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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subha Kumpaty

Page 7.803.1Shapiro text 2 is employed for mechanical engineering sequence and Cengel and Boles text 3 is Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering 1 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationutilized for mechanical engineering technology program. The presenter introduced the TEST™software to Spring 1999 class as a means of support for calculations for a design project, whichopened the door for its further utilization in the curriculum thereafter. The student feedback hasbeen very affirming and this paper intends to present the sweet story of successful integration ofa software tool

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Maxwell; Michael Parten

Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” 29th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Monterey, CA, August 1994.[4] F. Barbir, M. Fuchs, A. Husar, and J. Neutzler, “Design and Operational Characteristics of Automotive PEM Fuel Cell Stacks”, Society of Automotive Engineer, Inc., 1998.[5] Parten, M.E., Maxwell,T.T., et.al., “An Electrically Assisted, Hybrid Vehicle,” Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May, 1998[6] Parten, M.E., Maxwell,T.T., et.al., “A Combined Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Laboratory,” Proceedings of ASEE 1999 Annual Conference, Charolette, North Carolina, June 1999[7] Parten, M.E., Maxwell,T.T., et.al., “Modeling a PEM Fuel Cell for Use in a Hybrid Electric

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tony Wong; Pascal Bigras

learning process isa gradual construction process based on the interactions created between the learner and the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002. American Society for Engineering Education Page 7.108.1knowledge to acquire. It is the richness of these interactions that realizes the wealth of thelearning process.According to Piaget, while interacting with the knowledge subject, the learner will encountersituations that lead to cognitive disequilibrium – the learner will question his ownrepresentations. He will react and try to

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

yourprofessional career but how the element of engagement can lead to more learning in the classroom andmore discovery opportunities.I. My Journey Down the Tenure-TrackI started the tenure process focusing on the traditional triad of teaching, service, and research. In mysecond year, Purdue University secured a new president. This president enlarged th e triad and it wasredefined as learning, engagement, and discovery. What I found as I absorbed this new university change,is that the traditional university as a whole is under challenge from various forces worldwide. Technology,globilization and virtualization are just few of the factors that will help define the university of the future.Higher education is producing a product of insufficient quality to

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

our successful experience of integrating other disciplines into our designsequence, as well as one way to give the students a jump-start on the teaming process. Ourexperiences in teaching the students to work in teams continue to feed our innovation in how tobe more effective at enabling teaming.REFERENCES:1. Dr. James Ladesic, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, conversations andun-published course materials exchanged between 6/01 and 10/01.DR. RACHEL SHINNDr. Rachel Shinn is an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University inPrescott, AZ. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,California. Before beginning

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Khalid Al-Olimat

Session 2793 DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING TOOL TO OPTIMIZE STUDENTS’ LEARNING OF UNDERGRADUATE ELECTROMAGNETICS AT OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY Khalid S. Al-Olimat, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Ohio Northern University Email: k-al-olimat@onu.eduStudents have generally found electromagnetics a difficult subject to understand and learn.Despite the publication of many textbooks in this field, each one is intended to provi de

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Edwards; David Forsman

simple, economic changes. Thispaper reports on these issues, and how they were resolved.I. Introduction:At Penn State Erie, Mechanical Engineering Technology Students are required to complete aproject during their senior year. This project is typically sponsored by a local industry, and isdesigned to teach the students how the design and development process works. Typically, thestudents are required to manage the entire project from the planning and scheduling stagethrough design, analysis, and final report.Occasionally, a project comes along which is not sponsored by a local industry, but by anindividual who has an interest in helping the school and the students. One such project wasproposed by a former student who races late model dirt track

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nathaniel Whitmal

indicate that the course was generally successful in meetingits goals, and also point to areas of improvement for future offerings.1. IntroductionDSP has, in recent years, become a driving force in the advancement of multimedia andtelecommunications technology. In many applications requiring embedded computing (e.g., faxmachines, modems, cellular telephones, disk drives), DSP platforms can provide lower cost andhigher computational efficiency than general-purpose microprocessors can. Many students haveresponded to this demand by pursuing additional training in DSP. Munson and Jones [1], forexample, note that the percentage of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students at theUniversity of Illinois choosing DSP for one of their three

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Collection Issues Forum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bernier

databases. Although some large universities have the financialresources to afford such hot new linking services as Ex Libris’s SFX or Endeavor’s one-shotsearching tool, Encompass, smaller academic libraries are often unable to afford such powerfulutilities. That does not mean, however, that smaller academic libraries cannot still takeadvantage of some powerful linking technology. This paper will describe how the library atRose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a small engineering and science college, utilized some ofthese features to link two full text databases to the library OPAC and directly to electronicjournals. By adding MARC records containing links for each of the full text titles of eachdatabase into the OPAC, a loop can be created, whereby

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

engineering projects and solving contemporary andfuture engineering problems. The complexity of modern technology and the sophistication ofcurrent knowledge and procedures makes it impossible for any single individual to know and doeverything; assistance from others is essential in virtually every engineering endeavor. Page 7.909.1It is vital that engineering graduates both understand the nature of, and be able to function in,team situations. As a result, engineering education must include a significant number ofexperiences that impact students in ways that build awareness and skills in teaming. There aremany formats in which this can be done. Teams

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Beams

LabVIEW(National Instruments, Austin, TX). Permanent copies of the Project TUNA hardware have beenconstructed and have been successfully used in the electrical engineering laboratory curric ulumat the University of Texas at Tyler. Resources related to Project TUNA may be obtained fromhttp://www.eng.uttyl.edu/usr/dbeams/tuna/project_TUNA.htm.Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the Project TUNA instrument. The heart of Project TUNA isa dual switching- type phase-sensitive demodulator and a pair of low-pass filters. A GPIB-controlled HP33120A signal generator (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA) serves as thesignal source; quadrature networks provide produce two sinusoidal outputs in phase quadraturerelative to each other. The cosine signal is

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reid

, Session 1615, 1999.KENNETH J. REID Page 7.635.8 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"Kenneth Reid is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering. He has a BS degree in Computer and ElectricalEngineering from Purdue University, and an MSEE from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is currentlyworking to implement advanced digital design techniques into early digital courses, electronics manufacturing, andimplementing different learning and teaching styles in the classroom

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cindy Finelli

also the Director of Assessment for thePurdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI and has been highly involved in the development ofoutcomes assessment processes. Page 7.439.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Nestor

and Associate Chair of Computer Engineering withIllinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His teaching and research interests include VLSI Design,Computer Engineering, and Computer-Aided Design for VLSI. Page 7.204.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Smith

antenna deployment scheme and conclusively demonstratingantenna survival in the launch environment was the only way of avoiding a risky anddifficult total redesign of PCSat.By December of 2000, construction of PCSat had progressed to full-scale workingmodels of the frame and inner shelf. Mockups of the outer plates and antenna mountswere added to one of these models in such a way that the antennas could be tied down asthey would be during flight. The NRL Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST)generously offered the use of their vibration tables for flight simulation, and testing tookplace during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. T he NRL equipmentshook the engineering model to twice the vibrational loads expected during

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mara Wasburn

colleagues said she had taken the semester off. One semesterstretched into two and then three. She did not return. Neither did the male colleague who hadhelped me with my dissertation data. Someone thought he had transferred, or perhaps not. Hecould not be certain. That colleague never returned either.Since the 1960s, the attrition rate of doctoral students has consistently been estimated at 50%nationwide 1, 2, 3. The attrition rate for women students, especially those in engineering, science,and technology whose problems are exacerbated by their minority status, is estimated to be muchhigher, as they experience what is termed a “leaky pipeline” at every phase of their education 1, 4,5, 6 . The costs are measured not only in terms of the toll

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin

Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SDin 1982 and 1985, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with special emphasis inPhysics and Science Education from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS in 1997. Dr. Larkin -Hein’sresearch interests primarily involve the assessment of student learning in introductory physics courses. She makesuse of writing as a learning and assessment tool for understanding how non-majors learn physics. Dr. Larkin -Hein's research further involves strong learning style components. Her research further involves studying the roleof technology as an assessment and learning tool. Dr. Larkin -Hein has been an active member of the AmericanAssociation of Physics Teachers

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Masaaki Mizuno

and S. Wingo, “MFC Internals – Inside the Microsoft Foundation Class Architecture”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996. [6] S. Yamagata, "Teaching Database Systems for Beginners in Industry", in Proceedings of the 1999 JSEE Annual Conference, Japanese Society for Engineering Education, 1999.Biographical InformationMASAAKI MIZUNO is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences at Kansas StateUniversity. His research interests include operating systems and distributed systems.SHIMBU YAMAGATA is a manager at Hitachi Institute of Technology. His research interests include informationsystems and computer/human interaction. Page

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Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Harris

to pursue and wonder “what do engineers really do?” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationUnfortunately, introductory classes in engineering often are a poor reflection of what engineersactually spend their time doing and very few offer technical depth. Chip design has traditionallybeen offered at the graduate or senior level. It is one of the marvels of modern technology thathas revolutionized our world and appears completely unapproachable to the uninitiated.However, the subject has proven to be quite accessible to freshmen. Students with no priorexperience and no special mathematical

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Koffman; Bryan Waltrip; George Piper; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

Session 2559 A Lecture on Accurate Inductive Voltage Dividers Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1, Bryan Waltrip 2, Andrew Koffman 2 and George Piper1 1 United States Naval Academy, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department Annapolis, MD 21402, Telephone: 410 293 6124 Email: avramov@usna.edu 2 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Electricity Division Gaithersburg, MD 21899. Telephone: 401 975 2438, Email: bryan.waltrip@nist.govIntroductionThe United States Naval Academy is an undergraduate school with a successful

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sig Lillevik

competition.But for each of these concerns, technology and its application promises to offer exciting solutions. It willrequire educators to innovate and adapt to changing times. The use of web sites and presentationapplications represent two recent changes that support the online classroom, or near-paperlessinstruction. We use the term near paperless because most engineering instructors use problem-basedassessment and that is difficult to implement online. Thus, tests require paper for students to demonstratetheir work and to receive partial credit. In summary, institutions that capitalize on this paradigm shift willtake advantage of the above opportunities and improve the quality of their educational programs.WebsitesThe educator may choose to use web

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

efficient symbolic formal language (e.g. Boolean logic). It is totally natural that this is not currently done, because adopting such a Brunerian [7] discovery-learning type of Page 7.825.4 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” approach to instruction requires the development of new educational technology, as well as early introduction, of some basic ideas of computer architecture and programming.3.2 Theoretical Foundations of GamesFor the purposes of this paper, we will define

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

her memory. References Cited1. "Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering," Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MA, 1998 (available on ABET WWW homepage: www.abet.org).2. Perry, W.G., Jr., Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York, 1970.3. King, P.M. and K.S. Kitchener, Developing Reflective Judgment, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1994.4. Pavelich, M.J., and W.S. Moore, “Measuring the Effect of Experiential Education Using the Perry Model,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, pp. 287-292, 1996.5. Moore, W. S.. "The Measure of Intellectual Development: A Brief

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Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mohammed Haque

. in Civil/Structural Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology,Newark, New Jersey. His research interests include fracture mechanics of engineering materials, compositematerials and advanced construction materials, computer applications in structural analysis and design, artificialneural network applications, knowledge based expert system developments, application based software Page 7.164.8developments, and buildings/ infrastructure/ bridges/tunnels inspection and database management systems. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hartmann; Greg Harstine; Andrew Milks

Environment”. Journal of Engineering Education, October 2001, pp. 491-505. 4. Seese, Lillian. “How I Get My Students to Work as Hard as I Do”, 2001 Teaching for aChange: Weaving the Web of Community”, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, June 13-16, 2001.Andrew Milks P.E. received his B.S.E.E. degree from Ohio Northern University in 1987 and M.S. in ControlSystems Engineering from West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 1990. Before joining the Stark Statefaculty, he worked in process instrumentation and controls and continues to consult in the area.Richard Hartmann II enlisted in the U.S. Army prior to completing his B.S.E.E. in 1994 and M.S.E.E 1997 bothfrom the University of Akron. Mr. Hartmann is currently writing his Ph. D

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Barrière

Session 2793 Using the Web to promote active learning outside of class time Caroline Barrière School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada, K1N 7Z3AbstractIn this paper, the Web is viewed favorably as helping learning in large class settings. The Web'soverall advantage is to generate a virtual presence for the students to feel guided outside of classtime. Two important aspects of this guidance are presented that promote learning. First,tracking and feedback through

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ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Cliver

Using Power Point in Distance Learning Laboratories Richard C. Cliver Department of Electrical Engineering Technology Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss using power point presentations to enhance circuits laboratories for a distance learning course. Students in this course meet with the instructor for one day instead of two hours for eight weeks during the quarter. Laboratory experiments with directions portrayed with diagrams, photographs, and words were given to the students to do at home before they came to campus with power point presentations. This allowed the students to be more familiar with the material before they

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raj Desai; Ted Loso; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

aspects of industryand education. The ability of a student to visualize the material depicted on a drawing in its’completed form is one of the primary purposes of a graphical design curriculum. Variousmethods have emerged using prepared models, photographs, and pictorials to illustrate what thedrawing is meant to represent. Students typically work from these prepared examples in theproduction of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawings with little opportunity tocreate something new. The question arises if students really see what the drawings represent.Larger companies, such as Chrysler, are now sending design engineers out for real world designexperience on the shop floor before actually having them design cars. The ability to see

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick J. Couvillion; Larry A. Roe; Ing-Chang Jong

. Couvillion is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas,where he received his BSME in 1975. He received his MSME in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in1981, both at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has served on and chaired ASME and ASHRAE technicalcommittees. His research interests are in the thermal sciences.LARRY A. ROELarry A. Roe is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas and is affiliatedwith the Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. He received a BSME in 1971 and an MS inEngineering Science in 1976, both from the University of Mississippi. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from the Uni-versity of Florida. His research

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello

moving away from the one kind of learningthat we know to be most effective, namely, one-on-one instruction. As the need for good teachersat the university level continues to grow, we see this paradox intensifying. And we see theproblem manifesting itself in a particularly nasty way in curricula that predominantly focus oncultivating abstract reasoning ability in future scientists and engineers. The data tells us that aseducators, we are not producing students able to successfully employ context-independentreasoning in technical domains. This is true despite the fact that there has been great progressmade in developing educational technologies and aides for teaching formal, context -independentdeductive reasoning; we refer here to an abundance of