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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

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

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

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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

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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

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2001 Annual Conference

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Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

12 11Mixed ethnicity 9 6 Page 6.779.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Team activities and the cooperative learning environmentTeams are formed in this course for homework. (Teams in KFF were formed primarily forhomework and teams in L&O I were formed for design projects.) Peer ratings are performedtwice in the semester, one at approximately midterm, the second near the end of the semester.The second set of peer ratings is analyzed here.The cooperative

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Francis W. Derby

and Exposition. Page 6.80.4Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education.method for assessing student performance. Whereas exams and quizzes are ideal for assessingmastery of the subject, projects and lab exercises tend to enforce skills. Either way, somemeasure of student success should be recorded and analyzed, especially where changes havebeen made, either in the syllabus or the teaching method. Over a period of time, themethodology is modified with respect to advances in technology which may impact the contentof the course. Evidence of such modifications should be included in the portfolio todemonstrate progress as well as

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2001 Annual Conference

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C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

”? “Can we do this”? These questions will come from customers, seniormanagement, colleagues, and from the technologist herself. Learning to estimate is a normalpart of university education, but it is rarely taught explicitly. Detailed estimates involve a partslist, project charts, manufacturers catalogs, and many hours. A great deal of time, effort, andmoney can be saved if a faster estimate can be obtained bypassing the normal, logical stepsdescribed above. Once again, there are well-documented techniques to help develop thenecessary skills. One of the better-known techniques is known as the Fermi Solution. HansChristian von Baeyer10 introduces the idea with this anecdote. At twenty-nine minutes past five, on a Monday morning in

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2000 Annual Conference

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Winfred K Anakwa; Scott Jones; Scott Garrett; Ron Rio; Li Chen; John Bush; Jixiang Sheng; George Anglin; Dion Thomas; Dale Green

68HC16microcontroller. The controller was able to reject a physically generated0.01143m negative step road disturbance input. The details of the designconstruction, modeling, analysis, computer simulation, controller implementationand experimental results are presented.I. IntroductionIn order for students to gain experience in design and construction of a physicalplant, as well as control experimentation, a decision was made in the fall of 1990to build a prototype pneumatic active suspension system as a student project. Thesuspension system was selected at that time because the automotive industry wasseriously considering implementation of active suspension systems onautomobiles1-8.A quarter-car model was selected because it would be feasible to test in

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2000 Annual Conference

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James Rehg; Jamie Rowe; Donald Lambing

paper addressesa critical component, the target manufacturing system, which is often missing in the integrationof PLCs into the automation laboratory. The laboratory exercises associated with the PLClaboratory component usually start with projects that introduce students to the PLC operatingsystem, input/output modules, electrical interface, and the computer based programminglanguage to create ladder logic. These exercises are followed by a series of experiments thatcover how to use the PLC ladder elements, such as inputs, outputs, timers, and counters, and thePLC program ladder structure. Up to this point the PLC is usually interfaced to a set of lights andswitches in order to display outputs and provide input conditions. The most important

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

sequence ofthree undergraduate lab courses was required. These courses were an introductoryinstrumentation and methods course, an intermediate engineering science and systemscourse, and an advanced experimental project course. The first course in the sequence was a three quarter hour introductory lab coursethat covered typical mechanical engineering instrumentation and basic experimental andstatistical methods. This course included topics ranging from strain gages to viscometers. The intermediate course was one of two three quarter hour offerings dependingon a student’s curriculum track. We considered these to be engineering sciences andsystems courses because of their coverage. An attempt was made in each course to studysome

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2000 Annual Conference

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Francis W. Derby; Willie Ofosu

administration and revenue collection. Privatesector applications include real estate sales, real estate management, retail industry to sitefranchises, banking, tourism, the cable and wireless industry to locate and solicit customers, andmany more. New applications are evolving constantly. Application of the GIS is limited, onlyby lack of appropriate data or by poor organization of the data.Current state of the technologyOver the last ten years Federal, State and local governments have labored through data captureand processing activities to gather the necessary data that will be required in a functional GIS.Grants have been awarded to State and local agencies to be used to develop internal systems. Inmany areas, initial GIS applications were project

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2000 Annual Conference

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William N. Smyer

Session 1339 Integration of the Web into an Engineering Economy Course William N. Smyer Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a summary of a project to integrate the World Wide Web into anundergraduate engineering economy course. The thrust of the paper is a discussion of theexperiences gained by the students and a faculty member who is a web-authoring novice.Perhaps the most significant web additions are a set of lecture outlines and a set of interactivetutorials. The lecture outlines are approximately 80% complete notes. Thus the student note-taking