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memberspresent overviews of the biology and how it relates to engineering devices in these areas.Assignments from biomedical engineering are also selected to illustrate the importance ofbiological sciences in this area. One assignment concentrates on analyzing ventricular fibrillationdata from a swine heart. The data is part of research project comparing normal sinus rhythm withventricular fibrillation. The students analyze the data using both spreadsheets and a Fortran 90program. Another sample problem from Fall, 1998, analyzing a hypothetical problem on chillingblood for an operation is given in Appendix 1.Guest presentations and example problems from the environmental engineering concentrationalso show the integration of biological and engineering

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Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050, P25-1130, by Jennifer Cheeseman Day. (Washington DC 1996). On-line: .6. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 1996, Detailed Statistical Tables, NSF 97-329, by Susan T. Hill (Arlington, VA 1997). On-line: .7. University of Missouri-Columbia, Office of Student Life Studies. On-line: .8. National Science Board, National Science Foundation. Science & Engineering Indicators – 1998, NSB 98-1 (Arlington, VA 1998). On-line: < http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind98/start.htm>

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Session 2220 Robot Stories: Interdisciplinary Design with Autonomous Mobile Robots James E. DeVault Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State UniversityAbstractOver the past seven years, interdisciplinary teams of engineering students have designed mobilerobots to compete in an annual robot contest. Open to all students that have completedengineering physics, the mobile robotics course requires teamwork, project management, and amixture of theoretical understanding and laboratory skills. Mobile robots are

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Nathan W. Scott; M. A. Mannan; H. P. Lee; Brian J. Stone; A. Y. C. Nee

teaching and alsoSingapore students with Australian. Page 4.480.11. IntroductionIt appropriate to give some background to the two universities involved in this project. NUS isthe older of the two universities in Singapore. Singapore is an island state with a population ofabout three million. The history of the National University of Singapore can be traced back tothe establishment of the King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1905. It was merged withRaffles College of the Arts and Sciences to create the University of Malaya in 1949. It was laterchanged to the University of Singapore in 1962. It was merged in 1980 with the NanyangUniversity to form the

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. The second session is devoted to time management methods,such as how to organize large projects and reverse time lines. Students learn to develop mastertime and study schedules and later adjusted their schedules once they are properly taught how tomonitor their time. At the third session students discuss left brain and right brain thinking and itseffects on learning, and the different types of learning: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Thisdiscussion leads to a discussion of how one should organize themselves to study and how to takenotes in class given their individual learning styles, as well as varied teaching styles. The sessionends with a talk on the use of alcohol in school. The final session is an open reward session withpizza served

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Timothy Robert Wyatt; Pedro Arduino; Emir Jose Macari

material behavioras well as general deformation behavior. In addition to serving as an augmented laboratoryexperience, the virtual environment has potential both as a lecture tool, to present concepts thatcan not be demonstrated on a two-dimensional blackboard, and as a vehicle for individualstudent exploration. However, the application of virtual environments always sparks argumentsthat a simulation is not reality, and that it may have the potential to mislead students about real-world material behavior. In this research project, a virtual-reality geotechnical laboratory isintroduced into a graduate-level soil mechanics course. The software is made available tostudents for individual experimentation, and is assigned for use to complement lecture

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be required to writea combined project report on the two experiments and make a class presentation of one of them.This will be coordinated during the last two weeks of the semester.VIII. Concluding RemarksOne issue which must be addressed when adding a laboratory experience to any class is how tooptimize the student experience compared to the student and faculty effort required. Forexample, if students are asked to only reproduce pre-defined and pre-tested experiments, therewill be less effort required on everyone’s part but the student will miss out on the experience ofdesigning a unique experiment and learning about all the details required to make it work.Students often learn more when they design and conduct an experiment from scratch

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Ronald James; Janet L. Gooder; Charles Wisniewski; Brenda Haven; A. George Havener

Page 4.587.1the objectives presented in Table 1. Table 1 Course Goal and Objective Statements By completion of Engr310, you should understand the fundamental principles of Goal Thermodynamics and their relevance to energy systems. By the end of the course, you should be able to: 1. Explain the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics. 2. Explain the concepts and terms of Thermodynamics. 3. Use the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics to solve problems. 4. Complete an ill-defined energy systems design project. Objectives 5. Constructively participate in group work. 6

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,objective. methods and measures. project reports, portfolios, etc.Conduct assessments: (1) collect Implement and evaluate. Analyze and interpret findings. Gather data, analyze, and interpret toevidence, (2) analyze evidence, and produce findings.compare.Determine feedback channels for Evaluate whether or not criteria werecontinuous improvement of practices. met.Evaluate whether objectives were

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students enrolled in the program?” to “Whathas been learned by every student that successfully completes the program?” Criterion 3 forbasic level accreditation under EC2000 begins with "Engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates have …" and completes the sentence with specification of eleven programoutcomes. Of the eleven, seven start the description of the outcome with the phrase, "an abilityto …". In the past, program coverage was documented in part by published syllabi and byexamples of student work such as exams, homework assignments, and projects, conductedprimarily during the year preceding the accreditation visit. While such instruments can still beuseful for documenting the program, unless the samples of student work have

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A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

technology.AcknowledgmentsThe authors have benefited from the innovation and services of many people in designing andorganizing the Website for this distance education experience. We are particularly indebted toDr. Julie Little and Ms. Jean Derco, of the UTK Innovative Technology Center, for websiteartistic design. Our thanks to Mr. Mark Spurlock and Mr. Alexy Kolesnikov, who debugged thesystems leading to pdf logging of all courseware onto the website. Finally, our sincere Page 4.268.5appreciation goes to Ms. Marva Anderson, who contributed greatly to the project in the timelyword processing with continual editing of all courseware material, always with minimal

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Paul Waters; Jim Greer; James P. Solti

Teaching Style Projects Student’s Instructor Desire (traits) Tests Desired Active Learning Syllabus Knowledge Outcomes for Do It! Student

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however as the female graduation rates (68% overall, Page 4.279.636% four-year) were higher than the male graduation rates (56% overall, 29% four-year). Thisresult highlights that one obvious way to increase those personality types which are currently in aminority amongst the graduating engineers would be to increase the numbers of female students.The most persistent type letter common to all the graduating groups including female students isJ (judging ). This serves to underline the fact that engineering programs are busy programs withlots of assignments , laboratory reports and design projects and it is the orderly and systematic J’swho thrive

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, Florida3. Rashid, Muhammad H., “Electronics Circuit Design Using ELECTRONICS WORKBENCH”, 1998, PWSPublishing Company, Boston, MassachusettsSTANLEY J. PISARSKIStanley J. Pisarski has been an instructor of EET at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for 19 years. Hereceived a BSEET in 1977 and has worked as a project engineer for Robicon Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA,consulting engineer for Ocenco Inc., in Blairsville, PA, and a research and design engineer for K. H. Controls Inc.,in Blairsville, PA. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania. Page 4.293.6

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professor of the Department of Industrial and Engineering technology (IET) at CentralMichigan University (CMU). He has a M. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1990) and a Ph.D. in IndustrialEngineering (1995) from the University of Cincinnati (UC). While he studied in Cincinnati, he participated inresearch projects conducted at the Center for Robotics Research at UC. Since 1995, he has been actively involved inconducting research and teaching courses in robotics and automation at CMU. His teaching and research interestsfocus on technologies of rapid deployment manufacturing including robotic simulation, Petri Nets, flexibleautomation, control systems, and robot workcell design. He also serves as the technical director for the IETRobotics

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Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, 121 (4), 259-261.12. Koehn, E. (1995b). “Practitioner and Student Recommendations for an Engineering Curriculum. “Journal ofEngineering Education, ASEE, 84 (3), 241-248.13. Landis, R.B. (1997). “Enhancing Student Success.” ASEE Prism, 7 (3), 30-32.14. Mendelsohn, R. (1998). “Teamwork – The Key to Productivity.” Journal of Management in Engineering,ASCE, 14 (1), 22-25.BiographyEnno “Ed” Koehn is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont,TX. Professor Koehn has served as the principal investigator for several research and development projects dealingwith various aspects of construction and has experience in the design, scheduling, and estimating of facilities. In

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DESIGN Rigid Body & Ground Fix Type of Joints Input Motions Solutions Display of Results Figure 5. Flowchart of Mechanism Design Procedure Figure 6. Performance in Mechanism Design CIM IT ETAVG 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Page 4.97.6four problems (and one semester project) with two-third of them in FEA and one-third inMechanism Design. All those turned in usually had been completed

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addressing key personal and socialchallenges that students face as they enter college. These include orientation to the libraryresources, career services, health awareness, and managing personal freedom and choices. Thesetopics are discussed within the context of being a student in the engineering community.A second portion of the class introduces students to the engineering profession and thepreparation necessary to become an engineer. Students are introduced to the engineering designprocess, team-based learning and basic computational tools. Students work in teams on anassigned design project and present it to the class accompanied by a written report. The team

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. Rabiee, “Analog to digital (ADC) and digital to analog (DAC) converters,” 1998 ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings, Session 1559, 12 pages.5. C. Chen, “Using LabVIEW in instrumentation and control course,” 1998 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings,Session 1559, 7 pages.6. A. Rahrooh, “Engineering technology feedback control laboratory at University of Central Florida,” 1998 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, Session 3548, 6 pages.7. R. Bachnak, “A Laboratory Project in PC-based closed-loop control,” 1998 ASEE-GSW Annual ConferenceProceedings, New Orleans, LA, March 1998.8. G. Williams, Modern Control Experiments, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN,1996.9. W. Devenport, Experiments for Industrial Electronics, 4th Edition, Delmar Publishing, Albany

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integration not available previously. The benefits of the CD-ROM can be appreciatedmore fully by personally using it as opposed to reading the textual description above. To thisend a CD-ROM will be sent to those interested by e-mailing the author at jerry.caskey@rose-hulman.edu. The CD-ROM is copyrighted and can be used like any copyrighted material, butcannot be reproduced without permission.AcknowledgmentsThe chemical engineering department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology thanks theMarathon Oil Company and the Bechtel Company for making this project possible.JERRY A. CASKEYJerry Caskey is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Caskey received aB.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University in

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George Stephanopoulos; Alan S. Foss

understood the model they had built with ModelLA. They solvedtheir equations using Matlab or Mathcad and sometimes paper and pencil. Usually their computedresults matched those of ModelLA, but occasionally they did not, at which point the students had toreexamine their understanding of the physics and their representation of it. Their performance in thisexperiment confirms the effectiveness of the discipline of the model building methodology capturedin the software. It also confirms our contention that writing equations can profitably be deferred tofollow realization of the model. A class of 38 senior-year students at MIT used the software in a project involving thesynthesis and design of a moderately large chemical process. The process was

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Patricia Click

theway that beliefs about technology differed in the North and South, and how these views fueledboth the push toward war and the conduct of the war. Moving to this broader view of technologyis not easy, since most historians who have studied the Civil War have tended to use thenarrower definition that equates technique or technical artifact with technology. Even James M.McPherson, a very respected Civil War historian who is known for broadening Civil War historyto include its non-military aspects, projects such a viewpoint when he writes that “we lack asystematic analysis of Civil War tactics that integrates such factors as technology, terrain,weather, and leadership and tracks tactical evolutions over the four years of conflict”(McPherson 1998

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Robert Voigt; Patricia Warren; Charles Cameron; Anne Madsen; Eric Twite

on problem solving techniques for basic electrical engineering, itmeets 3 times a week for fifty minutes. The material was reinforced with mandatory, gradeddaily homework assignments and supplemented with weekly 2-hour laboratories whichdemonstrated the concepts being taught in the classroom. To better reach the students, weaugmented these traditional teaching methods with extensive use of multimedia in the classroom.Each classroom is equipped with a multimedia personal computer (PC) connected to a“Smartboard”, a device that serves both as both a large screen display and as an interactive touchscreen. The display is driven by a projection system connected to the PC. Utilizing one of fourdifferent colors, the Smartboard also permits us to

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Loren Lutes; James T. P. Yao

resources to spend a longer timein school? Would this be positive for the profession or society? Provision of adequate financialassistance for engineering programs, of course, could offset this effect, but what would be thesource of these funds? Under the current system, funding for graduate student stipends largelycomes from research projects. It is not clear that the proposed changes would increase theavailability of funds from this source, since most of the professional engineering program wouldbe devoted to course work rather than to research. Additional current stipend funding comesfrom hiring graduate students as teaching assistants for undergraduate courses. If anything, itseems possible that this might be more difficult under the change

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

indicate that the rubric is a reliable and valid means ofholistically assessing student performance.Based on our success assessing written reports, we hope to expand assessment activities in thelaboratory to include performance in the prelab oral examination, oral presentations, andteamwork. We also plan to extend this method of assessment to other courses in the curriculumwhich contain project and laboratory work.References Cited[1] “Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers,” ASEE Prism, pp.11-15, May/June 1995.[2] “Do We Really Want ‘Academic Excellence?,’” Lee, W.E. and R.R. Rhinehart, Chemical Engineering Progress,pp. 82-89, October 1997. Page

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Howard I. Epstein

and an advanced technology degree?Ç Should the professional Master’s degree be the M. Engr., and should the Master’s degree be the M.S.?Ç Should institutions be allowed to accredit programs at both the basic (B.S.) and advanced (M. Engr.) levels?Professor Hoadley believes that the answer to all of the questions is yes and so does the author.He goes on to state that, in his experience, it is becoming more and more difficult to find one ofthe "movers and shakers" in the civil engineering profession (owners, presidents, partners,principals, division heads, project managers, etc.) without a Master’s degree. So, themarketplace probably has already answered the questions posed and it is now up to theprofessional

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Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

filter implementationaffect filter performance, without the need for tedious programming of the TMS320C31.1. INTRODUCTIONModern software tools such as MATLAB greatly facilitate the professor's ability to demonstratethe concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) in class, and to assign realistic projects toreinforce these concepts.1-3 An increasing number of DSP textbooks are becoming availablewhich take advantage of this ability,4-8 and a growing trend is for DSP concepts to be introducedearlier in the curriculum.9 These concepts can be further reinforced, and greater interestgenerated by the students, if they can be easily implemented in real-time on modern DSPhardware.10 Affordable hardware is now available to schools: Texas Instruments, for

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Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

active learning, addresses the various learningstyles of students, and is more accessible to students via the Internet or on portable media, eithersynchronously or asynchronously [1, 2, 3]. While examples of successful technology-basedlearning environments aimed at specific courses or topics abound, a large proportion of faculty Page 4.502.1simply do not have the skills needed to undertake the development of such projects, or even toborrow and revise them for their own use.The Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED), anNSF-sponsored engineering education coalition composed of the engineering colleges of

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William C. Conrad; Richard E. Pfile

synchronous serial interface, serialcommunications interface, multiple interrupts, and parallel I/O ports which makeit flexible and easy to use for student projects. We want student to know thecharacteristics of DSP processors.A low cost evaluation system for the 56002 processor called the 56002 EVM isavailable. It retails for $149.00. but is available for $120. with educationaldiscounts (contact Motorola University Support). The EVM comes complete Page 4.554.3with an assembler and full screen debugger. It has 32K of memory and can bepowered by a 9-volt plug-in wall transformer or dc supply. The EVM has stereoanalog inputs and outputs with 1/8 inch stereo plugs making

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W. Thomas Calder; Gerald W. Jakubowski

the courselearning objectives. Course learning objectives do not have to encompass every detail thatstudents may learn. Learning objectives should, however, be viewed as the most importantknowledge and skills a course delivers to the students and, therefore, course content,examinations, projects, etc., should be clearly related to the course learning objectives.Quality improvement at the individual course level requires professors to systematicallyaccumulate relevant data about individual student performance. When individual studentperformance is not up to par, it is difficult at times to determine whether the problem is with thestudent, the teacher, the performance standards, or the learning objectives themselves.Therefore, a thorough