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David E. Goldberg; W. Brenton Hall; Lindsay Krussow; Eunice Lee; Aaron Walker

increasing availability ofnew information technologies, and increasingly di cult budgetary constraints. Many of thereform e orts are starting to pay o in prototype form with both anecdotal and statisticalevidence of programmatic success, but increasingly a number of engineering educators|including those involved in the design and implementation of reform|are wondering if thesee orts will ever|can ever|scale up to the real world of engineering education with itsrelentless time, curriculum credit, and budget pressures. Time will tell which of the reform e orts make it to the everyday classroom, but thispaper o ers an incremental, low-cost, e ective alternative to the wholesale rearrangements ofcurriculum topics, ow, and chunk size that seem to

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undesiredside effects of undergraduate EE/EET curricula.IntroductionA critical examination of undergraduate Electrical Engineering and ElectricalEngineering Technology programs exposes the following:• The discipline is artificially partitioned into topics (e.g., Circuit Analysis, Power and Machinery, Computer Architecture, Digital Signal Processing, etc.) which appear to the student to be somewhat unrelated. This is a result of the traditional packaging of study into a set of courses. The effect is that the students often do not make connections between courses and therefore fail to see a single cohesive discipline.• Students often master and retain problem-solving procedures at the expense of their understanding of the underlying

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Lori S. Cook; Lawrence S. Aft

Session 3557 MSQA ON-LINE: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT Lori S. Cook, Lawrence S. Aft Southern Polytechnic State University Department of Industrial Engineering Technology Marietta, GA 30060 ABSTRACTSouthern Polytechnic State University’s (SPSU) mission includes providing educationalexperiences to all of the citizens of Georgia. The Internet provides a mechanism for providingthese educational experiences to all qualified students regardless of geographic location andability to be in a

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Don L. Dekker

Session 2225 Design, Build, Test Project in Thermal Design Don L. Dekker Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyABSTRACTThermal Design is currently a required course for all senior mechanical engineering students. Thecourse content includes heat exchangers, piping, pumps, fans, and non-steady flow. A project, thedesign of a heat exchanger, provides the focus of the course. The heat exchanger design has evolvedover several years into the design of a heat exchanger to preheat the cold water entering an industrialfacility.During the first four weeks of the quarter, student

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attended in July, 1997, at Center for theStudy of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP), Illinois Institute of Technology. The “Ethics Acrossthe Curriculum” workshop was a continuation of a personal interest in teaching ethics (I alsoattended the NSF “Teaching Research Ethics” Workshop at the Poynter Center, IndianaUniversity during the summer of 1996).This paper describes the handouts, homework questions, examination questions, and in-classdiscussions included in the ethics component of the two Materials Science courses, MSM 454and MSM 855. (I’ll focus on incorporating ethics into Materials Science courses, so I will notdiscuss the general freshman engineering course EGR 291, although teaching EGR 291 wascertainly an interesting experience.) As part

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technical team environment,” Educational Technology Research and Development, Page 3.70.6 Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 61-71, 1995.4. Hilborn, R. B., “Team learning for engineering students,” IEEE Transactions on Education, pp. 207-211, Aug. 1994.5. ASEE Project Report, “Engineering education for a changing world,” ASEE Prism, Vol. 4, Dec. 1994.6. Yost, S. A., “Factors Affecting The Successful Integration of a Cooperative Learning Component in Classroom Instruction,” Proceedings, ASEE 1997 North Central Section Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 154-159, April 1997.Biographical InformationSandra A. Yost is an

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Jeff Griffin; Peter J. Biegel; Ronald Goodnight

right job for the person, The right person for the job* http://www.espan.com The Virtual Job Fair; specialists for high technology careers* ** http://www.careerexpo.com Online Career Center* ** http://www.occ.com (add /occ/Engineer for occupational listings) JobHunt, on-line job services http://www.job-hunt.org Career Connections* ** http://www.career.com Page 3.637.3 Session 1648Table 3. Using Hoovers as the primary search engine

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literacy. One reason this occurs isthat in associate-degree career and transfer programs that are not technological in nature, studentsare required to take at most two courses in mathematics and the sciences. Approximately one-half of all students in a degree program at HACC are part of this population. These studentsoften graduate without developing scientific and technological literacy.The National Science Foundation NSF awarded an Instrumentation and Laboratory ImprovementGrant to three faculty members from the Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Division atHACC. The grant, awarded under the NSF's Leadership in Laboratory Development program,was made for the investigators to develop a text and a laboratory manual for an

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Josue Njock-Libii

Session 1380 The Use of Conic Sections in Basic Mechanics Courses: Some Examples Josué Njock Libii School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499 USAConic sections appear in the discussion of many concepts in basic mechanics courses. Thepurpose of this paper is to illustrate some common topics in which they appear. The paper giveseight examples of the use of conic sections in mechanics. It states the equation of the conicsection in each case and defines the

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Sima Bagheri; Qun Xiao; Jelena Balorda

Session 2526 Hazardous Waste Sites Characterizations using Geographic Information System in Newark, New Jersey Sima Bagheri, Jelena Balorda, Qun Xiao Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102ABSTRACTThe technology of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is used to map the potentialhazardous waste site locations within the southeastern portion of Newark, New Jersey and toassess the potential risks of such sites to both human and environmental health. The study siteis a

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James P. Solti; James M., Jr. Greer

resolve Ill-Defined problems (problem solving skills). 6. Provide a forum for the instructors to assess their own pedagogical prowess. 7. Continue to integrate the USAFA educational outcomes into the classroom experience. 8. Facilitate technology integration into the classroom.The objectives have been specifically formulated to serve the higher institutionalobjectives, which the USAFA refers to as “educational outcomes.” 1. Officers who possess breadth of integrated, fundamental knowledge in the basic sciences, engineering, the humanities, and social sciences, and depth of knowledge in an area of concentration of their choice. 2. Officers who are intellectually curious

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Wayne Woldt; Mohamed Dahab; Bruce I. Dvorak; Dennis Schulte

Missouri). Matching funds are provided by the University of Nebraska.Support for the program is provided by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. Thethree main goals of this program are to provide: 1) an intensive educational experience inpollution prevention for engineering students, 2) technical assistance to small businesses andindustries in Nebraska, and 3) research on complex pollution prevention problems. The technical assistance is delivered each summer by 15 to 18 undergraduate engineeringstudent interns and three graduate students. The undergraduate interns participate in two weeksof intensive formal training before spending nine weeks in an assigned (industrial, smallbusiness, or regulatory) location providing a

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S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

Session 3532 Computer Aided Design of Digital Filters S. Hossein Mousavinezhad Professor and Chair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 (616) 387-4057 FAX (616) 387-4024 h.mousavinezhad@wmich.eduI. INTRODUCTIONDigital Signal Processing (DSP) is an important and growing subject area in electricaland computer engineering (ECE) with applications in many

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Bruno Osorno

. This isthe beauty of this data acquisition system.CONCLUSIONS: It is important to realize that the students that use this equipment areelectromechanical option and Electrical Engineering majors with emphasis in electric powersystems. Therefore, the students are more interested in the systems use of the Data Acquisitionequipment. In other words, the students want to learn the application of the equipment at hand,and understand the concepts of the material. Also, the interest in learning the versatility of theequipment is quite high.The introduction of high technology into the classroom, especially in electric power systems hasbeen a real success in our program. As we are all aware, deregulation of the power industry hasbasically killed most of

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J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey W. Honchell

Session 3626 A Team Centered, Project Oriented Approach in Analog Integrated Circuits J. Michael Jacob, Jefffrey W. Honchell Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an end-of-semester day-long required project used as a capstone to a juniorelectrical engineering technology course in Analog Integrated Circuits Applications. Themotivation for the project is presented in the Introduction. The Project Description explains boththe problem presented to the students and the implementation constraints. The Evaluationsection has three parts; the

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Manufacturing Engineering department, of which the authors are faculty, is housed in theSchool of Applied Science, which also contains the departments of System Analysis, Paper Sci-ence and Engineering, Nursing, and, on the regional campuses, Engineering Technology. TheSchool of Applied Science also conducts an Engineering Management program in conjunctionwith the School of Business. The school has around 2000 undergraduates, with half of themmajoring in the engineering-based disciplines.The emphasis on undergraduate teaching at Miami University has led the administration to the Page 3.409.1development of programs to enhance the teaching effectiveness

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Greg Hilker; Fred Jenkins; David Westine

to the wind site. Page 3.632.8 8Bibliography1. Nise, N.S., Control Systems Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1995.2. Johnson, C., Process Control Instrumentation Technology, Prentice-Hall, 1993.3. Hilker, G.B., Modeling and Simulation of a Yaw Controlled Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine, Montana Tech, 1996.4. Franklin, G.F., Powell, J.D., Workman, M.L., Digital Control of Dynamic Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1994.Biographical InformationDAVID WESTINEAssociate Professor and Head of the Engineering Science Department at Montana Tech of The University of Montana andholds a Ph.D. degree in Engineering

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Thalia Anagnos; Michael W. Jennings

Session 3209 Preparing an Assessment Plan at San Jose State University Michael Jennings, Thalia Anagnos Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0082, phone (408) 924-3926, FAX (408) 924-4057, jennimi@email.sjsu.edu andDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering , San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 95192-0083, phone (408) 924-3861, FAX (408) 924-4004, tanagnos@email.sjsu.edu Presented at ASEE 1998 Annual Meeting

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F. Jalali

Session 2648 TS/ 4 TRANSMISSION LINE EXPERIMENTS AT LOW COST F. Jalali Electronic Engineering Technology Department Fort Valley State UniversityABSTRACTThe GHz-range equipment and components normally required for the basic experiments intransmission line and microwave topics are expensive and often beyond the budgets of smallprograms. The LC lumped-element transmission line model provides an economicalalternative for such experiments. Appropriate choice of inductance and capacitance values forthe LC sections makes it possible to establish standing waves

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Arthur B. Sacks

, challenges, ironically,which were created in part by the very intelligence, imagination and ingenuity of engineers andapplied scientists. It pointed as well to the responsibility of higher educational institutions fordeveloping new ideas, strategies and technologies to respond to quickly emerging environmentalproblems that are increasingly transboundary and global in character and which threaten toundermine the fundamental biospheric systems and ecosystem services upon which we depend.This responsibility is all the more significant because of higher education’s primary role inpreparing new generations of leaders for industry, commerce, science and government.In defining itself as an institution dedicated to Earth stewardship, CSM has acknowledged

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supplies, such as found in most personal computers. Second, atopology to safely and dramatically show voltage flicker on a ordinary light bulb is proposed.Third, a circuit that shows the current distortion common to diode rectifier circuit with largecapacitor-based filters is given. Instrumentation is of the type common to most educationalfacilities for electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology: oscilloscopes, functiongenerators, small transformers. Each of the demonstrations proposed in this paper can be quicklyassembled in an ordinary undergraduate laboratory and in most classrooms as well. Though thedemonstrations use ordinary utility power, appropriate safety considerations have been built in,making them safe for use among

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Xiaomin Li; Vasiliki Tzovla; Minaz Vastani; Li Yu; J. R. Cogdell; Chitra Phadke; Anju Bhagat; Agustinus Darmawan

Session 1532 The HiTech Web Advising System J. R. Cogdell, Anju Bhagat, Agustinus Darmawan, Xiaomin Li, Chitra Phadke, Vasiliki Tzovla, Minaz Vastani, Li Yu Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin.I. Problem DescriptionThe University of Texas mandates a one-week period to advise students before registration forthe upcoming semester. Many of the components of the university allow students to self advise,but the College of Engineering requires students to be advised in their resident departments

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Steven W. Peretti; Richard M. Felder

Coalition.Biographical InformationRICHARD M. FELDER is the Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina StateUniversity. He received his B.Ch.E. from CCNY and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is coauthor of thetext Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (Wiley, 1986), and with Rebecca Brent codirects the ASEE’sNational Effective Teaching Institute and regularly presents teaching effectiveness workshops on campuses aroundthe world.STEVEN W. PERETTI is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. Hereceived his B.S from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. His researchfocuses on bioremediation based on cloned gene expression in bacteria

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Larry Hoffman; Kevin D. Taylor; Russell A. Aubrey

literatureArticles in the literature on faculty mentoring in engineering or engineering technology are rareor non-existent. There are, however, numerous articles which indicate that a well-planned andexecuted mentoring program for new, young faculty will make an important contribution to thesuccess of the individuals and thence to the success of the institution. Queralt’s article citedbelow provides strong support for the notion that mentorship is good.College and university faculty and administrators in the state of Florida were surveyed byquestionnaire, and Queralt (5) reported the results. The 287 questionnaire responses weredivided into two categories – respondents who claimed to have had mentoring and respondentswho claimed to not have had mentoring

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freshman year up. Inherent to the projectbased approach is the opportunity to work in teams, see the big picture and make technicalpresentations. The University of Colorado has opened a chalkboard-less Integrated TeachingLaboratory. This facility houses numerous project stations, computers and instrumentation thatserves as the nucleus for curriculum reform enabling more hands-on learning.Performance based approaches to education have been described by Spady and Marshall andplaced in three levels: traditional, transitional, and transformational with traits as outlined inTable 1. The traditional approach is best illustrated by the competency based education that hasbeen used in engineering technology programs for years. It is characterized by

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Robert (Bob) M. Anderson

included (and probably were not limited to--but since I tend to repressunpleasant experiences, I can't remember any others):1-a. I was frustrated in my attempt to get campus wide agreement on which two or three ALNsoftware systems Iowa State University would concentrate. I convened an ad hoc group offaculty and administrators over the summer 1997 then passed the leadership of the group topeople from the ISU Instructional Technology Center. (They had the vested interest in thisdiscussion.) After hours of meetings, we finally concluded that we could not agree on 2 or 3systems. (This discussion was made a bit more difficult because the ISU Computation Centerhad developed its own web-based instructional delivery system--ClassNet.) The non-engineering

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V. Waheed; V. Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Instrumentation Engineer, at Manali Petrochemical Ltd., India for four years. Presently, he is agraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University. His interestsare computer applications and he is developing CBI courseware and a load monitoring system-utilizing Labview.VALEEB BIN-WAHEEDValeed Bin-Waheed received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Technology from Wayne State University inMay 1997. He is currently working as an instrumentation engineer at Patti Engineering, Rochester, Michigan. He isa member of the ταπ Society and the Professional Order of Engineering Technology Societies. His areas of interestsinclude data acquisition and instrumentation and control systems

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Michael Guillorn; Joshua Sachar; Brian Hall; Antony Arciuolo

Session 3520 An Interdisciplinary Approach for Problem Solving in a Robotics Application Joshua Sachar, Michael Guillorn, Brian Hall, Antony Arciuolo Trinity College, Hartford CT 06106AbstractThe Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest was created to inspire roboticists of varyingbackgrounds and skill levels to identify and implement techniques for using robotics in place ofhumans to extinguish fires. To perform this development of robotic technology, a team ofstudents and faculty was established at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. The interdisciplinarybackground of the team membership allowed the design

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Alice Swanger

Session 1463 Integrating Academic and Experiential Learning Alice Swanger Manager, Education and Training Focus:HOPE Center for Advanced TechnologiesINTRODUCTIONThis paper is one of a series of four developed for the ASEE conference in June, 1998. As itis not the first component of this group’s effort, I will not repeat my colleagues’ introductionto the nature of the NSF sponsored Greenfield Coalition at Focus:HOPE’s Center forAdvanced Technologies (CAT). Instead, the center point of this paper will be our efforts tounderstand, map, appreciate, and measure

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York, USA, 1992.[4] Jack, H., “Developing Multimedia Courseware for the Web”, ASEE North Central Section Conference Proceedings, Dayton Ohio, April 1997.[5] Jack, H., “Use of Computer Technology in the Classroom”, ASEE National Conference Proceedings, Milwaukee, June 1997.[6] Sousta-Little, R.W., Inman, D.J., Engineering Mechanics; Statics, Prentice-Hall, 1998.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONHugh Jack is an assistant professor in the Padnos School of Engineering at Grand Valley State University. He isteaching courses in mechanical, electrical and manufacturing engineering. His research interests include computeraided process planning and robotics