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2005 GSW

Authors

James R. Morgan; Brian P. Janak

difficulties oflogistics and cost. Besides the risks involved in construction site visits, the site may not be at aparticular stage of construction during the academic semester, or the construction process maynot be fast enough to understand multiple aspects within a short duration of field visits.Considerable pedagogical advantages can be achieved by the integration of the moderninformation technology (IT) and visualization techniques in teaching engineering technology.The objective of this research was to develop 3-D animations and virtual walkthrough on steelstructural construction. These visualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teachingin the classroom but also an effective self-directed tool for open learning via the web

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2005 GSW

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

combustion engine performance, wind power, and development of aheat flux meter. The course ends with a formal final project report and a formal finalbriefing. While a lot of effort, the course was highly praised during the last ABETaccreditation visit. Student feedback from industry also confirms this. A discussion willbe made of assessment tools used in this course. This course is taken in addition to acapstone senior design course. IntroductionAll accredited engineering programs must have a component of experimental design intheir curriculum. ABET Criterion 3b states “Engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as toanalyze and interpret

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2005 GSW

Authors

James E. Cross

TMS320C6000 DigitalSignal Processor (DSP) series is Texas Instrument’s most powerful DSP processor. The C6713 is thelatest in this series. A number of wide bandwidth analog expansion daughter boards are also beinginstalled as part of this laboratory upgrade. During the 1980’s, with the continuous increasingspeed of digital computers, it became apparent that digital signal processing would become aviable alternative to analog signal processing. In recognizing this trend, digital signal processinglecture and laboratory courses were introduced into the Electrical Engineering curriculum atSouthern University during the early 1990’s. Both Motorola and Texas Instruments digital signalprocessors have been used in the laboratory. The DSP boards have included

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2005 GSW

Authors

Clay Naito

to Engineering,” Defense Dept., Army, United States Military Academy, pp.210, 20022. Library of Congress: American Memory Collection, “Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record,” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/.3. Ressler, S. J., “West Point Bridge Designer,” Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, West Point Military Academy, 2005, http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/.4. Integrated Engineering Software, Inc., Visual Analysis 4.0, 2000, http://www.iesweb.com/.CLAY NAITODr. Naito is an assistant professor of structural engineering in the department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at Lehigh University and an associated faculty of the ATLSS Research Center. He received a

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2005 GSW

Authors

Pradeep Bhattacharya; Nikhil Modi; Fred Lacy

introductory courses in semiconductor physics.Studies of introductory semiconductor courses have indicated that geometries, geometry-dependent properties of crystals, and an analysis of electrical, thermal, optical, orchemical energies in the electronics world, are among the common topics taught inintroductory courses in semiconductor physics. A review of available software tools forteaching and learning semiconductor geometries indicates that there is a lack of highlyeffective visualization methodologies for commonly used semiconductor materialstructures. The purpose of this paper is to describe a virtual environment tutorial that hasbeen developed to supplement a typical course in semiconductor physics

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2005 GSW

Authors

Jorge E. Navarro; Apolinar Zapata

, “Research as Guide for Curriculum Development: an Example from Introductory Electricity. Part 1: Investigation of Student Understanding,” Am. J. Phys., 60 (11), pp. 994-1013.5. Linder, C. J., Hillhouse, G., 1996, “Teaching by Conceptual Exploration,” Phys. Teach., 34, pp. 332-338.6. Laws, P. W., 1997, “Millikan Lecture 1996: Promoting Active Learning Based on Physics Education Research in Introductory Physics Courses,” Am. J. Phys. 65 (1), pp. 14-21. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education7. Thacker, B., Kim, E., Trefz, K., Lea, S. M., 1994, “Comparing