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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Cynthia Mann

common exercisesdone in the average ENGR 1111 course is shown in Table 1. Creative problem solving techniquesand a design project were added to the curriculum of one section of this orientation course having20 enrolled students. Table 1. Required and Common Activites for ENGR 1111. ENGR 1111 Activities Required by the College At least one team activity. (ABET outcome d) At least one activity involving ethics. (ABET outcome f) At least one oral presentation. (ABET outcome g) Library training and assignment. (ABET outcome l) Requirement to attend a professional society meeting or career fair. (ABET outcome l) At least one activity involving

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell

of the student. As notedby Young4, “the tool is useful only if a student buys into the idea.” Ideally, the portfolio conceptis not a mandatory project done in the classroom but an activity that the students perform toenhance their college education. Page 8.1293.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWe began developing the website in the Spring of 2002; it is currently in its final stages withover 150 users at the time of writing. Figure 1 shows a screenshot of the main page. This

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

π.Trigonometric series of the form a0 ∞ f ( x) = + ∑ (a cos nx + bn sin nx ) 2 n=1 n a ,a ,bare important in many problems in physics, engineering and biology. Here, 0 n n , arecoefficients to be determined. Such series and periodic functions that can be represented by themarise naturally in many practical applications. Yamashiro and Grudins[20] used Fourier series tomodel the flow of air in the lungs; many electric sources of energy generate waveforms that areperiodic; sweep generators used to control electron beams in cathode-ray oscilloscopes producetriangular waves; nonlinearities that arise in circuits that are supposed to be linear create

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

developing a sustainablemodel for increasing our capacity to provide the highest quality education possible.RationaleThere is wide consensus among institutions and researchers that improving learning opportunitiesin STEM disciplines is a key approach for “ensuring a diverse, scientific and technical workforce,as well as a citizenry capable of mastering the scientific and technical concepts and skills neededby workplace, social, and home environments that are characterized by increasing technologicalsophistication” 1. Over the past three decades, a significant amount of attention has been paid toimproving STEM educational programs in K-12 and two and four year higher educationinstitutions, resulting in improved educational opportunities in STEM areas

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neslihan Alp

ideas q Verify benefits q Update database q Receive CertificationI. IntroductionThe Six Sigma Methodology was developed at Motorola during the mid-1980’s as a newapproach to Quality Assurance. While quality programs like TQM (Total Quality Management)or Kaizen a continuous improvement methodology were using similar tools (i.e. CapabilityStudies, Pareto Analysis, Designed Experiments) to improve quality, many companies found thatthey did not succeed. Where Six Sigma differs substantially from other programs is [1]: q In-depth training in statistical analysis over a three-month period in conjunction with a training project for each student. q Easy “point and click” software (Minitab) for statistical analysis available

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

for the engineeringprofession have abandoned the course work to go to other disciplines. ComputerSciences, English, Communications, and Psychology have been the beneficiary of these“transfers.”ABET EC2000 reviewers want to see greater dynamics in the engineering learningenvironment with increased student participation. In fact, these environments must havecharacteristics much more close to that of the practical aspects of the profession such asteamwork abilities, excellent communications skills, and motivation for life-long learning.(Please see Table 1 below for a Summary of ABET aspects involved in the approach).One of the most overlooked aspects in the training of engineering students is teamworkwithin synergetic collaborative learning

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

this argument is built upon.The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution are the two most important humandevelopments that define modernism from the medieval craft system.1 The Enlightenment broughtus the power of thought, outside the realm of a non-secular model, to explain the physical andsocial world. Knowledge from the singular act of doing was abstracted to form empirical andtheoretical knowledge that explained and predicted phenomena without ever actually doing.From this we construct a simple epistemological structure for types of knowledge.The Industrial Revolution brought a new technology that freed us from the manual labor of doingby hand and reorganized us in a way that promoted specialization in a particular operational act.In

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

william mullett; Gary Mullett

whether or not they had a “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”legacy electronics program or something similar that could be transitioned into a corporatespecific telecommunications program [1].Dr. John Abeles, the Executive Director of NYNEX University, was the visionary on thecorporation/management side of NYNEX that gave life to this idea and it was swiftly endorsed bythe CWA on the union side of the fence. At the time, telecommunications was starting to becomethe newest technology buzzword and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was only a short

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hannah Collins; Byron Newberry; Ira Lockwood

Session 3159 An Undergraduate Research Effort into Non-contact Motion Tracking B. L. Newberry, H. Collins, and I. Lockwood Oklahoma Christian UniversityI. IntroductionCable structures are used in many engineering applications for their ratio of high axial strength tonegligible lateral stiffness. This advantageous property, however, can give rise to nonlinearoscillations that impair performance. Newberry 1 and Newberry & Perkins 2 analyticallydemonstrated that nonlinear modal coupling may occur between lateral and axial modes ofcertain

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

groups, group A and group B, which used different graphicrepresentations for illustrating the construction schedule. The students were then asked to detectlogical errors in the sequence of building wooden toy block towers with the assumptions that 1)no adhesive is used to put two blocks together and 2) the wooden blocks should be placed one-by-one using only one hand. The constructed wooden towers used in the experiment are illustrated inFigure 1. The logical errors were created by making some blocks unsupported in the buildingprocess. Page 8.652.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda

EducationSession Class Activities Learning Objectives Prior Student Preparation 1 Read Chemlite First six months Understand why accrual None accounting is necessary. Discuss Alternative Solutions Learn concepts of capitalization, motivation Walk through Climax example for accounting principles, in Primary Financial Statements balance sheet identity, 2 Discuss alternative solutions to Reinforcement of Read Primary Financial second half of Chemlite

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NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

, business, and government. The important policy changein the ATE program was that the grantee institution would be either a two-year college, or otherassociate degree granting institutions, or a consortium of two-year colleges along with thepreviously mentioned partners. Thus, two-year colleges or associate degree offering institutionswere specifically targeted by the ATE program and, as a further consequence, community collegefaculty were being afforded greater opportunities for grant funding and the actual planning andadministration of the grant [1].The focus of ATE projects would be on curriculum development, faculty or teacher development,instructional materials development, or instrumentation and laboratory improvement. Also,considered for

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurie Cormier; Kelly Clark; Emily Ryan

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cajetan Akujuobi

). Thesecourses complement the rich curriculum presently offered in the Department of ElectricalEngineering at PVAMU. A new high-speed (broadband) access technologies laboratory has alsobeen developed to support both instruction and research. This helps to create an academicinstructional and research infrastructure for broadband communication systems-based projects,testing and research.1. IntroductionPrairie View A & M University (PVAMU) attaches much importance to the training of studentslike many other universities to meet the needs of future technology trends. As a result of thetechnology growth shown in the area of broadband communications, PVAMU ElectricalEngineering Department has placed much emphasis on trying to develop curriculum and

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman

Session Number: 1660 Comparison of Education Models for Increasing Student Exposure to Engineering in Developing Countries Stephen E. Silliman Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Silliman.1@nd.eduAbstractThe challenge of increasing the exposure of undergraduate engineers to the opportunities for, andconstraints on, working in developing countries has resulted, at the University of Notre Dame, inthe examination of three

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

Carolina. Itspopulation of approximately 14,000 undergraduates is drawn largely (65%) from in-state highschools. Originally a technical school, Clemson is still considered to be largely technicallyoriented, and the College of Engineering and Science is the largest college in the University.Clemson’s General Engineering program has coordinated a common first-year engineeringcurriculum since 1985. 1 The program was known as Freshman Engineering until 1993.In 2002, our freshman class of about 800 in engineering had an average SAT score of over 1240.Our students are generally quite capable and most are hard workers. Despite this, about one ineight did not have high school physics. Further, about 25% did not qualify to begin directly in ourCalculus I

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

devices require a voltage higher than that of the supply voltage, most HBridge chips contain high side driver circuitry that is transparent to the user.As an educational project the design of an NMOS exclusive H-Bridge was undertaken.This will implement simple circuitry and consist of common, easily obtainable components.This paper will demonstrate the design of the H Bridge and high side driver and willdiscuss, in depth, component choice, design considerations, and effectiveness of thisparticular circuit.1. IntroductionOften in an industrial environment power must be delivered to high voltage devices. Thismay include as simple a task as turning on and shutting off power to the load, but may alsorequire bi-directional control of power through the

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

engineering problems were presented anddiscussed. The content of this paper was also discussed at the ASEE/SEFI/TUB InternationalColloquium in Berlin, Germany in Oct. of 2002,In the project proposed in this paper, special capabilities of Flash and MATLAB have beenexploited to produce effective and powerful instructional modules for analyzing more involvedstructural engineering problems. The Flash files in these modules are produced in order tooutline and describe the theoretical formulation and the steps involved in the solution of theproblem in an organized and easy-to-understand manner using a multimedia approach. Thefunction of some of the various features of these Flash files is briefly outlined below. 1. Inserted short video clips in the Flash

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Doyle

electivecourse taken by students at Kettering University. Since this course is not a prerequisitefor any other course offered at Kettering University, the coverage of the course variesfrom term to term depending upon the make of the student body in the class and thestudents’ interests. The textbook used in the course is Chemical Process Safety,Fundamental with Applications by Crowl and Louvar1. Since Kettering University doesnot offer a chemical engineering degree, only certain portions of the text are used.Topics that are typically covered include: 1) Review of inorganic and organic chemical principles 2) Toxicology 3) Industrial hygiene 4) Toxic release and dispersion models 5

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Sylvester

, central power plants to smaller generating facilities, small renewableenergy systems (SRES) are viable due to the coincidence of several events: 1) deregulation of theelectric utility 2) development of BIPV roofing systems, and 3) federal and state tax credits.Roof mounted modules have been tested and used intensively, as seen in the solar roof programsaround the world. However, despite the currently available technology, efforts to integrate PVsystems into roof system have been minimal. Previous research shows that multifamily housingcomplexes are ideal candidates as small power producers (SPP) due to their 1) flexible roofconfigurations, 2) high percentage of roof area and 3) rent base management structure. Projectedto provide up to 70% of a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach

covers these topics will meet the developingimperative of producing students with database development capabilities.Bibliography Page 8.1114.3[1] Elmasri, R. & Navathe, S. (2000). Fundamentals of database systems (3rd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”[2] Greenspan, J. (2003). Your first database. Retrieved January 13, 2003, fromhttp://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/13/index1a.html[3] MS Access. (2002). Retrieved January 13, 2003, from http

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

need for obedience, everything will not always be to our liking, we can't let our need for social approval deter us from doing what we know should be done. There is a need for stability, to avoid battle but have the strength to fight, to outlast dark until the light comes again, to work but also to wait; to grow and not necessarily triumph; to live where we are. There is a need for station, being present, stopping one thing before beginning another. There is a need for peace, to face the world as it is. There is a need for vision, an unselfish vision, a world vision, to see our place in the world, but more important to see the world.References 1 • Katz, J., & Henry, M. (1993). Turning professors into teachers

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

and develop in competency and skills. Many of these personal development needs aresummarized by Leise in his model for self-growth3. We have synthesized these two models inTable 1. Table 1: Characteristics of a Successful Team Clear and Elevating Goal The team must have a clear understanding of the goal to be achieved along with the belief that it embodies a worthwhile result. This goal should be personally challenging for each member as well as include specific performance objectives stated precisely and unequivocally for both team and individual. Results-Driven

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Hoekstra

option.IntroductionAccording to the 2000 U.S. Census, women represented just 26 percent of the science, math, andengineering work force, even though women comprise 47 percent of the total work force.1 Mostwomen who work in science are in the areas of life, physical, and social sciences (41 percent). Incontrast, women have much lower representation in engineering, approximately 8 percent.2Clearly more women need to be encouraged to enter science, technology, engineering, and math(STEM) fields.The Women in Technology (WIT) program is an ongoing program started by Bristol CommunityCollege in Massachusetts. The purpose of the program is to encourage young women to studentSTEM fields as opportunities for careers in these fields. There were four different WIT

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salahuddin Qazi

accuracy has revolutionized long rangecommunication making possible the Internet as we know it. The rapid transition ofwavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques from laboratories to the field isadding even more capacity, and fiber is increasingly becoming the media of choice inmetropolitan area networks, local area networks, campuses, hospitals, factories and sooneven in homes. However, there is an acute need for a network to provide huge bandwidthfar beyond the capacity of current networks and it is suggested that optical Internet basedon dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a viable solution to fulfill the ever-increasing bandwidth demand in the Internet 1. The purpose of introducing a two- coursesequence in optical

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

solar from being considered as the solesource of energy for the home. It had already been determined at the start of the thesis work thatfor Erie, the amount of solar energy available peaked during the summer months. However, ithad also been determined that the amount of available wind energy peaked during the wintermonths, based on information provided in [1]. Thus, it might be possible to develop a hybridrenewable energy system, where both solar and wind energy could be used in a complementaryfashion to provide energy to a home throughout the year.The student was then given the following tasks to develop his thesis over a period of foursemesters: • Determine the average energy usage of a home in Erie over the course of one year

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Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi

accepted orimplemented without being stamped by a professional engineer. The National Council ofExaminers for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) develops PE examinations that are taken byengineers for licensure as professional engineers. (1)In the academic environment, the choice of exam format and the method of grading the examgreatly affect the effectiveness of the exam in its attempt to evaluate student learning. Also,depending on how the exam is written as “Objective” or Traditional”, it can become a valuable Page 8.858.1tool for extending leaning beyond the examination. Exams are usually the basis to evaluate how Proceedings of the 2003

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales; Thomas Consi

students. • To illustrate the utility of their core subjects in the context of a hands-on project.In the balance of this paper, we first present the acceleration-logging system we devised anddescribe how it works. We then discuss the structure of the subject and close with the results ofthe two times it has been offered and our conclusions to date. In this paper, abbreviations for SIunits are in roman font, whereas mathematical symbols including the acceleration due to gravity(g) are italicized.The SystemA block diagram of the electronics system is shown in Figure 1, and a photo of the prototypeboard (front and back) is shown in Figure 2a and b. The circuit is powered by a 3-V, high-discharge-rate lithium cell and incorporates four integrated

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

week. Each of these individual assignments can be seen as a processconsisting of a number of tasks for the students, teaching assistants, and/or the instructor. Asoftware system utilizing MATLAB and web based perl scripts has been created to assiststudents and instructors in completing each of these assignment tasks. An example assignmentis provided here as a demonstration of the system and as a means for explaining its use. Thetasks associated with a single assignment are as follows. 1. Student obtains his or her individual assignment off the class web site using an interactive form. 2. Student uses the MATLAB command line interface and the editor to write a MATLAB script (.m file). 3. Student debugs assignment and checks

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

testing can be done from this point; however the environment as a whole should be stabilized.ConclusionWeb-enabling software provides a way for companies to gain a competitive advantage. Placingsoftware in the cloud and building a collaborative environment around it is becoming a commonway of harnessing the power of the Web. Although the initial investment could potentially becostly and time-consuming, following these basic steps for web-enabling software will offer acentral location for the automation of the existing process which will lead to reduced timecommitment, reduced ambiguity, and long-term monetary savings2.Bibliography[1] The new era in enterprise computing. (2002). Retrieved January 13, 2003, from http://www.openconnect.com/[2