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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marvin Dixon

disciplines of chemical engineering,industrial engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanical engineeringtechnology, and nuclear engineering.Beginning with the school year 1994-95, students and faculty in chemical and mechanicalengineering at Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, and students andfaculty in mechanical engineering technology at South Carolina State University participated incollaborative design efforts addressing environmental restoration and waste management needsof the Westinghouse Savannah River Company, a DOE facility. Westinghouse has sponsoredtwenty-one of these projects. Starting in the school year 1996-97, mechanical and nuclear

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples

-P concept has been implemented in two courses so far at the University of Pittsburghat Johnstown (UPJ). The courses are Engineering Statics and Strength of Materials. TheEngineering Statics is a sophomore level course taken by all engineering technology disciplines(Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical). The Statics class was taught by a senior tenured faculty and itcontained fourteen (14) students. The Strength of Materials class is also a sophomore levelcourse. Only Civil and Mechanical Engineering Technology students take this course and itcontained thirty (30) students. The Strength of Materials class was taught by a junior un-tenuredfaculty member originally from the Middle East.Concept Analysis and EvaluationThe questions addressed to the

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jason White; Hardy Pottinger; Daryl Beetner; Vicki Eller

, which the participant can download from http://www.microsoft.com. o It is standard on Windows 98+ Page 7.401.3 o It is a free download for Windows 95 users “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” The Windows Media Technologies software is only available for the Windows operating system. Microsoft NetMeeting contains features for both the slide presentation and the audio stream.Options include: Support of real time audio

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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dr. Promod Vohra

Session 3560 A Potential Barrier to Completing the Assessment Feedback Loop Ed Furlong, Promod Vohra Northern Illinois UniversityAbstractNorthern Illinois University’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology employs acomprehensive nine-component assessment model. Each element in the assessment model (Pre-test, Post-test, and Portfolio; Standardized Testing; Student and Faculty Surveys; StudentInternships and Cooperative Work Performance; the Capstone Experience; Student PlacementInformation; Employer Surveys; Alumni Participation; and Peer Review of the Curriculum

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Mayhew; Richard Layton

intermediate-level instruction ininstrumentation and data acquisition, appropriate for implementation at the junior or senior level.I. IntroductionUpgrading undergraduate labs to incorporate modern, computer-based instrumentation and dataacquisition is a common area of continuous improvement in engineering programs as facultywork to provide students with instruction in this technology. Upgrades can include theimprovement of a single apparatus such as the heat exchanger upgrade described by Hinton etal.1 or the wind tunnel upgrade described in this paper, or the upgrade of several experimentswithin a lab such as that described by Craig and McConnell 2, or the development of a newlaboratory as described by Knight and McDonald 3, to the integration of

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Karweit

StudentSuccess in the WorkPlace and Beyond, Information Series 376, ERIC clearinghouse on Teaching andTeacher Education, pp 67-98.4. Karweit, Michael (1997), “A virtual laboratory for beginning scientists/engineers”, proceedings Ed-Media & Ed-Telecom 97, Calgary, Canada.Biography: Michael Karweit is Research Professor in Chemical Engineering with primary research interests influid mechanics and acoustics. He is also Director of the University’s Instructional Television Facility.His educational interests have focused on technology-enhanced instruction in engineering--inparticular,Web-based interactive JAVA applets. Page 7.502.7

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Marcal de Queiroz; Hartono Sumali

equipment from the federal government of Brazil. Later he Page 7.1083.3visited Purdue and gathered information on Professor Sumali’s Instrumentation and DataAcquisition course at Purdue. He then worked with Professor Sumali to prepare for the teaching Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationof the course at UFV. To cover Professor Sumali’s travel, accommodation and remuneration,Professor Marçal-de-Queiroz obtained funding from the Brazilian National Council for Scientificand Technological

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Owino; Ronald Goulet

scenario, thefollowing real features were incorporated into the lab. Each is discussed briefly below:§ Team project deliverables as well as individual deliverables§ Direct application of principles in the mechanics of materials Page 7.545.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education§ Design analysis and valuation using MS Excel®§ Hands on application of strain gage and digital DAQ technology§ Analysis of experimental data and reporting using MS Word® and Excel®§ Written engineering

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

; Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 6. R. Butterfield, 1997, Eng. Educ., Vol. 86, p. 315. 7. NRC Report, 1999, Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology.Biographical InformationANNA DOLLÁRAssociate Professor, Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford , OhDegrees: Ph.D., M.S., Krakow University of Technology, Poland.Research area: applied mechanics, mechanics of composite materials, biomechanics, multi-media in engineeringeducation. Prior appointment: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.PAUL S.STEIFProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Wood; Mustafa Guvench

further graduate work at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio between 1970and 1975 and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. He is currently a fullprofessor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining U.S.M. he served on the facultyof M.E.T.U., Ankara and Gaziantep campuses, Turkey and at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests andpublications span the field of microelectronics including I.C. design and semiconductor technology and its application insensor development, finite element and analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronicinstrumentation and measurement

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

Research Laboratories (1985-1987) as a Senior ResearchEngineer and at Lawrence Technological University (1987-1990) as an Assistant Professor of MechanicalEngineering. In 1990, he joined Kettering University. He is currently teaching courses in Thermal Sciences,Mechanics, and Engineering Design. He also serves as the Director of M.E. Graduate Programs and the Director ofEnergy Systems Laboratory.Brenda S. Henderson, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University (formerly GMI)received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1993), and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1990) both from theUniversity of Houston. She has been at Kettering University since 1995 and teaches courses in Energy Systems aswell as Systems and Controls

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Roger Wallace; David Adams

format, writing and expression of engineering content. The types of interactions of we experienced with students have dealt with writing and engineering issues at a much deeper level than before, which makes the courses more rewarding for everyone.Bibliography1 Youra, S. (Ed.) Special Issue: Communications Across the Engineering Curriculum. Language and LearningAcross the Disciplines. Vol. 3, No. 2. Univ. of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology (July 1999).2 For a useful overview of this device, see Tichy, Noel. “The Teachable Point of View: A Primer.” HarvardBusiness Review. P82. (March-April 1999). President and Fellows of Harvard College.3 Bloom, Benjamin et al. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Vol. 1. New

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

totransfer new knowledge; to transfer scientific and technical know-how; and, most importantly, totransfer an innovative “can do” attitude into our general society. Undergraduates (juniors andseniors) and graduate students in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, and business are thetargeted students for this program. Small and developing technology based businesses in the stateof Arkansas are the targeted customers of the improvement process.Throughout the nation small businesses are responsible for our economic growth. One significantarea for small business development is in science and technology. In this area, researchuniversities have played a large role through its students and faculty in establishing start-upcompanies. For example, many

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Akbar Eslami

, pp. 495-502.9. Bokil, V. B. and Shirahatti, U. S., “A Technique for the Modal Analysis of Sound-structure InteractionProblems,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 173, No. 1, 1994, pp. 23-41.10. Guy, R. W. and Bhattacharya, M. C., 1973, “The Transmission of Sound Through a Cavity Backed Finite Plate,”Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 207-223.11. MSC/NASTRAN User’s Manual, 1991, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, Los Angeles, CA.12. COMET/Acoustics User’s Manual, 1991, Automated Analysis Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Biographical InformationDr Akbar Eslami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology at Elizabeth City State University. Hereceived a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

possibility of experimentation of new alternatives in the information’ssearch and in the problem’s solving. That makes the teacher an unreplaceable element,mainly in the orientation, correction, project/tasks suitability into the ideal level of thestudents background and also into the subject demands, creating the “familiarizationconditions in the ones involved with computers”46.Niquini and Botelho37 say that the teacher is an important part of the environments created Page 7.320.2by the multiple educational technologies, taking a fundamental role into the teaching- Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

have adopted and applied a systematic approach tothe analysis of the undergraduate industrial engineering process and the design of an informationsystem to manage the process to ensure service quality. The purpose of this study is to provideacademic units with an objective assessment of their capabilities, processes and service delivery,and a clear measurement of their service performance within the confines of the expectations andneeds of its stakeholders.IntroductionInformation Systems (IS) applications are becoming an essential part of daily life. Every day, allkinds of businesses rely on the power of information technologies to facilitate and improve themanagement of information - saving time and money, and improving productivity

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

when compared to students learning in traditional learningenvironments.1,2 These methods incorporate technologies such as wireless keypads that activelyengage students during the lecture. The benefits of collaborative methods where students workon projects together is dependent upon the group dynamics.3,4 According to Darlin andMcShannon3, traditional methods were successful for those students who generally aresuccessful in engineering while the success for high-risk students increased when the interactionlearning was conducted with the faculty member. Students can increase their problem solvingand critical thinking skills when given an opportunity to witness how an expert approaches andsolves a problem.5 Learning these skills requires a

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke

“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationsoftware “Working Model 2-D”, students model the action of the animal during weeks three andfour to understand how various features are integrated into the toy. This use of reverseengineering, supplemented by short lectures and introductions to technological tools, helps thestudents to understand the mechanisms of the animal. Figures 6 and 7 show one of the animalsin both the as-received and as-skinned condition.The specific goals of the Mechanical Engineering laboratory are: 1. Understand the basic principles of design and the relationship of design

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

defining, understandingand solving problems while some others struggle with logical and critical thinking. Teaming andcommunication skills are being addressed in a relatively small number of college courses. Inorder to get students who can solve real problems, we must address the need for developmentand implementation of course modules in innovation and inventiveness in different disciplines,especially engineering and technology. Such modules can and should be designed to enhanceteaming, communication and interpersonal skills.This paper discusses some of the problems in teaching innovative problem solving and suggestssome possible solutions based on experience in an undergraduate course at Florida AtlanticUniversity titled: “Introduction to

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oguz Soysal

, "Curriculum Integrated Engineering Design and Product Realization," ASEE'99 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, June 20 – 23, 1999.3. G. Zhang, "A Support Structure of Teaching Engineering Design to Freshman Students," ASEE'99 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, June 20 – 23, 1999.4. O. A. Soysal, “Freshman Design Experience: Solar Powered Irrigation System for a Remote farm,” ASEE 2000 Annual Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, June 18 – 21, 2000.5. W. C. Oakes, at al., Engineering Your Future, Great Lakes Press, 20016. M. M. El Wakil, Power Plant Technology, McGraw Hill, 1984.BiographyOguz A. Soysal received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.In 1983, he joined ABB-ESAS Power

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

Session 1432 Digital Signal Processing in the Undergraduate Curriculum Thomas L. Hemminger, Ralph M. Ford Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Engineering and Engineering Technology The Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend College Erie, PAAbstractThe use of high-speed data acquisition and digital signal processing (DSP) technology hasbecome the cornerstone of many areas of electrical engineering. This is particularly true in thefields of communications, controls, intelligent systems, signal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Chung

cognitions, offering a promising approach tomeasuring the cognitive processes underlying complex performance. REFERENCES[1] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. (2000). Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. Baltimore, MD.[2] American Society for Engineering Education. (1996). Assessment white paper: A framework for the assessment of engineering education.[3] American Society for Engineering Education. (1998). How do you measure success? Designing effective processes for assessing engineering education.[4] Waters, R., & McCracken, M. (1997). Assessment and evaluation in problem-based learning. In Proceedings of the annual Frontiers in Engineering Education

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

, American Society for Engineering Educationmore important by the availability of Internet technology. And it is here where grouppresentations of computing projects come into play in the composition course. In oursections of introductory computing and composition, students combine their computerscience work with their English class readings through oral presentations that reinforcethe communication components of a beginning programming class but also explain theanalogies uncovered between communications and computing, even at this fundamentallevel.IV. Implementation and Evaluation of the Computing and Composition Project During the 2000-2001 academic year, the authors received funding from theLucent Technologies Foundation to implement a

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Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Liz Oshaughnessy; Barbara Goldberg

istoday. At present, more women than men are attending college, and the statistics on collegegraduation indicate proportionately fewer women than men are attriting. However, if we examinethe segment of the college population that are pursuing careers in computer science, engineering,and other technical fields, we find that women are but a small minority here, and that someinstitutions experience selectively high migration of these talented women into other lesstechnical and less high paying professions.Clearly although much progress has been made in decreasing the gender gap in technical fields,women are still vastly underrepresented in engineering, science, information technology, andrelated fields. In fact, some estimates suggest a male/female

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Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kirankumar Gundrai

1845 EXPLOITATION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR ELECTRICAL UTILITY Kiran Kumar Goud Gundrai, B.Tech Bapatla Engineering College, Nagarjuna University,AP, India.The harnessing of the atom changed the nature of war forever and astounded the Worldwith its awesome power. Nuclear technologies also gave us a new source of Electricpower and new capabilities in medical research and imaging. Though controversial, theengineering achievement related to nuclear technologies remain the most important of the20th century. The paper discusses the perspective

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Session 2468 CREATING A VISUALLY RICH, ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR TEACHING MECHANICS OF MATERIALS John J. Wood*, Dave Winebrener, Jake Bartolomei, Daniel Jensen, Don Rhymer *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University/ Department of Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force AcademyAbstractFor the last 4 years we have been working to develop a suite of tools to enhance our Introductionto Mechanics course here at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). The course is taught to over1000 students per year and covers

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Szaroletta; Nancy Denton

withtechnical report writing. This paper includes an overview of FPB theory, analysis techniques, andtraditional laboratory procedures, and details the success of the FPB DAQ upgrade, operation,and outputs.Introduction:Beam flexure represents one of the three most common loading categories for mechanicalsystems. As such, it is on the syllabi of nearly all sophomore-level mechanics of materials courses,including the mechanical engineering technology course under consideration here. Within thelecture setting, FPB theory is developed from free-body diagram through beam deflection. Theoryis reinforced by analytical practice solving related homework problems 1-3. The corresponding FPBlaboratory has afforded students the opportunity to experimentally and

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Melanie Pearlman; Kimberly Turner

. Traditionally, engineering has significantly fewerfemales enrolled than their male counterparts. Various reasons have been investigated to thisend [5,6], with one being that certain areas of science and engineering, are not appealing tofemale students. It has also been shown that young women tend to choose careers which have ahuman element. By using specially designed experiments, these gender issues can be addressedin a very non-invasive way. MEMS is useful to this end in the following ways. First, it is a very‘clean’ technology. One must not get their hands dirty to participate. Actually the converse istrue, one must take special measures to ensure that one does not contaminate the MEMS andcause failure to occur. In addition, MEMS devices can be used

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dru Germanoski; David Brandes

comprehensive monitoring network and full watershedscale; (2) strong geologic and land use contrasts, and rapid development within the basin; (3)collaboration between engineering and natural science students and faculty; (4) emphasis onlinking data to public policy issues such as stormwater management; and (5) the degree ofinvolvement of the local community.BackgroundRecent reviews on higher education in the U.S. have documented a lack of technical literacyand propose that institutions of higher education provide "opportunities for allundergraduates to study science, mathematics, engineering, and technology as practiced byscientists and engineers"1 . Furthermore, it has been suggested that this literacy be acquiredby "direct experience with the methods

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

of research. This provides a greatopportunity to address this issue and bring this into the course in the near future. This part of the Page 7.866.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse will include learning how to represent such things as conservation laws, implicitrelationships, multi-dimensional observed phenomena, and multiple technology domains (e.g.,thermal, electrical, mechanical, etc.). Also, it will include lectures on event-driven modeling foranalog and digital. It will