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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

theProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1526supercritical fluid solution, and to ensure there is no liquid phase present. The objectives of thismodule are (1) to determine the solubility of a drug in supercritical CO2 and (2) to investigate theeffect of SFT process variables such as flow rate, temperature and pressure on the mean drugparticle size.Equipment Since one of the goals of this project is to provide students with background and trainingthat would enhance their preparation for careers in

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wiggins

, material testing and surveying. II.H.2.b.(1). Baccalaureate degree curricula must include topics in contract and specifications, construction materials, construction methods, cost estimating , concrete, steel and wood, engineering economics, engineering graphics, material testing, plane surveying , scheduling, and soils and foundations and earth structures.The TC2K criteria2 for this same curriculum reads as follows: ObjectiveAn accreditable program in Construction Engineering Technology will prepare graduates withthe technical skills necessary to enter careers in construction, operation and/or maintenance ofthe

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Dillard

Circuit Analysis and Design, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (ISBN 0-13-463894-8)William C. DillardWilliam Dillard is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Auburn University.He holds M.S. and B.S.E.E degrees from Auburn University. His current research interests are teaching strategiesthat promote professionalism and career development in students as well as increase long-term retention of coursematerial. Technical interests are in the area of power electronic systems and devices. Page 7.462.10 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; Dana Burnett; Michael Warren; Rainer Fink

engineering careers, especially in mixed signal semiconductortesting.Bibliography1. Fink, R. and Porter, J. “Mixed-Signal Test Initiative in Engineering Technology,” Proc. of the 1999 Gulf Southwest ASEE Conference, Dallas, TX (March, 1999).2. Burns, M. and Roberts, G. An Introduction to Mixed-Signal IC Test and Measurement. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).MICHAEL WARRENMichael Warren graduated in December 2000 with the BS in Engineering Technology. He is currently working on hisMS in the Information and Operations Management Department at Texas A&M University. He also works as agraduate research assistant in the Virtual Instrumentation Laboratory in the Department of Engineering Technologyand Industrial Distribution.DANA

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Sutterer

students areenrolled in Mechanics of Materials, having already completed course work in EngineeringStatics and Engineering Dynamics. Thus, by the middle of their sophomore year, they haveacquired most of the tools necessary for some simple quantitative engineering system design.By the sophomore year, engineering students can also begin to experience “burnout” with theircourses and often express a desire to get on with some “real engineering.” Retention can be aparticular challenge at this stage of engineering students’ college career. Regardless of whetherretention becomes an issue, student motivation can be a problem. Students who are excitedabout the work they are doing are usually better learners, so poorly motivated students takingfundamental

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

. Disparities by social class and race/ethnicity are strongly relatedto pipeline progress in science and engineering related disciplines 7,10.This paper reports the findings from a case study conducted at the University of New Mexico(UNM), a Doctoral Intensive and a Minority/Hispanic-Serving Institution. UNM grantsundergraduate degrees in both key IT-related fields—CS and CE. Due to its proximity withnational laboratories (e.g. Sandia & Los Alamos laboratories), private industry (e.g. Intel), andthe state government, IT education at UNM offers excellent job and career opportunities for NewMexico residents, especially minorities. However, only 35% of undergraduate students enrolledin CS and 32% of those enrolled in CE are under -represented

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hilsen; David Wyrick

this course was avisiting professor who had come from a career in industry. It was offered to juniors and seniorsin Industrial Engineering and business, as well as to MBA students. The second author workedclosely with the visiting professor to design the course to maximize student learning.Interdisciplinary undergraduate teams were made of IE and business students, who arranged asmall version of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award quality assessment of localcompanies. The work with companies provided a setting in which students could observe howfirms actually worked, and the interdisciplinary teams exposed the business students to morequantitative thinking and it exposed engineering students to more of the people side than atraditional

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shehu Farinwata

. Surrounding Yourself with Previous Knowledge4 Page 7.485.54 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering Education5 ConclusionThis paper addresses a potentially disabling trend in the acquisition of engineeringknowledge at the undergraduate level, and which needs a conscious attention byengineering educators and engineering students.Bibliography 1. “Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career,” R. B. Landis, Discovery Press, 2000. 2. “Mentoring Engineering Students: Turning Pebbles into Diamonds,” ASEE

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

project. Many of these projects take place at WPI’s Global Project Centers, located aroundthe world. The IQP is most often completed in the junior year.The final project that a WPI student must complete is a capstone design project in their major,termed the MQP (for Major Qualifying Project), which is typically completed in a st udent’ssenior year. The project is equivalent to three courses, and is designed to demonstrateapplication of disciplinary knowledge and skills in the solution of a problem similar to one thatmight be encountered early in a student’s career. In IE, these projects are almost alwayssponsored by industry, and students complete the project in teams of 2-4 students, often spendingapproximately half their time on-site. One

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Mayhew; Richard Layton

). ANSI/ISA-S51.1-1979. Instrument Society of America, Research Triangle Park, NC.JAMES E. MAYHEWJames E. Mayhew received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1999. He is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Prior to this, Dr. Mayhew was a USAir Force Officer, working in research, development, and logistics engineering for 6 years and teaching aeronauticsat the US Air Force Academy for 5 years.RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard A. Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Prior to his academic career, Dr.Layton worked in industry for twelve years

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

this year are making a point of reaching out to low income schools. They areespecially focusing on middle schools, since these students are at an impressionable ageand are already beginning to start thinking about career decisions.A young man from the Menlo-Atherton High School Botball team, a well-heeled, highachieving school in Silicon Valley was caught on video excitedly stating that as a seniorhe could say that this was the best thing he’d done in his entire time at high school - he’dlearned scheduling, teamwork, engineering, and even some project management. (Hisrobot design was truly outstanding that year.)The point is that robots are intrinsically interesting to most students, whatever theirbackground or situation, and students seem to

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Education for Engineering Educators in Developing Countriesvia Electronic Communications”, by T. J. Siller, R. C. Jones, and G. R. Johnson, in theProceedings of the 8 th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education,International Association for Continuing Engineering Education, Toronto, Canada, May2001, p. 538 – 543._______________________________________________________________________RUSSEL C. JONESRussel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of theNational Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty memberat MIT, department chair in civil

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Emery; David Mould; Carey Noland; Brian Manhire

program. The as- sessment process must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of the institution and the objectives of the program, including those listed above, are being measured. Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios, including design proj- ects; nationally-normed [sic] subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document profes- sional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data of graduates.9It is self-evident that elements of this criterion coincide with the GLC’s mission and pedagogy, and, as aresult, some collaboration between the GLC and the Ohio University’s Russ College of Engineering

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

] Based largely on life experience,these beliefs are formed early in a student’s career (perhaps even before the start of formalschooling) and become the basis for future learning via the construction of increasinglycomplicated mental models. [5] If the student’s prior knowledge is incomplete or incorrect, newconcepts are difficult if not impossible to correctly assimilate and a fundamental conceptualchange in the student’s mental model will be required before the new concept can be understood.For many traditional processes, the macroscopic models and metaphors (“heat flows”) still workwell and students must still be proficient in their use. However, given the increasing number ofengineering systems that explicitly rely upon molecular-level

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

design and could be mapped directly to ABE T A-K as well asthe AIChE requirements and other department specific goals.The difficulty arose when the discussion turned to student portfolios. As Rogers (4)observes, there is no one correct way to design a portfolio process. Essentially everyoneagreed that a portfolio should contain representative samples of student work gatheredprimarily from courses taken in the junior and senior years. The ABET educationalobjectives are summative rather than formative in nature, so the faculty decided to foc uson work generated near the end of the student’s undergraduate career. A variety of Page 7.991.1assignments

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

from several points of view. In addition to the technical perspective,technology leaders need to think like an entrepreneur, like an executive and like a salesperson. Thinking like an Entrepreneur Everyone is the sole proprietor of his or her own career. When thinking about any innovation, one must build a passion for that idea. There are many challenges, and many “obstacles” to overcome. (One entrepreneur recently defined an obstacles as ”what you see when you lose sight of your vision”). Passion is needed to maintain momentum. Thinking like an Executive To communicate effectively with executives, one must learn to think like an executive. How does the new idea fit into the Vision, Mission and Values of the organization? What

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

University ofNotre Dame. Before beginning her teaching career, she worked in product and materials development forautomotive position sensors, switches, multilayer circuits, and sliding electric contacts. Page 7.834.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Aik Mon; Harold Broberg

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationV. SummaryAn Web-based Lab system, consisting of multiple Web servers, legacy Web servers, I/O,hardware and sensor modules was designed and used to support the distance learning courseentitled Web Programming for Industrial Applications for the past three semesters. ThisWeb-based Lab provided students with an opportunity to acquire new knowledge that mighthelp their careers and prepare students for jobs in challenging areas of the Internet, computernetworking, Web programming, and industrial control and automation. Students were able tolearn Web control technologies and

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang

improved teaching of the departmental undergraduate and graduatecourses on instrumentation and control and enhanced student team projects in thesecourses. The curriculum developed by the interdisciplinary team has offered BAEstudents opportunities of a systematic education in the subject area of embedded systemdesign. The embedded-system design curriculum has helped two BAE graduate studentsenhance the quality of their dissertation research. The research experience obtained by anundergraduate student through this project has greatly helped him in improving hisproblem-solving skills and preparing him for future career. These benefits would nothave been possible without cooperation among faculty members with expertise indifferent

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Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Nadel; Daniel Walsh

apparatus. Our hope is to make our labcentered experience available to more students at more times.Video-Teleconferencing Center. The video-teleconferencing center is used by groups ofstudents working on thesis or senior project efforts. It is typically used in formal design reviewsessions, but is also used to solve immediate, pressing challenges students have in real time.Usually, these are hardware specific problems best discussed while examining the component.Written Communications Laboratory. Many studies have indicated that communication skills,as manifested in speech or the written word, are essential to the career progression of engineeringprofessionals. The senior project is a integral part of the Cal Poly educational experience, but

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abraham Michelen

Technology professor at Hudson Valley Community College inTroy, New York. He received his Ph. D. in 2000 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutein Troy, New York. Abraham main interests are in Petri Nets, Computer Simulations,and Computer Programming. In addition to is teaching career, Abraham is aDevelopment Engineer with the Internet Company GlobalSpec, Inc.(www.globalspec.com) in Troy, New York. Page 7.385.16 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

the Illinois Inst. of Tech. He is a licensed PE in IN and IL. Prior to joining Purdue Univ. Calumet, hehad a civil engineering career at Inland Steel Co. Prof. Bennett has held administrative and teaching positions atPurdue. While at Purdue, he has been a civil eng. consultant and an expert witness within the internationalcommunity. Page 7.818.8 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

emphasize the relevance of studying materials to students: § Justify the importance of materials to society § Continually impress on students, what is the point of doing this? § Materials selection, manufacture and design challenge is intrinsically rewarding § Stress the wide range of career opportunities that the study of materials affords § Use graduate profiles to remind students that the course is worthwhile.4) Giving realistic feedback to students is crucial to motivating students: § A good personal tutor system can make a significant contribution here § Use assessment to check for understanding not rote learning.5) Interactive teaching helps increase motivation: § Introduce fun things to do and real examples of

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brow; Carol Click

familiarizing thestudents with equipment and processing that they will use throughout their time at UMR and intheir careers as ceramic engineers. A listing of specific exercises in the sophomore laboratoryclasses is given in Table 2. During the second semester, two of the exercises have strong designelements. The purpose of this paper is to describe these exercises in more detail. The designaspects will be highlighted, and the relation of the exercises to other courses in the curriculumand the specific experimental skills needed for each experiment will be discussed.Table 1. The Ceramic Engineering laboratory sequence at University of Missouri-Rolla. Year Semester Course/Number FocusSophomore Fall

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amyl Ghanem

Circle, but consideringtheir schedules and the limited benefits to them, it was decided that we would bring in guests asnecessary. Some possibilities are: students who can speak on their experiences, researchers whoare acknowledged to be successful mentors, individuals with specific expertise (ex.library/literature search, computing, and statistics).Defining “mentoring”Many definitions of mentoring exist. After research and discussion, the following definition waschosen:“Mentors are advisors, people with career experience willing to share their knowledge;supporters, people who give emotional and moral encouragement; tutors, people who givespecific feedback on one’s performance; masters, in the sense of employers to whom one isapprenticed

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Yuille

formulate the process ofhow a project becomes a SPEED project. This group will also evaluate the existing SPEEDteams to determine eligibility for continued SPEED support. An alumni survey is in the works to evaluate how SPEED has helped prepare Clarksongraduates for their careers. Clarkson is also interested in surveying corporate recruiters to findout how project participation has factored into the hiring of SPEED participants e.g. the studentsare more attractive, they have higher starting salaries, they advance quicker. There is also a discussion to develop an interdisciplinary SPEED course. This coursewould be required for all SPEED participants. Topics to be presented would include teambuilding, leadership, project management, and

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Treva Fitts; Susan Wynn; Martha Absher; Kristen Ford; Judy Russell; Glenda Kelly; Adefolakemi Oni; Gary Ybarra

) routinely administered by the Durham Public Schools at the end of eachyear. Repeated measures design analyses will compare student achievement over the course of 3years comparing progress of students receiving GE Fund Fellows instruction with a matchedcontrol group. (2) To assess students’ attitudes about math, science and engineering concepts andinterest in pursuit of a career in science or math two sets of questionnaires will be utilized. Thefirst is composed of student attitude questions taken from the National Assessment ofEducational Progress and The International Math and Science Study. The second set ofquestionnaires was developed by our program evaluation team and co nsists of a pre/post Mathand separate Science Survey with separate forms

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

. 4.Design and conducttheir own experiments as well as analyze and interpret data. 5.Improve their skill in using moderntools necessary for mechanical engineering practice. 6.Demonstrate an ability to design a systemthat meets speed and reliability requirements. 7.Develop their ability to communicate effectivelyand work in teams. These are current mechanical engineering program curricular educationaloutcomes.The specific knowledge of DC motor PWM control, vehicle and ball interaction dynamics,mechanical and electrical characteristics of sensors, and robotic vision as used to control motionwill likely have wide application in their later careers. After the competition, later laboratoryexperience requires the students to develop virtual

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiaoguang Yang; Chika Nwankpa; Anthony Madonna; Karen Miu

SummerMeeting, Vancouver CA, July.16-21, 2001.[8] T. Gonen, "Electric Power Distribution System Engineering," McGraw Hill, New York NY, 1986. IX. BIOGRAPHIESKAREN MIU received her B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University,Philadelphia, PA. She was awarded an NSF Career Award in 2000 and the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. Herresearch and teaching interests include power distribution system analysis and control.CHIKA O. NWANKPA (S’88-M’90) received the Magistr Diploma in Electric Power Systems from Leningrad PolytechnicalInstitute

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter

for industrial workcell-based projects, whilein the winter quarter 2000 all teams opted for Stamp-based projects. At the conclusion of thewinter quarter 2000, it became very clear that micro-controller-based micro-robotics might bethe direction of choice for the future of our course. The fall quarter of 2001 again confirmed thatstudents find micro-controllers more fun, more reliable, more flexible, and more appropriate fortheir careers than large industrial robots. At the end of this quarter, we removed all industrialrobots except the Adept robots, and another major restructuring of the course was undertaken.Two new Stamp labs were included, and all Stamp lectures were moved up to the beginning ofthe course in order to give students as much