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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gustavo Molina; George Clark; Aniruddha Mitra

problems. Six problems involved algebraicsolution, two problems involved trigonometry, and one problem involved graphical analysis. A tenthquestion, not involving any variables, was included as a control question.The survey instrument was prepared in two versions, one using the variables x and y, the otherversion using the variables g, h, m, n, p, Q, q, r, s, t, and r. The questions on the two versions wereidentical except for the variables used. (See Figures 2 and 3)The survey was conducted on an unannounced basis. Calculators were allowed. The grade historywas completed first, after which fifteen minutes were given for the problem-solving portion.One hundred twenty five survey forms were completed; of these, four were multiple responses from

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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Les Kinsler; Thomas Mertz; Troy Harding

. 3.0The real-world project(s) exposed me to stimulating ideas about this course’s and 3.2other courses’ subject.I usually confined myself to the course textbook, materials or online postings when 2.0searching for solutions to problems found in the project.I seldom reviewed literature beyond the sources that are included in the course 2.1syllabus or online postings.Working with business client was a positive experience. 3.1 Page 9.279.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Ciezki; Brian Jenkins; Samara Firebaugh

Electronics. 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.4. Evans, A., T. Davies, and S. Wilks, Is your laboratory a turn-off? Intl. J. Elec. Eng. Educ., 2002. 39(3): p. 284-292.5. Wright, C.H.G., et al. Teaching DSP: bridging the gap from theory to real-time hardware. in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 2002.SAMARA FIREBAUGHSamara Firebaugh is an assistant professor at the U. S. Naval Academy, where she teaches and conducts research inthe field of microelectromechanical systems. She received the B.S. degree from Princeton University in 1995 andthe M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 and 2001.BRIAN JENKINSBrian Jenkins

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

setup to allow the students to leave the site between taking the initialexam and the final exam; so the majority of students were not able to take the final examor to document the time spent the next time they used the CD. The following table is forthe students who did complete the information. Although the learning styles areprovided, the degree of emphasis was not available. Page 9.889.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education A/R S/I V/V

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

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Mahbub Uddin

, manufacturing andmarketing.The Greek letter б (sigma) in the context of mathematical statistics represents standard deviation.However, in industry, б is used as a measure of performance variation. Industry’s performanceis measured by the sigma level of their business performance. Traditionally industry operates onthree sigma (3б) which translates into 670,000 defects per million opportunities. Six Sigma (6б)means 3.45 defects per million opportunities, which is near error free business performance.Six Sigma has become one of the most powerful emerging management tool used by the Fortune1000 companies today. Six Sigma continuous quality improvement concepts were pioneered byMotorola in the early 1980’s. Due to the profound success of Six Sigma by

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Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Satyajit Verma

Texas A & M University - Corpus Christi P-2 P-3 Rev. 2 3/2003 S. Verma Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationPage 9.1010.6 Figure 2. Details of the Fluids Section of the Process Bench To V-102 P ~30 ft horizontal run for all

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Session 2155 Issues Driving Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Engineering Education: Differentiating Characteristics Between Scientific Research and Engineering D. A. Keating,1 T. G. Stanford,1 J. M. Snellenberger,2 D. H. Quick,2 I. T. Davis,3 J. P. Tidwell,4 D. R. Depew,5 G. R. Bertoline,5 M. J. Dyrenfurth5 A. L. McHenry,6 D. D. Dunlap,7 S. J. Tricamo8 University of South Carolina 1/ Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 / Raytheon Missile Systems 3 The Boeing Company 4/ Purdue University 5 / Arizona State University East 6

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Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Visco

Society for Engineering Education"Bibliography1. Hamermesh, D. S., and A. M. Parker, Beauty in the Classroom: Professors’ Pulchritude and Putative PedagogicalProductivity, unpublished (http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/)2. Cutlip, M.E., Fogler, H. S., 2002 ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School, University of Colorado,Boulder, CO. (2002).3. Felder, R., Woods, D., Stice, D., Rugarcia, A., Chem. Eng. Ed., 34, 26 – 39, 2000.4. Ludlow, D. K., Schulz, K. H., Newell, J. A., Workshop 11: Incorporating Communication Skills, 2002 ASEEChemical Engineering Summer School, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. (2002).DONALD P. VISCO, JR.Dr. Visco is an Assistant Professor in the Depart. of Chemical Engineering (ChE) at Tennessee

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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Cajetan Akujuobi

number of times the upper code is hit, and A(0) is the number of timesthe lower code is hit. To find the ideal sine wave distribution of hits expected fromperfect ADC excited by a sine wave we utilize the offset and amplitude of the input sinewave. The formula for ideal distribution sine wave is: N s  -1  i + 1 - 2 N -1 - offset  -1  i - 2 N -1 - offset  Asin ewave (i ) = sin     - sin

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rajeswari Sundararajan; Bradley Rogers

&G Services Parsons, Inc., for National Energy Technology Laboratory, DOW, November 2002 (CD)[3] B. Rogers, G. Tamizhmani, R. Sundararajan, and S. Danielson, “An Innovative Fuel Cell Theory, Testing and Manufcaturing Course”, ASME, 2003[4] Charlie Zhou, Fabrication and Testing of PEM Fuel Cells, Laboratory Report for the Fuel Cell course, ASU East, May 2003[5] Ray Alfini, Fabrication and Testing of PEM Fuel Cells, Laboratory Report for the Fuel Cell course, ASU East, May 2003[6] George Kroeger, Fabrication and Testing of PEM Fuel Cells, Laboratory Report for the Fuel Cell course, ASU Page 9.70.6 East, May

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Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elton Graves

-five questions asked, the one that the students agreed with most was question 47(t47) “Learning to use technology was a valuable part of my educational experience in college.”This question had an average response of 1.44. Question Quest %SA %A %N %D %S mean s.d. D I use mathematics software or t16 48.1 40.7 3.7 5.6 1.9 1.72 .92 graphing calculators in classes other than mathematics classes. I often use mathematics software or t28 29.6 55.6 3.7 11.1 0 1.96 .89 graphing calculators to check my work on homework assignments. Learning to use technology

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Camille George

studentswas that the equipment in the laboratory could have been of higher quality. Every effort will bemade to upgrade the equipment for future courses.References1. UST, Programs in Engineering Course Offerings and Syllabi, www.stthomas.edu/engineering/Syllabi/2002-03/ENGR297-S03.HTM2. Arvindan, N. and E. Stuve. “Course Notes in Introduction to Fuel Cells”, © N. Arvindan and E. Stuve, University of Washington, Department of Chemical Engineering, (20022003)3. Laramie, J. and A. Dicks, Fuel Cell Systems Explained, John Wiley & Sons, (2000).4. U. S. Dept. of Energy, Fuel Cell Handbook (5th Edition), http://www.fuelcells.org/fchandbook.pdf5. Thomas, S. and M. Zalbowitz, “Fuel Cells – Green Power”; Los Alamos National

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenhhsin Liu; Ken Patton

exciting events andsessions this year. The key contact of the workshop is Dean Ken Patton and his email iskpatton@saddleback.cc.ca.us.References1. Burns, M. Automated Fabrication: Improving Productivity in Manufacturing. PrenticeHall, 1993.2. Kai, C. C., Fai, L. K., and Lim, C. S. Rapid Prototyping: Principles and Applications inManufacturing. 2nd Edition, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2003.3. Jacobs, Paul F. Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing: Fundamentals ofStereolithography. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1992.4. Jacobs, Paul F. Stereolithography and Other RP&M Technologies: From RapidPrototyping to Rapid Tooling. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1996.5. Pham, Duc Truon

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

feedback on new ideas that arise in earlier round(s) and 3)to determine a level of proficiency expected of biomedical engineering students within eachtopic.Overview of SurveyThe survey is comprised of eighty questions divided among nineteen categories including elevenbiomedical engineering domains, four biology domains, physiology, engineering design, andmathematical/scientific pre-requisites. Within each category we ask the participant to assess hisown level of expertise for that topic, after which, he is asked to assess the importance/relevanceof several concepts comprising that topic to a core curriculum that should be recommended forALL undergraduate BME majors. In addition, participants have the opportunity to suggestconcepts not included in

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rich Shiavi; Christopher Rowe

,focusing on computer modeling and simulation techniques for solving engineering and mathproblems. Since technology was just becoming user-friendly, MATLAB was a good choicebecause of its uncommon combination of ease of use and breadth of functionality.MATLAB originated in the late 1970's when Cleve Moler wanted to provide interactive accessto the FORTRAN linear algebra software packages EISPACK and LINPACK, motivated by hisbelief that a person should not have to learn FORTRAN in order to learn numerical computation.MATLAB was initially focused on constructing and manipulating matrices, and applyingalgorithms for eigenanalysis and linear algebra (“MATLAB” stands for “matrix laboratory”,reflecting these origins). In 1984, Cleve Moler and Jack Little

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

eas topic ar eas infor mation Login – r ole deter mines page Administr ator Author Leader Editor Home Page Home Page Home Page Home Page Manage Manage Upload Download Appr ove Publish User s Content Content Content Content Content Files Page Page Page Page Passwor d-pr otected ar eaFigur e 1: Application Site MapCurriculum developers are partitioned into several roles

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

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

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

Session 1535 Broadening Engineering Education through International Programs Keshav S. Varde College of Engineering & Computer Science University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MichiganAbstractIn recent years there has been a rapid move to globalize engineering profession throughoutsourcing product development, manufacturing and service. Nowhere has this been moreobvious than in automotive and computer/software industry. Realizing the need to provide someaspects of global education to engineering and computer science

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Breznik

in relation to the message. Take BPSKas an example. By being able to view the carrier inversion points alongside the messagedata transitions, the student is able to more fully understand phase modulation as well asissues relating to zero crossings of the carrier.Responses in the field:This equipment was originally developed in the 1970’s at the University of New SouthWales by then lecturer Tim Hooper. In the late 1980’s, Tim’s idea became the firstmodel of the current TIMS system. Over time many new blocks, or modules, and Page 9.658.2features have been added to the product range, all the time remaining true to the Proceedings of the 2004

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Smith; Joseph Ekstrom

anddesign separately.Upon completion of the required lessons, students are presented with their individualizedStudent Area. The Student Area provides organized access to all the functionality of theSOP system. Menus and customized focus elements provide links to the optional lessons,back into the required lessons, to reference materials and documents, to collections oflinks to external resources, and to the student’s history and notes. They also provideaccess to the community aspects of the SOP system where the instructor(s) and TA(s) canprovide announcements or information, and where students can communicate with eachother in a student forum, fostering collaborative progress and assisted development. Afterbecoming familiar with the Student Area

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Brook Zurn; Jeff Frolik

classrooms, Frontiers in EducationConference, 1998. FIE '98. 28th Annual , Volume: 2 , 4-7 Nov 1998, Page(s): 748 -753 vol.24 Neu, E.C., Lectures: laptop computers and the Internet, Industrial Electronics Society, 1999. IECON '99Proceedings. The 25th Annual Conference of the IEEE , Volume: 1 , 1999, Page(s): 96 -99 vol.1BIOGRAPHIESJEFF FROLIK received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of South Alabama, Mobile in 1986, the M.S.E.E.degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in ElectricalEngineering Systems from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1995. He is currently an Assistant Professorin the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Vermont (UVM). He is the

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

involving a specific problem area. 5. Make a more informed decision on their individual level of interest in a major. 6. Begin building a professional relationship with a faculty member in the chosen area of engineering.The module topics were left to the individual instructor(s) and/or department faculties for thatdiscipline. All of the instructors were encouraged to choose a topic that illustrated currentsocietal issues and/or research activities within that area of engineering.For example, the Biomedical Engineering module focused on brain imaging techniques. Thismodule introduced the physics behind medical imaging modalities including X-ray Angiography,CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, DOT, and Ultrasound, as well as EEG techniques. Students

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

not readily available in one central location.Bibliography1. S. Greenwood-Gowen and A. Waller, An Introduction to Educational Research, ASEE National MeetingWorkshop, Montreal, Canada, June 16, 2002.2. National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program, RFP, 2002,http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02121/nsf02121.htm#TOC3. Report of the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering,and Technology Development, September 2000, http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02121/nsf02121.htm#TOC, p. 6.4. M. MacDonnell-Laeser, B.M. Moskal, R. Knecht, and D. Lasich, The engineering process: examining male andfemale contributions, Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October 2001, p. 1.5. J.Margolis and A. Fisher

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Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Fry

Sky" (blue), "Wasabi" (green) and "Chutney" (orange).). The result: your dad's old Schwinn bike on steroids.” 2 [emphasis added]Without realizing it, the author(s) of the above passage make the connection between Rhetoricand successful Product Development. Designers, Engineers, and Marketers are engaged in theact of persuasion. Ultimately, their hard work must persuade a consumer to purchase or use theproduct that they developed. During the process, each partner in the team is trying to persuadehis or her superiors and/or peers that their solution is the correct one.The three overarching components of Rhetoric (Kairos, Audience, and Decorum) clearly apply tothe product development process. In fact restated, the above definition of the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

. Planned and managed changes 3. Unplanned revolutionary changesProbably the most famous step model of change is Rogers’ (2003) Diffusion of Innovation thatdescribes diffusion as the process by which (a) an innovation (b) is communicated throughcertain channels (c) over time (d) among the members of a social system. Rogers conceptualizesfive steps in this process: 1) knowledge, 2) persuasion, 3) decision, 4) implementation, and 5)confirmation. Rogers is famous for the S-curve relationship between time and the number ofadopters. Rogers writes that “The dominant viewpoint is that social change is caused by bothinvention (the process by which a new idea is discovered or created) and diffusion, which usuallyoccur sequentially.”Clearly, defining or

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Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Sullivan; Janis Terpenny

& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof income taxation that a specialist will bring to the table when s/he is needed to facilitatemanagement decision making.References1. Canada, J. R., W. G. Sullivan and J. A. White, Capital Investment Analysis for Engineering and Management, 2nd ed., (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996).2. Collier, C. A. and C. R. Glagola, Engineering Economic and Cost Analysis, 3rd ed., (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1998).3. DeGarmo, E. P., W. G. Sullivan and J. R. Canada, Engineering Economy, 7th ed., (New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984).4. Grant, E. L., W. G. Ireson and R. S. Leavenworth, Principles of

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

system-level trade-offs among alternative approaches;” and specialization, in which the system is brokenout into its constituent parts, to be “designed and built by specialists … [to manage] their Page 9.1290.2interfaces and interactions.”22 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Central to the processes of systems design and systems management is the definition ofrequirements, from the points of view of the person(s) or entity(ies) requesting the work and theengineers performing it, and trade

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi L. Patton

, in 2000, U. S. Geological Survey, in Cooperation with the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma,(2000). Accessed on 5/31/04 at .[6] Drinking Water Standards, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, (5/30/04). Accessed on 5/31/04at Additional ResourcesFor additional articles on Tar Creek see this webpage set up by Miami (OK) High School students:. One may view the reports from the Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating’s Tar CreekSuperfund Task Force (2001) at .Biographical InformationCHRISTI L. PATTON is Applied Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Universityof Tulsa. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and herM.S. in Applied Mathematics and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University ofTulsa. She

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Steve Menhart

Transitioning a Microcontroller Course from Assembly Language to C Steve Menhart, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering Technology University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Ave. Little Rock, AR 72204 AbstractThis paper describes improvements made to an integrated lecture and laboratory course dealingwith microcontrollers, taught in the Engineering Technology Department, at the University ofArkansas at Little Rock (UALR). This course initially used the Motorola 68HC11microcontroller, but currently uses the Motorola MC9S12DP256B

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Ester B. Johnson

-American students,2.1% Asian students, .8% Native American Indian students, 3.7% Hispanic students,2.1% Southeast Asian students, 79.9% White students and 4.3% International students.Women represent 55.8% of the total student population at UWM. The percentage ofwomen varies considerably by school/college ranging from 13.5% in Engineering &Applied Science to 90.1% in Nursing. 2UWM serves a racially diverse population consisting 15.8% while Milwaukee Countydemographics from the U. S. Census Bureau indicate that Milwaukee County aloneconsist of 34.6% minority. More recruitment of minorities is needed to reflect a morediverse institution that serves one of