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Nickolas S. Jovanovic

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Vincent Wilczynski

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William F. Horton; Thomas Agayoff; Saul Goldberg

Characteristic and Efficiency of a Three- Phase Squirrel-Cage Induction Motor In this experiment, we will make measurements on a four-pole, three-phase squirrel cage induction motor, rated one horsepower, 208 volts line to line, 60 hertz. Its approximate dimensions are 6 inches in diameter by 9 inches long and is shown in Figure 4.1-1. Such a motor could be used to power a compressor, blower, or small conveyer line

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

a scoring system to provide additional incentive.Students must find and activate question-mark icons, which trigger full-screen photographicimages and auditory explanations of the situations at hand. Students must then select a red,yellow, or green light, to indicate whether the situation is dangerous, cautionary, or safe,respectively.Introduction and BackgroundVirtual reality, VR, is an emerging computer interface that employs three-dimensionalinteractive immersive computer graphics, along with psychological and cognitive methodologiesand special interface devices, to invoke a strong sense of presence or “being there’ to users.Although the ideal goal of a simulation indistinguishable from reality[1] has not yet beenachieved, many

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

possible, or should it benecessary, for traditional engineering education systems to fundamentally change to meetcorporate requirements? These are but a few of the compelling issues discussed in this paper.1. Situational BackgroundDuring the summer of 1999, eleven individuals representing a variety of engineering disciplinesand universities spent eight weeks at the Boeing Company as A.D Welliver Faculty Fellows. Theprimary objective of the Boeing sponsored A.D. Welliver Faculty Fellowship program is to"influence the content of engineering education in ways that will better prepare tomorrow'sgraduates for the practice of engineering in a world-class industrial environment." Now in its fifthyear of existence, the Boeing faculty fellowship program

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Patrick A. Tebbe; Christa Weisbrook

on these characteristics educators have created instructionalmaterial using LabVIEW with success 4,5.Due to LabVIEW’s use for data acquisition and instrument control, it includes a number ofcontrols and indicators which can be placed on the front panel, LabVIEW’s version of agraphical user interface (GUI). These panel items are designed to duplicate the look andfunction of common controls and indicators found on equipment and instruments (Fig. 1).They include such common items as knobs, dials, meters, slide levers, switches, levelindicators, and charts. These items can be modified in appearance to almost anything desired.Based on these basic items more complicated interface items can also be constructed. Figure 1: Typical

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Chee Lum; Alvin Goh; Craig W. Somerton

problem solving and,as the focus of this paper, interactive property evaluation. Two JAVA applets have beendeveloped that provide an interactive, web based approach to the evaluation of thermodynamicproperties for steam and ideal gases.This paper continues with a brief description of the software development. This is followed by adescription and demonstration of the JAVA applets. Finally, conclusions are providedconcerning this work.II. Code DevelopmentIn developing these applets several different JAVA compilers were considered. BorlandJBuilder was chosen to be used for this purpose. One of JBuilder’s strengths was its drag anddrop feature for building the graphical user interface. As shown in Table 1, two other JAVAcompilers were given serious

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Ralph Olliges; Swami Karunamoorthy

class room education.Traditional classrooms have the advantage of creating an appropriate learningenvironment, and having an active (face-to-face) interaction between students andinstructors. Some of the limitations in this process are, (1) difficulty in providing courseinformation or handouts to every student including those who were absent; (2) inability tohave office hours that is compatible with the schedule of every student, (3) difficulty inadministering many quizzes and tests without increasing the workload of grading, and (4)complexity in obtaining a statistical assessment of class performance. Web-basedinstruction can be used to eliminate or minimize these limitations 3,4.The success of Web-based instruction depends on the ability and

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Bodgan M. Wilamowski; Aleksander Malinowski

User Input: daemon Perl Interpreter Source Code Java VRML Graphical ActiveX Post Processor for Java AppletsFig. 1. Data flow in an Internet Compilers package.These software design problems were considered and solved in the ICP. The user interface isprogrammed in HTML enhanced with JavaScript. The purpose of the project was allowing Page 5.715.2students to get familiar with different compilers and compiler optimization techniques rather thanmake another huge GUI application to wrap

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Barbara L. Christe

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Eric A. Stueber; Chiang Lin; Susan M. Morgan

profiles and lab data, and theweb page files, which serve as an interface between users and their data. MS Access97 was usedto create the database, and ASP, which can be served from the standard IIS web directory, wasused to develop the web pages.The DatabaseThere are four types of tables created in the database file in Access97 (“Ladi.mdb”): tblUser,tblLog, tblLabX, and tblGrades. 1 “tblUser” contains users’ profile information. (such as userID, passwords, and user type) that controls access for security. “tblLog” contains users’ log ininformation (such as user ID, update time, records update, and log in IP addresses.) This tableallows all changes to the database to be recorded and tracked. “tblLabX” is a collection of tablesfor the laboratory

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Hajrudin Pasic; Gregory G. Kremer; Bhavin V. Mehta

problem-solving methods. This paper describes an ongoing process of course andcurricular review that has resulted in the development of a web-based learning environment (theInteractive Problem Solver) to supplement traditional instructional methods in an undergraduateDynamics course. The Interactive Problem Solver, which is still under development, is beingdesigned 1) to help students learn (and practice) rigorous problem solving skills, 2) to helpstudents develop an ability to understand and evaluate mathematical models and results in thecontext of physical reality, and 3) to provide a forum for instructors to evaluate the impact ofvarious features of a learning environment on student learning of tasks (problem solving skills)and concepts.I

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Yong Y. Kim; Rakesh K. Kapania; Kamal B. Rojiani

Session 2620 Web-Based Java Applets for Teaching Engineering Mechanics Kamal B. Rojiani1, Yong Y. Kim2 and Rakesh K. Kapania2 1 2 Charles E. Via Dept. of Civil Engineering, Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA 24061AbstractA series of novel Web-based instructional units for teaching structural mechanics to undergraduatestudents are developed. The instructional units are centered on computer programs written in theplatform independent object-oriented Java programming language. The Java

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Pedro Febles Cortez; John Dahlstrom; Chris Mattus; Aleksander Malinowski; Gary Dempsey

downloading as a Web page with embedded Java applet.• Robot server written in Java, interfacing the remote clients connected using a custom TCP/IP protocol.• Video monitoring system providing visual feedback. Currently only one view is available, either from the side or from camera mounted on the robot.• Remote controlled robotic manipulator interfaced to the network-connected base PC.• Operating system providing the interface for the robot server to the Internet and the robots seen as the I/O devices of the computer.Fig. 1 illustrates the data flow and interaction among the components. CLIENT SERVER Graphical User Buffered

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

Session 3664 WEB-BASED TEACHING: FACT OR FICTION? Joshua U. Otaigbe 1,2, Brad Tischendorf1 , and Meagen Marquardt 1 1 Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering and 2 Dept. of Chemical Engineering Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa 50014Abstract Innovative, interactive worldwide web-accessible multimedia instructional tools were developed to provide undergraduate students in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department and in other departments in Iowa State University (ISU) with a relevant and practice-oriented education in polymers that is attractive to industry

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Madhu Gourineni; Badrul H. Chowdhury

available convertertopologies is not always easy to grasp from a textbook. Practical converters contain non-idealcharacteristics, filters, voltage or current limiters, etc. Often, it becomes difficult to see thedifferences among converters without the aid of computer simulations. The rationale ofproducing this website is to give students a more intuitive approach whereby they can learn thematerial by interacting with a computer. All major types of converters are dealt with as well asspecific topics such as electromagnetic interference (EMI), heatsink specifications, snubbers, andmagnetics. Performance characteristics such as converter efficiency, ripple, and total harmonicdistortion (THD) are also discussed.1. Introduction Power electronics

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Emin Yilmaz

semester of 1995, I worked with him on the instrumentation of the Wheel Balancing machineand writing a data acquisition program using LabTech/CONTROL[1] software. Third studentmodified the instrumentation during the spring semester of 1997. Since data acquisition byLabTech/CONTROL was not fast, we used ASYST[2] software for data acquisition, analysis anddisplay. During the Spring semester of 1998, fourth student worked on the project toremanufacture the shaft and the wheel anchoring system to closer tolerances to improve theaccuracy of measurements.The purpose of this paper is to describe the wheel-balancing machine and convey the experienceswe had during the design and construction of the wheel-balancing machine.MECHANICAL DESIGN OF THE WHEEL

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Marty Bowe; John Feland; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

.1. IntroductionThe Fundamentals of Mechanics course (Fall Semester 1999) at the United States Air ForceAcademy was used as a testing ground for introducing and assessing the effectiveness of visuallearning aids. The course combines statics and strength of materials at an introductory level forall students regardless of major (this will turn out to be a very significant point that must bekept in mind). Typically, the concepts of stress in objects caused by torsion, bending, andcombined loading are among the most difficult for students to grasp. For these topics, “enhancedlearning modules” were developed to bring visualization learning aids into the classroomexperience.The initial study4 (Fall 1998) attempted to correlate the effects of these

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Christine D. Noble; Beth M. Myers; Karen E. Schmahl

techniques in an engineering decision-making context.Engineering Economy textbooks typically use a mix of financial and engineering problems tohelp the students learn the basics of engineering economy. Financial examples, such as bankaccount savings, loans and bonds, are useful because they can be used to present time value ofmoney concepts in a simplistic form. Problems using an engineering decision making context inreal life tend to be more complex.Arguments can be made that courses in Engineering Economy should provide more of anengineering decision-making focus than is currently emphasized in textbooks. In recent yearsseveral papers in the Engineering Economy Division at the ASEE National Conference havesupported this view. Hartman[1] strongly

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Teresa Larkin-Hein; Dan Budny

Session 3280 Why Bother Learning about Learning Styles and Psychological Types? Teresa Larkin-Hein/Dan D. Budny American University/University of Pittsburgh Washington, DC/Pittsburgh, PAAbstractA growing body of research suggests that increased learning gains can be achieved with adultlearners when instruction is designed with learning styles in mind 1 - 3. The adoption of any typeof new teaching and/or learning approach has the potential to require a good deal of valuablefaculty time and energy. In this paper, the question of why

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Timothy C. Scott; John P. O'Connell

students lack essential connections between scientific/technologicaldescriptions and physical behavior of real systems. We believe that a successful first course inengineering thermodynamics must address these issues by careful and comprehensive pedagogyand assessment. This paper describes our approach that involves laboratory workshops.In our course is taken principally by mechanical and chemical engineering majors. For it, wehave developed nearly a dozen 1-hour laboratory sessions to augment classroom activities and tofacilitate student growth in connecting descriptions to behavior. These include 1) simple customdevices such as piston/cylinder systems and instrumented spray bottles of refrigerant, 2)"familiar" household devices such as bicycle

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D. Joseph Shlien

their approach will be described as an example of rational engineering design.Two memorable unsuccessful attempts by others will be described briefly before examining theWright approach. In these cases, the lack of success can be attributed to failure of the use of arational design process.The first example is an aircraft builtby Maxim (1894 - five years beforethe Wrights started their design pro-cess). He gathered pertinent informa-tion, but failed in the conceptualiza-tion phase: Instead of testing parts ofhis design in stages, he spent a greatdeal of money to immediately buildhis final aircraft (Fig. 1). It weighed Fig. 1. The first powered aircraft, built by Maxim in 1894 wasfour tons, was powered by

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Teresa L. Hein

conferenceproceedings. Students were also required to present their final papers at the New MillenniumConference at the end of the fall 1999 semester. In this paper, a summary of the curriculumdevised for this writing technique will be presented. Writing topics selected and presented bystudent participants will also be shared. In addition, links will be made to the importance ofmaking science and engineering topics accessible to non-majors through the active process ofwriting.I. IntroductionThe primary purpose of teaching is to facilitate student learning. However, many traditionalteaching methodologies have clearly been shown to put students in a role of passive rather thanactive learning 1. In addition, traditional instructional methods have been shown

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Kenneth Reid

maingoals as “teaching K-12 students the importance of engineering” 1. Involving potentialstudents on campus with fun and educational activities should stimulate an interest incollege 2, hopefully in your discipline, and if all goes well, may encourage them towardyour department!The Young Scholar Program - General Overview:The Young Scholar program at IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis) was started more than ten years ago, and has been administered throughthe Department of Education for the prior two years. Until three years ago, all of thecourses offered were in the liberal arts. In the past three years, two classes have been Page

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Dr. Phil Kazemersky; Dr. Neslihan Alp

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Dr. Phil Kazemersky; Dr. Neslihan Alp

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Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

Session 2209 Teaching optics and lasers in biomedical engineering Fabrice Manns1,3, Pascal Rol1,2, Jean-Marie Parel1,3, Peter Milne3,4 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, FL/ 2 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Zurich, Switzerland/ 3 Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, FL/ 4 Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Miami, FLAbstractThe development of a biomedical optics and laser curriculum at the University of MiamiDepartment of Biomedical

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Karan Watson; Jeffrey Froyd

of Alabama, the Universityof Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and the University of Wisconsin. All campuses havedeveloped improved engineering curricula and learning environment models and haveincorporated those models into their institutional fabric. As part of its strategic plan, thepartner campuses in the Foundation Coalition have focused their efforts on improvingtheir competence in seven theories of pedagogy; these seven pedagogical theories arereferred to as the core competencies of the Foundation Coalition. The seven corecompetencies are 1) curriculum integration, 2) cooperative and active learning, 3)teamwork and collaboration, 4) technology-enabled learning, 5) assessment-drivencontinuous improvement, 6) recruitment, retention, and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Karen Frair; Jeffrey Froyd

of Alabama, the Universityof Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and the University of Wisconsin. All campuses havedeveloped improved engineering curricula and learning environment models and haveincorporated those models into their institutional fabric. As part of its strategic plan, thepartner campuses in the Foundation Coalition have focused their efforts on improvingtheir competence in seven theories of pedagogy; these seven pedagogical theories arereferred to as the core competencies of the Foundation Coalition. The seven corecompetencies are 1) curriculum integration, 2) cooperative and active learning, 3)teamwork and collaboration, 4) technology-enabled learning, 5) assessment-drivencontinuous improvement, 6) recruitment, retention, and

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Natasha Balac; Daniel M. Gaines

it is proving to be a valuable teaching tool.In this paper we describe the design of the course and how mobile robots are used to meetthe course objectives of surveying advanced AI concepts and teaching research skills. Weevaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile robots that we have observed,including feedback received from students during the semester.1 IntroductionBeing a successful researcher requires a variety of skills including the ability to thinkcreatively and effectively, evaluate work, schedule time and communicate effectively inproposals, reports and presentations. Therefore, it is important that our graduate coursesnot only provide knowledge of advanced topics, but also help students develop theseresearch skills