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/statics/cover.htm.4. Martin, T., “The Development of Interactive World Wide Web Courseware for Students of Engineering and Technology at Deakin University,” Faculty of Science and Technology, De- akin University, Victoria, Australia, 1995. http://www.scu.edu.au/sponsored/ausweb/ausweb95/papers/education1/martin/.5. Kwok, P., Flory, E., and Rencis, J. J., “Bar and Beam Element Learning Modules for Finite Element Method,” Mechanical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 1996. http://femur.wpi.edu/Learning-Modules/Stress-Analysis/.6. Cabell, B., Rencis, J. J., and Alam, J., “Using Java to Develop Interactive Learning Material for the World Wide Web,” Session 3268, 1996 ASEE Annual Conference

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Tomás Gómez; Maria Velasco; Joséantonio Turégano

. Turégano,J.A.,Velasco, M.C., Cozar, J.M. Didactic Tools for use in a Basic Course of Thermodynamics. ASME-AES, 1995. Vol 35, pp. 111-118.12. Reynolds, W.C. Thermodynamic Properties in S.I. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Stanford University.Stanford, CA 94305. (1979).13. Velasco, M.C.,Turégano,J.A., Cozar, J.M. & Hernández, M.A. La motivación en la clase de Termodinámica y elCambio de Modelo de Enseñanza en Ingeniería. Actas del V Congreso sobre Innovación Educativa en la Enseñanza dela Ingeniería. Las Palmas, (1998).14. Velasco, M.C. Informatización de una asignatura.Desarrollo del entorno Game y aplicación a la TermodinámicaTécnica. Tesis Doctoral. U. de Zaragoza, diciembre 2000. (in press)15. Cohen,V.L.The Effect of Technology on

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Edward Lumsdaine

Session 1454 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Invention and Entrepreneuring Edward Lumsdaine Michigan Technological University (USA) and University of Nottingham (UK)AbstractThis paper describes the context, format, experiences, and outcome of three multidisciplinaryteam project-based pilot courses focused on teaching entrepreneurial skills and invention:1. ME 490 “Invention and Entrepreneuring,” co-taught by two professors (from engineering and business) at Michigan Tech for multidisciplinary students during fall quarter 1999.2. N1D041 “Creative Problem

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beinterspersed and used to make an academic point memorable. Page 6.136.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Getting Their AttentionAlthough lecture is the most efficient way to cover new material, technology students oftendread this part of the college experience and have a difficult time staying focused during thelecture portion of the course. Again, as educators, we must be diligent in searching for methodsof creating interest. Using unconventional techniques can prepare the mindset of the

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Sridhar Condoor; Richard Weber

Session 3261 Inquiry-Based Student Learning Sridhar S. Condoor, Richard G. Weber Saint Louis University/ Fairfield UniversityAbstractIn the traditional engineering curriculum, students are presented with and tested on factualknowledge. Very little emphasis is placed on their thought process, which is more important as itcan lead to inventions and innovations. This attitude is reflected in the commo n answer “I don’tknow” from the students who do not spend any effort or time to think. The engineering programsat St. Louis and Fairfield Universities have the common

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Them or Design Them,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 29, No 1, p. 34.7 Jayakumar, S., Squires, R.G., Reklaitis, G.V., and Grassi, K.S., 1995. “Simulating the Air Products Cryogenic Hydrogen Reactive Cooling Process,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 29, No 1, p. 26.Biographical InformationDarin Ridgway is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Ohio University. He received his B.S. from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, M.S. from Louisiana Tech University and Ph.D. from Florida State University. Hiscurrent research interest is in optimization of fungal fermentations.Valerie L. Young is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Ohio University. She received her B.S. fromLehigh University and

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, building design must take into account the prevailing natural,environmental, and engineering conditions. In the absence of careful consideration of thefull array of factors, a structure could lack the desired functionality. Construction forHumanity is a course developed and offered at Union College with several goals in mind.The most important is to show the seamless connection that exists between Liberal Arts andEngineering. This is demonstrated using numerous examples of ancient and modernstructures in an interdisciplinary fashion. Topics covered in this course include earth andmasonry structures, domestic housing, castles, cathedrals, monuments, dams, bridges, roads,tunnels, skyscrapers, and structures with futuristic designs. Weekly

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Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee

Session 2559 A Web-Enabled Distributed Door Entry System Binaya Acharya (email:bacharya@eece.maine.edu), Dr Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instrumentation Research laboratory, University of Maine.AbstractThis integrated security system that monitors and controls the access to a particularroom/area was created as a demonstration of a typical distributed, web-enabled industrialapplication. It utilizes a bar code scanner, a data terminal, a PC at the door and another asa database and web

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degree programs here at IUPUI will bebetter known to High School students and hopefully with that increased knowledge will come anincreased enrollment of high school students in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technologyand CNT.LAURA LUCASVisiting Lecturer of Architectural Technology of Purdue School of Engineering & Technology at IUPUI. B.S. ofArchitecture, Ball State University, M.B.A. – Management, Indiana University. She has over 20 years of industrialexperience in design, construction and engineering and technology education. Member of ASEE, and is a registeredArchitect in Indiana. Prof. Lucas was named a Faculty Fellow for the Frontiers in Education Conference in 1999

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Garen Gregorian; Francis Di Bella

Session 2333 NEW PARADIGMS IN ENERGY CONSERVATION and POWER GENERATION FOR THE WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDINGS (Part 1) Francis A. Di Bella, PE 617-373-5240 (fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115 School of Engineering Technology and Garen Gregorian, PE Gregorian Engineers (617-484-3565) Consulting Structural Engineers

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Valerie Taylor; Sumalatha Adabala; Jose Miguel-Alonso; Jose Fortes; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jan-Jo Chen

Technology The University of the Basque Country Abstract Computer engineers increasingly depend on the use of software tools to evaluate and inves- tigate the design of computer systems. It is therefore very important that educators in this eld promote extensive tool-based experimentation by students. However, the integration of today's complex tools into curricula poses several challenges to instructors. To deploy a tool-based class experiment, they must 1 obtain access to hardware resources that meet the requirements of the tool, and obtain access to student accounts on these resources; 2 install and maintain the tool software and

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, theinstructor helps the students raise their level of competence.IntroductionIn the Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum at Purdue, most EET courses have two orthree hour laboratories along with the regular classroom periods. Time and again, our studentstell us that they like this commitment to hands-on learning. It is in “lab” that the students cometo a better understanding of the technical material. It is through laboratory exercises thatstudents develop their writing skills by writing laboratory reports. It is through laboratoryexercises and project that students practice troubleshooting and design. It is there that they learnto work in groups to solve technical problems. It is also in lab where students can seize thecomplexity of a problem

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communication and information technology are reshaping our society inunparalleled ways. With the ever frequent reengineering and restructuring of corporate America,engineers are often working in disciplines that transcend their formal education. For example,many engineering graduates follow diverse career paths in medicine, financial engineering,management, public policy, and other fields that require a systems-oriented analysis andsynthesis ability. In addition, the highly complex and multidisciplinary nature of modernengineering systems demand synergies between various engineering and science disciplines anda strong synthesizing approach. These dynamics point to the acute need for training engineeringstudents in a multidisciplinary, cooperative

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Linear Regression)". McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 1991.19. S.A. Glover, "Subroutine MLR (Multiple Linear Regression)". McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 1991.20. D.P. Visco and A.N. Cartwright, "Challenges of Forming an ASEE Student Chapter at the State University of New York at Buffalo", Session 3655, ASEE Annual Conference, 2000.CAROL MULLENAXCarol Mullenax is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University as well as anemployee of The Boeing Company (formerly McDonnell Douglas). She received her BS in Engineering and AppliedScience from the California Institute of Technology in 1989, and also received an MS in Mechanical Engineeringfrom Washington University (St. Louis) in 1995 and an MSE in Biomedical

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industry are, and how it can be used to monitor and control remote processes. Acase study of remote-control computing software in operation is also presented, describing howone off-the-shelf package was setup to monitor and control a plant floor production system.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control at its

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instructor is unlikely to know the right search terms to uncover some of the best casestudies, like the Hughes Aircraft case [Bowy 00], the best illustrative sites, like Tom Darby’sinteractive tour of the Internet worm [Darb 95], or ethical issues related to fields like artificial Page 6.249.1intelligence or e-commerce. Moreover, it is easy to fail to notice new ethical issues as they ariseProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationwith advances in technology (how many people recognized MP3s as an ethical issue two yearsago

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throughout the experiment to enhance the students problem solving skills. Many questions require detailed explanations using laboratory measurements, calculations, and simulation results.The laboratory experiment has been successfully tested in an advanced solid-state course incommunity college and is currently taught in an advanced electronics course at the University ofMemphis, Engineering Technology Department. Many positive responses were noted fromstudents. Many commented that the depth and breadth of the experiment was difficult, at times,to digest but very useful in understanding linear voltage regulators and in improving theirtransistor theory and problem-solving skills. Many really appreciated the practical sections

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Bina Ramamurthy; Pratibha Gopalam; Alexander N. Cartwright

Pvt. Ltd. before joiningSUNY at Buffalo.BINA RAMAMURTHYBina Ramamurthy is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University atBuffalo. Her research is focused on design of Java Technology based systems and Distributed Systems. Page 6.665.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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metric representing the associatedperformance so as to be used as a comparison between other similar devices. It is simply atest to compare performance that may be used to aid the selection of equipment. There iscurrently a wide range of benchmarking programs readily available. Primarily thesestandards fall into one of three categories - trade magazines, standards organizations suchas SPEC and TPC (Ideas International) and finally individuals. There is a wide range ofBenchmarks and often a collection of them is used, a possible advantage being that others Page 6.234.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Session (to be assigned) An Experiment in Pseudo-Asynchronous Course Delivery Carl F. Zorowski North Carolina State UniversityAbstract This paper describes an experiment in delivering a graduate level course in a pseudo–asynchronous manner using modern digital communication technology. The purpose of thiseffort was two-fold. One was to reduce the logistics and increase flexibility in an existingdistance educational delivery system for engineering graduate courses. The second goal was toimprove the efficiency and academic effectiveness of graduate course offerings for both on-campus

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thatprovides the capability to perform sensitivity analyses and 2) always validate newlife cycle cost software using a duplicate technique for important decisions on: • Level of Repair • Reliability • Unit cost and cost of spares • Usage rate • Turn around time • Redesigns due to technology obsolescence Sensitivity analyses allow visibility to the optimal support solution for minimizing life cycle cost. It provides a necessary look into the reality of the unknowns that can significantly drive the life cycle cost. Page 6.768.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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P. Watta; N. Narasimhamurthi; Adnan Shaout

complex problems.• Present fundamental concepts using several different technologies.• Provide a platform for the design and analysis of complex and interesting systems.• Stress the importance of modularization, systematic testing and validation of complex systems.• Provide a tight coordination between the class room lectures and the laboratory experiments.• Unify the course sequence by using the same set of core technology from the sophomore level to the senior level. The present digital logic course sequence at the University of Michigan-Dearbornis based on a design-oriented philosophy that requires students to apply theoreticalconcepts to solve practical engineering problems. As a response to industry’s demandfor well

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Warren Phillips; Joseph Clair Batty; John Gershenson; Christine Hailey

Session 2566 A Curricular Review Process for Systematic Continuous Improvement John K. Gershenson1, Christine E. Hailey2, J. Clair Batty2, Warren F. Phillips2 1 Michigan Technological University / 2Utah State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a novel process for curriculum planning, assessment, and improvement.The process is quantitative but allows faculty freedom to innovate. The review process issufficiently flexible that it can be applied to many engineering programs. The curricular reviewprocess is split into cycles corresponding to the various

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Session 3232 Integrated EMC Education at San Francisco State University Zorica Pantic-Tanner School of Engineering & Computer Science San Francisco State University, CA 94132AbstractThis paper describes how EMC principles are integrated throughout the undergraduatecurriculum at San Francisco State University (SFSU). With increase in clock frequencies anddata rates in digital circuits, as well as with a push toward microwave and higher frequencyranges in communication systems, the problems of electromagnetic interference are becomingmore

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, Charlotte, June 1999.5. Ohland, M.W. and Layton, R.A. (2000). Comparing the reliability of two peer evaluation instruments. In proc. ASEE Annual Conference. ASEE, St. Louis, June 2000.6. Shavelson, R.J. (1988). Statistic Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston, p. 608.RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard A. Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995, taught for four years at NorthCarolina A&T State University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology with a specialty in system dynamics. Previously, Dr. Layton worked for 12 years in indus-try, culminating as a technical group head and project manager. He is a registered

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the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionIn common with all academic institutions, The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)is facing the challenges of fulfilling its traditional role in education and training in face of anincreasingly global economy that is being transformed by technological innovation. Shrinkinggovernment financial support poses a further challenge. The institution serves over 10,000 fulltime students as well as in excess of 50,000 part-time students who attend 195 separate anddiscrete programs 1,300 continuing education courses. As well, instruction and other forms

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physics to science and engineering undergraduates. He received a B.Sc.(Hons). in physics from theUniversity of Adelaide (Australia) in 1984, and a Ph.D. for work in condensed matter physics from theUniversity of Canterbury at Kent (United Kingdom) in 1989. After completing a Grad.Dip.Ed. from theUniversity of Adelaide (Australia) in 1990, Geoff taught physics, general science and mathematics in AustralianHigh Schools for three years. Geoff undertakes research in physics education and is particularly interested in theuse of modern technology as it relates to the learning process. Page 6.1049.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American

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

. (1966), an M.S. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1973) in electrical engineering fromThe Pennsylvania State University. He teaches electronic circuits and design, and space sciences. He is affiliatedwith CSSL where he conducts rocket investigations of electrical properties/processes of the middle atmosphere. Heis the Principal Investigator for SPIRIT. He is Penn State’s Principal Investigator of the NSF-sponsored ECSEL.ROSE MARRARose Marra is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at Universityof Missouri – Columbus. Her primary teaching areas include the assessment and evaluation of instructionalinnovations, instructional design and development, project management of instructional design experiences

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receiving his M.S. in OperationsResearch at American University and B.S. in Engineering Physics at Lehigh. Page 6.1120.7JOSEPH C. HARTMAN Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationJoseph C. Hartman is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at LehighUniversity. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and aB.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of

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. Results indicate that students areusing the material more often in other courses and consider the redesigned course to havesignificant value. This is much better than the previous version of the course, which wasperceived to have little value and contained significant useless material.DONALD D. CARPENTERDonald Carpenter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Michiganwhere he is the Secretary of the Student Chapter of ASEE. Since May of 1997 he has also served as an adjunctfaculty member at either Jackson Community College or Lawrence Technological University.NIKOLAOS KATOPODESNikolaos Katopodes is a professor and associate chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University ofMichigan. He