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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

Electrical Engineering curriculum, and its concentration in Computers,requires at least two student written computer projects for all o its major courses. Word-processed technical reports and oral presentation have now became a norm in our program. Atleast two laboratories are equipped with latest model computers with major higher levelprogramming language compilers, and application software such as Matlab, LabVIEW,LabWindow and other simulation and modeling software. Students have access to Internet viaNetscape browser for information retrieval and use of resources that are available elsewhere.Computer-based data acquisition experience is acquired in the Control Systems, Circuits, andElectrical Systems Design Laboratories. Additionally many

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Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

twenty or thirty years, consulting and applied research arenecessary to keep up with the many changes that take place in technology. Skills learned fromprojects can be applied as case studies in the classroom or as exercises in the laboratory. Severalmodels for successful applied research centers are presented. Introduction The mission of a technology program is to produce graduates who are ready to beproductive in the workforce when they graduate. Besides teaching general principles andconcepts, it is imperative that students are introduced to technology used by industry. This isfundamental to the mission of technology. Although industrial experience is a precondition for technology faculty

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Douglas H. Baxter

-engineering course in 1991, there were two major goals. The first was to teach thefundamentals of engineering graphics using solid modeling as opposed to a user course inthe specific solid modeling software. The second goal as to provide the students with anopportunity to use solid modeling as an engineering tool for conceptual design, detaileddesign and engineering analysis.This paper will present the development of Rensselaer’s course, Engineering Design andComputer Aided Design (EG&CAD). The development of the course from a lecture withlaboratory using CADAM to a full laboratory course using Pro/ENGINEER will bepresented. Pro/ENGINEER training files were written to allow students to have on-linedemonstrations of the lecture material. The

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

modern technology, both established and growing. The central theme of the course ismaterials, a natural link between science and engineering, between engineering disciplines and between student’slives and their classroom experiences. This course is the initial exposure which provides students with thebackground to select subsequent course sequences offered by the participating colleges. A key theme of the courseis its hands-on nature, its learn by doing approach, a central character of Cal Poly’s technical education. Coursemodules are self-contained one hour lecture / three hour laboratory experiences. They do not require preparation bythe active learner prior to the lecture or laboratory or any post activity. The program endeavors to provide

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Arthur M. Clausing

course to be a quality experience and accomplish many of our objectives, weconcluded that a small class size was an absolute necessity. Thus, we have limited the size of thesections of our “Discovery Seminar” to 20 students and have taught nine sections of our courseeach of the past four fall semesters. Each of these nine sections is taught jointly by a facultymember and an outstanding senior—the Learning Assistant (LA). This arrangement ensures thateach incoming freshman learns to know well an M&IE faculty member, one of our outstandingseniors, and several of their classmates during their very first semester on campus.The course consists of two one-hour lectures, nine two-hour laboratory periods, and a one-hour

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Matt W. Mutka; Betty H. C. Cheng; Diane Rover

machines and dishwashers) and automotive-related systems (e.g., climate control and door controls). The operating system course includes a new module in real-time scheduling, with laboratory projects planned for task allocation in real-time distributed computing systems. Our digital system design course sequence includes the design of application-specific integrated ‘This work is sponsored in part by NSF grants CDA-9700732, CDA-9617310, CCR-9633391, CCR-947318, Page 3.27.1CDA-9529488,ASC-9624149, MIP-9321255. 1 circuits using VLSI and programmable logic, with plans to emphasize

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Terrence E. Dwan; E. Eugene Mitchell; George E. Piper; Carl E. Wick

assignments and laboratories in the course is to addresseach of the course content topics given above. 1. Environmental sensors, data gathering: Page 3.531.2 After a cursory review of operational amplifiers[2] each team (two students) receives a different environmental sensor selected by the faculty for the course. The team receives a data sheet for their sensor and is expected to design a signal conditioning board. The student's sensor and accompanying circuitry is then mounted in an environmental collection box along with other sensor circuits that their classmates

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George F. List; Simeon Komisar

Session 3215 TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM IN TEACHING EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS Simeon J. Komisar and George F. List RPI - Environmental and Energy Engr. / RPI - Civil Engr. Introduction As suggested by current and proposed ABET guidelines, numerous engineering educators, andby our own advisory committee of practitioners, an expansion of laboratory experiences in theundergraduate curriculum is needed to better prepare Civil and Environmental Engineeringstudents for professional practice. In particular for Civil and Environmental Engineers

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Hossein Moini

Session 1526 ACTIVE MATERIALS & MICROCONTROLLER APPLICATIONS IN DESIGN OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Hossein Moini California State University, FullertonABSTRACTActive materials have created new opportunities for designing more effective sensors and actuators.The integration of microprocessors and active materials is considered a leap towards developmentof a new generation of intelligent structures/electromechanical systems. For this purpose, theIntelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) at California State University, Fullerton is being developed toprovide hands-on training to

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Scott Huff

development of training documents forquality control (QC) personnel under its Transportation Technician Qualification Program(TTQP).Scope of ProgramUnder the TTQP, technicians are qualified to provide QC testing on up to 35 field operatingprocedures (FOPs) relating to transportation materials. (See Appendix A for a complete listing.)The FOPs are based on standard laboratory test methods developed by the American Associationof State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) or NAQTC. The materials areseparated into four modules.• Aggregate• Concrete• Asphalt• Embankment and Base/In-Place DensityA major advance realized by this interstate cooperative effort is that state-by-state qualification isno longer required. Technicians

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William E. DeWitt; Timothy L. Skvarenina

Session 1333 Development of an EET Electrical Power and Controls Course Timothy L. Skvarenina, William E. DeWitt Purdue University AbstractThis paper discusses the development of a new course combining topics from a conventionalelectromechanical energy conversion course with topics from controls and electrical distributioncourses. The paper begins with some background of why we developed the new course and theprocess that was used to develop it. The course topics and laboratory experiments are thendescribed in some detail

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

illustrate continuously changing phenomena, for example, thedamage evolution in fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites subjected to tension. Page 3.135.2 Figure 1. Ceramic-matrix composites: WWW-based courseware Experimentation of materials processing and characterization have been videotaped forinstructional purpose. The videotapes assist the students in their preparation for hands-onprojects before going into the laboratory. This also saves both time and money associated withrepeated demonstrations and experimentation. The videotapes have been not only edited intoseveral short clips for the inclusion into the WWW-based course

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

SESSION 3213 Enhancing Underrepresented Student Opportunities Through Faculty Mentoring and Peer Interactions Antonio A. Garcia, Gary D. Keller, Albert McHenry Arizona State University Fred Begay Los Alamos National Laboratory During the past seven years, an alliance of colleges and universities within Arizona, Colorado,New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Western Texas along with professional organizations,government laboratories, educational organizations, and corporations has been committed to oneof the most

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Jack Swearengen; Hakan Gürocak

. • c. mfg. competitiveness • •Proficiencies d. mfg. Systems design • • e. laboratory experience • • • • a. apply knowledge • • • • • • • • • • • • • b. design & conduct experiments • • • c. design to requirements • • • ABET d. function on interdisciplinary teams • • • • • e. define & solve engineering

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Robert J. Beichner; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

assessment and evaluation results anddescribes plans to export features of IMPEC into the regular first-year engineering curriculum.Curriculum Structure and Instructional ApproachThe principal features of IMPEC are as follows:• In the fall semester, the students take a four-credit introductory calculus course, a three-credit general chemistry course with an additional one-credit laboratory, and a one-credit engineering course. In the spring semester, they take a second four-credit calculus course, a four-credit physics course (mechanics), and a second one-credit engineering course. The calculus, chemistry, and physics courses parallel those in the regular curriculum. The fall engineering course replaces the standard freshman

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Thomas I. M. Ho; Brian Ho

theRealAudio Encoder to free RealAudio Players on sound card-equipped personal computers,which continuously decompress the audio and play it in real time without download delays, evenover 14.4 Kbps modems. Page 3.101.1RealAudio has been widely deployed on the World Wide Web especially to distribute news andmusic at the Timecast (1997) site guide. Educational applications are not yet as common butexamples include:• Shakespeare at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997)• Writing at ACT Laboratory Ltd. (1997)• Computer programming at the University of Washington (1996) Figure 1. Originating a live broadcast via

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Alexander N. Cartwright

. However, the author feels that this decline is also due to the inability to involve thestudents in physics related courses in an exciting manner. It has been proposed (and implementedto some degree) to include multimedia technologies to enhance the student learning environmentby providing virtual laboratories and lectures using computer technology. Although thesetechnologies can potentially provide an enhanced learning environment, they are expensive toestablish and maintain, and, therefore, are not readily available. In addition, as pointed out by Page 3.162.1Wallace and Mutooni1, merely presenting the material using WEB based learning may

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K. Swyler; A. Peskin

Coordinated ProgramBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a multi-disciplinary research laboratory of theU. S. Department of Energy. It is the home for thousands of scientists, engineers andtechnicians. Among its world-class scientific instruments are the National SynchrotronLight Source, the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the High Flux Beam Reactor, andthe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider currently in development. It is also the base forunique information repositories such as the Protein Data Bank and the National NeutronData Center which are referenced daily by hundreds of researchers all over the world.BNL has also long had a vibrant education program reaching out to faculty and studentsat every academic level. Undergraduate research

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K. Swyler; A. Peskin

Coordinated ProgramBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a multi-disciplinary research laboratory of theU. S. Department of Energy. It is the home for thousands of scientists, engineers andtechnicians. Among its world-class scientific instruments are the National SynchrotronLight Source, the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the High Flux Beam Reactor, andthe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider currently in development. It is also the base forunique information repositories such as the Protein Data Bank and the National NeutronData Center which are referenced daily by hundreds of researchers all over the world.BNL has also long had a vibrant education program reaching out to faculty and studentsat every academic level. Undergraduate research

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John S. Schmalzel; Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

Session 3615 Introducing Civil Engineering Measurements through Bridges Kauser Jahan, Ralph A. Dusseau and John S. Schmalzel Rowan UniversityABSTRACTFreshman engineering students at Rowan University are introduced to engineering measurementsthrough a series of hands-on laboratories emphasizing teamwork, computer utilization, oral andwritten communication skills and professional ethics. The major focus of the freshman clinicclass for a full semester is engineering measurements and design. Problems are drawn from thefour disciplines to introduce students to laboratory and field measurements

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Richard D'Amato

LabView ® simulations can substitute for “hands-on” experience. In an attempt to assure ourstudents receive some field experience before graduating and undertaking their profession, theyparticipate in several environmental engineering laboratory exercises out in the field. A laboratory exercise that has been used with great success in Mercer University’sEnvironmental Engineering program is a unique combination of environmental and civil engineeringtechniques. This hydrology experiment was created in order to give our students some in-fieldexperience and introduce them to some of the basic tools, both physical and analytical, of theenvironmental engineer. This experiment includes the construction of groundwater monitoringwells, basic

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William E. Cole; Jerome Tapper

2.33 Statistics 2.60 2.94 Mechanics 2.69 2.33 Building Systems 2.84 2.85 Drawing Tools 2.85 Manufacturing Processes 2.56 2.83 Laboratory Skills 2.67 Library Research 2.33 C programming 2.89 2.17 Unix Knowledge 1.83Math (Differential Equations, Calculus) and basic engineering technology skills (Thermo/Fluids,Materials) are low in importance to the respondents. This is

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

chemicalengineering department we have actively worked to introduce oral and written communication andgroup (team) work across the entire curriculum -- starting with the freshman orientation course allthe way through to the capstone senior level laboratory. We are beginning to introduceinterdisciplinary courses, where students bring their “domain competency” to a large team project.However, we have done very little in the way of focusing on putting the students in “trueleadership positions” such as they might encounter in industry as group or project leadersresponsible for several engineers.The Leadership and Mentoring course was introduced in Winter '95 as a 1 credit course offeredeach quarter for sophomores, juniors, or seniors. This was also linked with

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S. Pennell; R. Worcester; R. Stone; Mustafa Guvench

variation of diffusion/oxidation temperature isobtained, allowing the wafer to go through a recipe of diffusion/oxidation/annealing sequence at varioustemperatures and in different gas compositions with fully controlled rates of ramp up or ramp down. Atemperature control of ± 1 C RMS is shown to be achievable which is mostly limited by noise in thetemperature readings. 1. IntroductionIn the university operated microfabrication laboratories, unlike an industrial production setting,the diffusion/oxidation furnaces employed for semiconductor device and integrated circuitfabrication have very small average usage time due to the inherent low-volume of suchoperations[1,2]. In these laboratories the standard

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J.P. Agrawal; Omer Farook; Chandra R. Sekhar

projectplanning and engineering, (2) the execution of a demonstrable project that utilizes the well triedproject management techniques and (3) the critical evaluation of the project and the techniques.The first component is delivered through regular lectures. The second component involvesinteractive laboratory sessions. The third component is the most important component. Theevaluation is a continuous in the form of regular oral reports, written progress reports andmaintaining a log book entries by each student in the class. COURSE DESCRIPTIONEET 397 ELECTRONIC PROJECT ENGINEERINGCatalog Data: Introduction to electronic project engineering principles and techniques. Topics includetechnical feasibility

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

format for each oftwo courses per semester. In addition to TV classes, the program depends on Web-basedassignments, email communications with the instructor, and library and computer materials ateach site. Laboratory courses will be taught as concentrated four-Saturdays-on-campus sessionsof three experiments per day for each of four courses. We have appointed a half-time sitecoordinator for each site to take care of logistics such as registration, books, handouts, proctoringtests, and, in two of the three cases, operating the cameras. We have attempted to set up adistance-learning Mentoring Program with on-site mentors for these students in a model similarto the quite-successful one initiated in the last two years on the UNC Charlotte campus

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James R. Etchison

laboratory. Although the EETprogram had used this basic curriculum structure for decades, it was becoming clear that theerosion of academic standards in the secondary education system was taking its toll on thefreshmen's ability to function adequately in an environment where grades were based ondemonstrated ability rather than effort, seat time, or extra credit assignments.At OIT, merely introducing a student to a topic is considered inadequate. We cover topicsthoroughly, and expect mastery of the topic by the student in return. This educational philosophydictates that students follow the rule of thumb of two hours of homework outside of class forevery hour in lecture, plus plenty of hands-on reinforcement in the laboratory. Employers valueour

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Beena Sukumaran

Session 2615 Geo-environmental Engineering - An Integral Part of Civil Engineering Beena Sukumaran Rowan UniversityAbstractAll sophomore students at Rowan University are introduced to engineering design andexperiments through a series of integrated lectures and laboratories. The class described in thefollowing paragraphs, is one in a series of engineering clinics offered in the freshmen to senioryears. Sophomore students are exposed to a variety of engineering principles, experimentalmethods, and design tools not typically

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Klaus Wuersig

Sessions 1547 Switching and Power Electronics An Innovative Approach Klaus Wuersig SUNY College of Technology at AlfredIt is found so very often that courses that are taught in College have very little relevance to whatis happening in the real world. So many times a laboratory exercise is just that, an exercise. Inorder for meaning and relevance to intrude into this scenario it is essential that a student takespossession of an idea, a concept or an assignment. To design a product , very

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Terry Berreen

be used in either study mode or lecture mode and contains various exercises,animations and quantitatively correct simulations. The combining of these with other learningresources such as mathematical packages and laboratory work is considered.1. IntroductionThere would appear, from recent reviews of engineering education in the USA1 and inAustralia2 that there is strong impetus towards a broadening of engineering courses and astriving to make students more central in the whole educational process. Coupled with thesedirections is a highlighting of longlife learning aspects so that students progressively takegreater control of their learning. This means that as important as the technical skills is theobtaining of the learning skills to ensure