Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirankumar Gundrai

limitations of fossil fuelreserves, environmental considerations and atmospheric emissions from fuels, nuclearpower in India is a clean and viable option.Concluding remarksIn the area of nuclear energy many milestones have been achieved and future strategy hasbeen worked out to provide long form energy security to the country keeping in view ourenergy resource position a strong R&D base has been mastered to meet developmentalneeds have strategic importance.Our technology development is reprocessing, enrichment, production of special materials,computers, casers accelerators represents acquisition of technology which world beotherwise denied to us, but are necessary for realizing full potential of our energyresources to meet future energy

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amyl Ghanem

Circle, but consideringtheir schedules and the limited benefits to them, it was decided that we would bring in guests asnecessary. Some possibilities are: students who can speak on their experiences, researchers whoare acknowledged to be successful mentors, individuals with specific expertise (ex.library/literature search, computing, and statistics).Defining “mentoring”Many definitions of mentoring exist. After research and discussion, the following definition waschosen:“Mentors are advisors, people with career experience willing to share their knowledge;supporters, people who give emotional and moral encouragement; tutors, people who givespecific feedback on one’s performance; masters, in the sense of employers to whom one isapprenticed

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Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Rojiani

. Session 1315. Rossow, E. C. (1996). Analysis and Behavior of Structures, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. KAMAL B. ROJIANI Kamal B. Rojiani is an Associate Professor in the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from theUniversity of Karachi and a Masters and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Rojiani is a registered professional engineering in the state of Virginia. Dr. Rojiani is involved in research in the areas ofcomputer applications in civil and structural engineering, application of object-oriented programming in structural analysisand

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lane; Jim Harden

Programming Portfolios,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, St. Louis, MO.7. GNU Project web server providing software and documentation, (2002) http://www.gnu.org.8. Ivens, K., Carlberg, C., (1999). Excel 2000: The Complete Reference, Osborne/McGraw-Hill.9. McGourty, J., Sebastian, C., and Swart, W., (1998). “Developing a Comprehensive Assessment Program for Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 355-361.10. MySQL source of information and downloads, (2002). http://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html.11. Perl Mongers: A Perl advocacy web site, (2002). http://www.perl.org.JIM C. HARDENJim C. Harden received his B.S. degree from Mississippi State University in 1965, his Masters

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiang Shih

discussedearlier have to be used instead. Students were asked to be responsible for the complete operationof only one experiment where they can gain valuable experience by fully mastering oneexperiment. (Note: in addition to the assigned experiment, students have to conduct all otherexperiments also but at a relatively limited role due to the time constraints). Second, the studentsfor each L-T-T project provide assistance to their fellow students during the workshop sessions.This can encourage strong interaction among students and bring together a true collaborativelearning community. Additionally, it has been recognized that this concept can and should beexpanded for far greater influence on students’ overall education beyond the laboratoryexperience

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Munro

Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education · Pressure transducers and digital displays with quick connect fittings. (0-15 psig, 0-60 psig, 0-100 psig, and 0-150 psig.) · An I/P transducer for creating a pneumatic (3-15psig) signal to a control valve. · Electrical switches for the master power switch and for the pump on/off switch. · A small shell and tube heat exchanger to which the flow stream could be connected on either the shell or tube side. · A 65 gal. Polyethylene feed tank. · Two polyethylene receiver tanks, one on each of the elevated levels of the structure, along with PVC piping to drain those tanks back down to the pump feed tank.Other components

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

determining the best coefficient ofrestitution for collisions with the soccer ball. The motor voltage is Pulse Width Modulated(PWM). Currently, the “Power Level” software icon really refers to the PWM duty cycle. Fromstudying the theory and gathering data from acceleration tests, students learn how to use gearingand “Power Level” to effectively control robot velocity.Sensors: Students learn how to read and optimize the sensor’s effectiveness by walking the robotthrough the expected motions and observing the readings on the robot LCD output. The mostdifficult art to master is how to write software that reads the sensors often enough whileeffectively controlling the motors. Not reading the sensors often enough is the greatest weaknessin the student

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter

master a different language: thePumas and Adepts used VALII, the IBMs used AML Language, the Zymark was menu drivenprimarily, and the pick and place was strictly playback in nature. Maintenance of these robotswas a continuing endeavor that fell to the author, and a few of his more experienced students.There was no one on campus with the expertise to troubleshoot problems of major significance.Therefore, the Pumas would be packed on a pallet and shipped to AR2 for repair with about afour-week turnaround. Aside from the significant expense of the repair, being without a robot inthe midst of a full quarter of lab instruction was painful for all concerned. Material handlingequipment including a Bosch conveyor and student built conveyor, were also in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Duggins

, Richard, & Hevner, Alan R. (1987) “Box-Structured Information Systems”, IBM Systems Journal, 26(4), 395-413.[11] Humphrey, Watts (1995) A Discipline for Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley.Sheryl L. DugginsSheryl Duggins is an associate professor in the School of Computing and Software Engineering of SouthernPolytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia. She has served as the Graduate Coordinator for SoftwareEngineering and was integral in developing the Master of Science in Software Engineering degree. She obtained herPh.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 1991. Page 7.944.9Proceedings of the

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi; Ibibia Dabipi

campus has been under heavyconstruction for expansion and improvement of facilities. The student body iscontinuously increasing in numbers and in quality. Student enrollment has more thandoubled in the last twelve years. The university offers Bachelor of Science degrees intwenty-six, Master degrees in six, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in four programs.UMES Engineering Program has been offering and continues to offer the first two yearsof an engineering sequence. All UMES students were required to transfer to UMCP orother engineering schools to complete their engineering degree in the past. However,four-year Electrical Engineering Degree Program has recently been approved under athree-way collaborative agreement among UMES, SU, and UMCP. Upon

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz Gargione

oral and written presentations. The final project can be a business plandeveloped by the student team. Faculty for the Program The faculty proposed for the program includes professors from Universidade do Valedo Paraiba, people with the minimum degree of specialization, people with masters anddoctorate degrees and other professional with experience in the field. The professionalexperience in projects related to science and technology is a major requirement for theinstructor in order to be accepted by the program. At this time we have about 9 people involved with the program including: 4 PhDs, 3Engineers with Master’s degree and 2 Bachelor’s Degree with specialization in managementand technology. Some of this people are

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Bollick; Ajit Kelkar

, Comparative Study of Riveted Joints Versus Adhesively Bonded Joints Under Static Tensile and Fatigue Loading, NC A&T SU Master’s Thesis.Biographical InformationAJIT D. KELKARAjit Kelkar is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He holds the Ph.D. inEngineering Mechanics from Old Dominion University. His research areas include composite materials, finiteelement and numerical analysis, fatigue and fracture mechanics. He is a member of ASME, ASM, ASEE andAIAA.RONNIE L. BOLICKRonnie Bolick is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T SU. He holds a Masters in MechanicalEngineering from NC A&T SU and a Batchelor’s Degree in Applied Physics from Appalachian State Universitywith a Minor in Math. He is

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

received hisBachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering at Youngstown State (1968, 1970) and his Ph.D. in MechanicalEngineering at Case Western Reserve University in 1973. Dr. Suchora has been at Youngstown State since 1975and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He is an engineering consultant to local and regional companiesspecializing in Stress Analysis, especially Computer Aided Finite Element Analysis.HAZEL M. PIERSONHazel Pierson is currently an Instructor of Mechanical Engineering and Freshman Engineering at Youngstown StateUniversity. Concurrently, she is finishing dissertation requirements for her PhD at the University of Akron. Shereceived her Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rakie Cham; Brian Moyer

used to illustrate projectile motion via initial Edit a geometry/part: conditions (see figure below). • How to select • Position: translate, rotate, align, etc… • Coordinate system: LCS/GCS • Properties: mass, material, etc… • Initial conditions • Group • Rename • Merging geometry An additional exercise helped the students master more complicated geometry construction by building the lift mechanism shown below

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenghsin Liu

Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) by SME, and Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) by ASQ.S. Gary Teng is the Director of Engineering Management Program at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.He holds B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering. Dr. Teng is a Professional Engineer in the Stateof Wisconsin and an ASQC-certified Quality Engineer and Reliability Engineer. His research interests are inmanufacturing system design and analysis, engineering and project management, concurrent engineering, electronicsmanufacturing, and quality and reliability engineering. He is a member of IIE, SME, ASEE, and ASQ.Gladys Hsiao-Ching Tsai has a Master Degree and B.S. degree in Industrial Design. She has about ten years ofexperience as an industrial

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Elizabeth McCullough; Kimberly Rogers; Joseph Hickey; Andrew Hoff; Eric Roe; Marilyn Barger

Manufacturing Technology as well asmultimedia educational materials for a NSF Advanced Educational Technology initiative in Florida.RICHARD GILBERT is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa,Florida. He is actively developing multimedia educational modules in context of a NSF technology initiative withinthe state of Florida. In addition, he has helped to develop multimedia technical educational materials for LucentTechnologies Inc..KIMBERLY S. ROGERS is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Science at the University of South Florida.She received a Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering from USF in May of 2000. She is involved in creatingeducational modules under Dr.'s Richard Gilbert, Marilyn Barger, and

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Brophy; Robert Roselli

participationgroups. Hence, when low participation students attend class they appear to understand thematerial just as well as students who attend class regularly. We would speculate, then, that theirlower performance on exams and homework may not reflect their ability to master the material,but rather that they may have missed important information by not participating in classroomactivities.Students in the mid-participation group in BME 101 tended to do just as well as those in the highparticipation group, suggesting that missing just a few classes does not seriously influenceperformance. However, in BME 210, where the number of students in each group weas larger,there was generally a significant difference between the performance of the mid

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Mehalik

functions.IV. ConclusionIntegrating all of these conceptual tools and teaching them in the context of case studies of realworld complex system operations provides students with a more sophisticated way to be strategicabout their decision making skills and to be more capable of understanding the consequences oftechnology in operation. Unintended consequences of technology cannot always be anticipated.However, as Chiles mentions, “When an organization develops people who are capable expertsat picking out the subtle signals of real problems from the constant noise of routine difficulties,and when the boss allows them to report and take prompt action, that organization is doing thesame thing that chess masters do.”18The Rohner case is an example that

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christene Moore; Hillary Hart

scenario and case study, was not to indoctrinate students to aparticular view of right and wrong, but to introduce them to the complexities of the issues thatthey may confront as professionals. The scenarios are designed to pose difficult questions thatwill elicit a variety of responses. If the scenarios and discussion questions accomplish thatpurpose, instructors should not feel burdened to master the philosophical doctrines that mightinform particular approaches to a problem or even the legal standards. One technique we usedin the class discussions in fall 2001 to encourage students to analyze different positions was Page 7.398.3group work. After

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Descoteaux; Kevin Sutterer

” • What materials and resources are best suited to accomplish these goals? • Is the overall design coherent and effective?In the three courses described herein, students work all three quarters on design of a campusbuilding on the Rose-Hulman Master Plan for campus development. Within the courses, thestudents learn through open-ended project assignments for building design, and across thecourses the students build knowledge of the structural design process and learn more efficientlyby saving time in project familiarization. In 2000-2001, the three courses completed ageotechnical investigation, concrete frame and floor design, and steel roof design for a plannedparking garage on the R-HIT campus. In 2001-2002, student teams are working on

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

. Generative implies that something is created, revisited, and capable of being reproduced.In a learning environment, concepts should not be encountered just one time, but revisited andapplied in multiple contexts. As Resnick and Resnick12 note, “for concepts and organizingknowledge to be mastered, they must be used generatively – that is, they have to be called uponover and over again as ways to link, interpret, and explain new information.”The simple machines module (http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7009/simple_machines) provides Page 7.382.4multiple contexts in which students encounter the concepts. The computer environment provides

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid Al-Olimat

, Electromagnetic Field Theory Fundamentals, PWS, 1998.2. C. R Paul, K. W. Whites and S. A. Nasar, Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields, 3 rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1998.3. K. Demarest, Engineering Electromagnetics, Prentice Hall, 1998.4. F. Ulaby, Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, Prentice Hall, 2001.5. D. Hanselman, B. Littlefield, Mastering MatLab, Prentice Hall, 2001.BiographyKHALID S. AL-OLIMAT was born in Jordan in 1967. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering fromFar Eastern University in 1990, the M.S. degree in manufacturing engineering from Bradley University in 1994, andthe Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Toledo in 1999. His research and teaching

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Peg Boyle Single; Naomi Chesler; Borjana Mikic

were women and only 1% of FullProfessors were women.3 At a time when academic departments in engineering and computerscience are losing talent to industry,4 women remain an important and largely untapped laborforce for teaching and supporting the next generation of engineers and computer scientists. Withsuch low numbers, the potential for women faculty being isolated and left out of informalmentoring and support networks, is significant.5While our primary concern is with supporting and promoting women engineering facultymembers, a secondary benefit could be the influence on the female students these facultymembers instruct. In 1998, women graduates of engineering programs represented just 18.6 %of the undergraduate, 20.3 % of the masters and

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

very hands-on approach, and introduced the lecturetopics during the actual hands-on activity. In this way the students stayed focused and were ableto directly relate the lecture material to the practical projects.The students were introduced to aircraft structures and their final project was to build a wingletsection of aluminum alloy. They practiced and mastered techniques such as measuring, drilling,sheet metal forming, riveting and welding. During the propulsion sessions, they were introducedto aircraft reciprocating and turbine engines. They were involved in test runs of engines and thebalancing procedures of a propeller. By far the most popular part of the course was the two-hoursession in a B-727 full motion flight simulator during which

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance O'Connor; Nghia Le

fromthe University of Louisville. He specializes is instrumentation and controls. He can be reached at: nle1@purdue.edu.TERRENCE P. O’CONNORTerrence P. O’Connor is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology for Purdue University. Heteaches at the New Albany site where he has taught all but one of the courses in the two year degree offered there.He is primarily interested in ELF/ULF signal detection in the area of research, but also has delved into engineeringethics. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he received a B.S. in Engineering Technology. Hereceived his Master of Science degree in Engineering Technology from West Texas State University. He can bereached at: toconnor@purdue.edu. Proceedings of the

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Magedy Salama; M Kazerani; Khaled Nigim

laboratory experimentation and measurement in an interactive environment withreduced manual and repetitive data calculation. Several reported references [3 – 4] show thestrength in the practicality of not only using GPMS as an educational tool, but as a research toolthat is capable of analyzing sophisticated engineering applications. MatLab, MathCAD, andMathematica are the most popular GPMS. The most powerful program at the junior level isMatLab, which requires a long time to master. On the other hand, students can learn to useMathCAD and Mathematica in a short time and with little practice. In the case of MathCAD, theequations appear in a similar format as handwriting, which is an advantage at the junior level. An important advantage of

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Tollner

Seminar course on professionalism. 2. Strengthen the graduate student club. 3. Increase professional experience.* Strategies for involving extension/outreach faculty in the graduate program 1. Develop a Masters of Engineering degree program 2. Develop a graduate internship course.* Recruiting strategies 1. Use students at recruiting fairs; enable students to go to national meetings 2. Develop materials for use at recruiting fairs. 3. Focus on the nontraditional student and unique cultural aspects of the University. 4. Develop and publicize departmental identity 5. Put resources into recruiting. 6. Evaluate the mentoring process and perform a detailed analysis

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kip Nygren

-technical aspects of real world problems, andthe expansion of engineering disciplines suggest a fundamental change is needed for professionalengineering education. In accordance with other professional education programs, such as inLaw or Medicine, the professional engineering degree should be shifted to the Master of Sciencedegree level. The undergraduate experience can then be broadened for engineers to betterprepare them for the integration of political, social and economic concerns into designAdditionally, both the content and process fundamentals needed to prepare students not just forengineering but to become quality continuous learners and self-growers can be included to thecurriculum. Moral/ethical Considerations. Technology is and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

long been an interesting research topic for engineeringand technology educators. During a discussion on curriculum development at Essex CountyCollege, some faculty members, believing that basic mathematical skills were fundamental forgraphics apprehension, advocated the adoption of a mathematics course as a prerequisite to thegraphics course. At the same time, others did not believe mathematical proficiency to be necessaryfor mastering graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) skills. The ability to visualize spatially isgenerally considered fundamental for graphics applications, especially for three-dimensional (3D)solid modeling using CAD software packages. Is there a relationship between basic mathematicalskills and spatial visualization

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Spencer; Amy Bell

)indicate a decline in the percentage of bachelor’s degrees in engineering awarded to women overthis time period. Degree 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Bachelor 18.5% 18.3% 16.2% 13.9% 18.3% 17.6% 15.8% 16.2% Master 15.3% 20.3% 16.4% 16.7% 15.0% 17.8% 17.8% 18.2% Ph.D. 1.0% 12.4% 10.1% 9.5% 7.6% 13.5% 8.0% 12.1% Table 1: Percentage of Virginia Tech bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in engineering awarded to women, 1990-1997.5On a positive note, the Virginia Tech figures for master’s engineering degrees awarded towomen increased over this