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Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdel Mazher

Session 3202 An Integrated Approach to Unify the Technical Dimension of Engineering Education A. K. Mazher Aerospace Science Engineering Department, Tuskegee University Tuskegee, Alabama 36088, akmazher@tusk.eduSummaryThis paper proposes an integrated approach to unify the technical dimension of engineeringeducation. Integrating the technical dimension of engineering education is a necessary steptowards effectively implementing EC 2000, adopted by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET). Technical dimension, in this

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Erik De Graaff; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 2125 The development of integrated professional skills in Aerospace Engineering through problem-based learning in design projects Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Erik de Graaff Faculty of Aerospace Engineering/Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionAeroplanes and space missions have always had an enormous appeal to the imagination of thegeneral public. The desire of man to fly dates back to mythology in Ovid’s Daedalus and Icarusand many proud parents and

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

Session 3202 Keeping Students Engaged: An Overview of Three Introductory Courses in Aerospace Engineering M. Rais-Rohani, K. Koenig, T. Hannigan Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThe traditional approach of teaching major-specific courses beginning in the first or secondsemester sophomore year has many drawbacks that could lead to stifling student's enthusiasmand interest in his/her field of study and very often to the loss of many talented students to otherprograms. To alleviate this problem and to keep students engaged and interested in their

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Havener

ABETCriteria 2 and 3. ABET wording is shown in italicized letters, to which our overview comments arepresented as DFAN Program. Program ObjectivesABET Criterion 2.Each engineering program for which an institution seeks accreditation or re-accreditation must have inplace:(a) Detailed published educational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and thecriteria.DFAN Program - The USAFA mission statement is: Inspire and develop outstanding young men and women to become Air Force officers with knowledge, character and discipline; motivated to lead the world's greatest aerospace force in service to the nation.The institutional educational objectives, called the

Conference Session

Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Olivier de Weck

Session 522 The Three Principles of Powered Flight: An Active Learning Approach Olivier L. de Weck1, Peter W. Young2 and Danielle Adams3 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139AbstractA holistic education in aerospace engineering ought to encompass not only aircraft design, butshould adequately treat other flight concepts. There are three known fundamental principles ofpowered flight. Balloons of any kind use the

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Frank Wicks

ASEE 2003-2271, Aerospace Engineering Division “Teaching the Global Positioning System Principles and Applications” Professor Frank Wicks Mechanical Engineering Department, Union College Abstract We live in one dimension of time and three dimensions of space as defined by therotating and revolving spaceship which is our earth. Only recently have humans hadaccurate, affordable and portable instruments to measure time. During the last decade wesuddenly have such an instrument to measure where we are in three dimensions of space. The satellite and atomic clock based Global Positioning System is a technologicalmarvel

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shannon Twigg; Eric Johnson

flightcontrol system design. Use of a simulation gives the engineer a safe, quick and convenientmethod for testing or designing new controllers. In the past several years, many colleges havebegun using computer simulations in conjunction with teaching control design. At the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology School of Aerospace Engineering, one of the senior level aerospaceengineering laboratory courses, AE 4525, has developed three new experiments to utilizecomputer flight simulator technology. This allows the students to design and test variouscontrollers using a high fidelity flight simulator; instead of studying only more idealizedtheoretical models.Nomenclature V Total Velocity feet/second alpha (α

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 2602 Experiential Learning in Aircraft Structures Masoud Rais-Rohani Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA design-build-test project is used as means of providing an academic-based, industry-focusedexperiential learning opportunity for students in a senior-level aircraft structures course taught inthe Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University. Initiated as a paperdesign project in 1998, the project has rapidly evolved into a comprehensive learning experiencewith prototype development and testing as its two major elements

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Katrina Townes-Young

NASA LIVE: Communicating Knowledge to the University Community Katrina L. Townes-Young NASA LIVE Program Manager NASA Langley Research Center Center for Distance LearningAccording to NASA Adminstrator, Sean O’Keefe, NASA’s mission is “tounderstand and protect our home planet; to explore the Universe and search forlife; and to inspire the next generation of explorers… as only NASA can” (2002).NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), located in Hampton, Virginia, is one ofNASA’s leading aeronautical and aerospace research facilities that employsthousands of engineers and scientists who produce cutting edge research andtechnology. With resident experts

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Toby Boulet; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Richard Bennett; Arnold Lumsdaine

8.1302.11Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education.Bibliography 1. Apple, Daniel & Krumsieg, Karl, Process Education Teaching Institute Handbook, Crest Software, Inc. 875 NM Grant Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97330, (2000) 2. Arter, Judith, McTighe, Jay, Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom, Corwin Press, Inc., 2001 3. Donovan, M., Bransford, J., Cocking, R., How People Learn –Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, 2000 JACK WASSERMAN Jack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering where he

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Chesney

demonstrate six different areas of engineering over an academic year, suchas launching rockets (Aerospace Engineering) and building bridges (Civil Engineering). A typicalclassroom session was comprised of a 10-15 minute introduction of the topic, 60 minutes ofstudents constructing and testing a project, and 10-15 minutes discussing the results. Theapproach was applied to a fourth grade class of twenty students in Brighton, Michigan and wasjudged a success by faculty and students.Introduction“I never knew engineering could be so fun. When I grow up, I’m either going to be an engineeror an actor. Sincerely, Maddy”The motivations for the project include recent statistical trends in math, science, and engineeringeducation. Recent studies have shown that

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

area are NASA Marshall Space FlightCenter, Army Aviation and Missile Command Center (AMCOM), Redstone Arsenal TestingCenter, The Boeing Company, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin Aerospace and manyothers associated with high-tech endeavors. These industries and government agencies requirelarge numbers of highly trained engineers, in the areas of manufacturing and propulsion.In 1997, the Mechanical Engineering program at AAMU was created as the result of a legaldesegregation law suit resolution in the civil case CV 83-M-1676. To respond what is importantaround north Alabama, the Mechanical Engineering program at AAMU was formulated into twooptions: Manufacturing and propulsion system. The Mechanical Engineering Program’s missionis to provide an

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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N. Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

Session 3264 The Use of Piezoelectric Materials in Smart Structures D. M. Pai 1 and N. R. Sundaresan2 1 Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures 2 Summer Research Student, NASA Center for Aerospace Research Department of Mechanical Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411Abstract A piezoelectric material is basically a ceramic that outputs a voltage upon beingmechanically strained. Sensors made of this material

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Real-World Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dhirendra Bhattarai; Christopher Ibeh

materialselection be accorded priority and more attention in engineering technology and SMETcurricula and education.1. IntroductionOne of the current trends in the industry is the focus on “costs” as one of the dominantdesign factors or criteria (1)(2)(3). Materials costs account for majority of the developmentand production costs; it is not uncommon for materials costs to account for more thanfifty percent of development and production costs. Materials costs is typically about 50%in the ship building industry, and about 60% in the aerospace industry, and 70% in theautomotive industry (2)(3)(4)(5). The implication of this is that materials selection is criticalin any design or production process. Incorrect materials selection can result in

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Furey; Eugene Brown

Engineering) or focusing on anenvironmental issue involving thermodynamics (e.g., energy). Examples of the diverse topicsselected for essays are given together with some general observations on the writings. There arebenefits to this exercise for both students and teachers and these are briefly discussed.IntroductionFor decades, the mechanical engineering department at Virginia Tech has offered service coursesin engineering thermodynamics to the College. The population for these courses is drawn fromjunior/senior level students in the departments of aerospace and ocean engineering, mining andminerals engineering, industrial and systems engineering, electrical and computer engineering,engineering science and mechanics, biological systems engineering

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler

without regard to academic departments set SPIRIT apart from other projectcourses at Penn State. Participation typically remains at about 40 students until the last semester,when numbers tend to drop as time demands increase significantly. We include approximately 75students during the course of the project.There has been collaboration with students at another institution in both projects. Thecollaboration not only broadens the capability of what we can do, but also requires students tolearn to relate as professionals to peers, who are not necessarily friends.The SPIRIT program has evolved from experience in the Penn State Aerospace Department withan ongoing Sailplane Project 4. Both programs are ongoing and several students participate inboth

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Georg Mauer

Session 2125 Hands-On Robot Design in an Introductory Engineering Course Georg Mauer Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Nevada, Las VegasAbstract Our course ‘Introduction to Engineering Design’ is aimed at freshmen students enteringMechanical and Aerospace engineering. The course is structured as a 2-credit lecture coupledwith a 1-credit design laboratory. While the lecture presents an overview of the profession,engineering design and methods, small student teams conduct a structured hands-on designproject in the lab. Each team

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

Session 2379Comparing Student and Faculty Assessments of the Effectiveness of Learning Activities Veronica A. Burrows, Barry W. McNeill, Lynn Bellamy Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 87287AbstractA robustly designed course normally comprises a variety of learning activities, each intended tofacilitate the achievement of specific learning objectives to a specific depth or level of learning. Inother words

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Young

Engineering’s purpose is to introducesophomore students to the disciplines and methodologies of aerospace engineering at a basic levelwith a balanced exposure to analysis, empirical methods, and design. Several laboratoryexperiments are performed and a number of systems problems integrating the different disciplinesare included over the course of the year.Students graduating from Unified Engineering are expected to:1. Formulate appropriate coupled multi-disciplinary models of engineering systems based on physical laws and principles and identify the underlying assumptions and limitations of those models.2. Conduct experimental investigations, analyze experimental results, quantify experimental uncertainty and generate simple empirical models.3

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

as well as College. This paper describes the design, development andimplementation of such a system at Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, SaintLouis University.IntroductionParks College of Engineering and Aviation offers degree programs that span a variety ofdisciplines: engineering (aerospace, biomedical, electrical, mechanical) aviation(aviation science professional pilot, aircraft maintenance engineering, aircraftmaintenance management, avionics engineering, aviation management) computerscience, and physics. The result is a diverse set of accreditation requirements fromseveral agencies. In addition, Parks College is one of the eleven schools and colleges ofSaint Louis University, an institution that takes pride in its ability to

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

. Students are applying for patents on several of the unique features oftheir product.Aerospace Enterprise – The mission of this team is to provide hands-on aerospace education andexperience to Michigan Tech undergraduate students in a student led, self-sustaining enterprisethat will provide real-world experiences to students in a company atmosphere. The ultimateobjective of the Aerospace Enterprise is to design and launch an MTU student-built spacecraft.MTU’s Aerospace Enterprise was selected as one of 10 university participants in NASA'sUniversity Nanosat 3 program. The ten selected universities will build a nano satellite andcompete for the prize of launching it into orbit. Michigan Tech’s Nanosat will be designed tomeasure variations in radio

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sonya Smith; Marian Muste; Ganesh Rajagopalan; Donald Yarbrough; David Caughey; Alric Rothmayer; Barbara Hutchings; Rajesh Bhaskaran; Tao Xing; Frederick Stern

Engineering where he applies hisresearch expertise in experimental methods and measurement techniques.ALRIC ROTHMAYER is a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics with 17 years experiencein teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in aerospace engineering. His research interests include viscous flow,computational fluid dynamics, asymptotic methods and boundary layer theory, and aircraft icing.GANESH RAJAGOPALAN is a professor of aerospace engineering with twenty years of experience in teaching. Hehas developed a number of undergraduate courses with emphasis on integrating experimental techniques withtheory. Dr. Rajagopalan's research emphasis has centered on computationally efficient techniques to study the flowfield and

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Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sonya Smith; Marian Muste; Ganesh Rajagopalan; Donald Yarbrough; David Caughey; Alric Rothmayer; Barbara Hutchings; Rajesh Bhaskaran; Tao Xing; Frederick Stern

Engineering where he applies hisresearch expertise in experimental methods and measurement techniques.ALRIC ROTHMAYER is a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics with 17 years experiencein teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in aerospace engineering. His research interests include viscous flow,computational fluid dynamics, asymptotic methods and boundary layer theory, and aircraft icing.GANESH RAJAGOPALAN is a professor of aerospace engineering with twenty years of experience in teaching. Hehas developed a number of undergraduate courses with emphasis on integrating experimental techniques withtheory. Dr. Rajagopalan's research emphasis has centered on computationally efficient techniques to study the flowfield and

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Adams; Nick Safai

LS-DYNA and MADYMO has advantages anddisadvantages unique to each of the packages. In LS-DYNA, only the material properties and3D geometry are required for modeling and the same model can be used to simulate various loadconditions. The disadvantage of this type of analysis is the non-availability of a standard dummydatabase and the high computational time. The former disadvantage has been overcome bycoupling with MADYMO. While in MADYMO analysis, a valid dummy database exists andalso there is a marked reduction in computational time but the seat has to be either a FEM modelor tests needs to be done to determine the kinematics joints and stiffness.1. Aerospace Seat Analysis MethodologyThe purpose of this research paper was to identify

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

and interviews conducted as part of a NSF-sponsored four-year multisite ethnographyin major aerospace corporations, engineering education programs, professional meetings, andother aerospace sites. At each site, ethnographic research included background research ofengineering activities, archival research, in-depth interviewing with a diversity of engineers, andparticipant observation during seminars, workshops, courses and meetings. Data has beencollected in the form of field notes, recorded interviews, pictures, literature, and hand-notes anddrawings from engineers. Recorded interviews have been transcribed into text files, coded, andanalyzed using NVIVO, a qualitative analysis software package. The full names and corporateaffiliations of

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Applied Science offers the First-Year Engineering ProjectsDesign-Build Course (FYEP). Initiated in 1994, this course is a three-credit, one-semester coursethat now serves approximately 350 students per year. The course is required by the mechanical,aerospace, and environmental engineering majors and is an elective for the rest of the college’sdepartments. In contrast to large, impersonal math and science courses, each FYEP section islimited to 30 students. Instruction and enrollment are interdisciplinary; sections are staffed withinstructors from a variety of engineering departments. The goals of the course are to introducestudents to the excitement of engineering as a career and the practical considerations of thedesign process, experimental

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

weight reduction. This is because the fringepattern is rich with information and insights for the design engineer. Therefore, a design projectcan be assigned using the specimen(s) utilized in experiment # 1. The purpose of the project isto verify the design stresses or to further refine the design.There are growing concerns for product reliability, weight reduction, and material conservation.Mechanical engineers seek valuable design information on how to modify a part to make itlighter, especially seen in the aerospace industry, and at the same time have fewer stresses.Stress analysis, utilizing photoelastic coating, leads to corrective measures for preventing failure,which usually involves material removal.Proposed project: The weight of a

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

primarygoal of this project. Finally, the topic of the Moon and space exploration is fascinating,exciting and current, as live data from the Lunar Prospector mission is available to thestudents through Moonlink (www.moonlink.com).Use an interdisciplinary team of faculty who are concerned about women andunder-represented minorities: the current team consists of four faculty members indifferent science and engineering departments and different universities. As such we havechemistry, physics, computer science and mechanical and aerospace engineeringrepresented. This allows for a broad pool of expertise in equally important areas thatoften interplay. Our resource pool is even larger through our respective contacts andresearch areas. Information from all

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanda Cleja-Tigoiu; Raluca Rosca

Session 2793 Introduction to MATLAB Using a Theoretical Mechanics Study-Case Raluca Rosca, Sanda Cleja-Tigoiu Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Florida/ Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of BucharestAbstractThe paper describes a 5 weeks module of a 3 credits Advanced Mechanics of Materials classtaught in the Fall 2002 semester at University of Bucharest. The module realized an introductionto the plotting, matrix computation and scientific algebra capabilities of the software MATLAB

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

Session 1566 Integration of Instruction on the use of Multimedia Tools into a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Madara Ogot Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyAbstractMechanical engineering curriculums do not offer formal instruction in the use ofmultimedia tools in the areas of computer illustration, animation, and image manipulationnor the creation and editing of digital video, despite their prevalent use in industry fortechnical communication – written reports and oral presentations. In addition to