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Shahnam Navaee

BOARDSare used as an additional tool to aid the instructor in relaying the course material to the student.Figure 1 show photographs of one of the teachable lecture rooms and computer laboratoriescreated at Georgia Southern University in support of engineering instructions.The projection systems in all the facilities mentioned were mounted from the ceiling for securitypurposes, for ease of use and for space limitations. It should be mentioned that the instructorswere using a mobile computer and projection system located on a rolling cart for several Page 5.166.2semesters. This system was found to be very inconvenient and unsuitable both for the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

wasdeveloped for this purpose. The spectra of the thirteen gas species of interest were obtained andthe sensitivity factors for each gas were calculated. The spectra of a standard gas mixture and thedissolved gases in oil from a faulty transformer oil specimen were obtained. Finally, theconcentration of each gas species was calculated and a method for fault assessment is presented.DISSOLVED GASES EXTRACTION SYSTEMThe complete gas analyzer system using a QMS is shown in Figure 1. Oil samples used for gasanalysis need to be drawn from the transformer without any atmospheric contact. A syringe or apre-evacuated container should be used for this purpose5, 6. The dissolved gases were extractedfrom the oil sample by introducing the oil into a pre-evacuated

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1997 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Cortina

these results.1. INTRODUCTIONColleges and universities continue to struggle with the choice of programming language for thefirst programming course, typically denoted CS1 [1] [7]. Traditionally, the choice of languagehas been based on personal preferences of faculty members based on previous experience orinfluence from industry, high schools, and other faculty members [9]. Many papers have beenpublished describing experiences using one particular programming language to teach CS1 (e.g.[10], [11]).During the summer of 1996, an experiment was run at Polytechnic University to determine if thechoice of programming language truly affects how a student learns how to program a computer.A set of approximately 100 eligible high school students were

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1997 Annual Conference

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; Jennifer Turns

quantitative approach for understanding the use andusefulness of the software, the analysis of the log files of student activity. Web log files wereanalyzed to address questions about how and where the resources were being used in general, aswell as over time and in relation to critical periods in the course. We found that all resources,with the exception of the parts catalog, were used effectively and that the web-basedimplementation, promoting platform independent and universal access, was important. In thepaper, we report on the analysis and conclude with recommendations for the continueddevelopment of the software and for the next steps in the research.1. ME3110 AND THE DESIGN LEARNING SIMULATORA recent survey conducted by the National Society of

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Péter Szendrõ; László Kátai

Session 3260 The Question of Turn of Millennium in Creative Engineering Education Dr.Péter Szendrõ, László Kátai Gödöllõ Agricultural UniversityAs we approach the turn of the millennium, the volume of information available in our society isgrowing at an increasing rate. Wide, never before seen perspectives will open in the acquiring ofknowledge and the realization of life-long learning. But new forms of education hide manycontradictions.I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONSWhat are the concerns?1. Appearance of information as images, limited

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1997 Annual Conference

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Rosa Gerra; José L. Torres

Session 2470 Reaching for the Stars: 20 Years of Success in Advising Potential Latino Engineering Students José L. Torres, Rosa Gerra Indiana Institute of Technology/United Hispanic Americans Inc.IntroductionAccess to higher education has long been considered one of the cornerstones upon which trueracial and social equality must be built upon (Morrison, 1995.) Unfortunately, even after mostsignificant social and legal barriers have been torn down, college enrollment among the twolargest minority groups still lags behind that of the majority population. As shown in Figure 1

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1997 Annual Conference

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Charles U. Okonkwo

1IntroductionThe promise of hydrogen as a fuel for automobile and jet propulsion engine has sparkedinterest in hydrogen production. This opinion is shared by Marr (1). Steam methanereforming (SMR) is the method of hydrogen production described in this study.According to Rosen and Scott (2), it is one of the most important industrial processes forhydrogen production today. Rosen and Scott (1) describe the status of SMR process to bea mature technology. Though the process involves both exothermic and endothermicreactions, the net reaction is endothermic. The energy required to promote the reaction issupplied by heat from the exhaust of an automobile engine and a built-in heater inside thereactor that can be turned off and on. The MET 494 students have

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L.J. Bohmann; B.A. Mork; Noel Schulz

involveelectricity and would focus on the type of apparatus that students have a good probability ofencountering during their working careers. The goal would not be to educate students to designthe equipment discussed, but rather to allow them to incorporate the equipment in system-leveldesign.BACKGROUND Page 2.342.1Energy conversion has been part of the curriculum since the inception of electrical engineering as 1a separate field of study [1]. The first departments taught courses primarily dealing withgenerators and motors, power transmission, and communications.The first part of this century saw many

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1997 Annual Conference

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

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1997 Annual Conference

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Bahador Ghahramani

Two types of graduate degrees are offered in the EMGT outreach programs: Master ofScience and Doctor of Philosophy. Table 1 summarizes the MS requirements for thesis andnonthesis options. TABLE 1, EMGT OUTREACH MASTER’S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS. REQUIREMENTS NONTHESIS THESIS HOURS HOURS TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 33 30 UPPER LEVEL COURSES 9 6 OUT OF DEPARTMENT 6 6 RESEARCH None 6 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM

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1997 Annual Conference

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John K. Brown

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1997 Annual Conference

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Ronald E. Yoder; D. Raj Raman

science, while written reports, oralpresentations, and team grading enhance professional skills. Ideally, the design problem is highlyrelevant to the students’ field of study, and representative of problems solved by practicingengineers.In our department, students can select from the following five de facto concentrations:agricultural engineering with soil and water emphasis, agricultural engineering with power-1 At the time of manuscript preparation, the second years submission had not yet been made.2 Substantial portions of this paper appeared first as Raman, D. R. and R. E. Yoder, “Using an Engineering Design Page

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1997 Annual Conference

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Josef Rojter

attractiveness of engineering courses to secondaryschool students.This translates into poor calibre entrants into engineering courses.The employer groups also expressed concerns in the area of practical rationality: the deficitbetween practice and training or education. Many survey's among employer groupsindicated a general satisfaction with the scientific literacy but expressed concerns in theshortcomings of social, managerial, legal, environmental and even engineering literaciesamong engineering graduates.Thus Frenkel’s model (Figure 1) of engineering linked to the scientific domain must bereplaced by a more realistic model (Figure 2) where engineering is at the ‘coal face’ ofcreativity.One way of altering the current way of

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1997 Annual Conference

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S. L. Ceccio; G. Tryggvason; Dawn M. Tilbury

Session 2266 Restructuring the Undergraduate Curriculum of the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department at The University of Michigan D. M. Tilbury,1 S. L. Ceccio,2 and G. Tryggvason3 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109AbstractRecent changes in the undergraduate program of the Mechanical Engineering andApplied Mechanics (MEAM) Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor arediscussed. The undergraduate curriculum has been modified to emphasize

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1997 Annual Conference

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John R. Williams

oftenlitters the landscape because it costs too much to haul it away to a landfill. Those of us living inthe rust belt wax the exterior of our vehicles, and often pay someone to provide a rust protectivecoating on the underside of them. Approximately 20% of the iron and steel productsmanufactured each year are used to replace objects that have been discarded due to rust damage 1.Figure 1 is a photograph of a truck ravaged by corrosion typical of damage brought primarily byroad salt used for winter de-icing. Figure 1. An older vehicle shows the effects of corrosionThe Purdue University School of Technology requires all AS and BS degree Mechanical

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1997 Annual Conference

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Michael Alley

todiscuss general questions or concerns that they had about the engineering curricula. In theseconferences, instructors acted as advisors either supplying the needed information or referring thefemale students to someone who had that information. Perhaps more than anything else, the topics for assignments distinguished BasicCommunication from the other freshman communication courses across the campus. Studentshad the opportunity to write about any topic as long as it met certain criteria: (1) the topicinterested the student, (2) the topic could be quickly researched, (3) the topic was specific enoughthat the student could achieve depth, (4) the topic involved synthesizing a spectrum of sources(not just one or two), and (5) the topic

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1997 Annual Conference

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David E. Clough

active-learning classroom that is available inour new Integrated Teaching & Learning Laboratory. This room is ideal for this mode ofinstruction as it is based on a series of round conference tables. In fact, this room will beawkward for traditional lecture.Future DirectionsWe anticipate that the course will improve next year based on the following facts:1) The new classroom suited to active-learning instruction will be used.2) The workshops will be revised and, hopefully, improved.3) The course will now meet from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. (coup!)This author has now incorporated active-learning techniques into a senior-level process controlcourse, and the early reviews are rave. We have bought into this mode of instruction in order toimprove the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

was used to propel the car. The wheels were 66 cm (26 inches)bicycle wheels, two in the front for steering and one in the back for propelling (Fig. 1). Page 2.351.2 Figure 1. MTSU SOLARAIDER III and the Team MembersTHE PUBLIC PERCEPTION While the car was under construction, several news organizations have contacted MTSU inorder to promote the project to the community and to boost environmental awareness in theMiddle Tennessee area. Team members were interviewed by TV reporters, radio talk hosts, andnews columnists. During interviews, the team members explained to the audience, in simpleterms, the technical aspects of the solar

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1997 Annual Conference

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Patrick L. Walter

semiconductor physics, piezoelectricity, operational amplifiers, dc and chargeamplifier theory, measurement system theory, and project management. A portion of thisactivity was review for the students.The RFP (RFP TCU001) was comprised of: a two page cover letter providing scoring criteriafor the proposal response, two pages of background information on the flight and itsobjectives, four pages of detailed specifications, and four pages of drawings showing payloadgeometry and providing space allocations. Fifty-six (56) detailed specifications wereprovided in all. The specification categories were: (1) Power Supply, (2) General Electrical,(3) Amplifier, (4) System Performance, (5) Physical, (6) Environmental Requirements,(7) Bridge Excitation Supply

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1997 Annual Conference

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Charles C. Adams

science, andin clarifying that distinction in the minds of engineering students.Modern engineering is a human cultural activity that involves an interplay between theory,experiment, and imagination, in which human beings form and transform nature, for practicalends and purposes, with the aid of tools and procedures.1 Those “practical ends and purposes”involve human society in all its multifaceted complexity. Thus engineering design requires aholistic and integrated perspective on reality before engineering problems can be properlyformulated and solved. The first two sections of this paper discuss that distinction betweenengineering (or technology) and science, and examine the difficulties that ensue when thatdistinction is not made. To

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1997 Annual Conference

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John Valasek

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1997 Annual Conference

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Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

1 Session 2625Section 1. Introduction/BackgroundIn a presentation to the American Society of Safety Engineers Professional Development 1Conference in 1986, Alphonse Chapanis noted that, "To err is human, to forgive, design."Chapanis’ is suggesting that designers and/or design engineers have a responsibility to designsystems not just to be safe, but to anticipate and “forgive” human error. He also suggests that, 1"The only true human errors are designer errors." Chapanis’ point is that system and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Susan Montgomery

opportunity for informal interaction.STUDENT JOURNALSI’ve found that one of the most effective ways of getting to know students better is through theuse of student journals [1]. Sample instructions for the writing of journals are: “Every class day briefly write in your journal the most important thing(s) that you learned in class that day. In addition, write anything else you wish, particularly things that you can relate to chemical engineering. The journal does not have to be restricted to classroom issues. Please write freely. The pages will not be graded for grammar, spelling, punctuation, or technical or political correctness.”The journals are due on Friday, which gives me the chance to read them over the week-end

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1997 Annual Conference

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James A. Reising

design, validation of the final design, and final presentation of the project results inwritten and oral form. The students work with the faculty project advisor and the industrialadvisor (or problem originator).In addition to projects sponsored by local industry and by the university, other types of projectsinvolve the invention and patent process and preparation of a paper for submission at anundergraduate research conference. IntroductionThe goals of the senior design project sequence are three:1. To examine the concepts of professional responsibility and employer authority and to review the codes of ethics of several professional organizations2. To study the various steps in the engineering design

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1997 Annual Conference

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C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

creation of the Corporation for National Service (CNS).This paper describes three examples of implementing service learning in engineering curriculathat received direct and indirect funding support from CNS: 1) the Mechanical Engineeringcurriculum at the University of South Alabama, 2) the Electrical Engineering and ComputingScience curriculum at George Washington University, and 3) the Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering Department at University of Utah.THREE CASE STUDIES OF SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERINGIntegrating Service Learning into a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course Page 2.355.1The faculty of the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert M. Henry

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1997 Annual Conference

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Richard H. Barnett; Mary A. Eiff; D. Perry Achor; Troy E. Kostek; William J. Hutzel; Bruce Harding

demonstration, tour guides show and explain the differentevents. It is important that students watch and learn the rules that govern each event at this time.A subsequent practice session enables students to complete each task at their own pace andbecome more familiar with the equipment. In the competition mode each event is scored, usuallyby keeping track of the time to complete the assigned task. Teams of students cooperate to earnthe highest number of points while sharpening their pencils.Station 1: Harvesting the Timber In order to produce products, raw materials must first be acquired. In this case, selectiveharvesting of timber is the most basic starting point. Thus the rationale for this station is toinitially gather the raw materials for

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1997 Annual Conference

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Raymond Yannuzzi; Edward McDonnell; Bradshaw Kinsey; Robert Bowman

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1997 Annual Conference

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Eric Campbell; Yolanda Guran

1997 Annual Conference Proceedings_____________________________________________ Session 3548 Should We Teach Chip Design in Electronics Engineering Technology Programs? A Senior Project Course in ASIC Design Yolanda Guran, Eric Campbell Oregon Institute of Technology/Analogy Inc. 1. IntroductionTeaching circuit design up to chip layout seemed exotic for Electronics EngineeringTechnology(EET) programs for many years in the recent past. Many educators believed thatcourses like VLSI Design or ASIC Design should be destined only for

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1997 Annual Conference

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Chong Chen; Walter Buchanan

[1], a popularcircuit simulation software package. With Electronics Workbench, RLC circuit resonance can bedemonstrated very easily. This software package can save both the cost of the circuitcomponents and the time to build and modify the circuit. Using Electronics Workbench, studentscan change the circuit parameters to the values they want and find the voltages and currents ofthe circuit corresponding to these values. Therefore, they may see the conditions of RLC circuitresonance from the circuit simulation for themselves. IntroductionFor circuit analysis courses, RLC circuit resonance is a topic that is not easily accepted bystudents when they are taught in a classroom. RLC circuit resonance can be