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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

Integrating Material Science and Processing into the Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curriculum Using the Web James M. Fragomeni and Anwar Hossain The University of Detroit Mercy, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Detroit, Michigan 48237, USA.AbstractThe proper understanding of engineering materials is very foundational and important withrespect to all the various branches of engineering, science, and technology for a completeundergraduate engineering program. The purpose of this communication is to help satisfy thisrequirement for a more thorough undergraduate engineering

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Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

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Naomi Chesler; Leslyn Hall; Mark Chesler

engineering, eventually leading togreater diversity and gender equity in the engineering academy.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the Engineering Information Foundation for financialsupport of this three-year program (EiF00.13). In addition, this material is based upon worksupported by the National Science Foundation CAREER Grant 0234007 (NCC).Bibliography[1] ASEE.2001, "Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Techology Colleges." 2001, American Society of Engineering Education: Washington DC.[2] Etzkowitz, H., Kemelgor, C., and Uzzi, B., 2000, Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. 2000, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.[3] Valian, V., 1999, Why So Slow? The Advancement

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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Nadezda Berezkina; Ilya Leipunsky; Guido Lopez

Moscow, 117829 Russia ABSTRACTNon Destructive Testing (NDT) is a technology of significant importance for determining theintegrity of engineering materials in a myriad of applications. NDT has become inherent tovirtually every process in industry where the condition of parts and assemblies need to beevaluated in order to determine their usefulness and serviceability. The testing of materials playsa significant role in design and manufacture of engineering equipment and, therefore, it is anessential ingredient of engineering education and training. This paper presents a simple,inexpensive and effective method to convey the underlying science of penetrant

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

one setting may not be foranother. For example, criteria used to select a solid modeling software for a design company willdiffer when compared to the criteria used at an educational setting. In order to establish thecriteria for use during solid modeling software selection a comprehensive literature search wascompleted in databases, which included (1) Compendex, (2) Ingenta, (3) NTIS, (4) Aerospaceand High Technology, (4) AIAA online publications, (5) ASCE online journals, (6) ASMEonline journals, and (7) Mechanical Engineering Abstracts. Each database was given a script ofkeywords that included: CAD, Computer Aided Design, Solid Models, Solid Modeling, SolidModeling Software, Design Software, Design Software Criteria, Software Selection

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Rowe; Tim Mulroy

Session A Qualitative Study of the Student Inter nship Exper ience J ohn W K Rowe, Tim J Mulr oy Sheffield Hallam Univer sity, UKAbstractStudents studying engineering in universities are often offered a departmentally facilitatedinternship at some point in their program. In the UK this activity is referred to as placement andEngineering departments encourage and positively promote the placement process to students.Typically in the UK the placement lasts for 12 months, is taken between the 2nd and 3rd year ofstudy with students placed in junior level engineering posts in a wide

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

2609 Formation of a Joint Biomedical Engineering Program between UNC-CH and NC State Stephen R. Quint, Carol N. Lucas, Timothy A. Johnson, Stephen B. Knisley, H. Troy Nagle, C. Frank Abrams, Jr., Susan M. Blanchard, Henry S. Hsiao Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill and NC StateAbstract: Biomedical engineering (BME) was a natural outgrowth of the technology revolutionin medicine in the 1960's1,2. At that time a BME graduate program was founded within the UNC-CH Medical School. Since 1968, this BME program has enjoyed an intimate and interactiverelation with

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry Stout; Ken Bosworth; Brian Williams; Habib Sadid; Mike Ellis

profile of the engineeringgraduate as demanded by industry and as supplied from academic appears to be getting greaterand greater. “ 2The lack of institutional mechanisms to identify and disassemble obsolete curriculum is a barrierto substantial engineering curriculum reform. A first step in this process is developing anassessment tool to identify curriculum material that is no longer relevant. All engineeringprograms that are accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)must have a continuing assessment process3. The assessment process must demonstrate that thedefined outcomes of the program are being measured. The most commonly adopted assessmenttools to satisfy these requirements are employer and alumni surveys. These

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

from The University of Colorado inBoulder in 1988. Since 1988 he has been with Department of Electrical Engineering at Howard University, where heis currently a Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interestsinclude multimedia signal processing and communications, Image processing and image analysis; and intelligentsystems applicationDonatus Cobbinah was born in Accra, Ghana. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with honorsfrom the University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana in 1997. He is currently working towards the M.S.degree in Electrical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC. His current interests include research anddevelopment of intelligent systems, and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Technology and Programming in a FreshmenComputer Science Course”, 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct 18-21, 2001, Kansas City, MO. Page 9.854.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationRibando, Robert J; “An Excel/visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming Primer”, Computers in EducationJournal,Ribando, R.J., and Galbis-Reig, V., Convective Heat and Mass Transfer from a Runner Using Some ModernSpreadsheet Features,” Computers in Education Journal, Sept 1997.Rosen E.M

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Session 1309 A Three-Week Hands-On Introduction to Biotransport & Drug Delivery for First-Year Engineering Students Daniel P. Cavanagh, John J. Wagner Biomedical Engineering Program & Department of Chemical Engineering / Department of Mechanical Engineering Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PAAbstractIn their first semester at Bucknell, all engineering students enroll in Exploring Engineeringwhich is an introductory course designed to provide the students with an introduction toBucknell’s six engineering disciplines as

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

American Society for Engineering Educationfunded alliance of educators, engineers, and industry partners developing curricula andtechnologies for tomorrow’s bioengineers. VaNTH is a cooperative effort among VanderbiltUniversity, Northwestern University, the University of Texas, and the Harvard University/MITdivision of Health Sciences and Technology (i.e., VaNTH.). Faculty teams of biomedicalengineers, learning scientists, and learning technologists work together and with industryrepresentatives to create challenge-based learning modules, or segments of courses, that can beplugged into new or existing BE or BME curricula. All modules reflect the theory and researchon effective teaching and learning compiled in How People Learn (HPL) (Bransford

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

Session Number : 3561 Linguistic Evidence of Cognitive Distr ibution: Quantifying Lear ning Among Under gr aduate Resear cher s in Engineer ing L. Donath, R. Spr ay, E. Alfor d T. McGar r y and N. Thompson Univer sity of South Car olinaAbstractThe Research Communication Studio at the University of South Carolina nurtures undergraduatelearning in engineering through guided interaction among student peers, near-peer graduatementors, and faculty members. The RCS bases its pedagogical approach on Dorothy Winsor’sconcept of thought and knowledge as a network distributed among members

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

Session No. 2492 Graduate Student Socialization in Science and Engineering: A Study of Underrepresented Minorities’ Experiences Cecilia Lucero, Ph.D. The National GEM ConsortiumIntroductionSince the early 1970s, when the underrepresentation of females and U.S. racial/ethnic groups inthe engineering professions became an exigent national concern, academia, industry, andgovernment agencies have undertaken practices that have improved the participation of minoritygroups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This improvement,however, has been questionable. Recently, for example, Dr

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Reising

of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The University of Evansville and EE/CS DepartmentThe University of Evansville is a fully-accredited, private, liberal arts and sciences baseduniversity affiliated with the United Methodist Church, proudly celebrating a history of 150years. Full-time undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2,200 students. The department ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science offers Bachelor of Science degrees in ElectricalEngineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. The department also supports aninterdisciplinary degree in Information Technology. There are currently

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

theirunderstanding of their students and teaching itself as opposed to the discipline being taught. Thispaper will compare these results and will discuss the applicability of teacher training aimed atteaching the elementary grade levels to teaching courses at the higher university level.1. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF) provides fellowship support to select engineeringgraduate students at the University of South Carolina (USC) through an award designed toenable these students to serve as resources in South Carolina public K-12 schools. Among theintended goals of the GK-12 fellowship program, such as providing K-12 educators and studentswith methods for introducing technology and elements of engineering design into their sciencecurriculum

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Harper; Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

sketches and drawings.- has been developed for use as a post-test. This test requires ahigher level of learning on Bloom’s Taxonomy – Levels Three and Four – Application andAnalysis.Both of these tests are being administered during the 2003 – 2004 academic year and this paperwill provide the early results about gains in student knowledge.Introduction and BackgroundUntil recently, Engineering Graphics has been a required course at most institutions, helping tocreate a strong foundation for the undergraduate engineering and technology programs. Throughthe 1970s, a full year of Engineering Graphics instruction was part of undergraduate programs.Engineering Colleges, with the pressure to teach more information and skills in theundergraduate program

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

research interests include multimedia signal processingand communications, Image processing and image analysis; and intelligent systems applicationAbdul Ofoli received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University ofScience and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana in 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he was a Teaching/Researchassistant in the electrical engineering department. He obtained the M. Eng. degree in electrical engineering fromHoward University in 2002 and he is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in the same university at theelectrical and computer engineering department.Sahar S. Kaddah received the B. Sc., and M. Sc. from Mansoura University, Egypt in 1988 and 1992, respectively.She obtained her PhD

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Odis Griffin

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmachining one part using a lathe and another part using a vertical mill. Parts must be machinedwithin specified tolerances. The test normally takes approximately two hours to complete.Students are allowed access to the welding shop if they have taken and received a grade of B orbetter in a course entitled “Advanced Welding Technology,” in which the students learn gas, arc,MIG, TIG, and plastic welding techniques, along with gas and plasma cutting. Students areallowed in the CAD Lab if they have attended an orientation and agreed to the rules of the CADLab, which include appropriate use of information systems, no hacking, no

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

Session 3260 How to Develop the Delivery Components of a Hybrid CAD Tool Ismail Fidan, Ph.D. Tennessee Tech University, 920 North Peachtree AvenueCookeville, TN 38505-5003, E-mail: ifidan@tntech.edu, Web: http://iweb.tntech.edu/ifidanAbstractOver the last few years, there has been considerable interest in using the Internet to enhance thetraditional engineering and technology courses1,2. The reason for this interest is that there are anumber of advantages of Internet educational delivery systems over the more traditionalapproaches3. Many faculty members are expanding their traditional

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Western Carolina University 7/New Jersey Institute of Technology 8 AbstractThis is the second paper in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional graduate engineering education for creative engineering practice and tostimulate leadership of technology innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness. This paper addresses thecharacteristics that differentiate the pursuits of basic academic scientific research and of professionalengineering practice for the systematic creation, development, and leadership of new and improvedtechnology for purposeful innovation in industry and government service.1. Background and HistoryWhereas in the last

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

@uc.edu.Fazal Q. Khan Fazal Khan is a design engineer at Polycon Pakistan Pvt Ltd. He received his BS degree inMechanical Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati in June 2003. He was a senior studentworking as student assistant during this project. Page 9.1317.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

Session 3260Development of a Synchronous Distance Education Project Between UGA and Kagoshima University Chi N. Thai, Kazuo Morita and Koichi Iwasaki University of Georgia, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department, Athens, GA 30602-4435, U.S.A. / Kagoshima University, Department of Environmental Science & Technology, Kagoshima, Japan AbstractAn IT architecture was proposed herein to deliver synchronous distance education materials fromUGA to Kagoshima University. This architecture was designed for extensive

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Engineering EducationUnfortunately, engineering educators teaching in developing countries often do not havethe resources to participate in such conferences. Travel expenses, conference registrationfees, and on-site expenses are typically beyond their means. This often leads to a steadydecline in their effectiveness as faculty members, as they fall increasingly behind newdevelopments in engineering education.Based on prior experience of the National Technological University, sufficient electroniccommunication technologies exist, at least in capital cities throughout the developingworld, to allow participation in an electronic conference, so that engineering educatorsthere are able to participate readily. In target developing countries (e.g. in Africa

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

Session 3448 An Overview of Secondary School Engineering Outreach Programs - Including Details of a Multidisciplinary Outreach Program Based on Integrating Digital Photography, Digital Electronics, and Roller Coasters William L. Ziegler Associate Professor Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science Binghamton University State University of New York Binghamton, NY 13902-6000Abstract:Enrollments in post-secondary technology

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Technology 7/ Western Carolina University 8 AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional engineering education for creative engineering practice and leadership oftechnological innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness. This paper explores the conceptual beginningsof a template for improved faculty reward systems that better reflect the practice of engineering for full-time, tenure track professionally oriented faculty in schools of engineering and technology.1. Background and HistoryThe United States has built an excellent system of research-oriented graduate education that is second tonone for the

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

Carolina University 1/ Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 / Raytheon Missile Systems 3 The Boeing Company 4/Arizona State University East 5/ Purdue University 6 New Jersey Institute of Technology 7/ University of South Carolina 8 AbstractThe third paper in this special graduate studies division panel session focuses on issues driving reform offaculty reward systems to advance professional graduate engineering education. Creative engineeringpractice and leadership of technological innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness is mission critical toeconomic development and growth of jobs within the United States of America. The paper andpresentation will addresses the need for appropriate

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Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

Broadening the Knowledge Base of Nuclear Engineering Students: The Development of a Course in Radiation Sources and Applications Nolan E. Hertel, Michael P. Shannon Neely Nuclear Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA/ Department of Physics, United States Military Academy, West Point, NYAbstract Nuclear engineering curricula have undergone significant revisions over the past tenyears, in response to both declining enrollments in the early 1990s and to broaden the visions ofnuclear engineering students beyond nuclear power applications. The keystone of traditionalnuclear engineering curricula was the need for competence in the design

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ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Carter; Paula Leventman; Katherine Ziemer

provides an opportunity to introduce problem-based learning modules onengineering and technology, to motivate students to pursue math, science and engineeringcareers, and to increase technical literacy of students. Studies show that middle school is acritical intervention point for encouraging the study of math and science, especially for girls.1,2The goal of the NSF-sponsored 4 Schools for WIE (Women in Engineering) project is to use theMassachusetts engineering framework requirement to infuse the curriculum with gender-neutralmodules and activities that focus on engineering and technology.4 Schools for WIE is a partnership of four engineering colleges in Massachusetts: NortheasternUniversity, Boston University, Tufts University, and Worcester

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joao Almeida; Guillermo Salazar

single contractualresponsibility with the owner naturally lead to a more integrated process.AEC Industr y’s Tr endsThe AEC industry has been gradually moving towards concurrent engineering, an innovative andintegrative work methodology used to reduce construction costs, accelerate design andconstruction, and to improve the quality of the final product. This approach promotes efficientintegration of people, process and technology and relies on improved communication andcoordination of simultaneous operation of multi-task teams. In February 1998 a group ofresearchers established the task Group 33, part of the International Council for Research andInnovation in Building and Construction (CIB) research agenda. Its goal was to further pursuethe

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz; Stacy Gleixner

accelerated.Collaborative Learning Exercises’ ContentTable 2 lists a brief description of the formal collaborative learning exercises used in theIntroduction to Materials Engineering course. The full questions and solutions can be foundonline at http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/ASEE. All of the exercises are designed tohighlight the main fundamental topic of the week and to bring in modern technologies related tomaterials engineering. The dual goal is to actively engage the students in the lecture as well asexcite them about materials engineering in general. In some of the exercises, students brainstormabout how a technology relates to the fundamental principles they are learning about (such as theatomic force microscope and the solar cell/ LED examples). Other