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Information and Network Security

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alak Bandyopadhyay, Alabama A&M University; Neema Simon Sumari, Alabama A&M University

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Computing & Information Technology

Advanced Encryption Standard method isused for both transmitted and received transmissions. However, the data must be checked tomake sure it was sent or received properly. In order to check for errors in the protocols beginsent, a cyclic redundancy checker is used.Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) A cyclic redundancy checker (CRC) is an error detecting hash function code that issometimes referred to as polynomial code. The CRC is generally 16 to 32 bits long and is used tocheck data for any error before and after transmission. CRC’s are most commonly used to checkdata that is being sent over a network. For the solar tracker protocol used in this project, a 32 bitCRC is used to check the data packet being sent over the master/slave network for

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New Research and Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadgee Mar González García, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Laura Isabel Nieves, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Paola Beatriz Pacheco, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Rosaurelis Joanne Marín, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Minorities in Engineering

, are not considered mainly because there is no access to them. Therefore, there is aneed to measure the efficacy of ECIs among underrepresented populations to determine itsvalidity and reliability. Traditionally, underrepresented populations score below nations’average on these instruments.5, 6To address this concern, in 2010 the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded a project whoseprimary objective is to test the efficacy of the Concept Assessment Tool for Statics (CATS)among bilingual engineering students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM)(EEC-1032563). This study is composed of a 3-phase mixed method design, in which eachphase is guided by a specific objective and research question. Also, for this study we havedefined

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New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

only material balances but now on areacting system, and one involving material and energy balances on reacting systems withrecycle. At each level there are two problems. The first is a typical problem where students aregiven a description of a process then asked to develop the process flow diagram and theequations needed to perform the material (and energy if necessary) balances. The secondproblem (a critiquing problem) consists of a problem statement, a process flow diagram, and aset of balance equations. The process flow diagram and the equations contain errors. Thestudents are asked to find the errors, explain why they are erroneous, and suggest a way to fix theerror.In order to build a community among the faculty commited to this project

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International Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Implementations, and Pedagogical Challenges in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria; Arthur Walter Edwards, University of Colima

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International

related to the integration oflearning and work. 5Data from Australian and Portuguese surveys show that engineers tend to spend the majority oftheir working week (around 60%) engaged in activities which involve interaction with others(meetings, supervision, writing reports, etc.) and only around 40% is devoted to technicalengineering activity. • There are also new organizational aspects in engineering education6:On the one hand, engineering issues, either in industrial products or in engineering projects, arequickly becoming increasingly complicated and most of these issues cross disciplinary lines.On the other hand, the working environment is becoming more and more internationalized dueto the globalization of the world economy. Products are

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suhas Ranganath, Arizona State University; Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Arizona State University; Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Arizona State University; Shuang Hu; Mahesh K. Banavar, Arizona State University; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

developed using the Java based AndroidSDK and is compatible with all Android devices. We described the architecture of theapplication and presented the DSP functions in A-JDSP. The current set of functions in theapplication will enable students to perform simulation exercises on convolution, Fourier analysisand filter design. The interface is highly interactive and the block diagrams can be constructedusing a simple space-and-route procedure. Finally, we described our planned assessments inorder to understand the impact of this application in performing DSP laboratories.AcknowledgementsThis project is supported in part by NSF award 0817596, the SenSIP center, and SprintCommunications

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Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blair J. McDonald, University of Texas, Pan American

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Minorities in Engineering

attempt to get the new and at risk students to mingle with mature students and facultywithout enrolling them in a "special" program. The program's key objective is to get students toteach each other with mentors available to intervene only when necessary. In the Fall 2011 term,the project was started with virtually no funding. Laboratory space that was only being used20% of the time was made available to students to study in during the unused 80% of the classschedule.The motivation for this program and its objectives are discussed. Data collected following thefirst semester of operation is presented and discussed. Conclusions are drawn regarding theprograms impact on participating students.IntroductionStudents at every academic level are prone to

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Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian P. DeJong, Central Michigan University; Dru M. Wilson Wilson, Central Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

Engineering (EGR120)in their first semester of freshman year. EGR120 is offered both semesters and currently has nopre- or co-requisite. Its syllabus covers introductory engineering material such as theengineering profession, disciplines, courses, problem solving, basic electrical and mechanicalconcepts, as well as two team-based design projects. For the first three years (2005-2006 to2007-2008 school years), the course was taught as one section; starting in the fourth year it wasbroken into smaller multiple sections to enhance professor-student interaction and studentlearning.EGR120 consistently draws relatively high enrollment (currently around 170 students per year),with 76% of the students taking the course in the fall. However, only 40-45 of

Conference Session

BIM and Virtual Construction Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Hildreth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Construction

determine the appropriate prediction methods, • analyze their measured data and develop an appropriate model, and • predict operational performance.Thus, the students were able to demonstrate proficiency at the application, analysis, andsynthesis levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.Learning AssessmentThe course final exam question included a problem that was designed to assess student abilityregarding learning curves in the application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels ofBloom’s taxonomy. Students were provided performance data from a prestressed concrete piledriving operation to provide foundational support for a highway bridge. The actual unit cost ofinstalling the piling was provided for 10 bridge bents. During the course of the project

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Using Computers, Software, and Writing to Improve Mathematical Understanding

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge A. Samayoa, Galileo University and Purdue University; Carlos Humberto Zelada, Galileo University

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Mathematics

Beaumont 9 and Reinhold 8 . Page 25.1430.2Tonkin 11 suggests that the use of wikis in education should fall into one of these four categories: 1. Single-user. This allows individual students to write and edit their own thoughts. 2. Lab book. This enables students to peer review notes kept online by adding, for example, comments or annotations to existing lecture notes or seminar discussions. 3. Collaborative writing. This can be used by a team for joint research such as a group project, essay or presentation. 4. Creating a topical knowledge repository for a module cohort. Through collaborative entries, students create

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Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mert Bal, Miami University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-5038: VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING LABORATORY EXPERI-ENCES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES IN ENGINEERING TECH-NOLOGYDr. Mert Bal, Miami University Mert Bal received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus in 2008. He was a postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Western Ontario and a Visiting Researcher at the National Research Council Canada, London, Ontario, Canada in 2008-2010. He has worked on several research projects in the areas of virtual reality, intelligent integrated manufacturing, and wireless sensor networks. He has authored or co-authored various journal and conference publications related to the applications of virtual reality in manufacturing

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State University; Rebecca Hudson Rutherfoord, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Women in Engineering

o Associate Professor – 93.1% of men‟s salary o Assistant Professor – 92.7% of men‟s salary o Instructor – 96.0% of men‟s salary o Lecturer – 90% of men‟s salary o All women combined – 80.7% of men‟s salary Women continue to earn the majority of bachelor‟s degrees, and are projected to earn the majority of master‟s degrees – for the class of 2018-2019, women are projected to earn 62.0% of master‟s degrees, and 54.9% of doctorate degrees6.Looking at these statistics it is clear that women are still far behind men in achieving highereducation leadership positions.Women in STEM Fields at the Academy

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Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology; Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology; John Morelli P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; Mike Eastman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Joseph Amuso Sr., Rochester Institute of Technology

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Two Year College Division

professional, societal, and global issues15. Awareness Ability to understand own strengths and weaknesses, and receive feedback16. Leadership Ability or potential to lead others and/or projects, set and achieve goals, create change and inspire confidence17. Overall Overall performanceTable 4 lists the average scores for each of the seventeen evaluation items. Table 4: Average Scores from Employer Evaluation Reports Coop #1 Coop #2 Coop #3 Coop #4 # Item Label All ET2 All ET2 All ET2 All ET2 1. Quality 4.2 4.3 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.4 4.5 2. Quantity

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Development of Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

I/Obox simulator, and the other with the actual work-cell. Valuable demos also strengthened thelearning experience.In the near future, the author plans to incorporate the vibratory bowl feeders (under a secondwork-cell – where the students will actually wire the entire cell), and a state-of-the-art machinevision system (in place of an outdated one) into his laboratories. The work-cell will sort screwsdelivered by the feeder. Efforts for this new cell development have already begun. Additionalfuture projects may involve addition of DELMIA Robotics Virtual Simulation tool to this courseas well as the capstone project course (ENGR 4950 – Integrated Engineering Design) for seniors

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Laboratory Experiences with Thermal and Chemical Systems and Sensors

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Corbet Johnson, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University; Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

provideimportant means to both reduce impurities in the deposited layer and increase the layer Page 25.1067.3uniformity [5].Developed Approach and MethodologyThe objectives of the project included: 1. Investigation of a thermal evaporation process that would result in a >4000Å aluminum thin film layer and optimization of the procedure; 2. Exploration of the effects of the process parameters on deposition rate to arrive at an optimized set for incorporation in an undergraduate course; 3. Investigation of the best ways to extend the usable life of the source holders;Experimental Setup and EquipmentA Trovato 1830-A thermal evaporation

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Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Per Henrik Borgstrom, University of California, Los Angeles; William J. Kaiser, University of California, Los Angeles; Gregory Chung, University of California, Los Angeles; Zachary Nelson, National Instruments; Manda Paul, University of California, Los Angeles; Stoytcho Marinov Stoytchev; Jackson Tek Kon Ding, Marvell Technology Group, Ltd.

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

administrators and students alike. Second, studentsmust perform experiments in a laboratory setting, which is highly stressful and not conducive tolearning.In response to these issues, the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA recently performed asignificant overhaul of its electronic circuits laboratories. Traditional laboratory experimentsusing oscilloscopes and signal generators were replaced with take-home projects whereinstudents designed and implemented a series of audio signal conditioning circuits. Students wereprovided with prototyping boards, circuit components, and myDAQ portable data acquisitiondevices from National Instruments which served as oscilloscopes and signal generators. Thesecomponents enabled students to work at home while

Conference Session

Design Cognition III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard J. Aleong, Queen's University; David S. Strong, Queen's University

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Design in Engineering Education

initiatives with all engineering departments. One of his key initiatives was the introduction of an elective ”Multidisciplinary Design Stream,” in which students participate in a series of courses and industry sponsored projects that build significant and relevant skills to foster creativity and innovation in their future careers. Strong has received multiple awards for teaching and student support, most recently as the recipient of the 2010 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to his appointment at Queen’s, Strong spent over two decades in the private sector in engineering and management. His experience spans three different areas: the primary aluminum industry, biomedical and biotechnology instrumentation, and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Lance Schachterle

accreditation visitors that the full import of this standard is met within the school of engineering.4.18 H/SS courses and especially projects may well be excellent vehicles for linking curricular theory and contemporary practice together, especially in terms of providing students with opportunities to learn about the important (but often difficult to teach) EC2000 Criterion 4 (“Professional Component”) “considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political.”4.19 For NEASC, this final standard articulates in detail all the liberal arts areas of study that must be addressed for regional accreditation. Clearly if the EC 2000 “soft skills” are focused only

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2001 Annual Conference

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Maliaca Strom

with publishers, vendors andthe campus community to ensure a smooth transition. What would the University of Arizona’scampus community think? Would they accept this new electronic method for obtaining scholarlyliterature with grace and ease or would they long for the days of the print journal? Page 6.927.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIn 1999, outreach to the academic community began. As part of a larger assessment project,librarians in the University of Arizona Science

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kwok Pang

heat from thehot flue gas. The model was donated to Cal Poly by Brown & Root Inc.The models offer many opportunities for senior projects. A complete model of the Chevron’sAlkylation plant which started up in 1995 was donated to Cal Poly, Pomona. Several studentsused Provision to simulate the plant and to perform process studies. Figure (8) shows a completemodel of the plant. You will notice one of the columns, the de-isobutanizer which is 7 feet tall(205 feet actual dimension) can not be fitted in the low ceiling model room. The top section hadto be taken off (Figure 9). This plant offers many systems of HEN, large contactor-reactors ofintricate design and settling drums (Figure 10). This plant has a refrigeration section whichprovides the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Karen Horton

product data from various vendors4-6. Students worked together on short-term teams incooperative learning exercises in class and on projects out of class. They interacted with staff atthe steam plant, learning to describe their project requirements to university staff without formalengineering training. They developed hands-on and analytical skills directly applied to industrialproblems.ResourcesOne class a week was based on a laboratory test or a computer-based calculative method. Arange of resources was available to support these experiences.The School of Engineering Technology is developing an Industrial Vibrations Laboratory.Included in the available laboratory equipment is a single-channel CSi Fourier Analyzer andaccessories including

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2001 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

premise among the various industrial and academic partners within the "I-4corridor" was the basic belief that the central section of Florida did not have the workforce inplace to support the high tech boom projected within the next 10 years. As the fourth largeststate and growing, there is virtual certainty that the counties connected to Interstate 4 will beideal locations for high tech firms. What was found to be missing was a unified, technicaleducational support structure to meet the employment needs of such an industrial focus. Thelegislatively funded Florida High Tech Corridor Council, (Fl HTCC), began to address this issuein several ways. One of their principal action paths was the formation of the TECH-4Educational Consortium.After the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ron Hart; Marvin Adams; K. Peddicord; Ian Hamilton; Beth Earl; Alan Waltar

been expended to determine the causes for thisprecipitous drop (65% reduction in students between 1993 and 1998). Senator Pete Domenici(R-New Mexico) has sounded the alert from the U.S. Senate and Congressman Joe Knollenberg(R-Michigan) is sounding a similar alert in the U.S. House. A recent study by NEDHO (1)revealed that the gap between the number of jobs available and the qualified applicants is largeand growing (projected to be about 3:1 in the next few years).Given this backdrop, the recent rise in undergraduate nuclear engineering enrollment at TexasA&M University has been quite gratifying—our undergraduate enrollment having doubled from1998 to 2000. Whereas this could be simply a spurious spike that cannot be sustained, we felt

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2001 Annual Conference

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Melissa Lin

requirements, tools building, cultural challenges,architecture modes, models, and hardware information will be described. The datawarehouse analysis, logical and physical design, application server, and implementationissues will also be explained.I. IntroductionThe computing and data service environment at the University of Florida is large anddiverse. It was formed within the numerous political and funding boundaries of the pastseveral decades. The advancement of new technologies and the need for quick access toup-to-date student and employee data have put great pressure on the university to developand to maintain a central database for administrative use. The data warehouse project hadto utilize existing computing facilities and databases

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2001 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

writing assignments can be implemented or expanded to help students Page 6.1123.1improve their writing skills.5At the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ), the required introductory course in SoilEngineering included writing assignments and had potential for additional and improved writingexercises. Describing soil structure and behavior, documenting laboratory experiments, anddiscussing special concerns in soil engineering make written assignments easy to implement.Experience in this course the previous year, as well as with senior design project final reports,suggested that students did not need just to practice writing more, but also

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Khanna; Chris Jenkins

parts. However,the educator and engineer must always be aware of what may be lost in the decoupling process.We educate students in structural design in this way. It is typical to have separate and distinctcourse in applied mechanics, materials science, and engineering design. This certainly simplifiesthe approach to teaching (and perhaps learning) the subject. But the division is wholly artificial,since real, complex structures are a result of an interaction between mechanics, materials, anddesign. Parallel consideration of all three components is the only way to achieve an optimumstructure. Recently, under support from the National Science Foundation and the State of SouthDakota, the authors have undertaken a project to link these 3 subjects

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sang Ha Lee; Betsy Palmer; Rose M. Marra; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

rating, although that effect is not sustained. Is this becausethe curriculum does not reinforce open-ended problem solving until the third year?If this hypothesis is correct, then the apparent jump in ratings indicated between the third andfourth year may be directly attributable to the changed environment in which the student findshim/herself. Having officially entered an engineering major (in most cases), the courseworkbegins to include projects and team activities that place the learners in contact with those forcesmost likely to advance their thought processes: the thoughts, opinions, and ideas of others likethemselves.The positive growth between the third and fourth years should not mask the fact that Perryposition four is still well behind

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reid

these explained by their peers in many cases.This paper will report on one study involving two sections of a freshman introductory course.The course is Digital Circuits I in an Electrical Engineering Technology program, consisting oftwo sections of approximately 35 students in each section. Both sections went through half ofthe semester (including two exams) with a classroom format that was about 90% traditional and10% active/collaborative, with 100% traditional laboratory experiments: student pairs workingthrough a weekly laboratory experiment. At the midpoint of the semester, the format of onesection continued (although a group design project was introduced), while the other lecture andlaboratory changed. The new lecture format was mini

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2001 Annual Conference

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Timothy McLaren

projects (such as senior design projects and academic research); • Provides sophisticated microelectronics diagnostic equipment that can be utilized by local industries for specialized studies of new developments, problems, and failure analysis; and • Provides a shared site for Clark College to train electromechanical technology students in semiconductor manufacturing.The microelectronics manufacturing engineering classes, together with industry-focused shortcourses and summer session classes, are greatly enhanced by hands-on laboratory exercises. Theextremely small dimensions and exacting tolerances of integrated circuit components requirevery specialized methods for processing and handling. We believe that in order to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Velasco; Joséantonio Turégano; Jesús Alastruey

. IntroductionThe project was founded on some previous experiences1,2,3: Advances in both hardware andsoftware have made it possible for simulations to provide students with a meaningful environmentwithin which they can interact with physical objects or scenarios from the real world4. Therefore,a set of computer simulations for labwork was developed.At the same time, some interactive multimedia courseware materials were developed for Eng.Thermodynamics. As materials increased, we foresaw the need for creating a system to organizeand manage them as a whole, in order to avoid inefficiencies inherent to the development ofhypermedia environments and to prepare a package for using in self-learning as it could help to geta high motivation level in our students

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2001 Annual Conference

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Matthew Ohland; Cynthia Finelli

All Study O&F 20 0 10 10 0 5 15 L&O II 17 0 11 6 11 6 0 L&O I 21 1 11 9 12 9 0III. Team activities and the cooperative learning environmentBoth courses in this study required team homework assignments. In addition, the first course(ECE 412) included three team laboratory assignments and a final team project, while the secondcourse (ECE 440) included a final team project. Students were expected to meet outside of nor-mal class hours to complete the assignments, and they were