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William Hutzel

Internet.Rather than collecting performance data on the roof, an entire classroom of students useindividual networked personal computers to remotely monitor fluid temperature, fluid flow, andsunlight intensity. Sunlight intensity is a particularly interesting measurement. It is recorded bya solar pyranometer that is mounted next to the solar collectors. This sensor records the totalamount of visible and near-visible (ultraviolet and near-infrared) radiation, which occurs inwavelengths between roughly 295 and 2800 nm. This single sensor cost $2000, by far the mostexpensive in the lab! In recent years, several large renovation projects have restored the aging collector boxes,replaced the mechanical equipment for circulating heat transfer fluids, and

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Session 3551 AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND FLOOD PREDICTION SYSTEM Dr. Bahador Ghahramani, P.E., CPE Engineering Management Department University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65409-0370 (USA) Tel: (573) 341-6057 Fax: (573) 341-6567 E-mail: ghahrama@umr.eduAbstractThe primary objective of this project was to develop an effective flood prediction system (FPS)to save the environment, properties, and lives. This system is capable of predicting downstreamflood using upstream data

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Ralph Staus; Henry Ansell

being stocked with large numbers of books relating to the courses that they aretaking, has not been particularly important to their studies for their technical courses. In most technical courses, the information that a student needs is provided during thelecture sessions, or it is available by reading the textbook. Technical courses typically have notrequired information gathering from the library’s resources. Our colleagues in the liberal artsoften require a term paper to be written, which requires library research, but that is uncommon inmath, physics, in engineering technology, and other technical courses. An exception occurs with capstone design project courses, in that the student will likelyhave to search for information

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Mary Cardenas

Page 6.1153.2school students. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Goals and Design ConsiderationsHarvey Mudd College’s curriculum committee states an Integrative Experience should involve: • consideration of one or more issues involving the relationship of science or technology with contemporary society • a substantial project and an oral presentation • self-reflection and critical analysis • interdisciplinary thinking involving technical fields, where appropriate • the possibility of engaging in service-oriented outreach activitiesThe addition of WebQuest design to E188

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

technology in a short time. China is developinga distance learning program to educate the disabled. However, for countries with budgetproblems, development of distance learning facilities can be expensive, time consuming, andneeds suitably trained people. The internet has opened a great resources of information for thewhole world and developing countries can share these resources available on the public domainor by some arrangement with the donor organizations. The United Nations can be an importantvehicle in facilitating their efforts, as in a number of projects like EDUNET 1 and others. Oncethese resources are accessed , it can be distributed inside the countries with the help of localtelecommunication facilities. Our work reviews the efforts of

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David Hergert

this:Select Project ComponentsSelect Microsoft Comm Control 6.0This will place a telephone as one of the component icons. Select the telephone and place it on theform. Now suppose a command button is drawn on the screen. The code below replicates theQuickBasic program shown above. It uses polling with no handshaking. The input is placed in theText1 text box. If event driven or handshaking is required, the VB Help provides some examplesof how to implement this.Textl.Text = “”MSComml.CommPort = 1‘9600 baud, no parity, 8 data, and 1 stop bit.MSComml.Settings = “600,n,7,2”‘Tell the control to read entire buffer when Input is used.buffer$=””MSComml.InBufferCount =0MSComml.OutBufferCount =0

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Gregory Kremer; Bhavin Mehta

supported projects to develop computer-assisted instructional modules for entry-level mechanical engineering courses, including “A Learning Superstructure for BESTDynamics Software”, “Interactive, Conceptually Based Multimedia Instruction for IntroductoryMechanics”, and “Computer-Based Learning Aids for Problem Solving in Mechanics ofMaterials”.5 Other notable examples of educational tools and interactivity on the world-wide-web include recent Premier Courseware of 2000 award winner “Project Links: Interactive Web-Based Modules For Teaching Engineering”,6 and PIVoT (The Physics Interactive Video Tutor).7Interactivity is one of the current buzzwords in multimedia and internet-based softwareapplications, and everyone seems to agree that interactivity

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

Specified Circuits Figure 6. Knowledge Map Representation of Sequential Circuit Synthesis and Analysis.5. Future WorkThis paper presents one piece of a work in progress. At this point in time, it is the mostcomplete component of the project, though it is realized that the future development of the othercomponents will require updates to this structure.Also under current development is an initial question database. The set of beta questions aresimple in nature. Future development will support a variety of question types and randomparameters for reuse of questions. The questions will also be mapped to the knowledge map byuse of the knowledge key.The biggest component remaining is the questioning system. This

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Howard Smolleck; Bhargava Jayanti

Session 1795 SOME COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING TOOLS FORUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAMS: DEVELOPMENT, USES, AND EXPERIENCE Howard A. Smolleck Bhargava Ram Jayanti Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Mexico State UniversityAbstractFor several years, the first author has directed a program involving the development ofgraphical, interactive software for use by students in Engineering and Technology programs.The pilot project, sponsored primarily by two foundations, was oriented toward two-year,community-college institutions as well as four

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Jerry Sellers; Douglas Bayley

help to provide expertise and extra funding. Challengesassociated with these courses and the associated project that the students are expected tocomplete are also discussed. How are student learning objectives and real worlddeadlines balanced? How is the problem of high student turn-around handled? Thepaper will discuss various solutions the Academy has evolved to address thesechallenges. The paper concludes with current program status and recent feedback fromstudents involved in the project.I. IntroductionThe capstone of the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of AstronauticsSmall Satellite curriculum is the FalconSAT Program. One goal of the program, housedwithin the Academy’s Small Satellite Research Center, is to give

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Rick Duley; S P Maj; D Veal

Education‘high-level supertypes’ and on and on and on. — Developers create software. Academics talk of‘software best practices’ and ‘personal software processes’ — Developers are too busy to listen.Academics scoff at ‘hackers’ — Developers scoff at ‘creeping buzzwordism’. Academics saythings like “The general practice of industrial software engineers are poor by almost anymeasure. Their projects are typically late and over costs, they cannot predict when they willfinish, and the final products frequently have many defects.”1 and then bewail comments like“He was unlikely to hire any of our graduates; he was not looking for ‘engineers’; he needed afew ‘ brilliant hackers’”2 Historically, ‘..ne’er the twain shall meet’. This paper is about theneed to

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Karen Davis; Jr., James Caffery; Jr., Fred Beyette

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.57.4 Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education 3. Line-Tracking Robot Lab: requires students to write a program that allows a pre-built robot (with optical sensors) to follow a black line that traces out a circuitous route on a white surface. In this lab small groups of students compete to produce the fastest time through the path. 4. Final Design Project: requires student teams to design, build and program a robot to locate a ball (held on a ball stand), transport the ball to a basket, and place the ball in the basket

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C. Richard Helps

EducationWithin the scope of an individual or team endeavor, all professionals should aspire to andachieve a vision of their own realm of activity. Furthermore, communication of that vision isessential for anyone pursuing a project involving more than one person. This is perhaps the mostimportant underlying reason for us to emphasize communication in ET. If professional ETs havea clear understanding of how a complex technical task needs to be completed, they need tounderstand how it fits into the overall vision of the enterprise and then be able to communicatetheir own vision of their own task to others so that it can become part of the overall effort. Forexample, an engineering technologist may be the only one who understands why a particular,very

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Gerald Heydt; George Karady; Daniel Tylavsky; Keith Holbert

for decision making and signal processing, (2) visualization and intelligentsystems for electrical power quality studies, (3) short term load forecasting using neuralnetworks and fuzzy logic, and (4) fast simulation through sparsity coding visualization. Thesemodules are being disseminated using the project initiated PowerZone website located athttp://ceaspub.eas.asu.edu/PowerZone/.1. IntroductionPower engineering education has gone through a tortuous history including a golden era of theimplementation of electrification (deemed as the top engineering feat of the twentieth century bythe National Academy of Engineering [1]), an era of computer applications and control, and mostrecently a period of restructuring / deregulation. Deregulation of

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four undergraduate students. The students weregiven a hands-on feeling for the nature of research and design through work on a project ina team and mentoring environment. The project encompasses concepts and principles fromvarious engineering disciplines (i.e. computer science, mechanical, electrical and civilengineering). The program encourages pre-college students to major in engineering at CityCollege and to consider research as a career track. During the application process Page 6.840.1candidates had to submit an application form, two letters of recommendation from a high “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Paul Chinowsky

universitiesfocusing on such an effort.Engineering Organizations Course OverviewThe Engineering Organizations course was the first of the two management courses introducedin the department. Originally limited to 15 graduate students in Spring 1997, the class has nowdoubled in size and is open to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students. The concept ofthe course was very clear, provide students with an understanding of the strategic managementissues related to running a design or construction organization. The course provided studentswith two primary avenues to study strategic management concepts, classroom cases and abusiness development project (See Figure 1

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Robert Avanzato

Source CodeIn the case where the source code is large, the file can be initially created on a PC anddownloaded onto a Palm device. In other environments, a portable keyboard that iscompatible with the Palm PDA can be used to enter software. Figure 4 shows threescreenshots of Palm memos containing Pocket C code. The PocketC product providessupport for graphics, sound, databases, and serial I/O. The package is low cost and isintuitive to use. For the robotics projects described above, students were able to writesoftware to interface with the Pontech controller board with little difficulty.Finally, it should be noted that this software development approach facilitates andencourages a collaborative and team approach to programming. Memo text

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David Bunnell; Bill Knowlton; Amy Moll

is to balance the needs of local industry whilestill offering an education in the fundamentals of materials science. All three of the MS&Efaculty members have multiple years of industrial experience in manufacturing or serviceoriented sectors as well as R&D labs. We are committed to making the course work convenientfor students working in industry as well as directly applicable to their current positions. We arestriving to do this for a very diverse community, from the mechanical engineer working forAlbertson’s to the R&D engineer working on the next generation of memory chips for Micron.By focusing on the fundamentals and bringing in case studies from different technologicalfields and with a focus on projects and research papers

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Nohemi Rubio; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras; Connie Della-Piana

and with an understanding of the context inwhich the program is implemented and its stage of development. Dependent on the purpose orpurposes of the evaluation, an evaluation or the systematic collection of information about anundergraduate research program should provide evidence to either (1) render judgment about theoverall merit or worth of the undergraduate research experience project; (2) improve the ways inwhich students engage in the research experience; or (3) generate knowledge about the essentialelements of an undergraduate research experience than enhances the effectiveness and impact ofthese types of experiences for undergraduates.As undergraduate research experience programs proliferate to include all students, the need todesign

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Scott D. Baldwin

sent live via the Internet. B. With the addition of a few pieces of hardware, an instructor can deliver a class live over the Internet from any location with an Internet connection. C. Office/contact hours can be expanded to the concept that the instructor does not have to physically be in his/her office. The contact can occur between student and instructor live over the Internet. D. Project groups can be set up to collaborate via the Internet. Project meetings, status reports, etc. can occur with students from several different remote sites. E. Application and computer sharing can occur via this technology. This means that a computer can

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Mansour Tahernezhadi; L. D. Allen

. However, for a person with a mobility issue, physically getting to thecontrol module to adjust the setting could be difficult or impossible. Moreover, the wireless design project can beconfigured to turn on and off other household appliances, enabling individuals with limited mobility to remotelycontrol multiple number of household appliances. The availability of the portable unit also provides the caretakerwith a higher degree of effectiveness and flexibility, which in turn leads to a reduced healthcare cost for the patient.II. Design DISCRIPTIONThe device displays ACTUAL TEMPERATURE with a green, 2-digit, 7-segment LED and SET TEMPERATUREwith a red, 2-digit, 7-segment LED. The actual temperature and the setting temperature have a range from 00

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Sutharin Pathomvanich; Fazil Najafi

language becomes a positiveimpact in building one’s career. In major projects around the world, multinational groups ofengineers work together. In the United States, foreign students will have opportunities to learnand practice English both inside and outside the classroom. This situation will force them toimprove their language skill rapidly. American students will also have an opportunity to learn andpractice foreign languages with international students outside classroom.Students who have the opportunity to work in a team project combining with students from severalcountries in their graduate courses will have a better understanding of the role of teamwork in theirfuture international work projects. For instance, students will face problems

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Joey Parker

mechanical engineering students to PLCs is described in thispaper. This module is an updated version of the material presented in an earlier paper 8.Examples of the lab setup, student exercises, and follow-on senior design projects are provided.A website is available that contains these items with additional supplemental materials 9. Keyaspects of the instrumentation course that contains this PLC module are described next.Course OrganizationThe topics covered in the first instrumentation course, ME 360 – Instrumentation and ControlComponents, are listed in Table 1. A detailed listing of course objectives can be found on the UAmechanical engineering department's website (www.me.ua.edu). This course has existed in thisform for the past three years. At

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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

fewer chances for programming errors when it is supported in hardware. The 16C774 supports two separate PWM channels that share the same frequency. 3. 12-bit A/D converters. The 16C774 contains 8 12-bit A/D converters. It was determined early in the project that in order to have a +/- 0.5 degree Celsius temperature measurement, that we needed to have a 12-bit converter to achieve the desired controller resolution. 4. Synchronous/Asynchronous communication support. Even though the project was intended enable portable applications, there will still be a need to communicate with the controller from a PC or laptop to monitor operation during the testing phase. 5. On-board watchdog circuitry

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Masud Salimian

further work in that area. The project involved the use of the machines, equipment andtools of the Advanced Engineering Design Center (AEDC) with involvement of the Industrial,Manufacturing & Information Engineering program’s graduate and undergraduate students atMorgan State University and the help of faculty and staff. From Black and Decker, polymerengineers and experts, mold designers and machine shop experts were involved.During the concept development meetings we decided that an actual part would be made fordistribution in an upcoming conference. The logo of an upcoming conference was considered anda portion of the logo consisting of an odometer type shape to be developed as a design for a keychain. The requirements for designing and

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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

. A significant part of Neural Network processing is reducing the input space to amanageable size. These algorithms utilize some of the same techniques that databases use (suchas hashing functions) to retrieve or store large amounts of data quickly. This project utilizes apopular DBMS to build a Neural Network application that resides inside the database. This willyield many benefits that weren’t previously attainable, e.g., the data and the Neural Network areboth located in the same physical location. There is no need to export the data from the database,manipulate it into an appropriate format, and then use a separate Neural Network application toprocess the data. Another benefit is that there is no need for database users to learn

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Thomas Harmon; Eva Baker; Gregory Chung

significant changes, particularly in the wayengineering schools are adopting problem-based instruction to meet the changing demands ofpractice. Increasingly, engineering schools are requiring students to work on team projects that areopen-ended with loosely specified requirements, produce professional-quality reports andpresentations, consider ethics and the impact of their field on society, and develop lifelonglearning practices. While there exist numerous implementations of courses adopting these methodsto purportedly improve student learning, measuring the impact of problem-based instructionremains challenging. The existing evidence generally suffers from methodological shortcomingssuch as reliance on students’ self-reported perceptions of

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Janet Sharp; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; Barbara M. Adams; Loren Zachary

Session 1526 Providing Meaningful Hands-on Experiences in Engineering Modeling the Process with 8-12 Educators Loren Zachary, Janet Sharp, Rebecca Sidler Kellogg, Barbara Adams Iowa State UniversityIntroductionDuring the second year of the National Science Foundation sponsored TechKnow project at IowaState University, the Engineering Mechanics for Teachers course has been modified to meet theneeds of in-service teaching professionals at sites across the state of Iowa. During the first year,the course was directed toward traditional undergraduate students in elementary education

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Josette Rice; Thad Welch

Operational amplifiers and instrumentation amplifiersIII Introduction to digital signal conditioningIV Digital-to-analog converters, analog-to-digital converters, & frequency based converters.V Introduction to the data acquisition processVI Sensors (such as Silver/Silver-Chloride electrodes used in biophysical measurements)V Course projects in real-time data acquisition. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.833.2 Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationEach two-hour laboratory includes the

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John Bridge

three or four—or smaller if labequipment and materials allow. Student response has been overwhelmingly positive on theimportance of the labs. I will discuss them later in their relation to the course sequence. Thetitles of the labs follow in Figure 3. Lab #1: Mechanical and Physical Properties (Block I) Lab #2: Eutectic Metallurgy (Block II) Lab #3: Strengthening Mechanisms (Block II/III) Lab #4: Welding (Block III) Lab #5: Charpy Fracture Toughness (Block IV) Lab #6: Composite Strength and Design (Block V) Figure 3. Laboratory ExercisesMaterials Design Project (MDP). The