Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland

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Women in Engineering

influenced by the nature and content of a discipline andhow it was practised in the “real world”, as well as influenced and reinforced by how staffand students played their role.Recent participation data for the US in 2004, provided in Table 1, demonstrate thatElectrical and Mechanical Engineering – which together account for approximately one-halfof all degrees awarded in Engineering – have a collective percentage of female degree -earners of just 14%, while all remaining Engineering disciplines – account for the remaininghalf of degrees issued in Engineering – having double that percentage at 28%.Table 1: Earned Bachelors Degree by Gender 2004 12 Academic Discipline/Field Both Genders Female % Female Male % MaleAll Academic

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Introductory Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George List, North Carolina State University

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First-Year Programs

programming skills. Other disciplines adopted such courses more slowly.Consequently, the topic of this paper is not new.As Rasdorf 1 indicates, in the late 1970’s, civil engineering programs began to embrace the ideaof including computer programming classes in their undergraduate curricula. The argument was,in part, that “students must be prepared to use computer methods and applications as a part oftheir fundamental education. It is the responsibility of colleges and universities to incorporatecontemporary computing fundamentals into their academic curriculum to improve theprofessional qualifications of their engineering graduates. These graduates will in turn be able toprovide their increasingly important expertise to both the engineering

Conference Session

Design for Special Services

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kara Chomistek, University of Calgary; Graham Armitage, University of Calgary; Phillip du Plessix, University of Calgary; Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Mohamed Nazir, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Diane Douglas, University of Calgary; Brigit Knecht, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

medical model of disability focuses on ‘medical facts’ that categorize individuals withdisabilities as being “flawed in some aspect of their humanity,”1 the social model of disabilityconcentrates on the experience of living with a disability, as an individual with different abilitiesand needs. The lack of emphasis towards the social model has led to the creation of these‘socially constructed barriers’.4 The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation(UPIAS) in 1976 defined socially constructed barriers as “disabilities which are imposed on topof our physical impairments by the way this society is organized to exclude us.”5 This statementclearly defines the lack of disability conscious design such as building design, transportation

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Zeid, Northeastern University; Randal August, Northeastern University; Ronald Perry, Northeastern University; Emanuel Mason, Northeastern University; Jannon Farkis, Northeastern University; Marta Hersek, Northeastern University; Morgan Hynes, TechBoston; Haruna Tada, TechBoston; Felicia Vargas, TechBoston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, how it is implemented,and its results. The paper also presents data and analysis from the project. Page 12.86.2IntroductionThe NSF-funded project described in this paper addresses four needs: (1) placing middle schoolstudents on a path to meet state and national workforce demands; 2) providing professionaldevelopment for middle school teachers; 3) helping Massachusetts schools and students meetstatewide academic standards; and 4) preparing more female and minority students for careersin IT.The demand for workers with IT skills is expected to remain strong into the next decade. In aNovember 2001 report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics identified

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Chris Moore, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Computers in Education

Assistant Professor ofEnvironmental Engineering and a Course Developer from the Distributed Education andMultimedia Department at our institution, worked closely to implement web-based tools andintegrate aspects of social responsibility into an introductory course in Air Quality. For a year,we worked together to transform notes and resources into digital format and tested a number oftools within the available course management system (WebCT) at our institution.The conversion of class notes to digital PowerPoint (PPT) format was undertaken to support adeliberate process-oriented pedagogy that required or strongly encouraged in-class note-taking (amode of cognition or content interaction)1. Students only had pre-class access topartial/incomplete

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haley Haywood, Oklahoma State University; Forrest Austin, Oklahoma State University; Seth Williams, Oklahoma State University; Cameron Musgrove, Oklahoma State University; Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

on student development. 1Possibly one of the most challenging courses to adapt due to its large size and multidisciplinarynature is ENSC 2613 Introduction to Electrical Science. Although this course is the basis tomany electrical engineering courses, it is also multidisciplinary (including but not limited tomechanical, civil, industrial, and chemical engineers), and is also populated by over one hundredstudents in both fall and spring.The development model used in this paper is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy2, a model of learnerdevelopment which identifies six levels of learning and helps faculty know when students havemastered a level. A simplified version of this model is shown in Figure 1

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Introductory Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Lehr, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Christopher Grant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

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First-Year Programs

project called introduction to structures. Students had toanalyze, describe, and then modify a C program that was coded for them. The otherproject was an individual programming project where the student had to come up with theproblem, solve it, and document the complete solution.Programming Project 1 – Modification of Existing Code BaseAfter teaching arrays and strings, we introduced the first programming project,introduction to structures. Students were given code that was very modular andreinforced all the concepts taught prior in the semester. The program read data from afile into an array of structures of the student type defined, and provided menus to add,delete, and sort the array of students. Each time the data in memory was modified

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip du Plessix, University of Calgary; Graham Armitage, University of Calgary; Kara Chomistek, University of Calgary; Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Mohamed Nazir, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Diane Douglas, University of Calgary; Brigit Knecht, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

Laboratory and Schulich School of Engineering Machine Shop personnel.The video discusses fundamental safety, storage and operational procedures of the tools, andgoes on to explain and demonstrate the proper use and technique of twelve of the skill basedtools available. The content and applications in the video are based on situations likelyencountered by the students. The video avoids dramatizations or content that could give thestudents a sense of exclusion, and instead focuses on script targeted directly to the viewer. Theseventeen minute long content is broken down into fourteen chapters: 1. Laboratory Tools & Safety 2. Utility Knife 3. Metal File 4. Wood Chisel 5. Saws - General 6. Hack Saw 7. Back

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University; Janell Armstrong, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Technology

instructional designers to select a range ofsystems suitable for a college-level embedded systems course.This paper reviews and classifies the application domains, hardware systems, operating systemsand development systems for the field of embedded systems. This enables instructional designersto place specific systems in context and to intelligently select the appropriate sub-domain fortheir own purposes. Guidelines are proposed for courses in embedded systems for achievingdifferent objectives.1. IntroductionMark Weiser is regarded as the father of ubiquitous computing. His seminal articles describe aworld where computers fade into the background and provide invaluable but invisible support forall the user wishes to do1, 2, 3. Using current technology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Maase, Oklahoma State University

: Function Programs, Input/Output, Variables/Storage Engineering: Model Limitations, Experimental data, Validation of ResultsTo begin the basic projectile motion and kinetic energy equations are combined developing asimple ‘jump model’ of an animal. Model development, limitations, and implementation arediscussed in the class lecture. The final model describes jump distance based on an animals’mass, energy, gravity, and jump take-off angle. Figure 1. A 'Jump' (Projectile) ModelNumerous parameters (values) of the model are unknown and require the students do some basicresearch to determine how actual Kangaroos behave in order to validate program results.This initial assignment, in addition to introducing basic

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Brian Sangeorzan, Oakland University; Xia Wang, Oakland University; Chris Kobus, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Alex Alkidas, Oakland University; Michael Latcha, Oakland University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

on automotive research. The Automotive Research and IndustrialMentorship (ARIM) REU program at Oakland University 1 aims to engage participants inrewarding automotive research experiences that excite and motivate them to pursue careers inscientific and engineering research, and seeks to address the nationwide problem of the under-representation of women and minorities in the sciences, technology, engineering andmath (STEM).The automotive focus of this program was a natural choice given OU’s close ties to and locationnear the world headquarters and engineering centers of the Big-Three automakers, as well asover one hundred automotive suppliers in southeast Michigan. So, in the summer of 2006, tenundergraduate engineering students from across

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Pitts, Oklahoma State University; Patrick Teague, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-programmingcounterparts. However it was found that there was no statistical variation on exam scoresbetween paired students and non-paired students. It should also be noted that a much higherpercentage of non-paired students dropped the course midway through the semester, 24.1%compared to 7.6% of paired students.53 MethodsThe experiment to be performed will consist of three stages. In each stage a different method ofinteraction will be applied to (and used in) the lab section of the course. Each method will beapplied to a separate semester, so that students are exposed to only one. These methods are asfollows 1. Students will work individually on lab assignments. Each student will be solely responsible for her own work. Lab assignments will be of a nature

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gardner, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Marcia Belcheir, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

impact in theengineering education community.Research MethodTwo studies are reported on this paper: 1) A backward-looking survey of successfulengineering students to see the level of mathematics at which they started college and 2)An analysis of factors correlated to student persistence. The first study began as aninformal attempt to assess the range of math preparedness among our students in an effortto help direct our program development efforts. The second was performed to test ahypothesis formed while carrying out the informal studies. As we will demonstrate, asignificant portion of our successful students began their college experience indevelopmental mathematics. We also found that attrition among students who began incalculus or came to

Conference Session

Leadership Perspectives in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

industrial experiences into the classroom, it can be a very rewarding experience for boththe students as well as the professor.Industrial RelationshipsIn order to have a real world relevant program a very strong relationship must be formed withindustry. These industrial relationships are key in order to keep technical currency in today’sever changing engineering environment.1 Keeping the curricular programs relevant will enablean institution to make the learning experience more meaningful to the students. This sense ofkeeping the learning experience more meaningful to the students is one of the majorrecommendations of the Committee of Engineering Education of the National Academy ofEngineering.2 These industrial relationships are true alliances. We

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francisco Gamboa Valderrama, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira; Bianey Ruiz, University of Tachira; Dilia Alcalde, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

ofwork load.For these reasons, it seems necessary to find an alternative assessment approach that addressesindividual differences of group members and allows evaluation of individual contributions to thetask through the group experience without losing the effect of working in groups.BackgroundAccording to Forsyth (1999), a group is two or more interdependent individuals who influenceone another through social interaction1. This definition implies that a group is characterized by a)being a social entity; b) has a common objective; c) there is interdependence between groupmembers; and d) their interaction is a complex process.Figure 1 shows the variables determine group members’ behaviors. These variables are:1. Clear and common objectives: Common

Conference Session

FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Grimm, Wayne State University

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First-Year Programs

, 2007 An Engineering Bridge Program: Improving the Success Rate of Under-Prepared Students in EngineeringAbstractIn 2003, the College of Engineering at Wayne State recognized that a large proportion of itsstudents entered the engineering program with placement into beginning or intermediate algebra.This is, in part, a result of the University’s mission to be an institution of opportunity – providingaccess to all academically qualified students. Only a small group of these incoming studentsremained in the College of Engineering after 4 years. As a result, an Engineering BridgeProgram was developed with the dual objective of: 1) providing students with the

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Morozov, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

learning outcomes that may be addressed in curriculumdevelopment and program planning.The exploratory study discussed here offers an in-depth look at how four expert engineersaddress a specific design task. Using a mixed methods approach to data analysis, we will (1)compare expert behavior to that of novices who participated in another study, and (2) begin todevelop a narrative theory of experts’ ways of thinking about and doing design. Verbal protocolanalysis has allowed us to use an existing coding scheme for making systematic comparisonsacross research studies that have generated relatively large datasets on design thinking anddoing4. This component of the current study contributes to our ongoing larger program of inquiryaimed at establishing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denine Northrup, Western New England College; Steven Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

teamwork itemsincluded Team members (across disciplines) discussed design tradeoffs during the project. Thecomplete survey items are included in Table 1 along with the means and standard deviationsacross all responses. Table 1 – Survey Questions with mean and standard deviation reported Std Question Mean Dev Team members (across disciplines) worked together in initial brainstorming meetings 3.32 0.66 Team members (across disciplines) discussed design tradeoffs

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira; Sheila Lizcano, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira; Francisco Gamboa, University of Tachira; Dilia Alcalde, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira; Stephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

type of motivation teammembers should have to work effectively in teams. Among work motivation theories,McClelland’s Theory of Needs affirms that at any given time, individuals hold several oftencompeting needs that when activated motivate behaviors. McClelland defines these needs as Page 12.1607.2motives for behaviors as achievement (nAch), affiliation (nAff), and power (nPow)6.According to McClelland (as cited in Steers, Mowday, and Shapiro, 2004)1, achievement needrefers to behaviors directed toward success through competition with a standard of excellence.Also, McClelland, (as cited in Espinoza, 2003)7, defines affiliation as the need of

Conference Session

Introducing Active and Inductive Learning and Improving the Learning Curve in ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Byrne, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Keith describes how entering into the position of engineeringprofessor is in some ways similar to starting up a company.1 This perception is based, in part,upon the premise that excellence and achievement is expected in all categories. Moreover, thereis reported an increasing emphasis on more research for scholarship, even at many of the smaller,regional institutions.There is a conventional knowledge within the engineering education community regarding theexpectations of faculty at different institutions or in different faculty positions. As it relates toindividual professional preferences, this has been categorized by Andrew Rose2 as: “Tenure-Track Position in Engineering at a Research University Tenure-Track Position in

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shashi Nambisan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

for the first of the two course sequence.Specific requirements for this Senior design experience are that the students need to complete aproject based on the following criteria: 1. The project must be based on the knowledge and skills related to the design process acquired in earlier course work. This explains the lengthy prerequisite list. 2. The project must incorporate engineering standards and be responsive to local codes and regulations. This explains why proposals are presented by practicing engineers. 3. Consideration must be given to the recognition of reasonable constraints imposed by economic, environmental, sustainability, manufacturability, constructability, ethical, health, safety, reliability, social

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Light, University of Washington; Russell Korte, University Of Minnesota; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington

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First-Year Programs

address specific engineering problems devised first toelicit responses that reflect aspects of their engineering knowledge and skills, and second, toreveal how they apply this learning to engineering design practice. One of the problems given tostudents in the first year was a closed-ended question about the information they would need todesign a playground. Figure 1 contains the text of the question. You have been asked to design a playground. You have a limited amount of time and resources to gather information for your design. From the following list, please put a check mark next to the FIVE kinds of information you would MOST LIKELY NEED as you work on your design: - Availability of materials - Body proportions - Budget

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Janice McCain, Howard University; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

argue thatproviding opportunities to foster contextual awareness and student engagement should result ingreater satisfaction for all students.BackgroundEducators, professionals and policy-makers alike recognize that contemporary engineering mustbe studied and practiced in context. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) envisions an“Engineer of 2020” who demonstrates “dynamism, agility, resilience, and flexibility” to designfor an uncertain and rapidly changing world.1 Contextual conditions like a fragile globaleconomy, increased mobility of jobs and workers, rapid development of information andcommunication technologies, growing calls for social responsibility,2 and rising complexity ofengineered products3 all warrant engineering students

Conference Session

Unique Developments in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

something they wish to work on and not repeating the same old labs as the last few years.The following figures are from some of the past projects the students have done. Figure 1 showsa “proof of concept robotics” project that was done for one of the local industries. This project“mocked up” two punch presses with the die and punch from the company. The projectdemonstrated how a single robot could tend both machines. Representatives from the companyviewed the demonstration and with modifications installed the project. Figure 2 shows a projectthat the students did to simulate a machine tending operation with a cylindrical robot tending anoperation done by a SCARA type robot. Figure 3 is the simulation of a quality control stationthat inserts a bulb

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Alan Mickelson, University of Colorado at Boulder; Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston

their educational goals whileworking.We will present our project results in the following sections: Course and lab integration,project objectives, course/lab web site, and student interaction in a pure virtualenvironment.1. Course and Lab IntegrationThe course has been divided into a sequence of presentations: a theory lecture in theclassroom would be followed with a simulation assignment on the concept. We havedesigned the simulations according to how the idealized systems would behave in anoptical circuit. The simulation again would be followed with more theory and practices inthe lecture. The last item in the sequence has been the lab practice.For each laboratory the following material is developed:Laboratory manualSimulation software using

Conference Session

Contemporary Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

due to two reasons: (1) Theprocess itself (2) Personnel that runs the process. Whatever the reasons are -- in order to rectify,they need to be determined. Since product and process variability can be described in statisticalterms, determination of this in quantitative form using statistical methods will point us to theobvious direction of rectification. Process Capability is a measure of the uniformity of a processoutput. To estimate this, engineering and statistical analyses have to be launched. If a process isdetermined to be incapable of producing product within the required specification, StatisticalProcess Control (SPC) will not fix it or control it; however, it will exhibit that the process isincapable.Often time’s workers are blamed

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Encarnacao, University of California, Los Angeles; Paul Espinosa, University of California, Los Angeles; Lawrence Au, University of California, Los Angeles; Lianna Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles; Gregory Chung, University of California-Los Angeles; William Kaiser, University of California-Los Angeles

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Computers in Education

. Much of the success in student learning is attributed to the interactions between theinstructor and students.1,2 It has been shown that when students are actively interacting with theinstructor, they are more engaged in learning.2 These interactions facilitate student participation,attentiveness, motivation and an overall desire to learn3. These are all reasons why interactivity issuch a critical component in student learning.1,4 In typical classrooms, however, interactions areoften one-way and lack feedback to an instructor – an instructor provides a lecture and students arerestricted to only listen. Small interactions are common but still very limited for the followingreasons: 1) limited class time is available for interaction; 2) oral

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University-Calumet; Masoud Fathizadeh, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

™ transceiver systemsproduced by Omnex Control System Inc. HS-900 Hoplink Codeless Wire™ transceiver systemsis a license free 902-928 MHz band coupled with Omnex’s proven Frequency Hopping SpreadSpectrum technology. This wireless conduit is capable of transmitting and receiving analog anddigital signal reliably over distance of about 1 to 2 miles using special antennas. Figure 1 showsthe block diagram of the integrated wireless motor control system coupled with LAN Page 12.105.3Figure 1: Block Diagram of the Wireless Control SystemThe proposed model, monitors, controls, and produces data history in desired formats. Themodel is also capable of

Conference Session

Electromechanical and Manufacturing Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahad Nasab, Middle Tennessee State University; SANTOSH KAPARTHI, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

variety ofremote control product ranges. An RC5 control "word" is made up of 14 bits and is shown in theFigure1below.The red bits are level "ON,” while blue are "OFF." Figure 1: Bit pattern of RC5 RemoteThe first two bits, #1 and #2 are called AGC calibration. These are used to “wake up" thereceiver and for adjusting the AGC circuit. In the Philips remotes, the bit #3 is the toggle bit,toggles every time you release a button and press another or the same button. The next 5 bits, #4to #8, are used for system address, or to identify which kind of device should execute theCOMMAND bits. For example, TV set uses ADDRESS ZERO, VCRs uses 5. The next 6 bits,#9 to #14, are used for command information to the device selected

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

International

startups through innovative and creative projects that develop both Page 12.15.2intellectual capital and technology transfer.1,2The Kimmel School of Construction Management, Engineering and Technology hasdemonstrated leadership in applied research within the university community and has takenan active role in economic development opportunities. The school was approached onDecember 1, 2003 by the Education and Research Consortium to discuss the opportunity ofworking with a manufacturing company in western North Carolina. The collaboration wasto assist in prototyping and field testing of water-heating dehumidifier (HWD) combinationunits. The opportunity for