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Miguel Perez; Ryan Wicker; Bill Diong

Session 3220 Tele-experimentation: The Emerging Approach to Science and Engineering Lab Education Bill Diong*, Miguel Perez** and Ryan Wicker** *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering **Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Texas at El PasoAbstract A project has been initiated to enable students and researchers to conduct Science andEngineering (S&E) experiments via the Internet as an answer to the dual needs for improveddistance education in those fields as well

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when the open course or section is offered at an undesirable time.Bibliography1. Wankat, Phillip C. and Oreovicz, Frank S., Teaching Engineering, Purdue University,http://unitflops.ecn.purdue.edu/ChE/News/Book/.2. Kolb, D. A., Experiential Learning: Experience as the source of learning and development, Prentice-Hall, Page 6.1074.13Englewood-Cliffs, NJ, 1984.3. Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., and Smith, K. A., Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom,Interaction Book, Edina, MN, 1991. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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American Association of University Women, and the Mercer Center forCommunity Development, without whom, this project would not be possible. References1. Geppert, L. (1995). The uphill struggle: No rose garden for women in engineering. IEEE Spectrum. 32(5), 40-50.2. Blaisdel, S. & Cosgrove, C. R.. (1996). A theoretical basis for recruitment and retention interventions for women in engineering. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference. Session 1692.3. Sadker, M. & Sadker, D. (1994). Failing at fairness: How America’s schools cheat girls. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.4. American Association of University Women (1994). Shortchanging girls

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Trevor Harding

Session 3275 Useful Approaches to Preventing Academic Dishonesty in the Classroom Trevor S. Harding Kettering UniversityAbstractOver the past three decades, academic dishonesty (a.k.a. cheating) has become anincreasingly common occurrence among college-aged students, and engineering studentsare known to be among the most frequent culprits. At most universities, cheating is dealtwith after the fact. Few institutions go beyond drafting an academic integrity policy toprevent cheating before it happens. The same situation exists in the classroom

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Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

. Subsequent projects become progressively more complex.In PDS the emphasis is on both accurately modeled parts and extracting fullydimensioned and specified engineering drawing to current ANSI standards. For greaterflexibility IronCAD™ also fully support ISO and JIS drawing standards as well as 1stangle and 3rd angle drawings.IronCAD™ easily excels at the task of extracting drawings because the model anddrawings are associative. From an instructional point of view s this is useful because itdoes allow editing of a dimensional value in the drawing, but it indicates any changeddimension by underlining them, the standard ANSI practice for displaying ‘not-to-scale’dimensions. This means that a student must maintain the integrity of model and cannottake

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Andrea Lomander; Paul Schreuders

tanksfor several periods. Requiring that the tanks remain sealed for progressively increasing periodsrequires the students to examine the microcosm’s response to the perturbation, identify theproblems and their respective source(s), and redesign the system. This iterative failure andredesign cycle results in stronger designs and increases the student’s confidence in their designabilities.IntroductionThis project was planned as an integrative experience for seniors in biological engineering. Theproject supports the following programmatic objectives (EAC, 2000): • Applies a knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering • Requires students to design, conduct, and analyze experiments, and • Requires students to design

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Stephen Dyer; Robert Krchnavek; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam

Session 1526 Macroelectronics: A Gateway to Electronics Education S. A. Dyer,1 J. L. Schmalzel,2 R. R. Krchnavek,2 and S. A. Mandayam2 Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering 1 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 2 Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractConventional approaches to teaching electronics and instrumentation emphasizemicroelectronics instead of providing a more general, systems-level approach. We haveshifted the focus in the first electronics course from individual devices and

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John Klegka; Robert Rabb

Session 2566 A Modern Mechanical Engineering Sequence for the United States Military Academy Major Robert J. Rabb, Colonel John S. Klegka United States Military AcademyAbstractMany institutions are revising their engineering curricula and developing programs and coursesto meet the needs of industry. With or without the valuable, external assessments of engineeringprograms from ABET’s EC2000 Criteria, engineering educators cannot ignore the changes inreal world engineering and design. Engineering programs must prepare their graduates forsuccess beyond

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Tim Coppinger; Ray Bachnak

laboratory set-up. The STEP 7-Micro/WIN allows the userto create programs with either the Ladder Logic editor or the Statement List Editor.Students perform five laboratory exercises in preparation for the group project. Thefollowing paragraphs briefly describe these exercises. Page 6.68.3Exercise 1: In this exercise, students get familiar with the PLC by performing thefollowing tasks: (a) Set-up the PLC on a board they previously prepared. (b) Connect the PLC to the PC using the PC/PPI cable. (c) Configure the software so that the transmission rate is 9.6 kbps, COM port used is 0, timeout is 3 s, and local station address is 0. (d) Set the PLC

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Gilbert Wedekind; Christopher Kobus

not introduce any newfundamental principles in the fluid and thermal sciences. Instead, the lectures serve to reviewand apply principles that have already been taught in introductory classes in thermodynamics,fluid mechanics and thermal energy transport. The laboratory component is strictly gearedtoward design, synthesis and evaluation, utilizing knowledge, and comprehension learned inprevious courses.The Fluid and Thermal System Design course was instituted in the 1970’s to be the primary fluidand thermal design experience for graduating seniors. As a four-credit course, the class meetstwice a week for approximately an hour and a half. The lectures consist of a variety of design-oriented applications. The lecture is broken up to include

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largersocietal issue within which their specific topic was imbedded and appreciated its significance.Rating 3: acceptableThe project dealt with an aspect of an issue that is contemporary or aids in understandingcontemporary issues. The report, most likely the introduction and/or the literature review,indicated that the students understood and appreciated the basic societal issue(s) within whichtheir specific topic was imbedded.Rating 1: poorThe project dealt with an aspect of an issue that is contemporary or aids in understandingcontemporary issues, but the report says little about the basic societal issue(s) within which thespecific topic was imbedded.Overall only 5.7% of the reports were absent any evidence of student understanding ofcontemporary

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William Sutton; Kathryn Laskey; Elbert White; Mark Houck

a program defines its objectives, most Visitors havestrong, positive memories of physical experimentation in their undergraduate education. Manyhave difficulty understanding how this can be replaced with computer-based techniques.2. Degree programs with 120 credit hoursIn the mid 1990’s, the Governor of Virginia, through a task force on higher education, proposedthat all degree programs in the Commonwealth should contain 120 credit hours. GeorgeMason’s administration adopted this proposal and as a result all engineering degree programswere redesigned in 1996 to contain 120 credits.There are positive effects from this move. There is a trend of reducing engineering curricula to120 credit hours through the country. In the metropolitan DC

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C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

1936 concept of a thinking machineonly appeared in practice (after his death) with the personal computer in the late 1980's - whicheven now is only a crude approximation of his dream. Students must be encouraged to dream andto think creatively. Techniques such as those of de Bono exist, and must be disseminated so wecan properly equip their “tool box.”EstimationThe field of engineering technology is renowned for generally requiring completion of somecalculus for all its majors. Given that essentially all students in engineering technology arecompetent in math, and that computers and calculators are widely available, what is the value ofapproximate answers? For one thing, exact calculation and estimation are very different skills,and even take

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completes wafer processing.In the case of a broken or mis-processed wafer during the laboratory class, the instructor’sdemonstration wafer is given to the team. Thus, no team is required to start over and each team isable to complete the entire lab with a working wafer. Page 6.810.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. Wafer TestingThe wafer testing system, or device characterization module (DCM), comprises a SignatoneModel H-150 hybrid microprobe station, a Signatone Model S-301 4-point probe

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Charles Nippert

distillation can be modeled simply. The applet in which the model runsautomatically ends after user turns off the power, process air, and cooling water areturned off. Liquid drains from the trays following equations 5 and 6. Heat loss from thesurroundings is assumed to follow a first order equation with a small value of k’. = h s A s (Ti − Ts ) dTi dt where k’ = a constant related to Ts = the ambient temperature (20 C)Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 6.91.7 Copyright © 2001, American Society for

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Julia Williams

we can survivethe development process. Clearly there is more work to do if engineering portfolios areto gain wider acceptance for assessing engineering education. In addition, more researchis needed that demonstrates the benefits of portfolios over other data collection methods.Perhaps the most important transformation must occur within the culture of engineeringeducation itself. Until engineering faculty, programs, and industry commit to thisassessment method, engineering portfolios will remain a great idea and not a practicalreality.Bibliography1. American Society for Engineering Education. “Engineering Education for a Changing World.” ASEEPublications http://www.asee/org/pubs/html/green.htm (2000).2. Artemeva, N., S. Logie, and J. St

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of the EITAAC. http://www.access-board.gov/pubs/eitaacrpt.htm (1999).8. Waddell, C. D. The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities: Overcoming Barriers to Participation (Office of Equity Assurance, San Jose, CA, 1999).9. FCC. Access to Telecommunications Service, Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Persons with Disabilities. Federal Register 64, 63235-63258 (1999(b)).10. Berger, S. The Association of Access Engineering Specialists: Informal Survey of Accessible Engineering Needs (The Association of Access Engineering Specialists, 2000).11. Norman, D. A. The Design of Everyday Things (Doubleday, New York, 1990).12. CAST. (CAST, 2000).13

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Chris Lorenz; Trevor Harding; Jennifer Kadlowec; Kurt DeGoede

., Vogler, T., Jaramillo, N. and Barr, R. "How to Startan ASEE Student Chapter", Proceedings of the ASEE Conference 1998 - Session 2312.3. Magill, M. "Building a Successful Student Chapter," Prism, December, 1996.4. Mulkay, E., McComb, S., Kiesow, R., Boyd, D., Oakes, W. and Jones, J. "ASEE Student Chapters: LessonsLearned from the First Five Years", Proceedings of the ASEE Conference 1998 - Session 0555.5. Soderstrom, S., Lorenz, C., Keinath, M. and Harding, T. "Implementing an Engineering TeachingDevelopment Program for Graduate Student Instructors." Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 2000.6. Kadlowec J., Shriver J., Harding T. and Choi, C. "Promoting Excellence in Education with an OutstandingStudent Instructor Award Program

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

1Measurement Focus statements are derived from the "Measures of Success" written by the CoreCurriculum Implementation Committee in January 1998, and consist of such areas as studentperformance, quality of instructional materials, attitudes, and competency development. Morespecific statements such as technical writing skills, oral presentation skills, and teamwork skillsare included to capture additional supporting data.The implementation guidelines which accompany the plan are written to provide an additionalThe guidelines specify the assessment tool; objective(s) for the assessment activity; which groupsare involved; instrument administration; materials preparation; analysis and reporting; and anyspecial notes, such as announcing if the assessment

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as a member of a two or three-member team to workclosely with an industry sponsor throughout the term. Students must coordinate their activities toaddress a significant and challenging issue facing the manager within the sponsor’s organization.Each sponsor commits to a mentorship role for the student team(s) assigned to the organization,while at the same time, serving as the manager who is responsible for personnel performancewithin his/her department and/or division.The AMT Capstone course provides each student with real-world exposure to problems andissues faced by line and staff managers across a wide variety of aviation-oriented disciplines.Recently completed capstone team projects include: evaluations of current and pending

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

dealt with digital logic and the other with assembly language programming. Inthe early 1990’s the digital logic and assembly language material were combined and taught inthe second course. This allowed the first course to be restructured to provide a generalintroduction to electrical and computer engineering, including modules aimed at helping students Page 6.982.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationmake the transition from high school to college. However, this new course had problems

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Edward Gehringer

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.249.6 Figure 5. Discussion questionsProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education00]. Typically, each student is assigned to review three projects, one or two of which are on thesame topic (s)he has chosen. Assuming everyone does the assigned reviews, this assures thateach project is reviewed both by “experts” who have also researched the topic and “members ofthe

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Activities % of TotalImproved my resume 36.8 %Obtained interview(s) 10.5 %Have job opportunity(ies) 10.5 %Allowed me to look at job market 10.5 % Table 3: Highest scoring positive outcomes of career activities. The total number of responses was 19. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Fuller

Page 6.269.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationResulting Reference MaterialsThe combination of student site visits, sketching, digital photography and CAD naturally lead toan integrated presentation for lecture materials. The lecture topics for the Materials and Methodsof Construction and Documentation are being transformed from writing s on the wall tointegrated documentation. The documents, ultimately resulting in a course companion text,Materials and Methods Handbook, as well as a corresponding web site, combine traditional textwith student sketches, site photography and, in the case of

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anddistribution of energy, transportation, and telecommunications.Latin America has progressed during the past decade and in many senses overcame some of themost profound problems faced during the eighties frequently referred to as the lost decade.Nevertheless, it has also become evident that the market economics requires more than justpricing, there is a need for deeper and broader institutional reforms in terms of taxes, legalsystems, and capital markets.In the 1990’s, Latin America grew 3 percent per year on average. There was also a moderateexpansion of the Per Capita GDP of 1.1 percent according to the World Bank, yet it is lower thanwhat was achieved in the 1960’s and 1970’s with 2.5 percent and 3.5 percent respectively.Inflation has fallen

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has happened with varying degree of success. In the1990’s the many industries have attempted to achieve world class status by implementing totalquality management methods. Some of them introduced just-in-time manufacturing techniqueslike cellular manufacturing, quick change-over procedure, one piece part flow, kanban, and othertechniques resulting in inventory reduction. Spurred by success stories, the industries moved toteam-based continuous improvement and experimented with self-directed work teams. Studyingbest practice used by others and benchmarking them has become a standard procedure.As we move into the new century, we need to incorporate these improvements to develop trulyagile product development process. Agility is the ability to

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Matthew Morley; Jody Redepenning; Bruce Dvorak

Chem Chem Non-UNL Year only 109/110 111 113+ chemistry ‘00 6 5 17 1 10 ‘99 12 7 11 6 6 ‘98 4 7 17 4 4 ‘97 26 7 13 1 4 TOTAL: 48 26 58 12 24Methods: Assessment of Chemistry Performance in CIVE 326 Four years of data (fall semesters 1997 through 2000) from CIVE 326 (Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering) were used to correlate students’ performance on the chemistry-related portions of CIVE 326 with the freshman chemistry course(s) they completed.Information concerning the college chemistry course(s) taken by the CIVE 326 students camefrom

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the payload structure, the payload power systems and harness, thedata encoder and the S-band transmitter. One of the experiments was a deployed rigid sphere.This “bowling ball”, including the onboard transmitter, data encoder and the patch array antennawere entirely student designed and built.The four instruments included a pair of Langmuir probes, a miniature mass spectrometer(purchased from Faran Scientific, Inc.), an photodiode array (built by SUNY students), and therigid sphere. The mass spectrometer quadrapole apparently burned up due to the rocket’s lowerthan expected altitude. The other instruments were not as pressure-sensitive and performed well.Students at Penn State and SUNY continue data analysis efforts as of this writing. Except

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Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education HAZOP RISK ASSESSMENT MUDLIFT MODE: ACTIVITY: REASON(S): ASSUMPTIONS: PROCEDURES ALREADY HAZOPED NOT REPEATED HERE Hazard Consequence Existing Probability Initial Risk Changed Safeguards Risk Mitigation Procedure C P R Figure 6. HAZOP form used by the