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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

E. G. Anderson; P. K. Rajan; K. Sankara Rao; Val G. Tareski

) will cover the necessary material to the requireddepth at the right time. A new course, "Designing withMicroprocessors", developed by the EEE department at NDSU toachieve the above objectives is described in this paper. Itis a modification of earlier offerings on microprocessorstaught under the heading Special Topics. 2. COURSE SETTING AT NDSU A successful course in microprocessors for electrical en-gineering majors should cover hardware, programming and ap-plications and at the same time avoid undue emphasis in anyone aspect leading to either a technician's course or a pro-grammer;s course. Laboratory work involving microprocessorsshould form an integral part of the students' training. Inaddition to exposing the

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Don L. Stuehm

not having a general understanding of power systemapparatus. Students will be involved in the program initially to assistthe instructor in screening and evaluating the visual aids. The longterm objective is to minimally use the visual aids in lectures to illus-trate compatibility between theory and practice. Most of the visual aidswill be used as homework or laboratory assignments to illustrate powersystem technology. Power apparatus is, in general, too large and too expensive to becompatible with a university laboratory. An alternative is to allowstudents to study visual aids of the apparatus. The benefits of usingwell designed visual aids in teaching and for learning is well estab-lished. The visual aids are to be used by the

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Arnold M. Flikke

. China is now rebuilding the undergraduate programs back to the levelsof pre-revolution standards. This past summer, most reopened institutionsgraduated their first class since the cultural revolution. Simultaneously,the Chinese are trying to complete the interrupted training of theirmiddle level faculty and to rebuild the basic infrastructure of itsbuildings and laboratories. It is important to recall that the Chinese have been heavily in-fluenced by the Russian model in the development of its universitiesand research institutions. China currently has rather rigidly separated 98institutions for teaching and for research. This bureaucratic struc-ture of the Chinese system creates problems in reaching

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Hans J. Goettler

. Of particular interest in this regardare educational systems that are significantly different from our own.The German higher education system has a strongly different structureand approach.Short descriptions of the educational progress of the German engineer-ing student and of the structure of the German technical universityare presented first. Some advantages and disadvantages from the au-thor1s point of view are enumerated. Specific courses, laboratories,projects, examinations, etc., that are listed in this paper as exampleshave been comoleted by the author at the University of Karlsruhe,Karlsruhe, Germany, for a degree in Mechanical Engineering.The CurriculumTable 1 is an attempt to contrast the educational progress of a typicalAmerican

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

W. Kinsner; I. Shpancer

TELECOMg. PH I LLI PS CABLE10. ATOMIC tNERGY OF CANADA11. NATIONAL kESEARCH COUNCIL12. filANITOBA kESEARCH COUNCIL13- CANADIAN NATIONAL kAILWAYS14- SDS Pl.ARM SYSTEMS1s. ENER-(ORP MANAGEM~NT16. GREAT WEST LIFE AsSURANCE17- CANADIAN GRAIN COMMISSION18- RPL INVESTMENTS19- APPIN DYNAMICS20. AVCO PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS21. MAGIKIST22. RED RIVER CoMMUNITY COLLEGE23. WINNIPEG PHOTO 191 7 • TAP COUKSE OFFERINGSTKUCTUKE • tACH COURSE 1-3 DAYS • 60% LECTURE &TUTORIAL $ 40% LABORATORY • LECTURE NOTES • TEXTBOOKDSJ DATA SHEETS • FESS $300 TO $700COUKSES 1- INTROCXJCTION

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Richard L. Witz; Charles W. Moilanen

have many panel boards for teaching differentphases of electricity. The following boards are used forboth agricultural engineering and agricultural mechanizationclasses and laboratories. 1. General demonstration board 2. Motor-starter panel 3. Two station motor starter wiring panel 4. Motor control with SCR's 5. Motor control with Triac 6. Solid state motor starter 7. Electronic power supply panel 8. Overload protection 9. Variable voltage supply panel 10. Heating control panel 11. Fluorescent light display panel 12. Series parallel circuits 13. A study of Triac's and SCR's Students like the approach of seeing these panels as ademonstration in class and then having the opportunity touse them

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David A. Carlson; Clyde E. Work

... ~ Based Graphics Laboratory The Michigan Tech computer graphics laboratory consistsof an IBM 4341 computer system running under the VM operatingsystem with a variety of graphical devices for userinteraction. The main computer, housed in the AdministrationBuilding, is connected to the laboratory site which islocated in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering MechanicsBuilding. Inp_ut and output lines are available to connectthe graphics facility with other computer facilities locateddirectly in the teaching and research laboratories. The system hardware is described in schematic form inFigure 1. Note that the system currently supports vectorrefresh (7), storage tube (5), and-alpha numeric

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

O. Hawaleshka

team of consultants hasafter very careful evaluation of the Philippine situation developed manypropos.ed changes and improvements, some of which have al ready been impl emen-ted.Actions:proposed by the Engineerin~··Edut~tion Project.Since one of the most glaring deficiencies of the Philippine engineeringschools is a near-total absence of acceptable laboratories with equipmentin operating order, the Project has allocated considerable sums as loansto a selected group. of 20 universities for the express purpose of upgradingtheir buildings and equipment. These universities (as listed in Table 3 ofref.2) are nearly all of the better developed establishments in the enginee-ring field. The expenditures are very closely monitored and should

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

G. L. Pratt; K. R. Kaufman; L. F. Backer; J. Walter; M. Ziejewski

the EMA test cycle will soon be initiated. Dr.Everett Pryde, Research Leader, Oilseed Crops Laboratory,Northern Regional Research Laboratory, USDA, Peoria,Illinois is cooperating on these tests. The EMA AlternateFuels Committee is monitoring these tests. Twelve tractors are also being operated in NorthDakota fields on blends of sunflower oil and diesel fuel.Flower Power, Inc., P.O. Box 26, Grand Forks, ND 58201, issponsoring the project and NDSU is providing the dataanalysis. John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, and J.I. Case arethe manufacturers represented in the program. The tractorsrange in power from 120 hp to 250 hp. Six tractors arebeing run on a 25% blend of sunoil and diesel fuel. Theremaining tractors operate on a 50% blend. A

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Frank J. Worzala; Jerome F. Saeman

engineering material canreceive the attention it deserves.*Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science**Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering. Formerly Director of Research, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison Wisconsin. 197Introduction On June 16, 1976, Dr. Jerry Saeman, Associate Director of theForest Products Laboratory, presented a paper at the Annual Meeting ofthe American Society for Engineering Education.tl) In his paper, Dr.Saeman made an impassioned plea to the assembled engineering educators,asking then to look upon wood as an engineering material and to dis-cover its many attributes. His major points were-- - that non-renewable resources, particularly metals, are being

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Lillian L. Goettler

willing to allow access to their classrooms and laboratories,occasionally even by off-campus professionals.For the first conference the organizers were able to solicit the assistanceof about 60 women to serve as workshop leaders and role models in exchangefor only a box lunch and a wine and cheese reception following the con-ference. Although essentially all the female math/science faculty parti-cipated, this gave us only a small start. Local medical research facilitiessuch as the Neurological Institute and Veterans• Administration Hospital,university affiliated research establishments such as the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture and the Metabolism and Radiation Research laboratories aswell as larger local industry such as Northwestern Bell and

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

O. Hawaleshka

103or, failing that, any other type of non-applied white-collar worker. Thisunderlying national trait makes effective technical education appropriateto the developmental level of the country extremely difficult. Theory isaccepted while practical laboratory and experimental work or research isshunned by students and teaching staff alike.The government has recognized that the Philippines is passing out of thestage of being underdeveloped, into an intermediate developing level 11 11of industrial and technical achievement and is attempting through planningto prepare the necessary educational, industrial and economic infrastructure.At the same time it is trying to revitalize Philippine

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David Anthony Rogers; Attilio Jose Giarola; Darlene Hicks Rogers

65 17 9 l 1976 74 32 12 l 1977 76 45 17 0 1978 98 58 10 l 1979 104 73 19 3 1980 117 66 8 7 1981 (132) (63) (l 5) (8) 1982 [135] [70] [25] [10] ( ... ) Estimates [ ... ] ProjectionsGroup in the department maintains a large EAI hybrid computer. Thedepartment is also developing a microelectronics laboratory which willhave the capability of supporting the

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Andrew Baracos

Department was given office space for the Head andsecretary, and about 100 square metres of classroom/laboratory space toserve as a home for staff and students. 11 11 6) The curriculum of Geological Engineering underwent majorchanges. The 1978-1979 calendar listing incorporated the changes made tomeet the CAB requirement for engineering science, and design andsynthesis. Additional changes approved by Senate for 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 included a required course in Engineering Economics, and raising thetotal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Administrative Studies to atotal of five courses, or to 12.5% of the total curriculum. Geohydrologywas introduced as a fourth year technical elective during the 1978-1979term, and as a

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Lester W. Spencer

longer isolated from one another. (p. 74) However, even though they appeared clear and trans-parent, losses through the fibers were huge. A bundle sevenfeet long only delivered 50% of the entering light (Kapany,1960). Even high quality optical glasses used to fabricatelenses had losses of 1000 dB/km or more (Marcuse, 1973).Charles Kao at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories pro-posed that the high loss of most glasses was not an inherentproperty, but was caused by impurities. He stated in 1966that fused silica (quartz) may have losses as low as 80 dB/kmand would be a practical light waveguide (Marcuse, 1973).In 1970, the Corning Glass Works produced a fiber whose losswas measured to be 20 dB/km at the frequency of the helium-neon

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Scott J. Conrad

Sharp, Director of the~Jisconsin Survey Research Laboratory (HSRL), provided consulting on thedesign of the survey, selection of the sample and data analysis. Allquestions were constructed with the following null hypothesis in mindto minimize bias: 11 Despite budget cuts and rising enrollments, the quality of undergraduate education in the College of Engineering has not significantly changed. 11The surveys were designed to take between ten and fifteen minutes toadminister. Nearly identical questions were asked of the threerespondent groups. No open-ended questions were asked, and allresponses were designed to be numerically coded for data analysisusing the computer. Several biographical