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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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Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationVIII. DeploymentThe AGC distributed display and control using LabVIEW provides a recent evolutionaryextension to our manual analog grade computer. Student involvement spans three, mid-semester, weeks. Unlike the focused topic laboratory experiments where we expect the studentto gain competance with analysis, build, measurement and interpetation of unit concepts wetreat the AGC as a supplement where the goal is awareness. The purpose of our demonstrationsystem also serves to supplement the course text and laboratory workbook with an organicallygrown capability relevant to overall department efforts in web based instrumentation andinstruction.We provide a set of mandatory exercises

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point where not all potential scholars can find a willing faculty mentor.While participating faculty recognize the reality of resource constraints, most believe thatthe benefits of the program warrant a search for ways to permit increased numbers ofstudent participants. To increase the number of EXCEL scholarship opportunities,Lafayette must identify additional funding sources and either increase the number offaculty participating in the program or increase the average number of students workingwith each faculty mentor.Faculty Participation and Issues:It must be recognized that although undergraduate students usually are able to performvaluable time saving tasks in the laboratory, it takes a great deal of faculty time toprepare the EXCEL

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Sundar Krishnamurty; Robert Gao; John Ritter; Donald Fisher; Janis Terpenny

, requirements, supporting links, contact information and serves as a repository forproject descriptions and presentations. Two graduate students, whose research is in the area ofassistive technology, are available to senior students for questions, maintain the web resources,and are responsible for the implementation and maintenance of equipment and technology in ourgrowing AT student design laboratory. Page 6.871.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1

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Carlos Sun; Frances Johnson; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Beena Sukumaran; Anthony Marchese; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm; Douglas Cleary

the 8-semester engineering clinic sequence.As shown in the table, while each clinic course has a specific theme, the underlying concept ofengineering design permeates throughout 3. Table 1. Overview of course content in the 8-semester Engineering Clinic sequence. Year Clinic Theme Clinic Theme (Fall ) (Spring) Freshman Engineering Measurements NSF Competitive Assessment Laboratory Sophomore Quality Entrepreneurship Junior Multidisciplinary Design Project Multidisciplinary Design Project Senior Multidisciplinary disciplinary

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the end-of-course evaluation The questions in each evaluationset are of three types; instructor related, course related, and those related to the student and thelearning environment. Each set of evaluation questions consists of one of five baseline questiongroups, depending on the course type: 1. Lecture courses 2. Laboratory courses 3. Courses with both lecture and laboratory elements 4. Team-taught design courses 5. Individual-taught design coursesA faculty committee representing all college departments established the baseline question sets,which run about 50 questions in length. In addition, each instructor has an option to addsupplemental questions for his or her own course or section; the student responses to

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Gurbax Singh; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Interactive Video Network (IVN). All laboratories and some of theupper division electives are taught on site.Minority University Research and Education Division (MURED) of NASA has awardeda three year (2000-2002) grant titled “Pre-College Activities For Enhancing MinorityParticipation in Engineering”, to help reinforce UMES mission to improve therepresentation of minorities and women in mathematics, sciences, technology and inparticular, in the field of engineering. The funding not only complements the UMESmission to actively recruit and retain minority, women, and economically disadvantagedstudents but is also intended to help the growth of the UMES engineering program.This paper describes the “Summer Engineering Bridge Program (SEBP)” at UMES

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Hubert Smith

Session 3202 Teaching Flight Test Engineering with a PC-Based Simulator Hubert C. Smith The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the process of establishing flight test laboratory experiments by use of aPC-based flight simulator, and the details of conducting such experiments. It was determined thatit was feasible to perform airspeed calibration, and tests to determine stall speed, power required,rate of climb, cruise speed and range. While some of these tests yielded data that were a little onthe optimistic side, the results were consistent, and

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Miguel Torres-Febus; Jaime Pabon-Ortiz; Jose Cruz-Cruz; Jorge Velez-Arocho

strategy the areas of art, philosophy, ethics, economics and business administration will be touched upon. 3. Hands-on experience. In this strategy, the practical experience complements the traditional educational approach. Laboratories are synchronized with lectures. Field trips are scheduled where knowledge is applied. The student is exposed to multi- sensorial experiences that reinforce and internalize knowledge. 4. Balance between knowledge depth and breadth. Within the new educational model the student learns the foundations related to their field of concentration and is reinforced with exercises based on real problems. In addition to this the student is exposed to general knowledge that

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Ron Hart; Marvin Adams; K. Peddicord; Ian Hamilton; Beth Earl; Alan Waltar

projects with industry andwith national laboratories. He serves on several national panels and review committees for the Department ofEnergy and for national laboratories. Dr. Adams received a B.S. degree from Mississippi State University in 1981, aM.S. degree from The University of Michigan in 1984, and a Ph.D. from The University of Michigan in 1986; alldegrees are in Nuclear Engineering. Page 6.1072.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIAN S

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strengths and capabilities of MSOE.These types of programs have existed in various forms for decades; they traditionally followed atypical classroom model, where a combination of lecture and laboratory demonstration was usedto highlight engineering topics. Page 6.1047.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDuring the 1998-1999 academic year, an effort was undertaken to re-engineer the mechanicalengineering outreach offerings. Review of background literature indicated that the mostsuccessful

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Mitzi Vernon; Richard Goff

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAs a way to generate some immediate familiarity with the LEGO RCX bricks, we set up acontest called the "LEGO RCX Challenge". In the challenge, teams of four students designed anautonomous vehicle that would be capable of negotiating a course twelve feet square withobstacles placed randomly in the space. To win the challenge, a vehicle needed to negotiate thecourse and run over an 8-inch by 10-inch target of black paper within five minutes. The teamscould design either a wheeled vehicle or a tracked/treaded vehicle. Since laboratory time wasrestricted to two hours, the RCX bricks were pre-programmed with four robotic

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are capable and truly oriented towards engineering because ofthe natural effects of attrition on the less motivated students. It is the upper division students thathave “the best stuff” coming out of laboratory experiments and design projects to present asartifacts for the high school students. The presentations that have been done by this author arisefrom incorporating a requirement of participation for all the senior design students and juniorlevel machine design students. In both of these courses, as taught at The University of Texas atTyler, there is a team based design project. The presence of such a project is a key requirementto establish involvement.The third “Who” relates to the audience for the presentations. Which high school

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Stephen Dyer; Robert Krchnavek; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam

component of an electrical engineering (EE) program.The numerous texts to choose from (see Refs. 1 and 2, for example) are typicallyorganized along traditional lines. Nonlinear devices are considered, beginning withdiodes and spanning transistor technologies (BJTs, FETs, MOSFETs, etc.). Basic circuittopologies are presented, followed by progressively more complex circuits to formprimitive functions. Feedback is treated along the way, as are other topics such as digitalcircuits. Most curricula also include an electronics laboratory, which may not be tightlycoupled to the electronics course.We are strongly motivated to change the way we approach teaching. ABET’s Criteria20003, the ASEE report, “Engineering for a Changing World”4, and discussions

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Programming and Technical Communications. Laboratory time for designactivity was allocated in each topic module. The modular approach permitted students to getacquainted with faculty members from both of the departments. A Fundamentals of EngineeringCoordinating Committee, composed of members from each department, was established in Fall1999. The primary purpose of the committee was to coordinate and oversee sequence designactivities.II. First Semester Design Activities:FOE I begins with the Introduction to Engineering and Design module. A ten-step designprocess is outlined, providing freshman students with an effective, easy to understand designmethodology1. The ten steps are: 1. Identification of need 6. Identify

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Xudong Yu; William White; Scott Smith; Keqin Gu; Jerry Weinberg; Cem Karacal; George L. Engel

Annual Conference, St. Louis, June 2000.12. Kumar, D. and Meeden, L., “A Robot Laboratory for Teaching Artificial Intelligence,” Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Atlanta, 1998, pp. 341-344.13. Russell, S. and Norvig, P., Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 1994.14. Arkin, R., Behavior-Based Robotics; The MIT Press; 1998.15. Brooks, R., “A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot,” IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. RA-2, 1986, pp. 14-23.JERRY B. WEINBERGJerry B. Weinberg is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern Illinois University -Edwardsville. He teaches courses and conducts research in artificial

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Maria Velasco; Joséantonio Turégano; Jesús Alastruey

matter14. - ARIES: a JAVA program that allows the resolution of problems referred to thermal installations. Fig. 8. - Aries screen with some of the components to work with. - PropSust: developed with C++. PropSust specifically calculates thermodynamics properties, including a graphical analysis, and likewise it can be used for the resolution of general thermodynamics problems.• Simulation programs: programs for virtual laboratory practices consisting of a set of five simulation programs to work with those concepts that are not encountered in theoretical Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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computing is, who the major players in the industry are, and how it can be used tomonitor and control remote processes. Session attendees will also see a case study of remote-control computing software in operation, monitoring and controlling a plant floor productionsystem.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control

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the startup,total reflux operation, production of product, through shutdown. The control scheme isincluded so that users can operate and tune controllers. In spite of numeroussimplifications, the model preserves the essential features for a real time simulation. Theentire applet is only approximately 70K and is used for Internet based laboratoryinstruction. This paper focuses on the derivation of the model. A more completediscussion of the results will be presented at some other time.BackgroundA process simulation of a binary batch distillation column was desired for a portion of theon line Virtual Chemical Engineering Laboratory (VCEL) being developed at WidenerUniversity1. The model was to be used to acquaint students with the operation of

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industry are, and how it can be used to monitor and control remote processes. Acase study of remote-control computing software in operation is also presented, describing howone off-the-shelf package was setup to monitor and control a plant floor production system.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control at its

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Robert Marine; Carol Colbeck; Alberto Cabrera

• Grants/publications • Group/design projects Adequate teaching resources • Administrative/clerical • Traditional • Computer/laboratory methods • Library / AV • Faculty development Page 6.210.3 Figure 1: Faculty Motivation to Use Alternative Teaching Practices Proceedings of the 2001

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John Field; Janelle Tonti; Eric Beenfeldt; Isaac Horn; Edward Williams

engineering students. It emphasizes apersonal touch, which means the ECE Department devotes considerable resources to staffing.Two faculty members (1-FTE) are assigned to the course, which normally has about 60-70students. Also, three to four undergraduate students are employed as peer teachers and to helpin lab. The class meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings for 50 minutes.Additionally, there is a weekly 3-hour lab (four sections are offered with 15-20 students in each). As an aid to learning student names we take “mug shots” during the first laboratory period witha digital camera. The students print their names (using a nickname if preferred) on an 8.5” x11” sheet of paper that they hold up in front of them for the picture. A typical mug

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(IRB)approval for testing to begin.II. MethodsCurriculum Structure for DesignThe distribution of design credits throughout the curriculum is illustrated in Table 1. Thedesign teams continue on the same project from product conceptualization in theirfreshmen year to pseudo-product release right before graduation.Table 1: Lecture and Laboratory Curriculum Structure. Credits indicated in parentheses. Fall quarter Winter quarter Spring quarterFreshmen -- Lecture & Lab (2) --Sophomore Lecture (1) Lecture (1) Lecture (1)Junior Lecture (1) Lecture (1) Lecture (1)Senior

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, andexpectations would be clarified. Mergers would be made wherever advantageous and cost-effective.Business-Industry-Government (BIG) PartneringSignificant attention has been devoted to fostering the ties between engineering education andour BIG customers. Colleges and departments have advisory boards that meet, pontificate, and,of course, advise. Internships/coops are becoming widespread. Industry experts are coming oncampus to lecture and demonstrate. Faculty sabbaticals to industry are pointed out as beingdesirable though perhaps not yet adequately recognized and rewarded in the promotion andtenure process. Much of the equipment in university laboratories has been donated or heavilydiscounted. Government laboratories and military installations are

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

water delivery methods and(3) to perform laboratory tests of hot water distribution conservation techniques/devices.This research contract provides design and analysis student projects to several mechanicalengineering courses, such as Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer,Computer Programming, Automatic Controls, and the mechanical engineering senior designcourse. Page 6.255.1 Proceedings of the 2001American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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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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last5 years. Although the department has speculated about reasons for this discrepancy, includingthe emphasis on manufacturing and laboratory courses, no formal study has been conducted toinvestigate this hypothesis. The department therefore decided to gather information to helpunderstand why the female enrollment is low.Initial efforts focused on gathering available data regarding the enrollment and retention offemale students in the IE program. Surprisingly, the data was not readily available and certaintypes of retention information are kept for no more than two years. Although manual sorting andinspection provided some information, the college does not track data at the departmental levelby gender. Except for participation in a national

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grant from the GEFoundation (now GE Fund). Most of this effort was directed at taking advantage of the existingstrengths of the technical side of the program and capitalizing on the fact that engineering istaught in a liberal arts environment at an institution with a strong international component in thecurriculum. Therefore it is well-positioned to produce broadly educated engineers for the globalengineering community of the 21st century. In the new mechanical engineering program there isa strong emphasis on fundamentals in both thermal/fluids and mechanics. This is reinforced bysignificant hands-on laboratory and design experiences in each of these areas. Communicationskills and design are reinforced and practiced across the curriculum. As a

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Gary Boyd; Alan Insleay; Geza Joos

- MANAGING SOCIOSTRUCTURESIn our initial work, students work either as partners, or alone, either in laboratories withsome instructor support, or at home with Internet communications.V - MATHEMATA (ACKS) Attitudes, Concepts, Knowledge, Skills TO BE LEARNEDThe topics chosen are important topics in the standard curricula which are also onesposing appreciable conceptual difficulty for a fair number of students.The essential ATTITUDES of successful engineers and technologists include:i) curiosity, about possible alternative designs sand understandings, ii) Openness, anattitude of openness to correction, and of openness to re-framings and re-naming, in the Page

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developing effective study, time-management, decision-making, critical thinking and learning skills(3) Provide exposure to some of the professional skills and competencies associated with academic study and practice of engineering; • practice in skills such as use of e-mail and the Web, computation and library research • introduction to design, case studies, global perspectives, teamwork and problem-solving • opportunities to use laboratory facilities or engage in hands-on activities(4) Encourage networking and interaction with faculty, other engineering students, alumni and other industry practitioners; • in-class discussions or debate • guest visits and presentations • collaborative projects and other group