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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

Instruments, Austin, TX, 2000.[2] Streib, W., J., Digital Circuits, The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Tinley Park, IL, 1997.BiographyARIF SIRINTERLIKCI is a faculty member at Ohio Northern University Technological Studies and HonorsPrograms. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Industrial & Systems Engineering Program of the Ohio StateUniversity and M.S. and B.S., both in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Hisprevious work experiences include various appointments and projects in Mechanical and ManufacturingEngineering fields. Page 10.811.10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Miller

isolate the source of that behavior.A third case involving temperature measurement is described in more detail below.A recent student project was to determine how vibration assistance affects machiningtemperatures. Figure 4 shows the setup for a temperature measurement experiment. Athermocouple is embedded in a steel workpiece that translates left and right under a grindingwheel. As the grinding wheel removes material from the workpiece, the temperature is recorded.Figure 4 shows the temperature measurement for two machining passes. As was done with theswirl experiment described above, the student evaluated the reasonableness of the data. Basedon similar measurements taken by others, the measurement data looked strange. We then tried anumber of

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

learning experiences in medical device design and manufacturing for a wide spectrum ofindividuals new to the field or with new responsibilities in the industry. As with any rapidlygrowing industry, applied education that covers fundamentals applicable to the long term, butthat can be put to use immediately, is vitally important. The medical device curriculum does justthat, offering applied education in areas of medical device design, development andmanufacturing.The program has been designed for engineers and managers in the medical device industry,suppliers to the industry, professionals taking new assignments or positions, team memberswanting to understand the broader scope of their projects, venture capital executives andprofessionals

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

Session 2461 Discovering the Power of PowerPoint: Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides from a Skillful User’s Perspective Michael Alley Kathryn A. Neeley Engineering Education Dept. School of Engineering & Applied Science Virginia Tech University of VirginiaAbstract Slides projected as overheads or by computers have become a conventional and dominantfeature of engineering presentations in academia, business, and professional societies. Thetraditional

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jayakumar Narasimhan; Erick Jones

bank compare to Arena (Figure 6). This may becritical for software selection. The ANOVA (Table 5) validates that both the software givedifferent results for the same input conditions. When the figure 7 is projected for 100%utilization of the teller, Simul8 suggests that third teller is needed at EXPO(0.5), but Arenasuggests that two tellers are enough. Therefore, the decisions made are differ with the software. Page 10.937.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganesh Venayagamoorthy

training results with that of the backpropagation algorithm. In addition, they doa survey of neuro-fuzzy controllers and write a report on how fuzzy memberships can be usedwithin a neural network structure. Some hybrid algorithms are described in [13].Course AssessmentThe course assessment is made of: Page 10.454.4 • 25% Homework/Assignments “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • 25% Midterm Exam • 40% Group Project Report • 5% Class

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Gregory Spaulding

. Consulting would also address specific problems that may be beyond the scope of the material covered in the standard training, such as design for reliability. Additionally, the Institute could be contracted to provide support in ongoing activities such as analysis of oil samples and periodic thermal imaging sweeps. Research – The faculty and staff at the Institute would be involved in research projects that would significantly impact reliability in the future. These research resources could be made available to address industrial problems that regional companies experience.SummaryImplementing a successful Reliability-Centered Manufacturing Program requires a clear, preciseexecution strategy. Short- and long-term goals must be defined

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

9.889.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclassifying normal movements. The module could then record whether the students usedthese examples. It is hoped that the new module will include the training of the modelingof joints for statics and dynamics. This project demonstrated the potential power of the learning about how studentslearn; however future work will review alternatives that may involve less developmenttime.References 1. Felder, R.M., Felder, G.N., Dietz, “The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering Student Performance and

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Asghar Bhatti

range of additional design topics were suggested for inclusion at theundergraduate level also, including high rise buildings, bridges, shell structures, advancedconcrete structures, advanced steel structures, earthquake resistant design, and blastresistant design.In the area of practice and marketing, topics of project management, marketing services,business development, communications, quality control, and cost estimation weresuggested as being needed at the undergraduate level.There may be a number of themes that can be developed from the results, although in abroader sense the results simply appear to be all over the place. The first theme is thatperhaps practicing engineers are not as familiar with the various examinations needed toobtain

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

calculation of performance, giving the projected life of the bearing inhours that is compared with the desired life. Subsequent trials may be done quite quickly to worktoward an optimum design.Helical Compression Springs Module:The method for the design of helical compression springs illustrated in the author’s book is usedin this module. The user supplies values for forces and lengths, end type, wire type, type ofservice (light, average, severe), and initial estimates of the mean diameter of the spring and thedesign shear stress (typically in the range from 80 to 140 ksi). The program determines anappropriate wire diameter, computes the actual stresses, and outputs the geometry of the spring.Allowable stresses for several types spring wire materials

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Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

Page 9.1051.3Center (MATEC). The main goal of this grant is to develop a series of instructional “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004. American Society for Engineering Education”modules that fill the gaps identified in electronics curricula by covering key high-technology topics missing from the most popular electronics textbooks. Known by itsformal title, Work-Ready Electronics: An Industry Supported System for SynchronizingCurriculum to the Rapidly Changing Workplace, the project is developing instructionalmodules that are delivered on-line. The modules incorporate a “learner-centered”approach that

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Administration, is a tool for projects in a safety or design course which allows the user toevaluate the risk of mixing any of more than 6000 hazardous substances with air, water, or otherchemicals. “Process Dynamics Online Laboratory” and “Control Systems Lab Online”developed by Jim Henry at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga allow students to run actualexperiments remotely. In addition, chemical engineering educators find a variety of usefullearning objects in the chemistry, mechanical engineering, and materials engineering catalogs,and pedagogical tools in the education catalog. Some objects are cross

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Murray

classroomlearning. I found the results surprising. The most frequent answer was lecture with 20responses. Some of these responses included combinations of techniques and some weresolely lecture. Group discussion was cited 16 times and case studies 11. The responsesworking alone, projects, role playing, and quizzes were each given once. One studentanswered “group discussion and role playing” and then went on to comment, “It seemslike we are living in the days of ADD. Damn that television.” Page 10.750.3Revised class Due to a variety of factors, the student enrollment in the safety engineeringmanagement course was smaller than normal. About half of the students

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementThe authors would like to acknowledge the support of The Texas Higher EducationCoordinating Board (THECB) (Grant No. 003652-0096-2001) and U.S. Army ResearchOffice (W911NF-04-1-0024). The participation of Sarah Xie-DeSoto and Sergio Gallardoin this project is also acknowledged.Bibliographic Information[1] Murphy, J. F., “Transverse Vibration of a Simply Supported Beam with Symmetric Overhang ofArbitrary Length,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, JTEVA, Vol. 25, No. 5, September 1997, pp. 522-524.[2] Gomez-Rivas, A., “Natural Frequencies of Transverse Vibration of Curved Beams”, PhD Dissertation,the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1968.[3] Feng, W., Gomez-Rivas, A., and

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramakanth Mandalika; Enno Koehn

10.386.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEnno "Ed" KoehnEnno "Ed" Koehn is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Professor Koehn hasserved as a principal investigator for several research and development projects dealing with various aspects ofconstruction and has experience in the design, scheduling and estimating of facilities. In addition, he has authored/co-authored over 200 papers and presentations in engineering education and the general areas of Civil and ConstructionEngineering. Dr.Koehn is as member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Warren; Abolghasem Shahbazi; Jianzhong Lou; Keith Schimmel

(such as Tone polymer by former Union Carbide)2, and polylactic acid(pioneered by Argonne National Laboratories). Although there are issues related to both cost andmonomer supplies, development of lactic acid based biodegradable polymers appears to be mostactive, and a number of commercial projects are under way.While there has been a lot of research on biodegradable polymers and increasingcommercialization of biodegradable polymers, the availability of educational materials on thisimportant subject are disproportionate to other areas of polymer education.3 There is anincreasing demand for skills in this area from companies involved in the research and productdevelopment activities of this class of polymers.4-6 Therefore, a biodegradable

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francisco Aguiniga; Hector Estrada

development ofthe program presented here. This required the instructor to spend a large portion of the courseteaching the calculation procedures rather than helping the students understand the nature andeffect of these stresses on structures. Furthermore, students were able to solve only very simpleproblems with no practical applicability. Also, students commented that the processes was amathematical exercise and did not help them understand the mechanical behavior of differentcomposite systems. Therefore, the project presented here is intended to be responsive to thiscomplain by using computers to perform the tedious calculations, taking advantage of their speedand consistency. Since the program has been unitized in the class, the student comments

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

laboratory where they learn the basics of Cprogramming and computer-assisted mathematics. Each laboratory session also includes a briefdemonstration designed to illustrate qualitatively some physical principles important in electricalengineering. An effort is made to identify those students with more advanced programmingskills and give them appropriately challenging projects; however, the emphasis is oncommunication, with the laboratory grade based on student reporting.An optional second semester (EE186) is also offered. It is a single credit hour class thatcomprises only a laboratory section, and gives the students a great deal of latitude in choosingprojects according to their own interests. The grade is again based on communication andreporting

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul DeNu; Connie Sketch

projections, and average salaries.Lesson 3, Job Search Methods, is designed to assist students in finding job leads in their chosenfield of study and preparing a cover letter, resume, and professional portfolio. A FLASH movieis used to expose the students to ten of the most successful methods for finding a job opening.After reviewing the material the students are required to identify their own network and visit theappropriate web site of the professional organization associated with their profession. Asupplemental software package supplied in support of the course is used by the students todevelop a cover letter and resume. Students are also exposed to the characteristics of a qualityportfolio and then are required to critique an online portfolio

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

graduate students is how to find sufficient mentoring and rolemodels. This need is not limited to academic subjects. Much more than undergraduate students,graduate students are establishing themselves as independent adults, and possibly taking onfamily responsibilities. These can be particularly overwhelming for a student who may be farfrom friends and relatives and who needs advice on how to combine the heavy studentresponsibilities with other important responsibilities. Advice on how to handle stress is verynecessary.Such a supportive community for doctoral students was initiated at Purdue University in 1999.This pilot project sought to provide support and guidance for doctoral students across campus,especially those whose progress on their

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

management program (EMP) needs assessment project report. Edmonton: Universityof Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Institute for Professional Development. (1999).17. Babcock, D.L., & Sachet, D.R. Continuing education for Engineering Management. In, L.P. Grayson & J.MBiedenbach, (eds.), 1986 World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education (pp. 228 - 232). May 7-9, 1986,Lake Buena Vista, Florida. New York: IEEE Education Society (1986).18. Ferguson, C. The continuous professional development of engineers and flexible learning strategies.International Journal of Lifelong Education, 17 (3), 173-183 (1998).19. National Academy of Engineering. Focus on the future: A national action plan for career-long education forengineers. Washington, D.C

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Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenming Zhang

Transport Processes in BiologicalSystems Engineering (BSE 3504), which is taken in the same semester as Unit Ops.After taking Unit Ops, the students will take the following courses: Food Engineering,Protein Separation Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Industrial Bioprocessing, Page 9.1342.2 2Bioprocessing Plant Design, and Senior Design Project and Report. Fundamentals thestudents learn in Unit Ops will be applied to all these courses. Therefore, it is notexaggerating to say that Unit Ops is the cornerstone course for students pursuing theBioprocess Engineering option in BSE. Given the importance of Unit

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cajetan Akujuobi

Session Number 1320 ADC Automated Testing Using LabView Software Ben E. Franklin, Cajetan M. Akujuobi, Warsame Ali Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research (CECSTR) Dept. of Electrical Engineering Prairie View A&M University, Texas 77446AbstractThe focus of this project is to implement automated test algorithms for testing analog-to-digital converters using LabView software. With the increase in bandwidth hungryapplications the need for high speed and high resolution ADCs are needed on the frontends of the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

, and grant funds,etc. can be used. In regard to service, items such as: club advisor, software donations, committeeduties (national, state, university, departmental), undergraduate and graduate academic advisingresponsibilities, outreach programs and consulting can be classified. In teaching, the number ofcourses, labs, independent studies, supervised students’ projects, teaching evaluations (bystudents, fellow faculty, alumni, and department head), developing new courses, etc. can be used.So, it is important to communicate effectively what the department goals, objectives and visionsare and what is expected from the faculty applying for tenure and/or promotion. This should beconsistent at all levels. Therefore, the tenure process will foster

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”ALIREZA RAHROOHAlireza Rahrooh is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of CentralFlorida. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Akron, in 1979,1986, and 1990, respectively. His research interests include digital simulation, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, controltheory, system identification and adaptive control. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.FARHAD KAFASHIFarhad Kafashi received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical Univ. in AnkaraTurkey in 1995. He was automation project engineer for OKA Engineering Systems for Energy Generation

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Hsiao

this material has beenheated for a given time. This quantification of the fraction of nanocrystallites that form out ofthe glassy matrix illustrates the model of crystallization kinetics and equations for nucleation andgrowth learned in lecture. Through the presentation of a specific research topic, principlematerials science concepts of structure, property, processing, and performance are illustrated. Inaddition, several students respond to this example shown in the course by participating in on-campus and off-campus individual projects with the professor.Description of Research and Pedagogical MethodThe materials science course at Union College is taken by all mechanical engineering majorsduring their sophomore year. A chemistry prerequisite

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

calculations such as homework, quiz, and exam solutions. I foundthat the students would write when I wrote on the chalkboard. It is also a good tool forpresenting an overall picture of each topic. When using the chalkboard, I always printedwith large letters and neatly. I found that students had no problems reading myhandwriting. I used the overhead project at the beginning of each lecture to presentoutline, graphics, definitions, examples, or tables related to that class.BenefitsI gained valuable teaching experience after teaching this course. I was exposed to theother side of teaching (the instructors). Moreover, I now have a better understanding ofthe engineering economics topics that I taught (and how they relate to my dissertation).This

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

. Page 9.258.4“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”1. Whitaker Foundation. (January 14th, 2004). Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit Meeting, 2000.[Online]. Available: http://summit.whitaker.org.2. R.A. Linsenmeier. "What Makes a Biomedical Engineer? Defining the Undergraduate Biomedical EngineeringCurriculum". IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 22:4, pages 32-38. July/August, 2003." © 2003IEEE.3. R.A. Linsenmeier, T.R. Harris, and S. A. Olds. “The VaNTH Bioengineering Curriculum Project”. Proceedingsof the Second Joint EMBS/BMES Conference (CD-ROM, Omnipress): 2644-2645

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

Page 9.671.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education[5] Er nest & Young LLP: Global Information Security Survey 2003 http://www. ey.com[6] O. Geoffr ey Egekwu and Mar co DeMar tin: “The Need for an Integrated Security Solution for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System used in Manufacturing Infrastructures” Critical Infrastructure Protection Project: Workshop I Working Papers, edited by Alexander Woodcock and Kevin Thomas, August 2003, George Mason University Press, Fairfax, VA., pp. 125-133.[7] Cisco Systems, Inc.: Cisco Security Agent Data

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

A Low-Cost Approach to Teaching Transmission Line Fundamentals and Impedance Matching David M. Hata Portland Community CollegeAbstract:As part of a NSF-funded Project, Portland Community College has developed a series of low-cost experiments to teach transmission line fundamentals and impedance matching techniques.Using a MFJ-259B SWR Analyzer, experimental exercises to measure reflections coefficients,standing wave ratios, and input impedance have been developed and used in the teachinglaboratory. With the addition of a matching unit and simulated load, impedance matchingexercises can also be implemented. These laboratory exercises