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Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Lee

permeating the future professionalpractice of engineering. Defining and achieving desired objectives in humanities education isformidable for undergraduate students in general. At one extreme, there are so-calledtraditionalists who hold the position that all “educated” individuals should demonstrate a masteryof specified topics (for example, Greek classics), with the topics more or less representing theentire history of western civilization. Examples of adherents of this position are Allen Bloomand Ed Hirsch, academics who have authored the controversial books The Closing of theAmerican Mind 1 and Cultural Literacy 2 respectively. Traditionalist curriculums tend to be veryhomogenous, with minimum flexibility regarding course selection. Taking an

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

Page 7.32.9  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinclude the preservation of consistency between component interfaces as well as correctbehavior. System-level integration and test is an enormous task since it evolves the entire system,external interfaces and the environment. To address these issues in the curriculum, we will placean emphasis on the following two approaches: incremental integration with progressive andsystemic testing, and white-box testing of temporal properties.Various integration strategies have been investigated since 1970’s with the most effectivetechnique being incremental integration, either bottom-up or top-down approaches. To performincremental integration and progressive test at

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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

future courses. Within the chemical engineering curriculum it is natural to weave the tools of greenengineering throughout the curriculum. A good starting point is with an introduction toenvironmental regulations followed by the tools for risk assessment. We believe thatgreen engineering can be easily coupled with what is currently being taught in a chemicalengineering curriculum. The following table is a summary of green engineering activitiesthat can be incorporated into a chemical engineering curriculum. Following this table is adiscussion of the attempts of Rowan University to integrate green engineering throughoutthe curriculum.Integration of Green Engineering in the Chemical Engineering CurriculumFreshman Engineering Clinic

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Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa

domain analyses. On the digital side, simulatorsare available for testing integrated circuits, programmable logic device (PLD) circuits, and discrete logiccircuits. The EET program at Texas A&M focuses on two of these tools. The analog course sequencecurrently performs simulations with Cadence’s ORCAD PSpice while the digital course sequence usesAltera’s MaxPlusII PLD software. Fortunately, most simulator tools are comparable in form andfunction, so it would not be difficult to extend the processes discussed here to other tools.The basic concept is presented in the block diagram in Figure 1. Using a virtual instrumentation toolsuch as National Instruments’ LabVIEW, an integrated measurement and simulation tool can bedeveloped. By using a

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CE Projects: International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ravi Srinivasan; Dennis Fukai; Fazil Najafi

beyond traditional topics to an examination of customer service,ethics, use of technology, environmental responsibilities, and legal requirements. Theresponsibilities of the public works manager are becoming increasingly diverse. This paperexplores the role of Public Works as an integral part of the society in incorporating entrepreneurskills to graduate students. This paper also details the Graduate Public Works Division at theDepartment of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida and various courses offeredunder the graduate program.1. IntroductionPublic works engineering, management and infrastructure is a pervasive part of every aspect ofurbanized life, and increasingly impacts the human and nature. The scale of

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Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Arora; Fariborz Asadian; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

software. The lab also includes two experimental set-ups thatcan be fully controlled, monitored and operated by computer systems using virtualinstrumentation technology. They also feature on-line capabilities that allow users to operatethem remotely through the Internet.The new curriculum has positively impacted our existing programs in many respects. For thefirst time, our students have been able to perform applied research in their fields of engineeringand science and publish/present their findings in a national scientific conference. In addition, thelab has been utilized as an instructional facility in teaching of a number of courses inmathematics, physics and engineering.This paper describes the efforts undertaken with respect to curriculum

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Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

have foundalternative paths to the employment market that are less demanding – such as computerscience, integrated technology programs, and business programs. Another major factor isthat the technology job market for engineering graduates has been far less attractive inrecent years, compared with the hot market during the big growth years of the electronicand telecommunications fields.The first of these factors, difficulty of the course of study in engineering, has beenaddressed somewhat effectively by many engineering schools. Having been criticized byseveral major reports a decade ago, the engineering curriculum has been modified atmany schools to make it more attractive, effective, and student-friendly. Changes such asinversion of the

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

and competencies can be integrated easily in casestudies. Most importantly, case studies can make classroom learning an enjoyable experience.The use of case studies in technical education, however, has been somewhat limited. Recentlyand after recognizing the importance of case studies, engineering and technology educators aretrying to follow their counterparts in other fields. As a result, there is a growing need andinterests in work-based case studies for engineering and technology education.IV. System Approach to Problem SolvingWe, educators, often notice that most students can solve a specific task or a problem that is welldefined and directly related to topics covered in the classroom. On the other hand, most studentsfind much greater

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Carl Griffis

, American Society of Engineering Education”of documentation. The plan was intended to function like a classical feedback controlsystem, and there are multiple feedback loops to be documented.In the process of designing and refining the biological engineering program at theUniversity of Arkansas, the faculty developed several methods to summarize anddocument the integrated program and the CQI plan we envisioned. The system thenfacilitated implementation of changes suggested by various constituencies. Theusefulness of these tools provided motivation to further develop an integrated electronicdocumentation package that would meet self-study requirements of ABET. Our goal wasto collect all materials needed for the ABET Self-Study Report in electronic

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rabbitt; Douglas Christensen

undergraduate degree program in biomedical engineering at the University of Utahaccepted its first freshman class in fall 1999. An integral part of the curriculum is a sequence oftwo courses in the freshman year, Fundamentals of Bioengineering I and II, whose purpose is toexpose the students to the field of bioengineering as well as to introduce some importantscientific, engineering and physiological topics which help lay the foundation for later courses.Laboratory experiences in the form of a Major Project are included in each course. The firstsemester course covers biomechanical, bioelectrical, instrumentation and computer topics; thesecond semester covers biochemical, metabolic, cellular, and integrative (e.g., biosensors)subject material. We

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Terry; W. Vincent Wilding

of ourconstituency groups in the development of our educational plan to respond to EC2000; and 2) todescribe the new course and its educational goals and benefits for our chemical engineeringstudents.IntroductionDuring the development of an educational plan for students in the Chemical EngineeringDepartment at Brigham Young University, we, along with our faculty colleagues, identifiedseveral topics that we felt were being treated insufficiently in our curriculum.1-2 Many of thesewere listed in ABET’s Engineering Criterea 2000 as desirable student outcomes. These includedengineering ethics, industrial and laboratory safety issues, environmental concerns, leadershipand teaming principles, and other issues involving how chemical engineering

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

learner-centered pedagogy offers threeadvantages for the study of kinematics: it is consistent with the NRC key findings, it can benaturally integrated with real-time data collection using motion detectors or video analysis, and itprovides a mechanism for developing insight into both physics and calculus. Although we usegraphical analysis throughout our study of dynamics and other subjects in physics, in this paperwe will present only our work on one-dimensional kinematics. The curriculum implementationthat we will describe took place in an 11 th-grade physics class in the Brunswick School,Greenwich, CT (a college-preparatory private day school). Our major learning goals forkinematics were the following: · Given a description of one

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Migri Prucz

accreditationrequirements reflect the dynamics of the job market, with the purpose of satisfyingemerging personnel needs of the industry, as well as the career goals and interests ofengineering students. Although the ABET evaluation process is centered on the educationof students who are enrolled already in an undergraduate program, many of its elementscan benefit also the process of recruiting new engineering freshmen. The College ofEngineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) at West Virginia University (WVU) hasinitiated a formal, sustained and comprehensive effort to integrate within its recruitmentefforts selected ABET principles, guidelines, and practices. A framework of "TotalQuality Management" (TQM) is thus established for engineering recruitment

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Julia Williams

of a capstone design course. My objection here, however,relates to the current structure of most engineering programs. Requiring students to takeadditional courses in ethics may indeed help them develop a sense of social awareness.Unfortunately adding more required courses to an already requirement-heavy curriculum seemsunlikely. Engineering faculty currently argue that technical courses may be threatened by anyaddition to the curriculum; other concerns relate to personnel (hiring more faculty to teach ethicscourses) or engineering faculty development (training engineering faculty so they can include anethical dimension to their technical courses). Furthermore, ethics courses that remain separatefrom technical content, such as those that may

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Leonard Perry

. Page 7.304.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAmerican Association for Higher Education (AAHE) defines service learning as “… a methodunder which students learn and develop through thoughtfully organized service that: is conductedin and meets the needs of a community and is coordinated with an institution of highereducation, and with the community; helps foster civic responsibility; is integrated into andenhances the academic curriculum of the students enrolled; and includes structured time forstudents to reflect on the service experience.” 2The University of San Diego (USD), understanding

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

students.)The following performance outcomes were selected for discussion: c. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. f. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. Page 7.1254.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education h. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. g. An ability to communicate effectively. l. An understanding of the integrated, broad nature of the

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Randy Lewis

times led tothe scheduling difficulty.Changes implemented. Due to the difficulty in the number of students on a team, team sizes forthe current competition have been reduced to six. Tasks are now defined throughout thesemester to help the teams find more time to integrate. The sophomore students have also beengiven greater responsibilities in the safety and environmental aspects of the competition.Assessment methods. Evaluations by the instructors with regards to teamwork during the posterpresentation and car competition will be the primary assessment tools. Each team member willalso provide an evaluation of his/her team members. In addition, judges of the postercompetition (other than the course instructors) will provide evaluations of the

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

Development (EMD) proposal from the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) to purchase additional laboratory equipment and supplies as well as to supportthe development of a web-based laboratory manual and the conversion of the existing VHS-format laboratory instruction video to DVD-format (DUE-0127279, “Integrating GenomicsResearch into the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum in Environmental Engineering.”) Thelong-term goals identified in this NSF project include national dissemination through appropriatecommercial distribution as well as an expansion of the existing course to include undergraduatestudents from related disciplines such as biomedical engineering and chemical engineering.Broader implications of the course.In what degree of detail should

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

description of the newcourse and the factors considered in its scheduling are discussed. The events affecting the timingof course topics is discussed, including registration dates, advising needs, and the coordinationwith other courses such chemistry and calculus.IntroductionClemson’s General Engineering program has coordinated the common first-year engineeringcurriculum since 1985. 1 A closer relationship with the sciences has developed as a result of areorganization that created the College of Engineering and Science in 1995. 2 Most recently, thisrelationship led to the addition of introductory science content and perspective to theIntroduction to Engineering course to create an Introduction to Engineering and Science course. 3The course in this

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dennis Field

positions with superior performance over thecourse of a semester. Faculty members—one each from the Colleges of Business, Education, andEngineering—provide support to students during their work in the Laboratory. The faculty alsoteam-teach an undergraduate Business Administration course (BusAd 392) associated with theBusiness Lab experience. The course is offered in seminar format and is comprised ofinstructional components (see Table 1) designed to provide students with some of the skills theyrequire for technological problem solving, innovation, and integration. Table 1: Instructional components Team Skills Faculty Marketing Research Methodology

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

contain learning objectives, a justification,student exercises and assignments, and an instructor’s guide, require three 50-minute classperiods and can be integrated into a standard engineering course. We tested each module in aclassroom setting with a diverse group of engineering students. Using before and after modulesurveys, the students indicated their agreement with statements concerning their confidence intheir ability to do specific tasks derived from the module’s learning objectives using a five-pointscale (1 for “Strongly Disagree” to 5 for “Strongly Agree”). We also obtained analogous datawith a control group not involved in the instruction. In 13 of the 15 modules, the data showed animprovement in the students’ confidence to perform

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

breath of the course content, without an overallemphasis on integrating the pieces, the course could come across as four separate and unrelatedtopics. To understand another important course component, it is necessary to understand howthe Penn State University System operates. The Pennsylvania State University is composed of20 campuses spread out across the entire state. The largest of these, the University Park Campushandles approximately 50% of the incoming engineering freshman. The remaining 50% aredistributed at other locations across the state, of which the DuBois campus is one. (The systemoperates as a single integrated system in almost all respects; however, production and fabricationfacilities do not happen to be one of them.) As a result

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brian Dickson

Mastersprogrammes that had at their heart: • Promotion of subject-specific advanced engineering topics • A parallel approach to teach management practice to an engineering audience • The creation of a management role for industrial representatives in academic programmesThese Integrated Graduate Development Schemes (IGDS) cover a wide range of industriesaerospace, chemical, material science and manufacturing engineering being some of the manyrepresented in the programme. They all endeavour to meet the need for employment-based part-time learning within the context of continuing professional development, providing core andadvanced engineering knowledge & skills and encouraging a multi-disciplinary approach to thelearning

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

federal funding fortraining grants that facilitate the comprehensive education of students, the National ScienceFoundation implemented the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT)program. Catalyzed by an IGERT grant, a comprehensive graduate education and researchtraining program has been developed within the Center for Multiphase Environmental Researchat Washington State University. The program is designed to produce students who:6 • have a broad cross-disciplinary education and awareness • readily integrate interdisciplinary knowledge • work in a collaborative mode • have a global perspective • have effective communication skills, both oral and written • benefit from professional conferences

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

or the degree of accomplishment of a particular outcome. Page 7.1029.3Also, it indicates how well a particular outcome is integrated in the curriculum from Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfreshmen through senior year. Any deficiency, weakness or concern observed in thisprocess can be used as feedback to improve the quality of the program. In addition to improving the quality of a course as well as a program, the studentoutcome-portfolios are valuable exhibit materials for accreditation

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dana Knox

necessary basic knowledge of chemical engineering.4. Students will gain familiarity with chemical engineering equipment and experience in the solution of chemical engineering problems.5. Students will develop their critical-thinking and communication skills through repeated and in-depth practice.6. Students will acquire and practice the computer skills necessary for modern engineering practice.7. Students will acquire both leadership and teamwork skills.8. Students will develop an awareness of environmental, safety and pollution prevention issues and be trained to consider them as being an integral part of engineering.9. Students will be able to listen with comprehension and to write and speak confidently.10. Students will learn how to

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Harrah; Martha Cyr; Brad George

exercises.Introduction to the ClassroomThe Tufts University/Nashoba Regional School District NSF GK-12 program supportsthe inclusion of Engineering content into the curriculum of schools within that district atthe 4th through 12th grade levels. Graduate student fellows with undergraduate degrees inengineering and computer science are typically placed within a classroom in order todevelop activities that support the analysis of problems from an engineering perspective. Page 7.1208.1The subject classroom for this paper is a Technology/Engineering program at Hale Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dempster; Chee Lee

Engineering Educationappropriate and an example of these is shown in Figure 4. However, if the learningrequirement is the integration of a number of elements, then a variant of the above techniqueis used. Most realistic Thermodynamic and Fluid Mechanics based problems are tackledusing a procedural approach and require the integration of knowledge obtained from theunderstanding of the terminology, physical principles mathematical r epresentations,mathematical solution techniques etc. The teaching of these problem solving techniques takeslonger and is more complicated. However, the application of the learning cycle whereby thestudent is actively involved can similarly be applied. Figure 5 shows a typical exercise

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

- Introduction to Engineering Design, ENME 371 -Product Engineering and Manufacturing, and ENME 472 - Integrated Product and ProcessDevelopment (capstone design course). All these courses require the students to design andfabricate an object of interest. Such courses would be hard to be delivered over distance,especially if the two institutions are not within commuting distance, and hence are offered onsite, at FSU. Similarly, courses such as ENME 271 - Numerical Methods in MechanicalEngineering, ENME 331 -Fluid Mechanics, ENME 332 - Transfer Processes, ENME 350 and351 - Electronics and Instrumentation I and II, and ENME 382 - Engineering Materials andManufacturing Processes involve theory and laboratory and/or computer component. Suchcourses, once

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Beams

Session 1320 Developing Computer-Based Laboratory Instruments in a New Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Program—a Summary David M. Beams University of Texas at TylerABSTRACT: This paper describes the culmination of a two-year project which had two aims:(1) development of computer-based laboratory instruments (CLIs) consisting of LabVIEWvirtual- instrument programs coupled with custom external hardware; (2) integration of theseCLIs into the undergraduate curriculum. Students were brought into the design process whereverpossible, giving them first- hand