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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

to beanswered, which constitutes the inquiry for the next session. From this list, each student choosesan area that s/he will research and report back to the group. This self-directed learning phaseinvolves tracking down the resources necessary to answer the identified questions, digesting thematerial and bringing information back into the group. This cycle of finding and developingknowledge, bringing it into the problem space, identifying new learning issues and research isrepeated until a solution is reached. Undergraduate students, however, rarely have sufficientexperience in locating appropriate materials to answer the evolving questions. Their search skillsare generally poor; they have no experience reading journal articles and they

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Blowers

materials in non-static formats are just two ways to make supplemental Web-basedmaterials useful.References:1) Short, N. M., "Asynchronous distance educations: a five step approach to eliminate onlint problems before theyhappen", The Journal, 28, 56-65 (2000).2) King, K. P., "Course development on the World Wide Web", New Directions for Adult and Cont. Educ., 78, 25-32 (1998).3) Walters, R. F., and N. E. Reed, "Outcome analysis of distance learning: a comparison between conventional andindependent study instruction", http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/monograph/CD/Science_Mathematics4) Collins, M., "Comparing Web, correspondence and lecture version s of a second-year non-major biology course",British J. Educ. Technol., 31, 21-27 (2000).5) Escoe, G. M

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Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sarah Williamson; Fiona Lamb

Session 1460 Desires of industry, products from academia - Ships that pass in the night? R Eley, S Williamson, F Lamb LTSN Engineering, Loughborough University, UKIntroduction. The UK-wide Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) was launched in January2000 following a British Government review of existing learning and teaching initiatives inhigher education (HE). Recognition that academics best appreciate, assimilate and implement apedagogic approach when presented to them in the context of their own discipline, resulted in

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Manufacturing Processes and Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Matsson

Page 7.896.5 8. Chandrasekhar, S., "Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability". Dover (1981). Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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Steven Krumholz; Steve Schiffman; Sean Munson; John Bourne; James Krejcarek; Dan Lindquist; Susan Fredholm

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographic Information1. Adams, S. G. , The effectiveness of the e-team approach to invention and innovation,Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 90, No. 4, p. 597-600, 2001.2. Marchese, A. J. , Schmalzel, J., Mandayam, S, and Chen, J., A venture capital fund forundergraduate engineering students at Rowan University, Journal of Engineering Education,Vol 90, No. 4, p. 589-596, 2001.3. Miller, S. J., Doshi, R. , Milroy, J., and Yock, P. G., Early Experiences in Cross-DisciplinaryEducation in Biomedical Technology Innovation at Stanford University, Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol 90, No. 4, p. 585-588, 20014

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

, which involve software,presentation format, and evaluation. Each course has specific developmental needs from accessto simulation software to the development of web-based access to the VLCT tester.VIII. Bibliography[1]. J. England, 1998 International Reliability Physics Symposium Keynote Address.[2]. CISM X2000 Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, http://cism.jpl.nasa.gov.[3]. S. Tabatabaei, A. Ivanov, “Built-in current monitor for testing analog circuits,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst., paper 15.8, Orlando, FL, 1999.[4]. S. Chakrabarti, A. Chatterjee, “Fault modeling and fault sampling for isolating faults in analog and mixed- signal circuits,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst., paper 73.7, Orlando, FL, 1999.[5]. J. Hou, A

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

defined the direction and scope ofsubsequent education policy and research in terms of gender equity. In 1964, Congress passedthe Civil Rights Act, which, among other things, prohibited racial discrimination in education.As a part of this Act, Congress also commissioned a national study to determine the extent ofracial inequality in terms of access to educational opportunity. With the passage of Title IX, in1972, discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions and programs was alsoprohibited, but, unlike the 1964 Civil Rights Act, no research to examine sex discrimination wasincluded in the legislation. In the early 1980’s, national concern about the growing shortage ofscientists and engineers gave rise to policy initiatives

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Marvin Harris; Kevin Dahm

concern. Since the exercisewas active and followed by a discussion rather than a lecture it is expected that students willretain more of the information.REFERENCES(1) Pintar, A. J. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, NC, 1999.(2) Flynn, A. M.; Reynolds, J.; Theodore, L. Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, 2001.(3) Bell, J. T.; Fogler, H. S. Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, 2001.(4) Pintar, A. J.; Fisher, E. R.; Schulz, K. H. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, 2001.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONKATHRYN A. HOLLAR is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manoj Patankar

Session 1675 Personal-Professional Development: A Formula for Success on the Tenure Track Manoj S. Patankar San Jose State UniversityAbstractMost universities in the United States measure the performance of their tenure-track faculty inthree areas: teaching, research, and service. This paper presents a “formula,” based on personalexperience, which would enable new faculty to better prepare themselves for success on thetenure-track. The central construct of this formula is an understanding of the various factors thatcan positively

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Demel

of the freshmanprograms, a summary of changes accomplished, and the retention statistics for the College ofEngineering.IntroductionIn 1988, at The Ohio State University the retention of engineering students to the junior yearranged between 40 and 50 percent. See Figure 1. This followed the national norms. In the early1990’s the Ohio State College of Engineering became part of the NSF funded GatewayEngineering Education Coalition. The other members of the Coalition were Drexel University,Columbia University, Cooper Union, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University ofPennsylvania, University of South Carolina, and Florida International University. One focus ofthe Coalition’s efforts was to improve retention to the junior year by using

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Prasanta Kalita; Peter Lyne; Loren Bode; Alan Hansen

continuing.References1. Bindon, J. P., 1999. The micro steam car, an all embracing practical and theoretical design Project. The International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education 27(3): 181-194.2. Bindon, J. P., Kaiser, I. and Powell, N., 1996. The micro steam car, technology education by participation. Proc. Third International Conference of the Third World Science, Technology and Development Forum, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.3. Ambrose, S. A. and Amon, C. H., 1997. Systematic design of a first year mechanical engineering course at Carnegie Mellon University. Journal of Engineering Education 86(2): 173-181.4. Butterfield, R., 1997. Benefit without cost in a mechanics laboratory. Journal of Engineering

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Dessert; Subramaniam Ganesan

press, ISBN 0-8186-6537-85. Java for Embedded System, by Ingo Cyliax, Circuit Cellar magazine, December 2000 and January 2001.6. Real Time JVM, New Monics Inc., www.newmonics.com7. Jworks, Windriversystems, Inc, www.wrs.com8. Java Chip, ajile systems inc., www.ajile.com9. Valvano, “ Embedded microcontroller system- real time interfacing” Brooks/Cole publisher10. Ronald Jurgen “ Automotive Handbook”, McGrawHill Handbook, second edition.11. Joseph Lemiux, “Programming in the OSEK/VDX environment”, CMP Books, ISBN 1-57820-081-4, 2001.12. www.real-time.org ---- for articles by Jensen13. www. Thinkingnerds.com/projects/rto s-ws/presentation.html14. WWW.arcom.control.com/prodcutsBiographyDR. SUBRAMANIAM GANESAN, is a Professor in the

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Smith

Page 7.799.8 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”resources developed via the original Digital Libraries Initiative, its successor, DLI -2, and thenewer NSDL, topics related solely to Aerospace Engineering have been extremely hard to find.Utilization of the material found in these Digital Libraries have resulted in the ease of providingdata for design projects, opportunities to examine research data, and applet s to understandphysical concepts.VIII. References1. Labaree, D. F., “Educational Researchers: Living with a Lesser Form of Knowledge,” Educational Researcher, Vol. 27

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Said Oucheriah; Abul Azad

kinetic, potential and dissipated energies. Thus, using the Hamiltonian’s Page 7.415.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”extended method, the dynamic equation of the flexible manipulator with the associatedboundary and initial conditions can be expressed as 2 ¶ 4 y(x, t) ¶ 2 y(x, t) ¶ 3 y(x, t) EI + r - D S = t (t) (2) ¶x 4 ¶t 2 ¶x 2 ¶t 2

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Carpick

.· The student is then required to answer the question within a reasonable amount of time (usually two minutes). The student is encouraged to “think aloud” on the board..· The student first tries to answer the question alone. Modest hints may be given by the instructor, and limited dialogue between the student and instructor may take place.· If the student is stumped s/he can “ask the audience”, whereby the audience votes but does not comment on which answer they prefer. The votes are recorded by the instructor on the blackboard. The student is then asked to provide their “FINAL ANSWER.”· If the student did not “ask the audience”, then a poll is taken after the student has submitted their answer, to gage the class’ response

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Nelson; David Flegel; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

voltage waveform zero crossings as shown in Figure 3.An innovative dynamic hysteresis method and an error-reduction algorithm operated on the “firstsignal” and “second signal” values to improve accuracy to within specifications. A secondaryzero-detection, based on current zero crossings, used the same innovations to provide timingsignals after fault initiation, when primary zero detection was lost. Gate drivers were purchasedfrom Enerpro, a decision that saved much design time and gave superbly reliable and accurategating of the thyristors that carried the fault current. Details of this are presented in [1].A software interface was written that allowed the user to enter in the fault data desired and thecommand to start the fault(s). This was

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Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brian Thompson; Craig Somerton

Session 2625 Community Outreach for Capstone Design: The Cycle Projects Craig W. Somerton and Brian S. Thompson Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA current trend in engineering education is the incorporation of a service learning experience.One such example is the EPICS program at Purdue, which involves the volunteer work ofengineering students in the community [1]. Another approach, proposed herein, is to utilize thesenior capstone design experience in community outreach. This approach has been taken duringthe past three years in the mechanical engineering senior

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronaldo Luna

undergraduate students with faculty, • expand the level of research activity on the campus, • help recruit superior students into graduate programs, and • demonstrate that teaching and research are compatible and mutually reinforcing.The faculty agrees to supervise the undergraduate student as junior colleagues in their researchprojects, both during the summer session and during the academic year. The faculty member andstudent provide brief synopses of potential research project(s) to the office of academic affairsvia the departmental coordinators. The student signs the two-page proposal and commits tocomplete the research in the form of a scientific paper (see actual proposal, Appendix 1). If thestudent is awarded the OURE project

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

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Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Page 7.1118.2the system Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1. Operation of TEEHouse ******************************************************* * TEEHOUS: Thermal Environmental Engineering * * HOUSe * * Version 2.2 * * Copyright 2000 Craig W. Somerton * * Scott S. Strawn * * Wayne Thelen * * Dan Lewis

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Craddock; Lizette Chevalier

viable solutions.AcknowledgementThis project is funded in part from the National Science Foundation (DUE - CCLI ProjectNumber 9952577), the College of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC),the Department of Civil Engineering at SIUC, the Materials Technology Department and theCollege of Mass Communication and Media Arts at SIUC.Bibliography1. Kohli, G., Maj, S. P., and Veal, D., “Multi-media Technology - An Opportunity for Modern Engineering Education,” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, St. Louis, MO, June 18- 21, 2000.2. Yew, Tze-Leong, and Gramoll, Kurt “Teaching Multimedia Development to Engineering Students through Web- Based Modules.” American Society for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Bell

there is a match,the results are stored in a temporary data file. When all of the combinations have beenprocessed, the system then attempts to find the most likely candidate for the error.In the first round of error checking, the system is only trying to find the terms that mustbe in error - not necessarily explain the error(s) to the student. Thus, the system scans thetemporary file for the shortest error. This is the most likely candidate for the error. Thereasoning behind this is that if a student has entered an incorrect solution, then the entireexpression is obviously incorrect, but knowing that is trivially useless. The goal it to findthe smallest set of errors that produce the same result as the student’s mathematicalexpression.An

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Bell

student's entry, as well as the correct entry provided by theproblem designer. Both expressions are evaluated numerically. When there is a match,the results are stored in a temporary data file. When all of the combinations have beenprocessed, the system then attempts to find the most likely candidate for the error.In the first round of error checking, the system is only trying to find the terms that mustbe in error - not necessarily explain the error(s) to the student. Thus, the system scans thetemporary file for the shortest error. This is the most likely candidate for the error. Thereasoning behind this is that if a student has entered an incorrect solution, then the entireexpression is obviously incorrect, but knowing that is trivially useless

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Nestor

andsuggestions for future work.2. BackgroundAlgorithm animation and software visualization have been used in teaching softwarealgorithms for a number of years. In the mid-1980’s Brown and Sedgewick developedthe BALSA system4 as a framework for software algorithm animation and used thisframework in courses at Brown University. More recently, many other systems havebeen developed that extend and improve upon this work; a good overview is provided in5.BALSA and similar systems animate software algorithms by presenting views - graphicalrenderings of data structures and execution history. As an animation proceeds, theposition, shape, and color of objects in the view are changed to illustrate data structurechanges, plot historical information about execution

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

Session 3563 The Engineering Economics Case Study at Greenfield Coalition Francis E. Plonka, Diane M. Schuch-Miller, Syed Khusro Azmat, Pratap S. Murthy, Snehamay Khasnabis, R. Darin Ellis Wayne State University/Greenfield Coalition/Wayne State University/ Wayne State University/Wayne State University/Wayne State UniversityAbstract -The Greenfield Coalition (GC) located at the Focus:HOPE Center for AdvancedTechnologies (CAT) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) offers aManufacturing Engineering Program that integrates academic work with manufacturing skillslearned in the workplace

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux

participants who had similar academic performance characteristics atthe time of first semester registration.II. Math Bridge ProgramBridge begins the Sunday one week before the fall semester begins. Students move into theirassigned first year housing and register for the program Sunday afternoon. The programofficially starts Sunday at 6 pm and concludes on Friday at 3 pm following the completion of theMA 151 credit exam. A summary of the program schedule is shown in Table 1. The breadth ofmath topics covered in the program is equivalent to that taught in MA 151. Math topics timeslots were broken into a series of mini lectures that introduce math concept(s) and group problemsolving sessions in which teams of four worked on a series of math problems

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christine Masters; Renata Engel

Session 2368 Spicing up Statics Lectures with Concept Questions and ‘Around Town’ Assignments Christine B. Masters, Renata S. Engel Engineering Science and Mechanics Department The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractConcept questions and ‘around town’ assignments were incorporated into Penn State’sintroductory statics course during the Fall 2001 semester in an attempt to reinforce key concepts,catch student’s attention, provide in-class feedback, and extend textbook work to ‘real world’applications without major changes to the

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Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Hess

are required and what systems ofproduction are used leading up to the finished commercial product(s). In the Manufacturing Processes course, by way of the hands-on teaching approach, the solidmodeling and reverse engineering elements provide the stimulus for student learning. Solidmodeling manufacturing and the reverse engineering projects provide the learning adhesive thatunifies all of the course concepts and are the course centerpieces. They provide the transfer oflearning from course topic to topic. The following pages outline how the ManufacturingProcesses course is organized using the hands-on approaches of solid modeling and reverseengineering.II. FacilityTwo large materials manufacturing laboratories, one small solid object processing

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nancy Hubing

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationexample shown in Figure 2, where all possible equilibrium equations are provided and thestudent selects the appropriate equation(s) for implementing the step. For classroomimplementation, all of the frame analysis modules discussed in this section are specific to asingle topic, and each one only takes a few minutes to complete in the statics classroom.IV. Shear and Bending Moment DiagramsOne key to successful analysis of beams involves determining the distribution of internal shearforce and bending moment for the beam. The ability to accurately sketch the shear force andbending moment diagrams using

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jose Fierro; Daniel Grajeda; Steve Stafford; Rosa Gomez

Copyrightã2002, American Society for Engineering Educationa dynamic facility through motivation, innovation, and the desire to be a positive part of thestudent support process - everybody wins. Those who frequent the facilities receive the highestquality of service, and the students who manage the Centers learn and practice the essential skillsof teamwork, accountability, and ownership before they graduate from this university. Students,who care about the level of excellence that they produce in college, will no doubt be equipped tooffer that, and much more to any organization that they join after college. This is why ACES is aliving model for student support.References[1]. L. Floyd, E. Ruiz, S. W. Stafford, and C. Romero, “Academic Center for Engineers

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Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Neil Opfer; Jaeho Son; Thomas Korman

to facilitate the construction needs of their own trade.During coordination meetings, the participating specia lty contractors compare preliminaryrouting for their systems to identify and resolve conflicts. They typically overlay transparentdesign drawings on a light table. The SCOPE method continues until all interferences areresolved. This often requires preparing section views for highly congested areas to identifyinterferences. They also decide which contractor(s) will revise their design and submit requestsfor information (RFI) regarding problems that require an engineering resolution. The product ofthis process is a set of coordinated shop drawings that the participants submit to the designengineer for approval.Upon completion of the