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an information need; there are likely to be a number of alternativesources and approaches that can successfully lead to resolution of the problem. The questionbecomes less, "Can I find information on this topic?" and more "What are my best strategies forfinding information on this topic?" [7]According to the Final Report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee onInformation Literacy the information literate person is, "...able to recognize when information isneeded and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use it effectively.”[1] The Association ofCollege and Research Libraries in early 2000 approved and released Information LiteracyCompetency Standards for Higher Education. These standards define the topic and

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Shlomo Waks; C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Barry Lunt

traditional academic computerdisciplines. Technical competency combined with analytical skills, communication skills, and anapplication orientation will provide leaders for the next wave of IT integration in society. Thisfits well into the domain of engineering technology. Students and employers alike are seekingprograms of this type. The opportunities exist and are rapidly growing for life-long careerswithin the field. We support further development of programs in this area.AppendicesAppendix A. Mission and Objectives of the EIT Program at BYU Mission Statement: Electronics and Information TechnologyWithin the context of the Aims of a BYU Education (see ref 1) our mission is to educate professional leaders with anin-depth

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

the resources available on the world wide web. The use of web-based and virtuallabs for distance education in engineering and information technology will also be discussed.I. IntroductionIn the current information age, a nation’s economy is determined by the number of suitablytrained people in information technology. A relatively inexpensive, yet accessible way ofeducating large number of students in information technology in the developing countries is touse distance education 1. Many universities and colleges in USA are currently using some modeof distance education to teach or supplement the courses. The 1998 Peterson’s Guide toDistance Learning Programs 2 listed the courses and programs of more than 800 accreditedinstitutions in the

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Terrance P. O’Connor; Nghia Le

project is that it consists of off-the-shelve parts and it progresses in steps that are manageable and easily to conduct laboratoryactivities.The project has an analog part and a digital part. An infrared light source emits two modulatedsignals at the frequencies of 1 kHz and 4 kHz. A phototransistor detects the signals and passesthem through a series of analog circuits for processing. When the infrared source emits the 1 kHzsignal, a light bulb is on and the 4 kHz signal commands to turn off the bulb. When the bulb ison, the digital part of the circuit would reset the time to 00.0 and would display the on time of thebulb to 1/10 of a second. When the bulb is off, this circuit freezes the displayed time. The blockdiagram of the analog part of the

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/streaming.1. IntroductionGeorgia Tech is involved in a number of distance learning initiatives, including a new onlineMasters program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a campus situated in Metz, France,that also offers Masters degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This campus, known as Page 6.569.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationGeorgia Tech Lorraine (GTL), opened its doors to students in the Fall of 1991. Since the numberof faculty at GTL has never been large enough

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, National Research Council, Materials Science andEngineering for the 1990s: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Age of Materials, National Academy Press,Washington, D.C., 1989.8. Roylance, D., Mechanics of Materials, J. Wiley, New York, 1996.9. Zhurkov, S.N., “The Thermofluctuational Mechanism of Fracture,” Int. J. Fracture Mech., Vol. 1, p. 311, 1964.10. Gordon, J.E., The Science of Structures and Materials, Scientific American Library, 1988.DAVID ROYLANCEDavid Roylance is Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Instituteof Technology. He received his BSME and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah in SaltLake City. After military service in Viet Nam, he was a research engineer at the

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’ coil c-c’ a Magnetic axis of phase c Figure 1 shows the location of these coils in space.For balanced conditions the instantaneous currents are: Ia=Im cos ωt (1) Ia=Im cos (ωt – 1200) (2) Ia=Im cos (ωt – 2400) (3)Where Im is the maximum value of current. Phase “a” has the following mmf. Fa ( θ )= Fm cos θ (4)Since Fm =NI and it is the maximum mmf value of phase “a”, then: Fa ( θ )= NIa cos θ

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assessment should begin by establishment of program objectives. This helps toestablish what to be assessed more than the question of how to assess the objectives.Course objectives must as a rule specify what students are to be taught, what skills thestudents should be able to do, (behavioral objectives), or what competencies they shouldbe able to demonstrate, also called performance objectives. Performance objectives aregenerally derived from the skills in the instructional analysis. Generally, one our moreobjectives are written for each of the skills identified in the instructional analysis. Manytimes it is advisable to state entry level behaviors (prerequisites) before students enroll ina particular course. Dick and Carey (1996) 1 indicated that

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for the assignment development,and the topics that address the geometric nature of the assignment. Page 6.591.2Class assignments are often based on historical examples of sophisticated use of geometrydrown from the theory and history of building design and construction (Figure 1). Severalassignments in the unit Geometric Constructions are dedicated to the mathematical basisof proportioning systems, which have often been considered in historical architecture asdeterminants of beauty and order and the basis for dimensional coordination in buildings.Proportioning systems, deriving from arithmetic or geometric sequences, or a combinationof both, such as

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. Looking atthese publications, a common theme emerges which calls for making these projects relevant toindustry 1. This can be accomplished by greater industry involvement and redesigning thecapstone course to meet the needs of industry. This paper discusses two frameworks underwhich this can be accomplished and presents two research projects that were completed as partof senior design project in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Old DominionUniversity.II Industry InvolvementIndustry involvement in senior projects is a key factor for a successful capstone course as identifiedby many authors 1,2. Industry involvement can vary greatly in terms of focus, scope and companysupport. At one end this may involve only financial support

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product’s homepage): • Lotus LearningSpace1 • Microsoft PowerPoint2 • Microsoft Excel3 • Office computer hardware includes a PC with triple monitors connected to a LAN. • Course room hardware consists of a PC connected to a video projector and the LAN. • A teaching assistant 3/32-1/4 time with access to similar hardware and software. • Text - Engineering Economic Analysis4 • Solution Manual - Engineering Economic Analysis • ExamView Pro5InnovationThe combination of software used in delivering the course materials, and the manner in whichthe students prepared and submitted their work, results in an innovative education deliverymethod for engineering economics. The following software contributes to this

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Sridhar Condoor; Richard Weber

several illustrative examples. The examples cover a wide range of topics fromengineering concepts to design. Also, included are case studies with our students dealing withcognitive inquiry of objects based on concepts and functionality.1. IntroductionAs more and more pressures are brought to bear on the engineering programs to stay within a‘four-year’ undergraduate degree program, more interest has been given to the student’s abilityto learn the fundamental engineering concepts. The question of student learning has surfaced inthe pre-college education for science many years ago, as described in the text, ‘Learning How toLearn’ (1). Rutherford and Ahlgren (2) in their excellent book ‘Science for All Americans,”broach the subject of learning. A

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Oral LaFleur; Matthew Govindsanny; Joshua Hill; Daniel Jones

Session 3148 Installation of a Solar Refrigerator in South Africa Daniel K. Jones1, Joshua Hill2, Oral LaFleur2, and Matthew Govindsanny3 1 Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA 2 School of Technology, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, USA 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, Eastern Cape Technikon

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April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

to assess its effectiveness, and implement an annual reporting and publication of reported cases that also describes the outcome of each case.College of Engineering Task Force RecommendationsThe task force recommended that several actions be taken to achieve the vision described earlier.The Report first described the basic points of departure that served as the basis for theserecommendations. To a large extent these points of departure came from the analysis of the datathat were collected as part of this effort; in other cases they represented the task force’s beliefson the current status of women in engineering and how Georgia Tech could make a difference.Task Force Report’s Points of Departure: 1. Organizational

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Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

taken courses in all aspects of mechanical engineering by the time that theytake the capstone project, and a discussion of the design process allows the instructor to show howeverything fits together.Our design-process module addresses the following topics:1. Different approaches to the design process2. Market research3. Target specifications4. Concept generation5. Evaluating designs6. Analytical design7. System level design8. Detail design9. Tolerancing issues10. Cost issues11. DFM/DFA12. Prototyping13. TestingThe presentation can be given in 30 minutes if it is desired to give just an overview; however, it alsocan be used as the basis for a lecture that would take approximately 50 minutes. The instructor

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Amy Roskowski; Richard M. Felder; Lisa Bullard

Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes by R.M. Felder andR.W. Rousseau.1 The latest edition of the text comes bundled with a CD-ROM coursewarepackage called Interactive Chemical Process Principles (ICPP) developed by one of the textauthors in conjunction with Intellipro, Inc. The package consists of (a) a set of six interactiveinstructional tutorials covering the major topics in the text, (b) a simple-to-use but powerfulalgebraic and differential equation-solving program called E-Z Solve, (c) a physical propertydatabase that (among other things) automates the tedious calculation of enthalpy changes forheating and cooling processes, (d) a multimedia Visual Encyclopedia of Chemical Engineering

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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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Mang Tia; David Bloomquist

Use of Multimeters Sept 5 DC Circuit Analysis Lab # 1 Sept 7 Strain Gages Basic DC Measurement Sept 12 Strain Gages (cont.) Lab # 2 Sept 14 Strain Measurements Static Strain Measurement Sept 19 Operational Amplifier Review for Test No. 1 Sept 21 Capacitance Sept 26 Inductance Lab # 3 Sept 28 TEST NO. 1 Digital Oscilloscope Oct 3 Load and Pressure Measurement Lab # 4 Oct 5

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Martin Trethewey; John Gardner; Thomas Litzinger

and faculty assessment of the effectiveness of the approaches.IntroductionIndustry, academia, professional societies, and the federal government have been calling forenhancement of engineering education to properly prepare students for success in the highlycompetitive, global marketplace. The NSF report, Shaping the Future,1 points out that “too manygraduates go out into the workplace ill-prepared to solve real problems in a cooperative way,lacking the skills and motivation to continue learning.” The NRC report, EngineeringEducation: Designing an Adaptive System,2 asks many questions about engineering educationincluding: “Does engineering education integrate the fundamentals well enough with design andexperimentation?” The ABET EC2000

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Zorica Pantic-Tanner

been incorporated into this course: (1) E- and H-field Probing of NoiseSources, (2) Measuring of Capacitance and Inductance of Cables, (3) Faraday’s Law andInductance, and (4) Time and Frequency Behavior of Transmission Lines. Some of theexperiments are similar to the exercises described in 1,2,3.The first experiment is performed after the students have mastered the concepts of electric andmagnetic fields in the lecture portion of the course. They first measure quasi-static fields in thevicinity of simple sources such as straight conductors and rectangular and circular loops andrelate them to the theoretical predictions. For that purpose they measure currents in conductorsby using current probes and oscilloscope. Then they probe more

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equipment. Students begin each MechANEX assignment by usingthe MechANEX software to check their hand-calculated results for the assigned problem. Whenthe hand calculations and software results match, students perform the associated experiment andcompare the resulting experimental data with the existing analytical results. Students completeeach MechANEX module by using the MechANEX software to study a more involved problem,varying analytical parameters without the burden of repetitive and lengthy hand calculations.The MechANEX laboratory has four primary pedagogical objectives.(1) Students develop a deeper personal understanding of core course concepts by in-depth studyof representative engineering problems using a customize software analysis

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Thomas Ho; Jack Hopper; David Cocke; Daniel Chen; Carl Yaws; Kuyen Li; John Gossage

both on the homework and on the exams.Mass TransferThe Mass Transfer class at Lamar spends one-third of its time on fundamental principles andtwo-thirds on applications such as distillation, absorption, and extraction for both binary andmulti-component systems. Although learning the binary system is important conceptually,learning the multi-component system is a must in the real world.In this paper, we would like to use a simple example given in the textbook of Henley andSeader15 (Examples 7.2 and 7.5), for which the flow diagram is shown in Figure 1. The high-pressure, high-temperature thermal hydrodealkylation of toluene to benzene uses excesshydrogen to minimize the cracking of aromatics. The conversion of toluene is only 70%. Toseparate

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engineeringapplications. This made it possible for the BE curriculum to stay within the legislativelymandated maximum of 128 semester hours while meeting the requirements for ABETaccreditation.BAE 235 had three 1-hr lectures each week that were taught in the BAE Department’s classroomspace and one 3-hr lab that was taught in the same labs used for general biology. A collegebiology textbook1 was used for the course. The laboratory manual2 was the same one that was Page 6.607.1used for BIO 125: General Biology, which also had three lectures and a 3-hr lab each week. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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course.Also, with additional class time, the new theory could be covered and the additional studentworkload could be justified.IV. Spreadsheet Application ExamplesThe first computer-aided application that was incorporated in to the strength of materials coursewas plotting stress-strain diagrams. This was done using a problem from Hibbler2, where loadand deflection data is given for a test specimen with an initial diameter of 0.503 in. and an initiallength of 2.00 in. Use of the spreadsheet frees the students from plotting as well as the repetitivecalculation for stress and strain. Figure 1 shows the spreadsheet used to calculate the stress andstrain that was then plotted. It also shows the calculation of the modulus of toughness using thetrapezoidal

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Patricia C. Tempel; Hisham Alnajjar; Beth Richards; Andrea Brick Ader; Ronald Adrezin

desire for engineering students who can think critically and write at an appropriatelevel of literacy. Another area of shared concern is to have students understand the importance—especially in the workplace—of technically sophisticated people who can communicateeffectively, not only with peers but with nonexperts.To begin this effort, faculty from both departments met in a series of summer 1999 workshopsfunded by NSF to discuss course content and develop possible areas of intersection. We had themodel of Integrative Learning Blocks 1 as well as excellent support and training from theUniversity. Over the summer each faculty member developed a list of six desired outcomesshared by both classes. At the end of each course, students would

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submittals included isometric andelevation drawings for this unique commercial engineering application. Finally, students’end-of-course assessments are used to validate the effectiveness of the projects. Due tospace limitations, examples of student solutions are not included; however, the author canprovide copies of student solutions to interested educators upon request.II. Project #1: Residential DesignThis initial project builds on classroom instruction in residential construction. With aprincipal purpose to provide students with some design experience as early in the courseas possible, this project was administered in two phases to allow students to complete aninitial design, receive feedback, and then make design refinements as part of a