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Craig W. Somerton

mighthave on a football team. With these examples, the idea that without team members fulfillingindividual responsibilities the team may well fail is effectively communicated.Quite often students are confused about all this emphasis on teams, particularly the exceptionalstudents. They are provided with the following explanation concerning the growth of teams: The world has become sufficiently complicated that one individual can not have the knowledge needed to achieve the specified objectivesSince the lab exercise will involve a design and build project, a set of rules concerningbrainstorming is provided, shown in Figure 1, and discussed.Following this introduction, the class is broken into its lab teams and a team

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

equip their facilities with state of the arttechnologies available on the market. Other reason is the lack of trained faculty and staff whocan deliver these new technologies to others in a reasonable amount of time in the form ofteaching and training.To remedy the problems mentioned above institutions have started to look at options such asfostering university-industry cooperation in technology training through structured networking,university-personnel exchange, and joint training projects 2. Also, the federal ManufacturingExtension Partnership with university-based technology transfer initiatives has been fostered toassist small and medium-sized enterprises in modernizing production 1.This article looks at two examples. First, fostering

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Dr. Phil Kazemersky; Dr. Neslihan Alp

the course. Therefore, the techniques that will be used to deliver the coursesare different from each other. The followings are the different types of delivery methods Page 5.87.3that might be used to offer the on-line courses (Novak, 1999): • Highly web-based courses • Limited web-based courses • Supplement web-based coursesIn the highly web-based courses, there will be no need to come on campus to take thecourse, so all the course materials including the exam questions, homework assignments,project, etc. will be done through the web.In the limited web-based courses, there will be a need to meet once, twice, or three timesper month to

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Tim O'Neill; Gregory M. Maxwell

, faculty often employ undergraduate students to work on researchprojects. While these experiences are all beneficial to the student’s learning, they tend to focuson a single project or process within the context of the work assignment.The Department of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Center program (IAC program) providesstudents and faculty with a broad-based approach to engineering education while at the sametime providing a service to industry. The IAC program exposes students to a wide range ofmanufacturing processes. The clients served by the program include small and medium-sizedmanufacturers in standard industrial codes (SIC) 20-39. Manufacturing processes in these areascan range from full automation to those oriented around intense manual

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

progress, they are differentfunctions from that of technological innovation. However, strategic research serves a different purpose than doesbasic academic research. Strategic research is often technology project-driven rather than curiosity-driven. Itspurpose is also to gain a better understanding of phenomena when new knowledge is needed to solve fundamentalscientific problems related to products, processes, systems, and operations. As Cauffman, chief scientist at theDepartment of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, stated: “… A lot of thefundamental work today is driven by a need … but it is still an effort to understand the fundamental way thingsinteract.” 52.5 Recognizing that Graduate Engineers in Industry

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Stephen G Ritchie; Carlos C. Sun

Lipinski and Wilson [1] shows that one major concern for transportationemployers is finding qualified entry-level transportation engineers. This concern stems from thelack of exposure to state-of-the-art transportation engineering methodologies. This problem canbe addressed by including practicing professionals in the development and instruction oftransportation engineering courses. This problem is further addressed through the use of real-world engineering projects that are conducted in the field. A partnership between academia andpublic agencies seems to be a logical way of solving both problems. Pignataro [2] conducted asurvey of academic institutions and industry, and concluded that academic/industry partnerships

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Christopher T. Field; Brian Jenkins

is improved in following labexercises as different circuit theory concepts are emphasized along the way. In later labs, otherdesigns, such as a digital-to-analog converter with an op-amp or a camera flash simply aid inteaching fundamental concepts. In addition, we sometimes demonstrate slightly more advancedcircuits that operate on the same principles as the ones designed by the students. This helps keepstudents motivated and interested in knowing how they can make improvements. The finaldesign project, a bass and treble control circuit, emphasizes many of the concepts taught during Page 5.498.1the course, and provides continuity for the

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

much better for the participants who can follow theslides with their page references. Each participant can add personal notes on the mergedmaterial. It should be noted that the material is, in general, presented as an overview ofthe topic of interest in order to keep the course length to sixty hours. Further study isplaced upon the shoulders of the participants. Evaluation will continue to be on a day-to-day basis; this helps the authors to be certain that needs of future participants aremet.Another important course change was the inclusion of a real-world project for theparticipants to devise and complete during the last half of the course. There are twooptions for the project: (1) participants whose project reflects newly desired tests and

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Kevin LaFerriere; John M. Spinelli

(Hewlett Packard 54603B) controlled with LabVIEW allow forflexible input/output comparisons, and MATLAB is used for signal analysis.1.1 Design ProcessThe systems laboratory is a part of a sequence of courses and laboratories intended to givestudents experience and understanding of an entire design process for electrical systems.In part, this is to prepare them for the larger and more open-ended design projects thatthey will face in their senior year. One model for such a design process is shown in Figure1. For simplicity, the needed iterations and feedback paths are not shown. Studentsspecify performance criteria by answering questions like: What is this system supposed toaccomplish? How will I know if it works? They then design a circuit to meet

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Holly A. Patterson-McNeill; Carl Steidley

languages for a new project, it is natural to continue to use thelanguage with which we are most familiar, even if it is poorly suited to the new project. If wewere familiar with the capabilities of other languages, we would be in a better position to makemore informed language choices.Learning a new programming language can be lengthy and difficult. A thorough understandingof the fundamental concepts of programming languages can facilitate the understanding of the Page 5.268.1new language, allowing us to see how these concepts are incorporated into the design of thelanguage being learned.When learning the concepts of programming languages, it is

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Maurice F Aburdene; Jaskeerat S. Baweja; Richard J. Kozick

circuit design and evaluate the results. All of the Matlab code,experimental data, and frequency response plots are automatically included in the notebook.Now we present the notebook materials for the first filter design project, which is a low-passfilter with the specifications of –5 volt/volt pass-band gain and 500 Hz cutoff frequency.Students are asked to identify a circuit that is able to meet the specifications, and to derive theanalytical frequency response formula for the circuit as a function of the resistor, capacitor, andinductor values. This exercise provides an effective link from the students’ prior course oncircuit analysis to the present course on signals and systems.Students select the appropriate circuit and then choose component

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Marilyn Dyrud

materials,and skills to effectively integrate ethics education into technical classes, without sacrificingtechnical content. To date, more than 40 faculty, about one-third of OIT’s instructors, haveparticipated, with a final series planned for 2000. This paper explains our efforts, focusing onthe nuts and bolts of seminar development and implementation: securing funding, dealing withlogistics, choosing faculty, conducting the series, and evaluating results.Securing Funding Page 5.671.1Administrative support, both financial and psychological, is essential for the success of this typeof project. While on the surface, minimal funding is necessary

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Lucy C. Morse

each phase of the project 2. Planning • Agree on tasks. • Clarify responsibility within the group and identify leaders for the tasks. • Create a plan for the kind of technology that will be using within and without the group. 3. Managing/Action Phase • Review your process and create a model for the control of the various tasks. • Review technological tools, and organizational system.Added to these elements the complexity of e-teams is increased by the number of differentchoices for team interaction. Traditional teams typically interact face to face, at least some of thetime. E-team interactions are almost always mediated by electronic communication andcollaboration technology. E-team interaction in

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Ralph Olliges; Swami Karunamoorthy

interaction eliminatesthe need for the participants to remain logged on at the same time. Each one can sendquestions or discussion materials through e-mail in their free time. The WebCT mail canbe kept inside the course or it can be forwarded to an external mail delivery system.WebCT mail facilitates quick and easy access to course mails and avoids the clutter incampus e-mail boxes.The passive method also facilitates to attach and send files (a paper or project report)through e-mail5. File sharing is a useful feature for students working in teams, especiallyif a team consists of dormitory (resident) students and commuter students. BulletinBoard is another collaborative feature that can be used for posting announcements andthreaded discussion. It is

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Enno Koehn

which was distributed to students enrolled in various civil engineering degreeprograms as well as practitioners attending ASCE section and branch meetings. Respondentswere requested indicate whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree withthe policy statement endorsing the Master’s degree for the practice of engineering at theprofessional level.II. First Professional DegreeThe ASCE Board of Direction believes that, today, engineers must have skills in information andcomputer technologies, foreign languages, and an understanding of the economic and socialimplications of civil engineering projects. Along with the aforementioned breadth, increasedspecialty area knowledge is also required1. This level of knowledge is

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Nancy L. Johnson; Edward S. Pierson

concepts, including economics, see Section 8. The first summer Page 5.49.4concludes with the egg drop contest -- each participant designs, builds, and tests a smallcardboard container to protect an egg dropped from a third-floor roof. The winner is theparticipant whose egg survives in the lightest-weight (most-economical) container. The second-and third-summer participants do more advanced projects (see Appendix 1). Many projects areteam activities, to reinforce that engineers and scientists work as members of a team. Trophiesare awarded in all contests at the concluding Banquet to Celebrate Excellence.Take Homes or Souvenirs: Each participant

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James C. Hermanson; David J. Olinger

which combine to form an integrated learning environment.This multi-media lecture hall contains a Pentium-based PC at the front of the lecture hall withdata acquisition capabilities (LABVIEW software & data acquisition system) which is linked toa projection system with a large video screen. This faculty computer is also linked to existingnotebook computers (Digital HiNote VP567) at the student desks (one per two students). Thenotebook computers (the terms notebook and laptop computer are used interchangeably here),which are department owned and supplied, are loaned out to students for use in the classes. Webelieve that in the future a majority of students will own notebook computers, and that classroomuse of these computers for interactive

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Stacy S. Wilson

be utilized in the EET curriculum.A sample semester course schedule is listed in Table 1. Throughout the semester, the studentsare required to complete a variety of assignments which will prepare them for their academiccareers as an electrical engineering student. For example, students are placed on teams of fiveearly in the semester and then required to complete several group projects. During the lastoffering of UC101, the students were divided into teams and each team constructed a smallremotely controlled robot from provided materials and instructions. The teams competed withtheir robots in a miniature soccer tournament. The teams were then charged with building a toy.The only restriction on the toy was that a mousetrap spring or the

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Theodore E. Fahlsing

for construction will result in a totally functional audio signalgenerator project. The author would like to encourage you to implement the use of the followinglaboratory exercise in the education of students. Page 5.459.1 Integrated Circuit Function Generator Laboratory ExerciseI. Activities to be completed before completing this lab exercise: A. Read the XR2206 data sheets at http://www.exar.com/products/xr2206.html. B. Complete all calculations and record all expected values in all tables. C. Construct the circuit in Figure 1 and Figure 3 as shown belowII. Objectives: A. You will be able

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Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

Figure 5 The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)For command-line image file processing and conversion, we use the so-called netpbm 29 package,which is based on J. Poskanzer’s original Pbmplus software. The utilities in this package aremost often applied in combination with other tools in shell scripts.We create original photographic images from digital cameras using the small command-lineutility photopc written by E. Crosser.30 We have used this utility with Epson and Olympusdigital cameras connected to both our FreeBSD and Solaris systems. Other original digitalimages have been created using scanners attached to networked PCs. While researching thispaper, we discovered the open-source Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE)31 project. This

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Vincent M. Allen; Garrett Harris; Bruce Segee

the network to adjust the networkparameters, and then test the system using a set of data collected, but not used for training. ANNsare also capable of generating an output for an unknown or unencountered input by generalizingthe response from the training data. Figure 2. Conceptual Design of an ANNANN functionality has been and can be applied to a wide variety of system control tasks. Whileit is possible to efficiently implement ANN functionality in software, the effort required is stillan issue. Thus, if a software module were designed to allow an ANN to simply be added toanother project without having to write or even understand the complex code associated with it,considerable time and money would be

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

the student’s experience. Theremaining case studies have yet to be written in detail, although the ideas have been introduced inTF2.For whatever concept is being studied within the classroom, multiple problems from differentfields of engineering and applications will be presented to illustrate the concept so that the students Page 5.227.5begin to think expansively. Specific material will be presented as its need to solve a problemarises. Topics being covered and the projects in which they are encountered are listed in Table 1.(The numbers after the individual topics in the first table correspond to one of the projects listed inthe second

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Gene Moriarty

conceptual ethics is suitable for this kind of engineering.For focal engineering, which stresses the engineered, material ethics is mostappropriate to gauge the prospects for good of the systems, devices,structures, and networks to be let loose onto the planet.Traditional Engineering and Virtue EthicsThe traditional engineering enterprise was inexorably tied to social andpolitical worlds bound by the non-democratic and generally repressive ruleof pharaohs, emperors, and kings. The traditional engineering enterprise,then, exhibited a truncated ethicality from the point of view of the traditionalengineer. What the engineered – the project of traditional engineering –was to be was largely dictated to the engineer by the powers that be. Thetraditional

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

outcomes andlearning objectives of the ME-510 course.The students start off by observing the one-step (Quikstamp or FastForm 3D) and theincremental (LS-DYNA) results of example problems that are provided by these softwarecompanies. Due to computer resource limitations, they then attempt to simulate simple problemsfollowing the tutorials provided to them. For their project, students attempt to perform parametricstudies to simulate the bending and drawing operations that are done in the MfgE-404 laboratory.Fig. 2 in Appendix 2 shows results of a simple example of a cup draw using the Quikstamp one-step solver. These results are for quarter-symmetry model of a full cup drawn in the sheet metallaboratory that show the geometry of the tooling

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Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

Committee for the developmentand piloting of “CAMP IE”, a collaborative education project. The funding agent’s primaryinterest was to encourage educational collaboration between the local public schools and theUniversity of Louisville that involve both the JCPS teachers or administrators and the UofLfaculty or administrators. In addition, as the project evolved, enhanced funding was receivedfrom the CPMSA Program Office via a National Science Foundation ComprehensivePartnership for Minority Student Achievement (NSF/CPMSA) grant, which is a 5-yearpartnership with JCPS and NSF to address the critical problem of preparing moreunderrepresented minority students to enter college and pursue math/science/technology -relatedcareers.The “CAMP IE” model is a

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Robert E. Spall; Christine E. Hailey

appropriate. Incorporation of CFD into a graduate curriculum is not anew proposal. However, introducing CFD topics in undergraduate courses as well as teaching asenior-level CFD course is fairly limited. The results of several years of study on the role ofCFD in undergraduate education at Penn State-Behrend indicate CFD is best used in seniordesign projects and research projects.1 Average undergraduate students struggle with conceptslike solving differential equations and boundary conditions. Consequently, the Penn State- Page 5.102.1Behrend faculty found that teaching CFD to undergraduates was not an easy task. Recently,faculty at Kettering University

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Kandace K. Martin; Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

from 18 participants to 200 and hadspread outward from faculty in one department in one college to include faculty representing nearly allcolleges on the Iowa State Campus. By the fifth year, other institutions and sectors of higher education(e.g. community colleges) had heard about the program and subsequently inquired about the possibility offorming partnerships. Now, well into its sixth year, Project LEA/RN™ (Learning EnhancementAction/Resource Network) provides support and leadership to many efforts both on and off campus.Participant enthusiasm for the program continues to be a strong driving force in our success story. Fromday one the program was designed to be faculty-led and implemented. It has not been mandated orinstitutionalized

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Anant Kukreti

Session 1368 Computer-Based Learning Modules For Rigid Body Mechanics Musharraf Zaman, Anant R. Kukreti University of OklahomaAbstractThe use of computer-based modules in teaching and learning some of the difficult to comprehendconcepts in mechanics can be very beneficial for both students and instructors. The Vectormodule discussed in this paper was developed and used by the authors to introduce the conceptsassociated with the mathematical operations and use of vectors to solve engineering problemsincluding evaluation of vector components, addition, dot and cross products, projection, and

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John S. Mullin; James J. Alpigini

1 week to complete the first program, a “Hello World” variant. This firstprogram is not graded. Beginning with programming assignment 2, students are asked to workwith a partner. The partners are given 2 weeks to complete programming assignments 2 through 5. For the design projects the partners are given 4 weeks from assignment to completion. While ashared report is expected for the first design report, the report for the final project must becompleted on an individual basis.III. Course Overview Page 5.648.3In this section a chronological overview of the course is presented, as shown in Table 1. Whilethis is not an exhaustive review

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Musharraf Zaman; Anant Kukreti

Session 1368 Computer-Based Learning Modules For Rigid Body Mechanics Musharraf Zaman, Anant R. Kukreti University of OklahomaAbstractThe use of computer-based modules in teaching and learning some of the difficult to comprehendconcepts in mechanics can be very beneficial for both students and instructors. The Vectormodule discussed in this paper was developed and used by the authors to introduce the conceptsassociated with the mathematical operations and use of vectors to solve engineering problemsincluding evaluation of vector components, addition, dot and cross products, projection, and