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W. Nicholas Delgass; Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

and learning to learn. The current status of incorporatingthe fourth criterion, ethical behavior, into the curriculum is probably adequate. The finaltwo criteria still need increased effort. Results of a survey of practicing engineers showsthat laboratory and design courses and practical work experience are the most importantsources for learning to satisfy the soft criteria.I. IntroductionFor many years our industrial colleagues have been telling us that several soft skills suchas communication and teamwork are vitally important for the success of engineers inindustry. Many engineering schools have incorporated these skills into their curricula tovarying degrees.With the advent of ABET 2000 the soft skills have assumed a greater

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Terry Dwan; Kiriakos Kiriakidis; Jennifer Waters; George Piper

-taughttypically by an electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a computer scientist. The team-teaching format helps guarantee multidisciplinary instruction better than any other approach.Also, there are usually several environmental engineering professionals who address the classfrom time to time. Although there is a wide range of topics discussed in the course, thefollowing topics highlight the diversity of the environmental issues and engineering principlestaught.2.1 Environmental Monitoring, Data Analysis And ModelingThe monitoring, simulation and analysis of environmental data is accomplished in this coursethrough several weeks of study, laboratory exercises and homework assignments. Each phaseof the process will be discussed in depth.2.1.1

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Kevin M Torres; David Johnson; David Forsman; David Baird

automatically granted admission to Penn State Erie.Penn State Erie hosted a week long residence camp exposing high school Tech Prep students tohands on experiences. Activities for the camp focused on manufacturing in the ElectricalEngineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology and Plastics EngineeringTechnology programs, through the study of model rocketry.The first day of camp, the students were exposed to the assembly line process by building anelectronic ignition system for model rockets. They also assembled the Alpha rockets that wouldbe launched in the afternoon.The second and third day, students rotated through lectures and laboratories on the followingtopics - basic DC circuit fundamentals, assembly drawings of the Alpha rocket and a

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Stanley J. Pisarski

Session 3547 The UPJ EET MicroMouse: This New Addition Impacts Learning In Embedded Microcontrollers Stanley J. Pisarski University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil,Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Technology. Many of the courses offered in UPJ’sEngineering Technology Program rely on laboratory experiments to supplement the lectures. TheEmbedded Microcontroller course offered by the Electrical Engineering

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Douglas Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

-style, sensitive, complementary student-orientedmaterials for student self-study. These materials can be accessed from computers availablein the classroom, school computer laboratories and in their homes (Figure 1). Figure 1 – Knowledge-Teacher-Learner Linkage ÃÃÃÃUMR/ Gl obal Input Page 5.429.2We have developed some pilot topic modules, which employ learning-style-suggestive linkicons, so that after a few experiences, the student will explore topics according to his or herlearning style

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Patrick C. Gee

expose them to the fields of engineering and technology.2. To assist students to become enrolled in college (post-secondary education) and provide assistance in helping them obtain financial aid.3. To increase the students’ awareness of career options available to engineers and technologists.4. To facilitate students’ access to and interaction with positive role models from the fields of education and industry who will serve MEAP as workshop instructors, counselors, and mentors for students.5. To provide hands-on laboratory experiences and academic instruction similar to that of a typical first year of study in an engineering or technology curriculum.6. To demonstrate work-place environments by providing students with tours of local

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Roman Stemprok

, designed simple memory systems, and investigated basic datacommunications. Special care was taken in organizing labs for these hands-onundergraduate and graduate courses. Students were assigned projects of increasingcomplexity from a simple control circuit to “Digital Pet” powered by the Motorolamicroprocessor (a semester project). Successful student teams demonstrated workinghardware models at the end of each semester.IntroductionThis paper describes projects and laboratory assignments for courses in the ElectronicsDivision of the Engineering Technology Department. After completion of the digitallogic introductory course students learned to utilize microcontroller technology through“hands-on” assignments. Class curricula integrated the Motorola

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E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

Session 3220 Engineering Theory and Practice via a Web-Link C. Gregory Jensen, E. Max Raisor Mechanical Engineering Brigham Young University Provo, UtahAbstractMaintaining ABET accredited engineering programs requires hands-on laboratory experiences inaddition to course instruction and theory. This paper presents some essential points to consider,and some “traps” to avoid, as digital (Semester on Line and Independent Study--DistanceLearning) courseware is developed with laboratory elements that require

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Mark Cutkosky; Christopher Richard; Allison Okamura

Session 3668 Feeling is Believing: Using a Force-Feedback Joystick to Teach Dynamic Systems Christopher Richard, Allison M. Okamura, Mark. R. Cutkosky Center for Design Research, Stanford UniversityAbstractAs an innovative approach to teaching the laboratory component of an undergraduate course ondynamic systems, we present the haptic paddle: a low-cost, single-axis, force-feedback joystick.Using the paddle, students not only learned to model and analyze dynamic systems, but by usingtheir sense of touch, they were able to feel the effects of phenomena such as viscous damping

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

technology, computer engineering technology and photonics. It also offers anintegrated Master of Science Program in Advanced Technology jointly with mechanical andindustrial engineering technologies departments. The curriculum in these programs emphasizeshands- on education and has a number of laboratories in the areas of communications, control,digital systems, computer vision, microprocessors, multimedia and networking technology.SUNY Institute of Technology is an upper division transfer college for students who havecompleted their first two years at a community college.According to Forward Concepts, a Tempe, Ariz, market research firm, the sale of programmabledigital signal processor (DSP) hit more than $3 billion in 1997, and is expected to

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Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

assignments[Oakes, 1999], engineering economic case studies, and studio exercises that cover designmethodology and that prepare students for the culminating design project and competition.Course Organization and AdministrationThe First-Year Design course is taken by all majors in engineering (civil, computer systems,electrical, mechanical, and undecided), and majors in computer science. The course schedule isa two-hour classroom meeting and a three-hour studio/laboratory meeting each week. Thesetime periods are used for lecture, discussion, studio/laboratory time as appropriate for the coursemodulesEach offering of the First-Year Design course has involved a multidisciplinary team of faculty[acknowledged at the end of the paper] who administer, teach

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Steven M. Miner; Richard E. Link

heavily oriented towards teamdesign projects. The lectures are organized to develop the new material the students will need tolearn, in a logical manner that parallels their use of the software in the laboratory portion of thecourse. Ample time is provided once the new material has been presented to allow the students toapply it to their projects. In addition, a few short lab exercises and a homework assignments aregiven to reinforce the concepts developed in the lectures.II. Basic TheoryAs an introduction to the finite element method the students are given a set of notes1 (http://web.usna.navy.mil/~link/fea.pdf, http://web.usna.navy.mil/~link/fea2.pdf) that are covered duringtwo lectures. The following six major steps in the finite element

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William J. Craft; Sunil Shenoy; Ronald Bolick; Ajit D. Kelkar; Devdas M. Pai

are light, cheap, and so energy absorbent that they will revolutionize commonground transportation systems.NC A&T State University has a number of grants involving research into impactdamage including impact behavior of sandwich structures. The authors feel thatthis research is sufficiently mature and important so that impact experimentsshould be added to our laboratory sequence within the department. Researchinvestigations of these materials in our labs involve static and dynamic testingincluding shear testing or impact testing, and it is relatively simple to include theimportant attributes of impact testing as a laboratory experiment. Motivatingfactors for us in developing new impact experiments include:• providing our students with

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Sohail Anwar

Internet to look for background information and identify potential approaches to solve the problem, and will then brainstorm for approaches and select the best. Discussion on the selected approach will then be undertaken.2. Hands-On Interactive Classroom Session in Science Duration: 1.5 hours Skills Addressed: Creative thinking, experimental design, reverse engineering, learning to learn, teamwork, leadership, interpersonal skill, and communication skills. Session Description: This hands-on classroom session will involve exploration of the thinking styles and skills employed by scientists. Various characteristics of scientific thought and the scientific method will be investigated through a series of min-laboratory experiences

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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

laboratoryenvironment can be designed around a somewhat limited budget. Our proposal is as follows. Ameaningful lab environment must give practical experience with a full range of HDTV related Page 5.228.3issues. Major concerns for laboratory equipment are video acquisition, MPEG encoding,broadcast capabilities, reception and decoding. Signal broadcast, reception and decoding are theeasiest issues to resolve if we think creatively. Existing computers and network wiring will serveas our broadcast and reception hardware. HDTV is, after all, digital. An upgrade of a few routersto 100 Mbps equipment along with network performance monitoring software will allow a

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Ayyagari Janaki Rao

in the Indian curriculum.Apart from the differences in structures, two important factors differentiating the U.S.curriculum from Indian curriculum are in the nature of the flexibility offered and theinnovativeness inherent in project type laboratories. The flexibility enables to cater to theneeds of different categories of students those who will base their professional careers asengineers on the Bachelor’s degree with no further formal study; those who will proceedfurther for post graduate studies in engineering or an allied field, and those for whom theunder-graduate programme provides a broad base for further professional study in fields likemanagement.The use of open-ended project type laboratories instead of set laboratory experiments

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W. Bradford Cross; Susan M. Morgan; Mark P Rossow

for the faculty to collect materialsfrom across the curriculum to assess the Department’s performance in meeting most of theDepartment’s outcomes.The Outcome PortfolioThe Department has 18 outcomes, which are based closely on the ABET 2000 "ProgramOutcomes." The Department chose to adopt verbatim all 11 ABET outcomes and added 7outcomes (including 5 ABET-prescribed "Program Criteria"). The faculty noticed that therewere common themes among the outcomes. In fact, 16 of the outcomes can be grouped in sixgeneral categories--communication, design, engineering tools, laboratory experience, problemsolving/analysis, and professional practice (Table 1). The outcome portfolios were developedaround these categories. Two outcomes (program graduates

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students in the program varies tremendously. Some people have extensive electronics backgrounds; yet have not had exposure to the clinical laboratory environment. Others have medical technologist degrees with relatively little formal electronics training. The self-paced instructional method allows each person to concentrate on specific areas and proceed quickly through familiar material. Be patient with the other participants! o remember each person gained their knowledge from different places in different ways. o remember each person may or may not use material a course may cover. If you work with electric circuits everyday, your skills will be different than someone who has not used those concepts in a long

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Serpil Guvench; Mike Denton; Mark Rollins; Mustafa Guvench

. Therefore,the system is also suitable for measuring and characterizing magnetic, radiation and temperaturesensors as well as the standard semiconductor devices.1. IntroductionPrinciples of automated measurement of bipolar and field-effect transistors by employing the standard IEEE-488 interfaced electronic test bench instruments available in undergraduate electronics laboratories andmethodologies that can be used to extract their SPICE parameters from the acquired I-V data were describedearlier[1,3]. However, limited dynamic range of such electronic test bench instruments, although excellent asteaching tools, cannot be relied on for higher level modeling work needed at senior or graduate level coursesand in research, particularly if CMOS components

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Valerie E. Taylor; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jose A.B. Fortes; Jan-Jo Chen; Alok Choudhary

' universities, several tools are being incorporated in courses at the juniorand senior levels by using a web-based network computing system as a computational andeducational resource. This system is called PUNCH Purdue University Network ComputingHubs. PUNCH provides access to a pool of computers, installed tools and their documen-tation and educational material virtual laboratory" experiments and homeworks from Page 5.477.1any machine capable of browsing the web. The set of installed tools include simulators ofcaches, pipelined datapaths, multiprocessors, instruction sets, compilers, program analyzersand trace generators analyzers developed by

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Richard R. Johnston

), and pay for all the materials.I. IntroductionAt Lawrence Tech we teach a senior elective course “Process Control” in which students learnhow to control various processes with a PLC using ladder logic. One of the biggest challengesof teaching the associated laboratory is getting the students to visualize the process they aretrying to simulate. This is complicated by the fact that the only inputs our simulator panelsmake available to the PLC are toggle switches, and the only output from the PLC consists oflamps. (There is one switch and lamp simulator per student group in the lab.) For example tosimulate filling a tank, a switch is chosen to represent the on / off selector, another switch ischosen to represent the low-level float switch, a

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

relatively few textbooks that are written usingan inductive approach; this makes implementation of the inductive method a challenge. Anotherchallenge is that students typically will not have a wide range of experience or intuition neededto begin the inductive process. A simple laboratory experiment or demonstration will providethe foundation (observations or data) from which the inductive process is initiated. We have integrated inductive learning into our coverage of heat transfer and masstransfer. In heat transfer, for example, simple heat exchanger design is the first topic addressedin the course. Discussion of the significance of the overall heat transfer coefficient provides ameaningful framework for introduction of topics such as

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Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

Session 1526 8VLQJ 0HPEUDQH 3URFHVV ([SHULPHQWV LQ D 3URMHFW2ULHQWHG (QYLURQPHQW C. Stewart Slater (1), Kauser Jahan (2), Stephanie Farrell (1), Robert P. Hesketh (1), and Kevin D. Dahm (1) (1) Department of Chemical Engineering (2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Abstract This paper describes a NSF-funded Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) project onmembrane process

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Sheldon M. Jeter; Jeffrey A. Donnell

Session 1566 Classification of the Written Reports Used in Experimental Engineering Sheldon M. Jeter and Jeffrey A. Donnell Georgia Institute of TechnologyINTRODUCTION Laboratory instructors strive continuously to improve the writing of undergraduate labreports, and success requires a communal effort by several instructors and many students. Toallow coordinated instruction, the faculty must define the learning objectives and agree on acommon instructional strategy. Students can then be guided in a consistent fashion towardproficient technical

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Shirley J. Dyke; Phillip Gould; Kevin Truman

provided software. In addition to theshake table, the laboratory package purchased includes a twostory test structure and three accelerometer to measure theexcitation and system responses. The package also includesa stand-alone function generator for off-site demonstrations.The complete package allows students to reproduce earth-quakes, observe structural behavior, measure structuralresponses, and utilize sensors and modern computer controlsystems. Further the system purchased facilitates off-sitedemonstrations and other outreach activities.Additionally, several institutions opted to purchase an activemass driver (AMD) for the structure. The AMD (shown atthe top of the structure in Figure 1) consists of a moving cartthat is driven horizontally at

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Kevin M. Nickels

course objectives and other constraints. Within a course, the lengthand degree of involvement in active learning can vary dramatically, based on what objectives youhave for the activity. In this paper, I will take a broad definition for active learning and include all activity in theclassroom that does not fit into the passive lecture note-taking framework. Note that this definitionpurposefully includes most laboratory classwork: this is intentional and more will be said on thistopic later.3. Lecture TechniquesThe simplest in implementation, and smallest in scale, of the active learning techniques describedin this paper involve enhancing the traditional lecture format by including short active-learning ac-tivities. These techniques are

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William N. Smyer

the World Wide Web into anundergraduate engineering economy course. A continuous improvement approach is taken, withchanges implemented based on student feedback each semester.II. The Fall 1998 CourseAt Mississippi State, the three-hour undergraduate course in engineering economy is conductedduring the academic year by delivering a 50-minute lecture two days per week with an averageenrollment of 180 in the fall and 120 in the spring, plus several 50-minute laboratory/recitationsections one day per week with an average enrollment of 30 students per section. Each studentenrolls in the single, large lecture section plus one of the laboratory sections, the latter conductedby graduate assistants. The laboratory sessions consist of homework

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

collaborativedesign project titled "TAXIA"3 with twelve engineering schools in France during the period from1995 to 1998.2. Application StrategyInternational institutional collaboration issues between the ME department at ISU and the MSdepartment at UTC were explored through experimenting with alternative content and deliverymethods for the CAD course offered by the two departments.CAD at ISU is an undergraduate senior-level course covering the theory and applications ofcomputer-aided design. Dr. Abir Qamhiyah developed and introduced the course to cover avariety of topics including solid modeling, assembly modeling, finite element analysis in CAD,rapid prototyping, curves and surfaces in CAD, and data. A computer laboratory runs in parallelto lectures

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Kenneth Reid

) Page 5.660.4 Figure 3: Relative loudness meterFor this module, we took advantage of some of the certified soldering instructors at Figure 4: Random number generator (panel of 4)IUPUI, and some of the audio-video resources available through the IPC (responsiblefor industry electronics assembly specifications) 5. Students were taught the propermethod of hand soldering, then the students built one or two projects soldering by handor using the Mobile Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory (MEML) 6, a prototype scaleelectronics manufacturing laboratory in a trailer on campus. Projects that the studentshave built include a small audio amplifier (which came to be known as the “Gameboyamp”), a random number

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Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

exception of the director, will be filled in a special-title series. These positions are primarily upper division nine-month teaching appointments. However, due to thenature of the Paducah program, these appointments involve additional assignments, including studentrecruitment from local high schools and the business community, undergraduate laboratory and Page 5.222.3computer software development, assistance with summer job placement for students, and professionaldevelopment. The traditional responsibilities involving instruction, academic advisement, anduniversity service also apply. Because of these unique responsibilities and the