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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Currently, many undergraduate andfirst-year graduate students in the aforementioned fields do not have exposure to recent researchtrends in Machine Learning. This paper reports on a project in progress, funded by the NationalScience Foundation under the program Combined Research and Curriculum Development(CRCD), whose goal is to remedy this shortcoming. The project involves the development of amodel for the integration of Machine Learning into the undergraduate curriculum of thoseengineering and science disciplines mentioned above. The goal is increased exposure toMachine Learning technology for a wider range of students in science and engineering than iscurrently available. Our approach of

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stuart Walesh

weeks, held three face-to-face meetings and continuouslycommunicated with TCAP 3 and with the other two constituent committees; the AccreditationCommittee and the Licensure Committee. Look ForwardThe BOK–Curricula Committee tried to creatively contemplate the likely nature of infrastructureand environmental problems and opportunities decades ahead. The Committee avoided beingoverly bound by today’s conditions. Instead, likely changes in infrastructure and environmentalchanges were considered. Possibilities include sea level rise, sharp decline in oil supplies,increased globalization (clients, employees, partners, projects), resurgence of nuclear powerplants, mining of landfills, user fee-based

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Thiede; James Hereford

. Inthe original physics-based curricula, labs involving mechanical application were practically non-existent. To provide for new mechanical lab activities, basic laboratory stations were procured,an engineering measurements lab and course were created, and innovative, low-cost practicalexperiences were developed. These activities quickly became too numerous for a single course,and will need to be distributed into the engineering science courses. The electrical engineeringcomponent has been influenced by technology advances and changes in focus. Improvements tolaboratory equipment and software have simultaneously simplified many lab measurementswhile allowing for more complex projects. The focus has shifted from fundamental physicsmeasurements

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Ansari

with no insulation,resulting in considerable thermal discomfort to occupants several months in a year. Tomeet the objectives of “climate responsive building design & construction”, an initiativeat Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology (MJCET), entitled Centre forEnvironment Studies & Socioresponsive Engineering, has conceived and developed thedesign of “The Natural House”. This has been set up as an undergraduate R&D project,supervised by two faculty members (the two authors of this paper). It is expected thatfollowing the R&D phase the students – a group of twenty-three mechanical engineeringjuniors, including eight female students, will construct a small “Natural House”.The House is being designed for maximum

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tara Gallus; Phil Laplante; Peter Wiesner

8.1279.2implementing strategies, strengthened quality assurance, and ability to take risks with“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”backing of the community. Long term value for developing organizational capabilitiesinclude: ability to execute a strategic plan, authority with clients, increased retention oftalent, capacity for knowledge- development projects, forum for “benchmarking” againstrest of industry, knowledge-based alliances, emergence of unplanned capabilities,capacity to develop new strategic options, ability to foresee technological developments,ability to take advantage of emerging market opportunities.Most of the

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barbara Masi

process from mini-design problems, which focus on problem solving skills, to majorcapstone design projects, which encompass many skills 2, 4, 9, 26, 30, 31, 33, 35, 47. Leifer has notedthat instructing students in the engineering design process provides an opportunity forintroducing constructivist learning experiences into engineering student classroom activities 22.He drew on Kolb’s experiential learning model which describes learning as taking place in aniterative cycle of four basic steps: reflective observation, concrete experience, activeexperimentation, and abstract conceptualization. Based on this cycle, Leifer suggests thatengineering design and technical concepts should be intertwined. In this way, students can bestlearn technical

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Sluss

standards. Figure 4 depicts the logical view of the hardwareplatform, illustrating a mobile unit equipped with laptop, cell phone, drive tester and globalpositioning system (GPS) receiver as part of the hardware configuration. The mobile unit is used formobile IP projects and for collecting power measurements to develop propagation models forcellular coverage. Student projects focus on the integration of different wireless technologies intoone heterogeneous environment in which wireless terminals use one or multiple WLAN technologiesto connect to the internet. Figure 4 – A view of the functionality of the Wireless Island

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tohru Kitamura; Masashi Tani; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Session 2253 Pre-College Education of Engineering at Kanazawa Institute of Technology to Senior High School Students in Japan Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kazuya Takemata, Masashi Tani and Toru Kitamura Kanazawa Institute of Technology/Wakasa Senior High SchoolAbstractIn order to stimulate young students’ interest in science and engineering, Kanazawa Institute ofTechnology (KIT) and Wakasa Senior High School (WSHS) started a collaboration project in 2000.KIT gives a two-day pre-college engineering course to students from WSHS. As students have littleengineering knowledge, we intend to achieve the objective

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Terrence Freeman; Ashok Agrawal

by the difficulties encountered indevelopmental courses that are designed for technical students. Students may also lose interest bynot experiencing hands-on engineering technology. St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley is addressing this problem through itsGateway To Technology Program (GTTP). The GTTP is one of the three components of theGateway to Manufacturing Excellence project funded by the National Science Foundationthrough the Advanced Technological Education program The GTTP is a one-semester integratedcurriculum that prepares a cohort of students for immediate entry into one of several engineeringtechnology programs offered at the college. This course would typically combine CollegeOrientation, Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

, faculty usually design the learning activities of their courses with specific learningobjectives in mind. With the implementation of outcomes-based assessment, student self-assessment of their own learning and of the effectiveness of the learning activities in their coursesis a significant part of the course and program assessment of learning effectiveness.Students in an introductory engineering class were required at semester’s end to assess theeffectiveness of course learning activities (homework, projects, lectures, assigned textbookreadings, etc) in supporting their achievements of the course learning objectives. This wasaccomplished through the use of a matrix that mapped each of the course learning objectives tothe course learning

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Richards

Session 2530 Designing Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) for Middle School Students Larry G. Richards1, Hilary Bart-Smith, Gabriel Laufer, Joseph A.C. Humphrey, Randy Bell, and Robert Tai University of VirginiaAbstractThe University of Virginia has undertaken a major project to design, implement, test, anddistribute Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) for use in middle school science and mathcourses. A new senior design course sequence for fourth year Mechanical Engineersallowed 30 students to

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lloyd J. Griffiths; Anne J. Marchant; E. Bernard White

telecommunications. Inorder to complete the degree, students must choose a concentration in one of twocurrently available high-demand IT knowledge areas: Graphics and Data Presentation orInformation Security and Network Administration. Each concentration includes a six-hourcapstone design project. Graduates from this program will fill an important niche in the ITjob market that lies between those who graduate with IT business skills (from ourManagement Information Systems (DMIS program)) and those technical experts whograduate with degrees from existing technical areas such as computer science, computerengineering, and electrical engineering. Page 8.662.2The BS-IT

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Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

thepast five years. The retention problem is evident in engineering disciplines at many universitiesnationwide and efforts have been focused on enriching the freshmen programs with hands-onexperiences.4-7 Electrical engineering programs have reported remarkable success byintroducing courses in the freshmen year that emphasize hands-on experience.4,5,8Some electrical engineering students at RIT are focused and highly motivated. Many of thesestudents benefited from engineering career development opportunities available in high schools,such as Project Lead-the-Way9, enabling them to make informed career choices. Previouspractical experience in electronics is also highly correlated to student success at RIT. Ininterviews with first year, Dean’s List

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Sorby

, determination of the shortest linear distance between lines and planes,and parallelism and perpendicularity of such geometric entities such as lines and planes were top-ics in the course. Other course topics included intersections between two planes and between asolid and a plane as well as pattern developments of solids. Isometric projection was introducedso that students could make pictorial sketches of three-dimensional objects. Approximately one-seventh of the course was devoted to learning Pro/Engineer to develop a computer model of athree-dimensional object. Students spent most of the time in this class using drawing instrumentsincluding triangles, dividers, compasses, and protractors. Scales, lettering, and geometric con-structions using

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

Active Learning in Distance EducationThis paper focuses on three senior elective courses that are a part of the Civil EngineeringTechnology (CET) program at ODU. These courses were offered in the distance educationsetting using varied lecture formats via synchronous video technology. This paper discusses theimplementation of active learning in these distance education classes and the impact of thechanges on student rapport in the courses.CET 460 Construction Cost Estimating, CET 465 Construction Project Management, and ENMA401 Project Management are senior electives that are applied to the CET Degree at ODU. Eachcourse is offered on TELETECHNET (TTN), Old Dominion University’s distance learningnetwork. A traditional lecture format was used

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Schwesig

with these challenges, several European researchinitiatives are trying to update the content of curricula responding to industrial needs. Thispaper first presents the findings of the EU-IST research project BRIDGES by discussing andcomparing e--business trends and challenges in the EU and the USA. Then, challenges foreducation in E-Business are elaborated. Those challenges are picked up by the EU-IST/ IMSproject GEM in order to create a new curriculum for a master degree in ManufacturingStrategy. It will cover technology and business topics and especially consider digital business.Finally, an initial concept of a short course covering essential aspects of production based ondigital business is discussed.IntroductionE-business has brought up

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

in engineeringbegan declining in 1987 and has continued to stay at about the same level through much of the1990s. The total number of graduates from engineering programs is not expected to increasesignificantly over the projection period.”14 In the year 2000 an estimated 400,000 engineering jobswere unfilled; projections indicate that number will grow to 1.75 million by 2008.15 In recognitionof this growing problem, the American Society for Engineering Education has a web site for K-12SMET education that can be viewed at www.asee.org/K-12smet_ed/.Taken together these projections suggest a strong need for high quality, standards-based science,mathematics, and technology learning environments for K-12 students. Engineering contexts forscience

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant tothe evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry, this project will develop and integrate applieddrug delivery coursework and experiments throughout the Rowan Engineering curriculum.To design and produce a new drug delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drugand material properties and the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from thesystem. This requires a solid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics,thermodynamics and transport phenomena. The engineer must also be skilled in characterizationtechniques and physical property testing of

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roberto Montoya

.The Accreditation model adopted evaluates the program’s quality through factors that groupelements or characteristics it should have. These characteristics are dimensions of quality and areevaluated through variables, which are their attributes or manifestations, and more specificallythrough indicators both quantitative and qualitative. The factors this model takes into account are:1. Institutional Mission and ObjectivesIt includes quality characteristics that refer to institutional mission, purpose, goals and objectives,to the educational project, to the formation of an academic community, to the institution’s internaland external interactions and to institutional strategies to maintain an appropriate environment.There are 10 characteristics

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

Theory as a basis for MEPP Course DesignThe work of course design for MEPP has benefited from the direct assistance of GregKearsley as a course consultant. In “Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning,” (1999), Kearsley and Shneiderman summarize the basis forengagement as “Relate-Create-Donate.” This simple formula captures the essence of theeffective on-line course and explains the fundamental principles of CTI. 1. Relate – “Emphasizes team efforts that involve communication, planning, management and social skills.” 2. Create – “Students have to define the project (project domain) and focus their efforts on application of ideas to a specific context.” 3. Donate – “Stresses the value

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

often been avoided. With a heavy emphasis on teamwork via industry and accreditationstandards, group projects are a high priority.There are two primary problems to resolve when students work on teams. The first problem isthat students are rarely taught how to work on teams. The second problem is the need to assesseach individual’s contributions (or lack thereof) to the team.Assessing teamwork, by its very nature, is usually deemed as a subjective process. Thus, theapproach employed to perform the assessment must be structured in a manner that can beobjectively and quantitatively measured via a methodology emphasizing the teaching of teamworkand the evaluation of individual contributions to a team. The individual assessments areaccomplished

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tanya Capers; Kofi Nyarko; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

educational facilities to employ the tool. Additionally, fully immersiveVR is not practical for group environments such as classrooms and serves to isolate the studentfrom supporting course material and input devices.A cost effective stereoscopic projection system composed of a single 1GHz PC with 512 MB ofmemory, two DLP projectors (Infocus LP 530), polarizing filters, a dual head NVidia Quadro4900XGL graphics card, a silver projection screen, and polarized glasses, was developed. Thesystem works by first rendering a scene using the OpenGL graphics library. On the hardwarelevel of the graphics card, the scene is captured from two different perspectives meant tosimulate the position of each eye in the physical world. These two streams are fed out on

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claire Lynne McCullough

physics institutes which cover • Matter, Mechanics and Energy • Electricity and Magnetism • Optics and Sound.As a means of spreading the concepts and influence of the program beyond the Columbia area,the project personnel have recently completed development of a CD-ROM called "ExploringPhysics: Electricity and Magnetism," designed for use by in-service teachers, and whichcontains hands-on activities from the electricity and magnetism unit aimed at children in grades5-9. The Electricity and Magnetism CD has been field-tested at an in-service training institutefor teachers, has received favorable reviews from such prestigious groups as the National

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

traditional instruments/techniques (DSC, NMR, DMA) to probe details at the nanometer level; • a seminar series on nanotechnology (with invited external speakers from industry, and academia), including field trips to industrial sites; and • a senior project (or capstone thesis for the engineering majors). Efforts are also underway within the Department of Engineering Science andMechanics of the Penn State College of Engineering to develop a minor course of studyin nanotechnology. The cornerstone of this effort is an existing senior year/graduatecourse in nanotechnology, which has already been offered two times to more than 50students. This course, entitled Nanotechnology: Methods and Applications addresses thequestion

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

completed during the summer of 2002, but work may be continuing into the Fall 2002 semester. Work for Phase 3 will not interfere with any scheduled classroom activities.For Phase 1, the CME Division has committed approximately $20,000 for renovations and equipmentpurchases. The anticipated costs for Phase 2 are approximately $13,500. The actual costs for Phase2 may be lower, since the electrical connections and all of the cabling for the projection system arein place. The CME Division is prepared to match an amount of $5,000 toward the completion ofPhase 2, which should significantly reduce the amount that ITS typically allocates for upgrading aclassroom. The budget for Phase 3 (laptops, charging station, network, etc.) is estimated at

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Simpson

and Computer Science, through to highly-specialised colleges in Food Safety, Modern Optics and Aeronautics.• The “n+i” program includes an intensive course in the French language, which the international students have to master in around 6 months, personalized tuition throughout the 2 years spent in France and a final-year project in French industry. Tuition fees are of the order of 6,000 Euros per year and include all language tuition as well as the regular classes.B. Academic Results• Class of 2002 The first “n+i” students arrived in France in July 2000 and graduated in the summer of 2002. The results were: Numbers registered in 8 Institutions : 23 Different

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REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Quint

6%Department of Biomedical Engineering, incollaboration with the Kenan-Flagler BusinessSchool at UNC-CH, developed an optional Figure 1: Distribution of post-graduationgraduate minor program for M.S. students. employment of fifty M.S. graduates of theThe program focuses on topics in Business UNC-CH Department of BiomedicalAdministration. While the program is Engineering from 1994-2002.expected to benefit students interested inentrepreneurial pursuits, it is primarily aimedat those who will act as team leaders and project managers in industry and public-sectororganizations. Below, we describe the coursework in the program and the administrative issues. Next, wediscuss the history of the program so far

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

: marketing, broadcastresources, continuous improvement, and web site access to additional resources. The SC ATECenter will focus first on innovations from the National Science Foundation ATE program as itbuilds this centralized National Resource Center.One-stop shopping for marketingThe Image and Marketing of Engineering Technology Education (IMETE) project of SinclairCommunity College has two primary objectives: piloting the newly created EngineeringTechnology Education (ETE) marketing materials through three test sites and assessing theeffectiveness of the materials. The three pilot sites are the SC ATE Center of Excellence (pilotcolleges are Florence-Darlington and Piedmont Technical Colleges), Middlesex CountyCommunity College, and the

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Webb; Julie Spader; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1531 ASYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSMISSION FOR MOTOR CONTROL VIA THE INTERNET Chandra R. Sekhar, Omer Farook, Jai P. Agrawal, Essaid Bouktache, J. Spader, T. Webb Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323.ABSTRACTThis paper describes a senior design project of a real-time asynchronous data transfer utilizing aclient -server architecture and the Ethernet LAN topology. This project was executed using twoindependent software programs and a stand-alone server. These two programs function togetherto control a stepper motor via Internet. LabVIEW software is used to monitor, control, and