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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

Page 7.133.4interesting feature of being dependent on the technology which is used. If the computer Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationmediation is email, for example, then its primary advantage over postal mail is the short time itusually takes for a message to be delivered. However, taking a ‘Star Trek’ visionary perspective,one can imagine holographic projections of the participants in real-time, making the mediatedcommunication amazingly close to face-to-face.III. Observations and InterpretationsQuantitative Data Analysis We first report the quantitative data analysis which

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Duke; Don Morris

Information 1. Engineering Criteria 2000, Program Self-Study Instructions, EC 2000 Visits, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore.Biographical InformationJohn C. Duke, Jr. is a Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics; he has over 20 years experience teachingmechanics courses.Don H. Morris is a Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and is the Assistant Department Head withmore than 30 years experience teaching mechanics courses. Page 7.238.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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Byron Newberry

· Social impact of engineering: product liability, occupational safety and health, industrial safety, environmental protection, ethical use of technology · Engineering ethics: ethical theory, ethical codes, state regulations, case studiesIn addition to the formal class discussions of professionalism topics, the course is structured tomodel a professional environment throughout. The students are treated as employees placed intodesign teams within a company, with the instructors as the supervisors. The students initiallyseek employment via the résumé and career plan briefing assignments at the beginning of thesemester. Students are thought to come to work rather than class. They receive one personal day(absence) during the semester and, in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Parviz Daneshgari

product development team integrate all of theThe complex task of Product Development has been a individual components into a working system.major challenge for product manufacturers anddevelopers since the introduction of complex This approach works under two conditions:mechanical systems. The current approach to ProductDevelopment planning and execution, for many 1. Breakthrough technology; such as NASAcomplex commercial products, is resource based as satellites or new military technologiesopposed to learning based. The future competitiveness 2. Hypothetical unlimited markets and unlimitedin the world market is being driven by a need to enlist a

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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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Terry Ballinger; Craig Somerton

, along with results of this activity with the Mathematics,Science, and Technology program. We continue this paper by suggesting some mechanisms for Page 7.122.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationusing these components as an outreach program, which will include staffing ideas and means toestablish ties between colleges and middle schools.Proposed Outreach StructureIn this section we propose an organizational structure for this outreach program. Each universityhas a different

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

performance arediscussed.I. IntroductionThe mechanics of materials course is one of the core courses for students in civil, mechanical,aerospace, metallurgical, ceramic, geotechnical, and architectural engineering programs. Thecourse is also included in architecture, engineering mechanics, engineering physics, engineeringmanagement, and engineering technology curricula. The course is typically taken during thesophomore or junior years after students complete their general mathematics and sciencepreparation. The mechanics of materials course introduces students to the principles involved indesigning typical components found in machines and structures such as drive shafts; floor beams,pressure tanks, and bolted connections. The course explores various

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

response to a national concern in the early 1990s about poor retention of students inengineering combined with a real, or some would say critical, need for more engineers, The OhioState University (OSU) worked with nine other schools to form the Gateway EngineeringEducation Coalition. This need for engineers was and currently is driven by society's ever-increasing consumption of technology. The Coalition, led by Drexel University, was establishedas a result of the creation of an Engineering Education Coalitions program by the NationalScience Foundation. These schools agreed to adopt or adapt Drexel's E4 program1-2 forfreshmen and sophomores which put engineering "up-front" and specifically included hands-onlabs and incorporated design projects

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marny Lawton; Donald Wroblewski

AcceleratedEntry Program (LEAP), a program that prepares students with non-engineering degrees, fromany geographic location, for entry into master degree programs in engineering. It was decidedthat eliminating constraints to the learning environment, such as proximity to campus, wouldmake the program or courses more attractive to potential students outside the Boston area 2.The goal of the pilot study was to redesign a specific engineering course through a challengingapplication of distance education technologies and distributed learning pedagogies, with theultimate purpose of raising the entire LEAP program to a higher level. At a time when it takes

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Underwood

. Technicaldetails of the projects will be discussed and broader educational benefits identified, so as torecommend the experience to other engineering faculty, especially those from teachinginstitutions, interested in bringing applications of microstrip antenna and space technology into theclassroom.Application Procedure:In the initial application (now due in mid February), a candidate proposes contribution in an areaof NASA’s current research needs, at a center of interest and includes letters of recommendation. Page 7.456.1Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rafic Bachnak

Session 1448 Design and Implementation of a Three Course Sequence in Control Systems Ray Bachnak Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractThe Control Systems Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (A&M-CC) has a three-course sequence consisting of Principles ofMeasurements, Control Systems I, and Control Systems II. In fall of 2000, a committeeof seven industry professionals was formed to help the faculty in the design andimplementation of this sequence. This paper presents the final recommendations of thecommittee

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

MARSHALL taught senior high school prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Texas A&MUniversity. He has eighteen years of university teaching experience, and is currently the Coordinator ofthe Industrial Power and Control curriculum and laboratories as well as the Internship Coordinator for theUniversity of Southern Maine’s Department of Technology. Page 7.1004.3“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Morton; John Nydahl; Nancy Peck

laboratory exercises,since the bulk of entering engineering students lack laboratory experiences. Consequently, many Page 7.1194.1educators are stressing the need for hands-on teaching of fundamentals3-9. Over the past ten Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationyears, the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Wyoming (UW) has usedalumni recommendations10, Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) 2000criteria11, as well as UW’s Engineering Task Force on Undergraduate

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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

(within the Europeaninternal market, for instance).Opportunity for a New Partnership (Siemens and Siemens-Westinghouse). Siemens is oneof the leading companies in the field of electrical engineering and electronics in the internationalmarketplace., The Power Generation Group (PG) is one of the world’s leading vendors of powerplant technology, offering a complete range of services and products for cost-effective powergeneration in power plants of all types and sizes.The Muelheim Steam Turbine and Generator Center is part of the Siemens Power GenerationGroup, which is responsible for Siemens’ business in the power plant sector throughout theworld. The Muelheim Development and Manufacturing Center develops and manufacturescomplete turbine generator

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

presentations took place in 1999. The academic performance of studentswas significantly higher, compared with those registered in the conventional version of the course.As well, positive attitudes towards technology-aided instruction were observed. A formalcomparison study conducted in 2000 confirmed these findings, and pointed towards hypermedia Page 7.1205.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinstruction accommodating a wider range of learning styles than conventional instruction, as

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

and Masters degrees at Lehigh University and his Doctorate at the University ofRhode Island. He has 6 years of college engineering teaching experience as well as 3 years of industrial designexperience. His teaching interests lie in the first year design, design for manufacture and assembly, interdisciplinarydesign and kinematics.Jeffrey L. Ray, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Engineering in the Padnos School of Engineering at Grand ValleyState University. Dr. Ray holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological Universityand a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He is the Mechanical Engineering Program Chair with primary teachingresponsibilities in first-year engineering courses and coordinating the Senior Capstone

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sérgio Franco; Marco Silveira; Luciano Costa; Guillermo Creus

and honest. It is impossible todevelop a cooperative learning process using authoritarian evaluation. With the democraticapproach, students must be involved in the decisions about evaluation content.” Other work shows that study groups6 (with two students each) improve learning becausefrequently a student is better prepared to identify the doubts of his classmate than the professor. Page 7.590.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” C. How technology can work with

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

administrative and educational support services; assesses whether it achieves these outcomes; and provides evidence of improvement based on analysis of those results. See Comprehensive Standard on Institutional Effectiveness, pg. 11.1Like SACS, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has also movedtoward an outcomes assessment process. Consequently, the concept of outcomes assessment isnew for many faculty within engineering programs. All general comprehensive reviewsbeginning 2001-02 have been conducted under the new outcomes-based criteria (EngineeringCriteria 2000 or EC2000). EC2000 states that each program must develop program educationalobjectives, program outcomes, and develop methods to assess each

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ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

Session 3148 A Global Positioning System Course for Non Electronics Majors Terrence Kelly, John Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe Avionics Program in the Aerospace Technology Department of Parks College ofEngineering and Aviation of Saint Louis University offers a course, GPS: Applications, for non-avionics and avionics majors. The course has no prerequisites and operates as a semi-independent study course. The class meets together during the first half of the semester to coverthe basic operation and

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ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Hall

Session 2248EET Laboratory Courses: From the Classroom to the Web--From Research to Practice Thomas M. Hall, Jr. Northwestern State University of LouisianaAbstractIn the rush to offer courses, programs, or degrees on-line, there have been many approaches tosolving the problem of including laboratory work in engineering technology programs. Oneapproach to developing (or adapting) electronics engineering technology laboratory courses fordelivery on the World Wide Web is presented in this paper. Research demonstrating thefeasibility of using simulation

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

extracurricularlearning activity). Last semester the instructor (Collins) lead class discussions on severalethical cases selected from a variety of topic areas, including stem cell research, scientificreporting, the high cost of development of medical technology, and educational andenvironmental responsibilities of large corporations. Other students were invited to attend this movie event. The movie event wasadvertised using fliers posted around campus inviting people to participate in watchingthe movie and participate in the discussion (one second year student from ChildDevelopment attended, and 1 first year and 2 senior biomedical engineering studentsattended). The event was scheduled for a Wednesday evening and pizza was served aspart of a pre movie

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

Session No. 2002-189 Keeping the Flame Alive: What Happens AFTER the ABET visit Dr. Sami Ainane, Dr. Gary Pertmer, Dr. Janet A. Schmidt The Clark School of Engineering University of Maryland College ParkI. Introduction In the United States, engineering programs are accredited by ABET, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology. The Board is made of representatives from each of thevarious professional societies such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers, etc. Over the past ten years, ABET has developed a new andcomprehensive program

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Srinivas Vanapalli; Wajiha Shireen

or Technology students need to know the state of the art variablespeed motor control methods that are being used in the context of exciting new applications. Inview of this, this paper presents the hardware and software aspects of a Digital Signal Processor(DSP) based controller for ac induction motors. This setup can be effectively utilized to Page 7.793.1demonstrate to students the various motor control functions for variable speed operation. This Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lonnie Harvel; Monson Hayes

Session 2432 Indexing an Archive of Streaming Media Educational Components Lonnie Harvel, Monson H. Hayes, Yu-Xi Lim, Jialin Tian, and Sankeun Lee School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Distributed Engineering Education Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 +(1) 404.894.2958 mhh3@eedsp.gatech.eduAbstract – In this paper we present some work on indexing

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Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raj Desai; Eugenio Lord

.RAJ DESAIRaj L. Desai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at SEMissouri State University. Dr. Desai received a B.E. degree in Electronics Engineering from BangaloreUniversity, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Doctor ofIndustrial Technology Degree from The University of Northern Iowa in 1991.EUGENIO LORDEugenio Lord is the Training Coordinator, Information Technology Unit at George Mason University inFairfax, Virginia. Dr. Lord received a B.A. degree in Graphic Arts Technology from ManchesterUniversity, a M.Ed. degree in Industrial Technology from Bowling Green State University, OH and a Ph.D.degree in Industrial Technology and Statistics from Iowa

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Carl Griffis

loops in action havebeen organized on a computer CD. Each electronic document has links to all the otherpertinent documents on the CD. The packaging is intended to increase the efficiency andaccuracy of the accreditation review.IntroductionAccreditation is a process of peer review through which we (society, the engineeringprofession, the university) give assurance to our students and their families that weprovide a high quality educational program for engineering students. In the USA, theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) developed “Criteria 2000”,its most recent set of accreditation protocols (ABET, 2001a). Through Criteria 2000,institutions have the opportunity to apply innovative and creative ideas to insure that

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Russum; Donald Visco

2002-2096 A New Method to Calculate Phase Coexistence James P. Russum and Donald P. Visco, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Atlanta GA /Tennessee Technological University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cookeville TNIntroductionA classic problem in thermodynamics is the evaluation of phase equilibria from equations ofstate (EOS). The development and solution of said problems is normally presented during theundergraduate chemical engineering thermodynamics course, with the problems solved eitherthrough an iterative procedure [1-3] or using a root-finding

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Carpenter; Harvey Smith; Murali Krishnamurthi

consisting ofexperts from a number of universities and companies. The learning modules are being designedusing the Kolb learning cycle and include a variety of active-learning strategies such as classdiscussions, case studies, guest speakers, web applications, and team projects. Details of thelearning modules, pedagogical strategies, and assessment results are presented in this paper.1. IntroductionEnvironment touches our lives in many ways and we profoundly impact the environment aspolicy-makers, scientists, engineers, corporate decision-makers, and citizens. To protect theenvironment in today’s technological society, balance the needs of the population, and minimizeimpacts of environmental hazards, we need technically informed citizens with

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Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ingvar Gustavsson

Session 2359 A Remote Laboratory for Electrical Experiments Ingvar Gustavsson Department of Telecommunications and Signal Processing The Blekinge Institute of Technology, SwedenAbstractMany laboratory experiments in electrical engineering courses can be performed remotely usingreal equipment. Conventional electrical circuit experiments have been conducted over the Internetat BTH (Blekinge Tekniska Högskola: The Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Sweden fromdifferent locations simultaneously using an experimental hardware setup in a closed room at

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ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Myszka

Session 3147 Implementing “Student-Centered” Case Studies David Myszka University of DaytonAbstract Many fundamental courses in an engineering technology curriculum are primarilyconcerned with the analysis of simple devices. For the example of an introductorymechanics course, forces and motions of levers and bars are studied. Many instructorsbelieve that the complexities of commercial machinery are beyond the student’s currentabilities. Students eventually have the opportunity to study the details of machinecomponents in upper-level courses, once the

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Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Yee

of theproduct design projects are initiated by identifying the needs for the market. The productdevelopment can be either market-driven or new technology-driven. Once the needs areidentified, the first thing to do is plan for the design. This may include forming the design team,developing the required tasks, and establishing a project schedule. Employing concurrentengineering, design team usually consists of project manager, design project engineer,manufacturing engineer, material engineer, and quality assurance engineer. Depending on thesize of a company, a person may serve in multiple roles as mentioned earlier.Secondly, engineering specifications are developed based on who the customers are, what theirrequirements are, and what the