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thetraditional method. The second experiment was Projectile Motion. Students receiving traditional instructionperformed the experiment using a specially designed projectile launcher made of PVC piping.The projectile, in this case a golf ball, was projected horizontally from a table into a target box onthe floor. Students made use of the equations of motion to predict an experimental value for thehorizontal range of the ball. After making this prediction, students launched their projectilesseveral times to determine an average experimental value for the range. Once the range had beendetermined, students were instructed to return to their data and use the equations of motion todetermine the horizontal and vertical components of the position and

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of Engineering, National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1985.4. “Quality of Engineering Education”, Final Report of the Quality of Engineering Education Project, American Society for Engineering Education, September 1986.5. “The National Action Agenda for Engineering Education”, Report of an ASEE Task Force American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, DC, November, 1987.6. “Engineering Undergraduate Education”, Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer, National Research Council, Washington, DC 1986. Page 2.485.6 67. “Engineering

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facilitate the future development of complex experiments requiring multiple bus instrument coordination.1 IntroductionThis paper presents the development and implementation of instrument control software foruse in a networked computer environment. The project was motivated by ongoing research ‘This work has been supported in part by the ARPA HBT/ADC program under a contract administeredby the Office of Naval Research Grant N000149311007 and the DEPSCoR program through the ArmyResearch Office Grant DAAH04-94-G-0387 Page 2.50.1 WorkStations Figure 1: Ideal Lab Configurationin the

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SITUATED LEARNING AND MOTIVATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE COGNITIVE LEARNING IN CE Alexandre Cabral, Rolland Viau and Denis Bédard Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, CanadaAbstractThis papers describes the results obtained and the main observations made during a year longresearch project whose main purpose was to integrate situated learning and some motivationaltools in an undergraduate civil engineering course (Soil Mechanics I). New teaching material wasdeveloped almost from scratch around a main theme and several secondary themes. Orienteddiscussions and exercises were prepared in order to help the students acknowledge the newprofessional skills they had acquired. The

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

playground design problem22. (This is a revisedversion of a term-long design project used at the University of Maryland as part of the NationalScience Foundation's ECSEL coalition)23. Students were asked to address this relatively un-structured problem, and were encouraged to ask the monitor for specific information or clarifica-tions during the experiment.Early results of the playground design experiment (based on 50 subjects) show that engineeringstudents have a wide variety of approaches when problem solving. However, one consistentfinding is that most student subjects, both freshman and seniors, do little information gathering.Although seniors asked for significantly more categories of information than freshmen, in generalstudents’ requests for

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Peter Ludovice; Noel Rappin; Matthew Realff; Mark Guzdial

models in a fully functionalsimulation environment is equivalent to learning an entire programming language. It is too difficult to expectstudents to be able to do this in addition to learning the domain knowledge.The problem, then, is to create a simulation environment which allows students to construct and execute complexsimulations in a manner that allows them to connect their theoretical knowledge to the real world and which doesnot force them to learn formalisms that will not be of later use. A key component of this environment is support formodeling – creating a conceptual representation of reality.The objective of our project is to create a computer environment, called DEVICE (Dynamic Environment forVisualization in Chemical Engineering

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Richard M. Felder

, individual accountability ispromoted by testing individuals on all of the material covered in group assignments and byfactoring individual effort assessments into team project grading. Positive interdependence isfostered by assigning rotating roles to team members (coordinator, recorder, checker), and byoffering small bonuses on tests to all members of teams with average test grades above (say) 80.References 3–5 offer many other suggestions. Page 2.89.3Miscellaneous Ideas• Put your policies and procedures for grading, attendance, late homework, missed tests, etc., in writing, and hand them out on the first day. Making up the rules as you go

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Zoran S. Filipi; GuoQing Zhang; Dennis N. Assanis

, thus enabling them to conduct real-life, 1semester-long, open-ended projects that integrate the course principles. Based on this finding,we have been encouraged to develop a week-long, intensive short course to introduce thepracticing professional engineers to the principles of modeling and simulation of internalcombustion engines. Exposing the student to the hierarchy of engine process and systems level models, andteaching them a number of complex phenomena and their interactions within the constraints ofone week, creates two new challenges: (i) how to condense the lectured material and increaseefficiency of the teaching/learning process in

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Peter Martin; Bill Bitler; Rulph Chassaing

. B. Widrow and S. D. Stearns, "Adaptive Signal Processing", Prentice Hall, 1985.8. R. Chassaing and P. Martin, "Parallel Processing with the TMS320C40", Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June, 1995.9. R. Chassaing and Bill Bitler, " Digital Signal Processing for Video Line Rate Analysis", International Journal of Engineering Education, 1995.10. Chassaing, J. Prime, V. Caramadre, R. Siipola, A. Malone, C. Foreman, R. Groppe, A. Ataya, "Student Projects on Digital Signal Processing with the TMS320C30", Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June, 1995.11. R. Chassaing, W. Anakwa, and A. Richardson, "Real-Time Digital Signal Processing in Education", Proceedings of the

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Parris C. Neal; Donna E. Peterson; Cindy L. Lynch; Cameron Wright

at examples of students’ reasoning about the ill-defined problem of developingeffective study habits. The Levels of Performance in the Appendix would thus be used as oneway to evaluate the essays. Other professors who may choose to implement a study journalproject for their classes will find that fine-tuning of the student instructions, such as we indicateabove, will be necessary to achieve the desired results as the project evolves.RESULTSAs with all unfamiliar activities, most students were resistant at first to the idea of keeping astudy journal; some complained rather eloquently. The better students were more adamant thanothers, using a typical argument of “I get good grades already so I must know how to study

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G. Frederick d'Almaine; Brian Manhire; Samuel O. Atteh

address this challenge, some HDTs are now exploring pos-sible exchange linkages with foreign universities with a view towards establishing joint venturessuch as student exchange programs, visiting professor arrangements and research collaboration.In particular, these efforts are attracting financial and technical assistance from American donors.For example, M. L. Sultan Technikon is now establishing linkages with American institutions byway of the USAID-funded Tertiary Education Linkages Project (TELP)20 and the InternationalFoundation for Education and Self-Help’s (IFESH) Educators for Africa Program. IFESH is a not-for-profit U.S.-based private developmental non-governmental organiza-tion (NGO) that has, inter alia, created with support

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increased, assuming an area ratio of 1:1 ?6. What main steps would you recommend as part of the restoration work to minimize future corrosion damage, assuming a budget similar (in current terms) to that of the actual restoration project could be raised ?7. a. Given the corrosion rate information for the first year in Question 3, what ISO corrosion category does the statue environment fall under ? b. Is this an expected result ? c. Using the ISO guidelines, indicate the expected corrosion rate of an aluminum statue skin in the first year ?The PC based formatThe computerized version utilizes hypertext and graphics hotspots to facilitate studentinteraction with the assignment and fundamental course materials, as shown in Figure 2

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Page 2.209.11. Partial support for this project was provided by the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration’s JOVE Program, Contract # 3606-08machines are of practical interest as well as theoretical interest since they are commonly used incompilers to perform lexical analysis.We generally introduce the finite state machine in a formal mathematical fashion such as:M=[S,I,O,fs,fo] where S is a finite set of states, I is the finite input alphabet, O is the finite outputalphabet, fs:SxI->S, and fo:S->O. Before long however we may find many of our students, if notperplexed, bored by the mathematical abstraction and we find much sagacity in the old studentadage that "a picture is worth a thousand mathematical equations", thus, we

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William J. Adams; Curtis A. Carver

States Military Academy [4-6, 8]. The HTML Course Creator provides a point andclick interface for the rapid development of hypermedia courses [See Figure 2]. Courseware de-velopment using the HTML Course Creators requires no knowledge of HTML and provides aconsistent and easy to use tool specifically designed for courseware development. It also builds aconsistent directory structure between courses so that similar resources are stored in similar loca-tions. This greatly facilitates interlinking courseware and sharing resources across departmentalboundaries. Other institutions have likewise build similar tools to standardize courseware devel-opment [see 13-20 for similar projects].The HTML Glossary Tool recursively searches through course

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am also indebted to my colleagues in physicsMark Utlaut, Tom McGlinn, and the University of Portland computer support staff for their help(past and present) in this project. Finally I would like to thank the adjunct lab instructors: EllainLaJoie, Bruce Meeves, and Greg Mulder, for their often heroic effort.References1. David Hestenes (1987), "A Modeling theory of physics instruction", Am J. Phys, 55, 440-454.2. David Hestenes (1992), "Modeling games in a Newtonian World", Am J. Phys, 60, 732-748.3. R. R. Borchers (1988), "In Praise of Visualization and Simulation ", Computers in Physics Jan/Feb )4. P.W. Laws (1988) in The Conference on Computers in Physics Instruction, E. F. Redish and J. S. Risley, Eds,Addison Wesley.5. P. W. Laws, et al

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Richard Parker; Walter Buchanan

already be there. How will this resource be used?One of the authors has been working on a new project that uses Electronics Testbench as both thestudy guide and the testing device. Since he has built a large number of Electronics Workbenchcircuits in the past, they are all available to us for use. Also, he taught a math course for theelectronics department using Maple, along with Electronics Workbench, so that students coulduse Maple as a type of “super calculator” to automate the symbolic solution to an electronicsproblem, then reduce the resulting formula to numbers. [3] The students quickly saw theadvantage. Once the problem was correctly set up, the answer was produced without thenecessity of repetitive calculations, and the numerical answer

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

form of a seminar, 1994AARON L. ROBINSONAaron was born on December 5, 1970 in Miami, Florida. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineeringin April 1994 from Florida State University. He should receive his M.S in Electrical Engineering at theend of the Spring 1997. He has served as a project leader for the DSP group in the FAMU-FSU Collegeof Engineering High Performance Computing and Simulations Research Laboratory. He is a McKnightFellow committed to finishing his Ph.D. degree.FRED O. SIMONS, JR.Fred O. Simons, Jr. received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University ofFlorida in 1962 and 1965. He has served in various Laboratory and Departmental administrative andprofessional leadership roles at the university

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included. Other forms of electrical energyconversion need to be included. The course should be tailored to students who will use thetechnology as opposed to those who will design it. Some of our specific thoughts on how this canbe accomplished have been presented. We will further the development of this course with thehelp of a joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)initiative, the Innovative Power Engineering Education in a Changing Environment program.These two agencies are spending over $1.1 million on five, three year projects to revitalize powerengineering education. Since this is a work in progress, we encourage your comments on thisproposal. Please e-mail them to us at 'ljbohman@mtu.edu

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James E. Cross

. Ritchie, The C Programming Language (second edition), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1988.Biographical InformationJames E. Cross is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at SouthernUniversity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has been a member of the facultysince 1962. Cross earned the BES degree in Electrical Engineering from JohnsHopkins University in 1960, served two years as an officer in the US Army andearned the MS degree in Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State Universityand the University of Florida. Cross has also earned the Bachelor’s, Mastersand Doctor of Theology degrees from Christian Bible College. He has worked onseveral Digital Signal Processing research projects for the Department of

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Sumit Ghosh; Raymond Kuo

Page 2.44.4includes an applicants SAT cores, ACH score, background, etc.Thus, in this investigation, college applications are modeled through 27 representative criteria whileadmissions officers are modeled by their belief structure, i.e. their individual beliefs in the relativeimportance of each of the 27 fields, derived from their own and the relevant university's educationphilosophies. Of the 27 beliefs, 15 are math oriented, 7 verbal oriented, and 6 are family backgroundoriented, while the last one falls under a miscellaneous category. Given that an overwhelming number of the27 beliefs are mathematically oriented, this paper projects that admission officers with math emphasiswould yield higher correlation values relative to those with other

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Julie E. Sharp

the Frontiers in Education 23rd Annual Conference, 1993, pp. 618-622.8. Sharp, J.E., "Selecting and Presenting Writing Assignments in Engineering Classes: Tips for New Professors," Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 25th Annual Conference, 1995, pp. 4b5.1-4b5.5.9. Tierney, R., "Using Expressive Writing to Teach Biology," in Two Studies of Writing in High School Science, Classroom Research Study No. 5, Bay Area Writing Project, University of California, Berkley 1981.10. Harb, J.N., R.E. Terry, and J.E. Sharp, "Writing Across the Curriculum and Around the Cycle," ASEE 1994 Annual Conference Proceedings, vol. 1, pp. 760-766.11. Garrison, R., One-to-One: Making Writing Instruction Effective, Instructor's Manual to

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Troy E. Kostek

are graphical and object oriented. A graphical approach generally promotes ease of use. When using object oriented development tools, developers can focus more on the “big picture.” Since the objects perform specific tasks, the programmer does not have to write the program from scratch and thus “wrestle” with a multitude of details. Novice programmers now have capabilities previously available only to advanced programmers. Reduced Cost For End User - As mentioned above, development time is reduced since less code has to be generated and debugged. A reduction in development time generally decreases the cost of the project. And the developer using reusable OLE-based component products only

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; David D. Clark; David W. Rosen

, Page 2.211.6 standing on the shoulders of others, rather than starting from scratch. Students can quickly learn how to analyze, simulate, and acquire parts for their projects by using the engineering primers. Finally, students can select solution principles and parts from the design catalogs, using available parts rather than designing building new ones.The Design Learning Simulator can be accessed on the World Wide Web. Its URL is"http://www.srl.gatech.edu/DLS/". By using the WWW as our platform fordevelopment, we ensure cross-platform compatibility and future accessibility, allow easymodification and addition, and enable distance learning and use in design in industry.2.1 Focus: Design

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berequired. In the past we just squeezed things in, usually at the expense of living space, limitedonly by stability or strength. Such methods are changing to space, in the right place and shapethat controls future adaptability. Case studies for “stretching” ships can come from projects likethe destroyer conversions of the 1960’s or the Spruance program that evolved into two otherclasses of major combatants.The ship design and acquisition strategies hopefully have the dual purposes of retaining controlby ship operators over the determination of requirements and basic design features, while tryingto reduce risk. The method followed, affects ship cost, and program schedule, the process can bebroken down into four phases shown in Table 2. It is during

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WWW server, inparentheses): • Pretty darn nifty (Duke) • Great tutorial......!!!!!!!!! —–> THANKS..... (University of Florida) • I love this page...especially all the very handy *.m files that you offer. I will certenly visit you very often. (Delft University of Technology) • Thanks for the tutorial. I needed to learn Matlab basics for a project I was working on and I found the tutorial to be very helpful. I had no Matlab experience so I thought that the tutorial was at the right level. (Lockheed Martin Corporation) • I am taking a class now on Controls and the examples you provide on this page are as good or better than anything I have found. Also, being able to snap code off the Web page and then run in

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will be retrofitted Page 2.20.2 2into the existing structural member and connections existing rebars needs to be made. Currentlythe most prevalent use for this technology is to locate reinforcements before drilling anchorageholes into a concrete member. However, as our infrastructure continues to age, and retrofittingand upgrade projects increase in number and complexity, this technology is expected to becomeincreasingly popular.Corrosion Mapping: A major component of strength in a concrete member is the condition ofthe rebar. At early ages the properties of steel reinforcements are fairly