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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

capstone design project, three teams of 1 st-class midshipmen (seniors majoring in oceanengineering at the U.S. Naval Academy) set about to identify and design an ocean energy systemto compete, at least conceptually, with Navy contractors. These teams explored various renew-able energy sources such as ocean thermal, wave, and offshore wind energy. In four-monthstime, each team researched the alternatives and developed a concept design for its selectedenergy source. Results were presented to a Review Panel consisting of Navy representatives andocean engineering professionals. Brief details of this capstone experience and educational oppor-tunities in renewable ocean energies at the U.S. Naval Academy are shared later in the paper.Past developments

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Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Smith; Adam Siurek; Jamie Workman

having several modes oftransmission for the important information. The theory behind the approach was simple:additional understanding can be obtained by engaging more of the senses, and being morethorough in the presentation of the details. The laboratory experiments involve the “hands-on”learning, but the supplemental materials attempt to enhance that learning by adding elements thatutilize visual and audio components. One portion of the project resulted in a CD-ROM withvideo demonstration of each laboratory experiment, accompanying audio to explain theprocedure as it is performed, and textual reference to the laboratory procedures alongside thewindow containing the video. 1 Also, the revised lab manual attempted to address areas ofconfusion

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Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

defined. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2561We hypothesize that improved quality of design products will be seen, and that thisimproved quality can be empirically linked to more effective use of writing during thedesign process. The last stage will involve interpretation of the findings, refinement ofthe assessment methods, and dissemination of results. The overall objectives of theproposed project are twofold: 1) to develop specific rubrics for assessing student writing according to the functions

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CAD Applications in MET Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

including unlimited disk space and easy access to thecourse from MTSU’s home page at http//www.mtsu.edu. Students at MTSU are given an e-mailaccount as soon as they are enrolled. Instructor, students and guests (with some limitations) canaccess the Courseinfo login page from the home page. After login, they would be taken to MyBlackboard page which displays the on-line courses that are offered by the instructor or taken bythe student depending on the user. One can access a specific course site from here, for example,in our case it is either CADD I (ET 2310) or CADD II (ET 3360). The Announcements page forCADD II is shown in Fig. 1. Announcements are displayed automatically with the option of

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International Graduate Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Lax

, toconvince these professors to consider making assignments containing oral and or writtencommunication components. As much research has pointed out, engineering professors haveother valid reasons—such as their concern about their own ability to teach communication skillsand the burden of grading them—that may add to their reluctance to assign writing inengineering courses.One spot in the undergraduate curriculum where written communication skills often account forpart of an assignment grade is in the context of the first- or second-year lab course. In fact,learning discipline-specific communication skills is one of the essential purposes of lab courses 1.This is a crucial time when undergraduate students first begin to learn engineering discourse

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Tragesser; Gregory Agnes

Page 7.999.1comments citing the lack of visual aids as an impediment to learning the material. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. .To more effectively pursue spacecraft educational and research objectives at AFIT, students inthe Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics designed and constructed a simulation satellite(SIMSAT).1 SIMSAT, see Fig. 1, provides AFIT with the capability to conduct practicalexperiments regarding attitude dynamics and control. SIMSAT is capable of fully rotating aboutits yaw and roll axes. Rotation about the pitch axis, however, is limited due to the air pedestal onwhich it rests. This air pedestal is used to simulate almost zero friction and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

selecting the final design. Teams werealso encouraged to use E-mail and/or other forms of electronic communication.2.2 Description of First ProjectIn the first project assignment, students were required to design and evaluate a 2-D structuralcomponent. The team’s objective was to design a cost effective component which can safelysupport a load, P = 1500 N, as shown in Figure 1. The component was machined from a 230mm x 100 mm x 6.35 mm sheet material using abrasive waterjet machining. Materials availableincluded mild steel, aluminum, or polycarbonate. The cost per part includes material cost,machining costs, cost savings associated with mass reduction and a recycled material costsavings. Material properties and cost data are given in Table 1. For

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Dinehart

; Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBased on the aforementioned criteria and correspondence with the site foreman, the studentsdetermined that sheet metal formwork and wood scaffolding should be used for construction.Furthermore it was their opinion that if the foundation could be completed prior to their arrival itwould be feasible to construct all elements of the formwork, scaffolding and cross during the fivedays of work. This assumption was then used to develop their design schedule, as the foundationdesign would need to be completed at least one week prior to the trip. The construction anddesign schedules are presented in Figure 1. Cross Design

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey-Van Kuren

the web as a communication tool hasadded another dimension to communication skills where students should have a basic level ofawareness and proficiency. The challenge for educators is to help students develop these skillswithin the context of engineering subject matter.Engineering educators have implemented a variety of web based tools to enhance their courses.These tools have included web based communication [1], web based instruction [2], and webbased laboratories [3]. Most of these methods focus on information flow from the instructor tothe students. Peer to peer communication is rarely addressed by course instructors. Gehringer [4]utilized the web to perform peer grading of homework assignments. Hailey et.al. [5] studied theuse of the

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Kohne

Session 3264 Case Study: Using a Neural Network to Identify Flaws during Ultrasonic Testing A. Kayabasi, G. S. Kohne and P. J. Coyne, Jr. Loyola College in Maryland Department of Electrical Engineering and Engineering Science Baltimore MD 21210-2699Abstract: A feed forward neural network with a single hidden layer was used to identify a series ofcylindrical samples based on the first ultrasonic echo. The simulated flaws were placed at varyingdistances directly in front of a 1 MHz broadband

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Glagola

their engineering staff, and it is these tools, not unique toGoal QPC or any other company, that will be addressed in this paper. A listing of the tools used inthe case study and their application is shown in Table 1. Although there a many other such toolsaddressed in the referenced text, these are the principal ones that have been successfullyimplemented in the classroom. TOOL PRINCIPLE FUNCTION APPLICATION Affinity Diagram Organize data Brainstorming Develop solutions C&E Fishbone Identifying causes and impacts Flowchart Process definition Force Field Identifying influence

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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

, discuss aspects of creating and usingthese, and give some results of student feedback from using these problems.I. Introduction: Mechanics Software Development Efforts at UM-RollaThe faculty of the Basic Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR)have been involved in developing educational software for nearly a decade. The first project,BEST (Basic Engineering Software for Teaching) Dynamics, led by Dr. Ralph Flori, consisted offorty simulations of kinematics and kinetics problems that enabled learners to vary inputs to testand observe a wide variety of configurations and behavior (1). Dr. David Oglesby and EdCarney created BEST Statics and On Call Instruction (OCI) for Statics, which were subsequentlycombined to create

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Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anders Nelsson

ofuniversity studies.Course syllabusThe project is accomplished in teams of four students during a period of seven weeks. Each teamdesign their own prototype control system for the mobile robot. On the last day of the project,there is a competition between the student teams in which the robot will race on a track withobstacles. In the first part of the course there are lectures regarding the DSP, DSP card, DSPsoftware, sensors technology 1 and the system structure of the mobile robot. The main part of thetuition in the course will be project supervision. During the course the teams also performs threeoral presentations. The examination is individual and the student should be able to describe thework of the whole project. The teams have access to a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susannah Spodek; Marianne Machotka; D. Joseph Mook

programs.I. IntroductionDuring the 1999-2000 academic year, 143,590 American students studied abroad. Of thatnumber, just 4,139, or 2.9% were engineering majors.1 Although this represents a 1 % increaseover the last few years, it is still a remarkably low number. Historically, study abroad programswere designed for students to acquire or hone foreign language skills as well as gain culturalunderstanding. For students of liberal studies the credit earned overseas often fulfilledgraduation requirements. Because the curricula at engineering programs in United States (US)institutions require few liberal studies and foreign language requirements, studying abroad wasregarded as an interruption in an engineering student’s education. In recent years many

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Hudson

students to have their own personal computers. Study ofimplementing a personal computer initiative began in the MSU College of Engineering inthe mid-1990’s. A team was established to evaluate the merits of requiring MSU COEstudents to have personal computers.1 The driving force behind the team’s work was toimprove the educational process. The goal within COE was to integrate computers intostudents’ everyday lives so that they use them as we do.2The team found that, at that time, many liberal arts schools were incorporating personalcomputer requirements but relatively few engineering schools were doing the same.2Several “factors for change” in engineering education, however, were related to conceptsthat could greatly benefit from a personal

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Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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D. Joseph Mook

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Davis

engineering classes in the same traditional manner: theprofessor masters all the knowledge, assigns readings and homework, and spends the class timereciting the knowledge, working problems, and/or fostering discussion. The teacher serves as thefocal point for student learning, and his or her role in the classroom is that of dispenser ofknowledge and arbiter of conceptual disputes. The teaching-learning model could be describedas a wagon-wheel or star model, with all students (S) oriented to and dependent upon theprofessor (P) as the source of information and interactions. Figure 1, Teacher-Centered Learning ModelIn the traditional model, students see themselves as the recipients of knowledge. Their role is tolisten

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

Session 2087 Real Time Mechatronic Design Process for Research and Education Devdas Shetty 1, Jun Kondo 2, Claudio Campana3, Richard A. Kolk 4 1,2,3 - University of Hartford, College of Engineering West Hartford, CT, USA 4 - Carrier Electronics Div., United Technologies Corp., Farmington, CT, USAAbstractThis paper presents the design methodology used in various real time mechatronics projects thatinvolve data acquisition, real time control and embedded processing. As a design philosophy,mechatronics serves as an integrating approach to engineering design. A mechatronicallydesigned product relies heavily on system

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

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Myrna Swanberg; Daniel Solarek; Allen Rioux

127 students currently enrolled in the program with approximately 60% in the lower-division courses and 40% taking upper-division courses. SCHOOL FROSH/SOPH JUNIOR/SENIOR TOTAL STUDENTS Central Ohio 3 2 5 Cincinnati State 3 3 6 Columbus State 4 1 5 Cuyahoga 0 0 0 Jefferson 0 0 0 Lakeland 4

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Linda Leffel; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

2793 Distance Learning Trends for Graduate Engineering Dr. Glenda R. Scales, Dr. Linda G. Leffel, Cheryl A. Peed Virginia TechIntroductionConstant technological changes require employees to seek educational opportunities to staycompetitive. It is estimated that 50% of all employees’ skills become outdated within 3 to 5years.1 In today’s society it is quite clear that investment in intellectual capital is importantand valuable in this new economy.Intellectual capital is now a major engine of economic growth. Research translated toworking ideas leads to innovation. Innovation

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Mehalik

company and a way to demonstrate thatthe products that they were making and selling were indisputably in line with the environmentalclaims they were making about their products. The concept that the team settled upon over thecourse of the next year consisted of two key parts: 1. Make sure that all parts of the processingchain at the company were well-specified, meaning that employees needed to continuallyanticipate any possibilities for undesired chemicals to enter the production process and to takeactions to make sure they did not. They needed to find out what the indicators might be andwhat types of sampling should be conducted if something did happen to enter the system. 2. TheEPEA would establish a list of chemicals that each supplier and

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

navigation structure built in the United States1.Constructed on land in a casting basin as two large football-field sized segments, the completeddam sections are floated out into the river, towed 27 miles upstream to a mooring site near thenew dam location where final preparations are made1. Simultaneously, construction of the damfoundation is occurring from barges in the river; thus decreasing the total time needed for damconstruction, as well as the cost. The prepared dam segments will then be towed to the dam siteand sunk onto the prepared foundation. Once the segments are in place, completion of the damstructure will occur from the river above. 1The field trip allowed students to see the considerable scale of this $107 million 1 project

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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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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Dessert; Subramaniam Ganesan

simulation,testing and debugging. Design of DSP embedded system using Synopsys COSSAP tools. Thestudents will do a set of lab projects and a large embedded system design project.A list of books and web references used in this course are given in the reference.The course topics are listed below and the time spent on these topics. 1. Introduction to Embedded System hardware, software and selection consideration (2 hr) 2. Quick review of DSP theory: Sampling, aliasing, quantization, fixed point / floating point arithmetics, Convolution, FIR/IIR Filters, DFT, FFT, Z Transform (2hrs) Page 7.447.1

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

thesenewer version there are some changes being made to facilitate all the companies trying toachieve certification. Changes include new requirements, new flexibility, new emphasis, newstructure and new approach [1].Historically the ISO 9000 standards were created from a chain of earlier military andgovernmental quality standards for example US military (Mil-Q-9858A) and NATO (AQAP-1). In 1979, the British Standards Institution issued “BS 5750”, which along with otherexisting standards such as Canada “Z-299” quality standards became the eventual basis forthe present ISO9000 international standards. After ISO 9000 was issued, the BritishStandards Institution revised “BS 5750” to conform to the new composite standard [2].ISO 9000 is fairly simple to

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

integratesthe Fast Track program in the “Introduction to Engineering” course (ORIE 104), the orientationcourse for engineering freshmen. In the Integration Model, freshmen are required to participatein the program. The program is offered in two overlapping sessions of about 100 students each (Table 1).Students who attend session one are enrolled in section one of Introduction to Orientation (ORIE104:001) and those that are assigned to attend session two are enrolled in section two of Page 7.558.2Introduction to Orientation (ORIE 104:002). The program includes an opening general session Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

gears because of manufacturing costs. The Wankel engine, with its rotor andchamber based on cycloidal curves, has leakage problems and has not gained wideacceptance. Cams with cycloidal displacement are being replaced by those withpolynomial function displacement. Consequently, most textbooks in kinematics do notcover these topics or cover them with limited scopes. Students and practicing engineerstherefore do not have proper exposure of these subjects.With new ways of gear manufacturing like injection molding, cycloidal gears arereemerged as an option. Additionally, cycloidal gears should also play an important rolein the emerging field in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) [1]. Moreover,there is a renewed interest [2] in the Wankel

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Zola; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori

students at a large urban public university.As part of the Entering students survey, students are asked to rate the importance of goals in theirdecision to enroll. Student motivational theories maintain that there are two types of learningmotivation: (1) intrinsic and (2) extrinsic. Intrinsically motivated learning is learning “for itsown sake, for the enjoyment it provides, the learning it permits, or the feelings ofaccomplishment it evokes” (Lepper, 1998). Extrinsically motivated learning is learning “inorder to obtain some reward or avoid some punishment external to the activity itself” (Lepper,1998). This study deals with intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.Freshman cumulative grade point averages for 1 st and 2 nd semester were used as the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

the creation of unique coursecombinations where faculty from engineering, math, science, humanities, and social scienceworked together to define student learning outcomes for project-based curricula. Engineering andnon-engineering courses were clustered into integrated First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs).Engineering and interdisciplinary courses were paired in the sophomore and junior year, byemphasizing collaborative projects involving engineering and non-engineering students. Theintegrated learning blocks created for four years of curriculum are shown in Figure 1.Curriculum Restructuring – Design Integration:The integration of applied research and contextualized design throughout the engineeringcurriculum, started from a design-based

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Zola; Eugene Deess; Vladimir Briller

required to take placement tests in English andMathematics. In addition, the students who plan to major in Chemistry take a Chemistryplacement test. Placement test results, high school grades and SAT scores are used to determineindividual course placement.The Mathematics placement is based on Elementary Algebra, Pre-Calculus, SAT Math score,and High School Rank in Class, when applicable. The English placement is based on score s onthree New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test and SAT Verbal score. Toledo ChemistryPlacement Exam is used to place students in Chemistry classes. Table 1 provides information oncurrent NJIT requirements for placement in Math, English, HSS and Chemistry GUR courses