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Narayanan Komerath

are assigned to studentson their level of mastery of each step. Often there is little opportunity to revisit the concept:students often abandon those learning steps where they “performed poorly”.If students could see errors, revisit concepts and correct their understanding of how to applythem, learning would be reinforced. This process occurs in a relatively informal way when newstudents join a research group, and come up to the leading edge of a technical field. In the caseof new graduate students, it may be argued that their excellent undergraduate backgroundenables them to grasp the research literature rapidly. However, experience at our laboratory hasshown that such learning works very well with students at all levels, and indeed this

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Devdas Shetty

substitution of one material for another, are what we may expect on a larger andlarger scale.Micro miniaturization has been going on in the electronics industry side-by-side withminiaturization of mechanical products. Micro-electromechanical systems are now being madein laboratories and finding applications in markets in manufacturing, bioengineering andmedicine. From microns for typical parts of machinery, we are now down to parts measured infractions of microns. And already, in the distance, "nano technology" provides measure inbillionths of a meter, literally the molecular level. These are products and processes that emulatethe mechanisms of biological life.The importance of managing the design process, i.e., of not letting things just happen, is

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Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

. Interaction with resources--individual students or groups collaborating with the same or similar tools as those used by the professionals, for example word processors, electronic libraries, laboratories or studios. 3. Interaction with experts--students conversing with the instructor, other students or content experts in real time. 4. Interaction through electronically or digitally sharing the results of newly formed knowledge over periods of days or hours.The course was divided into eight units with each unit basically representing a chapter of thetextbook. Various content components were organized using the WebCT path editor toolcreating opportunities for students to interact with course

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William Frey; Jose Cruz

design project. They use an issue into full-blown ethical matrix and empirical dilemmas. methods to uncover embedded ethical issues. Decision- The ability to integrate The Ethics Using a case or scenario that Making (not just apply) ethical Laboratory presents a real world decision- (Designing) considerations into a making situation, students use decision or design such a seven-step model to resolve that the considerations the case by

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Matthew Morley; Jody Redepenning; Bruce Dvorak

freshmansequence (with Chemistry 113) for physical science and chemical engineering majors. Thecourse is focused on chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, ionic solution equilibria, introductorythermodynamics, and the chemistry of selected elements. Chemistry 116, “QuantitativeChemistry Laboratory,” is a two-credit course that is taken in parallel with Chemistry 114. Thecourse serves as an introduction to quantitative analytical methods, especially acid-base andredox titimetry, gravimetry, use of pH meter, separations, and analytical spectrophotometry.Description of CIVE/BSEN 326 All Civil Engineers are required to take the 3-credit hour Civil Engineering (CIVE) 326(Introduction to Environmental Engineering) course. CIVE 326 is cross-listed as

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Daniel Raviv

balloon. his kitchen. His soles gave Victory. Page 6.536.10 running shoes optimal traction. http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/bowermanknight.html Presence “Encyclopedia of Inventions” p.545b) Laboratory materialLaboratory activities have been developed for hands-on experience by individuals and teams. Weview team building and team work as extremely important, since communication skills, trust,sharing ideas, etc., are crucial in the workplace. In addition to demonstrating the strategies, thelaboratory material is intended to add a fun component to the

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William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

, composing those instructor intendedoutcomes (word processing software recommended) and pasting outcomes into the Enable software. TheET2K standards were utilized due to availability and the fact that they addressed the learning outcomescritical to any Technology program.Collecting Student DataThe assessment software was presented to students in two different ways. The TEC 110 class, was acombination lab/lecture format, this allowed presentation to students as a laboratory exercise. After the firstmajor test the students were provided a set of instructions that directed them through help menus in theEnableOA software. The students reported that these instructions were easy to follow and after reading theintroductory material several asked if they

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

Ronald J. Gatehouse, George J. Selembo Jr., and John R. McWhirter, “The Vertical Integration of Design inChemical Engineering,” Session 2213, Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference.17 Shaeiwitz, J. A., “Chemical Engineering Design Projects,”http://www.cemr.wvu.edu/~wwwche/publications/projects/index.html, viewed on 15 March 200118 Felder, R. M., and R. W. Rousseau, “Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes,” 3rd Ed. John Wiley &Sons, Inc., New York, (1999).19 Montgomery, S. “The Multimedia Educational Laboratory,” http://www.engin.umich.edu/labs/mel/.20 Wankat, P. C., “Equilibrium Staged Separtions,” Prentice Hall PTR, Engelwood Cliffs, NJ, 1988.21 J. Richard Elliot and Carl T. Lira, “ Introductory Chemical Engineering

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executing parabolic trajectories.• The settings to be used in flight experiments had to be developed through a detailed program of ground experiments, using sophisticated measurement techniques which the sophomores could not be expected to master in the available time.• Design and fabrication of the experiment chamber, validation of numerical predictions, development of measuring systems and procedures, and other experiment aspects had to be developed concurrently, involving a team of many students.• The experiment had to work first-time, in the flight environment, away from the home laboratory. Page 6.668.10Proceedings of

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Robert Borrmann

A1420 An SDL (Simple Description Language) Analyzer Robert J. Borrmann, Ph.D. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College New York CityAbstractSecond-year students in Manhattan’s four-year Electrical Engineering and ComputerEngineering programs are introduced to digital circuits in a one-semester 3-credit courseELEC-229. This course includes a laboratory component in which students design andbreadboard simple circuits. While the course includes preliminary coverage of VHDL(Very High Speed

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Stephen McClain; Soon-Seng Tang; Louay Chamra

Society LOUAY M CHAMRA Dr. Chamra received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, his MS at University of Portland, and his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. He has worked as a Research Associate at Penn State University. Currently, he is an assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the thermal sciences and conducts related research. Since joining the faculty, Dr. Chamra has developed two new courses. STEPHEN T. MCCLAIN Stephen T. McClain is a Lecturer and Undergraduate Laboratory Manager at Mississippi State University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Memphis in 1995, and he

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Zhong Gu; Sheela Ramanna; James Peters; Hal Berghel; Daniel Berleant; Steve Russell

exams. The focus in designing new software metrics is on adapting a classicalmodel to the needs and features of object-oriented, software portion of system designscontaining classes and methods. In addition, the labs for this course include a reverseengineering problem and a number of simple forward engineering problems. A web page forthis course include assignments, laboratories, lectures, and exams (seehttp://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/programs/undergrad/c24374/index.html ).Parallel processing (Senior level) This course focuses on the design of parallel processingsystems. Topics include Flynn taxonomy, parallel architectures, parallel processing paradigms,design process, implementation, speedup, performance metrics

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James Menart; Elizabeth Johnson; Gary Kinzel

and to compare their experience with that of Page 6.52.10 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir colleagues who took the traditional capstone design course. From this, we can identifyfive clear benefits to the multi-university design projects.1) Sharing of facilities: Students are able to benefit from laboratory and experimental facilities at other institutions. For example, SCC has an excellent manufacturing facility, and this benefited students at each of the schools.2) Lessons in

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Edward Lumsdaine

Business Management and Dr. Edward Lumsdaine from Mechanical Engineering). Theseven students in this class came up with three separate inventions. Also, one of these studentslearned how to protect an invention he had made previously. The students are now continuingwork to develop their prototypes into marketable products. The format of the pilot courseconsisted of brief just-in-time seminars or lectures and extensive laboratory sessions. Thestudents surprised the instructors by asking for additional class and lab time and most of all bythe quality and commercial potential of their inventions. The main seminar topics are listed inTable 1 and the main steps of the invention process in Table 2. Table 1 Main Seminar Topics

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Garen Gregorian; Francis Di Bella

type or design of the wind turbines is the onlyengineering decision to be made. The typical multi-bladed vertical axis type is anoption. The Savonius Rotor and Darrieus Rotor (vertical axis) geometries should also beconsidered. All three types of wind generators have been studied in great detail byvarious private and governmental sources. The typical efficiencies for such windturbines between 20 and 30% depending upon their final installation. In fact, it is verycommon to have these “laboratory efficiencies” compromised by local air disturbancesand frequent changes in wind direction. The result is that these efficiencies are seldomobtained on a continuous basis and a utilization effectiveness must be assigned to moreaccurately determine how

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Joseph Walsh; David Kelso; John Troy; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

adequate results in some situations, yet complex, computational models are necessary in other situations. The students are presented with a real-world challenge (in the design parlance, a primitive problem): the quantification of spatial variations in oxygen concentration within the brain of a stroke patient. Real-world constraints are put on the problem (e.g. the method of quantification must be real-time, noninvasive, and inexpensive). In small groups the students must discuss and outline potential solutions, which are presented to the entire class. Laboratory exercises are then conducted and again reported out. The exercises lead the students through various possible solutions to the primitive problem. At the end of the

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James Nelson; Bernd Schroder

participants. Ourestimate is a total cost of $40,000 for these workshops. The communication and buy-in achievedthrough these workshops is well worth the investment, though it sometimes appears as if onemerely “pays people to talk to each other”.Facilities can be purchased as needed. All of the activities implemented at Louisiana TechUniversity need the personnel first and foremost and facilities second. Yet it has to be said thatthe traditional classroom or computer laboratory environment is not conducive to cooperative,technology supported learning. Furniture is hard to group and, once it is grouped, the instructormay not be able to easily reach the groups and communicate with them. Moreover in a traditionalcomputer laboratory the machines have an

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Lyle McCurdy; William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

inverters, inverting summers, non-inverting amps, and simple integrators and differentiators. 2. An ability to apply current knowledge and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology. Students in ETE 310 will use modern engineering software tools including the latest versions of PSpice, Program CC and/or MATLAB etc. to verify their analysis and/or design work, as appropriate. 3. An ability to conduct, analyze, and interpret experiments and apply experimental results to improve processes. Students in ETE 310 lab will use typical laboratory equipment to measure and verify circuit response. Students will connect typical passive and op-amp circuits and use

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Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

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Ronna Turner; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

has produced manyvery successful and innovative graduates. In a survey of aerospace professionals in laboratory,academe, and industry, it was noted that the respondents were not in favor of eliminating currenttechnical discipline boundaries as the base background for a student, but they did feel that theyshould be involved in interdisciplinary educational activities such as team design and teamproblem solving sessions1.The University of Arkansas Physics department has recently redefined the academic requirementsfor their degrees to allow more curriculum flexibility, allowing students to better tailor acurriculum for their career goals. At the Master of Science level, a MS Physics degree requiring acore physics block and all physics electives

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Kara Kockelman

, helping to minimize any variation in estimation of average response. However,their use in merit, promotion, and other decisions engenders some controversy. Student ratings of courses are not perfectly reflective of student learning. For example,laboratory studies have suggested that while instructor enthusiasm significantly impacts studentratings, it does not much affect student learning. In contrast, lecture content appears to have amuch greater effect on student learning than on ratings. (Abrami, Leventhal, and Perry 1982)And correlations between average ratings and average learning (based on standardized testresults across multiple course sections) generally fall well below 0.5. For example, Cohen’smeta-analysis (1981) deduced that the

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Robert Kee; Jean-Pierre Delplanque

paradigm proposed here combines the advantages of laboratory teaching (e.g., hands-on experience) with an effective teaching of scientific methods and problem solving [1]. Ofcourse, a primary benefit of this method is that students play an active role in tackling ab-stract concepts, which have not been traditionally conducive to such participation. Further-more, these exercises result in an improved competency of the students in using spreadsheetsfor engineering purposes, thus preparing them better for their future professional endeav-ors. [1] The novelty of the proposed technique resides in its objective to illustrate abstractconcepts. This is a departure from prior efforts to use spreadsheets, CFD, or software toolssuch as Mathcad in the engineering

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Vipin Kumar; Margaret Wheeler; Gregory Branch

’ minds and the structure in the subject matter. Metaphors,examples, and demonstrations are the elements of the bridge,” (Mckeachie, 1994). LaterMcKeachie says “From the standpoint of theory, the activity of the student, the sensorimotornature of the experience, and the individualization of laboratory instruction should contributepositively to learning.”A note about the lectures required is appropriate; Many Machine Design texts leave one or bothof these labs’ subject areas out of their coverage. Last year, one of this paper’s authors surveyedthe coverage of torsion loads by six common Machine Design Texts. He rated only three of thesix as giving complete torsional coverage, one as giving inadequate partial coverage, and two astotally inadequate

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Nicholas Cain; Julia McLees; Jason Bara; Gary Wnek; Bradford Crosby; Gary Huvard

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Mort Isaacson; Francis Di Bella