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

have required laboratory work and if they do have laboratory workhow extensive it is. We tried to identify what programs topics were required, such as computernetworking, hardware, databases, operating systems or business courses. We used this analysis toeliminate from the list those programs that are focused on software algorithm design (such as CSprograms) or on computer hardware development (CE and CET programs) or primarily onbusiness topics (MIS programs). Although many of the programs in the list may include requiredcourses in these topics the programs were not focused on them. Rather the focus seemed to be onapplications of computer systems to solving problems.There were several noteworthy trends gleaned from the Internet survey. Some

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Arnoldo Muyshondt; Ing-Chang Jong

Session 2468 Interactive Web-Based Tests With Immediate Auto-Feedback Via E-Mail to the Instructor: Software and Illustration Arnoldo Muyshondt, Ing-Chang Jong Sandia National Laboratories / University of ArkansasAbstractWeb-based tests are increasingly utilized in education. This paper is written to contribute a basicyet versatile software, with illustration, for creating interactive web-based modules for tests withimmediate auto-feedback to a specified e-mail address for the instructor. Each module assistsstudents in learning new material by offering “tips,” without providing

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thermodynamic models, and (3) understand system-wide effects ofchanging process variables (as part of the process improvement aspect). The project, based on the synthesis of maleic anhydride from n-butane, involves severalimportant unit operations that will often be encountered in the capstone project. The students aregiven a set of equipment specifications and process data from which they are supposed todevelop a simulation of the process as it currently exists. Strategies for simulating the process arediscussed in detail and the course instructor is available in the student computing laboratory tohelp with issues as they arise. The project includes a reactor (PFR) with kinetic models, absorption column, vacuumdistillation column with

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John Johnston; Ed Dammel; S.K. Ramesh; Eric Matsumoto

Session 2326 A Simple Beam Test: Motivating High School Teachers to Develop Pre-Engineering Curricula Eric E. Matsumoto, John R. Johnston, E. Edward Dammel, S.K. Ramesh California State University, SacramentoAbstractThe College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramentohas developed a daylong workshop for high school teachers interested in developing andteaching pre-engineering curricula. Recent workshop participants from nine high schoolsperformed “hands-on” laboratory experiments that can be implemented at the high school levelto introduce basic

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and speaking.It is necessary, therefore, that those who are most able to help their students learn to think likeengineers should also play an important role in helping them learn to write and speak likeengineers. This places the responsibility back on engineering professors. Of course, the challengehas always been about finding time in engineering courses for teaching communication skills.One response to that challenge is to take advantage of the opportunities for teachingcommunication skills that already exist in the curriculum. While Wheeler 6 lists a number ofpossible venues for writing in the engineering curriculum, the most ubiquitous and yet the mostoverlooked is the lab report.Practically all engineering students take laboratory

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Mary Cardenas; Patrick Little

aframework for describing effective engineering design studio courses, particularly at theintroductory level. The basic elements of such a framework consist of four basic areas: physicalspace, pedagogy, student exercises, and assessment.Physical space can have a profound effect on how students react in any active learning situation.In conversations with educators from Stanford regarding their success in visual thinking andengineering design, one of the most important elements reported was the need for “great views”and good lighting. Unfortunately, the physical space typically used to teach engineering designis markedly different than that for any of the visual arts. Often a conventional classroom is used,or a laboratory space equipped for physics or

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Lane, Dallas Texas. Instruments, software, and laboratory spacewas provided by Texas Instruments. LabView® software was used for instrument control, dataacquisition, and calculation of linearity data. Linearity data is expressed as differentialnonlinearity (DNL) and integral nonlinearity (INL). Analysis of the data found theTHS5651IDW DAC to be monotonic since the magnitude of the DNL were less than ± 1 LSBand the INL were less than ± 0.5 LSB.I. IntroductionThe Electronics Engineering Technology program at the University of North Texas has a limitedbudget and facilities to provide research projects for graduate students. These limitations can beovercome by using services of Industrial Advisory Committees (IAC). These committees cancontribute

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Steven Schweitzer; John Klegka

. Page 6.723.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education-Tutorials: Does the software have any tutorials available? Built-in tutorials tend to be easier(and cheaper) for the students but may not be as comprehensive. Do the tutorials merely teachpoint-n-click methods or do they attempt to impart creation theory?-Computer Requirements: Does the software require “bleeding edge” technology? Will thecurrent lab machines be able to handle large assemblies? Ensure that a large assembly is run ontypical laboratory and student machines to check display performance. Many mid-level CADpackages require certain

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markets. Such grants offer faculty and their students theopportunity for a more traditional, extended research experience, with adequate time to reflect on alternativeapproaches, design of experiments, interpretation of data and the technical and societal significance of findings.While undergraduate faculty are at some disadvantage in proposing such research unless their laboratories areparticularly well-equipped by virtue of ongoing graduate research activity, faculty who are willing to pursueresearch on industrially-significant topics that "fall in the cracks" among higher-priority R&D goals can use thesesources to develop a program of specialized, frequently methodological research work as a means of steadysupport for undergraduate

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Alexandre Botari; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

in institutes and laboratories a little from distant of the really amount of the undergraduating, through this up-to-date version of internal and external seminars to the institution.I. IntroductionThe scientific-technological revolution that we live propitiated, among many other things, a newsense for the words “out of use”. Yes, the word sense “out of use” was always intimately linkedto the old, something that lost its usefulness in more appropriate substitutes' face and adapted tothe present context. However, the elapsed time so that it happened the out of date is notablyinferior to the one of some years ago. Page 6.88.1

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Tomoki Abe; Richard Thurlkill; Krishna Kurpad; Jay Porter; Anthony Vaughan; Joseph Morgan

/TET) students at TexasA&M University take a series of technical courses each of which includes an integratedlaboratory experience. After receiving feedback and recommendations from industries that hireEET/TET graduates, more emphasis is being placed on laboratories where teams of students arerequired to design, implement, test, and analyze a project. The experience is concluded with thedocumentation of the results of each project in both written and oral format. This approachbegins in selected sophomore-level courses and continues through the capstone senior designproject with less and less faculty intervention and control as the students progress in theircurriculum. One of the courses that utilize this approach is a junior-level Computer

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Nigel Middleton; Debra Lasich; Barbara Moskal

decentralized wastewater Page 6.857.5systems, including individual and cumulative effects, on local watershed supply wells and“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1392downstream receiving waters. The project will include field and laboratory work, modeling, andstakeholder involvement. Field and laboratory work will enhance the understanding of thetransport/fate of chemicals in soil-based

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a key- Page 6.202.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationring tool. Throughout the year student teams regularly interact with their graduate studentmentors on technical and team issues. This is facilitated by the layout of our new capstonedesign suite that includes a CNC equipped machine shop, assembly area, CAD laboratory,conference/study area, and graduate student offices. The team-focus and technical excellencepromoted by our program is illustrated in the video clip located athttp

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Brian Copes; Willard D. Bostwick; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

can then beimmediately challenged with expectations for higher-level competencies upon enrolling incollege rather than expecting them to endure repetitive coursework for skill sets already attained.This pilot articulation program has succeeded in establishing a viable and continual dynamic linkbetween Mooresville high school and the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology atIUPUI. This linkage is evidenced by several joint activities involving faculty and students fromboth institutions. These activities include IUPUI faculty and student visits to Mooresville HighSchool; School of Engineering and Technology laboratory tours and interactive demonstrationsfor Mooresville students; participation by IUPUI faculty and students in Mooresville’s

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Ingrid St. Omer

included to the free download site for theAcrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader was also distributed through the campus computingdivisions of each university. In general, the web site content was updated on a weekly basisunless otherwise indicated to the students.The secondary level consisted of the following: Syllabus, Assignments, Handouts, Related Info,and Lecture. The NAU site also contained an additional link to the required semiconductorfabrication laboratory course, EE 462. The Syllabus site contained links to PDF files withgeneral course information such as grading criteria, information about the web site, universitypolicies, and a tentative course calendar. The documents on this site were those handed out tostudents during the first week of

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Raymond Laoulache; Nixon Pendergrass; Emily Fowler

. Traditional chemistry had the usual lecture classes, recitationsand laboratories totaling seven hours per week.Students in the pilot could not drop any IMPULSE course except chemistry because ofthe integration of subjects. Chemistry was more loosely integrated so that most of itscontent was not necessary for the other courses. CreditsIMPULSE Freshman Courses Fall Spring Physics for Sci. & Engr. I, II 4 4 Principles of Modern Chem. I, II 3 3 Intro. to Applied Chem. II 0 1 Critical Writing and Reading I 3 0 Intro. to Applied Sci. & Engr. I, II 3 2 Calc. for Applied Sci. & Engr. I, II 4 4IMPULSE Total Credits

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Benjamin Flores; Walter Fisher; Pablo Arenaz; Connie Della-Piana

• Math Refersher • Design Project/Science Laboratory Experience • Factors-Course Catalog • Math Anxiety Workshop • Tim Management; Cost of Tuition • Lunch with Professors • Taking Personal Responsibility Workshop • Academic Center for Engineers & Scientists • College Open Hours • Programs in Science and Engineering SessionThe CircLES orientation contains two major activities in addition to the standardactivities designed to connect students to the university and the colleges. The

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

this topic are relevant to engineering educators today, such asthe observation that, to meet the demands of society, learning must be dynamic, lifelong, and relevant tolearner needs8. Learning by doing is fundamental to the educational process. Co-op programs,apprenticeships, internships, and practica have always been components of skill-oriented study programs.The laboratory has always been regarded as a necessary component of engineering education. Even so,the fundamental values of and benefits from experiential learning for engineering undergraduates have yetto be fully exploited.A number of taxonomies (classifications of educational objectives) exist which document the learningsequence followed by students in the learning process. Probably

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Michael Gorman; Edmund Russell III; Donald Brown; William Scherer; Kathryn Neeley

stresses effective group interaction, problemsolving, and synthesis. A capstone project features a high level of interaction with a client Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.520.1outside of a university setting, where an undergraduate thesis traditionally has tended to minimizeclient interaction and to take a university laboratory or library as its primary setting. A well-written thesis requires a clear focus, and so does a successful capstone project, but in the formercase the students

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Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationrelated to materials science and technology3.VII. Details of Materials Science InstructionStudents in the materials science class have many different topics and experiments to go throughin the one-year class. Historical developments and manufacturing processes are major parts ofeach unit. The Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, WA and Batelle Institute developed thiscurriculum initially in the late 1980’s under support from the U.S. Department of Energy. Areasdiscussed include metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.In the metals unit, students explore the many

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

Page 6.1003.1ETW. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. OrganizationHow is ETW organized? ETW is a one-week short course (Figure 1) providing seminars on thebasics of excellent teaching (using Lowman3 and Wankat and Oreovicz4), demonstrations ofeffective teaching, laboratory exercises requiring the participants to teach lessons followed bygroup assessment, and discussions on how to apply the presented techniques at differentuniversity settings (laboratory, large classrooms or auditoriums, seminar groups, etc.). Figure 1. Workshop Schedule

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form of ablueprint and multiple communiqués. (The blueprint was actually the first floor of theCivil and Environmental Engineering Laboratories that had been relabeled to represent afloor of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.) The communiqués were a series of lettersbetween the Preposterous Mission Force (PMF) and Ethan Hunter, the man selected byMr. Phelps. (A 300-pound instructor portrayed Ethan Hunter.) All of the pertinentinformation concerning the mission was in the text of the letters. The letters were liberallystamped with “TOP SECRET”.The mission was to retrieve the computer disk. As per the movie, the computer facility

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; ModelingPhysical Systems". The first case study is a required semester project; the second case study is alecture example. The third case study is also from a course taught to juniors and seniors inComputer Engineering and Computer Science at Elizabethtown College ("Digital Design andInterfacing"), and is taught as a lecture example with students given the opportunity to buildNeural Network hardware during the laboratory part of the course.II. Case study #1: Mobile robots in a constrained space1) Define problem: The following problem was assigned to three groups of four students in thecourse: "Simulation & Modeling Physical Systems" at Elizabethtown College: 1"Program a real-time controlled mobile robot to seek a light source in a four-foot by four

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. the smoke to lift In 1972, Bowerman invented They named the objects. Thus, they waffle soles by shaping company NIKE, after created the first hot-air rubber in the waffle iron in the Greek goddess of balloon. his kitchen. His soles gave Victory. running shoes optimal traction. http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/bowermanknight.html Presence “Encyclopedia of Inventions” p.545b. Laboratory materialThe eight strategies are experienced by individuals and teams. We view team building andteamwork as

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P. Kelly Joyner; Teresa Larkin-Hein

involved asking students to look beyondequations to investigate the relationship physics has to philosophy, history, literature, andWestern culture. Students were asked to think about what physics could teach them about theworld, about themselves, and about society as a whole. Although some assignments were givenwith the goal of satisfying the general goals of a typical college writing class, others werespecifically linked to physics and to science, in general.During the Fall 2000 semester, 2 lecture and 8 laboratory sections of Physics for the ModernWorld consisting of approximately 16 students in each were offered. Typical enrollmentsaverage about 120 students each semester in Physics for the Modern World. One of the 8laboratory sections was

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

increasingly focus on their core competencies. For complementary knowledge and know-how, they increasingly rely on interaction with a variety of actors (e.g. equipment and component suppliers, users, competitors and non- market research institutions such as universities or government laboratories). Inter-firm collaboration is by far the most important channel of knowledge sharing and exchange. Creating appropriate conditions for such collaboration thus poses a key policy challenge… Networking has in fact become an effective innovation technique in its own right. Empirical studies have confirmed that collaborating firms are more innovative than non-collaborating ones. Relationships are selective, durable and trust-based. Firms tend to

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of AIChE, Los Angeles, Chemical Engineering in the New Millenium, 399-405.3 Yokomoto, C.F., M. Rizkalla, C. O’Laughlin, M. El-Sharkawy, and N. Lamm, "Developing a MotivationalFreshman Course in Using the Principle of Attached Learning", Jour. Eng. Ed., 88:2:99-105.4 Balley, R. and C. Gelsler. (1991) “An Approach to Improving Communication Skills in a Laboratory Setting.”Journal of Chemical Education, 68:2:150-152.5 Lablanca, D. A. (1985) “Writing Across the Curriculum: A Heretical Perspective.” Journal of ChemicalEducation, 62:5:400-401.6 Aaron, D. K. (1996) “Writing Across the Curriculum: Putting Theory into Practice in Animal Science Courses.”Journal of Animal Science 74:11:2810-2827.7Hendricks, R. W. and E. C. Pappas. (1996) “Advanced

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Laboratories to Have a CAD/CAM Component: Implementation Issues,” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Vol. 60, No. 2, 1996, pp. 26-41.16 Padron, Elsa Napoles, et al., “An Introduction of Finite Element Method in the Engineering Teaching at the University of Camaguey,” Cuba, Vol. 06-13, 1996, pp. 1-5.17 Boronkay, Thomas G. and Janak Dave, “Introduction of Finite Element Methods in the Lower Division Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Milwaukee.18 Karadelis, J.N., “A Stimulating Approach to Teaching, Learning and Assessing Finite Element Methods: A Case Study,” European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1998, pp. 91- 103.19 Earley, Ronald E., “Use

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andmanagement. He is the author of a text book, ’The Use of Computers in Laboratory Automation’, which was commissionedby the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - an introduction' ,was commissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr S P Maj has organized, chaired and been invited to speakat many international conferences at the highest level. He has also served on many national and international committeesand was on the editorial board of two international journals concerned with the advancement of science and technology. AsDeputy Chairman and Treasurer of the Institute of Instrumentation and Control Australia (IICA) educational sub-committee he was responsible for successfully designing