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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shawna Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

6:30pm WISE CenterThursday, December 6 – 12 FINALS!!V. Retention Programming Evaluation-WISE Member forumsWISE holds two member forums each semester to evaluate the progress for the new andcontinuing retention programs. This past fall feedback was positive. Students really enjoyed thewellness series, as well as the community service involvement. In addition, old favorites like theWIN series and WISE Seminars were popular as well. Students further greatly appreciated theimprovements made to the WISE Center stating: “It feels like the College is taking us seriouslyand really supporting us.”VI. Retention ResultsThe enrollment of women in college ha s been steadily increasing from 532 (16.8%) in fall 1991to 940 (20.2

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin

development.AcknowledgmentThe above study was funded by The U.S. Department of Education under Title II, Part B –Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program to the District of Columbia (Grant#JA-OPERA-01-0002. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors' and notnecessarily those of the U.S. Department of Education or the District of Columbia.Bibliography[1] Dede, C. (1999). The multiple-media difference. Technos, 8, 16 - 18.[2] Bruner, J. (1963). The process of education. Cambridge. Harvard University Press.[3] Papert, S. & Turkle, S. (1993). Styles and voices. For the Learning of Learning of Mathematics, 13, 49 - 52.[4] Dede, C. & Sprauge, D. (1999). Constructivism in the classroom: If I teach this way am I doing my job

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

of them including the junior and the sophomore were in the Page 7.632.2biotechnology specialization area and two seniors were in the transport specialization area. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”There were three educational modules that were integrated into class material: the first two (M1and M2, see Table 1) covered bioreactor operations and were originally developed by T. D.Giorgio and S. Brophy at Vanderbilt. The first one (M1) focused primarily on bioreactor choiceand

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

Engineering Education Table 1. Terminology Term Description Product (i = Product type(s) produced by the system. 1…m) Period (j = Discrete unit of time into which the production time horizon is partitioned. A period may 1…n) be a week within a time horizon of three months, for example. Demand (dij) Forecasted customer demand for product i in period j. Schedule Amount of product i already scheduled to be finished in period j. This represents an receipts (SRCij) initial condition, since at startup there are likely to be batches of product already in production, ready for release at some known future period

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Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Magin; Christopher Comer; J Hetling

). A computational model of electrical stimulation of the retinal ganglion cell. IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering 46(5):505-514.8. Stett, A., Barth, W., Weiss, S., Haemmerle, H & Zrenner, E. (2000). Electrical multisite stimulation of the isolated chicken retina. Vision Research 40:1785-1795.9. Grumet, A.E., Wyatt, J.L. & Rizzo, J.F. (2000). Mulit-electrode stimulation and recording in the isolated retina. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 101:31-42.10. Nadig, M.N. (1999). Development of a silicon retinal implant: cortical evoked potentials following focal stimulation of the rabbit retina with light and electricity. Clinical Neurophysiology 110:1545-1553.11. Norman, R.A., Maynard

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Schmidt; Gregory Plett

across another article promoting the control-systems laboratory at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign.5 An appealing quality of this facility is that it is shared amongseveral departments. The control-systems laboratory at UCCS had previously been housed andoperated by the ECE department, but a new MAE program in the college needed similar facilities.We concluded that a revived laboratory was essential, and should meet the following goals: 1. Hands-on: The new lab should promote control-systems education with experimentation, requiring identification and control of physical device(s). The laboratory course should be designed to complement and synchronize with the lecture course in order to best reinforce concepts learned

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

andprovided for this service to be provided separate from a server, the PC running thesoftware was called a bridge. Today, we all call a layer 3 forwarding device a router.But this term was not standard across the industry until the 90’s. Tanenbaum’s 1981 11and Stallings 198512 texts on computer networking call these devices Gateways followingthe ArpaNet terminology and don’t include the term “Router” at all (at least in the index),however they do discuss “routing” at length. Though we studied networks in school,each of the authors had been in industry for years when the term Router became the onetrue name for a layer 3 forwarding device. One of us remembers clearly being lecturedand what seemed to be intentionally humiliated by a certain technical

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Vavreck

/13/02 Statistics 23 Install M. Fox 6/18/02 6/12/02 6/20/02 Software 46 Test Airfoil S. Howell 6/20/02 6/26/02 Figure 2: Open Task Reportperiods (a reporting period is the time between status meetings). The meeting participantsdiscuss the status of each of these tasks, and notes are taken by the project manager to track theproject and provide alerts about potential problem areas.Advanced Project ManagementA more advanced project management area which is implemented in the project is the use ofTheory of Constraints (TOC) project management techniques.2 7 TOC is an approach tomanagement which acknowledges

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ann Saterbak

; Page 7.786.3sections are offered Monday/Wednesday/Friday (M/W/F) and Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education(T/T/S). Class times on M/W and T/T are 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. On F and S, students need to be inthe lab less than 1 hr (usually to feed and/or passage cells).In BIOE 342, students learn and master sterile technique. They develop their ability to visuallyassess cell morphology and confluency. Students learn how to maintain cells in culture and areresponsible for maintaining cells throughout the course. Students conduct a range ofexperiments, including viability

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bonnie McCormick; Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

linked directly to program outcomes andobjectives of the degree program(s) affected by the changes. In addition to broaderresponsibilities, the Strategic Planning Committee assists the Curriculum Committee todetermine how the School’s strategic objectives and outcomes are influenced by curriculum Page 7.135.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand/or course changes being considered by the Curriculum Committee. The remainder of thissection describes School efforts during the fall 2001

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jon Dixon

and its potential contributions to design excellence areexamined. The concepts of “favorite”, “best in class”, “quintessential” and “designexcellence” are compared and defined. Questions about whether we live in a “claptrap”world are considered.Topics such as “S-Curve” analysis, closed versus open systems and technology pushversus market pull are blended with critiques of DFM/A and QFD to attempt methods ofunderstanding product development methodologies. Ethics in design forms an essentialfinal point of discussion.This paper outlines the course and illustrates its unique nature. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeannette Neal

Technology (Web-Net Tech) Certificate Program beingdeveloped as part of the project, distinctive features of the program, innovative teaching/learningstrategies being incorporated into the program, and first year accomplishments and results.The Web-Net Tech Program is being developed by Erie Community College in collaborationwith the University at Buffalo, guided and supported by education-industry partners. This NSFproject (Jeanette Neal, PI; Peter Scott, Co-PI) is designed to assist industry to meet its needs for awell-trained Information Technology (IT) workforce and prepare student s for professionalcareers in IT, focusing on the high-demand area of web-network technology. We define web-network technology to be the design, deployment and

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

,perspectives that might need to be negotiated or require compromise. The literature on designeducation initiatives clearly reveals an emphasis on developing group-dynamics, timemanagement, presentation, and leadership skills while neglecting the discovery and analysis ofdifferent perspectives in the group or, better, practice at listening to and valuing perspectivesother than one’s own (see for example, [5, 12, 19]).Given this focus on them as individuals, students tend to understand design work as benefiting auniform and undifferentiated set of users, in this case ‘the blind.’ Team 19’s product designspecification, for example, was required to include the following categories: performance, cost,market constraints, reliability, safety, aesthetics

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Prusak

by developers of Theory ofInventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) shows that only 1% of the patents were based on a majorscientific discovery, 4% based on field of discovery external to the scientific field of patentedapplication, 18% based on existing technical system, while the remaining 77% were minorinventions or repackaged existing solutions 2, 3 .Altshuller 4 cites inconclusive results of many psychological studies aiming at describing creativityand process of creation. He concludes that till these days, psychologists truly dodge the problemby studying creativity using only experiments with brain-teasers and chess-type challenges. Inessence, since 1940’s, no new results have been obtained in explanation of process of creativityand its

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Migri Prucz

currentlist of high-school students who are interested in the study of engineering, and havequalified for admission into the college. This information is used to update the computerdatabase maintained by CEMR' s recruiting office, that includes about 36,000 names ofprospective students and high-school personnel, mainly mathematics/science teachers andcounselors, from West Virginia and twelve other states. A brochure describing CEMR' sundergraduate programs is mailed in the summer to the entire distribution of thisdatabase.Frequent visits are conducted throughout the year to various high schools in the region, toinitiate and maintain close contacts with students, their families and teachers. Suchinteractions are established, usually, in response to

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mayer

farm is less daunting than that of a tidal power facility. Power derivedfrom winds depends on the cube of wind speed. Theoretically, the power, P a, available to a windturbine [in W] may be described by the equation: P a = 0.6AV3, when the blade sweep area, A, isin [m2] and wind velocity, V, is in [m/s]. However, since the most perfectly-designed windturbine can extract at most 60% of the energy available, a more practical result for the conver -sion potential is given by: P c = a·Pa , where the coefficient a ranges between 0.2 and 0.4.One would argue that there are few wind power amenities other than power generation, whileconcerns include farm noise, land-use restrictions, and (line-of) sight issues. Such impedimentsare common to land-based

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

approachcapable of addressing the uncertain, dynamic behavior inherent in complex problems.In taking a systemic view of asynchronous educational problems there are three importantassumptions. The first assumption holds that problems are a product of a ‘complexproblem system’ that produces the often ‘symptomatic’ conditions labeled asproblematic. Therefore, it is inconsequential to talk of complex problems, or the manifestconditions defined as problematic, as separate and distinct from the contributingsystem(s) that generates the conditions. This assumption is consistent with system-basedproblem solving approaches that recognize the complex system nature of problems(Flood and Jackson, 1991; Flood 1995). It is more appropriate to talk of a ‘problemsystem

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

systems.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 45, 1983, pp. 1017-1028.3. Bloom, B. S., et al. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. McKay Press, 1956.4. Bloom, B. S. Human characteristics and school learning. McGraw-Hill, 1976.5. Bloom, B. S., G. F. Madaus, and J. T. Hastings. Evaluation to Improve Learning. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1981.6. Bragstad, B. J. and S. M. Stumpf. Guidebook for Teaching: Study Skills and Motivation. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1987.7. Daigle, R. J., M. V. Doran, and J. H. Pardue. “Group Zig Zag: An Extension of Myer’s Zig Zag Model.” The Journal of Psychological Type, Volume 48, 1999, pp. 34-41.8. Doran, M. V., H. E

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

., Notes on Mixing in the Process Industries, lecture and short course material, DuPont USA, Wilming-ton, DE., 1998.9 Baldyga, J. and J. R. Bourne, Turbulent Mixing and Chemical Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1999.10 Nienow A. W., S. M. Drain, A. P. Boyes, R. Mann, A. M. El-Hamouz and K. J. Carpenter “A new pair of reac-tions to characterise imperfect macromixing and partial segregation in a stirred semi-batch reactor,” Chem Eng Sci47 2825-2830 (1992).11 Fournier, M. C., L. Flak, and J., Villermaux “Anew parallel competing reaction system for assessing micromixingefficiency: experimental approach” Chem. Eng. Sci. 51, 5053-5064 (1996). Also given in AIChE Symp Ser 88(1992) No. 286 and 90 (1994) No. 29912 Bourne, J. R., O. M

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Kisaalita; Thomas Reeves

Session 2660 Capstone Design Experiences Across National and Cultural Borders: Course Development William S. Kisaalita Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department University of Georgia Driftmier Engineering Center Athens, Georgia 30602 E-mail: williamk@engr.uga.eduAbstract It is well recognized that the world is becoming a global village. Today'sundergraduates will occupy workplaces and communities that have been transformed byglobalization

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

thatfaculty in upper-level design courses do not have time to cover. With this foundation in place,students will enter their junior and senior design courses significantly ahead of where theirpredecessors used to be.References1. D. L. Evans (Coordinator), “Special Issue: Integrating Design Throughout the Curriculum,” Journal of Engineering Education, 80 (5), 1990. J.H. McMasters and S. D. Ford, “An Industry View of Enhancing Design Education.” In Evans, 526-529.2. McConica, Carol. "Freshman Design Course for Chemical Engineers." Chemical Engineering Education. Winter 1996, pp. 76-80.3. Evans, D.L. and Bowers, D.H. "Conceptual Design for Engineering Freshman." International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, Vol. 4

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”[3] Halloun, I. A. & Hestenes, D. “The initial knowledge state of college students.” American Journal of Physics,vol. 53, n. 11, 1985, pp. 1043-1055.[4] McCloskey, M., Caramazza, A., & Green, B. “Curvilinear motion in the absence of external forces: Naïve beliefsabout the motion of objects.” Science, v. 210, 1980, pp.1139 - 1141.[5] McDermott, L. C. “Research on conceptual understanding in mechanics.” Physics Today, vol. 37, 1984, pp. 24 -32.[6] McDermott, L. C. “A view from physics”. In M. Gardner, J. Greeno, F. Reif, A. H. S choenfeld, A. DiSessa, andE. Stage (Eds.), Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education. pp. 3 -30. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence ErlbaumAssociates.[7] Al

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zachariah Chambers; Clark Merkel

. Please include how the run-time was predicted. 5 points: Ease of use, legibility, clarity, and level of detail used in the website.Competition (Performance) Grade: (10 points) Best Run Time: Closeness of Best Run to Prediction: under 3 s....................5 points within 0.2 s..............5 points under 4 s....................4 points within 0.4 s .............4 points under 5 s................... 3 points within 0.7 s..............3 points under 60 s..................2 points within 1.0 s..............2 points Car doesn’t finish.......1 point within 60 s...............1 point but team members all make pretend motor sounds during run. Total Grade: 50 Points

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Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Session Number: 2102 Dissemination of Innovations from Educational Research Projects: Experience with Focused Workshops P.K. Raju, Department of Mechanical Engineering, pkraju@eng.auburn.edu Chetan S. Sankar, Department of Management, Gerald Halpin, Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Technology, Glennelle Halpin, Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Technology Auburn University, AL AbstractDuring 1996, we formed the Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education(LITEE). The

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

©Introduction and Objective Most engineering programs expect that their students will develop intellectually inaddition to acquiring knowledge and skills in a specific engineering discipline. However, nearlyall measures of student achievement are focused on content knowledge, process ability (e.g.design), or communication skills; students are assumed to be developing intellectually, especiallyin their ability to think critically, but rarely are meaningful data collected and reported whichsupport such an assumption. However, the recent movement towards outcomes assessm ent nowrequires reliable measures of students’ abilities to make reasoned decisions as they solvecomplex problems. For example, in the U. S. the Accreditation Board for Engineering

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeremy Losaw; Ann Anderson

approximately 18 m/s. The results show that the NASCAR model has the lowestdrag force and the hatchback has the highest drag force. This is due to the smooth contours of theNASCAR racer compared to the sudden geometry changes on the hatchback. The LeMans carhas the lowest lift force and the General Lee has the highest lift force. The forces on the LeMansvehicle are quite interesting, because it is the only vehicle experiencing negative lift, ordownforce. This is certainly due to the spoiler like kickup at the rear of the vehicle and the highpressure separation region behind the wheel wells. (It should be noted that the NASCAR willproduce downforce if fitted with a rear spoiler.)Figure 9 plots the drag and lift coefficients and shows more defined

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

Feff =   + V2  w  4and for a cylinder, 2  4M 9 Feff =   + V2  r  4this adds a component of reality to the project as students can identify a material.The evolution of microcomputers now means that users can buy programs to do what theyrequire. This means that while during the 1980's many high schools taught computerprogramming, these high schools will now probably focus on computer use. Engineers, howeverrequire some knowledge of computer programming. We feel that computer programming, likeother

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

chemistry andmaterials science, this is not a chemistry course and should not be labeled as such. It is anexcellent applied science course for first year engineering students which requires the studentshave a strong foundation in chemistry. Page 7.218.10 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgmentsThe support of the National Science Foundation CCLI -9980982 is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliographic Information1. van Rensselaer S.: Statement Establishing the Rensselaer School; Archives

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheldon Jeter

it surely contributes. In addition to the instructor’squalitative evaluation, a quantitative assessment can be based on the data in Table 1. Table 1. Statistical Data and Analysis P-S V-P term number average SSD average SSD ESE ttest P* summer 2000 47 93.3 2.96 96.2 2.66 0.580 4.910 0.000 fall 2000 A 58 92.9 3.76 94.6 4.07 0.728 2.337 0.012 fall 2000 B 60 92.9 4.04 95.0 3.87 0.722 2.908 0.003 spring 2001 A 51 93.0

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanford Meek; Mark Minor

Session 2366 Integrated and Structured Project Environment in Mechatronics Education Mark A. Minor, Sanford G. Meek University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering 50 S. Central Campus Dr, Room 2202 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 minor@mech.utah.edu meek@mech.utah.eduAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah has developed a two-semester