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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

. These newstandards emphasize nurturing students' ability in problem-solving and lifelong learning, thus toenable them to integrate mathematics and science with technology to solve real-worldproblems. Implementation of these goals requires mathematics and science teachers todevelop new curriculum and approaches. This has presented a great challenge to teachers,especially to those working in rural school districts. Compared with their counterparts in urbanschools, rural school teachers usually work in a more isolated environment, and have lessfinancial resources and opportunity to conduct professional development. As such, it is moredifficult for them to implement the new standards.To implement the new standards, mathematics and science teachers

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William E. Howard; Joseph C. Musto; William C. Farrow

Using Dynamic Simulation Software in Machine and Mechanism Design Classes William E. Howard, Joseph C. Musto, and William C. Farrow Milwaukee School of EngineeringABSTRACTThe design and analysis of machines and mechanisms is an important area of study in anymechanical engineering curriculum. Teaching the concepts of kinematics and kinetics can bechallenging, however, as the static nature of traditional teaching methods are not particularlywell suited to developing an understanding of the physical dynamics of a mechanism. Untilrecently, dynamic simulation software was expensive and cumbersome to use, and so its role inundergraduate education was limited.Over the past decade, many new

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Richard E. Smith

“machinelanguage” programs. SimpleCPU has two advantages over “black box” CPU simulations,like the “Little Man Computer.” First, SimpleCPU is integrated into the spreadsheet thatis already part of the course curriculum, which simplifies matters for novice computerusers as well as the instructor. Second, students can examine any part of the simulationdirectly by looking in spreadsheet cells and reading the single page of macro definitions.Nothing is hidden in object code or an unfamiliar language. The package can also beused with a computer architecture course, giving students a low-cost way to build andtest their own simple processor designs. Introduction Introductory computer literacy has always posed a challenge to instructors. Althoughstudents

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James P. Penrod

geared for engineering technology. Notable was a significant portion of the course beingdevoted to infinite sequences and series, which are not utilized to any great extent inengineering technology courses. As a final comment regarding MTH 149, it does includeintegration by parts and the logarithm as an integral, which is considered desirable content.Curriculum ConstraintsIn recommending modifications to the mathematics curriculum, the committee was faced with anumber of constraints. First of all, it was desired to maintain the same number of credits in eachtechnology program for mathematics coursework - for computer, electrical, and mechanicalengineering technology programs 17-semester hours, and for industrial and computerengineering 14

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

developed and taught for the first time inour SE curriculum during the Winter Quarter 2000-2001 [8]. The students are first introduced tothe importance of requirements in SE-283 (Introduction to Software Verification), and SE-280(Software Engineering Process). The concepts of RE learnt in SE-3821 are reinforced in SE-380(Principles of Software Architecture) and the process is scaled up for the students in their three-quarter experience of “Software Development Laboratory”[5], where the students work on large-scale projects in a “real-world” setting.2. Curricular contextThe academic schedule at MSOE is based on a quarter system with three quarters in an academicyear. Each quarter involves ten weeks of instruction with the eleventh week devoted to