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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Stuart

quizzes were either one of the homeworkproblems, or a similar problem from the text. Reading quizzes were developed from assignedmaterial in the text, and several examples are offered in the Appendix at the end of this paper. Page 10.1027.1Overall student performance as compared to student’s cumulative GPA and their daily quizaverage is presented in Figure 1. Cumulative GPAs were only available for Civil Engineering Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

tool identifies the programthat is being used and allows the userto insert text before and after the frontpanel. The text inserted is used forinstructions, warnings and finalcomments. The most important anddifficult part of setup is making theprogram interfaceable from a remote Figure 1: LabVIEW Web Publishing Toollocation. It is important that the userbe able to understand what is going on with the tunnel as he controls it. Buttons are more clearlylabeled than would be done for common use. Message screens are detailed and must update as each task of the operation is performed. Indicator lights are

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Haering

scholarly activity. It should be noted that thenumbers of students in the courses taught by the faculty are typically smaller than at a majorresearch location; however, teaching assistants are generally not available. Also, the expectednumber of papers resulting from the research is typically lower than at a major research location.III – Challenges Faced by Faculty at Non-Major Research LocationsWhen faculty are considering a non-major research campus location, they must consider theamount of funding required to do their intended research and whether that funding is readilyavailable. The faculty member must be aware of the difficulty and risks involved in trying toobtain external funding. King [1] and Sullivan, Erevelles and Doyle [2] have

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TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elaine Craft; Monica Pfarr; Jack Waintraub

Science Foundation has funded three national resource centers: theManufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC); the National Engineering TechnologyEducation Clearinghouse (NETEC); and the South Carolina Advanced Technological EducationCenter (SC ATE)1. These centers provide an extensive body of engineering technologyeducation-related materials through a variety of services. This paper will introduce these threeresource centers.Overview of the Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC)The Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC) was initiated by the National Center forManufacturing Education (NCME) in July 2003 with funding from the Advanced TechnologicalEducation program of the National Science Foundation, building on eight years of

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

this technique including spectrumanalysis, filtering, effects of finite word length, etc. In order to illustrate this technique, anexample project is described that implements the music processing tasks of flanging, chorusing,and reverb, and allows the students to immediately hear the results of the system that they havemodeled, which should especially benefit the students who prefer sensory information28.Flanging Explained A flanger is a filter that alters the frequency content of a signal by sampling its input,delaying it with a variable delay, and then adding the result to the unmodified input as shown inFigure 1. x(t) + y(t

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

has been offered by anumber of authors.1-6 In recent years, web sites have been developed to discuss the problemsassociated with large classes: strategies, preparation, organization, assessment, learning stylesand teaching styles, notes, structure and management. Finding the web sites is easy, justGoogle™ using “teaching large classes” and a plethora of excellent sites become immediatelyavailable, i.e.7,8 The bottom line is the same in every reference: it takes work to make largeclasses operate efficiently. All point to some basic fundamentals of teaching and all concludethat the success is based on the skills of the teacher and the preparation devoted to making thelarge class seem small. Some indicate that multiple teaching methodologies can

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

significant positive effects on students’academic performance (GPA, writing skills,critical thinking skills) and development of civicvalues (commitment to continued civicparticipation).1 Service-learning courses areemerging in engineering colleges as a mechanismto provide engineering students with meaningfulcommunity-based learning experiences throughwhich they develop the values and skills of An Outreach Corps student team leads an in-citizenship and leadership, while maturing their classroom engineering discussion andown communications skills and strengthening demonstration with fifth-grade students.their commitment to the engineering profession.The

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Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christi Luks; Laura Ford

from2004 is shown in Figure 1. The pizza ticket from the 2003 race did not prompt the students for Page 10.238.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education University of Tulsa High School Chem-E-Car Competition Demographics Survey Fill this out as your ticket for two pizza slices, fruit, a cookie, and a drink! 1. Your name 2. Your year in school Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior 3. Your school

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

they took the course.Student attitudes towards engineering science were taken through the use of a 20 questionsurvey. Students were presented with statements and had to answer on a 6 point scale rangingfrom strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (6). Significant changes in attitude were found inseveral areas when the end of class results are compared to the beginning of class results.• Students are more likely to believe that basic engineering concepts are understandable to the average person.• Students are less intimidated by engineering professors.• Students are more likely to integrate engineering concepts into their future classes.• Students are confident they can integrate problem solving techniques into their future classes.We

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”microcontroller that are covered in the lab. ECE 595 students are also assigned a midterm project(the development of a LCD interface). All students are required to purchase their ownMicrocontroller EVB, a student license of the ICC12 IDE software, and a Parts Kit for the labsand projects. In the first section of the paper, we will summarize the work done in the class. Thesecond section will focus on the laboratory experiments and the projects in detail. The thirdsection will outline a few planned future developments of the course.1. Introduction Microcontrollers are a result of the evolution in microprocessor architectures andmanufacturing technologies which produce smaller

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Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Pines

NPDES Phase II Stormwater Rule Service Learning ProjectsThere are numerous opportunities available for environmental engineering students to help townsimplement their stormwater management plan. Some of these are volunteer activities whileothers have the potential of being service learning projects. Whether the project can beconsidered a service learning project depends on if the objectives of the project also meet theoutcomes of the course. Listed in Table 1 are the six MCMs and selected BMPs from theBloomfield, CT Stormwater Management Plan5 are given that have the potential of being the Page 10.967.3 Proceedings of the 2005

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Scoff

. 120o V/_____ 240o V/_____ Z3 Z2 I2 C . . A . Z1 . I1 0o V/____ IA IC Figure # 1 Delta Delta Circuit Robert J. Scoff, P.E. The University of Memphis, 203 Technology Building, Memphis, TN. 38152-3210, e-mail rscoff@memphis.edu “Proceedings

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”emergencies such as hurricanes, unexpected heavy snowfalls, terrorist attacks,earthquakes, and any other disaster so that an efficient delivery of services can bemaintained (1).The public works directors of today, as well as directors of various functions such asairports, water supply and distribution, and liquid and solid waste collection and disposal,probably started as neophytes with civil engineering degrees who learned the elements ofsupervision and management by on-the-job exposure. But that is not enough. The vastlyexpanded job of the public works professional now goes beyond technical competence. Itrequires the dynamics of leadership, communication, analytical skills and foresight

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Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh

. However, automated manufacturing system integration is acomplex cognitive skill that typically takes years to master. This paper will (1) define automatedsystem integration; (2) survey current status of engineering education in this area; (3) presentresults from field interviews with industry practitioners; (4) identify gaps between industry needsand education curricula; and (5) propose an agenda for industry collaboration and curriculumdevelopment to remedy these issues.An automated manufacturing system generally consists of processing equipment, materialhandling devices, and material transfer equipment. The processing equipment can be a computernumerical control (CNC) milling, lathe, turning machine or any other type of equipment thatchanges or

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Musto; William Howard

, intermediatecalculations, and results are easily viewed and manipulated. While this can become cumbersomefor large programs, it is not usually a factor for the types of problems assigned to students inintroductory programming classes.Computing in MET ProgramsIn order to gain an understanding of what tools are currently used in MET and why, the authorsconducted a survey through the Engineering Technology Listserv6, an electroniccommunications tool for the ET community administered by Walter W. Buchanan ofNortheastern University. Thirty-four responses were received from 27 different MET programs.The results are summarized here:1. Do you provide formal instruction in any of these computational tools in your BS METCurriculum? (Please check all that apply

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

relating to the engineering design process, ethics, math, and criticalthinking skills to introduce them to what will follow in the next three years in their chosen major[1]. Our problem is that our students do not declare majors until late in the freshman year, so wechose to offer an elective course with these elements to students that may have a proclivity forengineering.The students we recruited to register for our experimental introduction to engineering coursewere those who had not validated any introductory courses but had scored high enough on theplacement exams to warrant an advanced introductory calculus course. We chose to stay awayfrom the high validators who are more likely to choose engineering anyway and go after the

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Scoff

invested about $450,000 for new equipment and software in a Power Engineering Concentration [1]. This purpose has been realized, and the students who use the lab have already benefited greatly. The second purpose is to bring attention to the need to teach electrical power to university students across the country. The teaching of electrical power principles has been de-emphasized by many universities across the country [2]. The number of electrical engineers graduating with a power concentration is about 500 per year [3]. Although hard data of the number of power engineers needed in the coming years is hard to come up with, there is a general feeling that there will be a shortage. This problem is being

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

companies, e.g. Fisher Scientific. The experimental set up is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Experimental apparatus to study the structure of a DC glow discharge in a long tube. A DC voltage in the range of 250 volts is applied to the terminals of a fluorescent tube. The tube is half-coated to allow viewing of the plasma inside the tube. The uncoated end should be connected to the negative terminal of the power supply and the terminal at this end will serve as the cathode. A Tesla coil is used to initiate, or strike, the plasma. The plasma produced by excitation of the argon-mercury gas mixture in the tube produces a visible structure. At the cathode, the cathode glow is visible followed by

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

stand by their postersthey could have answered questions and could have provided further details andconvinced the judges that the designs that they came up with were indeed excellent andworthwhile. Nonetheless it was a good learning experience for the students as theyworked it teams to produce the posters. Moreover it was an activity that produced a lot ofinterest in the campus and the community.Poster Project DetailsThe students were asked to work in 2, 3 or 4 member teams on projects (3 was thepreferred number, although there were a few 1-member teams). There were four sectionsof the course with about 30 students in each section. The team members need not had tobe all from the same section although this was the preferred option. The teams

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Denny Davis

perceptions, dispel misconceptions, and generatemotivation to pursue a field of study9. Faculty can use profiles to clarify practices in theirdisciplines, design appropriate educational materials and instruction, and link other disciplines totheir own10. Employers can use these profiles to communicate their expectations to educators andto guide professional development for employees11. Program evaluators can use professionalprofiles to link learning outcomes to long-term behaviors12.Method for Profile DevelopmentA valuable profile must accurately reflect the profession it purports to represent. Development ofan engineering profile raises questions such as: 1. How broadly can the engineering profession be represented by a single profile? 2. What

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Giles; Donald Roberts; David Mitchell; Anthony Richardson

effective in helping students learn to work well with oneanother on multidisciplinary teams. This paper describes the course format, the introductorylectures, the robot competitions, the techniques used to encourage teamwork, and assessment ofthe course.1. IntroductionIncoming freshman in electrical engineering (EE), computer engineering (CoE) and computerscience (CS) programs take a common course during their first semester. The course is teamtaught by faculty members from each of the three program areas. These faculty members are theadvisors to the respective students in each program area. Students are placed in teams of three orfour with each team having at least one representative from each of the three programs. At thebeginning of the course

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”elapsed before high school graduates got a chance to use whatever advanced skills they mighthave learned in school. Wherever education is inadequate, it has been noted that:1 Students know little about work. Students have no clear idea about what they must do to enter a particular career or occupation. Students do not know what might be expected of them at work since the teaching environment bears little to no resemblance to the engineering environment found in industrial companies. Schools do not teach the attitudes and maturity needed on the job. Schools isolate

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Feemster

project in which thestudents are required to design a speed tracking compensator while simultaneously ensuring thatcurrent limitations for the selected drive electronics are not exceeded.1 IntroductionThe Systems Engineering major at the United States Naval Academy has at its core a feedbackcontrol system focus. In their junior class year, Systems Engineering majors enroll in thefoundational ES307 “Linear Control Systems” course. Within this required, four lecture hour/weekcourse, students learn to analyze the classical transient, steady-state, and stability behavior ofdynamic systems under the influence of basic feedback controllers and also study systemperformance in both the time and frequency domains. In addition, a major portion of the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Troy McBride

creditcourse at the College) and meets four hours each week for the Fall and Spring fourteen weeksemesters. The Fall semester course covers the topics of history of engineering, engineeringmajors and career paths, problem solving, design, project management, teamwork, oralpresentation skills, technical writing, and some basic computing skills using a spreadsheet(statistics, solution of equations, and optimization). A community-based project is assigned inthe Fall semester to connect and apply these subjects.1 In the Spring semester, the course coversfour topics, as well as the major project – sketching and graphics, Solid Edge 3-D modelingsoftware, Matlab software (including 3-D plotting, solution of simultaneous equations and

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

topics covered, adescription of the resource materials developed for use by the workshop participants in theirrespective classrooms, and follow-up school visits by ISU College of Engineering student-faculty teams. We conclude the paper with our thoughts on future extensions and improvementsin this program.Motivation for the project:It has been nationally recognized, and well documented, that the United States is facing alooming shortage of citizen engineers and scientists in the coming decades.1 Since the SecondWorld War, the US has relied on “technological innovation” in preserving our preeminent standin the world economy, and in ensuring our own security. The basis for this technologicalsuperiority has been our ability to train and retain

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Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Edwards; Hussein Vastani; Manuel Perez-Quinones

with teaching assistants in introductoryprogramming level courses to learn about the different grading methods they use when gradingprogramming assignments. Finally, we report on a usability evaluation of the tool itself anddiscuss directions for future work.1. IntroductionAutomated grading systems have been in use in Computer Science education for several years.Numerous systems have been developed that automate the process of grading by compiling,executing and testing student submitted source code. However, such systems often fail to includesupport for free form comments provided by instructors or grading staff. Instead, instructors orteaching assistants have to resort to other methods to provide their feedback to the students.This paper

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal

six accredited program’s curriculum is reviewed forsimilarities and differences. The different licensing views for Software Engineers is presented forinsight to what traditional engineering fundamentals should be part of the SE curriculum. Thepaper begins with the historical evolution of software engineering over the decades. Thecornerstones that created the foundations of what we as educators viewed as relevant and currentsoftware engineering over the years are explored as a continuum of curriculum progressextending over three decades. The impact and involvement of the SWECC and the SWEBOKproject on what we teach in software engineering curriculum are also discussed.1 Introduction Since the birth of software engineering at the 1968 NATO

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

Page 10.793.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”have learned in school.1 The same can be said for some college graduates. Wherever educationis inadequate:1 Students know little about work. Students have no clear idea about what they must do to enter a particular career or occupation. Students do not know what might be expected of them at work since the teaching environment bears little to no resemblance to the engineering environment found in industrial companies. Schools do not teach the attitudes and maturity needed on the job. Schools isolate young people from adults who

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Que Nguyen; Jennifer Tafoya; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

: 1) have full state certification or pass theteacher licensing exam within the content area that they teach; 2) have a license to teach withinthe given state; and 3) not have had the license or certification waived. In addition, the lawrequires all new and existing elementary and middle school teachers to have at least a bachelor’sdegree7.In response to the NCLB and the requirements to be highly qualified, the U.S. government andthe various states have made funds available to support in-service teachers in upgrading theirmathematical and scientific knowledge. Faculty and graduate students at the Colorado School ofMines (CSM) have been actively involved in developing and implementing programs thatsupport teachers in this endeavor. CSM is well

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Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan

compensated by a set ofcompensation parameters obtained experimentally. After the system error is subtracted from themeasured impedance, the conductivity of the sample is calculated.InstrumentationThe schematic diagram of the low-frequency conductivity measurement is shown in Figure 1, itconsists of an HP 4275A multi-frequency LCR meter, one sample holder, one desk-topcomputer, peripheral device, and four one-meter long coaxial cables with BNC (Bayonet NeillConcelman or Bayonet Nut Connector) connectors. The computer is used for controlling thesystem and data collection purposes. The communication is achieved via HP-IB cable thatconnects the computer to the multi-frequency LCR meter.The HP 4275A multi-frequency LCR meter is a fully automated test