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Douglas H. Baxter

who want solidmodeling capability on their PC; PTModeler runs on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.PTModeler files can upload to Pro/ENGINEER but Pro/ENGINEER data can not beloaded into PTModeler.4.0 Course Description4.1 Engineering Graphics and Computer Aided DesignThe course outline for EG&CAD is shown in Table 1: Course Pedagogy For EngineeringGraphics & Computer Aided Design. The course meets for three hours, once a week. Thefirst forty five to fifty minutes are devoted to lecture and the remaining time the studentswork on problems based on the lecture material. The course meets in a computer terminalroom with either IBM workstations or Unigraph workstations. During the laboratorysession there are the instructor and two teaching

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Parviz F. Rad; David M. Woodall

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Robert J. Parden

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Alfred E. McKenney; James A. Jacobs

go to the Main Menu.Now we will walk you through a tutorial to give you experience on how to select material fromtwo specific papers and prepare a composite paper for use in your classroom or laboratory. Thefinal paper will contain excerpts from an experiment by Ed Widener, It’s Hard to Test Hardnessand a companion experiment by Ed’s Purdue colleague, Patricia Olesak, Scleroscope HardnessTesting.1.Finding the PapersFrom the Main Menu, select the Table of Contents button. The result in shown in Figure 1.Figure 1 Page 3.80.4 4Next, select the Testing & Evaluation button.When the Testing &

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S. A. Mandayam; R.P. Ramachandran; A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan

being exposed to fundamentals of surveying.The field surveying measurements are followed by stress and strain measurements. Aninstrumented aluminum truss bridge as shown in the figure below was constructed to introducestudents to basic concepts of stress, strain and material properties. The bridge has a pair of planetrusses with a pin and roller support at its two ends. ¾ x 1/8 and ½ x 1/8 flatstock aluminumwas used to construct the bridge. Steel nuts and bolts, washers and lock washers were used toconnect the members. Omega bonded resistance strain gauges were mounted on certainmembers of the truss bridge to illustrate tension and compression in various members. Thesegages consist of a grid of very fine wire or foil bonded to a backing

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

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Alireza Rahrooh

candidate for this purpose. Overview of Current Laboratory ExperimentsCurrently, the control feedback systems for EET4732 include the following experiments, usingboth hardware and software (104 page-laboratory manual): 1) General System Information and Introduction ( how to use the software package) 2) Laboratory Report Format 3) Experiment #l- A/D and D/A Conversion Concepts 4) Experiment #2- Motor Control 5) Experiment #3- Analog Shaft Position Sensing 6) Experiment #4- Digital shaft Position Sensing 7) Experiment #5- Positional Control Loops 8) Experiment #6- Speed Control Loops 9) Experiment #7- PID Control10) Experiment #8 What is Analogue Computing11) Experiment #9 The Integrator12) Experiment # 10 First Order

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Tom Owen; Jack Carter; Connie Martin; Cheng Liu; Ambrose Barry; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley; Nan Byars

thesestudents expressed profuse gratitude at being afforded an opportunity to complete theirbaccalaureate degree in a part-time program offered in the evening near their work and home.Attrition Early attrition within the first month of classes reduced the enrollment to a total of 66students (26 at Forsyth TCC, 15 at Gaston College, and 25 at Wake TCC). By the middle ofNovember the total had fallen by 25% to 54 students ( 19 at Forsyth TCC, 10 at GastonCollege, and 25 at Wake TCC). An analysis of the reasons given by students for withdrawing Page 3.257.6from the program (by mid semester, Fall 1997) is shown in Table 1. Forty six students

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Robin Carr; Andrew Gregorowicz; Adam O'Donnell; Robert Quinn

transformed into an "EngineeringCollaboratory" in which multiple remote users can access and perform a myriad of experimentson state-of the art engineering workstations.The three remote labs explore different extremes of the kind of access to the workstation requiredby the remote user. In all cases, students had a prior 3 hour hands-on laboratory introducing the 1, 2basic skills and new elements involved. In the first remote lab “Control of a Model HeatingSystem”, students explore how Joule heating effects the temperature of a heating element andhow effective different control schemes are at achieving a target temperature. Performing the labchanges the properties (temperature) of the experimental apparatus, so

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Ronald H. Rockland

course material to determine competencies for these levels.All of the students used a word processor for at least one year (either Word or WordPerfect), on anaverage of twice per week. Table 1 shows the average ranking for general proficiencies in Word, Excel95, PowerPoint, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 (rating is from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most proficient). Application Average Proficiency Rating (by students) Word 2.9 Excel 2.6 PowerPoint 2.6 Windows 3.1

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Edward N. Prather; Raymond B. Landis

2000,1 or lookat the low transfer rates of students who start engineering study in community colleges, or look atthe differentially low retention of minority students (African-American, Hispanic, and NativeAmerican) to convince ourselves that there is lots of room for improvement. If that’s notenough, we can always take the TQM view that “no matter how good we are doing, we shouldalways strive to be better.”An Introduction to Engineering course with a primary focus on “student development” canprovide an ideal vehicle for working with first year engineering students to enhance their chancesof success. A Student Success Model (Figure 1), taken from Chapter 4 of Landis’ text StudyingEngineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career,2 suggests three

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Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

challenging goals in higher education: increasing the number of African American,American Indian, and Hispanic bachelor degrees in science, mathematics, engineering, andtechnology. This alliance, known as the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities(WAESO), has relied heavily on engaging students in academic and research activities outsidethe classroom involving science and engineering faculty and student peers in order to improveretention and increase graduation rates of underrepresented students. Over the past six years we have had 4,251 student participations within our alliance activitieswhich include: (1) peer study groups; (2) summer bridge programs; (3) faculty-directedundergraduate students research; and (4) graduate preparation

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Mike Kemp; Steven S. Schneiderman

Fundamentals of Engineering examination in other states and some have gone onto become registered engineers. Regionally, MSU environmental engineering technologygraduates are highly sought by manufacturing companies, chemical plants, municipalities, andenvironmental management consultants. The graduate employment survey and academic program comparisons described in thispaper were conducted to address the following questions:1. In what positions do environmental engineering technology graduates work?2. What salary levels are typical?3. What is the level of job satisfaction from both the employer and employee viewpoints? Page 3.263.14. How

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Marilyn Dyrud

liketo see improvement is in the so-called soft skills. . .communication skills, team work, economicunderstanding, societal context, and global awareness.” The “ultimate benefit,” she explains,will be “engineers who will better satisfy the needs of the workplace and whose besthumanitarian instincts will prevail.” 1 Page 3.264.1 Boeing corporate manager of college and university relations, Al Hametner, similarly statedthe need for more soft skill education at the 1997 ASEE Pacific Northwest Section meeting:industry is redefining what it means to be an engineer, and in addition to technical skills,engineers need to have a “basic understanding of

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Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum

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Michael E. Gorman, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education (LED)

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Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences Programs (3661)

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Michael E. Gorman

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Liberal Education (LED)

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Daniel Jensen

(restructured) format for the course was compared with the previous format by viewingsurvey results from before and after the restructuring. The purpose of this feedback is todetermine if the restructuring of the course is perceived to be positive or negative by the students.Details of this part of the investigation are given below.For the second method of obtaining feedback, ratings for each individual lecture are separatedbased on whether the student had a sensing (S) verses intuitive (N) MBTI preference. Thesedata points were then examined to determine if there was a correlation between the S-type or N-type student’s rating and the specific content of that lecture. The four categories of lecturecontent used were 1) amount of “hands-on” , 2) quantity

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David E. Hailey; Christine E. Hailey

ratioas the relationship between the number of hours it takes to design and create an computer-basedinstruction to the one hour it takes the learner to complete it.11 In a study with novicemultimedia developers (graduate students in instruction technologies) using an authoringsoftware package, he noted an overall production ratio of 589:1. Considering the timeinvestment required for producing a CBT module, it is valuable to have an interface design inmind prior to construction of modules, which includes an understanding of student preferences inusability and aesthetics.The third topic of interest was an assessment of student performance in a “reader” controlledenvironment compared to an “author” controlled environment. In a reader

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M. Christine Miller; Karthikeyan Subbiah; Dale A. Wilson

is greater thanthe sum of its individual parts 1-3. The educational experiment described in this paper wasundertaken in the spirit of seeing whether professors can use training (in the form of team-building activities) to help students obtain that desired synergy in their group projects. Sinceengineering professors often have difficulty finding enough class time within the semester tocover all the technical topics that they believe students require, the experiment described belowinvolved a very modest amount of class time for group training activities (a mere 45 minutes). This educational experiment was an offshoot of work currently being undertaken on athree-year grant funded by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force

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Stephen E. Binney; Andrew C. Klein

and high speed motion picture radiography facility capable of taking stillor very high speed radiographs. The Radiation Center also houses a small technical library andthe Department maintains two computer laboratories.Since 1993 the Department has performed research on a 1/4 length scale thermal hydraulicsfacility designed to test the passive performance of Westinghouse Electric Company's AP600advanced reactor design and to benchmark advanced thermal hydraulic computer codes. Thisfacility, known as APEX (for Advanced Plant Experiment), is a two loop design with four coldlegs and two hot legs. The reactor core consists of 48 electric heater rods operating at a

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Ben Humphrey

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Elizabeth A. Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 0492 WS/1 Exciting Children About Science and Engineering: The Science of Playgrounds Laura J. Bottomley, Ph. D., Elizabeth A. Parry North Carolina State University/Science SurroundThis paper describes a variety of hands-on demonstrations for use in the K-12 classroom whichconnect science to a venue familiar to most children: a playground. We have designed theseexperiments to be fun and easy to do and to have the kind of appeal for children that will makethe science involved seem easy, exciting and fun. The experiments are deliberately designed touse readily available and

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Rebecca L. Dodge; Andres F. Rodriguez

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J. W. Stevens; A.A. Jalalzadeh-Azar; W.G. Steele; B.K. Hodge

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David Wells

and 45.5 percent in Burst 97. New Greenfield courses accounted for 29.7percent of the events in Burst 96 and 24.2 percent in Burst 97. The remainder came from othernon-traditional course offerings. Event Fraction Credit Fraction Traditional Course 28.4% 29.9% Modified Traditional Course 15.5% 15.1% Greenfield, instructor-managed 16.8% 16.4% Greenfield, self-paced 12.9% 12.6% Other Non-traditional Methods 26.5% 25.9% Figure 1: Distribution of Learning Achievements During Burst 96

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Richard Jerz

guidelines, the course’s“design” content and course integration, were of most interest. Many years of industrialexperience with computer-based technologies prepared the author to teach this course. IE375 Page 3.276.1had been previously taught by an adjunct professor. With the author being new to the teaching 1profession, the challenge was to decide the best and most interesting way to deliver the course,considering ABET guidelines and working with existing materials and lab equipment. The designated textbook was by Groover [1]. Lack of time to investigate other books ledto its continued use

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Francis J. Doyle III; Ferhan Kayihan

Session 3613 Experiences Using MATLAB/Simulink for Dynamic "Real-time" Process Simulation in an Undergraduate Process Control Course Francis J. Doyle III1 Ferhan Kayihan2 1 Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware 2 IETek, Integrated Engineering Technologies, Tacoma WA 98422-14021. IntroductionProcess simulation technology has evolved dramatically over the past 10 years with theincreasing application of object oriented programming. Many packages are available whichallow intuitive visualization of

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S. Cem Karacal; John A. Barker; Jacob Van Roekel

engineering coursesin terms of development time and interaction with students, we found that interactive learning isrewarding both for the students and the faculty, and helps both parties in numerous ways.REFERENCES[1] Barker, J. A. (1998). ProtoThinker: A Model of the Mind. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Publishing Company.[2] Facione, P. (1990). The California Critical Thinking Skills Test: College Level. Millbrae, CA, The California Academic Press.[3] Fogler, H. S., S. LeBlanc. (1995). Strategies for Creative Problem Solving. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall.[4] Landis, R. B. (1994). Studying Engineering. Burbank, CA, Discovery Press.[5] Lumsdaine, E., M. Lumsdaine. (1995). Creative Problem Solving. New York, NY, McGraw-Hill.[6] Onwubiko, C

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Jeffrey S. Beasley; Charles T. Townley

arise due to the useof Internet publications. For example, should journal documents be allowed to change onceplaced on-line? Can a previously published paper be updated? Should guidelines for publishingon the Internet be different than the printed press? Should articles be published in HTML formator another such as Adobe Acrobat? Who should pay for the opportunity to publish on theInternet? This paper will address these issues and includes a discussion of the experiences withthe Technology Interface. IntroductionBefore 1996, only 100 on-line titles of science, technology and medicine (STM) peer-reviewedjournals appeared on-line.1 A search on the Internet search engine Yahoo! 2 was conductedJanuary, 1998

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David G. Martin; William G. Sullivan

during thefall semester of 1997 to actively intervene in the education of ISE 2014 students who are at riskby offering help at a personal level. Clearly, the challenge is how to accomplish this with verylimited resources in classes that average 175-200 students each. IntroductionThis paper describes the results of an experiment to encourage active learning participation by ìatriskî students in two large sections of engineering economy (approximately 200 students each)taught at Virginia Tech in the fall of 1997 using the DeGarmo, et al textbook [1]. At-riskstudents are students whose predicted final grade in the course is a ìDî or an ìF.î Gradepredictions were made during the summer of 1997 by using a