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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Session _2560_ Improving Students Retention by Engaging Them in Real Life Experiences Hazem Said Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionEngaging engineering technology students in real life experiences has a positive impacton retention rate. The Center for Information Technology and Community Development(CITCD) at the University of Cincinnati initiated the IT-Students-Work project (ITSW)as part of its plan to establish strong relationship between students in the InformationTechnology program

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Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

Scientific Inquiry 3. Embedded Information Technology 4. Assessment and Learning Products 5. Learning Experiences with Instructional Technologies 6. Strategic Planning for Implementation The instructional material and techniques presented are to serve only as an informationalprecursor to later engineering hydrologic design coursework. It is not indented to replacecurrently accepted basic hydrologic design instructional methodology, rather is shouldsupplement current practices. Spatial information technologies are now a reality in industrial andresearch projects concerning hydrologic and other environmental parameters. This work isintended to serve as a suggested bridge from traditional to spatially distributed decision-makingand

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

formthe foundation of engineering. Focusing on applications in biological systems to teach theseconservation laws provides a new and unifying approach to the introductory, interdisciplinaryfundamentals course in Biomedical Engineering departments.Chapters 1 and 2 provide exposure to bioengineering problems and motivation for a quantitativeengineering approach. The manuscript begins with a basic review of engineering calculationswith an emphasis on elaborating the physical variables, which are introduced in the context ofdifferent biomedical technologies. The fundamental framework of the conservation laws isdescribed in Chapter 2.Chapters 3-6 cover conservation of mass, energy, charge, and momentum in biomedical systems.Each chapter begins with a

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CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to practice as alicensed professional civil engineer by the ASCE Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice (TCAP3). The BOK can be attained through a combination of formaleducation, both baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate, and experience. Several engineeringcolleges, including Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), were invited by TCAP3 todesign model curricula compliant with the formal education component of the BOK. We willdiscuss the process used to evaluate our curriculum with the goal of designing a BOK curriculumwithin our four-year undergraduate program. Interestingly, TCAP3 did not explicitly designatewhat parts of the formal education are to be attained in a

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Maxwell; Michael Parten

carbon dioxide emissions. Converting the end-use technologies to hydrogen allows theconsumption of hydrocarbon fuels with large-scale carbon management schemes in place at thepoint of hydrogen production. In addition, once the supply infrastructure and end-usetechnologies for using hydrogen are in place, then the evolution towards hydrogen productionfrom renewable energy resources becomes transparent to the user. 2The major driving force of internal combustion engine technology development during the lastthree decades has been the environment. Industry is facing zero regulated emissions as well assubstantial reductions in CO2 emissions. Although hydrogen fueled fuel cells are beingconsidered as a promising candidate for the future, there are two

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

experience. There have been several attempts to revise engineering curriculumto improve understanding and foster creative thinking3. RP laboratories and practices maybridge lecture based education and laboratory execution in design and manufacturing Page 9.659.1courses, and then increase students’ comprehension. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education” In July 1999, TTU’s Technology Access Fund provided a computer laboratory tosupport many of the software needs for CAD, CAM and CNC practices. Fifteen DELLOptiPlex

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

andglobally, to help educate engineering students. Several local urban projects in Harrisburg, PAhave included community gardens, building straw-walled sheds, and roof-top gardeningtechniques.Many of the Engineering Department’s global extra-curricular projects have been facilitatedthrough Dokimoi Ergatai18 (Greek for “Approved Workers”), basically a student runorganization, which collaborates with faculty, staff, and the local community to initiate, nurture,and oversee the development of appropriate technologies for implementation in needy areasabroad. Some of the projects have included: ‚ Photovoltaic(solar) electric power systems for a medical dispensary in Burkina Faso and a hospital in Zambia ‚ Solar-powered drinking water

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ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Harry Fox

Session 3548 Featuring Robotics in a Senior Design Capstone Course Harry W. Fox Cleveland State UniversityAbstract For the past few years the Department of Engineering Technology have offered a seniordesign capstone course that helps Electronic Engineering Technology students developinterdisciplinary skills and knowledge to work on designs and products requiring the integrationof mechanical, electrical, and microprocessor-control systems. Mechatronics is a term frequentlyused for this integration. The course features an autonomous mobile robot that the

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

faculty/teachers are good learners and inspiredteaching can complement good scholarship.8 Scholarship of Integration utilizes the creation of coherent patterns of new knowledge bysynthesizing and making connections across disciplines. Integration may result in theexamination of knowledge, technologies or applications. It may lead to the refinement andcombination of information in related fields. Cross-disciplinary programs like “Biocomplexityin Environment” and “Nanoscale Science” are enjoying large increases while core programslike engineering are slated to grow at less than the rate of inflation.9 Boyer8 states thatintegration must be “serious, disciplined work that seeks to interpret, draw together, and bringnew insight to bear on

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dae-Wook Kim

careercounseling in science and engineering[4]. Page 9.199.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEstablished in 2001, the Puget Sound Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence(PSCME) is a regional education-industry partnership aimed at enhancing the connectionbetween manufacturing technology education, student career goals, and private sectordemand. The PSCME, a three year project funded through the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), is interested in promoting science and engineering careers to K-12students. In

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Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

Session 1649 Remote Sensing with GPS Sensor and Cellular Modem David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E., Jeffrey Kirsch, Ted J. Yowonske, R. Joseph Cunningham, Joseph R. Petrovich Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote sensing project is presented for a senior technical electivetelecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program atPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several noteworthy characteristics of thisproject. First, the project used a

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

Session 1566 ME Curriculum Redesign Through an Assessment Process Ramana M. Pidaparti and Hasan U. Akay Department of Mechanical Engineering Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Indianapolis, IN 46202 Email: rpidapa2@iupui.edu and hakay@iupui.eduAbstractThe curriculum at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUI was redesigned,addressing the ABET 2000 outcomes through a systematic assessment process

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Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

communication and distance learning amongst its constituencies.PRIME currently offers five manufacturing technology (two-year) and engineering (four-year)degree programs. The three community colleges partners each offer A.S. degree programs inManufacturing Technology while Robert Morris University offers the B.S. in ManufacturingEngineering degree. In addition, CCAC offers a three-year bridge program that allows graduates Page 9.1273.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationto enter the RMU engineering

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

house design, the educationalvalue of the project, and how it contributes to the goals of ABET EC 2000.Introduction: ABET EC 2000 The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has issued a call forrethinking engineering education with its Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000. No longer is itsufficient for programs to demonstrate that they provide students with the appropriate inputs: aspecified minimum number of credits in fundamental math and science, engineering science,engineering design, and humanities and social science. Now programs must demonstrate theattainment of specified outputs: capabilities achieved by students in eleven different skill areasspecified by ABET, as well as additional areas selected by the programs

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Mills; William Cleghorn

Ontario(MMO) Connections Program, has the central objective to collaborate with industry in the definition of a realproblem of relevance to that industry, and to subsequently introduce this problem to senior yearundergraduate engineering students for resolution. The MMO Connections Program facilitates the opportunity for talented students to work on these real-industrial problems, and as a result, both parties benefit. The MMO Connections Program thereforepredominantly is one of technology transfer.History of the MMO Connections Program In 1990, when the MMO Connections Program was initiated, the undergraduate curriculum focusedheavily on technical subjects with little formal attention to writing and communication skills. Additionally

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

school for several years). The School of Engineering, Technology andComputer Science (ETCS) comprises of five departments, that of Engineering andComputer Science and three Technology departments. All engineering majors arerequired to take an introductory course on engineering design. The course that wasoffered during the fall of 2003 had students that were majoring in mechanical, electricaland computer engineering, and also a few undecided majors. This paper outlines some ofthe novel approaches adopted in this course. Some of the concepts were: (a) use ofstudent teams to study a number of actual case histories at different stages of instructionas well as to perform a number of classroom activities, (b) introduction of a hands-onteam project, (c

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Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Gore

Session 3247 Is Six-Sigma Certification Appropriate for the Classroom? David W. Gore, P.E. Middle Tennessee State UniversityIntroductionAs part of a Malcolm Baldrige self assessment of the Middle Tennessee State University(MTSU) Engineering Technology (ET) program, it became clear that there was a lack ofconsensus among the faculty on the definition of ET itself. A more focused direction wasneeded for the department. Subsequently, the department chair developed a proposal to "defineour product and market." Part of this proposal involved the roles and definitions of

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 3650 Closing the Loop: Assessing, Evaluating, and Improving a TC2K Quality Program David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper describes an ongoing process: the integration of the new ABETaccreditation criteria for engineering technology (TC2K) into the School of Science,Engineering, and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.Currently three technology programs – Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,and Structural Design and Construction Engineering – are implementing outcomes

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

process technologies. The coursescover topics ranging from semiconductor device physics to computer architecture. This programhas produced graduates who are productive almost immediately when they begin work, and whohave the broad and deep background that makes them flexible as technologies and design styleschange throughout their careers. The proposal reviewers at Intel were convinced that this pro-gram meets their objectives, so the task at hand was to document and disseminate the curriculum. Page 9.1408.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

educate students for careers innew product invention and development with a sense for both the technical and social issues.PDI is a dual major program satisfying the requirements for the Bachelor of Science programs inMechanical Engineering, and Science, Technology and Society (STS). PDI prepares students tobecome innovative designers who can integrate contemporary technologies with changing socialcontexts for a new generation of advanced product designs.PDI aims to balance the traditional approaches of Architectural/Industrial Design andEngineering Design - often governed by the aesthetic and the technical - with the approach ofScience and Technology Studies (STS) - the social. Students develop a set of general engineeringskills through meeting

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fanourios Chalkiadakis

Session 3433 Utilizing Advanced Software Tools for Classroom Projects in Control and Power System Studies Fanis Chalkiadakis , Recayi Pecen Electrical and Information Engineering Technology Department of Industrial Technology The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa1. IntroductionStudies in control and electric power systems have always been a major part of the core courserequirements of every electrical engineering and/or electrical engineering technology program.In recent years however, undergraduate and

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

Session 1625 Facilitating Distributed Collaborative Product Development in an Undergraduate Curriculum Tord W. Dennis, Robert E. Fulton Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the quest to be more competitive, many corporations have embraced Lean Management, Just-In-Time and Total Quality Management coupled with cutting edge Information Technology. ComputerAided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools enable engineers to efficiently andquickly realize and simulate concepts virtually, reducing the need for expensive prototyping and

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Oktay Baysal; Mehti Koklu; Ahmed Noor

Changing Profession,” Aerospace America, October 2002, pp.24-352. Noor, A.K., “Perspectives on Advanced Learning Technologies and Learning Networks and Future Aerospace Workforce Environments” Advanced Learning Technologies and Learning “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.385.6 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Networks and Their Impact on Future Aerospace Workforce (Ed. A.K. Noor), NASA/CP- 2003-212437, September 2003.3. Baylor, A.L., “Systematically Designing Pedagogical Agents: Effects of Image

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Joordens; John Long; John Florance

Session 2426 The Use of Home Experimentation Kits for Distance Students in First-Year Undergraduate Electronics J.M. Long, J.R. Florance and M. Joordens School of Engineering and Technology Deakin University, Victoria, AustraliaAbstractLaboratory and practical classes are an important part of the education of students inelectronics and electrical engineering. “Hands-on” experience is critical for any engineerworking in these fields in particular. For many years, delivering engineering practicals todistance-education students has been a

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Loendorf

Session 3575 Transitioning from Industry to Education: The First Year William R. Loendorf Eastern Washington University School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Department of Engineering Technology and Multimedia DesignAbstractAfter years as an engineering professional in industry, a career transition into a related field wason the horizon. The events at the beginning of the 21st century lead to the downsizing ofnumerous companies and the eventual elimination of countless jobs. As the economy weakened,it became increasingly difficult to

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Min Jou

on engineering educators to provide students with the scientificprinciples of new technologies, and familiarize them with their impact on the modern manufacturing processes.Manufacturing science includes these technical areas: manufacturing technique, manufacturing systems, designand analysis of manufacturing process planning, material handling, monitoring and control, automatedinspection, sensors and interfaces, and management. The manufacturing technique covers: turning, milling,drilling, holing …etc. Much time and cost are used to teach these techniques. Particularly, computerizedmachines are continuously increasing in use. The development of educating engineers on computerizedmachines becomes much more difficult than with traditional

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

United States for future generations of innovative ship design. The AtlanticCenter for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships (ACCeSS) is a consortium ofresearchers from academia and industry that was established in order to support this ONRinitiative. The academic members of ACCeSS include faculty and students from within thedepartments of Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Ocean Engineering and SystemsEngineering of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology, Webb Institute andUniversity College of London.In endeavoring to support the ONR NNR, the ACCeSS team has incorporated several students –both undergraduate and graduate – within all of its technical activities. This paper provides anoverview of the efforts and

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ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

operating systems (OS) for local andglobal computing. Topics covered basic OS functions such as executing user commands,providing system resource sharing, managing memory, input/output devices and files,and providing for security and protection of the system. A special emphasis was placedon networking and distributed operating systems in order to meet the needs oftelecommunications engineering technology students.The course consisted of ten learning modules - each module being one week long. At theend of each week, a private performance feedback message was sent to each student.Besides the comments on performance, the message clearly stated the number of pointsearned toward the final grade. Each week, the faculty member assigned chapters fromthe

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ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Eydgahi; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session 3447Designing a Microprocessor Controlled Heater Fan for a Fireplace Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi, Robert McCulley University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853AbstractThis Paper describes the details of an undergraduate design project completed as part ofthe final senior design class for the Electrical Engineering Technology Program atUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore. The objective of this project was to use a PIC16C622 microprocessor to control the speed of a fan depending on the temperaturesensed just below the mantel of a fireplace. The PIC 16C622 was