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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barrie Jackson

students directly into design andanalysis exercises. APSC400, (Technology Engineering and Management, TEAM) is a fourthyear engineering program. The Integrated Learning Initiative will extend the concepts developedin these two programs at opposite ends of an engineering student’s undergraduate career, tocover much of the intervening period, and accommodate more students in the first and fourthyears.Queen’s has traditionally had a common first year for engineering students. Some of the firstyear laboratories seemed to do more to dissuade students from pursuing an engineering careerthan to encourage them. Recognizing that students come to Queen’s to be engineers; the firstyear program was redesigned over a period of three years, starting with a

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FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

and Society, 20(4), 441-46422. Coleman, R. P. (1960), “The Significance of Social Stratification in Selling.” Marketing: A Maturing Discipline, Proc. of the American Marketing Association 43rd National Conf, ed. M. L. Bell, Chicago: American Marketing Association, 181-18423. Mclntosh, P. (1988). ‘White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies.’ In Race, class, and gender: An anthology, 2st ed., edited by M. L. Andersen and P. H. Collins. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth24. Spertus, E. (1991). “Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists?” MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 131525. Laboratory for Computer Science and

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Research in Engineering Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

5 - 50 4 2-3 0-1 Num. of awardees 2,232 3,395 4,171 3,378First, regardless of levels of scholars’ engagement in collaboration, the following topics gainalmost the same extent of attention from scholars: course, curriculum, undergraduate,mathematics, and instruction. Second, there are many areas that show a clear tendency to onlyone or two groups. For example, projects related to laboratory, computer, technology, software,design, and equipment are more likely to be conducted by scholars with fewer collaborators. Onthe contrary, grants about graduate, IGERT, community colleges, nanotechnology, integrate,NUE, workforce, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Erlandson

Session 2793 A Student Design Program that Integrates Research, Education, and Community Service Robert F. Erlandson, Ph.D. Enabling Technologies Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202IntroductionThe Enabling Technologies Laboratory (ETL) has created a unique student design program thatnot only complements and integrates a student’s previous academic experiences, but alsonaturally integrates research, education, and community service into the student design activity.Developing such a program is

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

Session 2793 PSpice Applications in the Teaching of Communications Electronics Andrew Rusek, Barbara Oakley Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309AbstractMany parameters of circuits and devices commonly used in communication electronics can beprofitably simulated using the free educational version of PSpice. We have created a broadvariety of PSpice macromodules for use in classroom and laboratory teaching, includingmacromodules that simulate pulse width modulators and demodulators, delta encoders anddecoders

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew N. Vavreck

. Anexample of a software screen, for link length and position input, is shown in Figure 1. Theprogram is relatively easy to learn and use, and relates clearly to analytical concepts describedin the text, so it avoids the so-called "black-box syndrome," where "students will notunderstand or perhaps even care what it [the software] is doing." [Wankat, p.156] Figure 1: Simulation Software Page 5.275.3In addition to the increased emphasis on the software, a sequence of classes in a modulararrangement was developed which would address a concept in a lecture format (50 minutes,two days a week), followed with a laboratory (2

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ash Miller; Jeffrey Honchell

graduates tofill this niche.The paper is focused on the design/analysis techniques required for various antennatypes, specifically microstrip patch, dipole and helical, which can then be expanded toinclude many other types of antennas in the future. It was necessary to initially focus onantenna types that could be easily fabricated by the students in a laboratory environment.The paper is limited to the discussion of the following items for the microstrip patchantenna, due to paper length considerations: (1) Background information, design parameters and limitations, feeding methods, electro-magnetic field modes, and the mathematical methods required to accomplish the design. (2) Simulation methods and results based on the Ansoft

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

severaldiscussion sessions were conducted involving students at both locations. Several sessionsfocused on different cultural perspectives of technology. The course was concluded with an on-site workshop in Béthune in May 1997. Again, in 1997, five Penn State faculty memberstraveled to Béthune to conduct lecture and laboratory sessions and to collaborate on a conferenceon technology and the pedagogical potential of videoconferencing and the World Wide Web.Two Penn State students had industrial placements in northern France arranged by the IUT andthree Béthune IUT students had industrial placements with central Pennsylvania industriesarranged by the Penn State Altoona College. These short-term co-ops will be repeated in 1998with another small increase in

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard J. Weigman; Glenn S. Kohne

graduate. Of the 11 Advanced courses, 8 must be in one of the 3 tracks which thestudent desires to concentrate, CS, CE or EE. Of those 8, 4 must be the required coursesspecified in that track. The remaining 3 courses can be from anywhere in the program.Furthermore, the student needs at least a 3.00/4.00 GPA to graduate. There are no exceptions tothis requirement. A student is automatically dismissed from the program upon receiving one F or2 C grades. The dismissal may be appealed, first to the director of the MES program and, if theproblem cannot be resolved at that level, to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Lab FacilitiesWhen the program first started, it took a few years to develop quality laboratory facilities. Duringthis time, the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mase

. The current class is three-credit hours (based on a quarter system) which aredivided up into two credits engineering analysis and one credit engineering design. Aswith most three credit courses, this one meets for three hours per week. At GMI, the termis eleven-weeks long with one week added for final exams. In order to apportion theclass properly for the design credits, one hour per week is devoted exclusively to designprojects. The remaining two hours are conducted in a traditional lecture format withexams being taken from this part of the course. In the near future, a format that has two lecture periods per week (on separatedays) along with a two-hour laboratory period will be implemented. This is to remedy theneed for one-on-one

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

laboratory stations in an advanced microcomputer course emphasizing real-time interface design and operation in embedded systems. Using the DSK as the basis of aprototyping system provides far greater speed, data bandwidth, and computational capabilities,while the straightforward register architecture and floating point hardware actually reduceprogramming complexity.A first stage demonstration prototype was constructed that augmented the DSK with anelectrically erasable memory, boot source selection, a reset controller, and a digital/analog wire-wrap prototyping area. This allowed for either hosted operation for debugging and programming,or stand-alone embedded operation. The demonstration system was designed to accept the DSKas a daughterboard

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William B. Hudson; Donald M. Gruenbacher

Session 2632 Evolving Education Paradigms, Friend or Foe? William B. Hudson, Donald M. Gruenbacher Kansas State UniversityIntroductionNot long ago successful instruction required only that an instructor be current with subjectmatter and present this material in a logical and cohesive manner. Many instructors wentbeyond the lecture and provided students with laboratories to reinforce key concepts. Recentlythe instructional landscape has begun to change. Some say these changes are in response to achanging student population, others believe that asynchronous instruction must be

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert L. Powell; Michael J. McCarthy; Michael H. Buonocore

. The two experimental courses address practical issue of operating an MRI system in abiological or food science laboratory, and the three theory courses cover the fundamentalphysical science, biophysics and engineering of modern MRI devices and methodologies. Fordevelopment of the advanced lectures in the theory courses, some of the most mathematically Page 4.278.8rigorous papers in the MRI literature were used. Fig. 6: “Courses in Magnetic Resonance Imaging” page on the Web site provides access to all course materials.MRI TechnologyThe sequence of courses, BIM 246, 247, and 248 represent a full year of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred J., Jr. Bedard

safety and appropriateness. The initial Rube Goldberg projects tendedto be large and often incorporated portions of the classroom in the design (e.g.blackboards, overhead projector, door/entryway). There was a requirement for includingresults from a simulation program, but this was more often relegated to the status of afootnote in project reports. When the number of sections increased in 1997 with theopening of a new laboratory (the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory) there wasconsiderable pressure on space and facilities. This laboratory included two classroomsspecifically designed and reserved for the first year engineering projects course. Thenumber of students enrolled in the course increased until, during the fall 1998

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Douglas Jahnke, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, electronic, and computer engineering curricula. This comprehensiveapproach equips graduates with the knowledge and skills necessary for diverse fields, includingRobotics, where those technologies continually converge. The college’s MCE program achievedsuccessful accreditation in 2013 and reaffirmed in 2019 by the Engineering AccreditationCommission (EAC). As the program has progressed, a collaborative faculty team spanningmechanics, electronics, and computing and along with state-of-the art laboratories, has beeninstituted.The engineering and technology department at the college has consistently acknowledged theimportance of external reviews of our curriculum to ensure the satisfaction of industry needs.The Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oluwapemiisin Gbemisola Akingbola, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Frank Efe, Morgan State University; Hannah Abedoh, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

faculty in 2010. He is the director of the for sustainable infrastructure development, smart innovation and resilient innovation and the director of undergraduate programs at the department of civil engineering, Morgan State University.Frank Efe, Morgan State UniversityHannah Abedoh, Morgan State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engaging University Students in Practical Physics Labs Through Motivational Active LearningAbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on student’s motivation to learn. As a result,the in-person laboratory session evolved into a virtual laboratory session. Despite this effort, manystudents struggled with the home

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Information and Network Security

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

taught in the courses within the two year AssociateDegree program1. The students were able to understand the concepts and apply the hardware andsoftware interfacing and communication techniques in their laboratory exercises and designprojects2. However, the limitation of communication speed in parallel and serial ports and theirinflexibility in communicating with multiple devices prompted the introduction of wired USB(universal serial bus) port and wireless Bluetooth interface. The modern personal computers havemostly eliminated the parallel and serial ports, in favor of more flexible but much more complexUSB port3 and Bluetooth interface4. The complexity of underlying hardware and associatedcommunication protocol software for these new

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Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

buildingcareers based on digital circuit design will probably encounter electronic systems built on suchdevices in their professional work. Therefore, it has become necessary to introduce related courses atundergraduate level along with a considerable number of hands on laboratory sessions as well.This paper discusses the teaching and enhancements made to such courses in digital design toundergraduates majoring in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET). The author will elaborate theattempts taken in promoting a certain level of excitement in students during the digital designcourse. The paper also describes several considerations taken into account in the adaptation ofVerilog Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and automation based digital design flow

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Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Christian D. Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Monica Christine Rothermel, University of Pittsburgh; Scott Shrake, University of Pittsburgh; Briana Niblick, University of Pittsburgh

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

into research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Thispaper presents an introduction to the RET program and delves into the findings from theinternship portion of the RET Site.The RET Site at the University of Pittsburgh has four main components including curriculumdevelopment for Pittsburgh area high school teachers during an intensive summer experience,teacher implementation of new engineering design units into their courses, an annual designcompetition where the teachers’ students present their projects, and finally high school studentinternships within research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Interns participated inresearch activities with the aim of developing their interest in engineering, developing theirability

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

vapor infiltration techniques at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)and industrial companies, such as DuPont, 3M/Delta G, B. F. Goodrich, Amercom, RefractoryComposites and B. P. Chemicals Ltd. The CFCCs are being recognized as necessary for high-temperature structural applications. The pertinent applications include heat exchangers,combustors, hot gas filters and boiler components in power generation systems, and first walls andhigh heat flux surfaces in fusion reactors. The technology for fabrication, characterization,modeling, design, and applications of ceramic composites is of crucial importance for improvingUS industrial competitiveness in the worldwide market.A three-year project on "Ceramic Matrix Composites - A Combined Research

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Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Thomas, University of South Alabama; Michael Doran, University of South Alabama; James Sakalaukus, University of South Alabama

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Design in Engineering Education

projects, graduate research, three master’s theses and invaluablecommunity exposure for STEM education. In addition to research opportunities, the work withJagBot resulted in the development of a 400-level senior elective engineering class in LabViewand provided justification for University funding of a laboratory based on National Instrumentsdata acquisition systems. This paper describes the design process and the contribution of thestudents to the final JagBot design.2. IntroductionRobots, as much as any other advance in science, epitomize progress. Robots have starred inmotion pictures, are routinely used in industry, and, although they have not become integratedinto society as fast as imagined by science fiction writers, they have been

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Embedded System Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alley, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

many of today’sstudents, projects must have an end product that they find entertaining. The DE2 board providesan audio CODEC for voice and music applications along with a video in and video out (VGA)port. Although the board does provide other peripherals such as a LCD display, Ethernet andinfra-red, it has been found that assignments that involve audio and visual interfaces are the onesthat are more likely to hold the student’s interest. Page 22.47.3Lab DevelopmentThe laboratory described in this paper was developed for the Embedded Systems Design IIcourse to meet the objectives of quantitatively comparing the performance of a hardware and

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Curricular Developments in Energy Education I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Korinne Caruso, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

specifically its Electrical Engineering Technology program and itsemphasis in Nuclear Power Systems. Considerable time and effort was also put on the workshopplanning activities. Local area teachers were made aware of the week-long workshop via email,program flyers and website advertisement. In addition, the faculty and staff spent many hours incurriculum and lab development activities (Figure 1). Here, the details of the Summer Workshopfor High School Teachers are presented, and the success of the workshop evaluated.Figure 1: Faculty and staff in summer workshop laboratory planning and development activitiesAttendeesParticipants were chosen from regional high school teacher applicants first then from junior highschool applicants. There were a total

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Engineering Mechanics Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 22.101.11AcknowledgementsThanks to Lance Mayhofer and Ann Hanks at PASCO for providing materials and technicalsupport to make this lab project possible.Bibliography1. An assessment of visualization modules for learning enhancement in mechanics. D. Rhymer, D. Jensen, M. Bowe. s.l. : ASEE Annual Conference, 2001.2. A remote laboratory for stress and deformation study. A. Choudhury, J. Rodriguez, S. Ramrattan, M. Keil, P. Ikonomov, A. Goyal. s.l. : ASEE, 2006.3. Web-based virtual torsion laboratory. P. Bhargava, J. Antonakakis, C. Cunningham, A.T. Zehnder. 1, s.l. : Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2006, Vol. 14.4. A remote laboratory in engineering measurement. M.T. Restivo, J. Mendes, A.M. Lopes, C.M. Silva, F

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Priscilla Hill, Mississippi State University; Carlen Hennington, Mississippi State University

are necessary to keep the U.S. competitive [10].The panel concluded “the curriculum should integrate all organizing principlesand basic supportive sciences throughout the educational sequence”, that “allorganizing principles should be operative in the curriculum throughout thesequence”, and that “the curriculum should be consistently infused with relevantand demonstrative laboratory experiences.” There is a critical need for chemicalengineers to be conversant in synthesizing and optimizing unit operations. Thenew process intensification examples require the integration of concepts acrossfour core courses, reinforce these concepts throughout the curriculum, andprovide examples of how the combination of basic principles from different

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas; Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas; Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University

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Council of Sections

in the state of Arkansas.Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas CHRISTA N. HESTEKIN Dr. Hestekin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests are in the separation of biomolecules, specifically DNA, using microchannel electrophoresis for applications in medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, and biosecurity.Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University BRADLEY M. DEARING Mr. Dearing is a faculty associate at Illinois State University and teaches Engineering and Technology at the University’s laboratory high school. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Illinois State. He has served as President

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Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert Hess, University of Idaho

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

students adopted the most conventional approach, placing commercially available solarpanels in a larger array configuration at the site. Within their budget of $17,000, they specified apair of nine-panel arrays of 235-Watt modules produces 4.23 kilowatts at rated operatingconditions in summer and about one kilowatt in winter. Three such panels are shown in Figure6, ready for testing in a main campus laboratory. The cells have a higher than typical efficiencyof 19.7% and provide about 200 Watts per cell. They withstand 2.5cm diameter hail and80km/hour winds, somewhat worse than any conditions ever recorded since on-site monitoringbegan in 1864. Custom mounting hardware is part of the price. Warranty for the solar collectionsystem is 20 years at

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

Paper 2005-493 Frequency Domain System Identification of One, Two, and Three Degree of Freedom Systems in an Introductory Controls Class Robert D. Throne Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a sequence of laboratories for our introductory controls classes to identifyand control one, two, and three degree of freedom mass-spring-damper systems. Initial estimatesof damping ratios and natural frequencies are made using the log-decrement method with onlyone cart free to move at a time. By exciting the system at various frequencies the magnitudeportion of the Bode

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz, Purdue University; Laura Demsetz, College of San Mateo; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University

1 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University/ 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida/ 3Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno/ 4College of San Mateo/ 5Mechanical Engineering, Boise State UniversityAbstractThis paper will discuss the progress of curriculum development under an NSF, CCLI-EMDsponsored work, “Development of Project-Based Introductory to Materials EngineeringModules” (DUE # #0341633). A multi-university team of faculty are developing six lecture andthree laboratory modules for use in Introductory to Materials courses. This course is required bymost engineering

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Loren Sumner

students expected tobe evident in activities such as senior design. The impact of the project is being assessedsummatively through the school’s capstone senior design course. Preliminary assessmentfindings are discussed in the assessment section later in this paper.The project, funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation, establishes the Keck Engineering AnalysisCenter at MUSE and supports faculty efforts to design and implement active learning techniqueswith CAE. The Keck Center refers to the computational laboratory that houses 22 SUNworkstations, outfitted with state-of-the-art engineering software (Table 1). The Center alsocontains 2 personal computers, a projection system, printing facilities, and network capabilities.Eight faculty members from MUSE