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Paul Johnson

individuals interested in materials issues. Infor-mation available ranges from non-technical advertising to highly technical research reports andmaterials property and applications data. Web resources in materials engineering have becomefar too extensive to review comprehensively. The following, however, are examples of web siteswith extensive materials information, or list of references to other materials related sites. Page 4.605.1Governmental Sources - Argonne National Laboratory www.anl.gov Department of Energy www.doe.gov FedWorld Information Network

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Lawrence Genalo

integrate knowledge from each of the above four elements (structure, properties, processing, & performance) of the field to solve materials selection and design problemsiv. an ability to utilize experimental, statistical and computational methods consistent with the goals of the program.In addition, three outcomes specified for Materials Engineering graduates at Iowa Stateare;1. to demonstrate mastery of creative, independent, problem solving skills, under time and resource constraints, in a broad range of materials-related applications critical to the success of the final product2. to have gained experience in materials engineering practice through co-ops or internships in industry, national laboratories, or other

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Raffaello D'Andrea

[6], and the Working Model 2D and3D multibody code software from Knowledge Revolution [4]. A new course is being being developed aroundthese experiments, entitled “Experimental Model Based Control Design Using Multibody Codes”. Limitedversions of the experimental setups have, and will be used, in other senior electives at Cornell. To our knowledge, no other projects of this scope exist; there are several projects, however, which sharea similar philosophy. In [2], a laboratory is described where computer simulations are compared to actualmeasurements as integral parts of an undergraduate mechanics laboratory. It is argued quite convincingly inthis paper that simulations should not replace real experiments in the undergraduate curriculum

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Warren R. Hill

preparation, writing exams, quizzes and laboratory experiments, grading papers andassigning grades, setting up laboratories, assisting students outside of class with questions andproblems directly related to the subject being taught, running laboratories, and supervisingindependent study. Normally the time required outside of class will generally far exceed the timein class for a given course.In the scholarship area, there are the typical activities most commonly associated with the researchuniversities such as writing grants, supervising graduate students, writing for publication andworking on one s own research. These activities are also common in other kinds of institutionsand in Engineering Technology programs, but to a lesser extent. Frequently

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James . McDonald

of Chapter 7 in the text Microcomputer Engineering by Gene H. Page 4.283.1 Miller1 . The text, and therefore the course, is based on the Motorola 68HC11 family of 8-bit microcontrollers, and laboratory projects use Motorola’s 6811 EVB evaluation board. 2. ECE 474 Microcomputers II introduces more advanced topics in assembly-language programming and software design through the study of a considerably more advanced microcontroller: the Motorola MC68332, a 32-bit processor and member of the large 68000 series of processors. The text used2 is specific to this processor, and laboratory projects use Motorola’s

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

at Queen’s University is described in detail. The primaryobjective of the course is to create a sense of opportunity and excitement about mechatronicssystem design. This course focuses on the practical implementation of simple mechatronicsystems with particular emphasis on the electronics for conditioning and interfacing of sensorsignals and driver control signals. The laboratory portion of the course is based on the BasicStamp II, a user friendly microcontroller from Parallax Inc. By the end of the course, studentsunderstand a relatively simple system of sensors and actuators under the supervision of amicroprocessor engaged in on/off or simple PID control.1. IntroductionMechatronics is a word which means different things to different people

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Zbigniew Prusak

learning- often like to work in groupsIt is worth noticing that the above lists of shortcomings and advantages would largely be thesame if the non-traditional students and traditional students were described as middle-agestudents and around 20 years old students respectively. It needs to be noticed that in general,personal qualities, experiences and aptitudes possessed by and individual due to his/her own life 4, 5and work experiences are simply reflected in the classroom and laboratory environment .These qualities and aptitudes may be very difficult and time-consuming to modify and ratherneed to be taken advantage of. Universities must

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John Marshall

resource to supplies and additional information: http://www.rmit.edu.au/departments/ch/rmpc/Biographical Information:Dr. JOHN ALLEN MARSHALL taught senior high school prior to receiving his Ph.D. fromTexas A&M University. He has seventeen years of university teaching experience, andis currently the Coordinator of the Power and Energy curriculum and laboratories as wellas the Internship Coordinator for the University of Southern Maine’s Department ofTechnology. Page 4.383.4

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David A. Sabatini

training.”Sabbatical leave policies typically allow a faculty person to take a sabbatical every sevenyears of service. Generally the sabbatical can be taken for one semester with full pay or twosemesters with half pay. Faculty are typically encouraged to take a sabbatical at a remotesite. A variety of settings are possible including industry, a government research laboratory, Page 4.397.1an international university or another university in the U.S. On occasion faculty remain attheir home university for a sabbatical leave. During this time they will typically schedulenumerous trips.A two-semester sabbatical typically requires external funding for

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Suzanne D. Bilbeisi; Camille F. DeYong

,architecture and technology, all of which provided participants with a basic understanding of theissues that professionals in these fields face in terms of ethics, environment, energyconservation, safety, and societal concerns.In addition to increasing the high school students’ awareness of engineering and relateddisciplines, the academies provided hands-on laboratory, problem-solving and teamworkexperiences as well an exposure to college life. A career guidance module designed to help theyoung women understand the professional opportunities available in the fields of architecture,engineering, and technology was offered to help them make informed career decisions.Computer, technical, and communication skills were also addressed. Furthermore, the

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Peter Avitabile

Session 2634 TEACHING MODAL ANALYSIS - A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS AND MULTIMEDIA IS BETTER YET! Dr. Peter Avitabile Modal Analysis and Controls Laboratory University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts USAAbstractTeaching complex concepts related to modal analysis (both analytical and experimental topics)to undergraduate students can be quite difficult. The student must be familiar with a wide rangeof different subjects - some of which he has

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James Stice

has some observations which should be added to the mix. Last year, Karl Smith told us about the development of cooperative learning. One of thestrengths of that technique is team-building, which involves training students to function asteams with the requirement that group members feel a sense of positive interdependence andindividual accountability. They need to be trained in the process to develop the requisite socialskills, the ability to engage in group processing, and the knowledge of how to deal withcontroversy. It turns out that groups of students have been used in laboratory courses andsenior design projects for decades before cooperative learning arrived on the scene--not,perhaps, very effectively, but the idea was there

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Gary P. Langenfeld; David Wells

development,laboratories, technical conferences -- sources of continuing learning -- retain the image offrills or extras or perquisites, something done when there are funds not needed for somethingimportant. While some of this shortfall may be attributed to the short-term thinking characteristic of thetypical corporation, other -- perhaps more fundamental -- reasons may be equally influential.Even casual observers of education -- i.e., structured learning -- quickly note that wecommonly and pervasively think about learning as having definite starting and ending points.From kindergarten through graduate school, the language applied to education and learning isbounded by beginnings and completions. The lexicon reflects a built-up chasm betweenlearning

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Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

concentration); Page 4.247.6 - courses which involve individual work that leads to the preparation of the thesis: large design projects, individual reading and research courses, diploma seminars, etc. (the preparation of the thesis itself is not included);• the percentage of technical elective courses (restricted and free electives) in the curriculum;• the percentage of tutorials and group laboratory and supervised project sessions in required technical courses (mathematics, physics, and engineering courses);• the total number of courses (units for which a grade that occurs in students’ records is given) and the

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Michael Morrow

laboratory stations in an advanced microcomputer course emphasizing real-time interface design and operation in embedded systems. Using the DSK as the basis of aprototyping system provides far greater speed, data bandwidth, and computational capabilities,while the straightforward register architecture and floating point hardware actually reduceprogramming complexity.A first stage demonstration prototype was constructed that augmented the DSK with anelectrically erasable memory, boot source selection, a reset controller, and a digital/analog wire-wrap prototyping area. This allowed for either hosted operation for debugging and programming,or stand-alone embedded operation. The demonstration system was designed to accept the DSKas a daughterboard

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William B. Hudson; Donald M. Gruenbacher

Session 2632 Evolving Education Paradigms, Friend or Foe? William B. Hudson, Donald M. Gruenbacher Kansas State UniversityIntroductionNot long ago successful instruction required only that an instructor be current with subjectmatter and present this material in a logical and cohesive manner. Many instructors wentbeyond the lecture and provided students with laboratories to reinforce key concepts. Recentlythe instructional landscape has begun to change. Some say these changes are in response to achanging student population, others believe that asynchronous instruction must be

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Robert L. Powell; Michael J. McCarthy; Michael H. Buonocore

. The two experimental courses address practical issue of operating an MRI system in abiological or food science laboratory, and the three theory courses cover the fundamentalphysical science, biophysics and engineering of modern MRI devices and methodologies. Fordevelopment of the advanced lectures in the theory courses, some of the most mathematically Page 4.278.8rigorous papers in the MRI literature were used. Fig. 6: “Courses in Magnetic Resonance Imaging” page on the Web site provides access to all course materials.MRI TechnologyThe sequence of courses, BIM 246, 247, and 248 represent a full year of

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Alfred J., Jr. Bedard

safety and appropriateness. The initial Rube Goldberg projects tendedto be large and often incorporated portions of the classroom in the design (e.g.blackboards, overhead projector, door/entryway). There was a requirement for includingresults from a simulation program, but this was more often relegated to the status of afootnote in project reports. When the number of sections increased in 1997 with theopening of a new laboratory (the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory) there wasconsiderable pressure on space and facilities. This laboratory included two classroomsspecifically designed and reserved for the first year engineering projects course. Thenumber of students enrolled in the course increased until, during the fall 1998

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

vapor infiltration techniques at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)and industrial companies, such as DuPont, 3M/Delta G, B. F. Goodrich, Amercom, RefractoryComposites and B. P. Chemicals Ltd. The CFCCs are being recognized as necessary for high-temperature structural applications. The pertinent applications include heat exchangers,combustors, hot gas filters and boiler components in power generation systems, and first walls andhigh heat flux surfaces in fusion reactors. The technology for fabrication, characterization,modeling, design, and applications of ceramic composites is of crucial importance for improvingUS industrial competitiveness in the worldwide market.A three-year project on "Ceramic Matrix Composites - A Combined Research

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Robert A. Johnson; J. Shawn Addington

into a body of Page 4.308.3 knowledge and apply that knowledge to the solution of problems15. An ability to function as a member of a team in project design and laboratory experiment environments16. An ability to apply contemporary analytic, computational and experimental practices in the laboratory environmentIn particular, the students are asked to rate their opportunity to engage in these skills, bothquantitatively and qualitatively, (i.e. how many opportunities were available for skill-development, and were the opportunities helpful in developing these skills) as well as theirperception of their achievement in

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Don L. Dekker

tasks in 2 to 4 hours.Testing: The device is then passed to a third group for testing. Although the heat exchanger isdesigned to be used with a heat transfer fluid as the hot fluid of about 600 degrees Fahrenheit, it istested with hot water for safety and economic reasons. The testing takes place in a laboratory on atesting setup for testing student heat exchangers. It takes a group only about 30 minutes to test aheat exchanger, if it works well. One of the problems that is often encountered is leakage.Final Report: The design group is then responsible for presenting and writing a comprehensivereport which describes their design for a "real" heat exchanger which is to be used in the plant.This redesign portion is very important because it

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Voula Georgopoulos; Constantinos Vassiliadia; Brian Manhire

language is a requirement for all. These courses are advanced technicalterminology classes related to their field. However, this is usually not a problem since moststudents reaching the University are fluent in one or two of the foreign languages. The mostcommon foreign languages are English, French, German, and Italian.Since Universities are public, their budget primarily comes from the state and it is limited.However, in most cases the laboratories are well-equipped with state of the art equipment dueto a large percentage of research grants from the European Union and private industry.Considerable opportunity is given to students to work on research projects both asundergraduates and as graduate students.3.1 Example ProgramSince it is difficult

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Brian Hajak

with a survey to learn why the students have taken the course, hownuclear science has touched their lives in the past, and what they expect to get out of thecourse. That is, what are their goals for this course? It then segues into a presentation on thebreadth of the subject, its impact on our lives today, and its potential for improving life in thefuture. We want to touch a little on their idealism as young students.We then introduce basic nuclear concepts such as nuclear reactions, fission, fusion, reactionrates, and interactions with matter. This is done to prepare them for a tour of The Ohio StateUniversity Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. On this tour, they will participate in a startup of thereactor, observe the "blue glow," perform two

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Anthony Brizendine

; Lessons LearnedThe first trial for these software courses is not yet completed at this writing, norhave official student evaluations been performed. A second iteration of thesecourses is scheduled for the Spring 1999 semester. Some as yet preliminary, andquite general, observations will be presented in bullet form representing both thestudents’ and author’s perspectives.• Students take these courses concurrently or subsequent to lecture and Page 4.71.5 laboratory courses in the respective subject areas. The courses serve as enhancements to the lecture and laboratory.• The author observes that students are eager to sign up for these courses

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

. • TVA – the nation’s largest electricity producer and is a regional economic developer. • Saturn Corporation – a GM company that produces the Saturn automobile. • Tech 2020 – a telecommunication solution provider that helps business, industry, and government meet their customers needs. • Oak Ridge National laboratory – the largest multi-program DOE laboratory. • Virginia Tech. – a pioneer in educational curriculum development and delivery techniques. • Alumax – a fully integrated aluminum producer and a fortune 200 company with worldwide facilities. • Dupont – with about 175 manufacturing and processing facilities in 70 countries, is one of the oldest continuously operating industrial enterprises

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Jianping Yue

, while some others had.Since CAD has become a necessary skill for engineering technology majors, it should beincluded in a required graphics or drafting course if not as a stand-alone required course. Thecombined graphics and CAD course has the advantage of balancing theory and practice. It canbe a lecture and laboratory course in which students not only learn drafting theory andtechniques, but also practice CAD skills. One of the new approaches is to include CAD in afreshman design course which teaches fundamentals of engineering design, engineeringgraphics, and oral and written communication skills 1.In the past decades, developments in computer hardware and software have caused aninformation revolution and made significant changes in our

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

thedevelopment of computer laboratories for engineering mechanics. His research area is in Characteristics FiniteElement Methods for CFD and has published several articles in CFD. Mr. Chambers and he have pioneered atUTK the use of Internet-based distance education programs and developed the first Internet Governor’s School forManufacturing in the United States.A.J. BAKERA.J. Baker, Ph.D., PE, is Professor, Engineering Science, and Director of the CFD Laboratory at the University ofTennessee/Knoxville. He joined the faculty in 1975, following a research stint in aerospace industry, with thespecific goal to develop the graduate curriculum in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. He hasauthored more than 240 technical papers on the subject

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Philip Doepker

learning could also be included in the course thataddresses the PRP and or specific technical subjects that would enhance the performanceon the projects.The CourseProjects have been implemented in various types of courses. Besides projectsincorporated into a standard three credit hour course, in some cases projects have beensuccessfully implemented in 1 or 2 credit hour laboratory courses (attached to othercourses like design of machine elements) in which the students meet several times eachweek. In these cases most of the laboratory is spent on team activities related to theproject.Other venues could include experimental laboratories where both fabrication andexperiments are performed. Depending on the course it has been observed that the

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Norman L. Fortenberry

will support fundamental and applied research through a defined program which willsupersede the REPP program. For example, NSF’s Division of Research, Evaluation, andCommunication has supported fundamental research on efficacy of small group learning by theNational Institute of Science Education. That research has demonstrated a significantimprovement in student learning15. The same division supported applied research on improvingthe efficacy of problem solving in engineering design classes16.Implementation research will result from analysis of projects supported through NSF’simplementation programs at the pre-college (e.g., Teacher Enhancement Program),undergraduate (e.g., Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program), and graduate

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Ernest M. Kim

-engineeringmajors to electrical and electronic technologies that are encountered daily. The class isstructured as a three hour lecture course. Although some simple mathematical conceptsrequiring competence in high school algebra is required, the majority of the material strives forconceptual understanding of the underlying science of the specific technologies discussed.The course has three purposes:1. Students learn of the underlying scientific concepts of the technical tools used today2. Essays on the impact of specific technologies on society are assigned to students to encourage critical thinking3. Through discussions and technical problem-solving assignments, sufficient scientific literacy will be achieved meriting fulfillment of a non-laboratory