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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jean Paradis

Session 3421 A simulation laboratory for teaching construction management Jean Paradis, Eng. Department of Construction Engineering École de technologie supérieure Montréal, QuébecIntroductionStudents in our construction engineering program have often a tendency to perceive all theircourses as separate entities. To prevent this we conceived a course-project where the studentshave to use the knowledge acquired in all the different courses. This course simulates theexecution of a construction project

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Brow; Carol Click

school students in Missouri, the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering Academic Challenge.CAROL A. CLICKCarol A. Click is a PhD student in the Ceramic Engineering Department at UMR. Carol is supported by a GraduateAssistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship through the U.S. Department of Education. She iscurrently assisting the Drs. Fahrenholtz and Brow in teaching the sophomore laboratory class. Ms. Click’s researchdeals with the structure and properties of phosphate glasses used for laser transmission applications.RICHARD K. BROWRichard K. Brow is a professor in and chair of the Ceramic Engineering Department at UMR. He teaches a requiredsophomore level class on glass properties and structure, a senior level class in glass

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Christianson; Paul King

Session XXXX Teaching Safety Through Design In Biomedical Engineering Design Paul H. King, PhD, PE, Wayne C. Christensen, CSP, PE Vanderbilt University / Institute for Safety Through DesignAbstract: The importance of safety in design of biomedical engineering devices and processes inhealth and the environment can be covered in a variety of ways in a senior design course.Students can be initially sensitized to the necessity via a discussion of current literature (recentnewsprint of accidents), via a discussion of the National Academy of Science publication “To ErrIs Human: Building a Safer Health System”, through

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marjorie Davis

Session Number 2158 Teaching Well Online: Part II, Interaction Design Marjorie T. Davis, Ph.D. Mercer UniversityPart I of this presentation deals with the significance of instructional design for online learning;courses and materials must be designed differently if teachers expect to achieve success in thisdifferent kind of teaching environment. Part II deals with the importance of designing the online“classroom experience” to assure an effective, interactive learning environment.The Traditional Teacher-Centered ClassroomFor centuries professors have conducted

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Grady

Session Number 2158 Teaching Well Online: Part, I, Instructional Design Helen M. Grady, Ed.D. Mercer UniversityTeaching online is not as simple as placing your lecture notes on the web—you must design thewhole educational experience differently. This two-part presentation focuses on the need forinstructional design, and also for interactive teaching and learning. Part I focuses on how toapply the principles of instructional design to online training materials or courses.Systematic instructional design enables a course developer to answer three basic questions:(1) Where

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Kathleen Carvalho; Elizabeth McCullough; Marilyn Barger

Session 2386 Using Technology Equipment to Teach Chemistry Laboratory Exercises in Community Colleges Marilyn Barger, Elizabeth McCullough, Kathleen Carvalho Hillsborough Community College/ Hillsborough Community College /University of South Florida St. PetersburgAbstractThe drive to attract students into science and technology careers at all levels has led to creativeprograms and efforts across the country. At Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Florida,a new associate in science manufacturing technology degree program focused on high techmanufacturing

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elaine Cooney

Session 2426 Laboratory Report Grading Rubrics: What High School Teachers are Doing Elaine M. Cooney Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroduction According to Heidi Goodrich a rubric is “a scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece ofwork or ‘what counts.’” 1 Rubrics can be used to evaluate any type of student work, including oralpresentations, written reports, and web pages. Carl Wenning of Illinois State University expandsthe definition of rubrics by explaining, “Rubric grading is criterion based. That is, the

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Nelson; David Flegel; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

Session 3233 Undergraduate Research and Teaching Opportunities from a Transient Network Analyzer Ronald O. Nelson, David C. Flegel, Brian K. Johnson, Herbert L. Hess University of Idaho Moscow, IdahoAbstractA Transient Network Analyzer (TNA) is a large, controlled hardware simulation environment forstudying electrical faults. Background is presented on how the university acquired a TNA from apublic utility and adapted it for use in teaching and research. System is described withspecifications. Capstone design process combined

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

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Asad Azemi

Session 1033 Teaching Computer Programming Courses (Using the Internet) in a Computer Laboratory Environment Asad Azemi Department of Engineering Penn State University Delaware County Campus Media, PA 19063 E-mail: azemi@psu.eduAbstractThe usual approach to teaching introductory computer programming courses is to have classroomlectures and small size supervised laboratory sections, where

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Stephen; Jerry Weinberg

Session 1526 A Laboratory Experience for Teaching Participatory Design in a Human-Computer Interaction Course Jerry B. Weinberg, Mary L. Stephen Southern Illinois University Edwardsville / Saint Louis UniversityI. IntroductionThe ability of computer technology to improve productivity and enhance quality of life restssquarely on how well the technology application fits our conceptual understanding of how thingswork1. While it is important for a software product to provide the necessary functionality toperform its intended use, it is also important that this

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Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa

Session 3449 Linking Simulation Tools to Laboratory Experiments: Teaching Design Verification in Engineering Technology Jay R. Porter, James Ochoa, Sanjay Tumati Texas A&M UniversityI. IntroductionThe Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program at Texas A&M University is currently workingwith industry to incorporate both digital and analog testing techniques into the curriculum. One area thathas been identified as important by industry is helping future engineers understand the concept ofintegrating simulation into the design verification

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Chiang Shih

Session #1526 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DYNAMIC SYSTEMS LABORATORY AND THE IMPLENTATION OF LEARNING-THROUGH-TEACHING CONCEPT Chiang Shih, Patrick Hollis, and George Buzyna Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida A&M University and Florida State UniversityAbstract A full-scale dynamics laboratory was developed to enhance hands-on experience and fosterstrong faculty-student interaction in the teaching of the Dynamic Systems classes. To emphasizethe “seeing is believing” concept, we have

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Glumac; Gregory Elliott; Madara Ogot

supervision (teaching assistant) costs. • Reduced space requirements (since only one experimental apparatus is needed to facilitate an entire class and no additional physical space is required for people to work). • Institutions can rely on the expertise of each others faculty to create laboratories in fields in which they may not individually have current expertise. • Although a given experiment may be facilitated by a single institution, each institution can tailor the experiment to their curriculum needs by creating an individualized set of cases for the students to run and individualized questions to be answered

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Knight

teach laboratory curriculums required in the 21st century. This situation hasdeveloped over several decades due to universities not giving adequate emphasis and workloadcredit for developing and teaching labs. The senior level mechanical engineering laboratorycurriculum at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has been totally redesigned. Thenew curriculum is a two-hour senior level course (one-hour lecture plus a three-hour laboratoryweekly) that includes both mechanical and thermal laboratory systems along with a five-weekstudent design project. The one-hour lecture component of the course teaches modernengineering experimental concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wesley Hines; Belle Upadhyaya

course for both certificate programs.This course, along with three others, were developed under an NSF-CRCD grant. The course istaught for seniors and first-year graduate students in engineering, and is designed in a modularfashion with each module describing a specific topic in maintenance engineering. The courseactivities include team projects, and cyber-linked student projects2 with student teams in Franceand Brazil. This independent study component provides experience in team-based activity andcoordinating and carrying out project goals when the teams are separated by large distances.In order to compliment the classroom activities, a Maintenance Engineering Laboratory wasdeveloped under the NSF-CRCD grant. This self-contained teaching

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Karweit

StudentSuccess in the WorkPlace and Beyond, Information Series 376, ERIC clearinghouse on Teaching andTeacher Education, pp 67-98.4. Karweit, Michael (1997), “A virtual laboratory for beginning scientists/engineers”, proceedings Ed-Media & Ed-Telecom 97, Calgary, Canada.Biography: Michael Karweit is Research Professor in Chemical Engineering with primary research interests influid mechanics and acoustics. He is also Director of the University’s Instructional Television Facility.His educational interests have focused on technology-enhanced instruction in engineering--inparticular,Web-based interactive JAVA applets. Page 7.502.7

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Howard Arthur; Michael Sexton

Session 3233 LABVIEW APPLICATION: ENERGY LABORATORY UPGRADE J. Howard Arthur Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA 24450AbstractThis paper describes an effort to upgrade the quality and timeliness of the VMI’s MechanicalEngineering Department Energy Laboratory. Two of the current laboratory experiments wereselected for modernization. These experiments were a steam power plant experiment and acooling tower experiment. Both of these

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jon Marvel; Charles Standridge

: 1. Writing instruction. Every semester we have made major revisions and improvements to the way we teach technical writing to freshmen. Recent improvements include teaching writing one report section per week and providing a sample laboratory report for students to follow. 2. Instrumentation and Measurement. We are in the process of evaluating a strategic change in the course to an introduction to instrumentation, measurement, and statistics. Instrumentation and measurement is an important way in which engineers collect data to aid in resolving product, process, and operations issues. Thus, statistical methods could be

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

Session 3548 PLC Laboratories – The Next Generation James A. Rehg, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) were a novelty in the automotive industry aftertheir introduction in the early 1970s. Thirty years after their debut, PLCs are the defaultindustrial controller used in a broad range of control applications from simple machinesto entire production facilities. In the last ten years, PLC development followed thecomputer industry trend toward networked devices and shared databases. In the last threeyears, however, vendor

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nam Kim

laboratory and pilot-plant operations via the unit operationslaboratory.Over the years of teaching transport processes, the unit operations laboratory, the chemical plantoperations laboratory and the process control laboratory, we begin to realize that the students stilllacked an understanding of several key principles. These were (1) the instrumentation behavior,or on-line measurement of physical properties such as viscosity and process variables such aspressure drop, velocity, and flow-rate; (2) statistical analysis of the data and presentation ofresults supplemented with proper reporting of confidence levels; (3) dynamic behavior andphysical properties of steam and condensate.The transport laboratory course was added to the chemical engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Schmidt; Gregory Plett

Session 1526 A Multidisciplinary Digital-Control-Systems Laboratory Gregory L. Plett, David K. Schmidt University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsAbstractThis paper describes a multipurpose and multidisciplinary control-systems laboratory that isbeing developed at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It is shared by Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) students,allowing more efficient use of space and equipment, better use of funds, and elimination ofoverlap among individual departmental labs.The composition of the

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Droms; John Jantzi; Daniel Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

). “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education”In addition, faculty from all engineering departments will have the opportunity to utilize theNetworked Systems Laboratory. For example, faculty members teaching the ComputerArchitecture course (CSCI 320) might use the lab students to give students the experience ofmeasuring the performance of a system with modified hardware, such as less cache memory.Networking Systems Laboratory EquipmentThe Networking Systems Lab includes fourteen computers, interconnected with a 100Mb/secFast Ethernet that provides reliable remote access to files and access to campus network

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Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ingvar Gustavsson

Session 2359 A Remote Laboratory for Electrical Experiments Ingvar Gustavsson Department of Telecommunications and Signal Processing The Blekinge Institute of Technology, SwedenAbstractMany laboratory experiments in electrical engineering courses can be performed remotely usingreal equipment. Conventional electrical circuit experiments have been conducted over the Internetat BTH (Blekinge Tekniska Högskola: The Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Sweden fromdifferent locations simultaneously using an experimental hardware setup in a closed room at

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edwin Zivi; Jenelle Piepmeier

Page 7.1158.1change was made to the exterior of Maury hall. The Maury hall renovation followed similarrenovation programs for the adjacent Sampson and Mahan Halls. Upon the completion of theMaury Hall renovation, the entire three building complex was brought up to appropriatestandards as an integrated and connected unit.Maury hall provides office and most of the classroom and laboratory space for the Systemsdepartment. Although the electrical Engineering offices are also located Maury hall, electricalengineering classrooms and laboratories are located in buildings which have not yet beenrenovated. Therefore, this paper focuses on experiences from a Systems department point ofview. The Systems department teaches two service courses to all Naval

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ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Cliver

. When I started teaching the electronics course, the lab experiments that were being used were in the old format designed for weekly on campus lab experiments. These labs were well suited for the older format in distance learning where students would come to RIT or find a local community college to attend weekly or 3 -4 times per quarter to complete their lab requirements. In spite of the movement toward the newer flexible format students in this class were merely instructed to do what they could at home and finish the labs during the single all day session on campus. The use of Power Point as shown in this paper allowed me to create new laboratory experiments students could perform at home. These labs contained tutorials that allowed students

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

Optimizing Engineering Materials Laboratory Time with TechnologyBySteven M. Cramer, Nancy Ciezki, Hussain Bahia, Carole Kraakand Carole SchrammUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractThe background of engineering students has changed over the years, resulting in newchallenges in teaching hands-on laboratories. Engineering design involves visualization.This visualization spans the spectrum from understanding how pieces of a structure fittogether to having a first hand knowledge of how material deforms, flows or fracturesunder different loads. Engineering laboratories provide critical hands-on experiencesthat build visualization skills at the same time that material or structure behaviors aredemonstrated. But engineering laboratory time is

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terry Creasy; Richard Griffin

Session 1265 Laboratory Activity Using Rapid Prototyping and Casting Richard Griffin, Terry Creasy, and Jeremy Weinstein MEEN Dept. 3123, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123Abstract Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University has been undergoing a curriculumrevision in an effort to reduce the total number of hours that are required for a Bachelor ofScience Degree. As part of the development, a two sequence course- materials andmanufacturing processes have been combined into one course. This past fall, the course wastaught for the first time to multiple sections

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Drake; Mark Driver; Eric Welch

Session # 2793 A Low-cost, Interdisciplinary, Engineering Instrumentation Laboratory Course R. L. Drake, M. A. Driver, E. B. Welch School of Engineering Christian Brothers University Memphis, Tennessee 38104AbstractA question often asked of engineering deans is the following:"Dean, how can I conduct a meaningful engineering instrumentation laboratory coursewith such a small budget?"This paper reports the results of efforts to provide such a course at the School ofEngineering

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

Session 1566 Experiential Engineers: Developing an Integrated Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Charles D. Van Karsen, Paula F. Zenner Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity has developed a required undergraduate laboratory that is a practical and relevantcomponent of an engineer’s education. The purpose is to provide a combined mechanicalengineering experience that reinforces the traditional elements of a curriculum. Solid Mechanics,Dynamics, and Heat

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New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion

Session _3647_ Laboratory Development for a VHDL Design Course George H. Zion Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunication Engineering Technology Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 AbstractDue to the proliferation of highly integrated programmable logic devices, (PLD, CPLD, andFPGA), the traditional methods for performing digital logic design has given way to adevelopment process that involves extensive use hardware descriptive languages. In industry,the two languages