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Waleed Smari; Jon Stevens; Andrew Murray

Session 3225 Learning the Tools and Techniques of Geographically Dispersed Collaborative Design Via a Brief Student Project Andrew P. Murray, Jon M. Stevens, Waleed W. Smari, University of DaytonAbstractEngineering design collaborations with personnel and resources distributed throughout the globe,once experimental and cutting-edge, are becoming the standard operating procedure for manycompanies. Graduating engineers now enter a business environment that requires a sophisticatedunderstanding of collaborative design and the powerful new technologies that make it

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Thomas Miller; Rodney Allen; Richard M. Felder; Catherine E. Brawner

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society of Engineering EducationAccording to Galin,1 the primary difference between these two response modes is that e-mail is a“push” technology while the Web is a “pull” technology. That is, with e-mail, sent messages areautomatically received in the potential respondent’s mailbox, whereas respondents must beattracted in some way to a Web page. Because of this difference, one might expect a higherresponse rate to an e-mail survey than to a Web survey. The experiment described in this paperwas designed to test this hypothesis and also to determine whether there were significantdifferences in the

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Ty Newell; Timothy Shedd

Asession2266@A Team-Oriented, Project-Based Approach for Undergraduate Heat Transfer Instruction Ty Newell, Timothy Shedd University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIntroductionThis is an exciting time in engineering education. Engineering classrooms are changing with therapid development of new technologies and analysis tools, the desire for team-based activities byindustry, and recognition by engineering educators of the value of cooperative and activelearning methods.The purpose of this paper is to describe a classroom “experiment” with the goal of converting

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Hakan Gurocak

. Henry, J., "Running Laboratory Experiments via the World Wide Web", Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., 1998.HAKAN GUROCAKHakan Gurocak is Assistant Professor in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He receivedhis Ph.D. from Washington State University at Pullman in 1993. His research interests are robotics, automation,fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality. Page 6.398.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering

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, National AcademyPress, Washington.Delwiche, C. C. (1981). Denitrification, nitrification, and atmospheric nitrous oxide, Wiley,New York.Engineering Accreditation Commission (2000). “Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms,” Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore.Huner, J. V. (1999). “Keeping Crawfish as Pets.” Aquaculture Magazine, 25(2), 54 - 62. Page 6.46.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFrye, F. 1992. Captive Invertebrates A guide to their

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Fazal Chaudhry; Elisabete Castellano

environmental education of schoolchildren as well as in planning environmental science courses for engineering degree students.IntroductionAlthough one may argue that industrial production and technological progress have broughtabout the present day environmental crisis, it is the lack of social awareness and moralconsciousness with regard to the environment which hold the clue. The resolution ofenvironmental questions involves not only direct measures of political, social, scientific andtechnological nature but also actions dealing with the ethical and moral attitudes ofindividuals and the society as a whole. Environmental education is considered as an essentialinstrument towards creating a new universal ethic and consciousness in favor of

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Joseph Wunderlich

Session 2793 Simulation vs. Real-time Control; with Applications to Robotics and Neural Networks Joseph T. Wunderlich, Ph.D. EE Elizabethtown College Computer Engineering ProgramAbstractSimulations are often used to model real physical systems prior to electrical, mechanical, andcomputer hardware development. This allows engineers and scientists to experiment with variousconcepts before committing time and effort into hardware. Simulations can also be runconcurrently with real-time systems to build knowledge

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Narayanan Komerath

. IntroductionFigure 1 uses the Knowledge Pyramid1 to articulate the vision of a major US corporation on theevolving role of engineers. To develop the products of the future technological marketplace,engineers must move ever higher on this pyramid. Along with curricular efforts to integrateknowledge, the university environment must seek ways by which students can gain experience of bringing multi-faceted projects to successful completion under realistic constraints of the professional workplace. Figure 1: The evolving “Knowledge Worker”. Industry views a progression of the knowledge level of engineers from the

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Colorado at Boulder, Student Ratings of Courses and Instructors.3. Rowland, M. In email message to Diane Wilshynsky-Dresler, College of Engineering and Technology, Northern Arizona University. January 10, 2000.4. URL: http://depts.washington.edu/oeaias; University of Washington, Office of Educational Assessment, Instructional Assessment System (IAS) Online.JERRY M. HATFIELDJerry Hatfield is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. He is a graduateof the University of California (BSEE) and of the University of Southern California (MBA) and is a registeredprofessional engineer. His areas of interest include freshman programs, multi-disciplinary design, computer aidedinstruction and testing

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Taggart Smith

Psychology inOrganizations: Advances in Theory and Research. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1993).TAGGART SMITHTaggart Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.Active in the Engineering Management Division of ASEE, Dr. Smith also serves as an associate editor of theEngineering Management Journal and is on the Board of Directors for the Association of Engineering Management.At Purdue she teaches Leadership Philosophy and Conference Leadership. Her book Meeting Management waspublished by Prentice Hall in 2001. Page 6.667.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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course in data communications.1. IntroductionThe growth of Internet and related technologies have significantly increased the demand forskilled, Information Technology (IT), workforce. However, the supply chain has not grownproportionately. Computer Science departments around the country are trying to be responsiveto industry needs in these emerging areas of the computing discipline. Exposure to applicationissues in the realm of computer communications and client-server computing are especiallydesirable skills for the graduating student population. Upper level courses on data and computercommunications and web architectures have been seeing a surge in student enrollment. Thereare many textbooks in the area of data communications and computer

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innovation. Briefly, the undergrads tend to view their advisor moreor less as they view parents: Old and perhaps even likeable, but not necessarily very well-informed in the latest technology, unlike their teachers in classes, or their friends’ bosses in theirCo-Op jobs, or the people they meet at Conferences or Career Fairs. The result is that they freelydiscuss their projects with their teachers and friends, and bring back insights from variousdisciplines. Thus, for example, the undergraduate-initiated project on Acoustic Shaping causedsome participants, 3 years into the project, to discover that their Physics teachers knew all aboutacoustics; this led them eventually to get (free) help from experts in Electrical Engineering tominiaturize their

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Joey Parker

. ParkerJoey K. Parker is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Universityof Alabama, where his teaching responsibilities include control systems, instrumentation, andboth freshmen and senior capstone design. He has been involved with the Foundation Coalitioneffort at Alabama since 1993, and recently served as the freshman TIDE (Teaming, Integration,and Design in Engineering) program coordinator. He received his B.S.M.E. degree fromTennessee Technological University in 1978, and his Master’s and Ph.D. in MechanicalEngineering from Clemson University in 1981 and 1985, respectively. His research interestsinclude electro-mechanical actuators, microcomputer applications, and industrial automation

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Arthur Gerstenfeld

is right for U.S. universities to start todevelop linkages between themselves and their counterparts in Africa. This paper Page 6.146.1describes a new program with exactly that objective.Prodeedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering 190 Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright O 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBackgroundOn May 18, 2000, the 106th Congress of the United States passed the Africa Growth andOpportunity Act with the subtitle: "Trade Policy for Sub Sahara Africa"iii. However, atpresent, most U.S. universities are not aware of the new law or the

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John Ristroph

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationExample of General Financing 11,000Consider a situation in which the initially available marginal funding 0is shown in Figure 1. A choice must be made between projects A 5and C, where project A remains financed as shown in Figure 4 and 30,000Figure 5. Project C is not financed, and Figure 7 shows its cashflows. It uses a new technology that financiers believe to be risky. If a) Unfinanced Projectthe company implements it, then financiers will make only

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James Masi

KEY EXPERIMENTS FROM THE 2000 NATIONAL EDUCATORS WORKSHOPIn this paper we describe 6 of the 8 experiments presented at the 2000 national educators workshop which will bepresented at the ASEE ConferenceThese papers are:1) Experiments in Liquid Crystals: Different States and Devices by James V. Masi, Northeast Center for Telecommunications Technologies, Springfield, MA 011052) Lab Manual & Resources for Materials Science, Engineering and Technology on CD-ROM by James A. Jacobs & Alfred E. McKenney, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 235043) Dielectric Behavior of Trichloroethane and Chlorobenzene as a Function of Temperature at 10.1 GHz by J. N. Dahiya Southeast Missouri State University and J.A

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Retention and Recruitment of Students for the University of Houston-Downtown Engineering Technology Department from Sources Other than High Schools Prof. Harry Franz, P.E.1 University of Houston- Downtown Member ASEE, IEEE, ISAAbstractThe preponderance of students in the Engineering Technology (ET) department ofthe University of Houston- Downtown (UHD) does not come directly from HighSchools. In fact, they almost all come from other sources, which makes the UHDET Department an excellent model for obtaining and keeping students fromsources other

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Vipin Kumar; Margaret Wheeler; Gregory Branch

Mechanical Engineer inCalifornia, has won two national design contests, and holds five patents.VIPIN KUMARVipin Kumar joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle in 1988 aftercompleting a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to that he worked 10years in the field of piping systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Rhode Island. For thepast three years he has led the Learning by Design part of the University of Washington ECSEL project.MARGARET WHEELERMargaret Wheeler holds a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and is currently in the MSME degree program atthe University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focus is in renewable energy

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have their work evaluated bypractitioners rather than faculty. In addition, they are encouraged to confront the interplaybetween various technical and non-technical factors that must be considered to achieve a feasibleand successful design.The WERC contest has been incorporated into the senior capstone design experience for studentsin the Tufts ABET-accredited BSCE and BSEvE programs. The contest has also provided avenue for non-engineering students from the liberal arts college to participate in and contribute toan upper level engineering course (for academic credit). We have found this to be an enrichingexperience for both the engineering and non-engineering students participating in the contest.In this paper we reflect upon the involvement

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minority students (mostly black) wereagain found to receive lower ratings and give higher ratings than non-minority students. (“L&OI” refers to this study.) In an effort to eliminate the observed racial bias, the instrument for peerevaluation and the administration of it were modified in the present study and in a second study Page 6.778.1by Layton and Ohland (The study parameters for the second study by Layton and Ohland (“L&O Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII”) are included in

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creative travel considerations can be very effective in keeping costs low. C. Time Many of our technical students participate in career related summer employment or internships. An exchange trip should not intrude excessively into this time. Central Michigan University (CMU) has many different types of international experiences available to the students. They range from yearlong residence programs to one-week visits. The CMU Industrial and Engineering Technology (IET) department has found that their students are most favorably inclined to a three-week experience, maximum. This gives them a solid feel for the culture they are visiting, the visit peaks before getting boring, and it does not consume too much of their summer employment

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University, San Luis Obispo. He also serves as Director forthe Advanced Technologies Laboratory. He received a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from RensselaerPolytechnic Institute in 1973 and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. Page 6.494.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

the wrong solutionbecause they do not understand the context in which they do their work. How will theyknow of that danger unless their education has exposed them to the notions of culturalcontext, appropriate technology, bilingualism, and biculturalism? As educators, we havethe responsibility to expose as many budding engineers and scientists to the realities ofwork life internationally as we can and give them sufficient credit to motivate them to go.The lessons will stick with some and enrich their lives, but the impact they can make as aresult will be multiplied many fold. Page 6.445.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Randall Musselman

than technology.2 Project DescriptionThe project consisted of designing, simulating, and building antennas suitable for directionfinding. To make the experiment fun as well as insightful, there was also an operationalelement to the project. The students had to use their antennas to locate a 500-mW hidden Page 6.35.2transmitter, operating at a frequency near 146 MHz, in less than fifty minutes. The trans- Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: Parade Field at

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property of the educational institution.As technology has eroded the physical borders between countries the need has arisen to protectauthors of intellectual property from foreign parties using it without permission. Foreign nationshave also seen a need to protect4 their own authors from infringement by others, as suchlegislation was signed into law: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 19985 (DMCA). Thelegislation is enabling in nature and implements two 1996 World Intellectual PropertyOrganization (WIPO) Treaties, one of which is the WIPO Copyright Treaty. This treaty makestechnical amendments to U.S. copyright law; that is, to protect works subject to previous treaties

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Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Page 6.313.3Winter quarter 2000. Her motivations wereProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education (1) to reduce the amount of time spent trying to ensure consistent grading (2) to prevent good prose from overpowering poor content in her grading. (3) to test Primary Trait Analysis as an assessment technique for meeting the EC2000 requirements of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology programs.3Note that Winter quarter is the second quarter in the two-quarter UO Lab sequence. This secondquarter is also offered during Spring quarter.Developing the grading sheets was time-consuming because the task was

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history. Page 6.633.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 20001, American Society for Engineering EducationHealthView for Diabetes 13 provides information on how people with diabetes can use thesoftware to improve their diabetes therapy.Mellitus Manager 14 The software provides analysis tools to help patients get a handle onblood sugar readings.3. Artificial Intelligence and DiabetesThe medical field was one of the first testing grounds for Artificial Intelligence (ExpertSystems) technology. MYCIN 15, NURSExpert 1, CENTAUR, DIAGNOSER, MEDI andGUIDON 16

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wantproblems to solve, money to cover all of the expenses of solving these problem, andcomplete autonomy, free of any restrictions, to make all of the decisions about theresearch process and the research direction. In addition, the universities then want Page 6.980.1ownership of the research results in order to be able to license them. The expected“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”licensee is often the sponsor who paid for the research in the first place. Attached to thelicense to use the research results is one special

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Robert Hendricks

B.Met.E (1959) and his Ph.D. (1964) from Cornell University and an M.B.A. (1985) fromthe University of Tennessee. He joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in 1986 following seventeen years at Oak RidgeNational Laboratory and six years with Technology for Energy Corporation. Dr. Hendricks is a Fellow of the AAASand the APS. He may be reached at robert.hendricks@vt.edu. Page 6.189.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Willie Ofosu

Administration (NTIA), October 20006. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition, 19967. In Defense of Affirmative Action, Barbara Bergman, New York, Basic Books, 1996, pp. 53-9Willie K. OfosuWillie K. Ofosu is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Telecommunications EngineeringTechnology program at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, where he teaches telecommunicationsand electronic engineering. His research interests are in RF components and antennas,and he is extending his interests to include Information Technology. He contributed to theInformation Sciences and Technology program currently running at Penn State campuses.He is an advocate of diversity in the educational environment. His work involvespartnerships with some industries in