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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Melissa Lin; Aik Mon

based on the Call-Level Interface (CLI) specifications from X/Open andISO/IEC for database APIs and uses Structured Query Language (SQL) as its database accesslanguage.Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) technology defines representations of SQL interfaces forJava programs to access virtually any tabular data source across a wide range of SQL databases. Page 7.393.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. Web-Enabled Databases DesignThe objectives of the desired Web-based database system should

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

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B.K. Hodge

Session 2566 Alternate Energy Systems—A New Elective? B. K. Hodge Mississippi State UniversityAbstractExperiences with a technical elective course, ME 4353/6353 Alternate Energy Systems, aredelineated. Alternate Energy Systems (AES) was devised for senior and beginning graduatestudents in mechanical engineering (ME) and presents a first-order introduction to the plethora ofalternate energy technologies now considered as available, viable, or promising. The AES coursecovers basic principles, economic considerations, application potentials, and advantages

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Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Munro

alarger project to integrate design concepts throughout the chemical engineering curriculum atSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T).IntroductionTraditional undergraduate laboratories in chemical engineering provide students an exposure toconcepts of engineering science learned in the classroom, but do not provide open-ended, designexperiences similar to what graduates might face as chemical engineers in industrial positions.The traditional experiments in a unit operations laboratory tend to be created around fixed piecesof equipment. The procedures, data collection and analysis, and presentation of results tend to benearly identical for every team of students assigned to conduct a particular experiment, resultingin students

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Hackworth

Dominion University in the ElectricalEngineering Technology senior elective course EET 420 Advanced Logic Design has indicatedthat students have a better understanding of how the Boolean AND, OR, Invert, XOR and XNORoperations are performed. As a result, students typically make fewer errors in reducing andmanipulating Boolean expressions.Bibliography1. Norman J. Block. Abstract Algebra with Applications. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1987): 1-5.2. Hackworth, John R. Advanced Logic Design. An unpublished manuscript (1995): 3-1 thru 3-8.JOHN R HACKWORTHJohn R. Hackworth is Program Director for the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Old DominionUniversity. He holds a B. S. Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Master of

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lewis Frasch

computer becomes the data acquisition system for the lab.BackgroundIn the fall of 2000, Lawrence Technological University (LTU) began requiring that all enteringfreshmen have a laptop computer. In each succeeding year, the next class rank (i.e. sophomoresin fall 2001) would be required to have a laptop. The laptops are a standard model leased by theunversity to the students and regularly upgraded. Student laptops that develop problems arefixed by the help desk or exchanged if the problem is too serious to fix quickly. They are pre-loaded with a standard set of software for each college. For example, all engineering laptops arepre-loaded with a high-end CAD program, programming language, equation solver, and officesoftware. Students who wish to use

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rockland

full class than to have nothing to do for the last portion of theclass. Page 7.460.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ” Session 1375Instructor’s Availability Outside Class HoursEvery faculty member has posted office hours, but unfortunately students might work during theoffice hours, or for some other reasons not be able to see the faculty member. Technology,through e-mail and other web-based

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Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Bailey-Van Kuren

assignment. Once an instructor gains experience with theweb based presentation of the research topics, the administration and evaluation of theassignment does not tend to increase the instructor’s workload for the course.BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION[1] Karunamoorthy, S. and Olliges, R.H., “Web Technology in Engineering Education – Howand Why”, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Conference, American Society for EngineeringEducation, 2000.[2] Javanovik, Nickolas, “Using World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT) for Close Learning”,Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Conference, American Society for Engineering Education, 2000.[3] Wong, H. Kapila, V. and Tzes, A., “Mechatronics/Process Control Remote Laboratory”,Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Conference, American Society for

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 3642 Evaluation and Outcomes Assessment During the Semester: Putting Course Learning Objectives to Work David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgI. IntroductionIn recent years, much has been written about the requirement to perform outcomes andobjective assessments to evaluate the strengths of ABET accredited programs in allengineering disciplines including engineering management. In particular, the criteria foraccrediting engineering technology programs stipulates that programs must demonstrate thatgraduates have a commitment to quality

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

Session 2793 Implementation of Educational Modules in a Biotechnology Course: A Challenge Based Education Approach Gülnur Birol*, Ann McKenna *, Todd Giorgio†, Sean Brophy † Biomedical Engineering Department, * Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Technological Building, E 310, Evanston, IL 60208 / † Vanderbilt University, Box 351620 B, Nashville, TN 37235AbstractBiotechnology is one of the active domains in the NSF funded Engineering Research CenterVaNTH (Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University of Texas, and Harvard/MIT) where aneducational mosaic is currently

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Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Irwin

Session 3238 A Methodology for Developing Unigraphics Parametric Assemblies for Product Design, Tool Design and Analysis John L. Irwin Department of Design Engineering Technology Mott Community College Flint, MI 48503, USAIntroductionParametric Assemblies are an important element in the design process of a product or tool,because of the ability to continually update, and/or replace components in the assembly as thedesign changes through the design and analysis phases. One of the goals of the

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

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Asad Azemi

Society for Engineering Education(vi) Install a management /control software in the technology-ready classroom. Typical man-agement software (e.g. Altiris Vision software) will allow the instructor to project his/her com-puter screen to every PC in the room. One can also monitor student progress and control studentPCs - all from the instructor’s computer which includes the ability to lock each student’s key-board and mouse—ensuring attention.(vii) Finally, a wireless mouse will provide the necessary mobility to monitor the students’ activ-ity during the lecture.ConclusionWe have presented an approach that can make class lectures more informative and enjoyable forthe students. Although the lecture modules produced in this way are not interactive

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Riza Gurbuz

),Electronics (9), Industrial Electronics (3), Telecomminication (4), Refrigeration-AirConditioning (7), Civil Engineering (5), Office Management (2), Automotive (9), Ceramics(5), Import-Export (2), Instrumentation and Process Control Technologies (7), MechanicalEngineering (13), Printing and Business (1). Page 7.664.7Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the 2001, they have participated in Mechanical Engineering (17), Accounting (5),Electronics (13), Civil Engineering (6), Computer Science (7) and Tourism and HotelManagement (1

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Barker

Session 1520 WebCHARLIE - A New Open-Source Web-Based Tool Used To Improve Mathematics Skills Steven Barker Buffalo State CollegeAbstractA new web-based open-source computer-managed homework tool called webCHARLIE isdescribed and compared to four competitors. WebCHARLIE is part of an asynchronous learningnetwork (ALN) that has been used to help engineering technology students improve theirmathematics skills. Lessons learned using webCHARLIE over the past six years are alsodiscussed.IntroductionWebCHARLIE is one component of an

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Bell; Scott Fogler

., "Seminar on a Nitroaniline Reactor Rupture", 1994, SACHE, American Institute of Chemical Engineers: New York, NY.Biographical InformationJohn T. Bell( Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, 312 413-9054, JBell@uic.edu,http://www. cs.uic.edu/~jbell ) Dr. Bell holds graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science,and combines both skills by developing computer simulations of chemical engineering related phenomenon. Recentwork has focused on the application of interactive immersive three-dimensional display technology (a.k.a. VR) tothe presentation of scientific, engineering, and educational information.H. Scott Fogler( Vennema Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Glumac; Gregory Elliott; Madara Ogot

engineering departments struggling tocater to increased enrollments, static budgets, and the need to maintain educational quality. Asdepartments look for ways to cut costs, ‘hands-on’ instructional laboratories, typically expensiveto develop and maintain, are slowly being replaced with ‘virtual’ experiments1-6. Indeed as notedin a report by a task force commissioned by the American Society for Engineering Education,'[Engineering schools should adopt] cost effective approaches [that] make use of informationprocessing and simulation technology' (ASEE, 1988). Recognizing the importance of ‘hands-on’experimentation in the undergraduate curriculum7-13, several institutions have developedlaboratories where students can gain ‘hands-on’ experience via remote

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Glenn Wrate

,existing commercial buildings, and government buildings.In the General Industrial program the tasks for the first year are 1) determine where opportunitiesand barriers exists for high-impact technologies to affect energy usage, 2) review participantneeds for research and development (R&D) and integrate them into the program’s R&D plan,and 3) to identify and develop R&D opportunities that will benefit Wisconsin industry. As anexample of the work in this area, a senior electrical engineering (EE) student was given the taskto evaluate a patent submitted by one the participants. This patent is for an ac line currentcontroller that would purportedly save energy by reducing distortions in the current waveform.In the Energy Intensive

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Darrell Morris; Hesham Shaalan

Session 2559 Using a Microcontroller for Sonar Ranging Hesham Shaalan, Ph.D., and Darrell Morris School of Technology Georgia Southern University Statesboro, Georgia1. Introduction The Senior Project is the capstone course in the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)curriculum at Georgia Southern University. It consists of an individually chosen project that istaken from concept through design to a finished state. It includes related CAD, specifications,theory of operation, and oral/written

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

probes math topicstypically used in statics as well as specific statics topics. Pre- and post-course test data for over240 statics students and pre-course data for 250 dynamics and strength of materials students arereported and discussed. Several surprising results are discovered.IntroductionEngineering and engineering technology educators face a significant task in adjusting to anoutcomes-based environment, one, in part, driven by the new accreditation requirements adoptedby the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET, 2000). Demonstrated proofof student learning and mastery of engineering concepts are now required. As one response,significant effort is being made to assess student outcomes via faculty teams reviewing

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

lives, you will need to be able to learn on your own. The waypeople talk about this in engineering education is that we need to be lifelong learners. Theability to learn independently is vital because 1) the rapid pace of technological change willotherwise cause you to lose your competitiveness, and 2) your continued professional growth canonly be supported by an growing knowledge base. Take time to r eally think about this.Wouldn't you honestly expect senior engineers--whether they are managers, executives, orentrepreneurs--to be current in their technical knowledge and, further, would also havedeveloped a broad base of knowledge and experience? These things are precisely those that willbe expected of you as professional engineers. You have

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Buchal

is easy for designers and students to use.There are a variety of collaboration systems available to support some of these functions. In theeducational domain, systems include BSCW9, Forum10, and WebCT 11. General purposecommercial collaboration systems include Microsoft Exchange 12, Lotus Notes 13, and others.Systems intended for engineering design collaboration include Alibre Design14 and VentroCollaborative Commerce Solution15. However, many of these tools are either limited incollaboration functionality or are too expensive and/or complex for educational use.An alternative approach is to use a collection of basic technologies to support communication andsharing of files among team members. These include: · Email with file

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Krishna Krishnan; Janet Twomey; Vis Madhavan; Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman

used a phased approachin the level of detail added to each model beginning with the basic line layout and cycle timesand then added more details. We are in the initial stages of student feedback for the first courses,which is in line with step seven, “provide for student evaluation early and often.” Our approachis to use this phased implementation and consider the pertinent aspects of Bloom’s taxonomy. 23Table 4. The Ten Steps to Developing VR Applications for Engineering EducationStep Stage0 Plan for the future: Never underestimate how fast technology will change during your development process1 Understand the strengths and

Conference Session

Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Freya Toledo; Antonio Gonzalez-Quevedo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

history and significance of the transportation industry and all modes of travel • career opportunities in public and private sector transportation, with an emphasis on emerging and new occupational requirements for the new millennium • various transportations modes, including public transit, automobiles, buses, vans, trains, airplanes, as well as freight, rail, ports, waterways, and pipeline with an emphasis on intermodalism • advanced technology and intelligent transportation systems, including aviation and space technology • career options in transportation design, engineering, planning, and research The overall composition of the program, along with the evaluations

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Bartlett

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2. Spade End Nail Defect to be Sorted with Nail Drawing. Laminated Object Manufacturing of a FractalNDSU received a large NSF grant to promote the learning of science and math through involvinggraduate students and senior undergraduate students in the K-12 classroom3. Through thisactivity, the faculty learned that a high school math teacher had students spend one weekbuilding a fractal, with sheet paper and tape, as a hands-on complement to fractal theory. Tobring advanced technology into the fractal building experience, three NDSU freshman studentschose to study and propose the use of Laminated

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Livingston; James Squire

Old Dominion University andVirginia Western Community College. Dr. Livingston received the B.S.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in ElectricalEngineering at Old Dominion University. He is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginiaand is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ASEE, HKN, and Skeptics Society.JAMES C. SQUIREMajor James Squire is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. Dr.Squire received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY andhis M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/Bioengineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Heis a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

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Denis Gillet

Session 1969 The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web-Based Collaborative Environment for Remote Experimentation Georgios Fakas, Denis Gillet Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, {georgios.fakas, denis.gillet}@epfl.ch1. IntroductionIn engineering education, experimentation has always been an essential ingredient to sustainlearning activities1. It is recognized as an efficient approach for students to effectively assimilateknowledge and to develop a professional approach to solve real-world problems. Collaboration isalso an

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies.7. We are especially grateful to Clive Dym of Harvey Mudd College for his contributions to EDC and for joining the EDC core faculty in 1997-1998.8. Dym, C., and Little, P. Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction. John Wiley and Sons. 2000; Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D. Product Design and Development. McGraw Hill. 19959. Sutton, R.I. and Hargadon, A."Brainstorming Groups in Context: Effectiveness in a Product Design Firm," Administrative Science Quarterly 41 (December 1996), pp. 685-718

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

and Multi-spectral Imaging,and in the development of distance learning technologies and methodologies.Bruce L. UpchurchAssistant Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Georgia. Research interests are inthe development of multispectral imaging technologies for biotechnology applications, optical instrumentation forbiochemical processes and environmental monitoring and the development of innovative technologies for interactivelearning. Page 7.1119.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Dunning

, electric drives, and industrial automation. As part of University of Maine’s continuous improvement process, this input served as adriver to revise traditional coursework in power systems analysis to courses introducing state ofthe art technology in industrial automation, controls and communications. This paper will discussthe course content covered in the new “power” courses and will also discuss the laboratoryimprovements made to support this effort.Previous Courses Historically, the Electrical Engineering Technology program at the University of Mainehas provided excellent training for students interested in careers in electric utilities andmanufacturing. Firms such as General Electric, Rockwell Automation, ABB and

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Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eugenia Fernandez

Session 3120 An Evaluation of Student Performance in an Introductory Programming Course with and without the Quantitative Analysis Prerequisite: A Piece of the Assessment Process Eugenia Fernandez Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroductionPrerequisites are standard in any curriculum and serve as a measure of course preparedness. Thesequencing of course prerequisites provides structure to a curriculum. ABET accreditationevaluation criteria require sequences of courses using a

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

. Sci. 55, 4233-4243 (2000).10 Guichardon, P., Falk, L., Villermaux, J., “Characterization of micromixing efficiency by theiodide-iodate reaction system. Part II: Kinetic Study,” Chem. Eng. Sci. 55, 4245-4253 (2000).11 J. Schmalzel, A. Marchese, and R. Hesketh, What's Brewing in the Engineering Clinic?.Hewlett Packard Engineering Educator. 2(1) , 6 (1998).12 Palmer, D. A., Ramette, R. W., and Mesmer, R. E. “Triodide ion formation equilibrium andactivity coefficients in aqueous solution,” Journal of Solution Chemistry, 13, 9, (1984).BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONKEVIN D. DAHM is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D.in 1998 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty