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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Arthur Brodersen; Richard Shiavi

for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.ARTHUR BRODERSEN is Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience. His recent technical interests have been the use of computer and network technology toenhance engineering education. Page 7.1033.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

-Airborne ImagingResearch) project was partially funded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)in the fall of 1999. The project has provided a platform for involving a group of morethan twenty undergraduate students in mathematics, science, engineering and technology(MSET) curricula at University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in an "out ofclassroom" active learning and exploratory research experience in the field of remotesensing and its applications. The scientific objective of the project includes aerialimaging in the visible and infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, land survey,study of shoreline erosion, research in agricultural land use patterns, and environmentalstudies pertaining to algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay. The

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Halvard Nystrom

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcompletely resolved. It is difficult for distance programs to provide the learning fromlive interactive discussions and hands-on activities. However, DE programs aredeveloping new ways to address some of these limitations and new technologies andcommunication infrastructures continue to provide better solutions. Also, these DEclasses can also provide new ways to enable schools to provide EM education. Throughdistance channels, schools can begin to provide EM classes to their students withouthaving to hire the EM specialist faculty. Current EM programs will also be able toprovide a broader set of classes for their students and provide an improved program. Atthe same time, current EM

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anthony Trippe

Session 2432 A Methodology For Planning Distance Learning Courses Anthony P. Trippe Rochester Institute of Technology Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology DepartmentAbstractThis article is based on personal experience gained as a result of facilitating over sixtyasynchronous classes over the last four years. The article is organized into five areas ofreview and consideration which can assist the faculty member to plan and develop alearning-centered course intended for distance delivery. Whether in the classroom or onthe Internet, critical scrutiny and

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maher Murad

technology disciplines (Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical). The two Staticssections contained fifty five (55) students. The nature of the Statics course is primarily a lectureproblem-solving course and it builds on previous knowledge of physics and math. The HighwayDesign is a junior level course. Only Civil Engineering Technology (CET) students take theHighway Design course and it is preceded by two-sophomore level courses in surveying. TheHighway course is design and problem solving in nature. It develops students ability to usemathematical formulas, specifications and guidelines by design agencies, assumptions andfinally common sense to recommend solutions for a given highway problem. The HighwayDesign class contained thirty (30) students. The

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Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

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S. Scott Moor

, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography 1. Krapp, Kristine & Long, Jacqueline (eds.), How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing, Gale Research, 2. Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 8th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1997 3. Sergey Vasnetsov and Milan R. Shah, The Investors’ Guide to Chemicals, BT Alex, Brown Inc., 1998 4. James A. Kent (ed), Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry, 9th Ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1992 5. R. N. Shreve, Chemical Process Industries, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill, 6. Wolfgang Gerhartz (executive ed.), Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 5th Ed., Weinheim, c1985 7. Hart, John, et. al. , Toxics A to Z : a Guide to Everyday Pollution

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sarah Faitak; Monika Blair; Matthew Johnson; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

Session 2480 How to Embed Basic Science Concepts in a High School Robotics Design Contest Sarah Faitak, Greg Salamo, Kenneth Vickers University of Arkansas Matt Johnson University of Oklahoma Monika Blair Texas InstrumentsIntroductionWhen observing a BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) robotics competition,it is obvious that to develop a robot that is competitive, the participating

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

. 10. Cengel, Y. A. and Boles, M. A., “Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach,” Edition 4, McGraw-Hill, 2001. 11. Chickering, A.W., & Gamson, Z.F. 1987. Seven Principles of Good Practice. AAHE Bulletin. 39, 3-7. 12. Taraban, R., Anderson, E.E., Sharma, M.P., and Hayes, M.W., “Monitoring Students’ Study Behaviors in Thermodynamics,” Proc. of the 2002 ASEE Anuual Conf. And Exhib., 2002.EDWARD E. ANDERSONEdward E. Anderson is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University where he is also theAssociate Director of the University Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center. His responsibilities at the Centerare to train and assist faculty throughout the university in applying technology to their teaching. He

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Cremin

Session 3549 Communication Disorders from an Avionics Perspective John D. Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe field of Communication Disorders has much to offer the field of Avionics in areas dealingwith cockpit design and user interface. Avionics and Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)have much to offer Communication Disorders in areas dealing with electronic communications,navigation and control.This paper describes: Areas of communication disorders from the avionics

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Avanzato

the fire-fighting robot contest. Freshman and sophomore engineer ingmajors at Penn State Abington have used the robot contest as design projects to satisfydesign components of coursework, and as a focus for undergraduate research in the areasof robot navigation and fuzzy logic. Overall, the robot contest has successfully served as a resource for undergraduatedesign, research, and K-12 outreach. Mobile robotics design competitions of this typeencourage creative problem solving, teamwork, project management, research, andpromote interest in careers in science, engineering, and technology. One of the positivefeatures of the Robo-TrailBlazers contest is that participants are encouraged to consider avariety of solution strategies, including

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Torres

Semiconductor Corporation. Page 7.1059.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographyDesign Verification Tools User Manual Version 8.0, Copyright December 1999Lattice Semiconductor CorporationSchematic Entry User Manual Version 8.0, Copyright December 1999Lattice Semiconductor CorporationispDesignExpert Tutorial Version 8.0, Copyright December 1999Lattice Semiconductor CorporationERIC CLARKEric Clark is a senior in the Electrical Engineering Technology Program at Penn State Erie. He expects to

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ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pin-Hui Tan; Roman Stemprok

). Multimedia as Information Engineering, Prentice Hall.2. Chen S.J., Gibson J.S.(2001, March). “Feedforward Adaptive Noise Control with Multivariable Gradient Lattice Filters,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 49: 3.ROMAN STEMPROKAssistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at the University of North Texas. Registered PE inTexas. Actively involved in research for industry with more than ten years of industrial research experience, oversix years of teaching experience, ten-plus research publications. Member of TAP5-TxDOT, IESNA and CIE. M.E.in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal (1989), Ph.D. from the Department of ElectricalEngineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (1995).PIN-HUI TANBachelor of Science Degree

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

ASEE for contributions to engineering education and a Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award. Hisresearch interests include high performance polymers, outcomes assessment and integrating communicationskills through the curriculum.KEVIN DAHMKevin Dahm is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received hisPh.D. in 1998 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty of RowanUniversity, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T StateUniversity. He also served for one year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California atBerkeley, where he assisted in the development of ModelLA, a process simulation softwarepackage for use in the

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Bittle

THS5651IDW is a 5-4-1 segmentedcurrent steering DAC. Data was collected at the Texas Instruments’ facility on Forest Lane,Dallas Texas. LabView® software was used for instrument control and data acquisition.MATLAB software was used to process data, to calculate current cell pair outputs, and to plotthe results to determine if there were major problem areas in the current array. Plots showed noproblem areas.I. IntroductionTexas Instruments invited the author to learn about the THS5651IDW, a new high-speed digitalto analog converter (DAC), being designed at their facility on Forest Lane, Dallas Texas. Thisknowledge is being passed on to students in the Electronic Engineering Technology program atthe University of North Texas. The THS5651IDW DAC is a

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Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Laura Lucas; Daphene Koch

formseveryone has consistent expectations and a higher level of success in meeting the goals of allparticipants. Page 7.537.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSignificanceDuring the accreditation of the Construction Technology Department (CNT) at IndianapolisUniversity – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) by the Technology AccreditationCommission of Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET) in 2001, therewas a concern about the evaluation of field trips. The assessment

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oscar R Gonzalez; James F Leathrum; Amit Kumar H; Vishnu Lakdawala; Stephen Zahorian

and assessment are major criteria included in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET) 2000 criteria. This is further substantiated by the many recenteducation related conferences which include assessment as a key subject area. Recently the IEEETransactions on Education devoted a complete special issue on assessment (McGourty andKerns 6 ). The issue contains papers on development, implementation, and institutionalization ofeducational assessment in engineering education. A number of assessment instruments thatassess multiple dimensions of learning are also available (for example, see FLAG7 ) to faculty inscience, mathematics, and engineering. In addition, over the past several years, considerableeffort has been devoted to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mitchell Neilsen

variable rate technologyfor precision farming. This transfer of technology has enabled us to develop even strongerlinkages with industry.The overall objective is to provide opportunities for students with varying engineeringbackgrounds to gain knowledge and experience in the design and implementation of real-timeembedded systems, and to advance the state-of-the-art in design methodologies and real-time Page 7.188.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationapplications. This paper presents the novel

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

this course, students learn about the uses, capabilities, and limitations of wireless embeddedsystems in the C6 environment. Based on a set of requirements and preliminary specifications,students will a system-level design language and work in cross-functional groups (e.g.,communications, human factors, performance, software engineering, electronics) to prototypeselected hardware, software, and interfaces.Real-time software engineeringCurrently there is no course in the Computer Engineering curriculum at Iowa State Universitythat covers software development issues for real-time (or time-critical) applications and how todesign software to survive rapidly changing underlying technology. This knowledge is criticalfor any Computer Engineering

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Grady

and use of the ARCS model of motivational design. Journal of InstructionalDevelopment, 10(3), 2-11.5 Page 7.1109.6 Georgia Institute of Technology. 1999. Objectives specification tool. [On line]. Available:http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/MM_Tools/OST.html. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education6 Gray, S. 1998. Web-based instructional tools. Syllabus 12(2). [On line]. Available:http://syllabus.com/sep98_magfea2.html.7Morkes, J. and Nielsen, J. 1997. Concise, scannable and objective: How

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

global and societal impact assessment module. At the end ofthe first session, students were asked to develop a set of specific procedures which practicingengineers can use to ensure that unintended consequences are limited, that society is informed ofthe tradeoffs involved in an engineering solution, and that society gives approval before thesolution is implemented. At the end of the second session, students were asked to prepare a shortpresentation discussing the positive and negative, intended and unintended consequences of aspecific technological development that the instructor selected from a list prepared in an in-classexercise in the first session. The presentations were given in the third session, and the group andaudience were asked to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dennis Field

-day operation of the Lab hasresided with ISU’s Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business. Corporatefunding for the Laboratory was originally, and continues to be in large part, provided by 3M, aworldwide corporation well known for technological innovation. Prior to each semester, studentsare recruited and asked to submit applications and resumes for the upcoming semester. Second Page 7.348.1semester students review the applications and resumes and, with input from faculty and Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manocher Djassemi

automation activities are presented. The hardwaredesigned and built by the students as well as the associated costs are discussed.Introduction Engineering technology (ET) and industrial technology (IT) programs are facing thechallenging task of educating competent students in many aspects of manufacturing includingfactory automation. A hands-on educational approach has been an effective tool to gain suchcompetency in ET and IT programs. Many of these programs offer laboratory-orientedmanufacturing courses with the mission of providing students with practical experience inautomation and its application in integration of production systems. A common laboratoryfacility in ET and IT programs includes computer-integrated manufacturing which may

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

MATLAB. Experiment 3, Mentor Graphics Design Laboratory: The students begin by learning thebasics of schematic layout and simulation with Mentor Graphics tools. Since our focus is Page 7.185.4 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”primarily on digital circuit design using CMOS technology, we begin with simple digital circuitscomposed of a few circuit components (including diodes and transistors). The circuit schematicsare built in Design Architect and simulated with

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

other wireless techniques are sometimes difficultconcepts for students to grasp, and even more difficult to obtain practical experimentalexperiences with. Demonstrating these concepts through PSpice simulations, allowing studentsfree rein to play with these simulations, and encouraging them to devise their own experimentsbased on these simulations can provide invaluable educational opportunities. Simulations such asthose shown in this paper could very profitably be used in many courses related to this cuttingedge area of technology. Page 7.360.4Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

deviation of 8.2%. The end of course survey askedif the hardware lessons “contributed significantly” to student ability to complete their designprojects. An average score of 4.21, with standard deviation of 1.27 was recorded (3.0 = SlightlyDisagree, 4.0 = Slightly Agree, 5.0 = Agree). Page 7.805.4 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ”While purely anecdotal, one other encouraging bit of evidence is available regarding thehardware technology lessons. Cadets in the electrical engineering

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CAD Applications in MET Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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B. Sridhara

Session 3649 Some New Techniques in Teaching Computer-Assisted Drafting/Design (CADD) B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)AbstractIn our Engineering Technology program, we teach three courses in CADD covering 2-Dconcepts and solid modeling. AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop (MDT) are the primary CADsoftware that we use in our instruction. We want to provide our students with experience in thepractical applications of CADD. Dr. Sridhara assisted a local non-profit organization that waslandscaping an adult care center and

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Droms; John Jantzi; Daniel Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

; Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education”a computer on the 100Mb/sec Ethernet network that provides file, download, control and otherservices to the experimental computers in the lab.The network organization, router and experimental computers can be reconfigured toaccommodate new network architectures and technologies. As network technologies evolve,new experimental networks will be added to the lab.The experimental computers will be configured to run multiple operating systems, includingWindows NT, Linux and Xinu (an open-source, Linux-like operating system). Linux and Xinuwill be available for use by students in systems and networking courses, where they can makechanges to the system and network

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Technology, Inc. Baltimore, MD. http://www.abet.org .2. Whitener, Ellen M., Brodt, Susan D., Korsgaard, M. Audrey, & J.M. Werner, Managers as Initiators of Trust: An Exchange Relationship Framework for Understan ding Managerial Trustworthy Behavior. Academy of Management. The Academy of Management Review , 23, 513-530. Page 7.1217.43. Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela, Ellis, Kathleen, & Winograd, G. (2000). Organizational Trust: What it Means, Why it Matters, Organizational Developme nt Journal, 18, 35-48. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Balasubramanian Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

IV, Phase I Report, SME, Dearborn, MI.D. M. PaiDevdas Pai is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He received his M.S.and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He teaches manufacturing processes and machine design. A registeredProfessional Engineer in North Carolina, he serves on the Mechanical PE Exam Committee of the National Councilof Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors and is active in the ASEE Manufacturing Division.B. KailasshankarBala Kailasshankar is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received theB. Tech. Degree in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. He has 20 years of research,development and manufacturing experience in the

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mueller

engineering problem as a project are many-fold but getting these projects is notalways easy. This paper discusses a real-world senior project done at Penn State University NewKensington in collaboration with local industry. By way of this project, this paper discusses theadvantages of real-world projects, suggests ways to find corporate partners to participate, andalso provides some suggestions on ways to ensure success.IntroductionThe senior project is a capstone project course taken in the final term of the 4-year Bachelor ofScience in Electromechanical Engineering Technology degree offered at Penn State UniversityNew Kensington (PSUNK). The objectives of the course are to train the students in projectmanagement, communication skills (both written