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Robin Burt; Krishna Athreya; K-Y. Daisy Fan

Session 2793 The CURIE River Basin: Introduction to Engineering in a Social Context K-Y. Daisy Fan, Krishna S. Athreya, Robin J. Burt School of Civil & Environmental Engineering/ Women’s Programs in Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkAbstractThe Elements: 40 academically gifted high school girls; a nationally recognized engineeringcollege, seven days.The Task: Create a sense of excitement about and an awareness of the limitless possibilities inengineering.Cornell’s Strategy: The CURIE Academy, a week-long, residential summer

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fan . win 2 = power input to run the compressor of the evaporative cooler coil . Q3 = power required to run the heating coilThe energy required to run the heating coil is equal to the energy required to heat the airsensibly and is calculated fromq ⋅ s = m ⋅ a (h1 − h2 ) (3.4)Air-handling components in the systems such as fans, ducts, and so forth, are selected on the Page 6.327.5basis of volume flow rather than mass flow of air 8. Therefore, if the

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Session 3425 Designing an Engineering Experience for Non-Engineers Major Robert J. Rabb, Colonel John S. Klegka United States Military AcademyAbstractThe United States Military Academy (USMA) has a balanced core curriculum to help promotethe ability of all graduates to be creative problem solvers. Part of the core curriculum provides abasic knowledge of physical systems for all graduates. All graduates receive a B.S. degree invarious disciplines, many in a non-engineering major or field of study. However, all graduatesare expected to be technically competent in their future

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means ofindependent measurement. Table 1 below summarizes the measurement parameters and rangesof the Project TUGBOAT instrument. Parameter Range(s) Input-offset voltage 0– ±2 mV, 0- ±20 mV Input-bias currents 0– ±0.35 µA, 0– ±3.5 µA DC open- loop gain <50000, 50000–500000, >500000 AC open- loop gain @ 1 kHz 0–30000 AC open- loop gain @ 10 kHz 0–30000Table 1. Measurement parameters and available measurement ranges of the Project TUGBOATinstrument. Ranges are manually selected

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? - transition to undergraduate DSP education at Rose-Hulman," in Proc. ICASSP, pp. 1845-1848, 1998.3. McClellan, James H.; Schafer, Ronald W.; Yoder, Mark A., "Experiences in teaching DSP first in the ECEcurriculum," ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1997.4. Chiang, Kenneth H.; Lee, Edward A.; Evans, Brian L.; Messerschmitt, David G.; Huang, William T.; Reekie, H. John;Kovac, Ferenc; Sastry, Shankar S., "Real-time DSP for sophomores," in Proc. ICASSP, 1996, v. 2, pp. 1097-1100. Page 6.395.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Educational OutreachCenter,” ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2000.4. Genalo, L.J., Athreya, K.A., Dieterich, A.K., “Internet Explorers: An NSF Sponsored Internship,”Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, on CD - Session # 1692, June 1998.5. Genalo, L. J., Windom, K. D., Jolly, S., and Semple, A., "K-12 linkage for women engineers - studentscreating courseware for other students," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 1033-1036, June 1995.6. Bishop, B. E., “Design of a Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robot System at the UndergraduateLevel,” on-line Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2220, June 2000.7. Rosenblatt, M., Choset, H., Graveline, A., and Bhargava, R., “Designing and Implementing a Hands-On Labs for an

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, 1997.10.) Cornwell, P.J., Stienstra, D., and S. Smith, "Fast Forward--An Adventure in Engineeringfor 7th and 8th Grade Girls", ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education 95 Workshop, IEEE Catalog #95CH35867, 1995.11.) Wilson, D., Hudson, T., Fletcher, S., Harris, B., Knight, C., Morris, T., Patel, G., and S.DeWeerth, "Establishing the Foundations for Engineering Education in K-5", ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education 95 Conference, IEEE Catalog # 95CH35867, 1995.12.) Polaha, M.V., and A.R. Ingraffea, "Cracking Dams: An Interactive Web Site for K-12".Submitted for review, 2000. Page 6.1153.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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David Probst

Session 1380 The Experience of a First ABET Evaluation David K. Probst Southeast Missouri State UniversityAbstractSoutheast Missouri State University has had an Engineering Physics Program since the early1980’s, but only recently became positioned to request evaluation for accreditation by ABET.Two sets of circumstances, one intentional and one fortuitous, enabled this; namely, the additionof a third bona fide engineer to the faculty and the implementation of Criteria 2000 by ABET. Inthis paper, we describe our program, the preparation for the visit by ABET

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Lynn Nored; David Compton

Asession1454@ From Senior Design to Starting a Company-A Model for Entrepreneurship Lynn S. Nored, P.E., David Compton Oklahoma Christian University / Commack LLCAbstractEntrepreneurship and education have gotten engaged in the last few years, and will either enjoy ablissful marriage or require some counseling to prevent a breakup. Some universities might rejectthe idea of creating new companies or products based on faculty or student research. There couldbe nostalgia for pure research, where scientific research funds do not depend on businessmarketing

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a recent period of nine years. Of these students, 16 became M.S. students (some of ourcurrent M.S. students may continue for a Ph.D.), three became Ph.D. students, and fivediscontinued after the bridge course. Those who completed the subsequent required collateralcourse, Process Design and Optimization I, received an average grade of 3.56. For the bridgingstudents continuing in the graduate program, their average graduate GPA was 3.68. Based onthese gradepoint averages, we have concluded that the bridge program is successful in providingthe fundamentals necessary for strong performance at the graduate level.In the mid 90’s, the courses were offered via satellite through the National TechnologicalUniversity (NTU), which increased the

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-2097. Gunn, Craig James Approaching communication skill awareness ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. V.21995 p.2467-24708. Harney, Mick Is Technical writing an engineering discipline? IEEE Transaction on Professional Communication,June 2000 V. 43, No. 29. Hendricks, Robert W.; Pappas, Eric Writing and communications-across-the-curriculum in the materials scienceand engineering departments at Virginal Tech Proceedings - 29th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, v2,1995,p708-712.10. Mahan, John; Jayasummana, Anura, Lile, Derek; Palmquist, Mike. Bringing an Emphasis on Technical Writingto a Freshman Course in Electrical Engineering. IEEE Transaction Education. Feb. 2000, Vol. 43 #1 IEEDAB. P.36-4111. Manual-Dupont, S. Writing-across-the

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. Benedict, B.A., Napper, S.A., & Guice, L.K., “Restructuring for Strategic Outcomes,” Journal of Engineering Edu-cation, April 2000.2. Caughey, D.A. & Liggett, J.A., “A Computer-based Textbook for Introductory Fluid Mechanics,” 1998 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, 1998.3. Hailey, C.E. & Spall, R.E., “An Introduction of CFD into the Undergraduate Engineering Program,” 2000 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, 2000.4. Henderson, B.S., Navaz, H.K., & Berg, R.M., “A New Approach to Teaching Compressible Flow,” 1999 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, 1999.5. Hodge, B.K., “The Use of Mathcad in Viscous-Flow Courses,” 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1997.6. Homsy, G.M., Aref, H., Breuer, K.S., Hochgreb, S., Koseff, J.R., Munson

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David Hergert

Carrier Detect Option (CD) is specified, the program waits a specific period of time. Thedefault time is 1000 milliseconds.A simple program that suppresses the Request To Send and times out the Carrier Detect after1000 ms is shown below. The program prints the string “5” to the COM 1 serial port and waitsfor an input. The input is stored in a 20 character buffer before being transferred to the memoryaddress pointed to by A$.OPEN “COM1:9600,N,8,1” FOR RANDOM AS #1PRINT #1,”S”;CHR$(13)A$=INPUT$(20,#t)PRINT A$CLOSE 1The specifications are: Baud: 9600 Parity: None Number of bits: 8 Number of stop bits: 1Implementing RS232 communication in Visual Basic 6.0 requires similar coding. To begin, theComm Control component must be loaded. To do

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thecapacitor, and V the applied voltage. Again, if you think of electrons as water molecules, thenthe amount of charge(s) stored in a capacitor is equivalent to the number of water molecules inTANK B. And this is dictated by the size (diameter) of the tank, C and the water supply height,or voltage V. In hydraulic terms, the amount of water in the tank is D x H or the diameter timesthe height.So before we derive the above equations using electrical concepts, let’s rewrite them substitutingVS and VC for H (voltage for water heights), R for valve G (electrical resistance in Ohms, for thevalve opening) and C for D (capacitance, in farads for the tank diameter); VC = VS (1 - e-t/RC) for voltage across the capacitor as a function of time.and IC

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Educationstudent is thus encouraged and required to understand and actively practice the concepts leadingto successful completion of assignments. The presentation of pertinent facts and concepts incombination with a GUI environment for their immediate application should facilitate theiradaptation and practice and facilitate the training of students in practical scientific problemsolving.ReferencesBarrett Steven F., D. J. Pack, G. W. P. York, P. J. Neal, R. D. Fogg, E. Doskocz, S. A. Stefanov, P. C. Neal, C. H.G.Wright, A. R. Klayton (1998) “Student-centered Educational Tools for the Digital Systems Curriculum,” Proc. 1998ASEE Annual Conf., Session 1620.Beer, F.B. and E.R. Johnston (1997) "Vector Mechanics for Engineers," Sixth Ed. McGraw Hill

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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

Engineering learn about issues ofprofessional practice by reading award-winning books about engineering written for thegeneral reader and then discussing them in structured on-line synchronous andasynchronous discussions. These books include: • The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 1. This book describes an actual engineering effort by a group of engineers at Data General during the late 1970’s to save the company after archrival Digital Equipment beat them to the market with a 32-bit minicomputer. Chapter-by-chapter notes provided by the instructor identify issues in the workplace for practicing engineers. The notes discuss people and events that relate to such issues as the inevitability and practicality of

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Phillip Wankat

. Wankat, P. C. & Oreovicz, F. S., Teaching Engineering, New York: McGraw-Hill (1993). Out of print.Available free at .3. Wankat, P. C., “Reflective Analysis of a Course,” J. Engineering Educ., 88, 195-203, (1999).4. Bloom, B. S., Engelhart, M. D., Furst, E. J., Hill, W. H., & Krathwohl, D. R., Taxonomy of EducationalObjectives: The Classification of Educational Objectives. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, New York:David McKay, 1956.5. Felder, R. M., “The Generic Quiz: A Device to Stimulate Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking Skills,”Chemical Engineering Education, 176 (Fall 1985).6. Mafi, M., “Involving Students in a Time-saving Solution to the Homework Problem,” EngineeringEducation, 79, 444-446 (April 1989).PHILLIP C. WANKATPhillip C

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Mort Isaacson; Francis Di Bella

a two and three-dimensional brainstorming technique that wasconceived by Leonardo da Vinci (ref. 7) and more recently and humorously promoted by DougHall (ref. 5 ) is particularly effective. The results if this technique for the Sandman Project isshown in Figure 2. The technique places the Problem Statement in the center of a very largeblack board or paper easel. The brainstorming then proceeds to surround this ProblemStatement Island with other Theme Islands that could incite or seed the imagination withpossible solutions to the Problem at hand. As the 2-dimensional brainstorming continues thesatellite theme island ideas seem to beg that they be connected in some manner with pathwaysthat could lead to viable solution(s). The Leonardo

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Carlos Sun; Frances Johnson; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Beena Sukumaran; Anthony Marchese; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm; Douglas Cleary

., and Hesketh, R. P. (1998). What's Brewing in the Engineering Clinic?Hewlett Packard Engineering Educator, Vol. 2, No. 1., p. 6.3. Schmalzel, J. L., Marchese, A. J., Mariappan, J., and Mandayam, S. (1998). The Engineering Clinic: AFour-Year Design Sequence. 2nd Annual Conference of National Collegiate Invention and InnovationAlliance, Washington, DC.4 Mariappan, J. and Marchese, A. J. (1998). TQM Approach to Design in the Sophomore EngineeringClinic. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition. Anaheim, CA.5. Harvey, R., Johnson, F., Marchese, A. J., Newell, J. A., Ramachandran, R. P., and Sukumaran, B.(1999). Teaching Quality: An Integrated TQM Approach to Technical Communication and EngineeringDesign. ASEE Middle

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– An Experience,” ICEE Proceedings, www.ineer.org, 1998.3. Holzer, S.M., and R.H. Andruet, “ Experiential Learning in Mechanics with Multimedia,” Int. J. Engn Ed., 16, 5, 372-384, 2000.4. Huson, A.R., and Kavi, K.M., “Interactive Teaching Practices in Small Class Sizes While Cutting into the High Cost of Education,” ICEE Proceedings, www.ineer.org, 1999.5. Reisman, S., and W.A. Carr, “Perspectives on Multimedia Systems in Education,” IBM Systems Journal, 30, 3, 280-295, 1991.6. Renshaw, A.A., J.H. Reibel, C.A. Zukowski, K. Penn, R.O. McClintock, and M.B. Friedman, “An Assessment of On-Line Engineering Design Problem Presentation Strategies,” IEEE Trans. On Education, 43, 2, 83-89, May, 2000.7. Salzmann, C., D. Gillet, and P

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drawn.Bibliography1. Coleman, G.D., and G.W. Garrison, “Course Management Systems and HTML: Comparison of Two Approaches to Web-Assisted Instruction for Distance Learning,” Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference.2. Parsay, S., “Implementation of Classroom Assessment Techniques and Web Technology in an Operations Technology Course,” Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Conference.3. Davis, R., “Engineers Earn MS Degrees From Their Home,” Engineering Times, 20 (10), 6, 1998.4. Baker, N. C. and P. S. Chinowsky, “Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom: Introduction and Assessment,” Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference.5. Mines, R.O., “Observations of Using Web Page Software to Enhance Learning,” Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE

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Ranji Vaidyanathan; Todd Anderson; Ray Umashankar; Ramesh Sharma; Marlene Platero; Greg Artz; Chris Choi; Al Ortega

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at UA. Dr. Vaidyanathan received a Ph. D inMaterials Science and Engineering from N.C. State University, a M. S. degree in M.E. from North Carolina A&TState University, and a B. S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University in India. Page 6.914.8Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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beendiscovered that reflect changing work practices introduced with the addition of wirelesslynetworked laptops into the course.VII. AcknowledgementsThis work was funded by grants from Intel Corporation and the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Springer, L., Stanne, M. E., & Donovan, S. S. Effects of Small-Group Learning on Undergraduates in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology: A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research, Spring 1999, 69(1). 21-51.2. Collofello, J.S. & Hart, M. Monitoring Team Progress in a Software Engineering Project Class. In Proceedings of the 29thASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. 7-10.3. Fall 2000 CS160 course homepage, http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/courseware/cs160/fall00

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; Jayasummana, Anura, Lile, Derek; Palmquist, Mike. Bringing an Emphasis on Technical Writingto a Freshman Course in Electrical Engineering. IEEE Transaction Education. Feb. 2000, Vol. 43 #1 IEEDAB. P.36-4111. Manual-Dupont, S. Writing-across-the-curriculum in an engineering program. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 85, no.1,pp.35-40, 199612. Oakley, Barbara,Connery, Brian, and Allen, Kristine Incorporating writing skills into the engineeringcurriculum Proceedings - 29th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, v3, 1999,p13b5-18-13b5-20. IEEE,Piscataway, NJ13. Olds, Barbara M. Technical writing across the curriculum. Proceedings - 29th Annual Frontiers in EducationConference, v3, 1996,p7-10. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ14. Quiroz, Sharon Review: special issue on

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. Fabrycky, and B. S. Blanchard, B. S. Life-cycle Cost and Economic Analysis. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1991.[3] C. Garlan, and D. E. Perry, Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Architecture. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 21(4), 269-274, 1995.[4] J. H. Glynn and W. H. Gary, Environmental Science and Engineering, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1996.[5] H. Lykins, A Framework for Research into Model-driven System Design. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual INCOSE Symposium, 765-772, 1997.[6] B. W. Mar, Systems Engineering Basics. Systems Engineering, 1(1), 7-28, 1994.[7] B. W. Oliver, Creating Object Models–Design and Architecture. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on

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Jeff Fant

June 10-July 28. Campers attended from 9a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday. The cost of the camp was $250 and included a T-shirtand directional antenna that the campers would build. Eleven of the campers werefemales. Fifty-seven of these students will be attending two McKinney schools, threeAllen schools, five Dallas schools, two Frisco schools, and fourteen Plano schools in thefall. Three of them are “home-schoolers”. One student was from Tahlequah Jr. High inOklahoma.Tech Camp 2000’s major corporate sponsor was Nortel Networks. Additional fundingwas provided by the National Science Foundation ’s Advancing Careers in Technologyand Science (ACTS) Project, Collin County Community College’s GlobalEDGE/TechPrep office, Southwestern Bell, the

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discussionalways spans a broad spectrum of issues. The instructor provided focus with directed questions,for example what constitutes an ethical person? Lively discussion was facilitated by formalintroduction of various types of ethical systems, ranging from hedonism to socialism. Thediscussion was then steered towards engineering (why does an engineer need ethics?) and theenvironment (what constitutes an environmental ethic?), and wrapped up by outlining the poles inthe environmental ethics spectrum.III. Environmental Law and PolicyEnvironmental regulations form the basis for the development of remediation and clean-uptechnologies. Before most texts discuss the various environmental treatment technologies indifferent media, introductory chapter(s

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the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education"These students fail to realize the correlation of a fundamental understanding of constructionscience principles to execution of the construction project. Sometimes, they feel that temporarystructures are difficult for them to understand. To adequately perform construction in the fieldand in the office, s/he must be able to relate to the participants in the process including designprofessionals and specialized subcontractors. Temporary construction structures can show theconstruction students relevant aspects and applications of construction sciences. The student whohas better analytical background

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Katherine Carels; James Howard; Charles Bersbach; Debra Larson

Session 2630 Team Talk and Learning Project Management Debra S. Larson, Charles Bersbach, Katherine H. Carels, James Howard Northern Arizona University1. IntroductionThe management of team-based multi-disciplinary engineering projects requires a complex set ofskills and talents that can be grouped into four categories: technical, administrative,interpersonal, and personal. Engineers often come to their project management positions withexcellent technical skills, but need additional training in the other areas to become effectivemanagers. “The skill that brings an engineer to prominence and

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Page 6.972.5problems under different disciplines: engineering, ethics, management, and marketing. At the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsame time it provides a framework to generate the desired outcome(s) at the end of the course.In this course we have combined key success elements from other methodologies for problemsolving, product development and the creative process. Figure 3 represents the problemsolving methodology. In the design of this course we have incorporated an interdisciplinaryperspective. The following features have helped us to achieve this objective:1. Interdisciplinary faculty