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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

Chapter Contents -Objectives - Introduction - Text Headings Author Creates - Text - Margin Notes Chapter(s) - Cases - Vignettes - Summary

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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

considers that freshmen engineering is often a coursecommon to many or all engineering majors at an institution.While the first alternative is easier to administer, and offers some perks to the facultymember(s) assigned to the course, the second is becoming more common in light ofrecent developments in engineering education research and the new approach defined byABET’s EC 2000.At Boise State, we are in the midst of the transition between the two modes of coursedelivery, and this paper describes the process by which we assessed the needs of the classand administered it for a year along this new model.Needs Assessment: Faculty SurveyIn response to widespread and vocal disagreements regarding the current implementationof our introductory course, the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

financial analysis course(s) such as graduate level engineering economics.The study described in this paper targets improving understanding of the engineering economytopics valued by MEM students. A number of studies have examined the financial analysis toolsthat corporations employ [1,2]. But these studies did not track these tools into the engineering Page 7.640.1management work place at the operating manager (first level manager, second level manager, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand

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Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

Session 2354An Interdisciplinary Graduate Course in Technology Entrepreneurship Steven P. Nichols Associate Vice President for Research, and Director, Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise Norman Kaderlan Associate Director, IC 2 Institute John S. Butler Chair, Department of Management Mary Ann Rankin Dean, College of Natural Sciences The University of Texas

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

first-year students a chance to get advice andreassurance from juniors and seniors.The Cognitive Profile Inventory (CPI) determines a subset of the Myers-Briggs indices (N/S andT/F) and focuses on the most appropriate strategies for learning and studying for people of eachof the four resulting types. 4 The Self-Directed Search (SDS) uses a student’s preferences andtalents to find the three-letter Holland summary code associated with the careers where thestudent will most likely have success and interest.5 In Fall 2000, the CPI and SDS wereadministered in evening sessions.Classes do not formally meet for the rest of the week of Clemson’s Fall break and the beginningof Thanksgiving week. In addition to accommodating project work, these “days off

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

In some cases, the teaching techniques thatare most effective are dramatically different than the techniques that professors were exposed towhen they were students. Page 7.761.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright € 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCourse ContentIET 120 was developed as an entry-level course for freshmen and transfer students interested inengineering technology. The objectives were to introduce ET curriculum s and majors offered atCMU. An overview of the engineering world was presented with a

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

develop a proposal, write progress reports, and develop some type of final report, butall work is written solely for the instructor, as the student does not have a true "client" to whichthe report must be submitted. In the early 1980’s at Bradley, one English faculty memberattempted to address this problem by having all 20 students in one class work as a team to try tosolve the campus-parking problem. Since no problem solving methodology was imposed and nostudent wrote more than a small portion of the final report, the result was a poor effort atproblem solving, a poorly -written final report, and a minimal writing experience for the student.Bradley’s IMET Capstone Design Project course has attempted to address all of these issues byintegrating

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

example of such a trend is XML, a technology that emerged in the mid1990’s. This framework allows the exploration of technology fields closely related to the coursework. The detection of emerging trends in the course domain stimulates inquiry-based learningby providing an avenue of research into key developments in these related fields.Our initial research into methods for detecting incipient emerging trends is presented in thisarticle. For the OOSE course the students participated in a learning exercise involving emergingtrend detection. The students were split into two groups of roughly equal numbers for thisexercise. Both groups attempted an exercise that involved identification of three emerging trendsin the area of Design Patterns of Object

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Orlandella; Timothy Zeigler

with the teamcaptain(s) and joins the team in meetings and work sessions (including weekends).At SPSU, a team captain and co-captain are assigned by the faculty advisor. The teamcaptains gain experience in managing people, funds, materials, equipment, and time.Most of the work begins in January to meet the regional competition scheduled in April.Deadlines must be set (and met). Students quickly learn teamwork skills and themeaning of commitment. If something goes wrong (and it always does) the tendency todirect blame is strong. These situations provide excellent opportunities for students torecover and pull together as a team.Students learn to make decisions among alternative choices with no guarantee of success.For example, the 1998 SPSU

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

techniques, EXCEL Inc.USA. 5. Entwhistle, N.J. (1991) Cognitive style and learning in K. Marjoribanks(ed) The foundations of students’ Learning Pergamon, Oxford. 6. Bloom, B.S. (1956) Taxnomy of Educational Objectives Handbook 1 : Cognitive Domain, Longman, London. 7. Osborn, M., Setunge,S., Nag,D., McGowan, R. & Reid, M.(1999) “ Developing Teaching Practices to incorporate Problem Based Learning” 11 th Australasian Conference on Engineering Education, Adelaide, Australia 26-29 September 1999 MONIQUE OSBORN has been working in the Language and Learning Services Unit, Monash University assisting students with their studies for the last 5 years. She is currently with the Faculty of Education teaching

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Masakazu Obata; Leon Sanders; Keiichi Sato; Yuko Hoshino

. reduced energy costs9. conservation 30. references10. consistent 31. rehearse11. current study 32. remove12. define 33. requirements13. derivation(s) 34. statement14. detailed 35. successfully15. discuss(ed) 36. sufficient16. equation 37. summarize(d)17. equipment 38. survey18. evaluation 39. tabulation19. existing 40. theoretical20. favorable

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Balasubramanian Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

to theusual comments, the student errors were classified into the five categories listed in Table 1 andactually identified as such on work returned to the students.Table 1 Error categoriesSymbol Meaning / symptoms Probable cause/s Information lacking – inadequate Inadequate preparation, ignorance – a macro I knowledge defect Units are wrongly used – Confusion between traditional and SI units, U conversion errors or wrong choice plain inattention to units – but this could have of units significant effect on outcomes in industry Comprehension – answers don’t

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hartman; Louis Plebani

, Cascading Style Sheets, Client SideScripting, Web Servers and Server Side Processing, and Database.HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): A minimum of time was devoted to actually discussingHTML in class. There were two reasons for this. The first is that most students have somegeneral knowledge of HTML just by virtue of their daily interactions with the web. The secondreason is that there is a wealth of tutorials available on the web, which students could access.Students were told to work through a web tutorial that covered basic HTML and that a quiz onHTML basics would be given on a specified date. At the time of the class offering, the tutorial(s)at http://www.w3schools.com were used. During the time from assignment to the scheduled quiz,class time

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

& Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationProblem Analysis — allows students to explore and define the problem. Students often workcollaboratively here and engage in active discussions.Field Insights — a wide range of expert knowledge is available to the students. They can choosevideo, audio, or text explanations of subject matter presented by leading experts, or they cansearch for other experts on their own. A link to background information can be also includedhere.Resource Development — students are asked to research information needed to solve the case.Initial solution(s) is proposed at this point.Test Points — students learn to assess their own progress, knowledge, understanding and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan ElKishky

7.610.63. C. Fred, “Are Required Courses Meeting Industry Demand”, IEEE Potential, Vol. 20, no. 3, 2001. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education4. M. L. Crow, “Comparing alternatives-power systems or energy conversion: which path students choose and why”, IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, Vol. 2, 2001.5. S. K. Starret; M. M. Morcos,”Development of a power learning environment”, Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE '99, Volume: 1 , 1999.6. IEEE Power Engineering Society Committee Report, “Electric Power Engineering Education Resources 1985- 86”, IEEE Trans

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

students to explore and define the problem. Students often workcollaboratively here and engage in active discussions.Field Insights — a wide range of expert knowledge is available to the students. They can choosevideo, audio, or text explanations of subject matter presented by leading experts, or they cansearch for other experts on their own. A link to background information can be also included.Resource Development — students are asked to research information needed to solve the case.Initial solution(s) is proposed at this point.Test Points — students learn to assess their own progress, knowledge, understanding and/or theirlack of knowledge. The proposed solution is formalized at this point.Proposals — at this stage, the finalized solution is

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Wrate

were evaluated on the level of service they provided, i.e., outrage rates, power quality, Page 7.568.1and response to customer’s complaints. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationDeregulation can be traced to several causes. One of the primary causes was the rush toderegulate all industries that started in the 1970’s, in particular, in 1977 when then PresidentJimmy Carter named Alfred E. Kahn to head the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) 1. Kahn’s jobwas to abolish his own position, thereby

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Riesbeck; Joseph Walsh

o Specifying the Dialysis Mentor's Behavior: Rule-Based Linking o The Lack of Separate Student Modeling and Teacher Modeling Components o Socratic Dialogs and Rules o Handling of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Issues § ASK Systems § Overview of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) § Dialog Management and Button Theory· Validation o Usability Testing o Pilot Testing· Future Research Issues o Student-Computer Interaction and Interpretation Issues o Pedagogical Templates for Teachers' Authoring Tool(s) o Internet Accessibility o Conclusions

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engineering.For the example given below the Chemical Reaction Engineering Text is Elements ofChemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Ed., by H. S. Fogler, Prentice Hall PTR, EnglewoodCliffs, NJ (1999). The green engineering text is by Allen, David T and D. R Shonnard,Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, ISBN# 0-13-061908-6, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2001.Topic Reaction Engineering Text Green Engineering Source (Fogler 1999) Text SourceIn a reactor design project 2 pathways are Chapter 1: Mole Balances 8.2 Tier 1examined to produce cumene using Tier 1

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Boronkay; Janak Dave

, and Test Senior Design Projects, Janak Dave and ThomasG. Boronkay, IMECE 2001.BiographiesTHOMAS G. BORONKAYThomas G. Boronkay, PhD, PE is a Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati. He received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He has presented paper s at ASEEAnnual Conferences, ASME International Congress, and several international conferences and conductedCAD/CAM/CAE workshops nationally and internationally. He has also served in various capacities on the DEED,EDG and International Divisions’ executive committees.JANAK DAVEJanak Dave PhD, PE is a Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at the University ofCincinnati. He obtained his MS and PhD in

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Lent; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer; Linda Schmidt

Technology. 2. Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: W.H. Freeman. 3. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale,NJ: Erlbaum. 4. Fouad, N.A., & Smith, P.L. (1996). A test of a social cognitive model for middle schoolstudents: Math and science. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 43, 338-346. 5. Gainor, K.A., & Lent, R.W. (1998). Social cognitive expectations and racial identity attitudesin predicting the math choice intentions of Black college students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 45,403-413. 6. Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G. (1994). Toward a unifying social cognitive theory ofcareer and academic

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

7.732.6 Institute of Technology, May 10, 2000. Funded. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education2. Angelo, T. A., and K. P. Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, 2nd ed., Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1993.3. EduCue, Personal Response Systems, http://www.educue.com4. Kaplan, R. S., and D. P. Norton, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action , Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.5. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Evaluation Criteria 2000, Baltimore, MD, 1994. Available at http://www.abet.orgDORIS R

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

different personnel in the day-to-day research activities, including a number of post-graduate and under-graduate students.This is to be expected given that one of academia’s key aspirations regarding collaborativeventures is the provision of industrially relevant, “real world” research project s for studentsand the exposure of students to industry in preparation for their future careers. A recentreport by the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) 16 in the US has stated that, for thisreason, “graduate students can enhance or impede a collaboration, but they are almostalways used”. However, given that there is considerable evidence in the literature ofsignificant problems arising from fundamental differences between academia and industry, itseems

Conference Session

Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson

Constant = Kcalc = 3.0E+04 lbs/in ('K' is the slope of load vs. displacement) where Kcalc =48*Ic*Ew / L3 Experimental Determination of K: First, test the beam in 3-pt. bend. Now, Second, plot Load vs. Displacement. compare Page 7.869.3 Third, determine the slope of P/S: Kexp = lbs/in them! “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American

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Integrating Math and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Vanisko; John Scharf

mathematics program would play a key role insupporting the engineering program. This became more evident when ABET released its newEngineering Criteria 2000.Design of the Mathematics CurriculumAs we began our curriculum development project in the early 1990's, we adopted the followinggoals:1. To create an integrated and interdisciplinary curriculum that is applications oriented and makes extensive use of calculator, computer, and information technology.2. To make the curriculum appealing to students so that it fosters excitement for learning, enables students to apply mathematics, and develops skills for the workplace by promoting teamwork and oral and written presentations.In presenting mathematics as a unified topic, we strive to preserve the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

to talk to their classmates. 1A number of our faculty also mentioned Jigsaw as an effective way of having students divide upthe responsibility for learning new information. Teri Rhoads uses Jigsaw to introduce new topicsin both her graduate and undergraduate quality engineering courses. She explained that that “Iuse Jigsaw whenever I would like to cover multiple topics, usually from more recentpublications.” 1 After reading the article(s) on their assigned topics, students become the team’s“expert” in that topic and are responsible for teaching the other teammates what they havelearned.Both Richard Felder1 and Darwyn Linder 1 spoke highly using pre-designed methods asparticularly useful for faculty who are just beginning with A/CL. Karl

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

like to acknowledge thecontributions of Prof. Frank Cassara of Polytechnic University, Farmingdale, and his NSF-funded Faculty Enhancement Workshop on “Wireless Communications Laboratories”.References[1] Kramer, K., A., "Using MATLAB-based Laboratories to Demonstrate Wireless Communication System Principles", Proceedings 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2001.[2] Theodore S. Rappaport, Wireless communications: Principles and Practices, Prentice-Hall, Englewood, NJ, 1996[3] Company website for ViaSat (www.viasat.com)[4] Company website for Silicon Wave ( www.siliconwave.com)[5] Company website for Tektronix ( www.tek.com ).KATHLEEN A. KRAMER is an Associate Professor and the Program Director of Electrical

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

the students up to date on the events going on with the WiE program.Peer and Alumni Mentoring: The Peer Mentor program pairs a first year female engineeringstudent with a current student. This pairing gives the incoming student s the opportunity to askquestions throughout their first year at OSU and to meet other incoming students through thePeer Mentor activities. Each pair is also matched with an alumni mentor. 176 studentsparticipated in the 2001-2002 program along with 43 alumni mentors. Quarterly evaluations aregiven to evaluate the overall program and also the social events. Tracking of students’ GPA’sand enrollment will be done to see the impact of the mentoring program as compared to studentsthat did not participate in the mentoring

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Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Minnie McGee; Audeen Fentiman

Session and Counseling Program was implemented Winter Quarter 2001. It wasaimed at all minority engineering freshmen ( African American, Hispanic American, and NativeAmerican) who entered OSU Autumn Quarter 2000. The students who were invited toparticipate in the program were enrolled in math pre-calculus (150), the regular calculus series151, 152, 153 and 254, accelerated calculus (161), elementary analysis II (191), and discretemathematics (366). The expectation was that this program would enable the student s to improvetheir overall academic performance, especially in math and science courses, to develop self-confidence and to cultivate more supportive and caring relationships with an overall goal ofincreasing the retention rate of minority

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean Chin Ngo; Feng Chyuan Lai

, G. J., Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001.3. Çengel, Y. A. and Boles, M. A., Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 4th ed., WCB/McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002.4. Interactive Thermodynamics (IT), IntelliPro, version 2, 2000.5. Computer-Aided Thermodynamics Tables 2 (CATT2), IntelliPro, 2001.6. Engineering Equation Solver (EES), F-Chart Software (http://www.fchart.com), Middleton, WI, 2002.7. Ngo, C. C. and Lai, F. C., “Teaching Thermodynamics with the Aid of Web-Based Modules,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition (CD-ROM), 2001.8. Irvine, Jr., T. F. and Liley, R. E., Steam and Gas Tables with Computer Equations, Academic Press, Orlando, 1984.9. Chapra, S. C. and