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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

. As the foundation for new curricula, A&Mdeveloped LCs. At A&M, a LC is a group of students, faculty and industry that have commoninterests and work as partners to improve the engineering educational experience. LCs valuediversity, are accessible to all interested individuals, and bring real world situations into theengineering classroom. The key components of A&M engineering LCs at are: (1) clustering ofstudents in common courses; (2) teaming; (3) active/coopera tive learning; (4) industryinvolvement; (5) technology-enhanced classrooms; (6) peer teachers; (7) curriculum integration;(8) faculty team teaching; and (9) assessment and evaluation. This presentation will use bothquantitative and qualitative assessment methods to try

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Franzone

Document 2002-31 MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 6.0 IDE TUTORIAL Creating Win32 Console-Mode Applications Jeffrey S. Franzone, Assistant Professor Engineering Technology Department University of MemphisAbstractMicrosoft Visual C++ is a commonly used programming language and application environmentin many computer science and computer engineering technology programs. Visual C++ can beused to teach both C and C++ and it boasts a highly powerful, but easy to use, developmentenvironment. One of the strengths of the Visual C++ product is

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Underwood

teaching institutions may lack the equipment,techniques and experienced personnel employed by a larger research entity. The SummerFellowship Program (SFP) provides the opportunity to form a type of temporary partnership.Under management of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) annually offers the SFP to full-time engineeringand science educators in the United States, as an opportunity to participate in NASA’s currentresearch efforts.1 Over the years, both NASA and participating faculty have benefitted from theSFP by realizing some of NASA’s primary objectives for the program, such as: ... to increase the quality and quantity of research collaborations between NASA and

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

impact on the culture of the School.While cause and effect are always difficult to ascertain in these conditions, there is littledoubt that by making the ratings public, the process increased the awareness of teaching andcourse quality for both students and faculty. Today, Oracle’s public rating system is an integral Page 7.1305.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 2557part of a student’s decision

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

are the topic of this report satisfy a portion of this need and insure that thevarious advisors at least consider the same course objectives in arriving at a grade. Grades areobtained for each deliverable required from the students, the Proposal, Oral Presentation andFinal Report.Assessment FormsFollowing the 1996-97 academic year, several new assessment instruments were developed forthe freshman design component of Drexel’s Engineering Design and Laboratory courses (ED&LI, II & III) and for the design component of the humanities courses, HUM107 and HUM108. The Page 7.446.1details of how Drexel’s Freshman Design Program is

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State Univ. His industrial experienceincludes General Dynamics Corp, J.I Case Co, Sandia Labs, NASA/Langley

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New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

initiate majorrenovations of energy education or get new initiatives off the ground. Some schools stillmaintain energy titled specializations and energy related programs or groups, however, manyinstitutions, especially smaller ones, do not currently have an organized energy program. Thispaper will present how one institution is overcoming the obstacles and what they have learnedalong the way.TCNJ Energy Effort The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a small, primarily undergraduate, public institution inEwing, NJ. Having started as a teachers college in 1855 there continues to be a strong e mphasison teaching and student involvement. One of the seven schools on campus is the School ofEngineering which currently offers ABET accredited degrees in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Bernhardt; Paul Imhoff; Michael Pearlman; Diane Kukich; Darren O'Neill; Michael Chajes

. Since the students’ technicalknowledge is limited at this early stage, the assignments focus on societal aspects ofengineering—for example, cultural, aesthetic, and historical issues associated with the structuresbeing discussed.Formerly slotted for the fourth year, English 410, Technical Writing, is now recommended forsecond-year students, as it is most effective when delivered as a prerequisite to the capstonefourth-year engineering course. This enables writing aspects to build more cohesively andallows students to begin their senior-design writing projects at a higher level of communicativecompetency. In addition, both the civil and environmental engineering curricula require studentsto complete a materials laboratory course during the

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Meyers; Donald Kirk

disciplinarynature of “technological literacy” has prompted a College of Education - Collegeof Engineering collaboration at San José State University.A team of six faculty members from the Colleges of Education and Engineering,including the deans of these colleges, is designing a course in technologicalliteracy for pre-service K-6 teachers. The course, which features hands-onlaboratory experiences, emphasizes how common, technologically-based systems,processes and products work and how they are designed.The major learning goals of this innovative course are for students in the course,who are pre-service teaching majors, to demonstrate: 1. Knowledge of the K-12 standards related to technology 2. Understanding of the processes involved in the

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Orwat; Mark Evans; Joseph Hanus

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Cotton, Kathleen and Wikelund, Karen Reed, “Educational Time Factors”, Close-Up #8, Research You Can Use, School Improvement Research Series (SIRS), Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2001, http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu8.html.2. Anderson, L. "Student Involvement in Learning and School Achievement." CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 26 (1975): 53-62.3. Anderson, L. "Policy Implications of Research on School Time." THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR 40 (1983): 25-28.4. Borg, W.R. "Time and School Learning." In TIME TO LEARN, edited by C. Denham and A. Lieberman

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

, you as the engineeringfaculty member are the “customer.” In the current climate of engineering education, many of usare accustomed to identifying the student or industry as the customers we serve. In the case ofwriting assignment design, however, the faculty member is initially the customer because yourneeds as an instructor—to teach particular principles, assist students in achieving certain learningoutcomes—must be the starting point. Without such consideration, you may find yourself at theend of the process complaining, “But that isn’t the writing assignment I wanted!”In order to determine the appropriate target for your design work, complete Checklist 1: CHECKLIST 1 · List the topics

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

Session 2793 Utilization of MATLAB in Structural Analysis Shahnam Navaee, Nirmal K. Das Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach to analyzing structures using MATLAB software is discussed.The procedure is to be implemented in teaching a structural analysis course offered in the CivilEngineering Technology Program at Georgia Southern University in the fall semester of 2002. Aseries of carefully selected set of problems are designed to familiarize the students to theMATLAB programming tools needed to analyze statically determinate as

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New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oguz Soysal

been implemented in FSU since1998. The same group of 16 – 20 freshman students takes typically three coordinatedcourses all together, participate in various joint curricular or extracurricular activities, andsubmit journals about their experiences to three instructors teaching the learningcommunity courses. In Fall 2001, 18 students were enrolled in the engineering learningcommunity. The coordination between ENES 100 and PHYS 261 improves theproductivity by providing cross examples and better understanding of the relationshipbetween physics concepts and engineering design. ENES 100 and ORIE 100 complementeach other in various professional issues such as characteristics of good and bad designs,teamwork, technical communication, research tools

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ward; Jonathon Smalley

Session 1453 Introduction of Design into a Freshmen Fundamentals of Engineering Course Dr. Jonathan Smalley, P.E., Dr. Robert Ward, P.E. Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractA Fundamentals of Engineering course for all freshmen in the College of Engineering wasdeveloped in 1995. This course has evolved over its 6-year life into a 3 credit hour course taughtduring the fall quarter of an engineering student’s initial year. The course combines lectureformat and computer laboratory work using MS Word and Excel. The focus is on engineeringanalysis during the

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Roger Mayne

using Microsoft’sVisual C++. The VC++ programming environment has proven to be very satisfactory. Students whohave very little computer science background are able to adapt to C++ object-orientedprogramming and to the Application Wizard of VC++. They are able to do their programming inour department PC laboratories, they can take their work home easily using their own computers,and the programs that they produce look very much like the commercial programs they useroutinely. At many points in the course there is the common reaction: “so this is the way it’sdone”. The course develops specific programming and theoretical skills in computer graphicswhich transfer to any computing environment. But, by exposing students to PC

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

-AIR: A NASA-UMES Collaborative Experiential Learning Project”, Proceedings of 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2001, Albuquerque, NM. CD-ROM.4. Felder, R.M. and Silverman, L.K., “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education”, Engineering Education, 78(7), pp. 674-681, April 1988.5. Kolb, D.A., “Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall, 1984.6. Svincki, M.D., and Dixon, N.M., “The Kolb Model modified for Classroom Activities”, College Teaching, Vo l.35.(4) , 1987.7. Peterson, G.D., " Engineering Criteria 2000: A Bold New Change Agent, ASEE PRISM, September 1997.8. FAA regulations PART 101 –Moored Balloons, Kites, Unmanned Rockets and

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Keith B. Lodge

The programming of a microcontroller as an integral part of process control for undergraduate chemical engineersKeith B. Lodge*Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, the University of Minnesota Duluth,1303 Ordean Court, Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3025AbstractNew funding in our College of Science and Engineering has become available for the enhancement ofcourses with computer technology. I took this opportunity to try an experiment in the teaching of processcontrol to chemical engineers. Inexpensive and reliable microcontrollers are now commonplace. I amusing the Basic Stamp, Parallax Inc., with the intention of getting the students to build and tune their ownliquid-level loops. This experiment was

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

Session 2630 Comparing Design Team Self-Reports with Actual Performance: Cross-Validating Assessment Instruments Robin Adams1, Pimpida Punnakanta 1, Cynthia J. Atman 1,2, Craig D. Lewis 1 Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching 2 Department of Industrial Engineering University of WashingtonAssessing student learning of the engineering design process is challenging. Students’ ability to answer testquestions about the design process or record

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Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

with the REU project team, but with other graduate students, staff,and faculty members working in the structural engineering laboratories. The bi-weekly reportswere promptly critiqued by the Project Director and returned. A suggested outline and detailedinstruction for preparing the final report was given to the students at the end of the third week ofthe project. Using the bi-weekly reports and this outline, the students prepared the final projectTechnical Report. Thus, the whole REU Site provided an insight to the participants on the issues andconcerns with design, manufacture, testing and data synthesis of a range of different structuralengineering research projects. The work accomplished by the participants in each of theseprojects

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Margaret Bailey; Ozer Arnas

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education and photovoltaic devices. The completeTable 2. Summary of ME 472 Topics listing on all 40 lessons presented in ME 472Subject Lessons is listed as Table 3.Advanced Thermodynamic Analysis 7Gas and Steam Power Cycles 5 Over the course of the semester, two guestCombustion 3 speakers from different Army ResearchPower Cycle Components 1 Laboratories visited the class to offer theirVCRC 1 viewpoints and present their currentAbsorption Refrigeration 2 research

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Program Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

student objectives or assessment measures,laboratory improvements or advances, grants or other evidence of continuous improvement. Ifno form is turned in, it is assumed the faculty member has coasted in that course that semester.The course update forms produced by an individual are attached to his or her annual report.3. Course Model At the beginning of the semester each faculty member prepares a coursemodel for at least one of their courses that shows program educational objectives, studentlearning objectives in support, assessment measures to evaluate student outcomes andanalysis/further actions. These are also attached to his or her annual report.ConclusionTC2K will require finding a recipe that works for your program. TC2K will drive

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Dahleh

covered which may differfrom the department syllabus, any laboratory projects, design experience, oral or writtencommunication projects and any social or ethical issues discussed in the course. The curriculumcommittee, to determine if the department syllabus needs to be changed, reviews the coursereports annually.Senior Exit surveyAll graduating seniors are asked to fill out a survey just before graduation in the spring. Thissurvey is quite detailed consisting of 23 questions many with multiple parts. Several questionsspecifically ask the students to give an opinion about how well the department met the MEprogram outcomes. The rest of the questions were included to correspond to questions o n theone-year alumni survey and will be used for

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Goldberg

specific registers and counters of the8051 microcontroller. Note these tasks are essential in microcontroller applications, and eachmicrocontroller has unique hardware and software to efficiently perform them.The assembly language code and hardware involved in these three tasks are presented in classlecture. (Figure 1 shows the assembly language code for the three tasks. Note the code may notbe complete). The students study the 8051 instructions that are employed in the three tasks.Students follow up in laboratory by entering the code with a text editor and assembling anddownloading the code using the Rigel RJ 31P 8051 board and READS51 software developmentenvironment. They construct a hardware interface board consisting of drivers and LEDs

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Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe

training with simulators in OECD countries,” 1997 IEEE 6 th Conference on Human Factors and Power Plants, IEEE, 1997.10. Bartak, J., Chaumes, P., Gissinger, S., Houard J., and Van Houte, U., “Operator Training Tools for the Competitive Market,” Computer Applications in Power, IEEE, Vol. 13, 2000.11. Corcuera, P., Garces, M., and Ryan, J., “A Training Simulator with Soft Panels,” Western Multiconference 2000, Society for Computer Simulation, 2000.12. Doster, J., “Simulation as a Tool for Teaching Nuclear Reactor Systems,” ANS Transactions, Vol. 81, 1999.13. Ma, Y. and Edwards, R., “Undergraduate Simulator Design Course,” ANS Transactions, Vol. 80,1999.14. Kitamura, M., Ohi, T., Yamamoto, T., and Akagi, K., “Development of High

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

Analysis II.These are foundation courses in the mechanical engineering curriculum and strong preparation inthese courses is essential for student success in the upper level courses. To improve studentsuccess, one hour of mandatory recitation has been added to the three courses listed above.Again the enrollment for each recitation section is limited to 25 students and the recitation hoursare used to improve students’ problem solving skills.EGR 1303 – Exploring the Engineering Profession: This new course is required in allengineering degree programs at UTSA. The course format is a three-hour lecture, one-hourlaboratory/recitation. The laboratory/recitation hour is limited to a small enrollment to allowstudent/instructor interaction in problem

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

laboratory and designportions of the program provide the students with a balanced perspective on the theory andpractice of the engineering profession1.The design sequence includes a first year experience consisting of two three-hour courses, eachof which has a small-group design project. These courses also provide an introduction toengineering, to CAD and to a variety of computational tools. The second year has two one-hourdesign courses that include small-group projects and provide introductions to engineeringeconomics and statitistical methods. The projects (one being a mini-capstone project) in the firsttwo years have themes that are principally mechanical in nature. In the third year there are alsotwo one-hour courses: one deals with design from

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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anil Saigal; Vincent Manno

alumni and industrial advisors.The role of IAC was then expanded to include advising the department across all programs,participating in our ABET EC2000 continuous improvement process, and helping organize andexecute other outreach activities. Current members of IAC are from government and small andlarge industries such as the US Army Research Laboratory, GE Aircraft Engines, LucentTechnologies, Corning-Lasertron and Cambridge Applied Systems. These outreach activities define the third and fourth areas of university-industrycollaboration - co-organizing our annual Thermal Manufacturing Workshop and sponsorship ofdesign projects. As part of the outreach activities and in order to involve the local engineeringcommunities, Tufts University

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kilduff

was designed to help students visualize theserelationships and develop a deeper understanding of mass balance principles. The model was usedto separately demonstrate how to measure elevation-storage and stage-discharge relationships.The scale of the model makes it suitable for real-time, in-class demonstrations and experiments.All required equipment fits on a standard laboratory cart, and can be easily transported to theclassroom. A second objective of the model reservoir was to provide a system of sufficient simplicityto allow mathematical modeling. If a step function is used for the inflow hydrograph, and a vesselhaving a regular shape is used for the reservoir (e.g., cylinder), the differential mass balanceequations can be

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Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tim Brower

Page 7.1117.4Conference Travel/Fees $1950 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education" Course Material - The course material included a combination of hand-on laboratories used in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at OIT, workshops on space related technology, brainstorming sessions with the counselors to arrive at an experimental idea, Logo 7 robotic exercises, and a field trip to a nearby military air base. A schedule of activities that the high school students followed throughout the week is given in Table 4 below. Table 4. Technology Space Camp activity schedule.Time

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

.[3] Brackin, P., and Gibson, J.D., “Techniques for Assessing Industrial Projects in Engineering Design Courses”,Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 2001.[4] Walvoord, B., “Helping Students Write Well: A Guide for Teachers in All Disciplines”, The Modern LanguageAssociation of America, New York, 1986.[5] Process Education Teaching Institute Handbook, Pacific Crest, Corvalis, 1999.[6] Gibson, J.D. and Brackin, M.P., “Techniques for the Implementation and Administration of Industrial DesignProjects for Engineering Design Courses”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 1999.[7] Brackin, P., and Williams, J., “Teaching and Assessing Team Skills in a Senior Level Design Course”, Proceedingsof the ASEE