Sathianathan; Renata Engel

, laboratory preparations, and cost and benefits ofimplementing the design activities. Although our efforts are ongoing, significant gains have been achieved thatare worth sharing with the engineering education community.Introduction In order to implement a design curriculum at the first-year level in engineering, several f~ctors must beconsidered: the student level of prerequisite knowledge of engineering concepts, the breadth of engineeringtopics to be covered, and the format for presentation of the design. Lack of certain prerequisite knowledge ofengineering concepts can be the biggest stumbling block; however if the design includes an application ofphysics principles or relies on the mathematics that is most commonly encountered in the

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Jerry W. Samples; C. Conley; Thomas Lenox

• The group is back together for two veteran classes. The first should utilize fairly common classroom technology; that is, nothing beyond a PC hooked into an overhead projection system. Then the group moves to the Advanced Technology Classroom Laboratory for a full blown multimedia class. This should still be recognizable as an undergraduate engineering class.Wednesday Morning • The students give their second full class, each followed by a critique. The topic of this class will be assigned the previous day.Wednesday Afternoon • Teaching Workshop 3 is meant to focus on the teaching-learning connection. Learning models and corresponding teaching/instructional methods, i.e. PSI, cooperative groups, and project

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Ron Darby

responsible for octane reduction during dehydrogenation with a new catalyst.The Dow Chemical Co. MS Experimental and analytical study of mixing efficiency in a Freeport, Texas tank with jet mixers in various configurations. Brown & Root ME Process design for removal of low level impurities from Houston, Texas feed stream to a polyethylene reactor. Lyondell ME Analysis of relationship between properties and processingChocolate Bayou, Texas conditions and product properties for HMW HDPE blown film. Core Laboratories MS

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra R. Sekhar; Omer Farook

other related parameterswill be discussed in a subsequent paper. VII. References[1] Leonard M. Weinstei~ “The Voice Spectrum Would be Mapped to Frequencies where the Ear Remains Sensitive”, NASA Tech Briefs, p. 45, December 1994.[2] Doug Hall, “Analysis-Synthesis Methods Lower Encoder Rates to Unheard of Levels”, Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, Vol. 12, No 7, July 1995.[3] Robert F. Kubichelq “Using Matlab in a Speech Signal Processing Class”, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 2-5, July-September 1995.[4] Hewlett Packard, “The Fundamentals of Signal Analysis”, Application Note 243.[5] Vinay K. In@e, John G. Proakis, Digital Siiznal Processimz Laboratory

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Barbara Blake Bath

Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..,yHlyL: I sensitivity analysis of the parameters which had been identified in their geology class. The students perceived their projects to be much more valuable than the regular EPICS projects as they emphasized connections and enabled them to use material from a variety of their classes. —----- The mathematical and computer sciences department is presently assessing the value of the use of technology in the teaching of the first two semesters of calculus. The biggest problem we have faced is the aging of our NeXT Laboratory and the frustrations that

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Philip J. Morris; Martin L. Brady; Lyle N. Long; Ali Haghighat

/laboratory facilities to promote the teachingof high performance computing. One of these labs has 31 IBM RS/6000 Model 40P computers and apodium/LCD panel. The other room has two IBM RS/6000 SMP machines and 30 IBM X-terminals.We intentionally chose these two different computing configurations to evaluate the effectiveness of eachapproach. During the first year of service approximately 37 courses have used the rooms and roughly1000 students have accessed these facilities. The software installed includes: ProEngineer, IDEAS, , Page 1.132.4Patran, MSC/NASTRAN, Tecplot, Matlab, Maple, Mathematical, gnuplot j Fortran 90, and

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Youlu Zheng; Xiaoan Hou

Mandelkern, `GUIs: The Next Generation', Communication of the ACM, 36, (4) 37-39 (1993)2. Douglas A. Young, The X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, 2d ed.; Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994, pp. 1-50.3. Donald L. McMinds, Mastering OSF/Motif Widget, 2d ed.; New York:, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993, pp. 1-20.4. Joel Snyder, ‘SNMP revealed’, MacWorld, 28, (8), 182-186 (1994)5. James R. Davin, The SNMP Development Kit Release Notes, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1994. (this reference is available in postscript file format from the ftp site: allspice.lcs.mit.edu)About the Authors:XIAOAN HOU is an programmer/analyst from Science Application International

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Corneliu Berbente

cooperation on the managerial education in technical universities.The seven-years cooperation program between WSU and PUB hasalready important effects on the managerial education inPolitehnica of Bucharest, representing, at the same time, a modelfor any technical university of Romania.The main achievements in this direction are: a. the cooperation with the excellent team of WSU topspecialists from the highest developed country in the world USA,a real model for what business practices and free markedcompetition means; b. the training and up grading at WSU of a large number offaculty members (about 25 people); c. the material support to establish and endow a CBE, aseminar room and a computer - laboratory

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III, Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner

other engineersat NCSU and the University as a whole. The data were as of October, 1995 for each class. Therefore, thesecond year is represented for the 1994 entering cohort while the sixth year is represented for the 1990 cohort. The quality of the design experience seems to be very good, although seniors leaders do not seem tohave a substantially better design experience than other senior design students. Virtually all students who hadtaken other design and laboratory courses at NCSU found this experience superior to those. The multi-semesternature of the course does seem to have some appeal with most students surveyed saying that they would takethe course again if their schedule permits. Nearly 30% of the participants have taken the

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Melissa Mattmuller

the campus radio station fascinated the campers and provided another opportunity to draw in the technical theme of the camp.12:30 Lunch The campers were left to eat in the dorm by themselves. This gave them the opportunity to be coeds without constant supervision.1:30 Laboratory Explorations At this point the campers were taken from one EET lab to another, each time getting a mini-lecture and participating in an activity representative of the work they would be exposed to as freshmen. In one lab they discussed sound waves and what the spoken word looks like on an oscilloscope. They each spoke the same word into a microphone for comparison and then they each spoke their names and these were stored and

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Josann Duane; Amgad Saleh

. 427-431.4. Heil, R. and S.Brych,(1978), “An approach for Consistent Topographical Representation of Varying Terrain,” Proceedings of the Digital Terrain Models (DTM) Symposium, Falls Church, VA:ASP, pp. 397- 411.5. Males, R., (1978), “ADAPT - A Spatial Data Structure for Use With Planning and Design Models,” in G. Dutton, cd., Geographic Information Systems: Cartographic and Analytic Applications, First International Advanced Symposium on Topological Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems, Vol. 3, Page 1.461.6 Cambridge, MA: Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Harvard University

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Tomasz Traczyk; Krzysztof Antoszkiewicz; Eugeniusz Toczylowski

Session 2560 Flexible Enrollment Information System ERES 2: A Tool for Managing Teaching Activities* Krzysztof Antoszkiewicz, Eugeniusz Toczy}owski, Tomasz Traczyk Warsaw University of Technology IntroductionThe increasing need for smooth management of all academic and administrative activities, and require-ments for more efficient utilization of limited academic resources (academic staff, space, laboratory equip-ment and financial resources) imply increased needs for more cost-effective organization and better