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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ware; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

helping faculty and students improve teaching and learning, respectively.6.0 Bibliography[1] August, R.J., Lopez, G.W., Yokomoto, C.F., and Buchanan, W. W., “Heuristic Beliefs About Problem Solving In Technology Courses And Their Impact On Success On Problem Solving Exams,” Proc. 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session S2H, Boston, MA, Nov. 6-9, 2002.[2] Lindsay, P.H. and Norman. , D. A., Human Information Processing, p. 500.[3] Wright, C.H.G., Peterson, D.E., Neal, P.C., and Lynch, P.C., “The Effect of Study Journals on Student Performance and Attitudes in an Electrical Engineering Course,” Proc. 1997 ASEE Annual Conference

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Katrina Townes-Young

, research findings, and commercialapplications, Hosted by NASA’s Center for Distance Learning, we recognize thataccess to such individuals and information would offer students and facultyacross the nation the unique experience of making real world connections to thescience, technology, engineering, and mathematics taught in the classroom, asonly NASA can. One method of real-time access that was researched andexplored was videoconferencing; videoconferencing “is the transmission ofimages (video) and (audio) back and forth between two or more physicallyseparate locations” (International Trade Data Network, 1999). Therefore, NASALIVE (Learning thorugh Interactive Videoconferencing Experiences) represents anew dimension in communicating knowledge and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Graham; Ronald Bieniek

undergraduates while UMKC serves a Page 8.864.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ” 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793greater number of professional degree candidates with its dental, pharmacy, medical, and musicprograms. The Rolla campus (UMR) is a non-urban technological institution and the smallest ofthe four UM campuses. Although each campus is different, faculty members face many of thesame pressures. System wide

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Varvel; Stephanie Adams

thoughmost engineering degree programs frequently use teams, the training and evaluation of thesemethods has, in many cases, been non-existent. Therefore, the objective of this research was totest whether increasing knowledge of one’s self and others will help individuals to become moreeffective in teaming environments.Methodology and Analysis The participants in this experiment were senior design students at the University ofNebraska College of Engineering and Technology in the spring semester of 2002. According toFowler, capstone design courses are the best stage in the curriculum to introduce teams becausethey minimize the student’s dependence on the professor and prepare students for the real worldexperience17. A total of 200 students

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

serves as acoordinator for the cooperative program. He is on the review board for the Journal of Industrial Technology. Hereceived his B.S. in building Engineering and Design from Lincoln University, Missouri in 1980, M.S. inIndustrial Management from Central Missouri State University, Missouri in 1981, and Ph.D. in Vocational Studiesfrom the Southern Illinois University, Illinois in 1990. Ali teaches in the area of manufacturing management anddesign.Mark RajaiDr. Rajai is currently a faculty and researcher in college of engineering at University of Memphis. He also serves aseditor-in-chief of an international journal and is member of editorial board of several national and internationaljournals. Rajai has eighteen years of experience in higher

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce

systems are quietly changing our world — the way we eat, play, work, andlive. Embedded systems are used in a diverse range of products including home appliances, auto-mobiles, toys, and medical equipment. Embedded systems are located at the “front line” wheretechnology interacts with the physical world. These systems measure temperature, motion, humanresponse, and other inputs. They also control motors and other devices, and deliver informationfor human consumption. The movement of the last two decades toward more ubiquitous comput-ing systems will continue and embedded systems will become even more prominent in everyaspect of technology and life [6]. Engineers comfortable with common embedded systems com

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Vavrek

Synchronous Belt Drives, Dayco, Dayton, 1982.2. MRC, MRC Engineering Handbook, 1992.3. Mott, R, .L, “Spur Gear Design”, Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1999.4 American Gear Manufacturers Association. Standard 2001-C95. Fundamental Rating Factors and CalculationMethods for Involute Spur and Helical Gear Teeth. Alexandria, VA: American Gear Manufacturers Association,1995Edward M. VavrekEdward M. Vavrek is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University NorthCentral. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue, a Masters degree in Mechanical and AeronauticalEngineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Business Administration from IndianaUniversity Northwest

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

the professorexchanged ideas, followed a format they had discussed and spent time developing a relationship oftrust. Similarly with the students, the rapport in Case 2 was exceptional, student-teacher, teacher-student. Student ratings in Case 2 were exceptional. And, just to test the hypothesis that highratings come from easy courses, graduates of this engineering technology program are focusingtheir graduate study in the subject area of this professor and are doing top quality work.ConclusionThe advice is simple; find a mentor and learn to teach. Success and the attainment of tenure canbe an individual project but it doesn’t have to be. Help is often available; seek it out. Attendteaching workshops, attend research workshops, learn from

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Blauch

. Karunamoorthy and R.H. Olliges, “Web Technology in Engineering Education – How and Why,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.2. S.L. Lillevik, “The Classroom: Online,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec Canada.3. I. Batarseh, Q. Zhang, R. Eaglin, Z. Qu, and P. Wahid, “Multi-Media Enhancement of the Electrical Engineering Core Course,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.4. M.T. Davis, “Teaching Well Online: Part II, Interaction Design,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec Canada.5. R.E. Flori, D.B. Oglesby, T.A. Philpot, N. Hubing, R.H. Hall, and V

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janak Dave; Thomas Boronkay

Session 3447 Remote Assistive Elevator Control Device Janak Dave, Thomas G. Boronkay, James Henize University of CincinnatiAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department at the University of Cincinnati’sCollege of Applied Science requires a “Design, Build & Test” Capstone design project forstudents working toward the baccalaureate degree. Most of these are completed by individualstudents. Local non-profit organizations that offer community service provide some of theprojects. By working with these organizations, the MET Department has identified

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Govind Puttaiah

2268 AN INTERACTIVE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON DYNAMICS Govind Puttaiah(1) West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136Abstract An interactive distance learning course on Dynamics was developed and offeredto groups of on- and off-campus undergraduate engineering students using a multi-mediaapproach and a combination of teaching tools. The course was presented to a liveaudience on campus in a specially designed class room and transmitted to off-campus sitesin real time using modern information transfer equipment. The paper

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Maher Murad; Jerry Samples

University, June 2002. 13. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), “ExCEEd Teaching Workshop,” Northern Arizona University, August 2002. 14. Finley, D., “Tips for Greasing the Tenure Tr ack 3,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, 2001.MAHER M. MURAD is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown. Dr. Murad was a visiting assistant professor at Bucknell University and had overseas teachingexperience. He also worked as a highway project manager for Acer Freeman Fox International (HyderConsulting). Dr. Murad received M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toledo in 1987 and aPh.D. in Engineering Science from the University of Toledo in 1994.JERRY

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Pedro Arce

student astory about considering a “homogeneous” reaction with an effective diffusioncoefficient and proceeding to write equations of change by using (usually) a shellbalance for a “homogeneous” system! In contrast, the approach shown here follows asystematic procedure to derive conservation (engineering) equations in heterogeneousmedia.References:a- Arce, P., The Colloquial Approach: An Active Learning Technique, Jr. of Science and Education Technology, 3(3), 145 (1994).b- Arce, P., “POK in Colloquial Approach Environments, (ASEE Proceeding, 2000).c- Arce-Trigatti, M. P. and P. Arce, “The Parallel between the Sport Coaching and the Engineering Instruction,” (ASEE Proceeding, 2000).d- Aris, R., “Introduction to Chemical Reactors,” Prentice

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

educational programsare not as rigorous as before. Apparently the distractions of TV, video games, more athleticevents(12 football games versus 9 in the 1960’s and 30+ basketball game seasons), better Page 8.1215.5recreational facilities, and etc. cut deeply into study time. More students have part time or full “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright, American Society for Engineering Education”time jobs and attempt to carry full time loads and thus have little time for class let alonestudying. Although the use of technology tools has provided students the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

Session 2793 Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design in a Junior Electronics Course Sequence David A. Rich and John A. Nestor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 richd@lafayette.edu nestorj@lafayette.eduAbstractThe integrated circuit revolution has impacted virtually all fields of engineering. Themain driving force behind this revolution is Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor(CMOS) transistor technology. As CMOS integrated circuit “chips

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

technicalimprovements. Third, we will make the materials and detailed instructions available to aselected number of other institutions to test whether the results obtained here were instructor-specific.The work described herein is one example of the research being performed by the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for BioengineeringEducational Technologies. VaNTH is now in its fourth year and is beginning its disseminationprocess. Links to current work can be found at www.vanth.org. Some of the learning scienceunderpinnings of this work, and their application to bioengineering, have recently beenreported.136.0 AcknowledgmentThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation EEC-9876363

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Petro Gogolyuk; Ilya Grinberg

systems and design automation. Currently he is an AssociateProfessor of Engineering Technology at Buffalo State College. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member ofASEE. His interests are in the field of power distribution systems, design automation, and systems engineering.PETRO F. GOGOLYUKPetro Gogolyuk graduated from the L’viv Polytechnic Institute (L’viv, Ukraine) with an MS in EE and earned aPh.D. degree from the same institution with a specialization in power systems analysis and control. He authored andco-authored over 60 papers, articles, and books in his field of knowledge. Currently he is an Associate Professor inthe Department of Power Distribution Systems at the L’viv Polytechnic National University. His professionalinterests are

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiangqiao Lan; Donghai Xie

as an independent assessment system.The third pattern can be called the leaders` assessment. In order to directly master the courseteaching practice all around, the headmasters and the leaders in charge of teaching in thecollege and departments of quite some universities, for instance, Huazhong University of Page 8.1110.3Science and Technology, Hubei University and Hubei Industry Institute, usually go to attendthe class to check the lectures. Thus, a system has been formed and there is a detailed record Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Layton

Session 2320 Using Modeling and Simulation Projects to Meet Learning Objectives in an Upper-Level Course in System Dynamics Richard A. Layton Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractModeling and simulation projects in an upper-level system-dynamics course are described withan emphasis on using these projects to support course learning objectives. Course-specificobjectives include: modeling engineering systems using Lagrange’s equation; using the Dymolasoftware package to solve the resulting nonlinear differential-algebraic equations; and validatingsimulation

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Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sterling E. Skinner; Eric G. Chapman; Sheldon Jeter

and an understanding of the design process. Thepaper concludes with subjective feedback on the effectiveness of this design project andits implementation from both student and instructor feedback.The Freshman Design Course:Like many other engineering programs, our mechanical engineering program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology attempts to include design experiences throughout thecurriculum. As part of this overall emphasis, a 2 credit course is currently offered duringthe spring quarter of the freshmen year. Its primary focus is to offer students their firstformalized introduction to the process and methods of design as applied in an engineeringcontext. A wide variety of design methods and team oriented experiences are included inthis

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

and an understanding of the design process. Thepaper concludes with subjective feedback on the effectiveness of this design project andits implementation from both student and instructor feedback.The Freshman Design Course:Like many other engineering programs, our mechanical engineering program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology attempts to include design experiences throughout thecurriculum. As part of this overall emphasis, a 2 credit course is currently offered duringthe spring quarter of the freshmen year. Its primary focus is to offer students their firstformalized introduction to the process and methods of design as applied in an engineeringcontext. A wide variety of design methods and team oriented experiences are included inthis

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anil Khatri

fields of software engineering, Maintenance Organization. J. Health Caremedical informatics, object-oriented modeling Marketing, (6): pp. 5-11, 1986.and health care emphasizing PHCES developmentusing a “reuse reference model.” It was [7] Rine, D.C., Nada, N., “An Empirical Study ofdemonstrated that new software product (family a Software Reuse Reference Model”, Informationof products) could be generated from a reference and Software Technology 42(2000) pp. 47-65.model based on specifications and requirementsappropriate to the new system for the web [8] Khatri, Anil and Rine, David., “Validation ofenvironment. This research also demonstrated

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Glenn Lipscomb

1998.G. Glenn Lipscomb.G. Glenn Lipscomb is a Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the Universityof Toledo where he has taught since 1994. After receiving a PhD in Chemical Engineering fromthe University of California at Berkeley, he worked three years for the Dow Chemical Companyand five years for the University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty in Toledo. His researchinterests are in the area of membrane science and engineering and the use of technology toenhance learning.Kevin Pugh.Kevin Pugh is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Toledo. He earned hisPhD in Educational Psychology from Michigan State University in 2000. His interests includetechnology in education, student motivation, and

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

, such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), are incorporating elements of quality instruction into their accreditation requirementsthrough assessment3. In their Engineering Criteria 2000, ABET states that each accreditedengineering “program must have an assessment program with documented results. The assessmentprocess must demonstrate that outcomes important to the mission of the institution and theobjectives of the program are being measured.”In general, assessment begins when a program faculty establishes intended program outcomes andthen identifies the outcome indicators that will be used to measure these outcomes. Outcomeindicators can be broadly classified as qualitative and quantitative; examples include

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

Session 2793 Academic Threads - Curriculum Integration for Specific Capabilities Michael P. Deisenroth, Brian M. Kleiner, Russell D. Meller, Sonya Mook Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VirginiaAbstractThis paper will begin with a discussion of learning objectives and illustrate their applicationwithin a number of different basic courses in industrial and systems engineering. It will thenintroduce the notion of “Academic Threads” and present a number of different situations

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

from Vernier Software & Technology, Beaverton, OR 8. MacMotion and Logger Pro available from Vernier Software and Tufts University (1994-1997, 1997-2001) 9. Ellis, G.W., B. Mikic, and A. Rrunitsky, “Getting the ‘big picture’ in engineering: Using narratives and conceptual maps,” submitted to the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 10. Hestenes, D., Wells, M., and Swackhamer, G., “Force Concept Inventory”, The Physics Teacher, Vol. 30, No. 3 (1992). 11. Hestenes, D. and Halloun, I., “Interpreting the Force Concept Inventory”, The Physics Teacher, Vol. 33, No. 8 (1995). 12. Hake, R., “Survey of Test Data for Introductory Mechanics Courses”, AAPT

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

graduate researchinvolves testing of an ethanol-powered automobile.DR. EDWIN ODOMDr. Edwin Odom has taken an active interest in the ME Machine Shop as a key element in design education sincejoining the University of Idaho eleven years ago. Dr. Odom maintains an avid interest in the literature of creativityand management and is especially well versed on the subjects of team dynamics and leadership styles. He wasrecognized for his role in development of the IEWorks by a university teaching award in 1998.DR. STEVEN BEYERLEINDr. Steven Beyerlein is a leader in the design implementation of process-oriented engineering curricula thatstresses cooperative learning, computer technology, and mini-projects. Since joining the UI fifteen years ago, hehas

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure & Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Loveland; Wade Richards; Sue Clark; Steven Reese; Stephen Binney; Kathryn Higley; John Bennion; Edward Morse; James Elliston

10 of these courses are cross-listed as undergraduate/graduate). Under WNSA thiscourse offering will be expanded by extending graduate level courses in these two majors tooff-site locations. The first sites will be set up for personnel from WNSA national laboratory andindustry members. To the extent possible on-campus and off-site courses will be taughtconcurrently.The goal when in "steady state" in the second year of the WNSA grant will be to offer oneNuclear Engineering and one Radiation Health Physics graduate level course each quarter tooff-campus students.Current year one efforts have been centered around equipping the main OSU Radiation Centerclassroom with distance education technology and with establishing the administrative aspects

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Yau

discussions of heuristic versus brute-force problem-solving approaches. In the context of a course on computer security, the assignment serves totangibly demonstrate issues with password selection and user policies that apply to this issue.Undergraduate students in Computer Science Technology and Information EngineeringTechnology do not receive the same training in the formal analysis of algorithms that students instandard theory based Computer Science programs do. It is clear, however, that IT studentsmust develop a basic understanding of problem complexity issues and heuristic problem solvingapproaches to be successful in their careers. The exercise described in this paper gives students ahands-on feel for computational complexity through a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

Document 2003-1235 Session 2526 Mechatronics for Multidisciplinary Teaming Elaine Linde, Daniel Dolan, Michael Batchelder South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractAt the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, students from MechanicalEngineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering all take a Mechatronicscourse during their sophomore or junior year. The course follows the textbookMechatronics by Alciatore and Histand rather closely. For the lab projects, students use asmall computer circuit board containing a PIC microcontroller