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in part for the partial fulfillment of theMasters Degree in Safety at Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies,Middle Tennessee State University.I. IntroductionAir quality is a dynamic and complex environmental phenomenon having large temporal andspatial variation. The temporal and spatial variations in atmospheric levels of pollution, which isthe essence of air quality, are caused by: changes in the source emission rates and in themeteorological and topographic conditions, which contribute to the dilution of the material,provide chemical reactions in the atmosphere, and control the removal of various pollutants. Page

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allowed students to demonstrate their understanding of a topic or set oftopics using their individual learning styles.Making topics within the domains of science and engineering accessible to all students is ofcritical importance, especially in terms of the highly technological society in which we live 28.The courses described in this paper, as well as the activities developed within these courses, havebeen designed to bring these important topics to non-majors. The teaching and learningstrategies employed in these courses may have broad and far-reaching implications for teachingall students, majors and non-majors alike.VI. AcknowledgementsPartial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation’s Division ofUndergraduate

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Yoganand Gandlur; Selvan Duraimurugar; Mohammed Enamul Haque; Amarneethi Vamadevan

self-learning mechanism.Although the presented approach is being applied to reinforced concrete design, it employs ageneric architecture, which is discipline independent and may be adapted to any other similardomain which will certainly promote and enhance students’understanding.Bibliography1. MacCallum, K.J., Abbas, A., McCacken, W., ‘Designing Engineering Design Courseware’. Softwaredemonstration. Association for Learning Technology Conference ’1996. Strathclyde University.2. MacCallum, K.J., Abbas, A., McCacken, W., ‘GEODESIC-GEOmetric DESign with individualized CAL.Proceedings of Shared Experience in Engineering Design ’97. 26-27 June 1997.3. Budhu, M., 'On the Determination of the Stress State in the Simple Shear Apparatus', Geotechnical

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Engineering from M.E.T.U., Ankara in 1968and 1970, respectively. He did further graduate work at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio between1970 and 1975 and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. He is currently afull professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining U.S.M. he served onthe faculty of M.E.T.U., Ankara and Gaziantep campuses, Turkey and at the University of Pittsburgh. His researchinterests and publications span the field of microelectronics including I.C. design and semiconductor technology andits application in sensor development, finite element and analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors,and electronic instrumentation and

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J. Wagner; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 3648 Microprocessor Controlled Milling Machine: A Student Project Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi, Joshua Wagner University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstractThis paper describes the details of an undergraduate design project in our DesignTechnology course and the experience gain by the student involved. The intent of thecourse is to expose students to real world design projects. Students are expected to becreative and innovative in their design projects and utilize a multitude of engineeringdisciplines that Engineering Technology Program offers at the University of MarylandEastern Shore. The objective of this

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skill set needed (again because of the maintenance).The selection of Macromedia Authorware 3, as the most versatile and simple platform, and due toits long and successful history, seemed the logical choice in a relatively narrow competition. Itwas also widely used and supported by our partner, ATL.The working team was composed of: - from the engineering side: a director and content expert, a manager and writer, and 3programmers; and - from the educational technology side, as an advising group: an instructional designer, anauthoring specialist, a graphical design specialist and an evaluation specialist.The programmers were three 2nd year co-op students from the computing engineeringundergraduate program, with noticeable inclinations

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Kristin L. Wood; John Wood

Session 2566 The Tinkerer’s Pendulum for Machine System’s Education: Creating a Basic Hands-On Environment with Mechanical “Breadboards” John J. Wood*, Kristin L. Wood** *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University **Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe pendulum of engineering education is swinging from an emphasis of theoretical material to abalance between theory and hands-on activities. This transformation is motivated, in part, by thechanging students entering engineering programs. Instead of a

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, National InstrumentsWeek 1998.3. Martha N. Cyr, Chris B. Rogers, Enhancing Education with LEGO Bricks and Paperclips, FEDSM98-5137,Proceedings of FEDSM’98 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, June 21-25, 1998, Washington,DC.4. Martha Cyr, V. Miragila, T. Nocera, C. Rogers, A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching EngineeringThrough Experimentation, J. of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 167-171, 1997.5. John Paul Osborne, B. Erwin, M. Cyr, and C. Rogers, A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-onEngineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation, Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.63-66, 1998.MERREDITH PORTSMOREMerredith Portsmore is the Educational Technology Coordinator for

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Jose'-Job Flores-Godoy; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Donald W. Collins; Kostas Tsakalis

Session 2563 Minimum Inventory Variability Dispatching Policies - MIVP Donald Collins, Ph.D., Manufacturing Engineering Technology, José-Job Flores-Godoy, M.S., Electrical Engineering Frank Hoppensteadt, Ph.D., Math and Electrical Engineering, Kostas Tsakalis, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Arizona State UniversityAbstractThis paper illustrates the use of discrete event stochastic simulation modeling to compare twoscheduling (dispatching) policies for machines in a factory when a machine becomes availablefor processing. The two policies are

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theautomatic indentation inspection especially in programs with many nested loops.Everybody can inspect and utilize the Intranet Compilers Package by visiting the web sitelocated at http://sant.bradley.edu/web-comp/. When one wants to use ICP over the Internet, onlythe limited version of the package is accessible. For obvious reasons, everybody can access onlythe compilers that do not require a license. Commercial compilers (Borland and Microsoft) areaccessible only in the Intranet environment for users with selected IP addresses for which thelicense is bought.ConclusionThe paper shows how to use the new opportunity created by Internet technologies for theefficient and platform independent usage of software engineering tools. The presented ICP arejust

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Bill T. Ray

MultidimensionalInput From client (both) or data file (VBScript only)Output To screen, to cookie, to data file (VBScript only)Using Active Server PagesActive Server Pages (ASP) is a technology developed by Microsoft. It uses the VBScriptprogramming language. This technology functions only on Microsoft’s Internet servers:Windows NT or Windows 2000 with Internet Information Server. Since ASP writes a standardhtml page, it can be viewed on any of the newer Internet browsers, including Internet Explorer,Navigator, or Hot Java. You can tell if a page you are viewing is actually written in ASP by thefile extension on the URL. If it ends in “.asp” the page is probably an active server page writtenin VBScript.The VBScript language

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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

Session 2793 DESIGN OF A ROBUST AND LOW COST SOLAR LANTERN AS A ONE SEMESTER PROJECT Authors: Linda M. Head2, Gay Canough1 and Ravi P. Ramachandran2 Affiliations: 1. ETM Solar Works Inc. 2. Faculty of Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstract - The purpose of this project was to develop a rugged and efficient solar lantern. Thelantern was designed to meet the requirements of persons who reside in areas where access to theelectrical grid is limited and whose resources do not permit import of electrical generationcapabilities. A representative of a missionary organization operating in Africa developed theoriginal set of

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Jack Crotty; Chong Chen

Session 1647 Remote Control of Microcontrollers with a Telephone Chong Chen and Jack Crotty Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132Abstract Computer network technology has developed rapidly in recent years. A person maycontact another person in any part of the world through a computer network. A person may alsocontrol the operations of a computer at a remote location through a computer network. Each ofthese requires access to a computer linked to a computer

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Session 3432 Equipping a Process Control Lab via Department Sponsored Senior Projects Richard R. Johnston Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses the equipping of a Process Control Lab with realistic process simulators byhaving the ECE department sponsor student teams to build the apparatus as their capstonedesign project. This sponsorship involves having the department specify the behavior of theapparatus, specify the Input / Output connections between the apparatus and the ProgrammableLogic Controller (PLC I/O

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Contractor or Design/Build methods. With experience in allthe construction delivery methods, I can highly recommend the ConstructionManagement method as the preferred approach for most building projects.ReferencesDean, Andrea Oppenheimer, “Listening to Contractors”, Architectural Record (February 1998), pp. 54-57.O & G Industries, “School Construction Delivery Methods”, 1999.DANIEL DAVIS, AIADaniel Davis is an Associate Professor and Chair of Architectural Engineering Technology Program at theUniversity of Hartford’s Ward College of Technology. He has more than 19 years of experience as aDesign Architect and many of his projects have been published in professional journals and/or won designawards. Davis holds baccalaureate degrees from Catholic

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university. Lastly, instructors must communicate theirlove of a subject in new and different ways to preserve and enhance student success andsatisfaction.BARBARA CHRISTEBarbara Christe is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biomedical Electronics Technology in theElectrical Engineering Technology Department at IUPUI. Prior to her arrival at IUPUI in 1998, she was anAssistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at the Community College of RhodeIsland for 12 years. She received her Masters Degree in Clinical Engineering from Rensselaer at Hartford and herBS in Engineering from Marquette University. Page

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

Annual Conference of the ASEE St. Louis, MO, 18 - 21 June , 2000. Stephanie Farrell is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. She received herB.S. in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania, her MS in 1992 from Stevens Institute of Technology, and herPh.D. in 1996 from New Jersey Institute of Technology. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree, she worked on thedesign of a needleless injector to be used by the World Health Organization in a worldwide measles eradicationproject. She also spent six months working at British Gas in London before returning to graduate school. Prior tojoining Rowan in September, 1998, she was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Louisiana TechUniversity. Stephanie’s has

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it has some limitationswhen it comes to nurturing creativity, synthesis and engineering design1. Therefore, a prudentcombination of teaching by lectures and active learning techniques are perhaps the ideal way toenhance student comprehension and creativity. Modern simulation software provides an efficientway of involving engineering undergraduate students in the active learning process. The reformmovement in engineering education inspired by Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) ofAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)2 is consistent with this approach. Itis attempting to integrate a continuous improvement cycle (Fig 1) with an experiential learningcycle (Fig 2) within engineering education3

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Session 1368 A Truss Analyzer for Enriching the Learning Experience of Students Matthew G. Sutton, Ing-Chang Jong University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is written to contribute a software, named WinTruss, with illustration, for analyzingtrusses. The software is a resulting product of a design project by a senior student in a sequenceof two courses in Creative Project Design for mechanical engineering students at the Universityof Arkansas. WinTruss runs on PC Windows 95 and later. Being easy-to-use, intuitive, flexible,and powerful, this

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Chi-Wook Lee

-based data acquisition concept,• Enhancement of student’s learning experience.AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank the University of the Pacific (Long Teaching with TechnologyGrant) and National Science Foundation (Grant No. 9751111) for funding.Bibliography1. Wells, L.K., Student Edition User’s Guide, Prentice Hall, 19952. VISHAY Measurement Group, Student Manual for Strain Gage Technology, Measurement Group, Inc. 19923. Application Note 078, Strain Gage Measurement-A Tutorial, National Instruments Corporation, 19984. Thompson, W.H., Theory of Vibration: With Applications, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 19935. Cyr, M., Miragila, V., Nocera, T., and Rogers, C., “ A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching Engineering Through

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Pedro E. Arce

are fairly well structured cases of POK’s where the instructor must helpthe learning of a complicated subject. Further discussion will be offered at thetime of the presentation of the material.6. References.Arce, P. ‘The Colloquial Approach: An Active Learning Technique,” Jr. of Sci. Educ. and Technology, 3, 145, (1994a).Arce, P. “You Can’t Hide in this Class,” Teaching at FSU. Program for Instructional Excellence, 2, 2 (1994b)Bird, R.B.; O. Hassager, and Curtis, “Polymeric Fluid Dynamics: 1, John Wiley, NY (1987).Cerro. L.R., “Level of Physical Information: Axioms, Constitutive Equations, and Models,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Washington, D.C., 595, (1989).Dr. Arce is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at

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Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

many facets of control in a full-scale productionenvironment. The plant tour is given by one of the quality control engineers at thesponsor site, and the students have an opportunity to meet the personnel who work on thefactory floor. As a natural part of this venture, students will be recruited as activeparticipants in the learning process. By looking at an operational full-scalemanufacturing system in detail, students can see how solutions involving hardware, Page 5.330.2software and people has its own unique set of capabilities and limitations. During thetour the sponsor representative emphases the parts of the production process related to

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Session 2225 Teaching a Real-World Software Design Approach Within an Academic Environment Jeanne L. Murtagh, John A. Hamilton, Jr. Air Force Institute of Technology / Joint Forces Program OfficeAbstractIn this paper, we discuss how object-orientation and the industrial standard for softwaredevelopment, "Software Lifecycle Processes, IEEE/EIA 12207.0-1996" can be used to enhancethe students’ design experience in a 400-level course in a software engineering program.Although every phase of the software development lifecycle is important, we have found that thetwo lifecycle phases

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(1996). “Consensus! Students Need More Management Education,” Jounalof Manament in Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 12, No. 6. pp. 17-29.2. Eschenbach, T. G. and J. W. Ra. (1997). “Shift from Lecture/Exam Paradigm in EngineeringManagement Education,” Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 42-49.3. Lamancusa, J. S., Jorgensen, J. E. and Zayas-Castro, J. L. (1997) “The Learning Factory—A NewApproach to Integrating Design and Manufacturing into the Engineering Curriculum,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, 103-112.4. Sullivan, F. J., and R. Baren, (1998) “Simulating the Workplace in an Engineering Technology Course:A Rhetorical Model,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp.279-284.5. “Engineering Criteria

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Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments., Lockheed Martin, NASA, Univ. of the Pacific, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. Currently he teaches and performs research in the areas of design and analysis. JOHN FELAND John Feland is an Instructor of Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is currently a Captain on active duty in the Air Force pursuing academic research with the Center for Design Research at Stanford University regarding the development of large-scale defense projects. BRIAN P. SELF

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Otto Fucik; Michael McKenna; Bogdan M. Wilamowski

Interfacing Student Digital System Designs,” 1998 ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Session 1532.5. A.B. Grubbs Jr. and A. Anthony, “Implementing PLD Technology in an Introductory Digital Logic Course,”1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 3548.6. C.A. Lipari, C. Sisterna, R. Sundarajaran, and R.W. Nowlin, “VHDL Modeling and Synthesis in the Laboratory,”1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2647.7. M.E. Parten, “Teaching Digital Design with HDL,” 1997 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session1232.OTTO FUCIKOtto Fucik (IEEE member) is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Penn StateUniversity at Erie. Before he joined the Penn State he was with the University of Wyoming as a Visiting

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Murali Krishnamurthi

enhancinginteractions during asynchronous and synchronous discussions, collaborative and individualinteractions, and evaluating online discussions. The issues and techniques are illustrated withexamples from the information systems course taught fully online by the author.1. IntroductionSeveral universities in U.S. already offer engineering courses through the World Wide Web andsatellite broadcasts. These courses are beginning to replace or supplement traditional classroominstruction with convenient, self-paced distance education, and reach a larger student body acrossU.S. Courses offered through satellite broadcasts are not very much different from classroominstruction, and therefore, require instructors to make minor changes in their course design to

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offerings. Thispaper discusses the design of and the experience gained in conducting the software studio. Thesoftware studio is designed to enable a student with a non-technical background to make thetransition to the study of information science at a graduate level. Since its introduction in thespring of 1999, this course has been offered during each spring, summer, and fall semester. Asthis is a relatively new course, it is undergoing continuous incremental improvements based on in-class experience, student feedback and changes in the industry.I. IntroductionAs information technology becomes increasingly important to daily life, the demand forprofessionals with formal education in software engineering and information systems continues torise. In

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ofComputer based instrumentation for engineering technology students at Savannah StateUniversity, furthermore the authors would like to acknowledge ASEE and Office of Naval Page 5.160.6research for the support of this project.Bibliography1. B.J. Frame, C. J. Janke, W. A. Simpson, R. E. Ziegler, and H. E. Philpot, Composite Heat Damage, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1990.2. C. J. Janke, J. D. Muhs, E. A. Wachter, R. E. Ziegler, G. L. Powell, N. R. Smyrl, and H. E. Philpot, Composite Heat Damage Spectroscopic Analysis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1990.3. L. P. Robert. Applications of Laser

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significant difference in theperformance of students who receive web based training and those who receive traditionalclassroom instruction?” The latter question was the focus of this study. This study assessed theperformance of students who received web-based training in a mechanical engineeringtechnology course, versus students in the same course who did not receive the web-basedtraining. The title of the course studied was MET 142, Manufacturing Processes 1. This coursewas designed to introduce students to manufacturing processes such as casting, forming andwelding. A hands-on approach was used to introduce these concepts. Since not all studentsenrolled were Mechanical Engineering Technology majors, their diverse backgrounds had to betaken into