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Donald Mahoney; Brent Young; William Svrcek

. Page 4.37.1† The author to whom correspondence should be addressed.II. Classical ApproachClassical Control methods were developed between the 1940’s and the 1960’s in the mechanicaland electromechanical engineering disciplines. Given the limitation of computer hardware andsoftware at that time, it was impractical to solve large numbers of higher-order differentialequations. Furthermore, since mechanical and electromechanical systems are typically linearand possess little dead time, they lend themselves to analytical and graphical techniques. Hencethe development and popularization of analytical and graphical such techniques as:• Transform methods (Laplace and Fourier Transforms)• Graphical frequency domain methods (Bode, Nichols and Nyquist

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Ying Lu; Vincent Singh; Steven Palmer; Sarah Bergstrom; Nicolai Ramler; Mikir Bodalia; Martins Innus; Jami Meteer; Contessa DuBois; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha E. Sloan; Ashok Goel

to 27 Mbit/s have been demonstrated on monolithicallyintegrated GaAs/AlGaAs LEDs and Si MOSFETs. Further, it may be recalled that CRAY-4supercomputer is based primarily on the GaAs-based high-speed circuits. In this paper, anundergraduate research site on GaAs-based high-speed circuits set up at the Michigan Tech-nological University is described and the research projects carried out by the undergraduatestudents are summarized.II. Undergraduate Research SiteDuring summer 1998, funded by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, anundergraduate research site was established for the second year at the department of ElectricalEngineering at Michigan Technological University in the area of GaAs based very high-speedintegrated

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Wallace Fowler

projects require the students to find, understand, and evaluate largequantities of information about many subjects. Every member of each team must find pertinentinformation, understand it, and interpret as related to the design objectives.Develop the ability to find appropriate experts, to ask appropriate questions, and tocommunicate their findings to teammates - The team will often have to consult experts, bothinside the university and in industry. Team members must ask questions to obtain pertinentinformation, understand it, and interpret it for the team.Develop the ability to define the "real problem(s)", given a vaguely stated design goal, andthen to refine and often redefine the "real problem(s)" - Team members must develop a"needs statement

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Olkan Cuvalci; Douglas D. Gransberg; Cevdet Nuhrat; Bobby Green

see an object at night is based noton the light that is striked from the object, but on the difference in the brightness between thetarget and its background (contrast).The first lighting research was started in the 15th century, when the citizens of London and Parisbegan to carry lanterns at night. In 1866, the control of roadway lighting by government agenciesbegan in Paris. The first significant lighting research was conducted by Sweet in the 1910’s. Hestudied the disability glare under the supervision of Railroad Warehouse Commission atMadison, Wisconsin. Subsequently, in 1914, an extensive research project was conducted in Page

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Ernest M. Kim

literacy to liberalarts and other non-science/math majors using diverse teaching tools, which are typically used inliberal arts courses, to enhance the student learning experience.Bibliography1. Science, Technology and Society, Curriculum Newsletter of the Lehigh University STS Program and TechnologyStudies Resource Center, No. 82, February 1991.2. Malachowski, Mitchell R., The Use of Journals To Enhance Chemical Understanding in a Liberal ArtsChemistry Class. Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 65, No. 5, May 1988.3. Selfe, Cynthia L. & Freydoon, Arabi, Writing To Learn, Engineering Student Journals. In Fulwiler, T. (Ed.),Writing Across the Disciplines. Montclaire, NJ: Boynton/Cook (1986).4. Morse, Michael S. , URL: http://www.acusd.edu

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York, 1995.6. Venable, W., McConnell, R., and Stiller A., “Follow-Up of a Freshman Engineering Course Experiment,” 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, IEEE, New York, 1997.7. Craven, K., Wayne, S., and Stiller, A., “The Freshman Engineering Experience at West Virginia University,” 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, NC, 1999.8. Fannin, D., Bryson, T., Carney, E., Carrol, D., Koen, M., and Oster, K., “Freshman Design/Construction Projects Conducted on a Large Scale: Student and Faculty Opinions and Outcomes,” ASEE Midwest Section Meeting Proceedings, Tulsa, http://me8.me.utulsa.edu, 1996

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Daniel J. Tylavsky

Lab Title exercise the student will be able to: EmphasesLab 0: Hardware Simulator Operation Use LogicWorks to create and debug a Tutorial approach to the use of(supports LogicWorks4 hardware circuit module, a communication bus, LogicWorkssimulator) and use the hex keypad and hex display.Lab 1: Adder, Incrementer and Two’s Build and debug a multi-bit full adder, Building and DebuggingComplementer incrementer, and 2’s complement circuit. Combinational Logic CircuitsLab 2: 4-Bit Adder, Multiplexer and Build and debug a circuit simulation of Building and DebuggingDemultiplexer multi-bit full adder

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Karl Stephan

problems involved with the preservation of perishablessuch as meat and milk, and show how most of the burden of dealing with these difficulties fell Page 4.603.2upon the women of the household plus the occasional servant. We rely for this information upon“domestic economy” books of the period, notably The American Woman’s Home by Catharine E.Beecher and her more famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2 A more recent treatment of theseissues by a well-known historian of technology is Ruth S. Cowan’s More Work for Mother. 3 After a lecture on the biology of food spoilage, student teams perform a biology experi-ment in which they allow common

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Yousef Haik

. Felder, R. M., How students learn: Adapting Teaching Styles to Learning Styles, Proceedingsof the Frontiers in Education Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 1988.7. Haik, Y., Chen, C. J. and Kuncicky, D., Development of Multimedia Instructional Tools forEngineering Mechanics, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education,Vol. 1, pp. 696-702, Chicago-IL, 1997.8. Haik, Y., Collaborative Learning in Engineering Mechanics, Proceedings of the 13th NationalCongress in applied Mechanics, Gainesville, FL, June 21-26, 1998.9. Tobias, S., They ’re Not Dumb, They ’re Different: Stalking the second Tier, Tucson ResearchCooperation, 1990.10. Felder, R. M., Reaching the Second Tier-Learning and Teaching Styles in College ScienceEducation

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Ronald E. Barr

series of SummerSchools that the Division had conducted, beginning in the early 1930’s. The most notable early SummerSchool was held after the war in St. Louis in 1946. Many of the pioneers in EDG education madepresentations at the meeting, which resulted in a hardbound book [1] that charted the course for EDGeducation during the twenty-year post-war era. The seventh Summer School was held in 1967 in EastLansing, Michigan and it focused on integrating graphics more closely with the design process. Theproceedings of that Summer School were published as a special edition of The Engineering GraphicsJournal [2], and it served as a landmark document for the infusion of freshman design projects into EDGcourses that were typical in the 1970’s and 1980

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

tradedeficit between the U.S and APEC, the loss of almost half of the U.S. commercial satellitebusiness to the Arianespace launch vehicle and the loss of market share in the Boeingcommercial airplane business to AirBus Industries1,2. U. S. Trade NAFTA-Buys 300 JAPAN-Buys EU-15-Buys 250 ASIAN-Buy NAFTA-Sells JAPAN-Sells 200 EU-15-Sells ASIAN-Sells 150 100 50 0

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James Hanson

. Butterfield, R., “Benefit Without Cost in a Mechanics Laboratory,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 4, 1997, pp. 315-320.3. Petroski, H., “Polishing the Gem: A First-Year Design Project,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 4, 1998, pp. 445-448.4. Courter, S. S., Millar, S. B., and Lyons, L., “From the Student’s Point of View: Experiences in a Freshman Engineering Design Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 3, 1998, pp. 283-286.5. Carrol, D. R., “Integrating Design into the Sophomore and Junior Level Mechanics Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 3, 1997, pp. 227-232.6. Lewis, P., Aldridge, D., and Swamidass, P. M., “Assessing Teaming Skills Acquisition on

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

3257 EVOLUTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM John E. Shea, Thomas M. West Oregon State UniversityIntroduction At the beginning of this decade, the structure of engineering curricula at most colleges anduniversities had existed since the early 1950’s, and reflected an emphasis on a solid foundation inmath, science, and engineering science as expressed in the Grinter Report of 19551. Therequirements for accreditation by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) reinforced this traditional structure of the

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denotes torque, θ is degree of the link with horizon,and Β shows friction coefficient.The block diagram of above system can be shown as follow: τ X2 X1 1 1 SΙ + Β . S θ θA closed-loop control system with a conventional PID controller for above system isshown below: . θ ref e τ θ θ 1 1

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William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

Page 4.324.4Figure 1 Chapter integration of thinking skills, creative problem solving, and engineering design.Let us use an analogy. When we learned calculus in the 1960’s, we spent hours painstakinglyplotting curves and intersecting surfaces, and even then it was difficult to visualize what reallyhappened (in physical terms) when parameters in equations were changed. Today, with a touch ofa button or two, students can visualize much more complicated equations in an instant; they canplay around with changing different parameters and thus gain a much deeper understanding of whatthe equations (and their parameters) signify. Once students master the fundamental thinking skills(listed in Table 2), they will be free to concentrate on the process

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Kentucky, 1990.James, Horace. The Two Great Wars of America. An Oration Delivered in NewBern, North Carolina, Before the Twenty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, July 4, 1862. By Rev. Horace James Chaplain. Boston: W. F. Brown & Co., 1862.Jamieson, Perry D. Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.Johnson, Curtis D. Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993.Keeley, Stuart M., M. Neil Browne, and Jeffrey S. Kreutzer. “A Comparison of Freshmen and Seniors on General and Specific Essay Tests of Critical Thinking,” Research in Higher Education 17:2 (1982): 139-54.King, Patricia M., K. S. Kitchener

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Richard B Cole; Charles V. Schaefer; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

-use materials andsupplies, etc.Faculty & StaffThe course instructors are adjunct faculty drawn from industry and consulting firms. The prox-imity of a variety of industries allows the course to benefit from instructors of a variety of ages(30’s to 60’s), some relatively new to the engineering workforce, some retired from a range ofengineering disciplines. Some are alumni, both recent and otherwise, though most are not. In-structors are recruited (by the Associate Dean) via alumni publications, announcements toalumni with jobs in nearby locations, personal reference by alumni and others, etc. Experiencewith such adjunct faculty had been positive for the four years of a similar design course for stu-dents in their second semester of the

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

need for tedious programming of the DSK, and isfreely available from the Web site: http://wseweb.ew.usna.edu/ee/LINKS/EE_Links.htm(should the URL be changed, then from the Naval Academy home page select Academics,Academic Divisions and Departments, Electrical Engineering, Links).A companion program for teaching DSP using MATLAB and the C31 DSK, which allows studentsto perform interactive adjustment and “what if?” analysis of pole-zero plots, is described in anaccompanying paper15 by Welch, Wright, and Morrow.4. REFERENCES[1] Kubichek, R. F., “Using MATLAB in a Speech and Signal Processing Class,” Proceedings of the 1994 ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 1207–1210, June 1994.[2] Burrus, C. S., “Teaching Filter Design Using MATLAB

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Trevor Harding

Session 0455 Training Graduate Student Instructors Effectively: The University of Michigan Model Trevor S. Harding Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136IntroductionMost of todays graduate student instructors (GSIs, a.k.a. "the TA") were undergraduatesthemselves a mere semester or two before. Can we say with confidence that theseindividuals are adequately prepared to teach their former peers and perhaps some-daytake the place of their professors? We must look not only at how GSI training programsmight improve

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W. Thomas Calder; Gerald W. Jakubowski

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING ABET ENGINEERING CRITERIA 2000 Gerald S. Jakubowski, W. Thomas Calder Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractThe Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology has established new criteria for the accreditation of engineering programs. Thenew criteria, called Engineering Criteria 2000, are significantly different from the old criteria.In the past, the accreditation criteria focused almost entirely on resources and curriculum. Incontrast, EC 2000 is a remarkably shorter, less prescriptive, much broader document that alsofocuses on processes and outcomes.EC 2000 has eight

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Edward Gehringer

on the computer. 1 With more than 1000 institutions offering distance-education courses 2which are increasingly Web based, there is clearly enough raw material for course databases inmany academic fields. Moreover, this material falls into well understood categories, such aslectures, problems, test questions, labs, software, and multimedia tools. Given such a database,instructors would have little difficulty exploiting it.Improving the educational experience: In technological fields, education needs to be up to date.Not only must the instructor keep current with the state of the art; (s)he must develop newcourse materials. This involves course components in all the categories mentioned above. Onecan rely on problems from a textbook, but too

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Suzanne Mildren; Karen Whelan

: An Engineering Case Study, European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 22, No1.5. McLean, C. Lewis, S. Copeland, J. Lintern, S. & O’Neill, B. (1997). Masculinity and the Culture of Engineering, Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 7, No2. Page 4.54.66. Copeland, J. & Lewis, S. (1998). Changing the Culture, not the Women: Unsettling Engineering, 3rd National Equity & Access Conference, Australia.7. Johnson, D.W., Johnson, R.T. & Smith, K.A., (1998). Maximising Instruction through Cooperative Learning, ASEE Prism, Feb, pp24 - 29.8. Smith, K.A. in cooperation with Johnson, D.W. &

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Herbert Holland; Dean Bruckner

mouth and a more sustained airflow. Con-sequently, the average magnitude can be used to distinguish between consonants and vowels.Consonants, on the other hand, often have higher frequencies associated with them. The hissingsound inherent in the “s” phoneme is an example. These two parameters provide a wealth of in-formation about speech waveforms.Computing a parameter for the segments in a word results in a short sequence of scalars, onescalar per segment, which uniquely characterizes a particular word. Whereas a one-second wave-form sampled at 8000 times per second contains 8000 data points, a parameter vector may be asshort as ten or twenty elements. This data reduction is a crucial part of time domain speech proc-essing.In addition to

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Anthony J. Muscat

teaching.Bibliography1. P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1993.2. D. T. Hansen, “Was Socrates a Socratic Teacher?,” Educational Theory (1988), vol. 38, no. 2, p. 213. Page 4.435.103. J. C. Overholser, “Socrates in the Classroom,” College Teaching (1992), vol. 40, no. 1, p. 14-19.4. M. Keegan, “Optimizing the Instructional Moment: A Guide to Using Socratic, Didactic, Inquiry, and Discovery Methods,” Educational Technology (1993), vol. 33, no. 4, p. 17-22.5. R. K. McMaster, “The Socratic Method: More Than It Seems,” Contemporary Education (1993), vol. 44, no. 3, p. 150-151.6. B. R. Brogan and

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

retention of fundamentals and basic principles.2. The workshops can create a learning environment that improves student interest and attitude toward a subject that would otherwise be regarded as boring and of no value.3. The 50-minute class period creates a constraint that can diminish the educational value of the workshop.4. The purpose and application of each workshop needs to be tightly focused on a single educational objective thereby allowing the student to genuinely benefit from the experience.Bibliography Page 4.587.61. Havener, A.G. and Brandt, S. A., “ An Approach to Implementing ABET EC-2000 Criteria,” Internal document

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Michael J. Caylor; Bruce Chesley

activities and the hand-off from one class to the next allows for a small Page 4.178.3satellite development spanning several years (see Fig. 1). MISSION #1 YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 Proposal Prelim. Des. Prototype Balloon S/C S/C Fab &Test Launch SC #1 CDR Flight CDR 2º Fall 2º Spr 1º Fall 1º Spr 2º Fall 2º Spr 1º Fall 1º Spr MISSION #2

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Philip Doepker

is allocated during nearly every lab period to allow teams to conduct teammeetings. The instructor(s) are available during these class meetings to answer bothtechnical and procedural questions. These team meetings are used for design decisionsand team scheduling. The intent is to help students to organize the team function but notintended to be the only time the team meets.After the conceptual designs are generated a decision analysis is performed. The team Page 4.330.3meets with the instructor who will act as a supervisor or mentor on the project. At thistime it will be determined if the project is possible and if there is enough substance

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Nanette Veilleux

class, would be to ask the student toperform basic derivatives such as d[ 2 cos x] /dx. Presumably, a similar example has beencovered in class as well as in the text and homework. The student is only required to rememberthis fact and reproduce it faithfully. ApplicationA student achieves a deeper understanding when s/he is able to assemble the facts learned inclass and apply them to a new, unfamiliar problem. These questions would probably be similarin difficulty to routine homework exercises, and require a deeper level of assimilation of thematerial that simply recalling what has already been demonstrated. In an introductory computerscience course, a student might be able to answer more difficult

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of stress invariants. The stress invariantformulation used in this program is an extension of the Cambridge formulation for independentthree-dimensional components (true triaxial formulation): v p = 1/3 trace( σ ) v q = [3/2 trace( s 2)]1/2 θ = 1/3 cos-1(χ)where: v σ = [σ1, σ2, σ3] v v s = σ - p δ