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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

difference existed when replying to “often or always try to do their best work,” with the differences ranging from 61-65% (National Center for Education Statistics, 2000, p. 72). • Mathematics performance scores of U.S. students increased in the 90’s for 4th and 8 th grades; 12th grade scores increased from 1990-96, but declined between 1996-2000. The decline was reported to be associated with opportunities to “study challenging material Page 8.534.4 and the degree to which students took advantage of these opportunities” (National Center

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ruth Davis

take precedence overexpediency. Understand the consequences of your choices and act accordingly.In the late 1800's engineering had grown from its civil base to encompass developments aroundsteam power. This gave rise to mechanical engineering and a well-entrenched bureaucracy of shop-based engineers controlling the profession and its educational component.The issue of shop versus school varied depending on the field of engineering. Civil engineering —perhaps because of Monge — took to academics faster than mechanical engineering. In fact theterm “shop culture” is derived from the practicality of a machine shop, and the attitude that allengineering education began (and frequently ended) with the machine shop.The real break with the hands-on

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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Debra Wright; Gretchen Hein; Mary Fran Desrochers; Mary Raber

term.SummaryIntroducing games in the classroom can be daunting, but the benefits to your instruction and students’learning makes it worthwhile. It takes time to find activities that are suitable for your subject matterand students. Don’t be discouraged that every class doesn’t have the same level of fun and games –take it one class at a time. Start by trying one activity the next time you need a change of pace in classand watch the fun and learning begin!Bibliography 1. Felder RM. Reaching the second tier - Learning and teaching styles in college science education. Journal of College Science Teaching 23(5):286-290, 1993. 2. Sanoff AP. Building tomorrow's workforce. ASEE Prism 10(6):16-22, 2001. 3. Anthony S, Mernitz H, and Spencer B. The ChemLinks and

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ali Ansari

subjective physical and psychologicalexperience involving a wide range of factors, not all of which can be objectively studied andquantified. Nevertheless, researchers have developed “thumb rules” that seem to workreasonably well. A temperature range of 23 0C to 27 0C, relative humidity 35 to 50% and airvelocities between 0.2 to 0.8 m/s, are usually assumed to represent a reasonable comfort range(2) . The human body is required to maintain internal thermal homeostasis, which is specified bycontrol and maintenance of deep body temperature and skin temperature within relatively narrowlimits. Depending on the level of a person’s physical activity, the body generates anywhere from100W to 500W of heat and this must be dissipated to the surroundings

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brinkley Sprunt

for Engineering Education• Both the guest and host board have eight car-position sensors each. When any car-position sensor is activated, both the guest and host boards will be interrupted. These boards can then poll a host-position port and/or guest-position port to determine which car or cars just tripped a position sensor and which sensor or sensor(s) were tripped. In order to “drive” one car, only the position sensors for that car need to be monitored. However, the position sensors for both cars are hooked to each microcontroller to support the implementation of adaptive racing algorithms that adjust the speed of a car based upon the opponent’s position.• The speed control for a car is created using a DAC (digital-to-analog

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

, “Computing Skills in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum,” Computers in Chemical Engineering Education, Brice Carnahan, Editor, CACHE Corp., Austin, TX, 1996. (2) Harb, J. N., A. Jones, R. L. Rowley, and W. V. Wilding, “Use of Computational Tools in Engineering Education: A Case Study on the Use of Mathcad®,” Chem. Eng. Ed., 31, 180 (1997) (3) Dorgan, John R. and J. Thomas McKinnon, “Mathematica in the ChE Curriculum,” Chem. Eng. Ed., 30, 136 (1996) (4) Sandler, S. I., “Spreadsheets for Thermodynamics Instruction: Another Point of View,” Chem. Eng. Ed., 31, 18 (1997) (5) “Chemical Engineering Program”, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Catalog 2002-2003, p 163. (6) Mackenzie

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

. Parnes, S., Source book for Creative Problem Solving, Creative Education Foundation Press,1992. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.816.11 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education5. Wycoff, J., Mind Mapping: Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and ProblemSolving, Berkeley Publishing Group, 1991.6. deBono, E., DeBono’s Thinking Course, Facts on File Books, 1994.7. de Bono, E., The Use of Lateral Thinking, Penguin Books, 1990.8. de Bono, E., Serious Creativity, Harper Collins, 1992.9. Isaksen, S.G., Dorval K.B., and

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Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

, Virginia.3) Ressler, S. J., Nygren, K. P., and Conley, C. H. (1997). “Building Bridges: Computer-Aided Design as a Vehicle for Outreach to High School Students,” Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education National Conference.4) Poole, S. J., DeGrazia, J. L., and Sullivan, J. F. (2001). “Assessing K-12 Pre-Engineering Outreach Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, p. 43-48. Page 8.509.10Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

. Texts, lab manuals, instructors’ guides,simulation software, automated homework, and Power Point slides are all available from anational publisher.Bibliography 1. Brunner, J. (1960) The Process of Education, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2. Gardner, H. (2001) ‘Jerome S. Bruner’ in J.A. Palmer (ed.) Fifty Modern Thinkers on Page 8.988.9 Education. From Piaget to the present, London: Routledge.“Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. Smith, M.K. (2002) ‘Jerome S. Bruner and the

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

, St.Louis, MO, pp. 7-14.5. Kimmel, H. (1993) "The Engineering Science Talent Pipeline: Early Intervention," International Journal ofEngineering Education, 9 (4), 290-293.6. Kimmel, H., and O'Shea, M., “Professional Development For the Implementation of Standards-BasedInstruction”, Proceedings 29th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, PR, November 1999.7. Gibbons, S., Kimmel, H., and O'Shea, M. (1997) “Changing Teacher Behavior Through Staff Development:Implementing the Teaching and Content Standards in Science,” School Science and Mathematics, 97 (6), 302-309.8. Levine, D. (1984) “An Innovative Approach to Attract Young Women to Careers in Engineering andScience.” Engineering Education, 75 (3), 162-164.9. Cano, R., Kimmel, H

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barry Lineberger; Larry Stikeleather

test setup using a random number table. Fourreplications were run in succession without changing the setup. In table form, the test matrixlooked as shown in Figure 7 below. A sample spreadsheet of the funnel experiment results andanalysis is shown in Figure 8. The variance for each test setup was computed as: 4 s 2 = ∑ (( Ri − Ravg ) 2 ) /( n − 1) i =1Where the (Ri-Ravg) are the differences of individual reps from the average of that set of reps andn=4, the number of tests. Assuming normality, confidence intervals for each mean (Ravg) were computed byestimating the standard error (SE) of the means and then using the students t distribution for 95%confidence levels. SE = s 2 / n With

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kau Teng Lim; David Beams

      S  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   I 5   I S Eq. (7) may be expressed in compact form as AX=B, where A is the [n+b, n+b] coefficientmatrix, X is the column vector of unknowns, and B is the column vector of known quantities. Xcan be found by matrix inversion (X = A–1B). Eq. (7) is solved once to compute a dc bias-pointsolution. In dc sweep analysis, the value of one independent source in B is stepped through auser-defined range and the solution is computed at each step.Figure 11 defines currents and voltages in branches containing capacitance or inductance. Suchbranches are handled like resistive branches with the conductance of the resistor (1/R) replacedby the admittance of the

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hart; Mike Williams; George Grandle; Alvin Womac

, Volume 56, 974-976. Wiley InterScience.Landon, B. 2002. Reviews of online educational delivery applications. http://www.c2t2.ca/landonline/reviews.html accessed 08-27-02Strange, R. 2002. Personal communication. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Strohman, R., M Spiess, S.K. Upadhyaya, J. Phillips, E. Seim, S. Kocher, and C. Scheftic. 2001. Shared development of labs and web-based lectures for precision agriculture course. ASAE Paper No. 01-8075. Sacramento, CA: ASAE.Vogel, S. 2001. Development of a model for the evaluation of web-based distance education courses (Tennessee).In Current Research @ University of Tennessee. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utk/fullcit?p3039993. accessed 08-20-02.Disclaimer

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

. 30 Apr. 2002 . 2. Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework. Massachusetts Department of Education. May 2001. 3. Mooney, M. and T. Laubach. Adventure Engineering: A Design Centered, Inquiry Based Approach to Middle Grade Science and Mathematics Education. Journal of Engineering Education. 91(3):309-318. 4. Symans, M. Introducing Middle School Students to Engineering Principles Using Educational Bridge Design Software. Journal of Engineering Education. 89(3):273-278. 5. DeGrazia, J., J. Sullivan, L. Carlson, D. Carlson. A K-12/University Partnership: Creating Tomorrow’s Engineers. Journal of Engineering Education. 90(4):557-563. 6. Poole, S., J. Degrazia, and J

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Layton

published results is shown in Fig. 4. The curves in Fig. 4(a) are the numerical solutionsobtained using DYMOLA; Fig. 4(b) is from the source paper. The primary difficulty the studentovercame in obtaining this comparison was close reading for understanding. The source paper isunclear on 1) which of the many equations provided constitute the final system model, and 2) onthe method of normalizing the results. The theory developed in the paper suggested a numericalintegration was required to produce the results shown, but on closer reading, only a simplecoordinate transformation was required. An additional minor difficulty is that the independentvariable in this problem is a displacement variable s instead of the usual time variable t. Care wasrequired

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kena Burke; Paul Rainey

courses was summarized into a more comprehensivedocument, the Courses by Outcomes Matrix. This gave faculty an opportunity to view theoverall curriculum in light of the importance they themselves placed upon each outcome forindividual courses.Student Course Evaluation FormsOnce the Course Classification Form was collected, the EAC staff generated the Student CourseEvaluation Form (SCEF) which is a survey used to measure student-perceived levels of outcomeachievement. Each academic year, a quarter is designated for the SCEFs to be distributed byinstructors to students in each section of each program's courses. Questions specific to thecourse are also asked, alongside the outcomes designated for that course, and include questionsabout textbook(s

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

technological sophistication. In the United States thepolitical system has been profoundly influenced by educational advances, changing attitudes, andthe impact of television and other media. Walter Cronkite, Marshall McLuhan and Alvin Tofflerhave discussed and documented the sweeping changes that have occurred in the politicalenvironment.Beginning in the 1960’s, and continuing to the present, an increasing number of U.S. citizens havebecame political activists. It has became commonplace for individuals with political agendas todemonstrate, to form special interest groups, and to develop funding warchests to influenceissues. Today about 700 million dollars is spent each year for lobbying at the federal level.Almost every major industry and professional

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

is very feasible since Georgia Tech was on quarters at that time). Also, the level ofproduction has been consistently higher than before the program even with the nationalenrollment drop-offs in the mid to late 1990’s discussed earlier. At the Ph.D. level, theeffect of FOCUS was delayed somewhat due to the time necessary to complete doctoraldegree requirements. Assuming a minimum tenure of five years, the correlation isindicated in the 1996-1997 academic year. From that point forward the growth has beensomewhat steady. The continued growth is in spite of the decreasing enrollment in themid to late 90’s nationwide and also serves as an indicator of the impact that FOCUS hashad. The final indicator from this data is the average number of

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Assessment.RALPH E. FLORIDr. Ralph E. Flori was educated as a petroleum engineer (UM-Rolla Ph.D. ‘87). As an associate professor in theBasic Engineering Department at the University of Missouri–Rolla, he teaches Dynamics, Statics, Mechanics ofMaterials, and a freshman engineering design course. He is actively involved in developing educational software forteaching engineering mechanics courses. He has earned fourteen awards for outstanding teaching and facultyexcellence.DAVID B. OGLESBYDavid B. Oglesby is a Professor of Basic Engineering and a Research Associate for the Instructional SoftwareDevelopment Center at the University of Missouri–Rolla. Dr. Oglesby received a B. S. degree in Civil Engineeringfrom the Virginia Military Institute in 1963, and M. S

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott Wirgau; Abhinav Gupta; Vernon Matzen

/p1_ub.html “Versatile High Performance Shake Tables Facility towards Real-Time Hybrid Seismic Testing.” University at Buffalo, State University of New York.3 Smith, S. R., C. W. Husted, S. Smith, and B. Cross. “A Web-Based Tutorial and Tele-Operation System for Earthquake Engineering Education.” 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Mo, October 18-21, 2000.4 Newman, D. R., B. Webb, and C. Cochrane. “A content Analysis Method to Measure Critical Thinking in Face-to- face and Computer Supported Group Learning.” Interpersonal Computing and Technology, Volume 3, Number 2, pg. 56-77, 1995.5 http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?cid=1455&lang=US “Virtual Bench” National

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

Investments, Salvage of End of Life Equipment, Net Income, Taxes, Maintenance costs, Energy CostsThese annual cash flows must now be combined by discounting to the present to obtain thecomplete project present worth. This is accomplished by multiplying each term by (1 + i)j ,where j is the number of years to be discounted to the present. This is shown in the equationbelow where the possibility of energy escalation is also included: PW = – C + S + ∑ ( n I j − Tj ) – M

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian

& Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementsThe PrE-IOP program and the development and implementation of the curriculum modules issupported through a High-Tech Workforce Excellence Grant from the New Jersey Commissionon Higher Education .References1. Hecker, D.E. (2000). “Occupational Employment Projects to 2010.” Monthly Labor Review, (November), 57-84.2. National Science Board. (2000). Science & Engineering Indicators 2000. Washington, D.C.: U. S. GovernmentPrinting Office.3. Kimmel, Howard and Rockland, Ronald, “Incorporation Of Pre-Engineering Lessons Into Secondary ScienceClassrooms”, Proceedings 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November 2002

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

Colle ge Figure 6. U.S. Female Population with Respect to Race and Completion of Four Years of College, 1950Of all females, the percentage of females obtaining four years of college in 1950 was5.0%, a slight increase from the 3.5% of 1940. In each individual race with respect tocompletion of four years of college, White females obtaining this level, of all Whitefemales, was 5.4%, again, an increase over 1940’s 3.8%. Non-White females obtainingthis level, of all Non-White females, was 2.3%, which, again, is an increase over 1940’s1.4%, for all minority females.Jumping to 19946, there is an overall rise in education in all categories. At this time,people were categorized as White

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Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

lecture. An example ofa question from an ethics survey is given below.Q: What was the most useful or meaningful thing(s) you learned?A samples of answers from students is given below: 1) “ I learned about due care in product design and manufacturing. I knew about liability but did not know about magnitude” 2) “The true purpose of engineering is not quality/ productivity of the product (though those are important) but it is the safety of the user/consumer” 3) “A failure in design is not necessarily a bad situation. Failures drive innovation.”Engineering technology curriculum does not have a course on cost analysis. Design teams aregiven an opportunity to learn and develop a simple cost estimation project of constructing

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Medina; Louis Thurston

“C” “Surrounding Temperature” Tsurr = 25 “C” “Exiting Pressure” Pe = 50 “kPa” “Power Generated by the Turbine” W = 4000 “kW” “Determine the mass flow rate by dividing by 3600 to get kg/s” m = 25000/3600 “kg/s” “Determine the entropy and enthalpy of the entering steam from Ti and Pi” si = ENTROPY(steam, T=Ti, P=Pi) hi = ENTHALPY(steam, T=Ti, P=Pi) “Determine the entropy and enthalpy of the exiting vapor from Pe, and x=1” se = ENTROPY(steam, x=1, P=Pe) he = ENTHALPY(steam, x=1, P=Pe) “Determine the rate of heat transfer to the environment” Q = W + m*(he-hi) “Determine the rate of entropy generated by this process” Sgen = (-Q/(Tsurr+273))+m*(se-si)The program output was [9]: Unit Settings: [C]/[kPa]/[kg[/[degrees] hi

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

. 107-111, 1994.[2] H.-Z. Ho, D. Senturk, A. G. Lam, J. M. Zimmer, S. Hong, Y. Okamoto, S.-Y. Chiu, Y. Nakazawa, and C.-P. Wang, "The Affective and Cognitive Dimensions of Math Anxiety: A Cross-National Study," Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, vol. 31, pp. 362 - 379, 2000.[3] "Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan," in Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C., 2000.[4] National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, 1989.[5] National Research Council, National Science Education Standards. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996.[6] D. Llewellyn, M. Usselman, and G. Kingsley