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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

briefing a number of other programs inside NSF are allowingtheir PIs to submit requests for supplemental funding under NNCS. These additional programsare: Engineering Research Centers (ERC), Science and Technology Centers (STC), IntegrativeGraduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT), and Information TechnologyResearch (ITR).The Virginia Demonstration Project (VDP)Evidence gathered over the past decade points to the fact that the US is far from leading theindustrialized world in preparing young people in the areas of natural science and engineeringboth in terms of numbers and quality. The US is surpassed in numbers by the United Kingdom,the Republic of Korea, Canada, Japan, and Taiwan,4 and surpassed in terms of the quality ofeighth

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Security

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hua Xu; Ronald Glotzbach; Nathan Hartman

, American Society for Engineering Educationdevelopers write secure code. It helps security professionals conduct security review in a timelybasis. It also enables system administrators to secure Web applications across the multiple layersof the application infrastructure. The ultimate goal of this strategy is to protect Web applicationsin a proactive, systematic, and holistic way.1. IntroductionIn general, security concerns confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data.Confidentiality refers to the ability to ensure that information is private to the authorized partiesand protected from unauthorized disclosure. Integrity reflects the accuracy of information andrequires technology and processes that prevent unauthorized parties

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Wild; Kevin Firth; Brian Surgenor

Lessons Learned from a Mobile Robot Based Mechatronics Course Brian Surgenor*, Kevin Firth* and Peter Wild** * Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of VictoriaAbstractExperience with an elective course in mechatronics is discussed. The course is structuredaround a series of laboratories involving a mobile robot. The course introduces students toselected sensor and actuator technologies and sensitizes them to mechatronic systems designissues. The course is organized to promote a high level of active learning. The course has beenvery well received by students to date

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Wolter

includeacquisition core competencies, such as: theory and principles, systems perspective, projectmanagement, technology integration, modeling and simulation. Other topics include knowledgemanagement, organizational behavior, decision making, and risk management. The use of a rigorous systems engineering management process in the development of thecourse curriculum is necessary to ensure we meet the needs of our students (USMA cadets) andprimary constituency, the US Army.Introduction The need to transform the Armed Forces to meet the challenges and opportunities of thetwenty-first century has never been greater. Current conflicts and operations are fundamentallychanging the nature of warfare. In response to these changes the military’s needs

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

Session 3533 Improvements in Electric Power Systems Curricula: Developing Continuous Improvement Plan Ilya Grinberg, John A. Stratton, Frank Pietryga, and James Maxwell Buffalo State College/ Rochester Institute of Technology/ University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown/ Buffalo State CollegeFaculty at three universities in the New York / Pennsylvania region offer their engineering technology studentsrequired or elective sequences in electric power systems. The three institutions were each looking at possiblechanges to their respective courses to make them more relevant to the

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Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

elements ofonline courses and laboratories. The web environment integrates the instructional design andassessment capabilities of WebCT VistaTM with real-time remote monitoring and control ofenergy equipment, resulting in a unique online laboratory package. The framework supportsmultiple lab experiments in which Mechanical Engineering Technology students throughoutIndiana analyze energy equipment that is physically located on the West Lafayette campus ofPurdue University. The paper includes feedback on the web environment from its deployment inthe Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 semesters.Remote Laboratories BackgroundThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program at Purdue University offers associatedegree programs at seven different locations

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Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Mays

. Page 10.1152.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. ABET, ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD.2. Adams, J. and Mossayebi, F., “Hands on Experiments to Instill a Desire to Learn and Appreciate Digital Signal Processing,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.3. Alexander, D.G., and Smelser, R.E., “Delivering an Engineering Laboratory Course Using the Internet, the Post Office, and a Campus Visit,” Journal

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Robertson

departments. • In a world of rapidly changing technology, the basics are constant. That gives Page 10.1467.1 comfort to some, especially when allied to the more subtle desire to preserve a measure of elitism in a mass education market. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Any group of practicing engineers will readily admit that in their entire careers they have used only a very small proportion of their math skills.Each of these points has enough validity to guarantee endless

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

engineer with the ability to design a particular system can take responsibility for the system, identifying all the necessary aspects of the design, and match objectives with appropriate technological solutions. As an engineer develops, the engineer’s abilities also develop so that more challenging and difficult problems can be solved.The reasoning behind the levels of competency is that attainment of the BOK is expected tooccur through formal education and practical experience during the pre-licensure and post-licensure periods. Figure 1 shows where each level of BOK competency is expected to beattained. For the portion of the BOK that is expected to be achieved through formal education,the job of the Curriculum

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Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite; David N. Pocock; David Dutton

Web-Based Real Electronics Laboratories Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite, David N. Pocock, and David Dutton Electronics Engineering Technology Oregon Institute of TechnologyI. Introduction and BackgroundIn recent years, numerous institutions of higher education in the United States and abroadhave started to offer Web-based courses and complete degree programs on the Internet. Inthis context, the Internet continues to demonstrate its versatility and effectiveness as atool for curriculum delivery. As stated by Plaisent, institutions of higher education willincreasingly rely on various forms of web-based delivery in order to survive in the 21stcentury. This

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Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Wiedenman

the Academy and the departments involved. Accreditationconcerns must also be addressed in accordance with the standards of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET).Background “Mechatronics” has been defined many ways1, but all of these definitions emphasize theinterdisciplinary nature of this engineering field. The crossroads of mechanical engineering(ME) and electrical engineering (EE), mechatronics is an integrative field that provides anunderstanding of mechanical and electrical subsystems united by a control algorithm (see Figure1). With the rapid and continued advancement in integrated circuit technology, more and moredevices have the capability to sense the environment, make decisions based upon

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ka-yiu San

numerousopportunities for our students to participate in various research projects. This program alsoprovides a unique environment to our students to gain invaluable out-of-the-classroom learningexperiences.Biographical InformationKA-YIU SANDr. San is the E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Dr. San received his B.S. degree inchemical engineering from Rice University in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering fromthe California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1984, respectively. His research interests include systemsbiotechnology, genetic and metabolic engineering of microbial and plant cells, and mathematical modeling and

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 2150 Integrating TC2K from the Macro to the Micro: Program Assessment Inside and Outside of the Classroom David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper addresses specific, deliberate actions taken by the School of Science,Engineering, and Technology to establish and sustain a comprehensive program ofassessment and evaluation consistent with an academic environment of continuousimprovement that demonstrates compliance with the technology Criteria 2000 (TC2K).1The plan’s primary objective and ultimate end-state was to affect a

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

form the basis of decisionsabout the program and its plans for continuous improvement.This paper describes a standards-based approach to program evaluation and provides arationale for the CDIO standards in reforming engineering education. The mainobjectives of the paper are to • identify key questions that guide program evaluation and set them in the framework of the CDIO standards • compare the CDIO standards with criteria set forth by ABET in EC2000 • give examples of standards-based program evaluation of engineering programs • emphasize the connection between program evaluation and program improvementBackgroundIn October 2000, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chalmers University ofTechnology, the Royal Institute

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

and obtainedsome seed funding from the ASU research office to look at various web technologies and experiment withHTML and Java™. We were particularly keen in using Java.2. Identifying a Problem in Engineering EducationMuch like any research endeavor we thought of this initially as a research problem, i.e., given thatInternet was evolving and would affect education, what are the key engineering education problems thatwould surface and requite innovative solutions. We wanted to do something different, something thatwas not available, and something that would ultimately be useful to the education community. At thattime we identified that technologies for creating and disseminating web courses were essentially availablebut how to deliver online

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

applythese tools in the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of process designs. At Rose-Hulman Instituteof Technology chemical engineering students are introduced to process simulators in theirsophomore year and use them on a limited scale in most of the required chemical engineeringcourses. The objective in this course is to ensure that simulation enhances student understandingof the physical process, rather than simply generating numbers. The inner workings of steady-state flowsheet simulators are discussed throughout the course and the pitfalls created byincompetent use of the simulators are repeatedly emphasized.The final two weeks of the course are spent on capital cost estimation. This provides a link intothe following class, where more

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

, and inanyone’s life. The American Association of School Librarians and Association for EducationalCommunications and Technology (1998) note that “‘information literacy’—the ability to findand use information— is the keystone of lifelong learning.” Likewise, The American LibraryAssociation (1989) states that “ultimately, information literate people are those who have learnedhow to learn”. Students that have acquired this skill will be more confident learners because theywill be able to find and use the information they need to solve novel problems. In addition, these Page 10.763.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Lillie

Session 2548 VHDL and Small Format Color Displays ”Video Images Make Learning Fun” Jeffrey S. LillieAbstractRochester Institute of Technology requires a course in Principals of Design Automation for ElectricalEngineering Technology and Computer Engineering Technology students. At the completion of thecourse, students are expected to know the basics of coding for synthesis, test bench techniques,modelsim simulator, and the Xilinx tool flow for targeting complex programmable logic devices(CPLD’s) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA’s).A quick

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

. The biological and social sciences as well as the professionalareas were in the middle.All results examined at UH were from students enrolled in College of Technology courses[Engineering Technology (18%), Human Development and Consumer Science (25%),Information and Logistics Technology (34%), and Occupational Technology/Other (23%)].Based on what had been previously reported in the literature, we expected to see EngineeringTechnology students rating courses and teachers lower than students in the other twodepartments in the college. In fact, our data showed no significant differences in survey resultsbased on whether the students were Engineering Technology students, Consumer Science andMerchandising students, or Information and Logistics

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Scoff

11 The Rebuilding and Revitalization of The Electrical Power Lab At The University of Memphis Robert J. Scoff, P.E. The University f MemphisAbstract: This is a paper which has two purposes. The first is to highlight the effort, and the results that came about when a commitment was made by The Engineering Technology Department at The University of Memphis to rebuild and revitalize The Electrical Power lab. This required a certain financial commitment from the university. That amounted to approximately $21,000. The value of this investment can be viewed, in perspective, from the fact that The US Naval Academy recently

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Stier

A Competency Gaps Study for a Manufacturing Sequence Curriculum Kenneth W. Stier Department of Technology Illinois State UniversityAbstract This study was built on prior competency gap research conducted by the Society forManufacturing Engineers to provide a foundation for the development of the Department ofTechnology’s new Integrated Manufacturing Systems (IMS) laboratory at Illinois StateUniversity (ISU). The objectives of the study were to: a) investigate to what extent small andmid-sized Illinois manufacturing companies feel it is important for newly hired manufacturingengineering or technology graduates to

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Zecher

Session 1348 Development of Multimedia Instructional Tools for Strength of Materials Jack Zecher, Justin Davis, Heather Deaton and Deric Pawlaczyk Mechanical Engineering Technology Department Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractThis paper describes a series of multimedia based instructional lessons that are being developedto enhance a Strength of Materials course. Use of these lessons will help students to morerapidly understand many concepts that are difficult to describe on the printed

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Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

regional industrial development. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 1 (1), 1- 4.23. Fink, F.K. (1999). Integration of engineering practice into curriculum - 25 years of experience with problem based learning. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference. 1, 11a2-7 - 11a2-12.24. Matthew, R.G.S., & Hughes, D.C. (1994). Getting at deep learning: A problem-based approach. Engineering Science and Education Journal, 234-240.25. Jonassen, D. H., Tessmer, M., Hannum, W. H. (1999). Task Analysis Methods for Instructional Design. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. Page 10.74.8

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

was built onthe science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) reform literature. This approachdeveloped a pairwise linkage among strategic courses in the engineering curricula to promotecurricular integration and helped students see connections between their first-year courses andsubsequent courses.Vertically integrated problem-based learning scenarios that link across courses are crucial to thismodel. Pre-reform data collected in the first study showed that students taking an introductorycomputing course did not see the importance of learning a particular software tool (MATLAB),because they did not see connections to their future courses. This had negative impacts onstudent motivation, learning, and retention. In our recent work

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rufus Carter; Lisa F. Bullard; Douglas G. Schmucker; Misty Loughry; Richard Felder; Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton; Cynthia Finelli

Session 1526 Developing a Peer Evaluation Instrument that is Simple, Reliable, and Valid Matthew W. Ohland, Misty L. Loughry, Rufus L. Carter, Lisa G. Bullard, Richard M. Felder, Cynthia J. Finelli, Richard A. Layton, and Douglas G. Schmucker General Engineering, Management, Clemson University / Institutional Research and Assessment, Marymount University / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University / Center for Research on Learning and Teaching-North, University of Michigan / Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology / Civil Engineering, Western Kentucky

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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Ports

approximatelyProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education20 students, with team members split between the two universities. Per the terms of the grant,each team has been working on wireless-based projects, specifically related to the tracking ofmaterials, information and people. A university in Switzerland has indicated an interest in asimilar arrangement. An Aerospace Engineering team is currently collaborating with a teamfrom the Indiana Institute of Technology, and there is consideration of doing a three-universitysenior design team in the future.How do Entrepreneurs fit into this System?What if a senior design team wants to go

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jiunn-Chi Wu

throughout this study.References Page 10.408.10[1] The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (2000): Engineering Criteria 2000 Third Edition: Criteria for Accrediting programs in engineering in the United States, The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore, Maryland.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education[2] Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET) http://www.ieet.com.tw/[3] McGourty, J. Departmental and Course Workbook: Defining Program and Course

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shana Smith

, to a great extent, determines students’ performancein design and technical graphics courses. Prior research shows that 3-D visualization abilitygreatly influences students’ future career success in science, engineering, and technology(McKim, 1980; Norman, 1994; Pleck et al., 1990). Students without sufficient 3-D perceptionability may become frustrated and drop out of CAD programs, or may be advised to pursuestudies in areas that do not require CAD skills. However, if students could improve and gainconfidence in their 3-D visualization skills, they would enjoy CAD instruction more and becomemore engaged. Fortunately, prior research also shows that visualization is a skill that can belearned, developed, and improved with proper instruction

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yi Li; Kai Li; Jing Zhao; Xin Tang

variety of research attempts to impart practical skills to students via the state of the artcomputer technologies. In Vernon College, Computer networking courses are taught via virtualmachine technology [3]. However, they do not put too much effort on remote technologies. Page 10.402.2Students are still taught through traditional face-to-face instruction. Other previous work for Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnetwork education based on virtual networking lab components can be found in [4][5]. In

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dawson Plummer; Sheldon Jeter

Multiple Fuel and Current Collector Testing in Direct Water Methanol Fuel Cells MAJ Dawson A. Plummer Sheldon M. Jeter, P. E., Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil & Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy Georgia Institute of Technology West Point, NY 10996 Atlanta, GA 30332 dawson.plummer@usma.eduAbstract Testing of fuel cells, in particular Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) is an excellentlaboratory exercise that involves chemical