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Carol Flynn; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

resistant plastic. The side and bottom of theunit is stamped out of stainless steel. The side panels have been power coated to resistscratching. Rubber pads help to absorb the vibration caused by mixing and kneading.Experimental Procedure: This laboratory experiment is divided into several parts. It begins with materialappropriate for a freshman level class, followed by sophomore material, then material fora junior level class. The freshman portion involves data acquisition, simple calculations,and taking measurements. The sophomore and junior level portions involve advancedcalculations, modeling systems, and mass and energy balances.Freshman Level Material1 - Volume of Bread Pan In order to calculate the final volume of the bread you

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Teresa Larkin-Hein

growing both in and out of the classroom and laboratory. Certainlytechnology has the potential to serve as a powerful tool to improve the educational process forstudents as well as teachers 1. However, educational technology is only as good as the content itsupports 2.Many traditional teaching methodologies have clearly been shown to put students in the role ofpassive rather than active learning 3. Traditional instructional methods have also been shown tobe inadequate in terms of promoting deep learning and long-term retention of important physicsconcepts. The explosion in the availability of technological tools is literally forcing physics aswell as other SMET educators to change the way they teach. These changes, however, mustinvolve much more

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David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar

faculty from all engineering disciplines on laboratory experiments,real-world design projects, and research projects of increasing complexity. Theimportance of effective written and oral communication skills, teamwork skills,and technical proficiency is reinforced in the Clinic sequence1.In the sophomore year, students from all engineering disciplines work togetheron semester-long design projects and present results through either writtenreports (Sophomore Clinic I) or oral presentations (Sophomore Clinic II).Students learn not only the fundamentals of the design process, but also honetheir technical communication skills. This paper focuses on Sophomore Clinic I,which is a combined composition and design course team-taught by faculty fromthe

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

curricula • To develop team skills through the use of collaborative, learning-based assignments • To introduce students to various problems (areas of interest) within the agricultural engineering and technology field • To experience hands-on laboratories related to the AE and AST options • To increase involvement in professional societies and student branch • To introduce technical writing skills during the first year of study • To make the first-year composition courses more meaningful to the students • To establish career development/job preparation • To receive academic guidance related to curriculum issuesThese general and specific ABE LC objectives were designed to help our department meet thefollowing college and

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between the options within the AE and AST curricula• To develop team skills through the use of collaborative, learning-based assignments• To introduce students to various problems (areas of interest) within the agricultural engineering and technology field• To experience hands-on laboratories related to the AE and AST options• To increase involvement in professional societies and student branches• To introduce technical writing skills during the first year of study• To make first-year composition courses more meaningful to students• To establish career development/job preparation• To receive academic guidance related to curriculum issuesLearning Community Course LinksCourse links have been designed to be the primary support

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 2793 On Development, Application and Effectiveness of a Computer Based Tutorial in Engineering Mechanics (Statics) Masoud Rais-Rohani Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a computer based tutorial for the first course in engineering mechanicstaught at Mississippi State University. It gives an overview of the instructional materials thatmake up the Statics tier of the Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Mechanics(www.ae.msstate.edu/vlsm), and elaborates on the experience of using this tutorial as asupplemental teaching tool in

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Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

teams product, and to maintain a high level ofinterest in performance development.IV – DESIGN IN THE SOPHOMORE YEARThe first semester sophomore year includes an engineering class in Manufacturing Processes.This class includes both lecture and laboratory experiences to provide an introduction to thebasic tools, processes, and materials of manufacturing. The design elements of manufacturingprocess are developed through an open-ended, reverse engineering, term project. This projectemphasizes organizational systems, plant layout and design, production and inventory controlmethods, quality control, marketing , and finance.Since students in the class represent several engineering concentrations, the opportunity exists toassign group members from

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Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

that happen to be handy in the laboratory, so that s-parameters can be found for the actual components students plan to use in laboratory circuits.Table 4 shows parasitic parameters for a number of common transistors. Connecting a transistor to a network Table 4: Comparison of parasitic parameters in common transistorsanalyzer can produce noticeable 2N5109 PN5179 2N5179 2N3478 MRF501deviation in s-parameter values due Tr 20 n 1.588 n 1.588 n 1.615 n 1.574 nto the effects of the cables. 7,8,9 This Tf 0.1 n 141.1 p 135.6 p 140.9 p 141.2 p Cje 10 p 939.8 f 1.52 p 939.8 f 939.8 feffect

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Brett Gunnink; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

; calculus-based physics; and general chemistry, (m) proficiency in a minimum of four major civil engineering areas, (n) the ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data in more than one of the recognized civil engineering areas, (o) the ability to perform civil engineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum, and (p) an understanding of professional practice issues such as: procurement of work; bidding versus quality based selection processes; how the design professionals and construction professions interact to construct a project; and the importance of professional

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John Bourne

Brandeis Colleges – Discussions are underway to utilize courses at these colleges. • Online courses – We expect to be able to utilize courses that are available online from any institution that provides course work of interest to our students. • Modules – We will make use of modules provided by other institutions and from commercial sources. • Laboratories – We anticipate creating relationships with local institutions to provide additional laboratory facilities that are not easy to duplicate (e.g., clinical laboratories for bioengineering students).Other PartnershipsWe are planning to create partnerships whenever and wherever possible. For example,one such partnership is expected to be with VaNTH (Vanderbilt

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Valarie Arms; J. Weggel; Aly Valentine

laboratories within ED&L Administration of Courses and Exams The preparedness, reliability and effectiveness of the teaching assistant in the classroom The administration of the chemistry course (during academic year 1999-2000) Rescheduling of exam times - not conducive to have two exams on the same day; Friday afternoons and Monday mornings can be difficult for some students Concern about the consistency of faculty supervising the freshmen design project; providing training for those individualsCourse Integration Page 6.209.6 "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Christopher Carroll

Gadget has proven to be a remarkably versatile instrument. By providing usefulinput and output devices in the Gadget, students are able to design and build completepieces of digital computer circuits implementing data processing or data structure circuitswithout the extra complexity involved in getting data in or out of their designs.. Theinstrument has been used for several semesters in the “Computer Circuits” laboratory ofthe Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of MinnesotaDuluth, and has been dependable and reliable, despite rugged use by many students. TheGadget is inexpensive and uncomplicated, making it a very non-intimidating testinstrument in the lab. Carroll’s Gadget demonstrates that test equipment need not

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

Education”Today, institutions spearheading the effort to provide the latest and best training and education totheir students are reaping the reward by high graduate success rates and by being nationallyrecognized by prominent national organizations. Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) isone of these institutions that has been awarded the (LEAD) award for excellence in theApplication and Development of Integrated Manufacturing1. Penn state has constructed a new10,210 square feet facility called “Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME), astate-of-the-art laboratory that represents all the elements of a real manufacturing facility. Thegoal of the lab is to provide the hands-on experience needed for students to work in an

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Salman Talahmeh; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

professor in electrical and computer engineering at Lawrence TechnologicalUniversity, in Southfield, MI since 1991. Her research interests include computer networks, error correction anddetection, and freshman engineering design. She received the B.S. in industrial and operations engineering fromUniversity of Michigan in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from Wayne State University in1983 and 1991, respectively.ECE YAPRAKDr. Yaprak is an associate professor of engineering technology in the Division of Engineering Technology at WayneState University in Detroit, MI. She is involved in several ongoing research projects, including field programmablechip laboratory development for NSF, distributed computing for the US Army and CBT for

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Eric Constans; Joseph Orlins

. The early exposure to allelements of design, testing, and evaluation aided student understanding of the basic concepts offluid mechanics, and familiarized students with design and fabrication techniques.IntroductionIn many traditional introductory courses in Fluid Mechanics, students do not gain a trueappreciation for the real-world applications where the concepts presented in the classroom arebrought to life. Laboratory experiments are used to demonstrate basic principles, but usuallyfollow a very limited and proscribed scope and format. Such labs are generally focused oninvestigations of fluid properties and the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Trueapplications of the basic principles (such as selection of pumps and system head

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Rhonda Lee; Vincent R. Capece; John Baker

. Laboratory exercises can often “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”provide reinforcement to core lecture material more effectively than a textbook. It seemsthat appropriate use of finite element software, utilizing the powerful graphicscapabilities of the software, can produce a similar reinforcing effect.2. FEA Software as a Teaching ToolClearly, FEA is a relevant topic to engineering education. As noted above, a level ofcompetency in FEA seems essential for engineers graduating in today’s technicalenvironment. Of course, learning to use software that produces accurate results, forexample, in a heat

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Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

emergency situation. All SOPs are now located inwell marked locations in the laboratories. No activity can take place in the laboratory without thestudents indicating on a checklist that they have read the relevant SOP.Students who are exploring, designing, and building are typically eager and tend to be in a rush.This might be good for getting things done but compromises safety. The tendency is to try thelatest idea to see if it works or to try to finish before a report deadline. To avoid this students aretold at the beginning that there are no deadlines. They are not judged on how much they getdone. They are judged on how well they function in the design group, on the procedures they useand how well documented their activities are in their lab

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Robert Fithen

working in the research division ofWright Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. Further information may be obtained at http://mengr.atu.edu Page 6.1093.7Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Fereydoun Jalali

, MEE, and PhD in Electrical Engineeringfrom North Carolina State University at Raleigh, North Carolina. He has taught a variety of courses in digitaland linear systems and in electromagnetic-related topics in both EE and EET programs, with a present interestin the application of innovative approaches to teaching "difficult" topics and to laboratory and project activities. Page 6.1121.5“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Zhongming Liang

engineering technologycurriculum. There are several reasons for the difficulty. The course materials are indeed quiteanalytical with little or no laboratory. The authors of the textbook are scholars in mechanics sothat some wordings are very theoretical. Some students were not interested in the course becausethey did not see much connection between the book examples and their current or future jobs.During a summer intern, the company wanted to use a ceramic cutter for higher cutting speed ona CNC lathe but needed to make sure that the work and the chuck would be safe at the highspeed. I was asked to do some safety checks based on the centrifugal forces.This project gave me the idea that there were many dynamics application examples in

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D. Yogi Goswami

Session 1433 Present Status of Solar Energy Education D. Yogi Goswami Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, POB 116300, Gainesville, FL 32611-6300 USA Tel: 352/392-0812; Fax: 352/392-1071 Email: solar@cimar.me.ufl.eduAbstractThis paper briefly describes the history and status of solar energy education. The energyawareness in the early 1970s led to a concerted research and development effort in solarenergy applications. Solar energy education followed these efforts at the advanced collegelevel. However, R&D slowed

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James Newell; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Dianne Dorland; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

, the incorporation of a heterogeneous catalyst can accelerate therate of reaction or effect the reaction selectivity. Multiphase reactions, and in particular gas-liquid reactions, and the impact of mass transfer on the rate and selectivity also have a significantrole in controlling the reactor design.4Bourne and Gablinger22 have shown how process chemistry developed in the laboratory can goawry when scaled to industrial reactors. An excellent example of the classic series-parallelreaction using an azo dye chemistry is presented by Bourne and Gholap.23 The chemist willoptimize the reaction to obtain very high reaction rates for the desired reaction. However, in theindustrial reactor, micromixing occurs, negatively impacting the process

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Richard McNitt; Cliff Lissenden

: • initiate meaningful dialog between students and faculty, • inform students as to ethical expectations, • orient students as to particular options of study, • demonstrate via case studies what engineers ‘do’, and • provide laboratory awareness and experiences.Catastrophic FailuresEngineered systems sometimes fail in catastrophic ways.... bridges collapse, buildings burn,airplanes explode, ships break in two, spontaneous combustion occurs, autos crash, etcetera.Virtually all such failures occur because the designers, builders, and/or users have overlookedsome unexpected combination of inputs; they seldom fail due to simple overload. For example,a bridge designer may have overlooked the potential danger of aerodynamic loading andmechanical

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James Masi

displays to filters, from acoustic to non-lineardevices, liquid crystals and the experiments one can easily do will make this experience a usefuland entertaining one. Demonstrations, hands-on tests, and samples will be included in theseexperiments.Key Words: Liquid crystals, displays, thermotropic, nematic, liquid crystal polymers.Prerequisite Knowledge: The student should be familiar with the basics of materials science,metallography, and chemistry. Levels at which these experiments are performed are secondsemester junior year and either semester senior year. The students are first given lectures theproperties of materials including organic liquid crystals and polymer liquid crystals (PLCs).They should have already had a laboratory experiment on

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

presentation of this CMmodule.The authors of this paper proposed to the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory ImprovementProgram of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education, aproof of concept project to develop CM educational materials. Specifically, we sought fundingto develop and introduce a CM Overview Module and accompanying Teacher’s Guide for use aspart of regularly-scheduled courses in engineering and business curricula. NSF funded ourproject in May, 2000, and our work on the project began in June 2000.II. The CM Overview ModuleThe CM Overview Module provides 1-2 weeks of college-level coursework. The module ismodeled on material presented in the few reference texts that provide significant discussions onCM topics

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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

and follow on sequence courses, lab technicians, etc. Forexample in a thermodynamics course, the interested parties or stakeholders could includeprofessors associated with prerequisite and subsequent courses like engineeringmathematics, physics, heat transfer and power trains as well as the technician responsiblefor the steam and gas turbine laboratories. Page 6.308.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAssessment methods must be applied consistently semester to semester and should bepart of an

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Ernest Tollner

problems and agricultural engineers working with thefarm-field scale. Natural resource engineers may work at the farm and field scale, integrating tothe regional scale via appropriate watershed modeling software that requires farm and field scaleinputs. The course includes two field trips to the USDA-ARS station at Watkinsville, GA. Thisfacility has state-of-the-art instrumented watersheds. Students analyze runoff expected from aninstrumented watershed. Students analyze the passage of the flow through a culvert and channel,which they characterize. Students also measure the Manning n for two different channel liningsin a laboratory flume. Tours of water quality laboratories are also included. The course alsoincludes a tour to a

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William Clark; Lisa Comparini; Anthony Dixon; David DiBiasio

. The major new features were a restructuring and spiraling ofspecific chemical engineering topics around a framework of open-ended, team-based projects. Inthe following we will refer to the group that took the new curriculum as the spiral-taught and thetraditionally taught students as the comparison. Note that "spiral-taught" is a convenient term weuse that includes all the teaching and curricular changes implemented during the project, not justthe spiral topic structure.The spiral curriculum was delivered through a variety of channels including cooperative-groupprojects, traditional lectures, homework problems, in-class active learning sessions, interactivemultimedia learning tools, and laboratory experiments. To assure individual

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William Hutzel

energy audit, it is not fair to compare the “high grade” electrical energy,which has a multitude of uses, to the “low grade” thermal energy that the collectors provide. Asolar collector’s thermal energy can only be used for local space heating and is only availablewhen the sun is shining. Until a fair accounting of the difference between electrical and thermalenergy can be made it is better to leave the fans out of the analysis. The slight oversimplification (leaving out the fan energy) is “ok” in this case. This solarenergy experiment is one of twelve laboratory projects in the introductory Heat Power course.Some concessions must be made to complete the experiment within the two hours that areallocated for the project. Upper level MET

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Doria Hickman; Bala Ram; Sanjiv Sarin; Paul Stanfield

Services Recruitment Processes Resources Development1. Graduate 3. Course 6. Instructional 10. Accreditation 13. Departmental student development/ computing/ preparation databases recruitment revision lab equipment 11. Continuing 14. Faculty2. Undergraduate 4. Course 7. Instructional education recruitment recruitment evaluation software 12. New programs 15. Faculty 5. Curriculum 8. Instructional evaluation development/ laboratory use