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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay remained silent. In addition,Chile, although still an associate member, has decided to negotiate independently an agreementwith NAFTA and has disregarded Mercosur’s goal to approach this as an integration bloc.14 Theunion or lack of it in the Mercosur could seriously alter the future of free trade in Latin America.According to the Chancellor of Argentina, Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini, the way to attain asuccessful FTAA is through a strong Mercosur. The Chilean president, Ricardo Lagos, who seesMercosur as a more ambitious plan, supports this also. Whereas the FTAA is a commercialagreement, Mercosur is an integration project that includes political, economical, and culturaldimensions. At the last meeting of the

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lesson plans or by web-based documentation, where and how they intend to use the software in one oftheir courses to be taught during the fall semester. They were also to produce asample problem or project that could be used by students. The second part of thestipend ($500 each) was paid at the end of this work session.Finally participants were contacted in December-January to discuss lessons learned,outcomes and to provide a measure of assessment for proposed continuation of the CTEPactivities. Comments focused on insights that may have developed as to where within thecurriculum other applications of software may be of benefit. All CTEP participants wereencouraged to assist fellow faculty members in the implementation of software and

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know I wouldn't be headed in the professional direction I am today. The fun thatI had, the things that I learned and the hours that I put in made me realize what I wanted to do withmy career. Not only did it help me realize what it is that I wanted to do, but it also gave me a headstart with my personal as well as engineering skills. It taught me leadership, teamwork anddiplomacy as well as rewarded me for my efforts. From the moment I began college up to today Ihave felt like I have had the advantage over most everyone else coming out of high school. It is agreat program and I plan to support it myself any way that I can.”Emery Sanford, Freshman at the University of California at Berkley in Mechanical Engineering."The Principles of

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William Plymale; Scott Midkiff; Luiz DaSilva

module is further decomposed into one or more units. The outline of themodules and units is shown in Figure 4. In aggregate, the modules provide content to meet thecourse’s learning objectives, as depicted in Figure 3. A take-home midterm and final exam areused to evaluate a student’s mastery of the course material. A course evaluation instrument wasused to survey the students at the end of the course. Ideally, formative evaluation would be usedthroughout the semester to provide improvements during a single offering of the course. Whilewe plan to do this for future offerings, it was not done for the Fall 2000 offering of the course

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Youki Terada; Pam Sirivedhin; Flora McMartin; Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

Copyright Page 6.32.1 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”development of innovative assessment techniques to measure open-ended design process skills 5,and employing innovative uses of technology to enhance student learning 6,7. Several of the GEprojects built upon and expanded on the work initiated by earlier Synthesis projects.One specific example of a GE grant reform effort was the introduction of a new course‘Animating Physics’8. The objective of the course is to explore challenging physics conceptsthrough the use of physically realistic animations. Students designed, planned, programmed

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Martha Wilson

focus group meeting.Focus Group MeetingNear the end of the Fall Semester 2000, an informal meeting was held to discuss the relativelylow numbers of women enrolled in the program. Before the meeting, all students were contactedvia e-mail to explain the faculty’s concern and to begin plans for an initial meeting. All studentshad an opportunity to choose the best meeting time, and to provide comments and input prior tothe meeting. Although free pizza was provided as an incentive, twenty-two students out of thetotal 133 enrolled in the program attended the first meeting, and seven of the sixteen womenenrolled in the program were in attendance. This group formed the basis of the initial focusgroup.The first meeting began with an overview of

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Timothy Wheeler; Dr. Rose Marra; Dr. Jack Mitchell; Dr. Charles Croskey

. Exercising theirskills in service to others proves to be a very satisfying endeavor. Indeed, it was ultimately thepersonal initiative of Publicity team members that resulted in a group of education studentsvolunteering to develop lesson plans and co-lead outreach programs in over a dozen localclassrooms. Many engineering students found this to be a very meaningful activity.In the third semester of the course, SPIRIT hosted a “Rocket Day” for local elementary andmiddle school students. About 150 students and parents came to launch model rockets thestudents had built during the SPIRIT outreach programs. The events of the day were capped offwith the launch of a 4-meter long scale model of the Nike/Orion rocket (built for the project by aSPIRIT student

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James Globig

ethical when planning projects, managing humanresources, and specifying and purchasing products. The degradation of ethics in engineeringorganizations is only a symptom of what many philosophers have observed as a global trendthat permeates our societies, our politics and even our families. 2, 3ABSOLUTE VALUESIn researching the subject matter of ethics in engineering, the terms ethic, moral, and law areused frequently and interchangeably. If they are to be used properly and we are to understandtheir meaning when conducting research or otherwise addressing the subject, however, then weneed to understand their meanings and how they differ:From Webster's Dictionary:Ethic 1. "The discipline dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty

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James Newell; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Dianne Dorland; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

chemical engineering course and a series of modules that can be employedthroughout the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper reviews the current status andfuture plans of the green engineering program.Green Engineering in Chemical Engineering CoursesGreen Engineering is the design, commercialization, and use of processes and products, whichare feasible and economical while minimizing 1) generation of pollution at the source and 2) riskto human health and the environment. The discipline embraces the concept that decisions toprotect human health and the environment can have the greatest impact and cost effectivenesswhen applied early to the design and development phase of a process or product.By providing risk assessment tools, EPA offers a

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Atlas Hsie; Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

implemented by the departments of electrical, mechanical and industrialengineering technologies. The purpose of this paper is to review the results of the cohorts thusfar completed and to discuss our plan to make the future MSAT program focus on three areas ofconcentration mentioned above. To make the program more accessible some courses are offeredon the Internet. It is expected that such a program will respond better to the need of currentindustrial environment and will attract more full time graduate students, which is one of thefuture goals of the college.I. IntroductionState University of New York (SUNY) Institute of Technology is an upper division Institutionfor transfer and graduate students. It is one of the 64 campuses of SUNY system and is

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Natalie Smith; Julie Greenberg

toencourage constructive use of the interactive demonstration (as opposed to ‘fiddling’ withparameters). Links to general text summaries of key concepts, a glossary, specific hints, andgeneral tips accompany the tutorial questions. Plans for assessment of the module’s effectivenessare briefly discussed.I. Background on Teaching Spectral AnalysisSpectral analysis is an important concept relevant to many electrical and biomedical engineeringapplications, including speech analysis, speech processing, magnetic resonance imaging, andanalysis of clinical biomedical signals such as the ECG, EEG, and EMG. The motivation fordeveloping this module comes from the second author’s experiences teaching spectral analysis in acourse titled Biomedical Signal and

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Hugh Blanton; Mark Rajai

, sporting equipment, or even your pets. The potential sales from theprimary and large secondary markets in 1999 were estimated to be over 60 million units. Thisnumber represents an increase of 20% from 1998.Market ResearchSubstantial data was collected pertaining to the design of the Guardian 2000 while field testing,using a detailed market research survey. By evaluating this data we feel we have a very goodbasis to make sound decisions that will be valuable to the marketing of the Guardian 2000.During the research we determined that 70% of American families showed strong interest in ourproduct. The people were polled to determine their interest in certain applications for the device.Consistent to our original plans for the Guardian 2000 to be used

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William Strenth

lecture, many photographs and scanned drawings wererequired. This created large PowerPoint files that resulted in particularly long downloadtimes (3 hours), a totally unacceptable amount of time. This dilemma required a majorchange in original plans. Blackboard and PowerPoint alone would not be sufficient. In order for students to download one page at a time, HTML files created with HotDog Pro would be used. As a result, students would have faster access, and they wouldn’thave to start at the beginning each time as they had done with PowerPoint. In order for this tooccur, all lectures previously completed had to be redone in HTML format and saved to theuniversity's server. This method was successful and was continued throughout the rest of

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Glenn Wrate

courses, EE-351, EE-353, EE-355, and AE-472, for the first threeyears was 3.86 out of 4.0. The first class (Fall 1998) petitioned MSOE’s administration to havethe courses run one year earlier than originally planned. The enrollment for the first course inthe Electrical Power Distribution Systems sequence (EE-351) is shown in the chart below.Based on an informal survey by the AE&BC Department chair, the decrease in enrollment in Fall2000 was due to unenthusiastic teaching of the introductory course in Spring 2000. In aninformal survey of this year’s incoming AE students (students in the Spring 2001 EE-250classes), over 20 students stated that they would be entering the program next year. This showsthat since EE-250 is the only exposure AE

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Nolan Hertel; Heather Gepford

with program planning and special problems.The Professional Development Option (PDO), on the other hand, is designed for students whodesire to enhance their knowledge of a particular subject. Students registered in the PDO do notreceive academic credit for completion of the course, even if subsequently admitted to thegraduate program. When registering, the student indicates if they wish to take the course with orwithout a grade assigned. Students taking the course without a grade need not turn in homeworkor take exams. Those taking the course for a grade must complete all assignments and exams.Grades are sent to the student, but do not appear on a Georgia Tech transcript. In addition, aletter indicating the Continuing Education Units earned

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William Marcy; Marion Hagler; Juan Ramirez; Jose Tamborero

supervise each student together. Travel to joint meetingsof the supervising faculty for planning the thesis research and for conducting the final oralexamination is funded by a grant from industry. The student and the faculty advisors choosewhich institution will host the oral examination. The same grant provides scholarship supportfor student participants in the program.Graduates of the program, who have pursued their studies in two countries in two differentlanguages, are uniquely prepared for the practice of engineering today, when more and moreopportunities span national borders. Participating faculty build working relationships based onjointly supervising work of mutual interest and, thereby, strengthen ties between the institutions.The first

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William Berg; Morris Boughton

. Figure 4The idea is to remove the solderless breadboard in the mini-lab and replace it with a sub-systemmodule that is much easier, and much less time consuming, for the student (and instructor) towork with. Note that the circuit area in this printed circuit board (pcb) mock-up could have been50% larger and still have fit the area provided by the mini-lab.In our final design, each module will be packaged on a larger pcb measuring approximately6.5”X5.5”. Each pcb will have three layer construction (two circuit sides plus ground plane), andwill be silk screened to identify individual circuits, test points, and solderless componentconnections.Other modules planned for development during the next two year project period are listed below.Each module

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Paul Marquard; Bruce R. Dewey; Sally Steadman; Raymond Jacquot

VS VL R2 RL TP4 Figure 4. Board for Maximum Power Transfer Experiment4. Future ProjectsProjects in other areas of engineering, which contribute significantly to the experiential portionof the course, will be added to the course. The concept of variation in manufactured productscan be illustrated by making measurements on machine parts (washers, nuts, bolts) or by makingtemperature measurements. A component involving material balance is planned as well. In orderto

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Hilda Black; Jenna Carpenter

. Supporting material includes itemssuch as syllabi, review sheets, course documents and links to text-specific web-based tutorialmaterial. The instructors also made use of optional communication tools, such as e-mail and thevirtual classroom.Tracking was used to collect data on student use, and students were surveyed at the end of eachterm to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the sites, interest in options not utilized in thecourse, ease of access to the site, etc. Improvements were then made to the sites, incorporatingthe student feedback and instructor experiences. Based on the feedback from this and othersimilar projects, plans are to seek funding to expand and implement a web-based system for usein integrated curriculum

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

business plan, many others will not achieve a sustained growth trajectory because of the absence of a corporate governance structure able to adjust to changing conditions. A successful NTBF requires superior governance and management capabilities, including comprehensive understanding of product technology, manufacturing technology, market research, financial planning, accounting, legal aspects, contracts and networking, as well as a supportive environment of relevant business services.”6) Innovation depends on promoting networking and clustering. “When identifying barriers to greater innovativeness, it is necessary to take into account that firms differ from large ones in the skills and professional training of their managers and in

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Joshua Talbert; Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

applied. A high performance starting batterycan produce 1000 cranking amps at 12 volts which corresponds to 12 kw or 16 hp. This would result in some of thecars kinetic energy being absorbed by the battery rather than the brakes. There are some plans to increase the voltageof future cars to 42 volts, which would further help this mode of regenerative braking. Another possibility would be a car with two engines that might be 20 hp and 50 hp. Engines provide substantiallymore power per weight than an electric motor-generator and battery system. Both engines would be shut down forsustained stops. The smaller engine would provide more efficient city driving. The larger engine would be forhighway speeds and both engines would operate for high power

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wilson ruggiero; regina silveira; itana stiubiener

we can not see and feel the reactions of our students, the problem ofmaintaining he/she attention becomes strongly bigger.One possible solution to resolve this problem is the employ of multimedia elements in Webcourses as an enriching and improving agents in this process. When we use elements suchas video, audio, pictures, animations, etc in a logical disposition during the course we caninduce he/she interest and attention and also induce he/she action of searching relevantinformation that is logical distributed among the course. In fact to produce a course usingmultimedia elements we have the same process of producing a theater script, when at eachinstant the scriptwriter must plan every elements that are appearing to the spectator.When

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Robert Avanzato

concentrate on examples of supporting new learning strategies. Page 6.533.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education With the appropriate technology and an instructional plan, many active andcollaborative activities can be integrated into the classroom experience to better achieveand, in some cases exceed, the learning objectives. Examples of some of the successfulhands-on classroom learning experiences developed in this program include collaborativedatabase design, electronic (paperless) team exams, and programming

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Mansour Tahernezhadi; L. D. Allen

⇒ 7-Segment LEDs The following three figures detail the schematics of the TCM. All connections were hand soldered andplaced. During construction of the TCM, many changes were made to the originally planned layout, but theschematic remained true to the original design. Figure 3 - 7-Segment LED Display Circuit Figure 3 shows the 7-Segment LED Display circuitry. The theory behind this design is detailed in theDisplay Strobe Sequence Truth Table. Basically, the PIC controls selection (or non-selection) of the transistorswitches to drive the common anode LED displays as well as the binary coded decimal required for the appropriateswitch when on. Because the 74LS138 provide a LO (sink) output, the

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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

with the underlying science increases the students’ awareness of or interest in thepursuit of technological careers. We discuss our approach to planning and implementation ofthis assessment process. Page 6.541.2Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionHigh school students frequently fail to connect the basic scientific principles learned in theircourse work with the technological marvels that many of them make use of daily. The principlesbehind such items as portable phones and pagers, personal data

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Keith V. Johnson; Mark Rajai

; Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”manufacturing, marketing, customer services, and management. The enterprise that is supportedby Nexprise includes the supply chain, which is becoming an important part of every enterprise.The model that IPTeam Suite uses for its environment is a project area. Physical project areasrequire design notebooks, document configuration control, management plans, and interactionswith subcontractors and suppliers. IPTeam Suite supports all of these in a virtual environmentand they can be linked together. The design process is an iterative one where choices are made.The design team must be able to record their choices and the information that was used to makethat choice. Everyone on the

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Judith Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra Varma

hour elective course.• Intensive Freshman Advising Program – It joins all freshman students with specially trained faculty and staff advisors specifically concerned with increasing communication with the students, easing the transition into higher education and helping students develop sound planning skills.• The “Griffon Edge” – It intensively introduces students to college life through workshops and seminars on a wide range of information including computer instruction, campus safety, personal finance, academic etiquette, cultural diversity, and grading procedures. “Griffon Edge” is held prior to each academic year.• College 101: Freshman Seminar – It offers students a three-credit course which provides the

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Mark Crozier

the Seven Management and Planning Tools. Methuen: Goal/QPC. th9. Garrison, R.H., and Noreen, E.W., (1997). Managerial Accounting (8 Ed.). (pp. 4-26). Chicago: McGraw-Hill.MARK L. CROZIERMark L. Crozier is currently the Quality Manager for an upper mid-west manufacturing company. Markhas over twenty years of manufacturing and engineering experience in defense industry and thecommercial manufacturing sector supplying products to medical, automobile, pharmaceutical, and fireindustry markets. Mark holds a BA in Management from the University of Redlands, California, an MS inQuality Assurance from the California State University Dominguez Hills, California and an MS

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Ravi Athale; John Treichler; Dave Munson; Sally Wood; Geoffrey Orsak; Scott Douglas; Mark Yoder

single-gender and mixed-genderstudents at urban and suburban campuses. Figure 4 shows atypical laboratory session at one of the high schools.VII. Future DirectionsAs for expansion of the program, our current plans have theInfinity curriculum being offered at 40 different high schools in Figure 4. INFINITYthe 2001-2002 academic year, with 30 of these in Texas and the students in the high schoolremaining 10 in other state across the United States. Interest in classroom.the program has exceeded our capabilities to meet the demand;there are

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contest, it was found that the surface treatment on the ballbearings utilized in the competition caused a problem in the dispensing mechanism andthe team was forced to remodel the car before round 2. After the mechanism wasmodified, the car functioned according to plan for the remainder of competition. Out ofthe three rounds of competition, they won twice and lost once, to finish 9th out of 19schools. They were very proud of their first entry in the competition, and deemed it asuccess.In review of the competition, some details bear pointing out: Details of the competition results University of Southern Competitors