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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

Engineering learn about issues ofprofessional practice by reading award-winning books about engineering written for thegeneral reader and then discussing them in structured on-line synchronous andasynchronous discussions. These books include: • The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 1. This book describes an actual engineering effort by a group of engineers at Data General during the late 1970’s to save the company after archrival Digital Equipment beat them to the market with a 32-bit minicomputer. Chapter-by-chapter notes provided by the instructor identify issues in the workplace for practicing engineers. The notes discuss people and events that relate to such issues as the inevitability and practicality of

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Stephen Horan

program to the competencies is one ofthe activities we conduct when the teachers are not involved with construction activities. Thismapping activity generally proceeds as follows:1. we step through each of the New Mexico competency areas, e.g. mathematics or science, and highlight the sup-topic areas in the 9-12 grade level that we believe we illustrate via some form of activity in during the program, e.g., “use manipulatives, calculators, computers, and other tools as appropriate in order to strengthen mathematical thinking” is fulfilled by the computer-based data analysis;2. we explicitly show the mapping between the program guide and activities and the competency to the participating teachers and

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

do not leave their universities with an understanding of CM, itsbenefits, and how such systems operate.The CM Overview Module developed in our project provides 1-2 weeks of undergraduatecollege-level coursework, and is organized around four topics as follows:• Importance of CM. This topic uses several examples from industry to illustrate the importance of CM and the results a firm can hope to achieve by implementing CM. A demonstration of the use of CM software to monitor progress of a request for change as it moves through a typical organization is also presented.• Need for CM. This topic includes a brief history of the development of CM and typical industry practices without CM that have resulted in high costs, wastage, etc

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Alan Sahakian

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

interfaces with and programs the complete TMS3206xxx family of DSPStarter Kits (DSKs). Its features include, talk-through (with full CODEC parameter control),oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer (both the traditional display and waterfalling spectrogram),notched filter, arbitrary waveform generation, DTMF generation (with repeating speed-dial),Karplus-Strong string algorithm, 5 band graphic equalizer, audio effects, guitar synthesizer, anda DSK confidence test. The authors freely distribute this software for educational, non-profituse.1 IntroductionThere is a worldwide need for digital signal processing (DSP) literate engineers that is not beingcompletely satisfied. Despite our best efforts to offer both innovative electrical engineering (EE)and

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Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

to get consistent mechanical properties. The presentexperiment aims to expose undergraduate mechanical engineering students to the manufacturingand related technologies of non-traditional polymeric products. The experiment is conductedover three lab meetings – two devoted to fabrication and one to the testing of tensile coupons cutout of the panels. Figure 1 shows a typical VARIM setup and Figure 2 shows a schematic of thisprocess. Page 6.659.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Vacuum

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Tony Rogers; David Miller; Bruce Barna

simulation throughout the curriculum so that when startingsenior design, they have a good understanding of the benefits, limitations, and generalfunctionality of the process simulator. In practice, most students arrive in their senior designclasses without knowing how to use a simulator to help solve open-ended problems. In general,their experience has been with small, well-defined problems. To help alleviate this problem, ashort-term design project has been developed to teach the basics of process simulation within thecontext of analyzing an existing plant and suggesting process improvements. Specific goals ofthis project include (1) learn how to simulate a wide variety of unit operations, (2) learn benefitsand limitations of different

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Joey Parker

Session 2366 Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers in a Mechanical Engineering Instrumentation Course Joey K. Parker The University of AlabamaIntroduction and BackgroundMany mechanical engineering curricula include both instrumentation and controls courses. Theinstrumentation courses typically focus on transducers and experimental data collection, whilethe controls courses are often theoretical. The traditional linkage between instrumentation andcontrol, which is still recognized and practiced in industry 1, is often overlooked in these

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Lorcan Folan; Gunter Georgi

CourseEG1004 consists of lectures (1 hr/wk), laboratory work (3 hrs/wk), and recitations (2hrs/wk) for an academic semester. Activities and examples from a variety of engineeringdisciplines are presented and a selection of professional tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MSPowerPoint, MS Project, AutoCAD, LabView) are introduced. Students are exposed toteam building activities and must make presentations (both written and oral), as anindividual and as a member of a team. Some laboratory work involves designcompetitions and the students must select one of two semester-long design projects thatrequire teamwork and develop project management skills. Page 6.661.1The class is

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Kathryn Jablokow

tends to look ahead topotential long-term gains4. Albert Einstein is an excellent example of a creative designer with aninnovative cognitive style. Einstein developed many of his revolutionary theories in highlyintuitive ways, leaving the hard proof for more adaptive scientists who followed him.The course syllabus, organized around the two themes discussed above, is shown in Figure 1.The assigned chapters refer to the course text, Invention by Design (H. Petroski)7, which supportsthe first theme very well. Supplemental material on intellectual property and the KAI ispresented through separate readings and handouts6. Please note that Penn State Great Valleyoperates on a 14-week schedule, and each class meeting indicated is a full 3 hours in

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Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

cornerstone of engineering and is a common subject ofengineering education research [1]. How well do chemical engineering seniors, on thethreshold of their professional careers, “know” this key concept? How can engineeringeducation tell if students misunderstand the concept? These are the questions tackled bythis study.A basic premise of our work is that the concept “design” cannot be viewed in isolation.Research in cognitive psychology has well established that people learn by creating anetwork of meanings among concepts [2]. For example, a person who thinks of the word“dog,” might view that term in connection with terms relating to other domesticatedanimals, with memories about the family dog, with certain knowledge about the behaviorof dogs. These

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Frances Johnson; David Hutto; Carlos Sun; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

ERM division An Investigation into Interdisciplinary Team Teaching in Writing and Engineering: A Multi-Year Study Frances S. Johnson1, David Hutto1, Kevin Dahm2, Anthony J. Marchese2, Carlos Sun2, Eric Constans2, Kathryn Hollar2, and Paris von Lockette2 1. College of Communication, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 2. College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New JerseyAbstractThe Sophomore Engineering Clinic I is the third course in an 8-semestermultidisciplinary engineering practice and design sequence taken by all engineeringstudents at Rowan University. This course is taught jointly by a team of

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

). Many of the design textbooks areincluding simulation exercises specifically prepared for a particular simulator. For examplethe text by Seider, Seader and Lewin (1999)1 has examples of ASPEN Plus and HYSYS. Inaddition optimization problems in GAMS2 are given as well as dynamic simulation exercisesin DYNAPLUS3 and HYSYS. Professor Lewin is preparing a new version of the courseware,contained in the Seider, Seader and Lewin text, on a CD-ROM giving tutorials on the use ofHYSYS throughout the curriculum.4 Page 6.664.1In this paper, we analyze how effective is to include process simulation in the chemicalengineering curriculum, vertical integration of

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Bina Ramamurthy; Pratibha Gopalam; Alexander N. Cartwright

for improving teaching stylesto match the vast spectrum of learning styles [1,2]. R. M. Felder and L. K. Silverman, in theirpaper “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education” [1], provide an excellentdiscussion of learning and teaching styles. Felder clearly describes how specific teaching stylescan be adopted to address various learning styles found among students [2]. These variations inlearning are classified as 32 different possible learning styles. For clarity, we have repeated thesummary table from pg. 675 of Felder’s paper [1] in Table 1. It is important to realize that peopledo not neatly fall into any particular learning style but that there is a continuum of learning

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Umid Nejib

EducationJ.S.S. believes in the tradition of Gurukula (home of the teacher) where students have easy andfrequent access to their teachers to be engaged in dialogues in the advancement of knowledge and toreceive guidance in spiritual and philosophical matters. The teacher-scholar (or guru) is thus atrusted counselor and adviser-mentor. This philosophy of education meshes well with theeducational objectives of the professional programs at Wilkes University where the craftsman-apprentice relationship describes the interaction between the student and the faculty member. One ofthe foundations of the Wilkes mission, The Marks of an Educated Man, encourages internationalacademic cooperation and cultural exchanges 1. The University has provided the

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James Masi

KEY EXPERIMENTS FROM THE 2000 NATIONAL EDUCATORS WORKSHOPIn this paper we describe 6 of the 8 experiments presented at the 2000 national educators workshop which will bepresented at the ASEE ConferenceThese papers are:1) Experiments in Liquid Crystals: Different States and Devices by James V. Masi, Northeast Center for Telecommunications Technologies, Springfield, MA 011052) Lab Manual & Resources for Materials Science, Engineering and Technology on CD-ROM by James A. Jacobs & Alfred E. McKenney, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 235043) Dielectric Behavior of Trichloroethane and Chlorobenzene as a Function of Temperature at 10.1 GHz by J. N. Dahiya Southeast Missouri State University and J.A

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Taggart Smith

Session 3642 Knowledge Management and Core Competencies: Process Improvement Potential? Taggart Smith Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn the 1970s, Michael Porter developed frameworks for business strategy called force analysiswhich helped managers to see external opportunities and competitive threats. Dubbed the“environmental school,” this strategy approach dominated management thinking at that time.1 Acriticism of this ends—ways—means approach to strategic planning questioned whetherdeciding on a strategy before deciding on the

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Narayanan Komerath

. IntroductionFigure 1 uses the Knowledge Pyramid1 to articulate the vision of a major US corporation on theevolving role of engineers. To develop the products of the future technological marketplace,engineers must move ever higher on this pyramid. Along with curricular efforts to integrateknowledge, the university environment must seek ways by which students can gain experience of bringing multi-faceted projects to successful completion under realistic constraints of the professional workplace. Figure 1: The evolving “Knowledge Worker”. Industry views a progression of the knowledge level of engineers from the

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Vishnu Lakdawala; Oscar Gonzalez; James Leathrum Jr.; Stephen Zahorian

allow a comprehensiveassessment at each level.1. IntroductionOver the past several years, considerable effort has been devoted to research in the area oftechnology-enhanced education. Progress has been made, addressing a variety of educationalneeds, ranging from supplements to existing “traditional” courses, to complete on-line courses, Page 6.669.1to complete on-line programs. Despite all this effort, hype, and even product development, most Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationof the courseware

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assignal conditioning and computer interfacing. This paper discusses the different types ofsensors and the experiments which were developed to study them.1. IntroductionThe Engineering Physics (EP) program at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville began in theFall of 1996. The EP program was born out of a traditional physics program. Little of thephysics curriculum was completely removed in this transformation, although a small numberof credits were taken from existing upper level physics courses and replaced with novel EPcourses. Three such courses were developed, the engineering physics laboratory (formallyadvanced physics laboratory), sensors laboratory (formally two credits of advanced modernphysics), and senior design (a new capstone

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Gerard Foster

such as “smart” displays. • To require students to work on projects that involve memory devices and schemes for addressing and selecting memory chips. • To work on hardware that is applicable to microcomputer architecture.The following four projects are presented in order of their occurrence in our laboratories. Eachproject is independent of the others. If you wish, you may skip over the first project or two to getto one with more interest to you.Project #1: Stepper motor feedback controlThe stepper motor project involves developing a circuit that will cause the shaft of a steppermotor to turn to a position that is designated by a binary number that a user enters into a switchbank. The design is initiated by thinking of

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James Garner; David Metz; Willie Ofosu

Session 1426 Laboratory Exercise on Demodulation Of PAM signal Willie Ofosu - Penn State Wilkes-Barre James Garner, David Metz - Penn State AltoonaAbstractPulse amplitude modulation (PAM) is used extensively in telecommunications as anintermediate step of other techniques such as phase shift keying (PSK), quadratureamplitude modulation (QAM) and pulse code modulation (PCM)1. PAM however is anamplitude modulated (AM) form of a pulse carrier2, and hence has all the advantages anddisadvantages of the purely analog AM, a major disadvantage being noise. PAM can

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Jeffrey Franzone

oncurrent protection.I. IntroductionThe linear series voltage regulator lab experiment is divided into the following major sections: 1. BACKGROUND 2. OBJECTIVES 3. EQUIPMENT 4. PROCEDURE 5. ANALYSIS QUESTIONS 6. REFERENCESThis paper will briefly examine each of these sections providing relevant examples from theactual laboratory experiment. The complete experiment is provided at the end of this paper.Because the experiment relies heavily on solid state theory and extensive analysis, it isrecommended that students should have completed at least one semester of solid state electronicsand preferably some limited experience with PSpice for Windows to be successful with

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Zbigniew Prusak

dynamics as well as evaluation ofaccomplishment of objectives and setting of goals for possible further improvements. Some of thebiggest advantages of this experiment are very low cost, portability, ease of reproducing in variousenvironments and flexibility in devising objectives appropriate to analytical skill level of thestudents.1. IntroductionDesign of a manufacturing process, a business process or a tool to allow carrying out a givenprocess, requires several distinct steps that entail technical as well as non-technical knowledge.The design process usually involves several iterations before the final results are achieved. Theiterations involve various engineering and/or business reviews, optimization and fine tuning.These steps are clearly

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Stanislaw Legowski

this course. Lists oflaboratory experiments and a set of instruments on every bench are included. Examples oflaboratory tasks are also presented.1. IntroductionAs a result of many years of designing analog and digital electronic systems as well as teaching anumber of courses at electronics and electrical engineering departments I have a firm opinionabout the breadth and depth of teaching electronics at the undergraduate level that is necessaryfor a student to be competitive in today’s job market. Textbooks by Jaeger [1] and Sedra andSmith [2] are widely used for required electronic courses. These two textbooks are quitedifferent in their coverage of the fundamentals of electronics. However, no matter whichtextbook would be chosen and what set

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Paul Eckerman; Robert Hendricks

accompanying industrial engineering courses insemiconductor manufacturing engineering. Students in these classes will have the opportunity toanalyze real-world data from a facility that they have worked in or may easily visit and observe.I. IntroductionVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, under the auspices of the VirginiaMicroelectronics Consortium (VMEC), the Bradley Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, and the Materials Science and Engineering Department, has developed an 1,800 ft 2Class 10,000 cleanroom for teaching the elements of the microchip fabrication process to amultidisciplinary cohort of students from all areas of engineering, science, and even thehumanities. 1 The estimated throughput is approximately 500

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and theinstructor’s viewpoints.Remote Operation of Laboratory ExperimentsVarious experiments have been remotely at UTC since 1995. These are accessible on the Web athttp://chem.engr.utc.edu. The scheme for this is shown in Figure 1. In most of the systems, the remote students user can access the experimental system with a conventional web browser. The Web site has "forms" that ask for parameters for the experiment to be run. When the user clicks on the "Run

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Val Girolamo; Seung Kim

, the gate location and size, mold temperature, and proper venting are important in thetensile strength of molded plastic parts.With the complexity of part geometry, the identification of weld line should be critical to preventa failure of plastic parts in service. In design process, the use of computer software is essential toprovide a relatively accurate analysis in mold filling. Thus, possible gating and runner scenarioscan be consulted to predict the desired properties of the plastic parts.3. Experimental Procedurea. Materials:Tensile bars are made from a commercial grade polypropylene (PP) in accordance with ASTMD5939. Processing parameters in injection molding are also controlled during molding (Table 1).Table 1: Processing Parameters in

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Luiz DaSilva

Page 6.674.1of students per location is shown in Figure 1. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBoth synchronous and asynchronous modes of delivery were used for the lectures: two-wayvideo linked nine classrooms across the state in real-time; streaming video was available, in realtime, on the web (and archived to serve as reference material); lectures were videotaped, withtapes available at the libraries at the two primary locations.Collaboration among geographically distributed coworkers is increasingly common in industry,and it requires particular skills: communication at a distance, without

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

received a grant from the NSF under the GK-12 Teaching Fellows program to placeMichigan Tech graduate students majoring in Science, Math or Engineering in local school dis-tricts. These graduate students assist teachers in the development of K-12 mathematics and sci-ence courses and programs that more closely align with what is recommended by state andnational standards. Finally, in the spring of 2000 the College of Engineering received a significantgrant from the NSF Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP) with three majorthrust areas focused on bringing engineering applications into the pre-college classroom. Thispaper outlines the major activities from each of these grants as well as initial assessment results.Initiative 1: An