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à à Session 1742 WEB-BASED COURSES PRODUCTION AUTOMATION I. Stiubiener, R.M. Silveira, W.V. Ruggiero LARC - Department of Electrical Engineering of Universidade de São Paulo Av.Prof. Luciano Gualberto, trav. 3 – 158, sala C1-46, 05508 900 SP, Brasil. itana, regina, wilson@larc.usp.brIndex Terms - automation teaching learning process, online learning, multimedia, and Web applications.Abstract: This work presents the process we implemented to develop our Web basedcourses using multimedia elements. We present the reasons we have decided to

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teaching (and learning) about how the PLC works and how toapply the PLC be conducted? Should it be accomplished through customer training by the PLCsystem supplier and/or systems integrator or through the end user’s own training department—asis usually the case with new system installations? Or should this teaching and learning beimplemented through a formal course as part of a university or college curriculum in engineeringor engineering technology? Page 6.782.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society of Engineering

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the failure. In the case of fatigue failures, the service history of the componentcan sometimes be read from the fracture face in a manner similar to the way that aforester interprets the growth rings of trees. Fracture patterns in glass and in variousbrittle materials, can also be very revealing as to the origin and progression of thefracture, and thus the likely cause.Fundamental to an understanding of design for failure avoidance is an equally thoroughunderstanding of how and why materials, in their fabricated forms, fail. The latterunderstanding is not generally obtainable from studying laboratory fractures of standardtest specimens. These fractures are usually quite different in appearance from thefractures typically found in

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engineers. 2. Assess current instructional and student evaluation practices. EVALUATION 3. Assess state-of-the art teaching practices and inclusion of high technology techniques for instruction. 1. Propose revisions to current educational system, where necessary. 2. Integrate state-of-the-art instruction and learning practices, e.g. Distance Learning. 3. Determine the cost and socioeconomic benefits MODEL of the new educational model. DESIGN 4. Identify and implement role of computer in the educational model. 5

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various uses for Bis-Phenol A, some overall market and economic data, andadditional information concerning the project. A teaching assistant drawn from our fourth yearstudents is assigned to each project.All participants in this course must have participated in WHMIS training. The groups areprovided with appropriate laboratory facilities and are expected to design their experiments inorder to test the hypothesis. In addition to the experimental facilities, the students must have theirsamples analyzed by Analytical Services and the Department of Chemistry using both GC/MassSpec and NMR. They also have available some state of the art simulation software that theycould use to confirm their experimental results.The groups must make a preliminary

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. Weinberger, C. B. and R. Mutharasan, “Fundamentals of Manufacturing – Multimedia Modules for Contextual Learning,” Proceedings of the 1998 Frontiers in Education Conference, ASEE/IEEE, pp. 669-671.5. Hailey, C. E. and D. E. Hailey, “Evaluation of Student Preferences and Learning Outcomes of Computer-Based Teaching Modules For a Manufacturing Processes Laboratory,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 28-July 1, Seattle, WA, 1998.6. Hailey, D. E. and C. E. Hailey, “Hypermedia, Multimedia and Reader Cognition: An Empirical Study,” Technical Communication, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 330-342, 1998.7. Wallace, D. R., and P. Mutooni, “A Comparative Evaluation of World Wide Web-Based and Classroom Teaching,” Journal of

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A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

guidelines on how toimprove their lecture/laboratory presentation. AT1 is shown in the appendix section. A chartfollows the survey form. And it shows the results for one of the faculty members of thedepartment. The faculty member analyses his/her data and share the results with the departmentchairperson. Through the review process, recommendations are given to improve the deliverymethods. The faculty member can compare the information obtained each semester to determineif the changes have produce improvement in the teaching technique.Assessment tool AT3 consist of a questionnaire given to students regarding course resourceallocation. Students provide input to the instructor about their interest to have more or less timespent in the course topics

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John Bridge

Session 1664 Incorporating Active Learning in an Engineering Materials Science Course Lieutenant Colonel John W. Bridge United States Military Academy, West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper shares the experiences the author has had over the last several years incorporatingactive learning in the classroom and laboratory. Examined are ways to engage and motivate thestudents to take an active role in their learning which includes direct instruction, cooperativelearning, hands-on “exploratory” classroom and laboratory experiences, reading logs, etc. Theauthor

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theestablishment of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities as well as partial scholarship support forstudents in the program. The program had its first class of students enter in fall 1995 andcurrently consists of approximately 100 students majoring in mechanical engineering. TheABET evaluation visit under EC2000 occurred in September 1999 and resulted in accreditationof the program. Designing a new engineering curriculum—in concert with industrial partners—within the broad context of a private, moderately sized, comprehensive college posed manychallenges. This presentation will review these challenges, the process used for establishing anew program in mechanical engineering, and the role industry has played in developing andsupporting the program.I

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Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; David Huggins; Winston F. Erevelles

learning factory is to support the B.S. inManufacturing Engineering and educational programs college-wide, serve as a test bed forresearch and development activities, support College outreach and recruitment activities, andprovide an environment for lifelong learning. The College has dedicated 7,500 square feet to thefacility. PRIME funding, matched by school and industry funds will be used to implement anautomated machining cell, an automated assembly/inspection cell, and a rapid prototypingfacility. When complete, this laboratory will constitute a full production system that will allowstudents to take a product all the way from concept through design and on to final manufacture.This facility will support all engineering courses and will also

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Session 3286 Add Sizzle to Your Electronics Curriculum Charles Moore Arkansas State Technical InstituteI. IntroductionThis paper, of particular interest to the new educator in a two-year electronics program, presentsinnovative classroom and laboratory techniques which have proven to enhance student learningand interest. Technology students, often kinesthetic learners, may not learn easily from lecturesbut respond well to alternative methods and will listen if their interest is piqued by an element offun or sizzle.II. Improving Classroom AttitudeSince attitude

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engineeringapplications. This made it possible for the BE curriculum to stay within the legislativelymandated maximum of 128 semester hours while meeting the requirements for ABETaccreditation.BAE 235 had three 1-hr lectures each week that were taught in the BAE Department’s classroomspace and one 3-hr lab that was taught in the same labs used for general biology. A collegebiology textbook1 was used for the course. The laboratory manual2 was the same one that was Page 6.607.1used for BIO 125: General Biology, which also had three lectures and a 3-hr lab each week. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

Session 3225 Instructional Modules to Support Senior Capstone Design Classes Gary Kinzel, Blaine Lilly, Anthony Luscher, James Piper, Rachel Murdell The Ohio State UniversityAbstractIn senior capstone design courses, the instructor typically presents lecture material in addition toguiding the students in design. The lecture material often includes a wide range of topics, and it isdifficult to identify a single textbook that covers all relevant areas. This makes it difficult for newfaculty to teach capstone design courses and considerable effort is required to develop the lecturesfrom varied sources

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with a quality pre-engineering program.. Implementing and maintaining such aprogram using the latest equipment and software requires a permanent National TechnologyTraining Center that has been established at RIT. In addition a program of developing similarcenters at affiliate universities around the country has begun to better serve schools in theirhome state.Such centers serve teachers, college professors, and high school students as a place for ongoing,year-round, classes, projects and a laboratory setting for the development and revision ofcurriculum and teaching strategies. Bringing teachers, professors and high school studentstogether in a place devoted to the encouragement of engineering studies will ensure interactionamong these groups

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

, and a stronger emphasis oncommunication skills. To guide the program’s implementation and evaluation, a comprehensiveassessment plan was developed to ensure that sufficient tools and methods were in place toproperly evaluate the impact of the program. The program is now in its third year, and this plancontinues to be instrumental in evaluating the program’s effectiveness. This paper presents anoverview of the plan, including its tools, methods, and outcomes.1.0 IntroductionIn the Autumn Quarter, 1998, The Ohio State University College of Engineering implemented apilot program for freshman Engineering students with the express purpose of engaging students inan interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasized hands-on laboratory projects

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tolearning of just memorizing a collection of formulas, diagrams and algorithms. Whereaswhat is needed is a well-organized meta-cognitive self-management (planning, andexecution-monitoring)strategy if they are ever to be able to generate deep coherentunderstandings of how specific techniques are derived from basic principles andcontextual constraints(boundary conditions).In addition, teaching in Engineering has come under pressure from the new technologicalenvironment and the new industry demands and constraints:(a) “Just in time, just on topic” instruction is increasingly demanded by students and potential employers.(b) Modularity and adaptability in the selection and organization of course topics are highly desirable.(c) Breadth of

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most popular method of teaching antenna design at most majoruniversities. It is understandable that most would choose this method due to the greatexpense of the antenna fabrication and test equipment required, not to mention theuniversity resources of faculty and laboratory space. Page 6.195.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for engineering EducationII. Approaches ConsideredA considerable amount of time was devoted to considering various approaches to solvingthe problem of effectively teaching antenna design, fabrication

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Partnership (MEEP) is a multi-institutionpartnership that has resulted in the development of specialized learning factories that supportmanufacturing engineering curriculum integrated through laboratory facilities and industrycollaboration.Pennsylvannia State University - http://www.lf.psu.edu/University of Washington - http://www.me.washington.edu/~ilf/University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez - http://www.uprm.edu/winin/mfg_lab.htmOne learning center concept that was particularly useful in the development of the current facilitywas the ITLL, Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (http://ITLL.colorado.edu), at theUniversity of Colorado, Boulder which opened in 1997. This is a facility of significant size (athree-story building with 34,000 sq.ft. of

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, American Society ofMechanical Engineers, New York, NY (1995)7. Manufacturing Infrastructure: Enabling the Nation's Manufacturing Capacity, National Science and TechnologyCouncil Committee on Technological Innovation (1997) phone 202-456-6100J. CLAIR BATTY is Professor and Department Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah StateUniversity in Logan, Utah. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Thermodynamics and Heattransfer. He and his graduate students are currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory. He received the Sc.D. degree in MechanicalEngineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.JOHN K. GERSHENSON is an

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faculty members resided in different buildings, hindering interactions and cooperation.2. The CpE program was patched together using existing CpS- and EE-coded courses and had no distinctive qualities.3. Through the internal self study, the following areas were identified as having deficiencies warranting academic-program revisions: a. Use of high-level languages in the curriculum; b. Formal integration of hardware-software issues; c. Use of contemporary engineering design tools; and d. Major engineering design experience.4. The two electrical-engineering laboratories that serviced the CpE program were outdated.5. Only weak interactions existed between the employers of CpE graduates and the CpE faculty.6. Only weak

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areconvenient to these students who are attempting to complete school while maintaining full-timejobs and family life. However, many educators are concerned with the “learning outcomes” ofsuch non-traditional courses and quite often the perception of both the faculty and students is thatthese time-shortened courses some how lack the academic rigor of the more traditional courses.This paper addresses the teaching techniques for intensive courses, the use of such courses in theconstruction discipline, and the student and faculty perceptions of these courses.I. IntroductionIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis is a comprehensive urban university locatedin the heart of Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. As is the case with other urban colleges

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Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

classroom. An interactive workshop for 15 middle school teachers provided for amodel by which participating teachers could experience constructivist teaching and learningstrategies first-hand. Throughout the workshop, teams of teachers worked to prepare anintegrated, technology-based lesson using materials from science, mathematics, as well as thelanguage arts. Highlights of the curriculum developed for the workshop will be presented andresults of a questionnaire given to the teachers will be shared. Finally, observations made by theworkshop leaders will be discussed in order to assist other university faculty interested inmodeling a similar program for K-12 teachers.I. IntroductionThrough a Dwight D. Eisenhower Faculty Development Program award, a

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knowledge and mathematical applications to make applications and connections to society? 2. Do the science textbooks use the science and/or mathematical knowledge in technological applications? 3. Are any applications of engineering principles and design included in the laboratory activities and the problems and questions within and at the end of the chapters? Page 6.543.2Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII.1 Objectifying the DataWe designed a scale of 0-3 to indicate the degree to which each of the three

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, we have proceeded as shown in Figure 1 – from alternatives that describe avision of the future, study of various learning methods, teaching methods andinfrastructure support for teaching and learning. The multiple items in each columnbelow represent multiple alternatives; the dotted circle indicates that we were able to onlychoose a limited number of possibilities from among the sets of alternatives. At the endof the design, the vision will have solidified, basic learning methods understood, the setof teaching methods that support learning studied, and an infrastructure chosen forsupporting these activities.Figure 1. Elements in the design of the curriculumVisionInvention 2000The objective of the Curriculum Design activities is to understand

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for a senior undergraduate electrical engineering technical elective on digitalimage processing and the software used to support the computational needs of the course.BackgroundA few years ago the Department of Electrical Engineering embarked on a plan ofintegrating a leading general-purpose computational software system into the teaching ofmany core courses. Thanks to modern mathematical computing systems, it is nowpossible to replace the typical “chalkboard” lecture with closely supervised interactive,“hands-on” sessions in a computer equipped classroom. These systems have the potentialof improving the learning and teaching environments in many sciences and engineeringdisciplines. The essential feature is the systematic use of a powerful

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Nora Christianson; Henry Russell

Page 6.853.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationlargest supporter of research and development (R&D) at universities, the ARL director and theFAMU president pursued this resource to solicit financial support for developing the HBCUresearch infrastructure.HBCUs are primarily teaching institutions with few resources devoted to research activities.They do not have laboratory space, state-of-the-art equipment, or the research faculty necessaryto conduct research on the same level as traditional institutions (non-HBCU or MI). Notsurprisingly, the number of minorities that graduate from HBCUs is

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thecurrent 2nd Generation systems.The above depth in theory, breadth of laboratory and computer simulation experiences, andexposure to advanced applications, provides the fertile ground for students. They can then ask,“Can we use similar techniques to develop a wireless spread spectrum based system?” And, notonly to answer in the affirmative, but have the confidence that they can do it themselves.IV. Senior Systems Design ProjectWhen the students have completed all of their general courses and are deep into their selectedemphasis, they enroll in a mandatory senior design sequence. The senior design project, alsocalled “Systems” is a three-semester capstone course designed to teach engineers how to conducta real-world project. This project goes

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Society for Engineering EducationEMC Society in 1993. The IEEE grant was used to establish and teach an undergraduate EMCcourse that included both theoretical and experimental part. Some of the experiments wereperformed in the existing SFSU Communication Systems Laboratory but the others, due to thelack of adequate equipment, were hosted by some of the Silicon Valley companies. Overall, thecourse was a great success and prompted the IEEE EMC Society to establish an internationalUniversity Grant Program for EMC curriculum development. The further SFSU EMC laboratorydevelopment was in part funded by the National Science Foundation Grant DUE 9751722 and inpart by generous equipment donations from companies such as Hewlett Packard, SiliconGraphics

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the manipulation and analysis of the data collected.The manufacture of a product will necessitate the use of interdisciplinary teams of ComputerScience, Engineering Technology and other students in their capstone projects classes.The conclusion is that computer integrated manufacturing can be the focal point of study formany disciplines at many different levels.PhilosophyThe traditional way of teaching a technical subject is to strip away all superfluous distractionsand concentrate on a single issue. This is seen in the design of laboratory equipment that canperform one or a small number of very focused exercises. While this is very beneficial inintroducing a concept, it leaves the student with islands of knowledge and limited understandingof

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Jahan Kauser; Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

engineering principles that form the basis of civil engineering.Students work individually and in multidisciplinary teams to identify and solve engineeringproblems using their accumulated knowledge and experience along with advanced technologysuch as computers and laboratory equipment.Every CEE course can be characterized as a problem-solving course. Engineering design issuesand experiences are integrated throughout the undergraduate CEE Program, beginning with twosophomore courses in the curriculum sequence, Introduction to Environmental Engineering andStructural Engineering I. Issues related to safety, economics, ethics and social and global impactare discussed and considered in virtually every course. Students are also exposed to a widerange of