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Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

. Piaget has emphasized that, “Certain conditions must exist if we are toreform education in a way that will answer society’s need for scientific training. The first ofthese conditions is, of course, the use of active methods which give broad scope to thespontaneous research of the child or adolescent and require that every new truth to be learned berediscovered or at least reconstructed by the student, and not simply imparted to him” 1. Our goalis to educate and guide engineers to excellence by retaining students through inspiration,example, and by giving them access to relevant and interesting in class activities rather thanthrough purely lecture methods. Our challenge as teachers is to infuse our instruction with thespirit that is within our

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has been supported in part by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), and Page 6.536.1was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Information, Robotics andIntelligent Systems, Grant # IIS-9615688,.1. IntroductionA new Eight-dimensional methodology for generating inventive and innovative ideas ispresented. The work is based on an NSF-supported research project previously conducted by theauthor, and an on-going E-team project supported by the National Collegiate Inventors andInnovators Alliance (NCIIA). It is a systematic approach that stimulates innovation

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Nakeya Norman; Janelle Meyer; Charu Dugar; Jason Keith

in italics correspond to keywords for one of the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy1: 1. Knowledge (list) 2. Comprehension (explain) 3. Application (determine, apply) 4. Analysis (predict, model) 5. Synthesis (propose, create, invent, improve) 6. Evaluation (select, optimize)As development of a successful design requires knowledge from all levels of this structure, theyare all included within the instructional objectives for this course. The lesser-used learning levelsof analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are focused on within this course. It is also noted that threeof the most important course objectives (listed in bold italics) fall outside of this hierarchy andinto a separate levels required for a good design

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

course in data communications.1. IntroductionThe growth of Internet and related technologies have significantly increased the demand forskilled, Information Technology (IT), workforce. However, the supply chain has not grownproportionately. Computer Science departments around the country are trying to be responsiveto industry needs in these emerging areas of the computing discipline. Exposure to applicationissues in the realm of computer communications and client-server computing are especiallydesirable skills for the graduating student population. Upper level courses on data and computercommunications and web architectures have been seeing a surge in student enrollment. Thereare many textbooks in the area of data communications and computer

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Peter Weiss; Donald Weiss

, American Society for Engineering Educationincluded in the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education [1]. Researchhas also shown that the retention of material by students is much higher when the student isdirectly involved in the learning process. This involves engaging the students in the learningprocess rather than just transferring facts. In other words, students learn by doing, not by merelylistening. More specifically, Astin [2] studied 159 colleges and universities. In the process heinvestigated and monitored eighty-eight environmental factors to determine their relationship tothe student’s academic achievement and personal satisfaction with post-secondary education.The two environmental factors found to be most

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Recayi Pecen; MARC TIMMERMAN

components in the system such as storagebatteries and DC to AC power inverters can lead to power quality problems and even grid stabilityproblems. Although wind and solar power sources represent a robust and well-known technology,these stability and power quality issues have limited the deployment of these eco-friendly powersources in commercial power grids. The testbed has been constructed at the Industrial TechnologyCenter at the University of Northern Iowa. Figure 1 illustrates the power inverter unit. Figure 2illustrates the Photovoltaic solar cells. Figure 3 illustrates the mast-mounted wind turbine/generatorwith 12 V, 63A DC rated output. Also mounted on the turbine's mast is a commercially availableModel 05103V anemometer which includes wind

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front segments) could be found on dank willow herb two months later.1 Page 6.539.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Gift shares uncanny similarities to Speak, Memory, something the writer emphatically deniesin his Foreword to the English edition (1963). As in the autobiography, an uninterrupted sectionof the novel concerns butterflies and moths, revealing the wonderment and delight thesecreatures stir in the protagonist and narrator, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, as he relates whathis naturalist father

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

Alabama Supercomputer Authority Huntsville, Alabama E-Mail: scott@asc.eduAbstractThe power and utility of personal computers continues to grow exponentially through (1)advances in computing capabilities through newer microprocessors, (2) advances in microchiptechnologies, (3) electronic packaging, and (4) cost effective gigabyte-size hard-drive capacity.The engineering curriculum must not only incorporate aspects of these advances as subjectmatter, but must also leverage technological breakthroughs to keep programs competitive interms of their infrastructure (i.e., delivery mechanisms, teaching tools, etc.).An aspect of these computing advances is computer modeling and

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Richard Gilbert; Kimberly Rogers; Joseph Hickey, University of South Florida; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

D. Hickey, and Eric Roe. University of South Florida, College of Engineering, Tampa, FL. 33620AbstractToday’s high school students, while familiar with high technology as users, frequently fail toconnect underlying scientific principles to the technologies that enable their lives in so manyways. We report on initial efforts aimed at providing high school science teachers withtechnology-based materials, or modules, that they may employ to enhance the presentation ofscience topics within the guidelines of a state approved curriculum. These materials support theteacher in the normal mode of teacher-centered instruction, considered by both teachers andstudents to be important [1]. Since topics must be presented within time constraints

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William Callen; Steven Usselman

togetherto draft a proposal to SUCCEED, a national engineering education coalition funded by the National ScienceFoundation.[1] They imagined a course that would integrate humanities and engineering education in order toprovide a broad context for understanding the role of engineering and the engineering profession in modern society.Primarily aimed at beginning students in electrical engineering who often found themselves mired in science andmathematics courses seemingly far removed from the actual practice of engineering, this pilot project developed aset of modular units. (They were, in order of consideration: “Engineering Creativity,” “The Aesthetics of ElectricalEngineering,” “Access to New Technologies,” “The Electric Car,” “Technology as

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Mohammed Fadali; Michael Robinson

Session 2432 How Do Secondary Science Texts Cover Mathematics and Engineering Principles and Design?1 Mike Robinson, M. Sami Fadali Curriculum & Instruction/Electrical Engineering University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557 robinson@unr.edu/fadali@ee.unr.eduAbstractTextbooks are the primary source of information for secondary teachers and students in learningscience. We examined 13 new edition middle school and high school textbooks in earth science

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Mary Cummings; Tamara Knott

freshmenboasted an average SAT score of 1224, an all-time high. However, after the first semesterconcluded, the average grade point average (GPA) was a 2.49. This is not a phenomenonparticular to Virginia Tech though; the average freshman GPA is comparable for first yearstudents enrolled in similar U.S. schools.1 Clearly many factors contribute to the failure ofengineering freshmen to reach their potential. One area of debate, which this paper addresses, isthe effect that the number of credit hours taken in the first semester of an engineering curriculumhas on the students’ GPAs. Page 6.544.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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Ashraf Ghaly

that the institutional reward structure will stimulate both the creation and continuedteaching of interdisciplinary courses.II. Course Major ThemesThe course addressed six major themes, which were selected to show how the use ofmaterials in the construction industry has progressed throughout history.1. Earth as a construction materialEarth (soil) was one of the early construction materials found in abundance which could beeasily processed and molded into desired shapes. It can be used in large structures, such asdams, or as small structural component, such as masonry or bricks. The type of earthavailable in a given region, however, limits the type and scope of applications. Therelationship between construction and earth throughout history is

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Larry Cartwright

Page 6.545.8would be accessed through an overhead air duct. (Tom Cruise lowered himself through an Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationopening in the duct.) In our project, the groups had to design small portable bridges, thatwould breakdown and fit into a First-Aid kit. The kit would be taken into the facility, theparts would be assembled into the bridge and Ethan Hunter would carry it through theductwork. He would use it to span a six-foot opening, crawl across it, retrieve a computerdisk and return to the duct entrance. The entire mission was timed. The availablematerials were 1 ½x 1

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William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

, product analysis, and facility layout1. Ten to twelvefunctional teams are formed to provide a means for students who are responsible for the samefunctional area to work together. Each student is a member of two functional teams. Page 6.546.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationPortions of the required analyses in the DIS class are subcontracted to two other IE classes and aMechanical Engineering (ME) class, as shown in Table 1. Overviews of the collaborations followin sections IV through

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

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Sanjay Joshi; Richard Wysk; D.J. Medeiros; Amine Lehtihet; Timothy Simpson

industry.Senior capstone design courses and student projects like SAE Formula Car or Hybrid ElectricVehicle have been created to provide engineering students with “real world” and “hands-on”design experiences. For instance, Shah, et al.1 describe a virtual corporation designed to simulatereal world collaborative design and build a product from scratch. Similarly, the LearningFactories at Penn State, University of Washington, and University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguezwere developed to integrate design and manufacturing into the engineering curriculum as part ofthe Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership.2 The product being realized in facilitieslike these and in student design projects, however, is often only a prototype. Rarely will students

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Timothy Wright; Elizabeth Myers; Donald Bartel; Marjolein van der Meulen

Page 6.164.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationwith the Medical College. Our goals were to: 1) create an experience that increases the exposureof engineering graduate students to hospital-based research and practice, 2) tailor the experienceto doctoral or masters students, 3) build course notes, 4) develop independent case studies ofclinical problems in orthopaedic biomechanics, and 5) obtain constructive feedback from theparticipants.General Description of Clinical and Research Programs at HSSHSS was founded in 1863 and is dedicated to the treatment of clinical problems in orthopaedicsand rheumatology. It is a teaching

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Thomas Kist; Barbara Goldberg; William Lin

college attrition, Tinto p. 1 began Leaving College with the words,"More students leave their college or university prior to completion than stay" 30. Todaywith enrollment fluctuating in institutions of higher education, decreasing in some privateliberal arts colleges and also in community colleges and increasing in public universities,the trend of students exiting college before graduation continues. The problem is evenmore significant at the two-year college level. Today also, more non-traditionalstudents, older, commuting, and part-time, are part of the many entering and leavinghigher education than ever before. In fact, the number of nontraditional studentsincreased from one in four undergraduates in 1986 to almost one in three in 1992 19

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Keith V. Johnson; Mark Rajai

notes during a lecture. The typical classroom hostshundreds of lectures a year yet is unable to share this information with students. A classroom2000 shares a complete record of its lectures for future reference. By having the classroom takenotes, the student is allowed a greater opportunity to concentrate on the lecture7. Other leadinguniversities such as MIT and Stanford University are working on creating virtual classroom andlabs8,9 . In the next section, we discuss some of these technologies, which have been used inclassroom 2000.III. Overview of Advanced Multimedia Technologies for the Classroom 2000Three cutting edge software and educational delivery mode are discussed in this section.1.) ZenPadZenPad is a Java based client-server system

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Eric Warmbier; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

environmental engineering orcomputer engineering course taken by students majoring in mechanical engineering. Whilepreparing for an EC2000 accreditation site visit to Michigan State University (MSU), severalmembers of the College of Engineering faculty came to recognize that engineering servicecourses were often overlooked—or even discounted—in their potential educational value 1, 2.Reviews of the undergraduate engineering programs revealed that by and large MSU’sengineering faculty viewed engineering service courses primarily as a longstanding engineeringcurricular mandate from ABET 3. This Engineering Topics curricular-content requirement isconcisely stated as follows in a recent addition of ABET’s Criteria for Accrediting Programs inEngineering in

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Rodney Allen; Richard M. Felder; Catherine E. Brawner

developmentactivities focused on teaching and the use of non-traditional teaching methods. The resultsindicate that attending more teaching workshops is associated with greater use of active andcooperative learning in traditional lecture classes.1. IntroductionSUCCEED (Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering EDucation) is aNational Science Foundation-sponsored engineering education coalition. SUCCEED was firstfunded in 1992 and has spent the past four years scaling up and institutionalizing many of theeducational reforms developed and pilot-tested in its first five years of funding. A majorcomponent of this effort is the design and implementation of a faculty development program.The program objectives are (1) to promote faculty adoption

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Judith Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra Varma

guarantee access to selected programs whichmay have additional institutionally approved admission criteria. As an example, at MissouriWestern, the departments of education and nursing have additional requirements for admission;the department of engineering technology has no additional requirements other than regularadmission standards that are applicable to all entering freshmen.Quality of ET Students and its Relationship to Open Admission PolicyInstitutions of higher education that offer engineering technology programs draw their studentsfrom several different sources, such as:1. Vocational technical schools2. Local industries (these students are mostly non-traditional)3. High school students (these are the traditional students)4. Transfer

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Vascar Harris; Eric Sheppard

AfricanAmerican aerospace engineering B.S. degrees in some years. Given this information, thedepartment is making plans for its future.I. IntroductionThere has been much discussion of the under-representation of African Americans in the field ofengineering, and both causes and effects have been analyzed. References 1 and 2 are examplesconcerned with retention issues that are particularly relevant to this paper. Some of the keyissues identified in these references are the importance of financial aid resources and thecomplexity of addressing minority retention rates that lag far behind the retention rates of non-minorities. In response, many universities across the country set up programs to help recruit andretain underrepresented groups. This under

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John Gershensen; Carl Wood; Joseph Clair Batty

. Page 6.550.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationShown below are the expected student outcomes. These outcomes describe what every student isexpected to do before graduating and reflect both SME’s 14 Competency Gaps and ABET’s athrough k criteria.5 Undergraduate Program Outcomes (Manufacturing Engineering)1. Fundamentals: Students will identify, formulate, and solve basic engineering problems utilizing a. linear algebra. b. calculus-based statistics. c. multivariable calculus. d. differential equations. e. calculus-based

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Denise Nicoletti; John Orr

study and lifelong learning. Such an education also prepares students broadly for their professional and personal lives, providing the basis for effective leadership and informed citizenship. The curriculum embraces WPI’s philosophy of education, and takes advantage of key components such as the Interactive Qualifying Project to develop technical professionals who possess the ability to communicate, work in teams, and understand the broad implications of their work. Based on the above objectives, students will achieve the following specific educational outcomes: 1. Preparation for engineering practice, including the technical, professional, and ethical components 2

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W Meador; Carlos Morales

optical systemfrom Oxford Metrics to capture Arnold Vosloo’s movements and map the motion to themain character. According to ILM’s Jeff Light, motion capture allowed them to capturethe essence of the actor’s movement 1. In video gaming scenarios, where the renderedgraphics need to react to the player’s movement, motion capture makes it possible togenerate realistic animation. In Parasite Eve animators from Square Soft used motioncapture for situations where “there is a lot of physical dynamics to the motion and youreally see the gravity of the character…because that sort of movement can be really hardto achieve in keyframe animation.”2 Page 6.551.1

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Ali Zilouchian

Session 1526 1 Implementation of an Undergraduate Intelligent Control Laboratory Ali Zilouchian Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida 33431AbstractRecently, the author has been awarded a grant by National Science Foundation (NSF) in order todevelop an interdisciplinary intelligent control laboratory. The objective of the laboratory is

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Constantin Chassapis; Kishore Pochiraju; Sven Esche

hierarchical matrix of curricular goals, objectives, andperformance criteria.1 An inter-linked feedback system, represented by three assessment loops atthe engineering curriculum, program and course levels is designed to share and manage a broadrange of assessment data analyses.2 This approach to grading, called distributed grading, producestargeted reports of student achievement. Attitudinal measures of self-assessment provide metrics ofstudent and faculty attitudes about the learning process.3, 4According to ABET Criterion 2, each engineering program for which an institution seeksaccreditation or reaccredidation must have in place (a) detailed published educational objectivesthat are consistent with the mission of the institution and these criteria

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Lang Lee; Tamer Ceylan

courses.(1) Project #1 -- Optimization of an Energy System for CogenerationStudents were given a simple power plant consisting of an extraction turbine for cogeneration ofheat and electric power. The states of steam at the inlet, and at the two extraction ports and theexit are specified. Also given are the mass flow rate of steam at the turbine inlet, and therevenue rates of electricity and steam at both high and low pressures.The design tasks include the following aspects: to understand the advantage of cogenerationfrom first law and second law considerations; to find the extraction rates at each of theextraction ports to yield the maximum revenue ( linear programming technique is used to solvethis problem); to compare the current scheme with