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John Carpinelli

" mantra of Java developers. Using Java for all of the simulatorsdeveloped by the authors allows maximum reuse of code. The assembler for this simulator is alsoused in another simulator which simulates a computer system incorporating the Relatively SimpleCPU. As an additional benefit, the authors have found little difficulty in attracting students to workon this and other simulators. Java is a desirable skill for graduates entering the workforce, andstudents seek to gain experience in Java programming. Projects of this type are exactly what thesestudents are looking for.The rest of this paper is organized as follows. The specifications of the CPU simulated by thispackage are described in the following section. The functions of the simulator are

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Sanjeev Arora; Masoud Naghedolfeizi; Jim Henry

Session 2150 Remote Laboratory Operation: Web Technology Successes Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Sanjeev Arora, Jim Henry Fort Valley State University/ Fort Valley State University/ University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded Fort Valley StateUniversity (FVSU) a three-year project to develop an undergraduate minor program in computerbased measurement and instrumentation. The primary objective of this program is to enhancethe existing mathematics, engineering technology, and computer science programs at FVSU.The

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Suzanna Rose; Mariesa Crow; Susan Murray

of this project. The University of Missouri-Rolla is a small, Midwestern university with a strongemphasis in engineering. Nearly 85 percent of the student body majors in engineering ora closely related field. The enrollment of the school is approximately 5,000 students withover 75 percent male. The average ACT score for entering freshmen is very high atnearly 28. As of 1999, the university had a total of 299 tenured and tenure-track facultymembers with 26 (8.7 %) female (3). Rolla is a small rural community in centralMissouri, one hundred miles from St. Louis. Local employment opportunities outside ofthe university for professionals are limited.Statistics Concerning Female Faculty at UMR An analysis was performed of the

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Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

technology) that answers the question “How?”. Even if we have know-how, we still have to face the societal concerns when many other factors and questions come intoplay before undertaking a new project: whether, what, why, when, whom, where, and how much.If technopreneurship becomes all technique and technology, it will make us more materialisticignoring that we are human beings. If there is very little understanding of the higher humanpurposes that the technology is striving to serve, we will become victims of our own creation. Inthe spirit of providing service to the community, we must decide what is to be done to developnew products and services, cut costs, increase productivity, turn waste into environment-friendlyproducts or assure its safe

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Dick Bickerstaff; Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Robert Speckert

Lima TechnicalCollege (Ohio). He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, an MBA, and Ph.D. inOperations and Information Management. He held a number of engineering and project management positions formore than ten years before joining education. Dr. Eydgahi’s previous accomplishments have included such areas asprofessional development and educational technologies in instruction.ROBERT SPECKERTMr. Speckert is the Chair and Professor of Engineering Technology at Miami University (Ohio). He holds an MBAfrom University of Cincinnati and a BS in Applied Science from Miami University – Oxford. He is a CertifiedManufacturing Engineers and has presented at such national conferences as the League for Innovation in

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Barbara L. Christe; Elaine M. Cooney

mother of two grade school agechildren should negotiate so hard and long for a part time position. She tried to explain thatschool brought the complications of homework, field trips, having friends over to play and workon group projects, music lessons, sports, etc. Parents are the only ones willing to spend the hoursfrom 3:00 to 9:00pm every day as driver and chaperone. Many times every child will have to bea different place - necessitating both parents pitching in and there still not be a way to get it alldone. Since most universities do not treat part-time faculty as permanent employees, let alonesupport advancing part-time faculty in rank or tenure, asking for a part time position for womenfaculty is the same as resigning. Women faculty must

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

classes eachweek, one geared to students from preschool through second grade; the other for children ingrades three to five. Each class followed the same basic formula: an introduction using booksand pictures, several hands-on activities, a craft project, and a snack. The snack was tied to theclass theme and preparing it was an activity unto itself. The first summer, we filled our classes tothe capacity we had set merely by word of mouth and passing flyers to about 30 parents weknew.When the school year began, we had requests from the parents of our students to offer afterschool science lessons. So, we developed a series of hour-long science explorations, and offeredour services to parents for “science birthday parties.” In this case, we charge

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Edward Fisher; Anton Pintar; Kirk Schulz

Committee as itsassigned experiment. Among other duties, the Safety Committee conducts safety audits of the Page 6.260.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationunit operations laboratory using a Safety Inspection Checklist (SIC) and conducts the SafetyMeeting for that cycle. The Safety Meeting serves as the oral presentation for the SafetyCommittee. The Safety Committee also carries out an assigned safety project and reports on it atthe Safety Meeting.GradingThe group receives a grade for each

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Wil Clouse; Terry Goodin

freedto innovate and to think creatively about future ventures. The course is targeted atstudents who would like to create their own business and they are given the opportunityto develop a business plan from one of their own ideas. Students from entirely differentprograms, like Human and Organizational Development and Engineering, areencouraged to work collaboratively on joint projects. Opportunities to share their ideaswith other entrepreneurs are made possible. The course is meant to teach students howto dream about new ideas and how to take new business ventures to the marketplace. Inpart, entrepreneurship is defined as a "state of mind -- artful, insightful and innovativementality rather than a business management or administration concept

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John Bransford; Sean P. Brophy

community within a class. In addition to developing life long skills of workingwith others, fostering community has great potential for facilitating instruction. Forexample, students can draw on each other’s experiences to expand their ownunderstanding. Also, large class projects can emulate industry by having studentsdevelop specific expertise that they must bring to the group. It is the groupsresponsibility to bring the ideas together. Page 6.334.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIdentifying Domain

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Tolga Cangar; S. Engin Kilic; Ömer Anlagan; Burak Sari

, Manchester.Recent Research Experience Dates Institution Subject 1999-2000 METU Research Fund Project Installation of a Pneumatic Linear Positioning Device at METUCIM 1998-2000 Turkish State Planning Organization Development of a shop floor control system using (DPT) CORBA for Agile Manufacturing 1998-1999 TEI, Turkish Engines Industry Distributed Numerical Control of CNC Machine Tools 1996- 1998 University of Miskolc (Hungary), Design, Development and Implementation of an METU (Turkey

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Dennis Hromin; Sven Esche

demonstrations of laboratory experiments into their lectures,• the strain on laboratory class schedules is alleviated significantly, and• budgetary constraints are overcome.As it was rightfully pointed out by the reviewers of the original NSF proposal leading to partialfunding of this activity by the NSF-ILI program as well as by other individuals involved in theplanning and implementation of this project, this laboratory approach does not only offer importantbenefits but also exhibits some drawbacks. The significant investment in the up-front developmenteffort and time required is one of the main disadvantages compared with traditional laboratorysetups. In contrast to the original plans for developing a laboratory to be accessed exclusively in

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Scott Morton; Donald Smith

inserted betweenthe flow resistance element and the oval-gear flowmeter to isolate the pulsation generated by theflowmeter from the flow resistance element. Two views of the student-assembled configurationutilizing the round edge orifice are shown in Figure 3.Figure 3 The CALI Experimental ApparatusOne station of laboratory apparatus was constructed at a cost of about $3,000. The rack mountcomputer and the DAQ card added approximately $3,500, although the computer is generalpurpose and is already being used for a variety of other experiments and projects. The facilitiesneeded to conduct the experiment are one standard laboratory sink with 12-15 square feet ofcounter space and the same floor space, approximately 125 square feet, as is needed for

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Thomas Walker; Patrick E. Devens

1.0 1.3 1.7 2.0 2.3 2.7 3.0 3.3 3.7 4.0 EF1015 Grade Figure 14. Spring '98 Female Freshman-Engineering Student Performance.Figure 14 displays the female group data in conjunction with comparison best fit lines.The display shows no noticeable change in projections. The data is very similar to Figure10, Fall ‘97s data, but there is a decrease in student percentages between the 0.7 to 1.3range. The percentage of “F”s increased from 14% to 18%. '98 Afro Amer (Spr EF1015

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Mohammed Fadali; Michael Robinson

. The end of chapter review also has a section on “AlternativeAssessment” that includes Performance Assessment and Portfolio Projects. There are manyproblems at the end each chapter and they include everyday phenomena such as sports, cars,planes, snowmobiles, spacecraft, sleds, etc. The questions at the end of each chapter also have asection on Conceptual Questions. These require some analysis and the application of a physicsprinciple to solving a problem in an everyday event. For example, “Suppose the waste heat at apower plant is exhausted to a pond of water. Could the efficiency of the plant be increased byrefrigerating the water in the pond?” In general, the lab investigations are rather traditional inthat the students are not able to

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W Meador; Carlos Morales

it to 3D animation software via custom scripts and thenapplying it to 3D geometry. The purpose of the project is to use the realism andefficiencies that motion capture provides, but without the high cost of traditional motioncapture equipment. Though this system may not always provide the resolution orpossibility for real time applications that traditional motion capture can, it does allowusers to apply real-world motion to virtual objects in an efficient manner.I. IntroductionWhile motion-capture techniques have been accepted by larger production companies asa cost-effective means of achieving extremely realistic movements, the technology hasnot gained industry wide acceptance among smaller cost-conscience firms due to the highentry-level

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Rebecca Blust

day to calculus instruction. The need for calculus is reinforced asthey spend the rest of the day working with engineers who are using these math skills to solveproblems that create better products.Another company that has developed a successful program for recruiting more minorities isUnited Technologies Corporation. UTC encourages engineers to mentor local high schoolstudents. The mentors work with students on various research projects. They provide theleadership, direction, and guidance necessary to foster a successful research project. Many ofthese volunteer mentors are alumni of the local high school. They state that their motivationfor involvement is to create a future workforce that reflects the diversity that they would like tosee

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Kay Wilding; Claudia Grossman; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

president to call for such a comprehensive nationalstrategy, and the effects are already taking shape.In a meeting for Title VI project directors on May 5, 2001, Congressman Lee Hamilton fromIndiana summarized the importance of international education under five majors categories:globalization, prosperity, diversity, security, and international cooperation. "Americans will needto be well-informed about the world, fluent in other languages, and proficient in a wide range offields." Ranging from competitiveness in the global marketplace to being the "most powerfulforeign policy tool,” international education is taking on an unparalleled level of significance andresponsibility.Yet in reality, we still have a long way to go to achieve such a noble goal

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Timothy J. Anderson; Sarah A. Rajala; Matthew Ohland

lecturing and alternative instructionalmethods including cooperative learning and activity-based class sessions were an integral part ofthe success in IMPEC and have been integrated into the new course. The goals of providing mo-tivation and context for the fundamental material taught in the first-year mathematics and sciencecourses, a realistic and positive orientation to the engineering profession, and the training inproblem solving were also brought into the new course from IMPEC. ECE292D served as themodel for the hands-on, team-based problem solving and design projects and E123 provided themodel for integrating disciplinary writing and speaking

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Lisa Ritter; Barbara Lazarus; Susan Ambrose

chairs the student’s dissertation and oral examcommittees. At best, an advisor is a confidant, mentor, sponsor and major advocate in thedepartment now and later in the student’s career. The advisor can be the launching pad for thestudent’s career by providing the opportunity to work on well-funded projects, by introducing thestudent to contacts and influential people in the field and by providing opportunities to exercisethe student’s skills outside of the university. Ideally, the relationship between the student and heradvisor will progress during her time in graduate school from that of teacher and researchdirector to that of mentor and professional colleague.(Note: When applying to graduate school at a particular university, the student

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Stephen McKnight; Gilead Tadmor; E Everbach; William E. Cole; Michael Ruane

language of continuing utility, but withoutthe complications of variable typing and declarations. Early laboratory experiences includeprogramming loops to cause stepper motors to move a flag, control through photocell feedback,and measuring acoustic velocity and distance by appropriately thresholding a reflected acousticsignal. As a final project, students write a program to control the movement of an ultrasonicsensor to image a metal target encased in an opaque gelatin package.1. IntroductionSince computation is ubiquitous in engineering practice, a freshman course in computation orcomputer programming is a feature of most engineering curricula. These courses are often lessthan satisfactory for both the students and the instructor. While contact

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George York, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO; Cameron Wright, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO; Michael Morrow, U.S. Naval Academy, MD; Thad Welch, U.S. Naval Academy, MD

(frames/sec) Brute force MATLAB 0.8 Vectorized MATLAB 3.3 DSK Hardware 15.0Now that the system has been built, it will be used in a number of courses during the next year atboth the Naval and Air Force Academies. Once the students become familiar this sonardevelopment system in a course such as Advanced DSP, it will make an excellent springboard forstudents to develop more advanced projects for their Senior Design projects (with hopefully agreater success rate). We believe this approach to teaching DSP applications will develop betterstudent skills in MATLAB, C, C++, algorithm development

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Caroline Hembel Beard

students who begin theirengineering studies at Georgia Southern transfer to neighboring states to earn degrees at schools suchas Clemson (South Carolina), Auburn (Alabama), Florida State, and The University of Tennessee.When the current research project began, data was available only in the form of hard copy. Thisresearcher first accessed data on students enrolled from Fall 1990 to Fall 1998 — data that had beencollected and stored in databases developed within the institution. In 1998, the Board of Regents(BoR) of the University System of Georgia required most of the state’s public institutions to convert to aUniversity-System-wide data gathering and storage system. The “Banner” system was implementedmore or less statewide in 1998. Institutions

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

English class I probably wouldn’t havenoticed this in the [Engineering 170] presentations, but when [“Jay”], when they were doingtheir presentation. First they started off with some audience. Did you notice that, too? And thenhe got off and he like addressed us like we were students. I was like, Uh, I don’t think you’resupposed to do that” (Bruce, December 6, 2000).One focus group participant also offered the faculty a suggestion for making an improvementwith the linked classes:“You just need to [get] a little bit better organized, so we’re not doing the same project for eachclass at the same time. I mean, for a little while there…I was getting my two groups mixed up. Itwasn’t too bad, but if we could set them apart a little better, so we’re not

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Todd Morton

and to overcome some of the challenges of single-chip designs. It will showmethods that will allow the students greater insight into real-time operation of their assembly andC programs in the final product configuration. Specifically, the M68HC912B32 microcontrolleris covered. Tools covered include evaluation boards used as BDM pods and targets, a source-level BDM debugging system, and the HP54645D Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes.IntroductionThe use of microcontrollers in academic laboratories is increasing in many different disciplinessuch as engineering, engineering technology, and the sciences. The application ofmicrocontrollers in the lab is well documented. This is especially true for student senior andresearch projects, which tend to require

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Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

integrating fundamental electronic circuits and componentswith overarching communication systems. A critical issue is the availability of inexpensive orfree software that demonstrates the major circuit design considerations necessary for laboratoriesand projects. This paper has been written to relate our positive experiences using PSpice in aclass entitled “High Frequency Electronics” (EE 626), which is a graduate level course atOakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Examples discussed include the development anduse of y- and s-parameter extraction circuits, Wilkinson power dividers and adders, directionalcouplers, baluns, hybrid rings, HF filters, and stability and load calculators. Several examples ofcircuit analysis using “PUFF” software have

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

professional education to reflect the realitiesof the 21st century. We look at the need for models of graduate professional education that areresponsive to stakeholders’ needs and which complement established models of research-oriented graduate education. For example, stakeholders of the Purdue University model havevalidated the applied, practical problem-solving model using directed project outcomes. Theauthors also explore the need for inter-sectoral, inter-institutional, and inter-disciplinarycollaboration in the process of evolutionary graduate professional education model development.The theoretical discussion focuses on exploration of the experience-to-date in two research-intensive universities grappling with the issues of nurturing graduate

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Roli Varma

not only forwomen, but also for the American society increasingly dependent on IT. In this paper, I examinethe reasons for under-representation of women in IT-related disciplines in institutions of highereducation.1. IntroductionThe use of IT has been having a profound impact on the productivity, globalization, and growthof the U.S. economy. Since 1995, IT appears to have contributed between 33% and 50% of theacceleration of productivity12. IT is also viewed as having contributed to the country’s structuralshift to a service economy19. IT has led to growth in demand for labor as well as overall skillupgrading in the workplace2. The Bureau of Labor Statistics7 has projected that between 1998and 2008, the number of IT related jobs will grow

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

agree to participate in one or two activities within thefirst semester in each of the following categories: campus organization membership, communityservice, and personal development. To meet this requirement, students select from a wide varietyof opportunities including joining on-campus organizations, volunteering for local agencies(Habitat for Humanity is popular with our students), and attending local events (e.g., lectures,plays, concerts, etc.)Visitation Policy. The Maple Hall visitation policy encourages student interaction by providingpublic spaces where students can meet any time (24 hours/day) to work on class projects, tostudy in groups, and to socialize. Visitation policies are in place for student rooms to facilitatehealthy

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James Masi

factsimply dynamic scattering, but in a cholesteric, the scattering state reverts only very slowly tothe clear original structure. The optic axis is arranged perpendicular to the cell plates and so thefilm starts off clear. Application of’ a low frequency voltage leads to disruption of the film into ascattering condition which can persist for months after the current is stopped. Application of analternating voltage above the Frederiks threshold and beyond the cut-off frequency causes aFrederiks effect which regains the original clear structure. The device thus has one stable andone metastable off state and thus exhibits memory.VI. References1. T. Kountotsis, "Liquid Crystal Display Design", Western New England College Summer Design Project, June