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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sandra Cruz-Pol

Cruz-PolSandra Cruz-Pol is Associate Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at UPRM. She obtainedher Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are inthe area of microwave remote sensing, specifically in the Microwave Atmospheric Absorption near the 22GHz water vapor resonance line, and studies of the microwave sea surface brightness temperature seenfrom space over calm ocean. Dr. Cruz-Pol is currently working in various projects sponsored by NSF,NASA, IBM and IAP within the microwave remote sensing area including an Engineering ResearchCenter (ERC) for Subsurface Sensing and Image Systems in collaboration with Northeastern University

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Kuennen; James Pocock

change.Instructor Professional ExperienceSince military instructors are Air Force officers, typically in the civil engineering career field,they have a wide variety of professional practice. Most have worked as design engineers,construction project managers, environmental engineers, and/or as military combat engineers.These professional engineering experiences enrich their teaching ability by providing manybuilt-in classroom examples and anecdotes. Most of the civilian professors have similarprofessional experience with civilian engineering firms, government agencies and researchlaboratories, the military, or as consultants. The civilian professors also tend to have teachingexperience at other universities. Professional experience is substantiated by the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sivakum Venkatanarayanan; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

. John Robertson, Lakshmi Munukutla and Richard Newman, “Delivery of a common microelectronics technology curriculum at several degree levels”. Proceedings of the 2002 American Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 5. Project funded by the National Science Foundation grant # 202444.BiosJOHN ROBERTSON is a professor at ASU’s East campus in Mesa, Arizona. From 1993 to 2001, he helda number of senior R & D positions in Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. His earlier academicexperience was as Lothian Professor of Microelectronics in Edinburgh University, UK where he managed anational research center with interests in process control and the global economics of

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dennis Kulonda

, 9-177-0787 Understanding the statement of Cash Flows , Harvard Business School Publishing,9-193-0278 Statement of Cash Flows: Three Examples, Harvard Business School Publishing, 9-193-1039 Solving the Puzzle of Cash Flow Statements, Harvard Business School Publishing,BH 013DENNIS J. KULONDA is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. His researchand teaching is focused in Engineering Management. He has extensive experience in the development andmanagement of industrial engineering projects in operational and financial planning and is developing a thirdedition of Capital Investment Analysis for Engineering and Management with Professors Canada, Sullivan andWhite

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hugh Jack

laboratory work thatincludes motor modeling and feedback control. There is also a major design project in the courseto reinforce theoretical and experimental design. The topics covered in the course are listed below. 1. Translation 2. Differential equation review 3. First/second order systems 4. Numerical methods 5. Rotation 6. The differential operator and input-output equations 7. Circuits (resistors/capacitors/inductors and op-amps) 8. Feedback control 9. Phasors 10. Transfer functions and Fourier analysis 11. Bode plots 12. Root locus plots 13. Analog IO, sensors and actuators 14. Motion control (single and multiple axes)Prerequisites for the course include basic

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tracey Evers; Gilbert Casterlow; Eric Cheek

. “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session # 1665ResultsOnce basics like this were covered the teachers were asked to create lessons that wouldincorporate more Science/Engineering concepts while using their calculators. Below are a fewoverviews of some of the projects/activities presented by the teachers:Project /Activity Name: KaboomObjectives [as identified by the teacher]: 1) Demonstrate an understanding of patterns,relationships and other fundamental algebraic concepts. 2) Demonstrate an understanding of Datacollection, probability

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Coleman

interview exercise, but without fail, they are grateful forhaving gone though the experience. Following the mock interviews, the course shifts its focus slightly to emphasize the issuesthat arise once the student is ready to consider and evaluate job offers. Attention is also given todifferent career options such as research and development and entrepreneurship. Guest speakersare brought in to talk to the class about these options. During these lectures students areintroduced to the concepts behind funding a research project, Intellectual Property and Non-Compete Agreements, and the like. A good amount of time is also spent on salary negotiation strategies, weighing benefitspackages, and the importance of taking the whole compensation

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Yang

theseassignments are completed, additional projects are assigned to allow students to gainexperience in developing programs for specific applications. One example is to design anenunciator flasher in which two internal timers form an oscillator which generates timedpulse output with a specified duration. The program is required to be able to turn ON andOFF a sequence of lights with specified delay between them. The programming isdifficult to some extent, nevertheless, students are motivated when they can actually seethe results of their work. Page 8.1079.6 Fig. 5. Relay logic schematicsOnce students gained some confidence in their

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Wunderlich

NO 55 53 5555 555 common electiveEGR 410 • Control Systems 3/3 YESCS/EGR 421 • Compiler Design 4/4 NO common electiveCS/EGR 422 • Operating Systems 4/4 YESCS/EGR 433 • Advanced Computer Engineering 4/6 YES 55 54 5442 455EGR 491 • Senior Project 4/x YES 55 51 5453 555* Scores only shown for courses taught by author 3) Will it be clear to ABET exactly how the program is administered so they can send the appropriate accreditors? For example, a Computer Engineering program jointly administered by both Computer Science and Physics &

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Chin; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringat Rowan University to configure a novel method of teaching the junior level Communications(COMM), Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) coursesunder a common laboratory framework. These three courses are taken concurrently during thespring semester of the junior year. The described interdisciplinary experiments cut acrossindividual course boundaries and integrate hands-on experience and software simulation.Software is integrated with the experiments through MATLAB and SIMULINK, C/C++ andMentor Graphics.Introduction This project is an effort by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University to configure a novel method of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Kasra; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

coordinationto a lead faculty member. Often, this assignment is not viewed as career-enhancing and thusappointment is often made by the department head sometimes on a semi-voluntary basis. In anycase, in order to be effective as an overall ABET review coordinator, the selected individualmust be willing to devote a substantial portion of his or her time for several months and must bea "detail person" who can give attention to the many facets of the preparation process. Thecoordinator must also be thoroughly knowledgeable of ABET 2000 requirements in order toguide the activities of other program faculty. Additionally, the coordinator should anticipatemotivating and encouraging the other faculty members to keep the project on schedule. In ourcase, the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

learning” pedagogy in the upper-level chemicalengineering curriculum. Page 8.704.3The NSF-CCLI implementation project has found that the co-op students can learn thefundamental principles more effectively than the non-co-op students. This could be adifference between the learning pedagogies of science and engineering education. In otherwords, the engineering students see the advantages of learning fundamental principles tosolve problems.The other advantage of CAMS is to prepare the students for the chemical engineeringsophomore (Process Analysis), junior (Thermodynamics, Momentum Transfer, HeatTransfer, and Kinetics) and senior (Mass Transfer, Plant Design

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Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Wise; Nicholas Scambilis

, American Society of Engineering Education”there are no excuses for spelling errors. The instructor can verify when homework was turned inand control whether late homework is accepted. Grading is conducted on-line and grades areaccessible to the students at the discretion of the instructor. In WebCT, grades are automaticallyrecorded and managed within a database. “Private Mail” enables students to access instructors regarding course materials. It is an email function located within the shell of the course and is accessible only by the respective student and instructor. “Class Discussion Forum” enables the students to communicate with each other, to form groups, or to jointly work on projects

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Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Efrat Strassberg; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

University of Toronto in the Department of Chemical Engineering and AppliedChemistry in 1982. He has spent the last five years instituting a complete web-based distancelearning program at the MS and PhD level.Efrat Strassberg is a project manager and web designer. Over the past years Ms. Strassberg hadworked on web development in the business and academic sectors. Current work involvesusability planning, animations and online education development at the University of Texas atAustin. Ms. Strassberg was a teaching assistant and instructor for Internet, Computers,Multimedia and Business courses at Tel-Aviv University and The College of management. Shecombines her academic experience and software development knowledge to create interactivesolutions for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

theuniversity research and industrial sponsor’s work. These lesson plans are placed on a web site fordissemination. The interns have visited the industrial sponsor to learn about their business anddone final project presentations for them.This program has a history of success in attracting women students into engineering and sciencemajors. It also hopes to have a larger impact in the long term as the 5th – 8th grade audiencetargeted for the lesson plans becomes of college age and chooses science, technology,engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers in (hopefully) larger numbers than before.Introduction and History:Female, high school summer research interns at Iowa State University work with engineeringindustries and Iowa State research groups to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Martha Absher; Gary Ybarra

the 2001-02 school year MUSCLE placed 12 undergraduate Engineering Teaching Fellowsfrom the Pratt School of Engineering in Lakewood Elementary School and Rogers Herr MiddleSchool. These schools were selected as partnership schools since one of the goals of this projectwas to have a specific focus on fostering an interest in math for underrepresented minoritystudents and each school has a predominantly African-American population. The majority ofteaching fellows were also African-American. Fellows assisted teachers in developing andcarrying out hands-on learning projects that integrated math into all areas of the curriculum butwith a particular emphasis on life sciences. The fellows taught in ways that were fun andexciting to the students and

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman

program, students may take graduate level courses astechnical electives and count up to 15 credit hours toward both the bachelors degree and themasters degree. The student’s undergraduate program must, of course, approve the graduatelevel courses as technical electives. A student in the BS/MS program can complete as many as 15of the 45 quarter credit hours required for an MS by the time she or he receives a B.S. degree.As a result, the student requires just one year beyond the B.S. to finish a masters degree,including writing a thesis.Students in the BS/MS program may also receive 25% appointments as Graduate ResearchAssociates. Thus, they can begin work on research projects in their senior years.The Nuclear Engineering Program at Ohio State has

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

test, and make other instructors aware of the problemset. We are unclear as to the reason for the overall decline in scores from 2001.Tool # 2 Analysis of Plant Design reportsThis analysis involves “plant design reports and the AIChE senior design project. Faculty notinvolved in teaching plant design will review these for fundamental knowledge, innovation,research, and problem-solving skills1.”One of the department’s assessment efforts is to determine whether we are achieving ABEToutcome (g), the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. To address thisoutcome, a three-credit communication-specific course (CM 3410, Technical Communication forChemical Engineers) was maintained in the curriculum. As an assessment measure

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edwin Rezaei; Sri Kolla

AnnualConference, session # 3659, 1998.[14] Edwin Rézaei, Application of LabVIEW for Internet Based Instrumentation and Process Control, Master ofIndustrial Technology degree project, Bowling Green State University, August 2002.Biographical InformationEdwin Rézaei completed his Master of Industrial Technology degree at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, inAugust 2002. He also received his B.S. in Electronics and Computer Technology at Bowling Green StateUniversity, Ohio, in May 1999. His academic interests are in the area of control systems, computer networking, andcommunication systems. He is a member of ISA.Sri Kolla is a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Technology Program at the Bowling Green StateUniversity, Ohio, since 1993. He worked as

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

academic advisingresponsibilities, outreach programs and consulting can be classified. In teaching, the number ofcourses, labs, independent studies, supervised students’ projects, teaching evaluations by students,fellow faculty, alumni, and department head, developing new courses, etc. can be used. So, it isimportant to communicate effectively what the department goals, objectives and vision of thedepartment are and what is expected from the faculty going for tenure or promotion. This shouldbe consistent at all levels. Therefore, the tenure process will foster a positive growth and result. Ifthe department head isn’t committed to the goals, no one else will be. It is also very vital for adepartment to be fair in this process. Some faculty can get

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen

local area networking can be taught using Linux with Samba asMicrosoft at a fraction of the cost.SambaSamba is an Open Source Software (OSS) project first developed by Andrew Tridgell in 1991 atthe Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. It is designed as a suite of programswhich work together to allow workstations to access a server's filespace and printers via the SMB(Server Message Block) protocol. Initially written for UNIX, Samba runs on a variety of othernetwork operating systems (NOS).Samba, which comes packaged with most brands of the Linux Operating System (OS), is opensource code just like Linux. The source code for both, written in C, is always available todownload, test and change. There is no cost for these products

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christie

saving time, consistency ofaccess, inspired students, and family involvement. If you have tried to call a high school andreach the principal or faculty members, you are aware of how hard it is to develop a line ofcommunication. High schools often times just do not have the infrastructure to support extraphone calls, or community outreach partnerships. Many times you will have to call a teacher athome in the evenings to discuss a project or program.All of the academic enrichment programs I have worked with have staff members that answerthe phone. The organizations are easily accessible to anyone in an engineering departmentbecause they can be located in the phone book or on the web. One is able to work directly withthe organization’s president or

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

measure quantities such as the speed of sound in a wire.Acknowledgment The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge financial, equipment and computing supportfor this project from the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, the NASA Centerfor Aerospace Research and the NASA PAIR program at NC A&T State University. This workwas initially presented orally at the NEW: Update 2002 National Educators Workshop.BiographiesDEVDAS M. PAI is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He received hisM.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He teaches manufacturing processes and machine design. Aregistered Professional Engineer in North Carolina, he serves on the Professional Licensure Committees

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Megan Rothney; Robert Roselli

the first question, students made statistically significant gains on allthe questions. Though we have no way to directly measure the gains that can be attributed theremediation as opposed to the tutorial these results validate the effort that was put intodeveloping these materials for out of class use.(This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363).Bibliography1. Howard LP. Courseware and Packaging Environment (CAPE). http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/projects/VaNTH/index.htm2. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds). (1999). How People Learn: Brain, mind, experience

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelly Adams; J. Filatovs; B. Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

importance of the diverse materials.Commercial designs can be done with the same user interface but by attaching it to a commercialstandard database such as the MIL-Handbook. Given the conflicting demands of time and practicality, the availability of a materials andprocess database and selection tool will greatly facilitate the student’s ability to implementclassroom fundamentals in a meaningful way in their class design projects as they prepare totransition their skills and knowledge but limited experience into the workforce. The softwareenables students to explore a far broader spectrum of materials and processes than physicallypossible to even enumerate in class. The challenge, of course, lies in highlighting to the studentsthe care that

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

students tohave access to databases; simple CAD tools, spreadsheet use and image capture display.Also, students are able to generate or acquire data files during lab or lecture, return to adesktop environment, and continue to work. Software demonstrations and interactiveexercises could be downloaded and run in the lab and then carried home for futurereference. As they progress, students will be able to write software on their desktops thatcan be downloaded and run from the handheld. Infrared file transfer from one device toanother can be very useful for students in team projects and between faculty and students. The wireless environment made possible with this device provides efficient andaccurate interaction with course material and data free

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

new materials such as hands-on activities, interactive multimedia, andgroup learning. This balance with concrete experience is especially needed in “building-block”courses that create the foundation for advanced design courses. If we expect students to performwell with open-ended, project-centered problems, we need to provide a pedagogical basis acrossthe entire undergraduate curriculum. This paper presents such a basis for one importantengineering core topic: mechanics of materials. Active learning concepts applied in mechanicsof materials courses are discussed, including specific examples of hands-on, multimedia, andgroup design exercises.1. IntroductionOne of the needed reformations in engineering education involves a change in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

8procedure as an Engineering Clinic project. The total cost of the setup was under $500. In theexperiment, all reagents except the acid are mixed with a Lightnin’ mixer in a 2 L baffled vessel.The acid is then added slowly with a syringe pump, and the rate of addition is one of theparameters that can be studied for its effect on reaction selectivity. The full procedure has been 9described previously. Page 8.970.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationGuichardon and Falk characterize the system by

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Cooley; Jeff Randall; Terrence O'Connor; Nghia Le

involved in the circuit design is the parallel port. The PC BIOS needs to beset to EPP mode for proper operation of the parallel port for this project. Parallel ports use threeI/O addresses. There is the data register, status register, and control register with addresses of378h, 379h, and 380h respectively. The port has 8 data lines, 5 status lines, and 4 control lines. Page 8.371.5“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”This project uses all 8 data lines which are bi-directional, 2 status lines that are read only

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brad Kinsey

8.370.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcomputer screen thus becoming discouraged or confused. The author has anecdotally witnessedthis while teaching introductory design courses. By providing the user with an actual 3D objectin the correct orientation, a perceptual connection will be made between the 3D object and the2D representation on the computer screen, thereby improving the user’s spatial ability skills.The goal is to assist the user in visualizing 3D objects in a 2D representation and develop theuser’s projective spatial skills, which are essential in creating and visualizing orthographic viewsof objects in detailed part