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Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

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

engaged in aneffort to develop and integrate applied drug delivery coursework and experiments throughout theRowan Engineering curriculum. This paper describes a senior/graduate level elective course indrug delivery, with descriptions of the course structure, organization and content, references,experiments and projects used in this course.Introduction Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Session 1526 Hands-on Experiments in Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery Stephanie Farrell, Robert P. Hesketh, Mariano J. Savelski, and C. Stewart Slater Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan UniversityAbstract Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

Page 8.1304.1math and writing courses.At the University of Pittsburgh, we not only use the CIRP to provide insight into our freshmanengineering class, but we also have been using our Pittsburgh Freshman Attitudes Survey © since19952,3. This latter instrument has not only enabled us to learn much about the attitudes of ourentering students, but through its adoption by other engineering programs, it has enabled us tomake cross-institutional comparisons4,5. Three years ago we introduced a “Math Inventory”Assessment survey modeled after a similar such instrument developed and used by LeBold andBudny at Purdue6. We currently administer both instruments as well as an Algebra andTrigonometry placement test, a Calculus placement test 1 and an English

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Megan Rothney; Robert Roselli

Session 2793 Creation of an Online Vector Addition Tutorial: Exploring the Advantages of Providing Diagnostic, Multilevel Feedback in Basic Skills Remediation Megan P. Rothney 1, Robert J. Roselli1, Larry Howard2 Department of Biomedical Engineering1 /Institute for Software Integrated Systems2 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235AbstractStudent deficiencies in introductory concepts such as vector addition can hinder their ability toadvance in successive courses. While dedicating class time to the concept can be

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

Page 8.862.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ©2003,American Society for Engineering EducationThe first objective of each workshop is to convince each woman of the value of her ownexperience, that in fact, there was no one more expert than she about what worked for her, andwhat she wanted. Facilitators encouraged respect for all participants by demonstrating how tocreate a Thinking Environment™1 with specific strategies for attentive listening.The Thinking Environment™ is a model of human interaction that is based on the idea thatthings work best when everyone is able to think at their best. The underlying framework asserts: 1. Action is only as good as the thinking

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The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

diffusion throughthe alveolar membrane. Carbon dioxide is simultaneously removed from the blood to the air inthe lungs, and is then exhaled. Oxygen in the blood is transported to cells where it oxidizes fatsand carbohydrates to release energy, and carbon dioxide is a waste product of this reaction thatmust be removed. Breathing also plays a role in heat transfer and thermal regulation, since heattransferred to the air in the lungs is removed as sensible and latent heat during exhalation. Wehave developed a module based on a hands-on experiment that introduces chemical engineeringprinciples through the exploration of the breathing and metabolic processes. Students use thisinformation to (1) perform simple mass and energy balances on the lungs, (2

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

oneducational issues by a distinguished engineering educator helps to facilitate both faculty andstudent involvement. Overall, this program provides a richer, more supportive environment forgraduate students, with opportunities for mentoring by multiple mentors, and thus increases thechance of retention.1. IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF)1 is a ten-year-old national initiative designed to improve thegraduate educational experience, to encourage more Ph.D. students to consider academic careers,and to better prepare the next generation of college and university professors to meet their manyresponsibilities. A PFF program has three main features

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Eckstein; Charla K. Triplett

Session 2209 Growth of the Alliance for Industrial Internships C.K. Triplett 1 and E.C. Eckstein2 1Biomedical Career Center, Ch andler, AZ 85226 2 U. Memphis & U. Tennessee Joint Graduat e Program in BME, Memphi s, TN 38152-32 10Abstract - The Alliance is a network of coordinators and faculty from BiomedicalEngineering units that place undergraduate and graduate students in industrial internshipexperiences. This network provides tools that aid in placing students in opportunitiesnearer home, in industries specializing in work that matches

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry; James Farison

schools with generalEngineering programs, of which there were 13 respondents (the Engineering Science programsand one Engineering program were incorporated into the analysis after the e-mail survey).Table 1 gives an alphabetical list of the 48 programs, comprising 34 Engineering and GeneralEngineering programs and 14 Engineering Science and Engineering Sciences programs.Table 1: ABET/EAC Accredited Engineering and General Engineering (E) and EngineeringScience and Engineering Sciences (ES) Programs. Air Force Academy ES Harvey Mudd College E Roger Williams E Arkansas State E Hofstra ES Stevens Inst. of Tech. E Arkansas Tech E Hope College

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

Session 1566 Application-Centered Methodology for Teaching Programmable Logic Controllers Condoor, S.S. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractThe paper discusses the methodology used for teaching programmable logic controllers –a part of the Mechatronics curriculum. The goal of the curriculum is to nurture skills thatcan help in implementing a Mechatronics project from the functional specifications. Tothis end, we developed a teaching paradigm involving several modules each with sixidentical steps. In this teaching paradigm, students see: 1

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Roselli

Session 2793 Integration of an Interactive Free Body Diagram Assistant with a Courseware Authoring Package and an Experimental Learning Management System Robert J. Roselli1, Larry Howard2, Bryan Cinnamon3, Sean Brophy 1, Patrick Norris 1, Megan Rothney 1, and Derek Eggers3 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University 2 Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University 3 Ntara, Inc., Johnson City, TN.AbstractWe have

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno; Clifford Mirman

in the fall 2002. Thispaper describes how this course has been implemented and improved over the three semesters,and some important outcomes from course evaluations received from students and our IndustrialAdvisory board. This new course will provide improved preparation for the MET and EETstudents in this important area of control and thus, produce graduates that are more competitivein industry.1. Introduction1.1 Current State of the Art The applications of PLC’s in industry are diverse, ranging from very simple process controlto complex maintenance and data management applications1,2. PLC technology and applications Page

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

codeISRoutine: cmp [ctrlcount1], '9' je Count10s ; jumps to increment 10's spot inc [ctrlcount1] ; increments ctrlcount1 by 1 iretCount10s: mov [ctrlcount1], '0' ; resets ctrlcount1 back to 0 inc [ctrlcount2] ; increments ctrlcount2 by 1 iret;----------------------------------------------------------; Displays prompt, waits for character input; Goes to first of new line, outputs character that was inputStart: call GetChar ; calls routine to accept input character

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

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Russell Mills; Tonya Emerson

student’s education.References[1]. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2003-2004, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD[2]. Chickering, A., and Z. Gamson, Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, The Wingspread Journal, The Johnson Foundation, Racine, WI, June 1987[3]. Scranton, R., A Vibrant Student Chapter, presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers Faculty Advisor Training Workshop, Washington DC, 2002[4]. Myers-Briggs, I., Introduction to type: a guide to understanding your results on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA, 1987TONYA L. EMERSON, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor of Civil EngineeringDr. Emerson is

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Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gardner; Freddie Frazier; Kelvin Kirby

semester. Page 8.518.1More advanced courses (calculus) experienced failure rates, which exceed fifty percent.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Educational Techniques, Practices and StrategiesPrairie View A&M University is continually working to develop new and innovativeways to increase the success rates and narrow the achievement gaps in mathematics atthe university level. To succeed, the university must engage in new processes andmultiple constituencies in order to raise proficiency in mathematics

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

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

. The first author obtained orientation training at an earlier ASEE Conference in the use of acommercially available package called Cambridge Engineering Selector5 – CES4. This wasprocured in Fall 2002 by the authors’ university. The school license allows distribution of thesoftware (which fits on 1 CD and can be copied) to a specified number of students and faculty foracademic use on their office or home computers for the duration of the license. The authors worked with two classes that require the specification of materials and/orprocesses – Manufacturing Processes (MEEN 446, taught to juniors) and Aluminum-BasedProduct Design and Manufacture (MEEN 645, taught to seniors and graduate students). Themanufacturing processes course, owing

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

in a process of inquiry that helps them notice and differentiate variousaspects of the ECG cycle. In the fall semester of 2002, students in these two sectionscompleted a pretest and posttest measuring their ability to define various terms and explainvarious aspects of ECG traces. Classroom observations were made to identify differencesin classroom dynamics and students motivation. A final exit survey was used to measurestudents’ perceptions of the effectiveness of each instructional method. This paper willpresent the results from the students’ responses to these two instructional approaches.Introduction Bioengineering is a rapidly growing field which is attracting more and moreundergraduates [1]. Preparing students for their

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

studies.Bibliography[1] Digest of Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 2001.[2] Guran, Yolanda, Women in Engin eering in the Age of Information Technology, Global Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.1, No. 1, 1997.[3] Maney, K., TECHNOWOMEN – Why aren’t there more women in technology? USA Today, June 26, 1996.[4] American Institutes for Research, Gender Gaps – Where Schools Still Fail Our Children, 1998.[5] Dauwer, Sister Ellen, Women in Computing: How Are They Doing And Why, CCSC, NortheasternConference, Vol. 13, No. 5, May 1998.[6] Hassoun, Soha and Bana Soheila, Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Graduate Women Students in Computer Science and Engineering, 2001 Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education.[7

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

7.2 Learning Styles and Teamwork (Multidisciplinary Projects)People can be categorized as having five distinct learning traits according to the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model [1]. Felder presents these traits as perception, input modality,organization, processing, and understanding [2]. According to the model, each of these traits hastwo possible types.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Page 8.867.1  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSensory learner and intuitive learner are learning types in terms of how

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ware; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

predict the predominant choice of the students.Information collected in this study would be useful to faculty members and to students in severalways:• It will help faculty understand their students from the point of view of how they are trying to learn. This information would be useful in the development of a retention program.• It will help students understand what faculty considers ideal learning behaviors and how faculty members evaluate them learners.2.0 BackgroundAugust, et al [1] presented the results of six of the fourteen survey items that demonstratedstriking differences between student responses and instructor best-practice responses. The fullsurvey (14 items) and data are shown in Appendix A. The items covered four different

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Arumala; Ibibia Dabipi

expectations during the ten week period. The orientation processdescribed the mission of NASA as well as expectations as summarized in the Table 1 below. Table 1 NASA-UMES Student Internship Program (NUSIP) Schedule DATE/TIME ACTIVITY PURPOSE Friday, June 14, 2002 Wallops Tour with SEICA Orientation to facilities; Interns from Greenbelt interact with other interns Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Trip to Goddard-Greenbelt Orientation to Center Depart Wallops @ 7 a.m.Return to Wallops @ 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 23 Trip to Virginia Air and Tour NASA LaRC museum Depart Wallops @ 7 a.m. Space Museum

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Kostic

observing” or measuring, or probing with a certain “sampling” rate or frequency, like with a stroboscope blinking light, see Figure 1. Aliasing happens when an analog object, signal or data is represented (measured or “seen”) by a discrete system, i.e. in a discrete domain or a grid. Used in the Figure 1: Discrete sampling of the motion of a bouncing ball by stroboscope light on a single picture frame

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

features of VSAS.These cases highlight the instructional potential of question asking, benefits of immediateresponses during in class instruction, and potential of tracking students’ progress.BackgroundStudents need multiple opportunities to receive feedback on their current understanding. We Page 8.410.1have been experimenting with a commercially available classroom communications system (CCS)Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcalled the Personal Response System (PRS)( Avantec, Educue [1]) to assess students’ thinkingduring

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Session 3213 Thermo-CD - An Electronic Text For The Introduction To Thermodynamics Course William B. Baratuci, Angela R. Linse University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering / Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)IntroductionThe benefits of active learning have been well documented 1. Students are more effectiveproblem-solvers in the classroom when they have had first-exposure to the material prior to theclass meeting 2,3. Many engineering faculty encourage students to take

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

International Collaboration and Improvement of Mechatronics Education based on Simulation and Virtual Instrument Seong Joo Choi 1, Devdas Shetty2, Jury Poduraev 3, Woo Young Lee4, Jae Hyup Lee 5Abstract  The mechatronics course, which is one of the important courses among st modernengineering experimentation area, must not only cover experimental techniques, sensors andtransducers, signal processing and data analysis, but also include fundamental concepts ofcomputer based data acquisition and simulati on. The course materials and experimentalapparatus for virtual instrument based experiments and practices have been developed in theSchool of Mechanical

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Srilekha Srinivasan; Robert Palmer; Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; A. John Boye

courses are: 1. ELEC 304 Signals and Systems: The primary objective of this junior level course is to teach students time domain and transform analysis of continuous and discrete linear systems with the goal of preparing the students for subsequent senior level courses in communications, control and signal processing. 2. ELEC 305 Probability and Random Processes: The primary objective of this junior level course is to teach students the fundamentals of probability and random processes with the goal of preparing the students for subsequent senior level courses in communications, control and signal processing. 3. ELEC 462 Communication Systems: The primary objective of this senior level course is

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Garcia-Saenz; Madonna Tirtle

. This paper describes how tostart a program like ours, at a small college with no budget, and explains the steps, vision,direction, boundaries, benefits and ways in which to get such program started. It also assesses thetangibles and intangibles from a mentorship program like ours.Introduction:There are a small number of female high school students that are interested in engineering andtechnology and enrollment in this field at the college level. However, there is a high potential forwomen in engineering and technology. At the end of the nineties, the percentage of womenenrolled nationally was close to 20% 1, with a growing rate around 0.3% annually.It is imperative for educators to address this issue and help female students realize and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Riley

students as authorities in the classroom, integrating ethics and policy considerations,problematizing science as objectivity, and de-centering western (and male) civilization.Appropriate assessment methods for this type of course are presented with results from the firsttwo classes, pointing to areas for further development. Critiques and limitations of the use ofliberative pedagogies in engineering education are discussed, as well as the potential for thesemethods to address the needs of all students while increasing the accessibility and attractiveness ofengineering for underrepresented groups. 1. 2.Introduction For many years, efforts toward increasing the participation of traditionallyunderrepresented groups in

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

began to declinenationally in the mid-1980s. Termed “leakage” from the engineering “pipeline,” an average of40% of students nationally leave engineering before graduation, with some schools reportinglosses up to 70%. Leakage for women and underrepresented ethnic minority students is moretroubling, with 70% of women, 70% of Latino students, and 50% of African-American andNative-American students dropping out of engineering before graduation.1 At the University ofColorado at Boulder (CU), a similar pattern is found. Across a 10-year span from 1986-96,dropout rates were 50% overall, 48% for women, 59% for Latino and African-Americanstudents, and 70% for Native-American students. 2Causes of the high leakage rate have been debated by a series of

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

power engineering upper-level classes and eventually creating more powerengineers. Besides these lower level demonstrations and labs, advanced labs and demonstrationscould be developed for senior and graduate level classes to provide aids to faculty for advancedtopics in protection.Relay Test EquipmentSEL donated a relay test system to Mississippi State in the fall of 2001. The donation includedtwo SEL-351S relays, a SEL-AMS Adaptive Multichannel Source, SEL-5401 software package,and cables and connectors for the system. The donated equipment set is valued atapproximately $15,000. SEL personnel also provided MSU with training on the system. Apicture of the set-up is shown in Figure 1. The relays and source are connected to a computer